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🐓 I used to cross Ohio roads for charitable health causes. Disaster/safety support. U.S. NWS Trained Weather Spotter. Same name on 🐘(as part of zeroes dot ca) & old Twitter. #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne 😷N95+
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✨Magical tinkling✨

Aaaaaaaaah!

✨more tinkling✨

And she held aloft Excalibur, gleaming in the twilight’s rays!

Sooo, I dropped something.

I didn’t want to bend over the pile of craft supplies on the chair next to me to get it & get all POTSy.😵‍💫

So I put duct tape on a ruler.

It worked.
Ta dah!✨
Photo of my red gloves claw holding (like it’s a sword) an old cork-backed, stainless steel, Westcott 15-inch ruler with a longish piece of duct tape stuck at one end of the ruler and flipped (sticky side out) over the end of the ruler to where it’s taped on the opposite side (and some of it folded over on itself so it looks a bit funky). In the background is a large, golden, Asian fan with a peacock painted on it and a round, squatty/short, golden bird statue.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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It’s so dry in the coop; I hit 27% humidity!

A standard good level is 40-60%, though 50-60 is ideal.

So, I started boiling a big pot of water to up the air’s moisture level (and to get a tasty bean, rice, carrot, & kale soup).

My beak was so dry I hovered over my soup bowl & fogged up my glasses!
An off-center selfie of me, a giant, rubbery-faced, yellow chicken with big, round eyes, unkempt furry feathers, and a substantial beak (but a generally friendly countenance overall), holding up my small cat-eye wire-rimmed metallic maroon eye glasses which are slightly fogged up. Some cabinets from my “old red barn” themed kitchen is visible in the background.
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This event is open to the public and free, but you have to sign up in advance (they ask for a business name/industry, you can put your name/Other).

🌀Peeps in the insurance industry will attend, so if you (or loved ones) need insurance in a hurricane-prone area, you may want to attend. #hurricanes
Screenshot of info from the linked website where you can sign up for the session. About the session Hurricanes are now converting to major Category 3+ events at higher rates than historical norms. Warmer oceans are fuelling faster intensification, and the climate baseline used in many traditional models no longer reflects today’s reality. In this 60-minute session, Dr. Daniel Swain, climate scientist known for his research on extreme weather, and Steve Bowen, Chief Science Officer at Gallagher Re, will break down the science behind rapid intensification, its implications for underwriting and capital, and the modelling approaches needed to understand tomorrow’s storms, not yesterday’s. Event details Date: Wednesday December 10, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM ET | 3:00 PM GMT | 4:00 PM CET Duration: 60 minutes Format: Live webinar on Zoom Agenda Introduction The intensification problem: The science of change (Re)insurance in a riskier world The path forward: Physics-based modelling Why major hurricanes matter most Closing discussion and audience Q&A Screenshot of the sign up fields for First Name, Last Name, Business email, Company, Industry. There is a large “Register now” button beneath the fields. I entered Charity, Chicken, [I obscured the email address with a box that says WouldntYouLikeToKnow@email.com], Dayton Charity Chicken, Other (which is the last option in the drop down selection list for the Industry field before the Register now button.
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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My dad was in his mid-70s in summer 2021 when my parents decided to travel the southern 🇺🇸, just in time for the start of the Delta variant wave—including near Jacksonville, FL, which would be 1 of the hardest hit areas. Afterward, his doc couldn’t figure out his ongoing low white blood cell count.
Screenshot of part of a DuckDuckGo search result for lymphopenia showing a Cleveland Clinic site on “Lymphopenia: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment” which says: Lymphopenia is a condition when you have too few white blood cells called lymphocytes in your blood. Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of lymphopenia and how it affects your immune system.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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So I speak to these highlights ⬇️
“Few EASY IMMEDIATE countermeasures” eh?
Only if you fail to learn, prepare/spend, AND act/spend.
“not be possible to halt the spread” so “waste” of resources to attempt it?
Only if you fail to study historic successes.
Impacts may differ from predictions?
…
“any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route”. These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning: it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual impact could be very different to that predicted response plans must have a degree of agility and scalability to cope with a range of possibilities and adapt to a wide range of scenarios
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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…this appears to be Appendix 5 (Planning assumptions) of that framework document/website from the link www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/fr...
Full ALT for that appendix appears with the 2 images below.

