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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 6h

By relying on the “vaxx & relax” approach to dealing with COVID, Public Health officials backed themselves into a corner… a corner that the anti-Science lobby had set up as a trap.

The anti-Science lobby now controls vaccine research and distribution in the US.

The other tools? PH sabotaged them.

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 1d

For what is worth it, I think Greta Thunberg is a remarkable human being.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 1d

You have to give it to authoritarian regimes, they are consistently idiotic and destructive across most dimensions.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 2d

It would be very interesting to hear if anyone who really understands the United States and - say - the 1990s Yugoslav wars has written anything about the current situation.

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 2d

Given that, among other things, religion seems to play an important contribution to the current state of US affairs, the comparison with former Yugoslavia would be pertinent. Northern Ireland might be another relevant reference.

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from the technological failure to stop these attacks, it also shows a failure of intelligence. The attacks are initiated inside Denmark, Germany, etc., by agents within those countries.
bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 4d

The Russian drones operations reveal two things that Europeans seem unable to admit to themselves. The first is that they are unwilling/incapable of stopping these operations and seem helpless to keep them from multiplying. The second is that the US government doesnt care and will not help Europe.

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from the technological failure to stop these attacks, it also shows a failure of intelligence. The attacks are initiated inside Denmark, Germany, etc., by agents within those countries.
bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 4d

The Russian drones operations reveal two things that Europeans seem unable to admit to themselves. The first is that they are unwilling/incapable of stopping these operations and seem helpless to keep them from multiplying. The second is that the US government doesnt care and will not help Europe.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 4d

Again, why are there no general strikes in the USA as their democracy is being dismantled in real time?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 4d

As stated about influenza in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition (2011): “Most pathogens exit via the same route by which they entered: respiratory pathogens by aerosols from sneezing or coughing”.

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 4d

First, Covid was here to stay, now Long Covid is here to stay. Predictable, but sad, nevertheless, because as we don't live in the Bronze Age and we know how to stop the spread of diseases. Yet, we hire public health officials who act like Bronze Age priests and shamans.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 7d

The Lancet: “Long COVID is here to stay—even in children”

By Danilo Buonsenso

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

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Mar 27

“Death in Hamburg” by Sir Richard J Evans.
A book written in 1987 for our COVID age. The title is a reference to Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", also set in a cholera epidemic. This is a review of one of the best books I've ever read. 5/5 stars. 🧵 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/294784...

Death in Hamburg by Richard J. Evans: 9780143036364 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of Books Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks ...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Mar 27

We are seeing the victory of Hamburg-styled free market laissez-faire overcoming a scientific consensus around the contagionist principle that #COVIDisAirborne, necessitating another Koch-styled state-led engineering intervention to clean our air like the 19th century cleaned our drinking water.

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Mar 27

Today’s horror is that the reverse of what happened in the Hamburg 1892 epidemic is underway. Instead of undertaking centralised intervention based on a scientific consensus favouring Koch's contagionist model, the laissez-faire camp of JFK Jr etc is winning. bsky.app/profile/tosh...

Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Nov 4

The Central Error of the Pandemic…

Is that of running pandemic management by laissez-faire socioeconomic principles.

If you grasp this, all the other errors fall into place as the inevitable consequence of following that line of thought. 🧵 1/x

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Mar 27

Since 1987, libertarians have become more extreme in their anarcho-capitalist radicalism than Thatcher or Hayek could ever have imagined, thus making this book even more relevant today than ever before. Hayek accepted centralised intervention for infectious diseases. His heirs do not.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 5d

It is really hard to overstate how deeply divided #Finland was after the brutal 1918 Civil War and White terror that followed.

I’m certain that largely liberal “social justice warriors” who afterwards pressed through legislation to reduce inequalities and improve social services saved Finland.

Jouni Envall @jounienvall.bsky.social · 5d

Agree. In the Winter War people from all backgrounds fought the common enemy in shared trenches. Only two decades earlier they had been literally shooting at each other.

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 5d

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Yeah, and tax cuts for the wealthy are paid for by cutting the things holding countries social cohesion together. Win Win for Putin.

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Tuomas Mattila @tuomasjmattila.bsky.social · 5d

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja vähän myöhässä oleva @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #jätevesi datan analyysi. Oli vähän hässäkkä päivä.
- Nyt tapahtuu taas, reipasta nousua kaikkialla, eli tulokset vipattavat edestakaisin
- Joko menetelmähämminki tai uusi variantti 1/2 🧵

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Tuomas Mattila @tuomasjmattila.bsky.social · 5d

Vuosivertailussa virusmäärät edelleen alhaisia. Saa nähdä, onko mitta-asteikko muuttunut menetelmäpäivityksen myötä, vai onko tämä vasta talviepidemian alkua. 2/2

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 5d

🎯🧵 by Dr. @jamesthrot.bsky.social:

"🧵 Attribution Bias: The Hidden Fuel of COVID Denial

One of the main reasons society refuses to face the ongoing damage of SARS-CoV-2 is attribution bias
It’s not that the harms aren’t there, they’re everywhere.."

Full 🧵:
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🧵 Attribution Bias: The Hidden Fuel of COVID Denial

One of the main reasons society refuses to face the ongoing damage of SARS-CoV-2 is attribution bias

It’s not that the harms aren’t there, they’re everywhere

It’s that people are misattributing them to the wrong causes

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 6d

At the point when the money becomes the end istead of the means, being rich becomes a nihilistic vicious circle.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly — my question is why be this rich and still be an unctuous toady?

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

wrote a quick one about the tech companies settling lawsuits with Trump. Yes, it’s cowardice. But it’s also an excuse to behave the way they’ve always wanted to (irresponsibly, with no regard for the consequences of their actions). Which, actually makes them a perfect part of the MAGA coalition

Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 6d

At the point when the money becomes the end istead of the means, being rich becomes a nihilistic vicious circle

Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 6d

a man with a mustache wearing a top hat stands in a crowd of men

ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a top hat stands in a crowd of men

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Topi Uusi-Seppä @topiuusis.bsky.social · 7d

No, looks like it's a rollback to an image file from 1930s Germany...

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Adrian Constantin @adriancjr.bsky.social · 7d

The modern Latin tradition would favor a junta controlled by a bunch of generals or colonels. What could provide a better history rhyme than a military junta riding the wave of a football World Cup?

#BoycottWorldCup2026

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