T-minus 24 hours to finish my last two books of the year. It’s crunch time 🤓📚 I’ll be “fun” again and anti-Covid themed with the new year.

Mass Gen Brigham is, the fuck? They’re utilizing masks (not N95) as respiratory protection, but only in direct patient contact areas - but not in patient contact areas where large numbers of people are gathered (waiting room). If you wear your own N95 you have to double mask with surgical.

Annoyed that I can’t seem to find excess death reports or papers past 2023 data. In general we have seen excess (Covid) deaths dramatically decrease due to mass vaccination from 2021-2023. That’s a win! We have sustained higher levels, but seemingly back in line with earlier trajectories. 1/

Very proud to be a co-author on this comprehensive preprint on the novel, growing saltation lineage BA.3.2, together with @tuliodna.bsky.social‬, @darrenmartin.bsky.social, Dikeledi Kekana, and lead author @graemedor.bsky.social. 1/11 bsky.app/profile/tuli...

I’m getting so many meta ads where they are “showcasing their products” by asking it to do things that we already have high access to. Like “find a store nearby” - yes, my maps app already does that, “how fast was my last lap” - I can look down at my fitness watch to know that. Like what?

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again… The biggest hurdle to widespread mask usage for the on-going Covid pandemic, is going to be making masking cool. We need people to represent in sports, at the gym, on the runway, on tv, at political meetings, at the library & grocery store. Visibility 😷

Some fun 3d printing - models are free on my printables, cults3d, and Makerworld pages

BA.3.2.2 now also in Bayern Germany 10 seqs from there. 10/55 samples collected there in December. (2 out of them are not clinical smaples but WW/ENV) cc @snpoehlm.bsky.social

If Randy Moss can wear an N95, then you all can too 😷😷

Up to 210lbs on the bench. Continued progress in all areas, all while wearing an N95 face mask.

From my mental projections - this would be the year where if we are going to start seeing some out of the box shit from Covid (the after effects or a rapid increase in Long Covid cases), that this is when it would start to happen. Going to keep my eyes/ears peeled for it… Yay. Hope I’m wrong.

I hate to state the obvious… But you’re not going to have any gains if you’re sick for a week or two this time of year. Mask up 😷

The loss of this bio repository would be a disaster. Hey @invam.bsky.social, how much funding do you need per year to remain fully operational?

What to advocate for: 1. Universal masking in healthcare settings with N95 2. Routine masking by the public 3. Clean air - high air turnovers per hour and HEPA filtration 4. Universal Healthcare 5. Universal free vaccine access 6. Increased Covid vaccine updates & # received per year.

air free of pathogens is a right just as clean food & water are—as those entrusted with our health are taking action to remove the trust in & safety of our essential resources, we must make daily choices keep each other safe: washing our food & hands, & masking up in, at least, indoor public spaces.

Finally watching the big short, while thinking about how large the effects are going to be when this AI bubble pops.

Merry Maskmas! Mask up for your holiday gatherings so that you stop the spread; halting transmission of viruses to others. Don’t get your kids, grandkids, grandparents, friends, coworkers, and estranged relatives sick this winter. Wear an N95!

Doctors - asks the viruses as they enter the room, “would you like me to put on a mask for you?”. The viruses - “no thanks, this’ll do just fine” - sinister smile. End scene. Nosocomial infection, a short play.

And at least in the US, their utter lack of routine use of respiratory protection - wearing a well-fit N95 during all patient care interactions. Nosocomial infections for the win. Viruses love them.

BA.3.2 now 13.0% in NZ wastewater "Cicada" is making itself known in New Zealand with a big jump in the last fortnight. BA.3.2 was below 1% in the fortnight to 30 November, increased to 11.7% week of 7 Dec and is now at 13.0% Also present: 28% MC.10.2.1 24% PE.1.4 19% NB.1.8.1 16% XFG

Integrated hip thrusts for the first time into my routine a few months back to help with my squats and deadlifts. Comfortable now at 335lbs x4 #wearamask #maskedfitness #covid19

Very interesting thread. Continuous high SARS-CoV-2 activity in Finland, appears to be associated with a sustained rise across multiple diseases.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB, MB, NB, North, QC, SK HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, NS, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 55 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

The most valuable viral research tools—@nextstrain & CovSpectrum—are being destroyed—not only blocked from new data but now forbidden from even sharing info from the PAST. Why? Because GISAID is run dictatorially by a con man, paranoid egomaniac, & liar named Peter Bogner. 1/

On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5

And we are now in the time of year where I tend to avoid TikTok, as people are pissing me off by making shit up like calling XFG the “Frankenstein variant”, when it has been established as Stratus for quite some time now - and then a what to expect for symptoms. Newsflash, it’s always the same.

