Sunday in Senate Democrats had gained momentum winning state & local elections. Two days later, they caved by voting with Republicans to get rid of healthcare for millions. Now tens of thousands of Americans of all stripes, will die, because that’s what happens when you take away healthcare.

The Breaking Point: Snow is Sliding Off The Long Covid Roof As a kid, probably in 1971, we lived next to a golf course in Ogden, Utah. It had 18 holes, a driving range, but my favorite part was the mini golf course. (1/23)

How to Kill a Healthcare System 💔 17 million people losing insurance 🩺 Doctors leaving USA 🛂 New foreign doctors blocked due to visa issues 🔬 Huge cuts to medical research 🎓 Student loans to train doctors capped at $50,00 a year. 🌾 300 rural hospitals to close open.substack.com/pub/notesfor...

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The More You Get Infected, the More Likely You’ll Get Long COVID People still think long COVID is rare. Like it only happens to anxious people. Or people who “did it wrong.” Like there’s some moral math to this. If you got sick, it’s because you panicked too much. (1/18)

Tariffs on McDonald Island? Hmm, so much for cheap burgers.

Donald Kruger effect. "I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me” (November 2015) "Nobody knows more about technology than me,” and specifically claimed expertise in drone technology: “I know more about drones than anybody” (January 2019) #trump youtu.be/sR3f95BGIiA?...

Please repost. Blue sky only up-shares articles, skeets on re-skeets. Articles on new French Submarine with Nukes off Canadian coast.

I've been active in the last few years in the Long COVID community. There is a very new risk to our children. This is a serious risk. The unexpected arrival of the FS Tourville, a French nuclear-powered attack submarine, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, raises serious geopolitical (1/9)

All members of the US military need to read this. Do not follow an illegal order. Attacking a fellow Nato member is deeply wrong. All of the administration is now talking on the same page and calling Canada the 51st state.

If you have the stomach for a tough documentary, and are concerned or in doubt who the bad guy is in this Ukraine war, watch the award-winning movie "20 days in Mariupol." We need to back our ally. Europe could be next. youtu.be/gvAyykRvPBo?...

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Will DOGE go after your disability payments, make it harder to qualify? This a a concern for the Long Covid community and we should monitor this. This disability lawyer talks about what is currently happening . youtu.be/a7Ct2j_F8kA?...

Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions. apnews.com/article/medi...

Another career federal official has resigned after refusing to give DOGE access to sensitive data.

🚨 ALERT: DOGE gains Access to Social Security Administration (SSA) Systems🚨 Recent developments at the SSA are raising serious concerns. Acting Commissioner Michelle King has resigned after refusing to grant Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to sensitive (1/13)

Erasing the Warnings, Erasing the Future: Why Health Information Must Stay on Government Websites They are scrubbing the records. Not So Quietly. Methodically, Though. If you go looking, you’ll notice the gaps. The CDC’s Long COVID page? Gutted. (1/18)

The Survivorship Bias That’s Killing Us: Long COVID and the Myth of “Moving On” It’s easy to believe everything is fine when you only see the survivors. The people who didn’t die, who seem to be “back to normal,” are the faces we focus on. But what about the ones you don’t see? (1/11)

The Silent Sabotage of Our Children: SARS-CoV-2 and the Lies We Tell Ourselves Why We’re Homeschooling—and Why Simple Engineering Could Save Us Yes, it starts out bleak. Stick around; we’ll talk about practical steps (and some hope) at the end. (1/37)

The Heart of a Friend, Quentin: After COVID-19 I wanted to share a story about Quentin. A few winters, before the floods took the Lyndonville Diner, he stood outside, holding a cup of hot coffee. He had this way of flat-palming the cup, so it wouldn’t burn his hand. (1/18)

Avoiding COVID-19 May Help Slow Down the Aging Process The COVID-19 pandemic has not only been a global health crisis but also a profound challenge to our understanding of aging and its biological underpinnings. (1/22)

What If HIV Had Been Airborne? Is COVID-19 a Hypothetical Nightmare? Is it a Form of Airborne AIDS? What if COVID-19 is very similar to AIDS? AIDS: - Severe immunodeficiency: A CD4 cell count of less than 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood. (1/32)

Seriously, we need a much more effective SARS-COV-2 antivirals and monoclonal antibodies! It’s ridiculous to say it can’t be viral persistence, when a medication, a monoclonal antibody designed for earlier variants improves many Long Covid patients! (1/4)

Asinine that we have yet to develop a viral load test and engage in drug repurposing, moving to a Treatment as Prevention strategy. Not as if journal articles going back to May of 2021 haven’t suggested potential candidates.

