Canada: "Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds" “People assume that COVID-19 is done … but what our data is showing is that it’s still having a big impact on our hospitals” Source: archive.md/jmZg5

Oooh! @kprather.bsky.social !

#Ohio has about 11 #measles cases. The OH DOH Dir. Dr. Vanderhoff announced the dept.’s new immunization dashboard. Nationally, there’ve been about 1,714 reported measles cases so far (JUST 1/4-1/3 INTO ‘26‼️), & the 🇺🇸 had 2,286 cases in ‘25, Vanderhoff said. www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio/o...

Today at the #InspireAirAwareFest, we're screening "A Pan***ic Play" by Serina Estrada at 2p ET and an encore screening at 6p ET over Zoom. A Q & A with Serina will follow the play. All festival events are FREE! We've still got space if you'd like to join us! RSVP at tinyurl.com/InspireFestR...

Study finds long COVID leaves a distinct immune signature in the blood. Study finds long COVID is linked to lasting immune changes, especially inflammation and neurological signals. Vaccines didn’t worsen these responses. The findings could improve biomarkers, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment.

"The Trump administration just took a sledgehammer to the health protections in place for toxic coal pollution,” Lisa Evans, senior counsel at Earthjustice, said in a statement.

Long COVID is significantly underreported across the globe. Long COVID has affected over 400 million people globally as of 2024, but it’s likely underreported—especially in low- and middle-income countries where data and access to care are limited. Source: archive.md/26rjh

School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents Published: April 2, 2026 A new study shows Long COVID in kids is linked to school struggles—attention, learning and social issues. It highlights the need for early recognition and better school-based support to help affected children.

We maxed out our available Zoom seats for the FREE Inspire Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware, April 15-19… 😭😭😭 So there was only one thing to do… Upgrade the Zoom plan to accommodate more folks!!! 👏👏👏 We’ve got room for you… come join us! tinyurl.com/InspireFest2026

Your goal should always be to keep the risk of infection low because every infection carries risks you don’t want. Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

BREAKING: PDS Tornado Warning for Union Center, Wisconsin.

Very strong debris signature near Union Center, Wisconsin and the area is under a PDS Tornado Warning

I added ALT for the images that the post I quoted had quoted.

In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

When a USAID whistleblower told Trump people that it'd be hard to pull together accurate info on Malaria since DOGE had turned off access to the whole team who worked on that issue, one of the guys shouted “See, this is why, just because it might work at Twitter does not mean you can do it here!”

A Trump guy who was part of the team dismantling USAID didn't think political appointees could grasp the concept of drug-resistant tuberculosis so he asked workers to explain it as "Super TB" in "Barney-style" slides. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

OMFG 😳 🤬

This. Over and over and over. "If your parental values include a desire for your child to die from a vaccine preventable disease, your values need an adjustment."

For those in the 🇺🇸 who see the below WA and don’t look carefully at the image, the WA is not the abbreviation for Washington state but is short for Western Australia 🇦🇺 (just clarifying to avoid risking that my reposting this to a 🇺🇸/🇨🇦-heavy audience without clarification causes temporary confusion).

#MustWatch 🌪️ vid for all in OR visiting 🇺🇸 (because every state has had/can have #tornadoes). 🌪️s aren’t always visible (opaque—technical term is “fully condensed”). Tornadoes can be nearly invisible or hidden by heavy rain. If warned, seek shelter… DON’T GO LOOKING FOR 🌪️! youtube.com/watch?v=VBRm...

COVID can mess with mitochondria (your cells’ energy system), disrupting ATP energy production, oxygen sensing, and cell survival. This can worsen pneumonia, cause lung damage and low oxygen levels, and may also contribute to long COVID and more severe illness. Published: 09 April 2026

"Covid Virus May Spread More Widely by Turning Lung Cells Into Targets, Study Finds" "COVID-19 may spread through the lungs by turning resistant cells into infection targets, helping explain severe inflammation and organ damage, and pointing to potential new treatments." Source: archive.md/18Rth

Internal documents suggest some PFAS manufacturers became aware of health risks associated with PFAS as early as the 1960s + 70s. In spite of this, they continued making PFAS, apparently without warning the public. share.google/GSz5CMPJDhUI... 2/4

And while many freely acknowledge how disruptive and devastating Covid still is, *3 years* after the emergency declaration ended, they have gaslit themselves into apathy and learned helplessness. “Masks don’t work.” “Vaccines don’t work.” No, friend. Your frame of reference doesn’t work. (8/10)

🧵Disinformation/misinformation is a big part of why we’re in the mess we are now with Covid. But there’s a bigger problem I see, and no one is talking about it. One of the foundational concepts of adult learning is that adults reconcile new info with their own lived experiences. (1/10)

🤦‍♀️ Strait of Hormuz #Iran youtu.be/LlyPGKnCg_U?...

