#AU Heute mal ein Beitrag zur Montagsmotivation – an all die „faulen Deutschen“ da draußen, von denen manche Politiker so gern sprechen, ohne sie je konkret anzusprechen oder etwas Belastbares zu benennen. 1. Minilektion Rhetorik: Die Perspektive umdrehen. Nicht: „Wer ist zu oft krank?“ Sondern 👇

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

Hazel Newlevants großartiges COVID-Zine liegt in der aktualisierten Ausgabe (2026) vor. "What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition" © 2026 by Hazel Newlevant is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. newlevant.com/COVIDzine #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #CleanAir

Huch, ab 2021 gehen die krankgeschriebenen Zeiten nach oben! Was war denn da? Was haben wir denn da geändert? Das war doch nicht etwa, nachdem wir beschlossen haben, den Zero COVID Ansatz komplett aufzugeben und alle der Krankheit zum Fraß vorzuwerfen?

They manufactured consent for repeat Covid infections They told you it was “mild” That it would strengthen your immune system That “only the vulnerable” were at risk. They lied. Wearing a mask like an N95 is the best way to safeguard your health. It’s community care.

My friend who keeps getting sick says he knows that he should wear a mask and take precautions but he says that doing so is just too inconvenient, and I cannot imagine a better epitaph for humanity than: we could have saved ourselves but doing so was just too inconvenient.

I keep hearing people say in response to all the horrors of this world that “this too shall pass,” but I keep seeing studies revealing how Covid has changed our brains and bodies and I am worried oh, I am very worried, that it shall not actually pass.

You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.

Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans

This is a massive breakthrough for the millions living with Long COVID and ME/CFS. Nature just published a protocol that finally stops ignoring how hormones and biological rhythms drive these illnesses. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Shoutout to my fellow maskers!

Für @nd-aktuell.de habe ich die empfehlenswerte Anthologie "Die verdrängte Pandemie" rezensiert, die Frederic Valin und @paulschuberth.bsky.social im @unrastverlag.bsky.social herausgegeben haben. #Covid19 #SarsCoV2

In 2026 there will be more mass media articles and commentators ridiculing people taking precautions to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection while simultaneously hundreds of pieces of research will be published further demonstrating the long-term harms of infection. Ignore the ridicule.

Unfortunately it seems we have to do the CMOH job- total lapse in PH practice. Why take the job if you’re going to let the (anti science/anti vax) UCP dictate the message. Here’s my basic PSA

3. In many countries, politics and the institutionalisation of anti-vax and pro-infection ideologies are actually encouraging this outcome. This is, to the best of my knowledge, unprecedented in human history: Humanity being overtly on the side of the virus, basically.

A key component of analysis is the distillation of complex situations to the fundamental concepts that underpin them. I never, ever thought in 2020 that the simple concept of, 'I don't want to get infected with a novel virus' would be warped from common sense to a rebellious act.

When you hear people say it’s getting lighter, that at long last it’s finally getting lighter, you need to understand such comments are about the amount of daylight, such comments are only about the amount of daylight, for everything else (alas) is still just getting darker.

Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'? We are right.

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

The map shows starkly that BA.3.2 "Cicada" is a wild outlier, way out on its own in the south-west corner. This suggests the current vaccines and/or disease-acquired immunity will not offer strong protection against infection. 🧵

Ironically, those same people were first in line for vaccines & were happy to claim their high-risk status when they thought it would benefit them. Yet when everyone was allowed to unmask, they were suddenly no longer high risk. (4/7)

No one believes anything bad will happen to them. Yet they’re cool with bad things happening to others. We can’t trust others to keep us safe when they aren’t willing to keep themselves safe. We pay taxes to a govt that is supposed to keep us safe. (6/7)

1 in 4 workers in Spain in this research developed #Longcovid. Covid is an occupational health hazard everywhere, because it’s airborne in all indoor shared air spaces. #CleantheAir #WorkersRights www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/wor...

19/20 Fazit: Reformen? Vergesst es. Der Staat ist Beute im Postfaschismus. Spahn, Gotthardt, Reichelt – das ist der Bauplan. Wer Spahn verstehen will, muss den Geldströmen folgen, nicht seinen Sprüchen. Follow the money into the abyss.