The Virus That Breaks the Guardrails: How SARS-CoV-2 Turns the Immune System Against Us - Future of Other Infections? - Increased Cancer Risk? We moved on. The masks came off, the gatherings resumed, and the world whispered, “It’s over.” But SARS-CoV-2 never got the memo. (1/20)

It still astonishes me that more people in politics and our media pretend to be concerned about kids having missed school than kids having been killed or sickened by Covid.

“One of the fundamental principles of medicine—primum non nocere (first, do no harm) —has been sacrificed here, with dramatic consequences” I’m glad they’ve retracted & condemned it but damage has been done Those who bought into hydroxychloroquine hype are unlikely to pay attention to a retraction

More evidence of viral persistence in SARS-COV-2.

Wonderful sunny day!

David French. Anyone who doesn’t think that martial law is a real possibility has been living under a rock. This is a clear and present danger.

ALERT 🚨 Very Significant Study on Long Covid Brain Damage: How COVID-19’s Spike Protein Affects the Brain, via Skull Bone Marrow Infection COVID-19 has always been one of complexity, but within its long narrative, one chilling chapter is emerging—the role of our own bones in harboring (1/23)

Took this last night. For some reason our neighbor’s had all their lights on at their dog kennels. They raise hunting dogs.

I guess our gardening season is over!

The clinically vulnerable find themselves the victims of the mentally weak, unwilling to draw the correct parallels to preserve their autonomy, immune competence, and cognition. The elevation of the cytokines you mention can easily be explained by this journal article.

When Two Battles Collide: How COVID-19 and Cancer Therapies In the spring of 2020, as the world grappled with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals like Sara faced a dual battle. (1/19)

Study after study is showing brain damage. - Expect to show up in test results of schools. - Expect to see it in the economy as employees can’t reason as well. - Expect to see it in government, both elected and government agencies.

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is proven to cause a range of neurological complications, some of which are linked to vascular and microvascular damage in the brain. For me, vascular damage to anything is probably the scariest of all the things COVID-19 can cause. (1/20)

This is an excellent summary of the impact of Covid COVID-19 on society, and on our bodies. Constant re-infections are destroying the health of the entire global population. Future generations are being impacted right now.

Discussion on RFK as head of HHS. It’s being recorded if you miss it. x.com/unusual_whal...

Some claim scientific studies show masks don’t work, or that surgical masks are as good as N95s. Just released paper shows this claim is false. Masks work, and N95 respirators give a much higher benefit than surgical masks.1/

COVID Update: Map Reveals State With 'Very High' Wastewater Viral Activity www.newsweek.com/covid-wastew...

Teach your children not that the world will bend to their will, but rather that they possess an unyielding resilience within. For the greatest gift we can offer our progeny is not the promise of ease, but the fortitude to weather all storms.

I'm continuing to update my article on H5N1 bird flu as we cruise straight into another pandemic. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/everything...

I posted this VIROLOGY piece on Threads and was asked to post it here. It’s my first BlueSky post and its long: Let’s talk about virology, my area of research for 50 years. Specifically, let’s talk about H5N1, best known as bird flu. But first let's talk about receptors. 1/15

About the incoming administration and what to do! Seriously, it’s time to think about wildcat strikes. What is a wildcat strike you say? It’s striking without a union. It drives companies nuts, because they don’t know who to negotiate with. (1/4)

I found out likes don’t work over here to boost posts. reposts are the key here. Commenting does as well,

Bluesky is growing fast, but it will take time for many to get the engagement, followers one had before. Try to like, repost, engage, skeet (post). We need to build the network effect to break off more from X. It may take work, and joy to build community, but it’s worth it! Keep it up!