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We deserve so much better.
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FEW EASY AND IMMEDIATE COUNTERMEASURES????

Have these people never heard of N95s? Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes? HEPA filters? HVAC? ASHRAE 241? Upper room UV?

Oh, yeah: they're physicians. Useless for public health.

Get them the fuck out of the way and let engineers who KNOW HOW TO DO THIS do their JOB!
Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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This is exactly what happens when a novel seasonal influenza strain meets a population with Covid-induced immune dysregulation; it's not 'like Covid again', it's the ongoing and continuous effects of Covid.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Flu: It is like Covid again, says principal as 170 pupils sick
Confirmed flu cases among adults and children across Northern Ireland have more than trebled in the last two weeks.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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“Every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles.”
“parallels to HIV & concluded “that SARS-CoV-2 is much more than a respiratory virus-it is a complex immunomodulator that targets central defense cells themselves.”

COVID is “an existential threat”.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Context:

Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).

Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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“COVID-19 leaves microvascular damage, even after mild infection…microvascular changes appear years before vision declines. Just like in diabetes, hypertension, or glaucoma, what we’re seeing now may be the beginning of a process—not the end of it”

Prevent Covid infection or face vision loss later😷
🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on Covid's impact on the eyes🚨

"A new study from Germany looked at the eyes of people who recovered from COVID-19, even months later.
Using a non-invasive retinal imaging tool (OCTA), they found signs of microvascular injury..."

18-tweet🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19958...
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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"Back to normal" for the purpose of "saving the economy." Meanwhile, millions of human lives are being destroyed in an ongoing holocaust of uncontrolled Covid-19. Capitalist priorities taking precedence, as always.
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The anti-vax, anti-public health dark money group, The Brownstone Institute, is on BlueSky as of yesterday.

It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.
While Gorski and Yamey provided no evidence that Koch money funded the GBD signatories, the BMJ still published their piece….The BMJ article is full of errors that ought to have never found their way into any publication,” wrote Martin Kulldorff in the Spectator. brownstone.org/articles/cov...
Covid Bias at the BMJ ⋆ Brownstone Institute
This week, Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paper on Covid-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ, concluding that the ‘BMJ had a strong bias.’
brownstone.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Public health: "We must do something about all this disinformation out there"

Also public health: "Here's a bar of soap to handwash your way out of COVID"
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Journalists: let your readers know that our current medical claimed the massed infection of unvaccinated people under age 60 would end the pandemic in 3-6 months.
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.

If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.

We would all be healthier.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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January 2022 was the worst month for kids. 150-200 died, 900 hospitalized daily at the peak.

Yet out medical establishment saw that and wrote this in February 2022.

They have a high tolerance for viruses hurting kids. They shown 0 evidence it bothers them at all.
December 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'.

www.propublica.org/article/covi...
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Right.

I see.

And they said disease control was expensive.

How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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We need to be really aware of the danger of this. GenAI is a tool of oppression & conformity. When all art looks & sounds the same, it has no impact to change the world.
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Want to pull out this slide: people deserve to know there’s a growing mountain of evidence finding more Covid infections = more likelihood of being left chronically ill.

There’s a temptation to think that if you recovered ok last time, then you will next time too, but that’s not what the data say.
October 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change at COP 30: “When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven.”

Fucking right on. Never.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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covid causes neuroinflammation.

long covid is more common in kids than asthma now.

this is why we shouldn’t have stopped trying to stop the spread until we had sterilizing vaccines that actually prevent transmission and infection, not just keep people out of the hospital/morgue during infection.
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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“The association between SARS-CoV-2 and stroke incidence was consistent and significant, suggesting that COVID-19 should be considered a new risk factor for cerebrovascular diseases.”
bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Association between SARS-CoV-2 and stroke: perspectives from a metaumbrella-review - BMC Neurology
In the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the need arose to investigate potential complications associated with SARS-CoV-2, including the risk of stroke.ObjectiveThis study aimed to verify the asso...
bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.

@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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After much digging I finally found the Moderna tweet x deleted
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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“There is no monitoring or real plan to control any airborne diseases in healthcare settings and it’s costing the UK taxpayer billions and making hospitals the best place to go to catch COVID‑19, or flu, or potentially even TB, Scarlet Fever or Measles”

Same situation in Canada 🚨
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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💯 and it's answer to the ongoing Covid crisis
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM