The Maskers Comic
Comics with a purpose
The Maskers Comics began as a way to identify the thoughts, emotions, and frustrations of living in the era of COVID-19, as well as ways to navigate how to be safe and social.
From there, it became an informational and social guide to show to family and friends, all put into comic-style for ease of understanding, but with accurate covid information, including links to all sources. Our works can be viewed for free here at this website.
Read More at "Behind the Mask", published at The Polyphony
Why we Mask:
The COVID-19 virus has evolved into new more contagious variants that have found ways to challenge treatments and vaccines and continues to cause serious acute and long-term health damages, including long covid and death. In total, it has caused over 1.1 million confirmed deaths in the US (more than WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and Korea combined), along with surging unexpected increases in excess deaths (a better metric for capturing the true death toll since recent changes in testing, test accuracy, and reporting have occurred), as well as health-related work and economic damages from long covid. Although many have failed to see the significance of these facts, it doesn't mean we all should. Instead we should stay educated, lead by example, and continue to advocate for better practices at all levels.
Who we Are:
Shea and Tommy O’Neil are a mother and son dynamic duo who are working hard to advocate not only for households who are at higher risk for severe outcome from COVID (like our own), but for the many healthy individuals out there as well who are at high risk (10-20%) of getting long COVID. Many people already suffer from the effects of COVID in its initial acute infection and/or in its chronic long term form. Many have experienced complications from reinfections. Many suffer from the agony of spreading the disease to a household or community member. Many are grieving disabilities and deaths for them and their households. Many vulnerable households exist who feel uncared about and unable to have safe access to healthcare, education, and community services. We are all affected together as a global community. We all need support in this time of heightened complacency and reduced assistance from government and health organizations.
