It was on this day
six years ago
that the WHO
officially declared
COVID-19
a global pandemic.
So it is on this day
six years later
that all of us
officially enter
the seventh year
of this pandemic.
“While this new paper suggests the OPTN policy had its intended effect, it does not solve racial disparities in kidney transplantation. Other research has suggested that the adjustment largely helped patients who had regular access to care, and were already on the waitlist”
“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”
absence of a diagnosis does not guarantee the absence of an illness - mamoru - if someone you know has oeen been suffering yet a doctor says nothing is wrong, which has happened to a majority of chronically ill people at some point, you have a choice. you can either believe doctor that you probably never met, or the person suffering. and I cannot emphasize enough how absolutely damaging it is for a sick person to not be believed. the believe
Thanks 💜 it was a huge shock but it's been ok so far. Just surreal how they can pull the rug out from under any of us whenever it suits their quarterly reports or whatever.
I got the letter about this cancellation 2 days before they stopped the service and on a holiday weekend, leaving me in a panic with no option to get my meds. The meds I've taken religiously for almost 30 years.
These companies are gambling with our lives and laughing all the way to the bank.
Astellas, the manufacturer of the brandname tacrolimus, stopped offering drug rebate coupons abruptly in 2024, forcing most patients like me to finally switch to generic unless we can pay tens of thousands of dollars annually for the privilege of taking our meds.
www.propublica.org/article/tacr...
Folks need an old school twitter style teach-in about disability liberation & history. “Accessible technology” has always been used as a cover to hide the fact that tech “innovation” regularly excludes disabled folks AND uses us as guinea pigs to make tech for abled folks. We get retrofitted slop
You know how we resist fascism? Wear a mask ✊😷 It’s community care & a visual signal that says you will no longer accept anyone, including yourself, to be collateral damage for their profit. Demand clean air in schools, workplaces, every public space, just like we have clean water. It’s NOT too late
If you are serious about "never again" then remember: it's not about standing up to a line of tanks when the camps are already running. It's about standing up to social & professional pressure when the whole thing is just getting started, when it's not yet cool to do so. That's bravery that matters.
Funny how wearing respirators is used as an impossible consideration for others because you “have to live your life”, but it’s okay for high risk folks to spend >6 years being left out of that very same right because abled convenience and comfort is more important.
Super. Funny. 😒
Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.
For all the evil that gets done legislatively and judicially, there’s something to be said about the complicity of regular people who are all too willing to be “overly cautious.”
you can always start masking again if you’ve stopped. it’s fine, good actually.
Pandemic was a great dry run for this👍
Hide the scary unpopular info that most people don’t want to know, and get most people not only accustomed to it but in favor of it—then move on to hiding all the other facts that are inconvenient to those in power.
if yall want a general strike you’re gonna have to start masking up—protecting each others health matters regardless, but all the moreso when insurance is tied to employment; what effective resistance allows infection to spread?
I’ve said it before & will again: wasting editor & reviewer time by submitting egregiously plagiaristic uses of genAI w/o even fact-checking should be grounds for being barred from submitting articles to that journal for a period of time (1-2y for first offense?)
looking at you, folks who scoff at wearing masks in, at the very least, indoor public spaces even as we watch the wanton destruction of our public health system & collapse of healthcare infrastructure.
Reminder: you should absolutely start wearing the best mask you can find in public spaces, even if you stopped before. We have no public health at the top level & repeat infections have ravaged immune systems.
If someone gives you a hassle, say "even if it's just a cold, I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER!"
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Via a friend: the recipient of the first successful neonatal heart transplant celebrated his 40th birthday a few days ago, still with the same donor heart transplanted into him when he was just days old: news.llu.edu/patient-care...
Every 8 minutes another name is added to the transplant waiting list. Yesterday was another anniversary of my 2nd transplant and I am grateful every day for this blessed gift of life - consider becoming an organ donor and learn more at unos.org/register-to-...
1. They are eugenicists.
2. Viruses don't care about your daily step count.
I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
but under no circumstances should we expect any common-sense mitigation practices beyond annual boosters for a vaccine the government is openly discouraging/preventing people from getting
wouldn’t want to seem ✨unreasonable✨
I know it's too much to dream that people would also wear masks in publicly funded buildings (like post offices, the DMV, libraries, schools) - but a world where people try harder not to spread illness *is within reach.*