The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart

Newest addition to the 12 Days of Covid Conscioumas - an ugly CC sweater design contest! We realize not everyone can join Zoom hangouts and movie watch parties, so here's a way for us to do something creative and fun while gathered in spirit! Details are in graphic below.

Reddit: "The people who are studying the impact of COVID literally talk about it in the past tense, as if we are building monuments to some past event. Like “wow we should learn from COVID to listen to disabled people” you mean the disabled people trying to tell you covid is still ongoing??!"

Just because you’re a professor and you hold the opinion that masks don’t work doesn’t make you a “top scientist”.

Why are virologists thinking and talking about this year's strain of influenza? We are dealing with a version of H3N2 that is unusual compared to what we might expect year on year. At the same time, it is not as unusual as, say, a novel pandemic strain, far from it.

“Assess your own risk” was the most anti-public health slogan any public health official ever dreamed up.

Einen völlig harmlosen, fast neutralen Text zur Grippeimpfung geschrieben und drüben auf der Fascho-Plattform brennt nicht nur der Baum, sondern direkt dutzende Wälder, scheint mir. https://taz.de/Die-Grippe-ist-da/!6134533

So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.

Delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the current influenza surge in today's Belfast Telegraph; the virus itself, what we should be doing to mitigate it - vaccination, ventilation, masks - and how infection control has become ideological. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/...

This research was carried out in 2021. We are living with unnecessary infections. #CleantheAir Respirators for airborne risk Ffp2 Ffp3 for staff Not gappy FRSM We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...

21. Ultimately, we need Govt, public health, and public opinion to cause a paradigm shift where we start taking infectious diseases seriously. Why do we tolerate "winter pressures" EVERY YEAR?! They are predictable AND preventable. The investment would more than pay for itself...

So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

What Steve said. There has never been a study in which high-quality, well-fitting masks were actually WORN that did not show a significant impact on disease transmission. Many mask studies failed to take account of post-allocation confounders (non-adherence + non-mask people choosing to mask).

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Wrote a new masking anthem to the tune of the disco classic "Le Freak." #MaskUp! A thank you to those who mask! #MasksSaveLives #WearAMask #N95 #SARS2 #LongCovid #MassDisabling #CovidisAirborne #CovidisntOver youtu.be/Bn7JNUh9fRc?...

Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/

Hi BBC, Thank you for this article on the spread of the flu in UK schools. But could you change the image illustrating it? The flu is a virus that is mainly airborne. Vaccination, masks and good ventilation are the most effective means of prevention. www.bbc.com/news/article...

UNIST researchers used South Korea’s COVID-19 data to estimate hidden asymptomatic infections. At least 49% of vaccinated infections were asymptomatic during Omicron, with only 9.3% detected. Silent spreaders likely drove much of the transmission. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey everyone, it's time to play "guess the year we knew COVID was airborne"! (answer in link: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...)

Chickenpox, COVID-19, Influenza, Measles, Common cold, Rubella, Bronchiolitis, Smallpox, Whooping cough... There are many diseases that are transmitted through the air we breathe. JaspAir, our DIY CO2 monitor, can help reduce the risk of catching them. letsair.org/jaspair

Illustrating my theory that the most dangerous activities are the ones that are the most expensive and difficult to cancel if you get sick. Concerts, vacations…they won’t hesitate to put others at risk. And they don’t want others to know they’re sick, so they won’t mask!

“Jiang and colleagues conclude, carefully but clearly, that their findings ‘redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise’ and highlight lymphocyte dysregulation as a key immunological feature of Long Covid, particularly in people with cardiovascular disease.”

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...

I loved the ONS pilot reads of prevalence study that was, sadly and to the detriment of science, never continued. (www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...; Figure from @jneill.bsky.social). Owing to the RKI Grippeweb Plus data, we can now roughly compare influenza incidences to wastewater viral loads.

Ever wonder how a scientist studying the surface of the ocean ends up studying airborne disease transmission? Because the surface of the ocean and surface of your lungs are so similar!! Read about here in our new paper. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...