Viral #Yallmasking hashtag unites the covid-conscious

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The #Yallmasking hashtag has taken over Twitter, with thousands of Covid-conscious individuals sharing photos of themselves in masks. Participants in this hashtag demonstrate their awareness of the damage SARS-CoV-2 can cause and their ongoing efforts to avoid infection. They reject the notion that a “return to normalcy” necessitates repeated Covid infections.

Seeing masks is rare these days. Many people have abandoned them, believing the rhetoric that Covid is no worse than a cold. However, those who understand the science and continue to mask up (predominately in crowded, indoor spaces with poor ventilation) often feel isolated as they are usually the only ones doing so.

This hashtag serves as an act of solidarity, providing lone maskers with a renewed sense of fortitude as we enter the fourth year of living with Covid.

Here are some of the best tweets:

1.Doug Aoki shares this picture of him working out in Okinawa. Okinawa is an island in Japan and one of five ‘blue zones’ in the world which is a regions where people tend to live longer and healthier lives compared to the global average.

2. Maria M Gillespie is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. She knows the damage a Covid infection can do to the brain so chooses to mask-up.

3. Charlie masks because he knows there is still no treatment for Long Covid

4. Here’s our co-founder, Freya, masking on a train during her recent travels in Laos


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