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Michael Collins Morton

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Writer seeking to uphold essential human values. UK native currently residing in PNW. Married to Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social Varied examples from a lifetime of writing https://mcollinsmorton.blogspot.com/

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · May 11

The world of 2019, the world as it was before Covid-19 took hold, is gone forever. Wishful thinking and playacting will not bring it back. We are now living in a world of unrestrained disease, a world in which strong, uncompromising measures of caution and safety are urgently necessary.

#COVID19

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 9d

The lack of essential safety in medical settings during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, particularly the deliberate absence of respirator masks, constitutes a moral scandal of unfathomable proportions. It represents a total breakdown in the fundamental principles of public health.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Aug 19

Repeated infections of Covid-19 do not "build immunity."

Repeated infections of Covid-19 degrade immunity.

As collective immunity declines, most people will experience more infections of Covid-19 and other diseases, causing an increasing amount of serious illness and excess mortality.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 28

Extremism in the avoidance of Covid-19 is extremely necessary. Half measures are not sufficient when dealing with an uncontrolled disease that has killed at least 27 million people.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 4h

I think about that constantly: the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 is arguably the worst thing that has ever happened in our collective lives, causing huge amounts of illness and mortality, with no relief in sight, but most people blindly go on about their usual business and refuse to acknowledge it.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 27

When respirator masks and other safety measures are shunned, every public setting inevitably becomes a dangerous hotspot of uncontrolled Covid-19, resulting in rampant instances of infection, which in turn result in rampant instances of illness and mortality.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 24

The moral foundation of the human community has been grievously weakened by heedless denial of the deep harm that results from uncontrolled Covid-19. Common principles of caution and safety have been abandoned for the irrational purpose of maintaining an unhealthy illusion of "normality."

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Sep 10

So-called leftists who refuse to wear respirator masks in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 are no better than the worst fascist.

#COVID19 #respirator

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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 5h

3 guesses for what sort of mask is my favorite for Halloween.

<giving you a minute...>

If you guessed "respirator," you are right! 😷

Things are scary enough out there without the added worry of catching and spreading covid.

A photo of me in a Flo Mask on a narrow neighborhood sidewalk. I am wearing baggy gray pants, a T-shirt, and sunglasses. The tattoo on my arm is Sanskirt and says "ahimsa," which means "non-harming," or "nonviolence."

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 8h

The cost of doing nothing☠️‼️

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Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 5h

The ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 is a test of essential human morality, and most people are failing.

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Your leaders want you to accept uncontrolled Covid-19.

Your leaders want you to accept negligence and denial.

Your leaders want you to accept repeated infections.

Your leaders want you to accept mass illness and excess mortality.

Your leaders want you to accept collective destruction.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 8h

Pretending that the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 is not happening serves only to ensure that the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 will continue to happen.

#COVID19

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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 9h

It's a Blowy Sketch sort of day. 🩶🤍🍂

A pencil sketch of a bunny is a long fuzzy coat and a scarf, walking against the wind. Leaves are blowing around him. Art by me.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 29d

All the denial and delusion in the world amounts to less than nothing when compared to the irreparable harm that results from every infection of Covid-19.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 1

Collective problems, such as the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, require collective solutions. Either we stand together, and do whatever is necessary to remedy the current situation, or we will fall together.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 29d

With Covid-19 completely out of control, and no public safety measures being enforced, we are steadily moving toward a grim outcome. Unless we acknowledge the heinous folly into which we have fallen and reverse our current course, our situation will become increasingly hopeless.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Aug 19

The uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 is a source of danger and harm to everyone. Every infection of Covid-19 adds to the collective burden of irreparable damage that is shared, either directly or indirectly, by every member of the human community.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Covid-19 is a litmus test of essential morality.

#COVID19

Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Sep 9

No excuses, no compromises. If a leader or would-be leader fails in regard to Covid-19, they cannot be trusted in regard to anything else.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Aug 15

Unless the masses can shake off their current stupor of irrational denial regarding Covid-19, they are destined to be destroyed by their foolish acceptance of rampant contagion, repeated infections, mass illness, and excess mortality.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Throughout the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, WHO has proven itself to be thoroughly corrupt, always bending to the demands of corporate interests, to the extreme detriment of public health.

#WHO #corporate

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Alarm as WHO accepts increasing amount of dark money from corporate donors

Experts say millions in corporate funding and concealment of donors’ identities raises key conflict-of-interest concerns

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J Green @jgreen63.bsky.social · 15h

It's a hypocrisy to think you're 'sympathetic' to those with #LongCovid whilst you ignore the viral infection that causes it.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 10h

An apparent ceasefire has begun in Gaza, but does anyone actually believe that Israel will refrain from futher actions of genocide?

#Israel #Gaza #genocide

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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 11h

🍂Fall sale in my shop!🍂

To be able to fy off into the sky, leaving all worries and troubles behind....

This whimsical watercolor drawing, along with all my other designs, is on sale. I invite you to pop over & see if anything strikes your fancy! The link below takes you right to these 2 friends. 🙏🏼

Adventurous Mouse Riding Flying Crane | Gentle Watercolor Drawing by AngelaMarieArt | Redbubble

What sort of adventure awaits these two friends, I wonder? I used pens and watercolor pencils to create this sweet, gentle illustration for the child in us all. This design is on multiple items, so ma...

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