All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Short 🧵 We’d all been told throughout 2020-2021 that certain groups were ‘high risk,’ & those at higher risk were still encouraged to mask when mandates were dropped. First in that high risk group listing was people over 50. (1/7)

To be blunt: if you are doing anything at all right now to reduce your risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2, you're being smart. As a result of the current high prevalence of flu, masking is back in the media. Ignore anything negative said about it. Political nonsense is irrelevant.

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 My concerns about REM Behaviour Disorder are not eased by this finding doi.org/10.1007/s443...

I set it to the Magnum P.I. theme.

1. As a result of the current high prevalence of influenza and the accompanying media coverage of the spread of the disease, I've been asked about mitigations by a number of friends who take *no precautions against SARS-CoV-2*. A few observations regarding these conversations:

Delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the current influenza surge in today's Belfast Telegraph; the virus itself, what we should be doing to mitigate it - vaccination, ventilation, masks - and how infection control has become ideological. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/...

Seattle will move forward with its World Cup “Pride Match” on June 26 despite objections from Iran and Egypt over the Pride branding. Both nations asked FIFA to intervene, but local organizers say the plans stand.

Democrats don't need to moderate to win. Not if you know anything about how actual voters make decisions. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

This is exactly what happens when a novel seasonal influenza strain meets a population with Covid-induced immune dysregulation; it's not 'like Covid again', it's the ongoing and continuous effects of Covid. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mask Mandate Returns At New Jersey Hospitals. Respiratory virus season has prompted mask mandates in New Jersey: Hackensack Meridian Health (17 hospitals) and RWJBarnabas Health (14 hospitals) now require masks for visitors as of Dec. 1. Source: archive.md/h4MBj

1/ Tomorrow, #ACIP —the committee guiding U.S. vaccine policy—will review the entire childhood vaccine schedule. This is the same committee RFK Jr. overhauled, including long-time vaccine skeptics and COVID-19 contrarians. With that in mind, we think it’s important that you know the facts👇

We now have a presentation from Cynthia Nevison, a CDC contractor. Nevison has long been a proponent of the claim that vaccines cause autism and is also a climate researcher. Nevison begins by claiming that more targeted measures have had the biggest effect in bringing down HBV incidence.

UK: "Brits told to 'wear a mask' as flu spreads across country" Flu positive rate rose to 11.6% weekending Nov 25 (from 10.7%). Health chiefs said the highest positivity was in children aged 5–14. “We haven’t seen a virus like this for a while… these dynamics are unusual,” said Prof Nicola Lewis.

Me. May 2021. After Covid vaccines were approved for adolescents.

SICKOS COMMITTEE ADVENT CALENDAR over the month of december, one of the Sickos Committee members will teach you about a piece of Sicko CFB Lore. On December 1st, Brigit teaches the story of #AppState shocking the College Football world against #michigan

Day 12 of COVID and she’s still struggling— fatigue, hot showers just to wake up and walking her dog while actively sick. She’s missed shifts at her hospital job and is stressed about money and job security. She knows she’s still unwell but feels pressured to return, asking why she’s not recovering.

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

Even 2 years after infection, around 40% of young people are still experiencing significant fatigue — indicating a major long-term health issue affecting a substantial proportion of youth who have had COVID-19. Published: 20 November 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 Tell me again that Cövid doesn't effect children 🤬‼️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

BIG WORD WEDNESDAY

democrats/liberals/progressives with any common sense need to get ahead of this electricity cost issue - we need restraint and regulation of ai and data centers, which are driving up costs www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

8 long-COVID symptoms 1. Persistent high symptoms 2. Intermittently high symptoms 3. Moderate symptoms that gradually improved 4. Low-level symptoms resolved by month 6 5. Worsening symptoms over time 6. Delayed-worsening symptoms 7. Stable but persistent symptoms 8. Fluctuating symptoms

Even mild Cøvid will bust your balls‼️ doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

Long C-19 is not your friend. "Conclusions: Long COVID affects over one-fifth of SARS-CoV-2 survivors, with fatigue and dyspnoea persisting in many. Female sex and severe acute infection increase risk. Standardized definitions and longer follow-up are needed." www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/13...

Dreaming of dreams

Brazilian singer Eva Rodrigues Praia Walkey, 40, has died after nearly 5 years battling severe Long COVID. She faced repeated hospitalisations, grueling treatment, and never regained her health. Her family confirmed she passed away on 18 November in Manaus, Brazil. Source: archive.md/nxK4K

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

Pregnancy and Cøvid aren't good companions. @atranscendedman.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health. Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do. This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by ICE, they claimed she was the threat. She was “ramming their vehicle” and brandishing a weapon. She ended up with 7 holes in her body. All charges against her were just dropped. Now they need to charge the agent who shot her!

Look at the graphics in this! Really cool and quite persuasive I think. www.propublica.org/article/bird...

ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!” This is tyranny These kids are traumatized It was warrantless and no ID was shown.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

Drinking coffee (vs abstinence) reduces the risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation. Lots of coffee studies are observational with residual confounding, but this is an honest-to-god RCT 👍

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

President Zelenskyy came to the White House, looking for help from his longstanding ally. He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough. Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. He was revered.

TLDR: Even mild infections are shit for your💔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...