History will honour the bravery of those on board the Sumud Flotilla vessels. Our children and grandchildren will regard them as heroes. And there’s nothing anybody can do about that.

Deeply disappointed to hear that the Israeli Navy illegally stopped the Global Sumud Flotilla 75 miles off the coast of Gaza. This was a non-violent mission to break the IDF’s horrifying siege and deliver food and medicine to those who need it most.

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

Finally a public health org is laying out the brutal truth: that every COVID infection increases your risk for permanent organ damage. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll experience it months after an infection, but years. Protect yourself & others. Wear a good mask where you can get or spread it.

The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/

1. Pandemics shape politics and societies. Collective trauma is a powerful force, as is societal reaction to governmental responses to reduce transmission. This is not controversial; humanity experienced it after The Spanish Flu.

In my experience, the general public often don't understand the extent to which critical infrastructure systems rely on very small groups of highly-trained individuals. In addition, some of these controllers will have lingering cognitive effects. 7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

This was filmed where I live in South Kerry only very recently: youtu.be/7icFcqhtXQY?... #SpeirGorm #sophieellisbextor

Got a few snaps of a Geological Survey plane today near our place😀 De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, registration C-GSGP, flying unusually low over Valentia Harbour, Co. Kerry, Ireland. More info here: www.gov.ie/en/departmen... #SpeirGorm #Aviation

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

There appears to be a link between the rate of "Superbug" (CPE) cases detected in Irish hospitals and Covid-19 waves. The 1st chart shows CPE cases, while the 2nd image overlays that chart on Covid-19 wastewater data for Ireland. 👉 Reducing Covid-19 infections may also reduce CPE cases. 👈

The most disappointing thing is when you realise that the vast majority of people are just fine with this stuff. But I'm curious about where people (the kind of people who are putting together leaflets, posters etc) are hearing about these tools, but not hearing the criticisms.

This illustrates exactly how the term, 'Covid' has come to mean, 'the non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted during the emergency phase of the pandemic', not the disease itself. The 'Covid effect' mentioned in the piece is actually acute C-19 and its sequelae. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Anas Fteiha, a Palestinian photojournalist, was accused by a German tabloid of staging ‘Hamas propaganda’ – a claim amplified by Israeli officials. However, OSINT confirms he was documenting a real Gaza field kitchen. Fteiha says he now fears for his life. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Solidarity with @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ✊🏽🇵🇸 Today they set sail from Barcelona to Gaza to break the siege & open a humanitarian corridor. Previously intercepted by the IDF against International Law - this time they sail with a worldwide coalition of 44 ships. Power to them! ✊🏽 #FreePalestine🇵🇸

Saw someone comment that Swift's engagement "gives hope to other single women in their thirties" and I feel like maybe the "being a billionaire international superstar celebrity" might be being somewhat overlooked as a factor in our shared experience

Während Astronauten auf Weltraumspaziergang waren: Einbrecher räumen ISS leer www.der-postillon.com/2019/08/iss-...

"If only there were a way to prevent this" every time there's a shooting in the U.S. "If only there were a way to prevent this" every time there's catastrophic fires from climate change "If only there were a way to prevent this," every time there's another Covid wave that kills & disables people

A reminder that this was the most violent time in Ireland’s modern history. And the US version of these thugs now have a bigger budget than the armed forces most nations.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

1. I was at my local pharmacy this morning to pick up a prescription, and as I walked up to the counter, I immediately noticed that the elderly woman in front of me in the queue was wearing a blue surgical mask. She was adjusting it, pulling it up over her nose.

As rare as hen’s teeth — an article on the latest Covid surge that does NOT push hand washing, but does recommend respies (at least in some situations). 👏

We're in Year 6 of the Covid pandemic and Irish hospitals are still trying to manage outbreaks without implementing airborne precautions. (Covid is airborne, but official guidance refuses to acknowledge that inconvenient fact.) www.rte.ie/news/connach...

1. The single most pernicious and damaging societal imperative I see in action right now, with Ireland in a Covid wave, is this: 'There's no need to test'. Why? Not just because it tacitly normalises unmitigated transmission, but, more importantly, it hides Long Covid.

If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.

“Papers, please”

Video vom #CSD Magdeburg - Ein Chor gegen die AfD 😍 Quelle: CSD Magdeburg / Instagram

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ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’. They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters. Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care. ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity. The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.

I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

This will be reported as a “joke,” but Trump is not joking. (And I greatly appreciate @atrupar.com for not mischaracterizing it as such.)

I did Applied Maths in Ireland in the 1990s. The section on parabolic math opened with the quote "Our scientific growth has outrun our spiritual growth, we have guided missiles and misguided men," Martin Luther King, Jr. And that has always stuck with me.

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Oh my God

I lost 900 followers because I posted a picture of myself wearing a mask, and that’s okay. Public health is much more important than popularity any day.

This is actually an excellent summary of recent events.

Sally Rooney: “I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper–but that would now be illegal. The present UK Gov has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights & freedoms, including the right to express & read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel.”

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

1. As a consultant analyst that generally presents to the C-suite of organisations, I am often asked to produce short, concise explanations of both biological and geopolitical risks. Regarding Covid-19, I use the same summary with both C-level clients and friends:

"allow Palestinians to leave"? This is what western media complicity looks like. www.thestar.com/news/world/m...

There's a ... more accurate term for this ... 🤔

In the UK it’s illegal to write the words “Palestine” and “Action” next to each other on a piece of cardboard because someone put red paint on a plane to protest an active genocide.

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of? 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

Lots of folks will be all about green smoothies, vitamins, sunglasses, sun hats, health tracking apps & watches, yoga, supplements, the gym. But the minute you mention masks as a health precaution, they have a total meltdown & refuse to do that

Fuchsia making a lovely display in our place🌼 #SpeirGorm

Always reactivation. Evidence for: Reactivation of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Reactivation of latent Tuberculosis (LTBI) Reactivation of dormant cancer cells. The downstream negative population health effects of unmitigated SARS-CoV-2 transmission are undeniable now.

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.