2 books away from my 40 book reading goal for the year! I’m currently reading 3 books, so this should be in the bag - barring injury or disaster. I’ll update with my top 5 (would recommend) and bottom 5 (wouldn’t recommend) books before the end of the year.

Files for free on my 3D print profiles if you want to have one too. On printables, cults3D, and Makerworld - PatricktheBioSTEAMist

Phases of Covid Infection - Part 4 youtu.be/lwXSBp0EBJw

Finishing up part 4 of my phases of covid infection series post grocery shopping.

I would call the US Covid Variant tracking by the CDC unhelpful and non-representative of the current Covid variant ecosystem. The month lag in reporting is one thing, but the incredibly sparse (low samples/low coverage) for variant sequencing - provided near solely by public labs - worsens this

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yrn2BE/ Fantastic Demo putting an N95 over an Air Quality Index Monitor. For reference a high number is “bad air”, a lower number is “good air”. In this video it goes from unhealthy air down to good air, as the N95 filters out the bad particles from the air.

As we roll into the end of December - if you catch Covid from your friends/family/coworkers and are uninsured or underinsured. Please utilize the PAXCESS program through Pfizer. It will provide free Paxlovid until end of the day December 31st, 2025. Then the program is done.

Well Fuck. Different disease - but this shows they are willing to do this. www.science.org/content/arti...

The secret urge to call wastewater treatment facilities (WTFs), because that’s what I say when I watch the Covid concentrations continue to increase in the winter and summer months year after year, with higher sustained levels throughout the year, all while we do nothing about it. Less than nothing.

And for our #covid19 wastewater levels we are off to the races… for what is looking (at this time) like it will be a VERY high and rough winter wave. Warren, Michigan with huge levels right now, High levels also in Dover, NH and Bangor Maine. Guess is this is fueled by rise in BA.3.2*

BA.3.2 is approaching 30% of all sequences in Germany and Luxembourg, & it's likely at least that high in Western Australia. Only The Trump admin's defunding of the CDC has prevented non-wastewater detection of BA.3.2 in the US. Still no supercharging new mutations, but steady growth continues.

Three more BA.3.2 wastewater detections this week. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and California. Wastewater: 8 Patient detections: 0

1/3 Roughly 35% of new sequences from Germany 🇩🇪 are now BA.3.2. This confirms a trend seen over recent weeks - a consistent rise in BA.3.2 infections. public.data.rki.de/t/public/views…

Phases of Covid infection series - on-going. bsky.app/profile/patb...

Tracking SARSCoV2 Lineage BA.3.2* ( #Cicada) over time | 12/15/25 Total BA.3.2* seqs: 184 (+4) Countries reporting BA.3.2*: #Australia, #SouthAfrica, #Netherlands, #USA, #Germany, #Mozambique, #Slovenia, #UK, #Denmark, #Ireland, #Singapore Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

This is the article that pissed me off before bed. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Saw Moderna is giving in to the bs “vaccine-induced long covid” claim, and is offering to do a study into it. This has been an anti-vaxx claim from the beginning spun from the idea that the ‘“vaccine causes the illness”. It’s Covid that causes it. Only that. Your infection was asymptomatic.

Up to 305lb on the squat. #maskedfitness #wearamask #covid19

Here's the latest variant picture for Australia, to late November. For Australia, BA.3.2.* "Cicada" is showing a steady growth advantage of 2.5% per day (18% per week) over NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus", which predicts an imminent crossover (the data routinely lags). #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia #BA_3_2 🧵

Just 20 lbs away from my deadlift goal of 405 lbs. #maskedfitness #wearamask #covid19

Phases of Covid Infection - Part 3 youtu.be/tPCUw3DqoZg

Interesting Covid-19 surveillance trends. 1) NWSS limited coverage in 6 states, 1 territory. No data 2 states. NY impacted for ~6-12 mos bc data transition. 2) New Walgreens respiratory illness tracker seems fairly accurate, tends to align with WastewaterSCAN. 3) NY no data for 104 sites, why?

Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to late November. Globally from October, BA.3.2.* "Cicada" showed a strong growth advantage of 5.5% per day (39% per week) over XFG.* "Stratus". A crossover looks likely during January at that pace. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Global #BA_3_2 #Cicada 🧵