Anne Frank most likely died of typus from an outbreak in the camp she was imprisoned in.
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Anne Frank most likely died of typus from an outbreak in the camp she was imprisoned in.
I can trace a straight line from my parent being obsessed with Jon Stewart in the early aughts, to their embrace of Trumpism a few years later. It’s the cruelty of the mockery, the elitism, the selective outrage and empathy. I’m unsurprised by Stewart’s recent choices, unfortunately.
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.
It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.
Choose your own color for 2026!
Mine is “I’m-Not-Buying-Any-New-Shit-Anyway Green.”
Yes, mental health and bullying play a role.
Both issues are almost certainly made worse by a neuroinvasive virus which causes anxiety and affects executive functioning, leading to increased aggression and diminished resiliency.
Oh, and then there’s good ol’ ILLNESS.
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Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
I’m having the same problem with a different Oral-B floss product. Used them regularly for over a decade without a problem. Now they snap apart immediately.
If you are making plans to buy, travel, or do anything else this holiday season in the same way as you have in previous years, you do not understand the assignment.
The holidays are the beating heart of American capitalism. It's how they get most of the money they get from us. This year, we say no.
I find that statement “kids are germiest“ utterly infuriating.
Children are meant to be cared for by adults.
If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in.
They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.
So much for those trusted, educated individuals trying to tell us COVID is just the flu.
They had no clue. They lied.
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We need politicians who are willing to reintroduce and enforce masking mandates if any of us are going to survive this
An image in Corsi-Rosenthal Blue saying 'Winter Reflection' with a subheading of '29 November 2025'
Sometimes music does more than lift the spirit — it cleans the air.
Winter Reflections — 29 Nov 2025
A unique online concert featuring world-class musicians who support clean air for all.
🎟️ Tickets: go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#AirMadeAudible #MusicThatCleansTheAir
"Some patients with migraines co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 also reported experiencing more severe pain that is often less responsive to standard analgesics...
These new headache issues...may have further complicated an already pressing public health issue, the study found."
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one.
your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.
Y'all are not upset enough about THE SNAP situation for my liking. This is the intentional starvation of a civilian population that is dependent in the first place because the government manufactured conditions of deprivation.
We don't have a lack of food. We have a surfeit of greed and evil.
I just want to make this *abundantly clear*.
When “experts” say COVID-19 is mild for kids…
THEY HAD, AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TEN YEARS WORTH OF INFECTIONS WILL CAUSE.
I try to be professional on this platform but there are times, like now, when it hits me hard on a visceral level that we are in the midst of a catastrophic global public health crisis and it seems, as a species, we've somehow decided that ignoring it is the best plan we've got.
Effect of SARS-CoV-2 on perinatal outcomes by disease severity & trimester of pregnancy: prospective study
+60% risk of small for gestational age newborns
risk of iatrogenic preterm birth⬆️ & maternal intensive care unit ⬆️
particularly in severe cases & infection in 1st trimester
made the quoted thread, a response to a few of @jamellebouie.net’s recent posts, into a video, because sometimes it’s nice to see people’s faces, hear people’s voices, on an ever colder internet. this is part one.
full video at normal speed:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMfy98PR/
If you are fed up with social media suppressing info on Covid, other viruses and Long Covid, give this a like and repost. Let's make our voices be heard LOUD and clear all across everyone's feed!!
A pencil sketch of a mouse in mid-stride, wearing a coat and respirator mask. Art by me.
A mouse-sized mask. Even little muffins deserve to be able to protect themselves and others! 🩶🤍
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I’ll never forgive schools and healthcare systems that had years to fix the air and didn’t.
They had the money. The science. The time.
They chose denial instead of duty.
#AirborneAIDS #LongCovid