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LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 6h

Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action. It provides the scientific evidence needed to inform policy, regulation and building design to protect people from exposure to harmful pollutants & and airborne pathogens.
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Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action

The "State of Indoor Air in Australia 2025" report, led by QUT's ARC Training Center for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE), highlights the health, well-being a...

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 1h

High levels of chemicals are produced by the body early in infection to mobilise the infection fighting cells.

Those chemicals also irritate the heart making it jumpy.

And by jumpy, I do mean dead.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 7h

Oh yeah, masks protect you from flu, RSV, and more, too.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 13h

If you don't find our present dire enough to warrant masking, then where is your bar?

Where was it in 2020? 2021? ...2022? .....2023?

When did it shift, & why?

What did you read/who told you something that moved the needle? Does it hold up to scientific or your own moral scrutiny, considering?

We can admit that the feeling of shame can not only be constructive, but also deeply corrosive—whether one internalizes shame or is prompted to the emotion by others’ disapproval. But so, too, are some of the moral and personal failures that give rise to that disapproval. In some cases, these are poisonous enough to merit the harsh medicine of shame and shaming. If not during the rise of fascism, then when?

Very few of us are moral saints—certainly not me. Unlike everlasting, lofty, abstract principles, we who try feebly to live up to them down in the muck of reality face mucky obstacles: we get tired, impatient, envious, and angry. Our values and principles ask more than most of us are able to give—if they don’t, they are probably too weak to be worth holding. But we don’t have to celebrate our failures or, worse still, confuse them with our successes. This is one valuable function of shame: it reminds us of who we want to be when we fall short, a goalpost that is necessarily anchored to the lofty height that our conduct fell beneath. We also encourage and defend these general social standards when we hold others to them, and not just ourselves.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 16h

perhaps you too will come to see a mask as an antidote, however small, to so many of the societal ills preventing us from movin the needle as we could; to mask, i'd argue, is directly counter to that cynicism. it is an action imbued with hope—backed up by real physical prevention—for a better world.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Feb 1

a mask is the thing you’re looking for. it is the visible reminder of how things have changed, that you acknowledge we are not coveted “normal” times—but unlike donation-earned tote bags or symbolic beaded bracelets, the mask is community care in both form & immediate function.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 17h

we’re in an extraordinary time that calls for extraordinary action. wearing a respirator may not feel extraordinary, but when masks are stigmatized if not criminalized, it becomes so.

it’s a helluva lot harder to #Resist without your health—preserve what you & your community have. mask up.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jul 10

last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.

so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 17h

we are in an unprecedented untenable situation: wanton destruction of federal public health apparati (already reduced by biden), on top of a precarious, ever consolidating for-profit “care” system that’s been inching toward collapse for yrs as insurance rates soar—& you won’t help prevent illness? 🤨

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Aug 15

make a choice to resist fascism every day.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHsoNSLbH...

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 17h

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 8h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 7h

More for the "Venn diagram of fossil fuel interests and pro-COVID team is one circle" research.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 7h

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company

When he was prime minister, Morrison appointed a Saudi fossil fuel firm's board member to two different taskforce roles in 2019 and 2022.

www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 7h

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company

When he was prime minister, Morrison appointed a Saudi fossil fuel firm's board member to two different taskforce roles in 2019 and 2022.

www.crikey.com.au

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 8h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 8h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15h

NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.

The entire operation has been eliminated.

Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 11h

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,500 hospitalizations, 780 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 25,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

3 tables showing total expected hospitalizations since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), total expected ICU admissions since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), and total expected deaths since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%)

Tables available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
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Graph showing Estimated new daily infections resulting in daily life activity-limiting symptoms lasting >3 months, by province, since Dec 2021. (5 week rolling averages)

Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 11h

About 2.7% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week.

The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $99.5M.

Graph showing Canada's estimated daily % of population infected or experiencing long COVID, by province (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% last 2 weeks)

Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
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Table showing estimated new daily and cumulative Omicron hospitalization costs by province - 5 week rolling averages (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% most recent 2 weeks)

Table available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 9h

"...and 25,000 new #LongCOVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities" 👇

Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 11h

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,500 hospitalizations, 780 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 25,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 8h

Which part of wanting to minimize the number of COVID infections in one's lifetime baffles you? Seems like basic common sense. Get boosted to reduce acute severity & odds of organ damage and Long COVID. Mask up to reduce COVID in 1st place. Not rocket science.

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 16h

‘While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion & dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection incl opportunistic, accelerated bio aging, neurological, & systemic damage provide parallels... .’
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 8h

Eventually, we will have standards and codes that get implemented (that's key) for ventilation, filtration, UV to ensure a quantifiable risk level. Until then, personal filter (mask) is prudent esp in crowded spaces & healthcare.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 8h

Which part of wanting to minimize the number of COVID infections in one's lifetime baffles you? Seems like basic common sense. Get boosted to reduce acute severity & odds of organ damage and Long COVID. Mask up to reduce COVID in 1st place. Not rocket science.

bsky.app/profile/drje...

Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 16h

‘While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion & dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection incl opportunistic, accelerated bio aging, neurological, & systemic damage provide parallels... .’
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 8h

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 8h

WA is on track for its worst year of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) despite strong vaccination rates.

11,551 cases have already been reported — just 104 short of the 2022 record. By contrast, only 9,725 cases were recorded in all of 2024.

Source: archive.md/6XK9e

Health Public Health

RSV on track to hit worst on record despite strong immunisation uptake

Claire Sadler
The West Australian
Mon, 13 October 2025 9:52PM

WA is on track for the worst respiratory syncytial virus year on record, despite a strong uptake in immunisation. Credit: Margaret Johnson/stock.adobe.com

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 8h

10/10 No notes, @dalupton.bsky.social!

Bhattacharya tweets Blacklists silence minds over image that says "Write a horror story using only 3 words.". Lupton QTs him with Great Barrington Declaration

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 15h

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19h

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 19h

#H5N1 confirmed
British Columbia
Abbotsford
Commercial Poultry

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