I have thoughts on the idiocy of that bullet and other aspects of this text…
Appendix 5: Planning assumptions The position around planning assumptions currently remains unchanged, in that plans should follow three principles described by DHSC prior to the COVID-19 pandemic: precautionary: response should consider high severity risk, including the acknowledgment of the potential severe symptoms experienced proportionality: response should align with the known risk; a plan should be implemented for not only high impact pandemics but lower impact scenarios too flexibility: there should by a UK wide plan demonstrating consistency but with a degree of flexibility and agility to allow for variation within the transition from one phase to another to align with local levels of infection and pressure on the healthcare system Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the National Risk Register 2023: “any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route”. These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning: it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so (NOTE FROM CHARITY CHICKEN: that last line is the first bullet. The rest of the bullets exceed the ALT character limit, so will be shared in the next image.) Continued from prior image (including repeating the first bullet): it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual impact could be very different to that predicted response plans must have a degree of agility and scalability to cope with a range of possibilities and adapt to a wide range of scenarios despite the origin of the pandemic, it is likely to reach the UK very quickly, with sporadic cases and small clusters of the disease occurring around the country after only one or two weeks the degree of pressure in different areas will vary, highlighting the importance of flexibility within the plan while influenza treatments exist, effective vaccines (or treatments for a non-influenza pandemic) are unlikely to be available at the initial stages of response That concludes Appendix 5 and Appendix 6 Supporting documents headline follows.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I don’t know if this will comfort anyone who, like me, subjected themselves to the CDC ACIP Hep B💉 mtg. that took all day today, but it seems it was equally painful for some of those who’ve been too insulated in their silos of reckless change.

Fave moment was Malone nearly gouging his eye out. ⬇️
Screenshot from during the PBS News livestream of today’s (Dec 4 ‘25) ACIP meeting, Robert Malone aggressively squeezing his left eyebrow (between his left thumb and pointer finger), so much so that his left thumb appears to be plunging into his closed left eye (with lips parted). Robert Malone cups his hands on either side of his face, pushing his forehead up into creases, while looking to his right (mouth closed). Robert Malone has both hands up with his fingers covering his forehead and his palms at the sides of his face, obscuring the view of most of his cheeks, as he looks down with his mouth parted.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Various high stress hand positions (see ALT for explanations of accompanying motions happening at the time of these images) from near the end of the meeting. /END
Malone with right hand fingers playing with the cuffs of his raised left arm’s shirt and jacket (left elbow is on table with forearm vertical and there may be some finger rolling of the left hand). Some right fingers are down his sleeve, tugging the fabric towards him. Malone with right elbow on table with that forearm raised at an angle. That right hand is in a fist with the thumb and pointer finger extended—he was actively rolling/rubbing those two fingers at that moment. Malone has both elbows on the table and his raised right hand is clutching the pointer and middle fingers of the left hand, and there was some twisting/wringing/squeezing occurring briefly. Malone with arms flat on the table with hands interlocked, but instead of having all his fingers lying flat on the opposite hand, some of his fingers on his right hand are looped around and are tightly gripping the lowest two visible fingers on his left hand, which is a more awkward and stressful clasp.
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Closest he came was nearly towards but not fully on 1 ear. ⬇️🚫🙉

There was a ton of hand wringing and finger rolling self-comforting motions, in addition to more of the same face cupping and head rubbing. (See next reply—my last.)

Meeting is now adjourned until another fun filled session tomorrow.🙄
Malone screenshot with left hand at outer edge of left eye, vertically flat on that side of his face.
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Has anyone else watching the ACIP meeting been tracking Malone’s hand movements as actively as I have?

He is STRESSED.

Most of my images can be found in the quoted 🧵⬇️, but I missed when he plunged a finger into his mouth midway—darn my own slow fingers.

