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“Violet Affleck, the daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, delivered an
impassioned speech in favor of clean air and masking to prevent the
transmission of long COVID-19 in an address at the United Nations on Tuesday,
Sept. 23.
"We are told by leaders across the board that we are the future," Violet, 19,
began. "But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen
right in front of our eyes." She delivered the address while wearing a K95
mask.
Violet then criticized adults for "the relentless beat of back to normal,
ignoring downplaying, and concealing both the prevalence of airborne
transmission and the threat of long COVID."
She is currently a freshman at Yale University, where she recently published an
academic paper on the Los Angeles County wildfires, which occurred in January.
"Young people lacked both real choice in the matter and information about what
was being chosen for us," she added.
She then went on to detail information regarding the virus at the root of
COVID-19. "Here's what we know about SARS CoV2," Violet said. "It is airborne,
floating and lingering in the air, one infection can result in disabling damage
to almost every cell in the body from the brain and heart to the nerves and
blood vessels."
She added that "Every subsequent infection increases the risk of long movement
and places people who already have it in greater danger."
"As Dr. Akiko Iwasaki says, at this point, the whole population is the control
group, and after only five years, long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most
common chronic illness in children five years and under," Violet detailed.
She then expressed fears over the spread of the virus in schools, saying she
was "terrified" for children who "will not know a world without debilitating
pain and exhaustion, who cannot trust their bodies to play, explore, and
imagine" after being infected by COVID-19.
"I am furious on their behalf," she said. "It is a neglect of the highest order
to look children in the eyes and say, 'We knew how to protect you and we didn't
do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease, something
that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today
would kill for, and we refuse to use it."
"And I shudder to think of where we will be in another five years of
unmitigated infection and reinfection," she added, before detailing another
public health fight: the movement to ban smoking in public areas.”
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Covid: September 25, 2025
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-september-139686682
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
