Let’s stop pretending this is just about “comfort” or “personal choice.” Masks aren’t about fear. They’re about duty of care. They’re about science. They’re about respect for life.

Living in 2025 is just scrolling through apocalyptic headlines in between emails that say “hope this finds you well.”

Self-care is hard when the world is in collapse and your brain is like “should we spiral or just doomscroll with snacks?”

To the mothers who are no longer with us, the soon-to-be mothers, the mothers with babies up in heaven, the step-moms, the chosen moms, the moms who adopt, who foster, who surrogate, the women yearning to be moms, the women in mother roles, even the fur moms Happy Mother’s Day 💝

This Mother’s Day, I’m thinking about the moms who’ve carried more than most people will ever understand 🧵

Measles. Is. Back. A disease we had basically eradicated in the U.S. is now spreading in schools, hospitals, and communities. Why? Because misinformation kills. 🧵

We’re not “hanging on by a thread.” We’re hanging on by a nerve. Exposed. Raw. Snapping under the weight of a world that’s pretending it isn’t dying 🧵

It’s exhausting, being the strong one. The one who still cares. Still masks. Still warns. Still grieves. But hear this: You’re not alone. There’s an invisible army of the aware. Quiet, compassionate, masked-up warriors choosing truth over convenience

🧵 A Day in the Life (The Parent Who Knows the Pandemic Never Ended). Voiceover.

Repeat COVID Infections & Dementia A time bomb no one wants to talk about 🧵

Trying your best as a parent in a world like this is like walking a tightrope with no safety net. You love them so fiercely, but the world is a storm, & no matter how hard you try to shield them, it’s still coming for them. But you keep going. You keep trying. It’s all you can do

Fascism doesn’t win by convincing everyone. It wins by exhausting you. By making decency seem radical. By making resistance seem futile. By normalizing the absurd until you forget how bad it really is. Fascism has no place in a just world. Not now. Not ever.

Your immune system isn't a Tamagotchi that dies if you don't play with it. "Immunity debt" is a marketing term to make you blame yourself instead of bad policy. Getting sick constantly isn't normal — it’s a public health failure.

Sending kids into poorly ventilated schools and acting shocked when they get sick is like tossing them in a pool and being surprised they’re wet.

Every year, tens of thousands of people go to the hospital for help — and end up catching infections that cost them their lives. We have the tools that could stop so much of that pain and loss. It's time to talk about why we need permanent mask mandates in healthcare 🧵

2025 is basically a zombie apocalypse, but the zombies are us, and instead of brains, we’re after the last bit of sanity. #EndOfTheWorldIsNow #StayWeird

Pope Francis dies aged 88 His death comes a day after he appeared in St Peter's Square to wish "Happy Easter" to thousands of worshippers www.bbc.com/news/live/cr...

Happy Easter from those of us holding society together with respirators, filtered air, caffeine, and emotional duct tape. 🐰🩷🐰🩷

Fascism doesn't arrive waving a flag. It shows up when we're too tired, too distracted, and too flooded to fight back. A 🧵 about the climate crisis and the authoritarian creep:

It’s hard to grieve what hasn’t died. Friendships. Trust. Normalcy. They’re still there—just not the same. That’s called ambiguous loss. And it’s everywhere now. A quick thread 🧵

They told me parenting would be hard. They didn’t say I’d be managing airborne transmission, collapsed institutions, and mass delusion before my morning coffee. A 🧵 for the last parents standing:

Long COVID is real. It’s common. It’s disabling millions. And no one talks about it—because if we looked too closely, we’d have to change So instead, we decided: Let people get sick. Let kids struggle. Let the vulnerable disappear. Let the numbers stop counting.

Still masking in 2025? Absolutely. Because unlike “good vibes,” N95s actually filter viruses. A quick 🧵 on why I haven’t retired my mask (and neither should you)

The real flex? Still rocking my N95 while everyone else treats air like a shared drink at a frat party.

Measles Can Damage the Immune System for Years www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/w...

A Pill to Prevent COVID-19 Shows Promise « Ensitrelvir works by blocking the virus’ ability to make more copies of itself, it makes sense that it can both treat and prevent disease, depending on when people take it » time.com/7267886/pill...

Rochester woman says she’s tested positive for COVID-19 18 times in five years, leaving her feeling ‘crazy’ www.whec.com/top-news/roc...

Long Island baby tests positive for measles — and 12 more may have been exposed, officials warn nypost.com/2025/03/12/u...

Federal health agencies have restored several webpages and datasets, following a judge’s order to bring back public access to information that had been removed to comply with a presidential executive order. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to help the virus copy itself in mammals — including humans www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/h...

COVID-19 May Be Linked With Higher Alzheimer's Risk, Study Finds I’ve been saying this for a few years now … www.sciencealert.com/covid-19-may...

After COVID-19, kids more likely to have GI symptoms for up to 2 years www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/aft...

I found a random bruise on my leg… and I mean the only possible reason behind it has to be the great lockdowns of 2020.

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. t.co/hKu1wvx0GF

Protection from COVID reinfections plummeted from 80% to 5% with omicron arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Pope Francis to take meetings at home while sick with bronchitis, Vatican says www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262047/...

Severe COVID can catalyze arterial plaque growth, sparking deadly heart problems www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/rep...

Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests abcnews.go.com/Health/long-...

The global prevalence of COVID-flu coinfection is 14%, with Asia and Europe having the highest rates of influenza A/B coinfection, www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/met...

2 Central Vermont schools shut down for sick days An uptick in flu, COVID, and a stomach bug shuttered two Washington County schools this week and overwhelmed a local hospital. www.wcax.com/2025/01/29/2...

Both mild and severe cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are linked to changes in brain biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s disease. But let’s keep getting it over and over right ? www.news-medical.net/news/2025020...

Long-Covid symptoms persist into second year in nearly 70% people: Study english.gujaratsamachar.com/news/health/...

Measles warning at Toronto Pearson Airport www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

AI-based blood test could revolutionize diagnosis of Long Covid in children www.news-medical.net/news/2025012...

Managing long-COVID cases could cost US employers $1.99 billion to $6.49 billion annually, according to a new model published yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ana...

Bird flu was detected in 1.4 million Ohio chickens weeks after it was detected in nearly a million birds in a different flock. local12.com/news/nation-...

Bird Flu Outbreak Affecting Humans in China Likely Massively Underreported www.ntd.com/bird-flu-out...

Sting cancels shows and awards performance on advice of doctor An announcement on the British singer's Instagram page said the decision had been made "due to illness" but did not include any more details. news.sky.com/story/sting-...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Danish politician tells off Trump, says Greenland is not for sale “Greenland has been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It's an integrated part of our country. It is not for sale. Let me put it in words you might understand: Mr Trump, f*ck off." www.yahoo.com/news/danish-...