I started here: bsky.app/profile/char...
Screenshot of Malone rubbing his eyebrow with his left hand’s thumb and forefinger during the latter part of the ACIP Hepatitis B meeting December 4, 2025.
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Dang—Dr. Laura Morris just got him to go 🙊!
Malone, still rubbing his face, covers his mouth with his left hand while listening to Dr. Laura Morris.
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Ope… just got into some technical serology discussion… 🙄
Another image of Malone in the meeting with his left hand vertically placed on the left side of his face largely covering his left eye as his brow is heavily furrowed.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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He did go full coverage later in the session when two other panelists were discussing not having a clear idea of the wording and rescheduling the vote.
Screenshot from the Hepatitis B ACIP meeting livestreamed by PBS News on December 4, 2025 with Dr. Robert Malone fully covering his eyes and nose with his left hand as he repeatedly rubbed his forehead and covered his face during the part of the meeting where amendments to the potential votes’ language was being discussed/proposed.
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The body language says it all… Malone, faced by facts and experts from doctors calling in to the Hepatitis B vaccine CDC meeting who are fighting the committee’s misinformation campaign, is actively trying to shut it all out as he shuts it down. 😒
Screenshot from around this point in the livestream of the meeting showing Robert Malone cupping his hands at both sides of his face with his fingertips pressing so hard on his furrowed brow that there are visible creases above his fingertips; the cupping at the sides of his face effectively limiting his field of vision.
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Considering where I am, I can certainly commiserate—we prioritize flu💉 despite seeing “game changer” numbers resulting from adopting RSV💉and COVID impacting more bodily systems than flu (including the immune system—w/ damage making everyone more vulnerable to everything). 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/char...
Screenshot of a November 23, 2025, Dayton Daily News article, linked in my quoted post, saying: “It started with the weather changes. We saw an uptick in respiratory illnesses, and strep throat is running around all the schools,” said Dr. Lisa Ziemnik, program director of Dayton Children’s Hospital urgent care and Kids Express services. Ziemnik said the first cases of influenza A have arrived, but all the numbers are what is expected [I added highlighter to the following three paragraphs.] In fact, Ziemnik said, there’s been a marked decrease in the number of RSV cases to Dayton Children’s so far this season as the RSV shot becomes more prevalent. Last year, RSV was a leading reason for patients admitted to Dayton Children’s, she said, with a 6.8% positivity rate. Though early in the season, that rate is 0.5% this year. “The RSV shot is really the first huge game-changer in my career,” Ziemnik said. [End of highlighter.] RSV vaccines received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in 2023 and became commonplace last year, Ziemnik said, with insurance companies including the shot in their coverage. She recommends the shot for all infants under 8 months old and expectant mothers. She recommends the RSV and COVID shots for anyone eligible, but said if you’re only going to get one, get a flu shot. “Flu is still the mainstay. In all honesty, anyone that lives, breathes or goes to Kroger should get a flu vaccine,” she said.
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Honestly, kind of sad to not see #GivingTuesday trending on this platform.

I don’t know if that’s a sign of the public’s struggling finances and of those with money and influence not caring (because they don’t have to pretend to care if they are following the current 🇺🇸 administration’s lead). 🤷‍♀️
Charities are struggling harder now than ever before as need grows (plus they’re facing all the same cost increases). Many also lost federal funding support this year. So, if you have it comfortably in your budget to give, please do so today to get in on matches and help them through the holidays. Even if you don’t have money to give, you can repost something from your favorite nonprofit today or post something original with a link to their site and #GivingTuesday. ❤️🫂
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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There are many forms of denial…

Iowa, as significant snowfall begins:

“Current situation across much of Iowa! The 911 calls are rolling in a people are continuing to drive like it’s sunny and 75!

Stay home and stay safe!!” —Caleb Beacham on Twitter

More info: Weather.gov
Screenshot from Twitter/x by Max Velocity that says: Iowa is already experiencing problems as a large winter storm is about to ramp up. Then it quotes a tweet by Caleb Beacham which says: Current situation across much of Iowa! The 911 calls are rolling in a people are continuing to drive like it’s sunny and 75! Stay home and stay safe!! Then there’s a photo at night of a snow covered road with traffic. Tweet from x by Max Velocity saying: Winter Storm Warnings continue to expand, and snowfall totals are climbing even higher across nearly every impacted area. A widespread 9 to 15 inches of snow is still expected, with localized totals pushing 18 inches or more where the heaviest bands set up. That text is followed by a map of the Midwest showing many winter storm warnings. See NWS site linked in post for more. Screenshot from Twitter of tweet by Max Velocity which says: WIDESPREAD 9-15" OF SNOW is likely across Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan tomorrow! ❄️ That’s followed by a radar map of the Midwest that’s largely covered by a winter storm.
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Blessid Union of Souls—1996
circa “I Believe” youtu.be/4agAm1F6vMw?...
The Temptations—late ‘90s
Sting (with Phantom Planet)—2005
Kenny Loggins—2014
Weird Al—2016

Bonus honorable mention:
The Boys Choir of Harlem 1996
Photo of a ticket stub and flier for the April 24, 1996 Blessid Union of Souls concert at the Ervin J. Nutter Center at Wright State University (showing a price paid of $12. Between those two items is a small piec of paper with the autographs of all 5 of the band’s members.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Ugh.

I forgot to ✅ local news this week, so I missed this ⬇️ from 3 days ago… & it was worth missing.

So much about it, particularly in the last half, is so frustratingly wrong/horrifying.

My local children’s hospital is a joke/nightmare.

