@dont-inhale-virus
My profile picture honors Dr Wu Lien-teh & his pioneering work in Malaysia in 1910 on masking to prevent pneumonic plague. The French doctor Gérald Mesny who came to replace Dr Wu thought he knew better, refused to mask & died.
The most prominent cryptic lineage in the world right now is from Lincoln, Nebraska.
It's a B.1 infection (about 5 years old) that has been detected in their wastewater every week for about the last 18 months.
Sooo....
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Study links working while sick to higher risk of future absence
Employees who work while sick have a roughly 30% higher likelihood of later absenteeism than those who don’t.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
it's always a bunch of maskless "experts" telling each other “exaaaaactlyyyy”
The MAHA Institute is currently holding an event, MEVI Roundtable: Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury to fear monger about vaccines. Unfortunately, @weldeiry.bsky.social, a prominent oncologist-scientist, is lending his scientific respectability to it. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
Friend of mine who I've spent a fair bit of time talking/teaching about masking reported back to me this weekend that they were at a conference last week & 1/2 the attendee's got sick & some had to go home & they didn't. Flew there, did the conference & flew home healthy. Simple.
Love to Glasgow tonight ❤️ please dig out some decent ffp2 masks if you're going to be in the centre for the next week (if you're not already masking). That amount of smoke will be causing breathing problems in healthy people, as well as babies, older people and those with respiratory conditions.
THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.
A thing that’s shocking me about the lack of coverage is air safety info. Hi, Glasgow folk, from a Southern Californian transplant: ash from old buildings is super gnarly. Please wear a respirator if you need to be near the scene.
Queen Street is still available, but it goes different places!
New Zealand is in our ninth Covid wave, with 19 fatalities last week. More must be done to prevent Covid.
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/cl...
It’s a good time to chuck on a respirator mask, esp in health care settings, public transport & busy places (indoors and out). @covidactionnz.bsky.social have set up a couple of mask blocs around the country if you’re close to one and need some masks.
The Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa recommended in *2024* to extend eligibility for additional doses to younger age groups, especially those at occupational risk.
Could NZ media please follow up on why public health expert recommendations are not being followed, as a new wave ramps up 🫠
One thing that makes me sick to my stomach: Bhattacharya was a guest speaker at the annual conference of Turning Point USA
TP USA maintains a "Professor Watchlist," of what they call "woke" professors, who receive vile harassment
4 of my Duke colleagues are on the list—all from marginalized groups
Tweet from Paula Scanlan that reads, "the number of people I still see wearing face masks in the year 2026 is genuinely concerning" Tweet from Jerome Adams that reads, "Why do you care? Honestly asking. I thought the original mantra was “to each their own.” It sounds like you’re wanting to impose your priorities/belief systems on others while saying they shouldn’t impose theirs on you? What am I missing? Also, beyond Covid – many people have found wearing a mask, has lowered their allergy symptoms- and pollen counts are rising this time of year. And Asian cultures have worn masks for years – are you bothered by Asians? Again honestly asking. 🤷🏽♂️"
Appreciate former Sugreon General Jerome Adams pushing back on anti-mask sentiment on Twitter/X
* lower than the first few waves of omicron
Troughs and peaks are visible in this multi-year comparison from Verily:
publichealth.verily.com?v=SARS-CoV-2...
In the southern (red line) and western (purple line) USA, the troughs are lower than omicron, but still higher than the original strain.
Not a deep analysis, just a quick visualization
Harvard doctor Paul Sax MD wrote an OpEd in the New England Journal of Medicine to get rid of annual mask fit testing without knowing how mask fit testing works.
voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The NEJM needs to vet its OpEds better. And Paul Sax MD
needs to learn how mask fit testing works.
Prasad also made collages of doctors wearing masks to shame them and spread doubt and mistrust.
That’s the professionalism and maturity he brought to the table.
Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal
Children under 2 hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to die or become seriously ill than babies with RSV, according to a new study.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
It really burns me up how schools treat sick absences as a moral failure. Eugenics is so baked into our society that it is basically invisible to people who are healthy.
Besides, schools with their poorly ventilated classrooms are the primary culprit. The problem isn’t the children.
Man wearing FFP3 mask in a medieval building with a distinctive timber roof. A dragon is barely visible.
I'm about the right age to be a "longevity influencer", and focus on unusually long life or existence.
Interestingly, the building I am in is OLDER than the word "longevity".
But it's not as old as the word "virus".
Maybe longevity influencers will get around to viruses soon.
*If only* there were a “[political] party of masks” basically anywhere
mumps virii under microscopy
Measles isn't the only disease making a comeback. Mumps is on the rise https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/health/mumps-virus-vaccine-wellness?Date=20260305&Profile=cnn
↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁
So @troytassier.bsky.social has written up the results from my @yalesph.bsky.social colleague @rafalpx.bsky.social's brand new paper in PLoS Comp Bio. Read it. With a guest appearance by #KristiNoem. troytassier.substack.com/p/screw-covi...
www.science.org/content/arti...
It's reassuring to see Dr Thang Nguyen-Tien wearing a trifold respirator mask while sampling a chicken coop for influenza strains. The other images in this article are a bleak reminder how strongly people resist masking, even in high risk environments.
Faithfull grows sombre when shown a clip of herself at 60 declaring that she loved being that age, feeling healthy and philosophical about things. “Now I’m less philosophical. I hate what’s happened to me. Covid did this.”’
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
#MedSky
Respirators increase source control by (an) order(s) of magnitude, depending on fit.
They should be the default choice to protect patients from airborne viruses.
Map of flu activity
Because of anti vaccine propaganda and the refusal to mask in high risk situations: since August 2025, there have been 452 influenza-associated deaths, with 255 of them in Alberta.
Map of flu activity Feb. 21, 2026: health-infobase.canada.ca/respiratory-...
It’s everywhere. Get vaccinated + mask.
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Marianne Faithfull caught #COVID in the early days of the pandemic & went into a coma during a 3-week hospitalization. She wasn't expected to survive. Later she also struggled with #LongCOVID -
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
Well put. Some positive corollaries: online spaces have enabled me to—
✅ Join many meetings that I otherwise would've skipped because few are masking up;
✅ More easily take good notes that I can share with members who couldn't attend;
✅ More easily learn + remember people's names + pronouns.
