We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

As @violetblue.bsky.social points out in this week's Threat Model: #Covid, shame on NPR for calling Olympic athletes' masking "extreme measures"--they know it's the best way to avoid infection. So mask up and read/share/support: www.patreon.com/posts/150549... #LongCovid #MedSky

By @doodlesbycharlie.bsky.social “DURING COVID IS NOW. IT NEVER LEFT!” 😷 #COVIDisNotOVER

Online Open Mic! We are holding our second open mic event. 🎤 Sat 21st of Feb 🎤 8:00 - 9:30pm

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Sunrise, Thursday, 11 February, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Some Winter Olympics athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by masking and isolating. Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID. Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R

Changes to Disability Support Services assessments will come into effect from mid-February. Find out more at the following link - tinyurl.com/4erjdbey

FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...

The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes. In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠 thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...

What a great opportunity! #LongCovid #NEISvoid

Would love for people with ME/CFS to check this out—as well as any researchers or healthcare providers who’ve ever worked with someone with ME/CFS! #Medsky

Sunrise, Monday, 9 February, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Sunrise, Sunday, 8 February, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

(Little late posting this) Sunrise, Saturday, 7 February from Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

There are wide-reaching lifetime impacts from inadequate supports. Disability should not - and doesn’t need to be - a precursor for hardship. Yet our statistics on this remain embarrassingly stagnant: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

Sunrise, WAITANGI DAY, 6 February, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Toitū te tiriti

LP.8.1 vaccine availability From 2 March 2026, the COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 12+ will be updated from JN.1 to Comirnaty LP.8.1. The vaccine for children has already moved to LP.8.1 and the vaccine for infants will change during February. www.pharmac.govt.nz/medicine-fun...

Protection for NZ’s drinking water sources will be significantly weakened under the proposed replacement of the RMA. 🚱 www.phcc.org.nz/news/media-r...

Interpreting studies do's and don'ts From IACFS/ME Newsletter

for anyone a) at a loss to what webworm is or b) is a free or paid subscriber, but has questions about my journalistic outlet - then i have made an about/FAQ page: www.webworm.co/about/

From the review: “We review this body of literature and why metformin should now be offered to outpatient adults for treating acute SARS-CoV-2 infection to prevent long COVID.” academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

New Zealand COVID weekly update: 1 Feb 2026 🚨Last update: 19 Jan 2026 26 Jan to 1 Feb 2026: 🔹Reported cases: 236 🔹Reported Deaths: 12 🔹Reported deaths last 30 days: 43 🔹Total deaths: 5,565 (+12) 13 Jan to 19 Jan 2026: 🔹Hospitalisations: 46 #COVID19NZ

Under the National ACT NZ First coalition, more people are without jobs than at any time in over ten years. The highest unemployment rate in a decade 🫤 Food banks are overwhelmed. Homelessness is rampant. Even those with jobs are struggling as groceries and bills rise faster than wages 💔

"It bothers me that people often don’t even blink at what I share, glossing over the serious ramifications of what one SARS-CoV-2 infection did to my life. I hold years of knowledge, research, & pain inside me." Powerful new essay by @wanderingkayli.bsky.social 🙌 thesicktimes.org/2026/02/02/s...

Marilyn Waring: Librarians’ work is essential – and still treated as expendable

WHN’s Kids’ Zone Magazine is a free, downloadable issue packed with kid-friendly stories, art, science, and COVID-conscious lifestyle ideas made for families who are still choosing care. Download the latest issue for free + explore past editions anytime: whn.global/kidszone/

Despite Long COVID's toll on millions of children, there are only a handful of clinical trials that include them. @spichaksimon.bsky.social reported on three upcoming pediatric trials. Co-published with @19thnews.org! thesicktimes.org/2026/02/03/l...

One of the greatest barriers for addressing the #LongCOVID crisis is public invisibility. To make the illness more legible to the public, Kayli Jamieson’s research team has launched a photo exhibition called Living with Long COVID at the Museum of Vancouver. bit.ly/4byOFlX

Sunrise (with beach cat), Tuesday, 3 February, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Right on the button from the DList. "Young disabled people shouldn’t wait until adulthood to be included in mainstream society." Young #disabled people shouldn’t wait until adulthood to be included in mainstream society. thedlist.co.nz/newsfeed/spe... #disability #youth #education

It's that time of year when our tamariki head back to their classrooms... If only they were all clean air classrooms, which protect health and promote achievement. You can urge your child's school to apply to receive CO2 monitors.

Sunrise (2 different perspectives), Sunday, 1 February, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Myth-busters: debunking long COVID myths and misconceptions. "Misconceptions about post COVID-19 condition, more commonly known as long COVID, continue to hinder diagnosis, prevention, care and rehabilitation." www.who.int/europe/event...

Zoe Campbell has suffered with severe ME for 25 years, in this essay hosted by David Tuller’s Virology Blog, she explains what it MEans to be shackled to your bed by #ME/CFS: “I would just like to explain the mechanics of the disease that can wreck a person’s life in this way. First of all, the

Long Covid can affect anyone who has had COVID-19, regardless of age or health. #MythBusters #HealthSecurity #LongCovidKids #HealthInformationIntegrity #WHO

Today is the launch of the Myth-busters: debunking #LongCovid myths and misconceptions. We are pleased to have supported the development of these resources with The World Health Organisation. www.who.int/europe/event... #MythBusters #HealthSecurity #LongCovidKids #HealthInformationIntegrity #WHO

Are you doing too much? Are you not doing enough? Yes! Me too. Here are some tips that will not help at all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is excellent from @manucaddie.bsky.social & @newsroom.co.nz Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...

As my first talk at Devonport Library filled up very quickly, I have agreed to do a second session a few days later, on 22 February. Link to book free tickets here: events.humanitix.com/dr-vincent-o...

Long COVID affects children and young adults too, often with PEM, orthostatic symptoms, and major impacts on school and daily life. Learn more in these two pediatric ECHO sessions with Melanie Hoppers, MD: ▶️ https://youtu.be/no1a1A4tMfw ▶️ https://youtu.be/u6PkRNiCbRQ

#NZBA Ockham Longlist announced - congratulations to all listed www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-... #KiaMāori #ReoMāori #Kikorangi #Wāhine #Kuia #MāoriSky #Skybrarian #BookSky #Kikorangi

Here's the latest variant picture for Australia, to early January. The overall view is muddied by patchy sequencing volumes. BA.3.2.* "Cicada", NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus", JN.1.* +DeFLuQE (led by PE.1.4) and XFG.* "Stratus" all finished in the 22-26% range. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia #BA_3_2 🧵

People with ME/CFS and Long COVID experience a disruption to their brain connectivity during a mentally demanding task.

Sunrise, Wednesday, 28 January, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

How Atlas Network grew its tentacles around the world, including in #Australia and #NZ, buying friendly politicians and policies the world over #nzpol #kiwi #AtlasNetwork

Paywall now lifted: One in 27 homes now has rooftop solar, with more than 73,000 registered systems in the latest data from the Electricity Authority, which runs to the end of 2025. The top five solar adopting regions are not necessarily the five sunniest. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/26/w...