Quick heads-up this Thanksgiving in Pittsburgh: recent COVID wastewater levels are higher than they have been since April 2023. You can decrease your chance of catching/giving COVID by testing before gathering, opening windows, filtering the air, wearing masks, and more!

My wife, @mchristinebd.bsky.social, did a book event yesterday and I tagged along to watch and also set up 6 AirFanta 3Pro air filters to reduce viral transmission. (Five pictured, one more in back. Plug spots limited options.) We both wore high quality masks, too. #COVIDisnotover #AirQuality

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

A few COVID-aware friends and I have been testifying at local Allegheny County Health Department board meetings to ask them restart COVID wastewater testing and this week they announced they would! A small but serious win for public health! Thanks, ACHD! www.facebook.com/AlleghenyCou...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Listen carefully to what Jimmy Kimmel said...

We’re gonna have a ministry of jokes in like 6 months

I went to film an indoor event yesterday and wore a P100 mask + set up 8 AirFanta 3Pro filters to clean the air. Used the box fan to push outside air indoors. #CovidIsNotOver

17K views of an MD and a psychotherapist discussing health anxiety for 2+ hours. Are people who still mask in airports & elsewhere displaying “maladaptive behavior”? The 2 experts admit they are “ignorant” about Long Covid; they also seem unaware that people are still dying (130/wk in US) 1/5

The next Covid Awareness billboard will be something to the effect of… “Mask Up, Clean The Air, Protect the Kids, and Show We Care.” #SafeSchoolsNow If you like to help me continue my work and place some more billboards please share/donate. Every bit helps. YerAweSum! gofund.me/b398a403

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

This recent news from BCMAC is so frustrating. The PA government encouraged the development of this facility. Now we get served poorly regulated pollution with our climate catastrophe. "Shell Plastics Plant Racks Up More Violations, Still No New Fines" www.marcellusawareness.org/shell-plasti...

2/3 Topic: Listening to the Body: Whole-Person Care for Long COVID. Panelists will bring insight into the complexities of Long COVID and the evolving tools we can use to address it—ranging from pacing strategies and acupuncture to nutrition, somatic practices, and retraining the nervous system.

It absolutely fucking floors me that we have normalized repeat infections with this virus - I know people who have had Covid 5+ times already! Wear a mask and fight for clean indoor air and better vaccine access because we all deserve so much better than this.

I’m begging folks to mask up for Pride events! Show solidarity with your disabled and high risk peers and make the event safe and inclusive for everyone. Now more than ever we need to stay united and ensure no one is left behind. Masking is resistance. Masking is community care.

PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.

“The only democracy in the Middle East” they keep telling us “Just because it’s Jews only doesn’t make it an apartheid state” they insist www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

#NoKings Rally Pittsburgh - Just a pile of photos of some sweet protest signs... www.flickr.com/photos/96025...

Absolutely massive #NoKings rally in Pittsburgh right now!

If you aren’t working to stop burning fossil fuels at the local, national, and/or global scale, then you’re asking for wildfire smoke like this to get worse.

This is very concerning. Considering how I would purposely listen to classical music to boost my cognitive performance while studying for exams, avoiding COVID feels like a slam-dunk. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters chant “Free our Mayor!” outside the DHS building in Newark, NJ where Mayor Ras Baraka is being held (Video: @spydermonkeywatch.bsky.social)

Excess weight in long-COVID patients linked to neurologic symptoms www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/exc...

Somebody asked me how to implement COVID mitigations at their event in Pittsburgh. This is what I wrote to them: 🧵

What is the health cost of pollution to Allegheny County residents from a local economist's perspective? Join us for this insightful webinar and hear from CMU economist Nicholas Muller. Register TODAY tinyurl.com/5y38xu4h

I've started to give "pre-screenings" of bits of @inversion-doc.bsky.social after years of considering how to make events COVID safer *and* welcoming for both un-covid-cautious and very cautious attendees. This time we tried voluntary masking + 8x AirFanta filters + FarUVC + CO2 monitoring.

Long COVID is keeping kids out of school, Merced doctor warns. www.yourcentralvalley.com/digital-ente...

Hail? Up to 2” hail in Pittsburgh? Today?? Hopefully this helps… 💨🧊🚙

Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?

Let’s start with the basics.

Hi, I’m God. How many pandemics must I send before humans once again learn to revere scientists? How many millions must die? Not trying to be dramatic, just earnestly inquiring for My Notes. Thanks, God

We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

Thousands Of Covid Deaths Each Week Are Now Milder Deaths, Say Doctors.

This is a major escalation; even simmering frogs would be able to feel the increase in temperature. Kash Patel wrote on social media that the judge “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant." He later deleted the post for reasons that... 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

🚨A fresh red line crossed by our government. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/f...

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

Wondering what to do with yourself on Earth Day while we watch the unraveling of climate regulations strike blows at the environmental movement? Maybe renew your inspiration by watching YERT - Your Environmental Road Trip for free at yert.com . An environmental documentary that's not depressing. ☀️🌎❤️

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

At a GOP town hall last night, heckling from constituents was apparently too much to handle—so they used police force and even stun guns on their own constituents. What are they so afraid of? Someone disagreeing with their views?

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.