pandemic resource roundup

📍start here for updated information on COVID-19 and tools to stay safe

This post is part of offline + outside, a section of this newsletter featuring guides to pandemic life beyond the virtual.

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This guide was last updated on August 19th, 2024.

Pandemic safety 😷

• The John Snow Project (general information about the pandemic)

• A guide to getting masks in 2023 from so very virtual

• COVID PPE Deals from @IfuekoNadine

• What to Do when I Have Covid from Clean Air Club

• Layers of Protection guide from The People’s CDC

• Guidelines for Individuals from World Health Network

• COVID Mitigation Strategies (detailed Google doc with information)

• Testing from The People’s CDC

• What to do if you are exposed to and/or get Covid from Washtenaw Covid Cautious Community

• Library of COVID studies (database of scientific and academic articles)

Safer gatherings 🌳

• COVID Safety for Protests from The People’s CDC

• Safer In Person Gatherings Guide Update from The People’s CDC

• A non-exhaustive list of activities that spread less disease

• How my partner and I stayed safe during summer travel by Betsy Ladyzhets

• NYC Mask Guide (guide to places in NYC that require masks)

• Masking at Events in 2023: notes on policies & strategies from the brooklyn art book fair

Advocacy groups 🪧

• List of COVID Advocacy Groups

• MaskBloc.org

• People’s CDC

• World Health Network

• COVID Safe Campus

• Clean Air Club

• University of Masking

• Data Report YouTube Channel

• Locked Out of the Arts

• Pan End It!

• Long COVID Justice

Organizing guides 🛠️

• Organizing Toolkit to Keep Masks in Healthcare

• How to Start a Mask Bloc

• How to Create a Clean Air Organization in Your City from Clean Air Club

• Direct Action Toolkit by Long Covid Justice

• How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About Covid

• Learn how to use a billboard for COVID advocacy with this toolkit.

Community 🫂

• Still Coviding Marketplace

• Covid Meet Ups

• Still Coviding Community Resource Doc

• Covidisntover Community Bulletin Board

• COVID Conscious Creatives

• Covid Safe Network

• Clean Air Stars

Newsletters 📰

• Covid Isnt Over Substack

• People’s CDC Substack

• The Covid-Is-Not-Over Newsletter

• The Sick Times

Downloads 🖨️

• Covid is a Labor Issue zine

• The Company You Keep flyers and graphics

• Free template to 3D print a mini Corsi-Rosenthal air filter box

• Free Masks Required graphic

• Chronic Cultural Work’s free prints

• COVID Safety 101 zine

• COVID IS NOT OVER zines from The People’s Health Education Program

• Resist Covid Eugenics for downloadable materials, education, resources, and more.

• Covid Posters

• ACT UP / MASK UP posters from @_copy_of_a_copy.

• WHY YOU SHOULD STILL WEAR A MASK IN 2024: a comprehensive guide from @_copy_of_a_copy

Ongoing events 📆

• Covid Isnt Over Community Calendar

• Blue Stoop’s Thursdays on the Stoop, Thursdays at 4:00 PM ET

• Rest for Resistance’s healing events by/for queer and trans people of color

• Galleyway’s writing accountability sessions, Saturdays from 12:00 to 2:00 PM ET

• Poets in Pajamas Virtual Reading Series, Sundays at 7:00 PM ET

Wellness 🧘🏽‍♂️

• Covid Conscious Therapists

• Black Virtual Wellness Directory

• BEAM’s online wellness tools for Black emotional and mental health

• Fireweed Collective Support Groups