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May 2026 be the year of focusing on improving our communities as part of the resistance to all that is wrong with this administration
A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.
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![Excerpt reads: "Prioritize your neighborhood
Neighborhoods drive our happiness (or unhappiness) more than we think.
When Lina Martinez, director of POLIS, the Center for Wellbeing Studies at Universidad Icesi in Colombia, studied the happiness of households in the city of Cali, she couldn’t find much difference between poorer and richer areas. “Their happiness is pretty much the same,” she said. But that changed when she isolated neighborhood conditions, such as access to transit, health care and parks. “The conditions of the neighborhood affect happiness,” she said. “I can’t link that to the space where [people] live.”
That aligns with findings from a 2023 study of the Vancouver metro area: Researchers found no significant differences in well-being between people living in single detached homes, duplexes, townhouses, laneway houses and apartment buildings (basement units smaller than 300 square feet were the only negative exception). What did people say they missed most in their neighborhood? Affordability, proximity to family and friends, and a sense of community. Home design was eighth on the list."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreicapfknasylzk2lqzaxxeb5mchgnru75obggn45dusda6j5zogvuu@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
May 2026 be the year of focusing on improving our communities as part of the resistance to all that is wrong with this administration
Going forward there will be children in the U.S. who will not grow up with this protection, potentially even the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of some committee members. I hope they remember their vote and the intentional farce they insisted on if their children become hepB(+).
This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Going forward there will be children in the U.S. who will not grow up with this protection, potentially even the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of some committee members. I hope they remember their vote and the intentional farce they insisted on if their children become hepB(+).
Seriously. Do these people realize how much this reflects the self-serving, blinded egotism that oozes through their comments and behavior?
Not remotely the most important ACIP observation, but I’m struck by how they’ve transformed the setup into something that looks like an official CDC broadcast rather than an actual advisory committee meeting. (Compare to the old pre-covid setup). Better for clips/soundbites/social media, I suppose?
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Seriously. Do these people realize how much this reflects the self-serving, blinded egotism that oozes through their comments and behavior?
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A claim that the U.S. is an “outlier” for having a universal hepatitis B birth dose is false.
ACIP’s own September map shows many countries with universal birth-dose policies. We’d become an outlier only by rolling ours back.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
ACIP’s own September map shows many countries with universal birth-dose policies. We’d become an outlier only by rolling ours back.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
December 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A claim that the U.S. is an “outlier” for having a universal hepatitis B birth dose is false.
ACIP’s own September map shows many countries with universal birth-dose policies. We’d become an outlier only by rolling ours back.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
ACIP’s own September map shows many countries with universal birth-dose policies. We’d become an outlier only by rolling ours back.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
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Did you know?
190 countries have infant immunization schedules that include the Hep B vaccine
115 countries recommend a universal birth-dose of the Hep B vaccine, one of the key actions WHO recommends to reduce Hep B prevalence
Read more in the WHO Hep B Report ➡️
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190 countries have infant immunization schedules that include the Hep B vaccine
115 countries recommend a universal birth-dose of the Hep B vaccine, one of the key actions WHO recommends to reduce Hep B prevalence
Read more in the WHO Hep B Report ➡️
iris.who.int/server/api/c...
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Did you know?
190 countries have infant immunization schedules that include the Hep B vaccine
115 countries recommend a universal birth-dose of the Hep B vaccine, one of the key actions WHO recommends to reduce Hep B prevalence
Read more in the WHO Hep B Report ➡️
iris.who.int/server/api/c...
190 countries have infant immunization schedules that include the Hep B vaccine
115 countries recommend a universal birth-dose of the Hep B vaccine, one of the key actions WHO recommends to reduce Hep B prevalence
Read more in the WHO Hep B Report ➡️
iris.who.int/server/api/c...
In a nutshell. Thank you for speaking the truth and pushing back against this farce that they have made of the ACIP meeting.
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In a nutshell. Thank you for speaking the truth and pushing back against this farce that they have made of the ACIP meeting.