eVeRy sInGle yEaR in mid oCtObEr: “increased indoor mixing”
… no, its not the people, its basic physics of colder weather, closed windows, & a build up of airborne pathogens
When disease is waterborne we fix the water supply, we don’t blame those drinking it!
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Shout out to Jim O'Neill, new acting director of the CDC, for drawing attention to the alienation people with long COVID continue to face - from friends, family, partners, doctors, employers etc.
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Local woman wakes up, moves John Oliver to a secret bunker to film his next episode of Last Week Tonight, makes oatmeal.
I'm going to need journalists everywhere to understand that all the water & self love in the world won't fix post-viral cognitive damage caused by SARS-CoV2
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Somebody tell him
RFK Jr: "We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism."
Note: There is a type of disinformation where criticism is flipped back at critics, leading to increased public confusion.
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
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Resurgence of COVID-19 symptoms among our family medicine patients. Known resurgence in the USA. And no access to local testing (public health reporting is limited to long-term care, hospitals, child care). Buckle up, Canadians: It is only August; September may be a doozy.
Today I'm going to focus on the good things, like how Travis's face, as Taylor is about to announce her new album, looks like he has all of the excitement of all the Swifties packaged inside him. 😆
Three stories in poor air quality and wildfires on the 8am CBC news.
No mention of N95s. No mention of air cleaners.
Climate change is real. But nobody wants to talk about solutions or mitigations.
Researchers say rising food prices are the second biggest way that climate change manifests in our day-to-day lives, topped only by extreme heat.
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I've known he's awful for a long time now, but I loved the show and him when I was a kid. Starting to think I have really bad taste in celebrities. 🤣 I will never again commit to being a fan of anyone until they reveal their values.
If COVID is over, why are there hundreds of Long COVID treatment trials & next-gen COVID vaccine trials still happening worldwide?
Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates Matthew A. Guzman, Scott A. Imberman, Neil R. Filosa, Tara Kilbride & Nat Malkus X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 33849 DOI 10.3386/w33849 Issue Date May 2025 Schools have long played a frontline role in efforts to contain infectious diseases and prevent spread to the wider community. These include vaccination requirements, school closures during periods of high illness, and the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) during outbreaks. In this paper we investigate the impact of mask mandates in schools on COVID spread. We use event study and difference-in-differences models that exploit the removal of mask mandates in districts serving 50% of public school students in the U.S. surrounding the revocation of CDC guidance recommending school masking in February and early March of 2022. We estimate that going from 0% to 100% mandated masking in a county reduces COVID deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. Due to the fact that COVID deaths among students and, to a lesser extent, school staff were rare in the U.S. given school age profiles, we argue that the bulk of these deaths were from spillovers to residents in the wider community.
USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year.
Issue Date: May 2025
Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849
A hepa filter that probably isn't even switched on. Headline: Air Filtration Doesn’t Work To Prevent Illness Says Study Done By People Who Didn’t Switch The Air Filters On Properly Story by Solomon Bundy and Meredith Belch Photo from Adobe
Air Filtration Doesn’t Work To Prevent Illness Says Study Done By People Who Didn’t Switch The Air Filters On Properly
Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting "immunity debt" own this.
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
From Jan. 2025: The far right is a transnational movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy by spreading disinformation on social media, smearing democratic leaders, and causing chaos.
Extremists target Trudeau and Canada | Kingston Whig Standard
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In another installment of: “What She Said”
“All the researchers of the world watching us right now, I want you to think about Canada as the premier destination for your work.Canada is not for sale, we’re open for business, and we’re open for science”
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
With thanks to @daniellebeckman.bsky.social
Undergraduates ... Now available with brain injury.
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What it’s like to be Covid-Conscious:
You see a rotten turnip & say “it’s a rotten turnip” & you don’t eat it because it’d make you sick
But everyone else looks at the turnip & says “no it’s a peach” & they eat it, & when they’re all sick but you aren’t they point at you & go LOL you fuckin weirdo
I feel like I'm the only one not really enjoying The White Lotus. I'm just on season one, but I guess it's just not for me.
🤣🤣🤣