"COVID-19 Reduces Brain Blood Flow" "Severe COVID-19 can leave a lasting mark on the brain. Even more than a year after recovery, individuals who experienced serious illness may continue to show reduced blood flow, which could subtly influence cognitive performance." Source: archive.md/50u3t

If you find photography and nature invigorating or spiritually soothing, you may want to take a moment to scroll through the current top trend New Beginnings for a moment… lots of pretty nature photography there.

So my effort to avoid extra hair washings (irritating my inflamed scalp) by preventing pollen getting in my hair via head coverings like tight hoodies &/or helmet liners (skull/wave cap or durag/do rag equivalents) I removed at my entry door before N95 doffing may have had a protective effect… cool.

The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.

Long COVID is linked to higher heart disease risk—even after mild infection. Risks include arrhythmias, heart failure and coronary disease. Women are more affected, showing higher rates of heart problems. #LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOVER Source: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...

Too young for the MMR shot, babies become ‘sitting ducks’ in measles outbreaks

I made the mistake of combining 2 foods my body rejected violently a few days ago (had a migraine plus multiple severe digestive system effects) and I’m only just starting to catch up on news that slipped past me as I recovered, including this horrifying news about the U.S. Forest Service.

Tom Schultz, head of the U.S. Forest Service, was VP of a Timber company. I repeat. The man in charge of 193 million acres of OUR PUBLIC LAND, the guy who DISMANTLED THE FOREST SERVICE, made millions as a logging exec and now wants to clear-cut protected park land www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

If you are interested in helping the US Forest Service which Donald Trump is trying to dismantle (using DOGE tactics), please go to SaveUSFS.org and take action to help the Forest Service. Dismantling of the Forest Service is not what we need! This is the beginning of fire season!!!

As a reminder, the Forest service are the ones who manage public lands to reduce and mitigate forest fires, prevent the spread of destructive invasive species, study the ground, water, and air quality and do tons of beneficial science for the public good. That Forest Service. F’n Smokey the Bear.

I turned my day around by completing 3 huge tasks I’ve been putting off while contending with chronic health issues the past couple of weeks. Now I’m in much better shape than I was 24-48 hours earlier and I definitely don’t care if the early ’00s are considered ancient history by young adults.😂

Stop Corporate & Dark Money. The Montana Plan is a breakthrough legal strategy to beat Citizens United & take back our politics. Montana can do it, & your state can too. transparentelection.org +✅ out Hawaii’s approach to stop corporate campaign spending www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...

I kicked off this Friday on the wrong foot by playing a video where a person much younger than me said that 2002 was “a very long time ago” and the early 2000s are “very funny” (yes the DISTANT past is so humorous with its odd, dated ways). 🙄 Now I’m trying to not eat my way to a happier place. 😒

Another page I found as I cut up old magazines. ⬇️ As explained by Dr. Swain in the quoted video, we’re gutting the government & academic parts (2/3) of the alliance that cultivated the innovation that propelled our exuberant economy. Seems unlikely the last 1/3, private enterprise, can do it alone.

By Maria Amparo Nieto: "The pandemic is not over. What is over is public health and accurate information." Source: x.com/MariampaEc/s...

require prioritized protection during respiratory epidemics 😷 💉 🛡️ . www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

- Severity Paradox: Mild and severe disabilities showed similar mortality risks, suggesting administrative severity doesn't predict clinical outcomes The study concludes that people with disabilities, especially those with internal organ disorders and older adults,

-Age Impact: Adults aged 65 years and older showed substantially higher mortality risks, though relative risks were pronounced across all age groups . -Timing Effects: The highest mortality risk occurred in Q4 2020 (43.29-fold increase) when vaccines and treatments were unavailable

in short-term mortality risk among people with disabilities compared to uninfected controls. -Disability Type Matters: Individuals with internal organ disorders had the highest mortality risk (14.11-fold increase), followed by physical disabilities, sensory impairments, and mental disabilities

USA: "RFK Jr’s CDC is withholding Covid vaccine report showing benefits of jab" "The research indicated that healthy adults who received the Covid vaccine reduced their risk of urgent care and emergency visits by 50% and Covid-related hospitalizations by 55%" www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

As I continue slicing up old magazines for a project, I keep coming across amusing predictions from the past. These two pages are from a January 2019 issue of TIME. Many predictions were not just wrong, but horribly so. The one I felt was most accurate I show close up in the second image. #business

Retaking Congress in the midterm elections won’t matter if Congressional appropriations are ignored by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) & other executive branch influenced positions across agencies. It’s already too late for #scientists… PLEASE WATCH & #share ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=tiE9...