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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8h

It’s a slow-moving spiral: first their health, then their grades, then their future. Those for whom Covid looms very present are feeling forgotten, subject to pervasive skepticism and a kind of cultural fatigue when it comes to their illness.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 22h

I ‘disappeared’ due to a post viral illness 16yrs ago.

The 90% will turn into 99% in time. Every 5yrs or so an old acquaintance will tell your family to say ‘hi’.

Just find your new normal & move on for your own sake. They don’t care.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

🎯 & 🙏

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the kicker isn’t it.

How many of those that give others Long Covid, stay around long enough to help care & financially provide for the ones they harm?

Just because everyone’s doing it, doesn’t make it right.

emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 1d

PS - if you’re one of those people who lost their lives to Long Covid & you happen to know who you caught it from, are you still in relationship with them? Have they offered any support/sympathy/solidarity? Are they helping you survive? From what I’ve seen, there’s often a lot of disappearing 🫥

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 1d

To the many people who say “I’ll mask or stay home if I’m sick, but you’re CRAZY if you want me to mask regularly, & btw I haven’t even been sick in years”… yeah you have, & you probably spread it to a bunch of other people, some of whom, statistically speaking, lost their lives as they knew them

Graphic from Yale School of Public Health:

49% OF COVID INFECTIONS
ARE ASYMPTOMATIC,
which means you may not know if you are actually sick. This is why it's important to take a multilayered approach (one or more of the following) to protect yourselves and others:
N95 and
KN95 masks
HEPA air filtration
Good ventilation (carbon dioxide <800 parts per million)
Up-to-date vaccinations
Rapid tests before gathering
Attention to wastewater levels of COVID-19

Yale SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Sources: The Lancet Regional Health, CDC

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not the best but in terms of getting through to the ‘masses’ that don’t have the mental capacity or willingness to think otherwise, it may be the only metaphor that ‘works’.

Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

So many of our learned friends have been right about so much.

If only everyone else had bothered to listen.

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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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, you were warned.

The best time to wear an n95 😷 was yesterday.

Link to paper.

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

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

Link to paper.

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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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

It always was.

I distinctly recall the scientists who in early 2020 were made to redact their paper declaring this.

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

👏 to the authors, many who I’ve followed from the beginning of this debacle.

They warned and yes some of us did listen…are still listening.

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we already do this on a small level where we are. Unfortunately other factors have come into play. We’ll sell it & buy in the state where we are now.

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

#MPOX secondary Tx in households.

‘Of the 88 households, 20% experienced secondary transmission, with most primary mpox cases generating a single secondary case...& was significantly higher among those younger than 15 years than among those aged 15yrs+’

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Characterising household transmission dynamics of clade Ib mpox in Burundi: a prospective cohort study

Intrahousehold transmission of clade 1b mpox in Burundi was limited, and unlikely to sustain a broader community spread. The involvement of children in transmission chains within the household undersc...

www.thelancet.com

Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

*some kind.

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

QLD would like to know where the butter & onions are 😜?

Good to see Taswegians have diagonal sausage sandwiches 👏.

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

There was definitely something in the air today in Brisbane.

In our short venture into the city we saw many ambulances & many drivers that clearly need a brush up on their driving skills.

Kudos to the QLD Police that we saw who I now know were on their way to this incident. Glad all went well.

Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my gosh, I knew Alba was huge but that just brings her size really into perspective.

I hope tomorrow is a better day. Here’s a hug from a small white floof @callissclan.bsky.social that’s currently snoring at my feet. She’s too worn out for a photo after her drive to Brisbane this morning 😂 .

a small white dog with the words gimme hugs on the bottom

ALT: a small white dog with the words gimme hugs on the bottom

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. I’m squirrelling away pennies like no tomorrow.

Hopefully Oz withstands it ok as we have a different banking system but we’ll get cop kind of hit.

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. We bought 72 acres a few yrs back & were going to move to & farm it. Now we’re trying to decide whether to consolidate by selling it while the market is hot here & staying where we are. Oz’s RE market is more stable than most so that’s something I guess. Stocks an option?

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

Oomph that sounds familiar. I have a planning webinar with mine shortly too.

My idiot ex sibling & 🤞 less idiot uncle are managing my mothers finances. Hopefully my uncle has more sense than the idiot.

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 2d

Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch

Plants at Cambridge : growing the future

YouTube video by Cambridge University

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Ailani 🌺 Brown Eye Girl @browneyegirlhi.bsky.social · 2d

Good night, my beautiful warriors! 🌙🌉🌃🌌😴

I need your help to continue to pray for m'GregE! @oneveteransoath.substack.com

We have a resister down. I need prayers. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

If prayers is not for you, please send good vibes, or whatever you'd do to show ohana/love.

Thank you for your attention. ❤️🫂

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Misty M ⛰🌻🌳🌺🦋🐝😷 @mistym.bsky.social · 2d

a picture of a dove with the words prayers going up underneath it

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