Illnesses on rise www.daytondailynews.com/local/season...
Screenshot of the last half of the linked November 23 Dayton Daily News article “Seasonal illnesses on the rise here” saying: She recommends the RSV and COVID shots for anyone eligible, but said if you’re only going to get one, get a flu shot. “Flu is still the mainstay. In all honesty, anyone that lives, breathes or goes to Kroger should get a flu vaccine,” she said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends an annual flu shot for anyone 6 months old and older. This year, the CDC is emphasizing shared decision-making for the COVID vaccine, encouraging conversations between patients and their health care provider. Under Ohio law, pharmacists, pharmacy interns and pharmacy technicians can administer the COVID vaccine without a prescription to anyone 5 or older, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the ODH, stressed the importance of vaccinations not only for seasonal illnesses, but for a litany of potentially life-threatening diseases. “The fact is that we continue to see too many people contracting illnesses that can have very serious health effects,” Vanderhoff said. ”For decades now, we have had very safe and very effective vaccines for serious diseases that include polio, tetanus, rotavirus, flu, pneumococcal disease, hepatitis and many others. So I join countless healthcare providers in encouraging everyone to stay up to date on their vaccines." Dayton Children’s Hospital has flu vaccines available at all Kids Express locations, COVID vaccines at the Centerville and Beavercreek locations, and RSV vaccines at the Centerville location.
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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4/ Our school was kind of on top of a hill. We dragged our supplies to the southeast corner of campus where there was a big downward slope. On the way, we scored an abandoned beat-up, hard plastic, round, blue kiddie pool.
Photo of an example pool that matches the description (for those unfamiliar, these kiddie pools are quite shallow and have a flat base).
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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3/ We grabbed some trays previously borrowed from the dining hall, removed the ice machine’s rectangular door, and grabbed a chair on metal runners. There chair felt like an insanely reckless choice, but we drug it along—heck, maybe peeps would need breaks and not want to sit on snow.
Photo of a chair similar to the one we used (although what’s shown has a flat hard plastic back and seat while our study room chair was upholstered), with a horizontal rectangular back piece and square seat with a gap between the two. These two pieces are connected by silver metal tubes that run along the sides of the seat and back and across the top of the back and the front of the seat. The metal tubes are rounded at every change in direction and the chair rests on two of these metal tubes that look like runners as they are flat on the ground from the front to the back of the chair on each side. A commercial ice machine similar in basic design to the dorm’s with a vertical back and fatter base that protrudes forward and has a flat, rectangular, horizontal door that has a top hinge and you lift at an edge.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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1/ I’m not Canadian, but I was in an org in college that took a trip from SW Ohio to Toronto and back in the 1st days of ‘99 (during ⬇️).

When we got back to OH/school, we were the only people on campus (everyone else was a day or 2 away from returning from winter break).

After being trapped…
DuckDuckGo search result screenshot that says: North American blizzard of 1999 When the Canadian Army was called into Toronto to clear the snow The Blizzard of 1999 was a strong winter snowstorm which struck the Midwestern United States and portions of central and eastern Canada, hitting hardest in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, southern Ontario, and southern Quebec dumping as much as 60 centimetres of snow in many areas. Chicago received a recorded 21.6 in. The storm hit just after New Year's Day, between January 2 and January 4, 1999. Travel was severely disrupted throughout the areas and the cities of Chicago and Toronto were also paralyzed… (continues in Wikipedia)
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

In the near future, if you can afford it, you’re really going to want to buy organic to not only avoid typical pesticide health impacts but also additional PFAS cancer/health impacts. 🤦‍♀️😤
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PBS News Hour video screenshot showing Nov. 24 heading “EPA approves pesticides with PFAS for food use” with additional text: USE OF ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ EPA Rolls Back PFAS Regulation - Agency approves two new pesticides for use on food - Can be used on romaine lettuce, broccoli, and potatoes - Report: EPA to approve four more pesticides
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Interesting how the CDC data for Ohio seems to differ from the state of Ohio’s wastewater data site, which currently (data as of 20 Nov) indicates the state has a Moderate level of COVID (overall declining but rising in 4% of sites). But who knows, maybe tomorrow’s update will be a massive drop. 🤷‍♀️
Screenshot of DataOhio Wastewater tracking site showing the table for Statewide Infectious Disease Trends and Levels in Wastewater for COVID, flu, & RSV. The COVID cell says: Increasing SARS-CoV-2 trends in 4% of monitored facilities. Trend: Decreasing Level: Moderate FYI influenza & RSV are both low, so if you’re in Ohio and I’ll, the odds are higher that it’s Covid. Site link: https://data.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/data/view/ohio-wastewater-monitoring-data?visualize=true Because of the site’s horrible incompatibility with mobile devices, I can’t show everything in one graphic because it gets cut off, so this second image is just to show the last updated date was 2025-11-20 and it updates Mondays & Thursdays.
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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October 9, 2024

American Heart Association

“COVID-19 may increase heart attack and stroke risk for years”

“double the risk for future heart attacks, strokes or premature death from any cause up to 3 years later – even if they never showed signs of severe illness”
www.heart.org/en/news/2024...
Screenshot of first paragraph from the linked article: People infected with the COVID-19 virus in 2020 may have double the risk for future heart attacks, strokes or premature death from any cause up to three years later – even if they never showed signs of severe illness, according to new research. The risk may be considerably higher in people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.
November 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM