6/ What’s most troubling is the silence from national leadership. Past federal campaigns encouraged vaccination, but that messaging is absent. Awareness, education, and empowerment are not front and center. As a result, measles will likely demand far more public health attention in the years ahead.

5/ Public health is closely watching several hotspots: 🔹South Carolina, where an outbreak has surpassed Texas last year. 🔹Utah and Arizona, where cases keep growing. 🔹ICE detention centers in Arizona and Texas are reporting cases. Facilities have close quarters, which fuels the spread.

4/ The 2026 U.S. numbers are alarming. In January alone, 662 measles cases were reported. That’s an astonishing number for a single month, and January is usually a slower period for measles spread. WHO will examine the U.S. measles elimination status in April, and all signs point toward us losing it

3/ There’s several colliding forces at play here: 🔹Collective amnesia about vaccine-preventable diseases 🔹Global instability 🔹A transformed online info ecosystem 🔹Bad actors exploiting spaces 🔹Deepening mistrust in institutions

2/ Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Spain, the U.K., and Uzbekistan lost measles elimination status. Canada lost its elimination status late last year. Measles is no longer a random event in these countries; it’s endemic and freely flowing.

1/ Vaccines worked so well that people have forgotten what life looked like without them. #Measles is reminding us. Because it’s the most contagious virus on Earth, even small drops in vaccination give it an opening. And right now, those openings are everywhere, both nationally and globally.

‘Inoculation’ helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds theconversation.com/inoculation-... "...inoculation messages can help people recognize deepfakes and even make people more willing to debunk them." "...especially important to find ways to reduce the harmful effects of deepfakes."

I while back I had set aside some meds for an emergency or if I lost my insurance. I thought maybe I lost them or accidentally threw them away or something, but I just found them. I probably have enough to get me through until I see a new doctor. I'm so relieved. I've been miserable lately. #adhd

"It is not rare for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to intersect with autism or ADHD. […] Distinguishing between OCD, Autism, & ADHD isn’t just an academic exercise. It’s a vital step in providing the right support for each individual." -Dr. Megan Anna Neff: neurodivergentinsights.com/obsessive-co...

Whenever I hear the "conversation" about the over diagnoses of ADHD I ponder the effects of underdiagnosis

My office and a group of AGs secured over $17 million from drug companies Bausch and Lannett for inflating the prices of medication for diabetes, cancer, ADHD, and more.   New Yorkers who may have been cheated can claim the money they're owed.

my adhd meds are caught in some sort of prior authorization hell and I have to call a bunch of people to try to figure it out and this is the wrong medication to be trapped thus

Nothing like ADHD leading to forgetting to take medication to help with said ADHD.

It’s also wild that the assertion is people with adhd can’t feed themselves without app delivery

Having servants but not having to do icky things like make eye contact or remember their names.

“MY servants shouldn’t be well paid” is the logical conclusion of a certain kind of bourgois leftism/liberalism that is more about personal branding than politics. The whole limousine liberal caricature in the 90s would not have worked without some basis in fact

I’ve deleted the post below because the dril account has been restored:

Plus, that research in conjunction with the continuing research of the negative health effects of contracting COVID including long COVID makes a powerful case for getting vaccinated.

“Adults had a lower risk of death from any cause." One reason you should still get COVID-19 vaccines in the era where #DoMoreHarm Aerosol Disease Spreading public health corporate profit officers focus on freedom to infect your neighbours with a neurotoxic disease like Covid-19.

Don't believe the doubtmongering... This.👇 Research hailing the benefits of the COVID-19 shot keeps coming www.sciencenews.org/article/bene... EG: "The percentage of newborns who were preterm was also lower for people vaccinated..." And "...adults had a lower risk of death from any cause."

Why teens with ADHD are so vulnerable to the perils of social media www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...focusing on the types of digital-media use patterns and content that may be most harmful — and intervening there — is likely where the future lies."

Interesting writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut. Sounds almost simplistic, yet many forget it. #writing

Explaining #ADHD

The number one drug ADHD people self medicate with his nicotine Number two booze Number three pot and then so on But given ADHD teens and adults have higher rates of substance use disorder? IF we’re properly diagnosed and treated with ADHD meds? it reduces self medicating with those drugs

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

I wish I could remember to take my Vyvanse on time. If I get to my breakfast late I am screwed

some people are just cooked

"Stimulates the immune system in a good way". My dude, measles is known to ERASE prior immunity.

but I do use an ADHD medication -- clonidine -- that has the *opposite* effect and that is sometimes abused by people addicted to opioids. I am not addicted. if my Garmin didn't buzz at me, I would forget to take it.

if you are curious, it's covered here: www.standinguptopots.org/resources/me...

Ugh. Major sympathies. The way medical professionals are trained should be criminal; I couldn’t imagine a system more optimized to produce blithe, incurious, condescending survivorship-bias assholes.

She spoke to me like a child, that bitch had absolutely no knowledge of adult ADHD and gave the vibe she believes it can be outgrown smh, never heard a more tone-deaf suggestion from a medical professional in my life

Nurse practicioner: so whats your veggie intake Me: it could be better but we’re making an effort to eat more veggies but it’s hard with ADHD NP: oh, then you should try weekly meal planning and having a flow chart to keep track of food, that would work for your ADHD Me: ………

The impulsive decisions, the time blindness, the inevitable procrastination that led you to doing all of these things last minute because you "operate better under pressure", the getting flustered and ordering the wrong food... Babe. It's all ADHD. It's *always been* ADHD.

If you read this and this sounds like A) your life, or B) your life when you aren't in constant hypervigilance mode, and C) you're not diagnosed with ADHD, especially if C) you're an adult woman who was considered a gifted kid: Go get assessed for ADHD. Now.

*Realized when they started eating that they ordered something other than what they thought they'd ordered. It was like a 3 minute exercise in "tell me you have ADHD without telling me you have ADHD", and it stressed me the fuck out.

* Hung out with a friend * Stopped at a Panera for dinner on the way to a group meeting that started at 7:30. Still ordering at 7:29, but assumed it would be fine since the class is close. Left at 7:32, got lost, didn't make it to the meeting until 7:42, and the meeting ends at 8.

I watched this TikTok video where a college student, in a single day: * Submitted a paper 4 hours late * Started another assignment 3 hours before it was due, was completely lost, and decided to submit it late, assuming it would be better to submit 45 minutes late and complete than on time partial

In the ADHD space where brain is revving but not *catching.* Like, I am *thinking* just fine (more than fine! some great ideas!) but somehow... I'm just not... getting anywhere.

Danish pension fund AkademikerPension plans to sell all its US Treasury holdings ($100 million dollars) by the end of January, citing credit risks associated with President Donald Trump’s policies. www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

These conservative political pundits that have been criticizing Carney for being “elbows down” are now worried that standing up to the bullies is too risky. Miss me with that BS! Appeasement won’t work and they know it. It’s been a year of shifting goalposts & tantrums ffs! youtu.be/7HZH5fBv5F0?...

#Canada 🍁 ‘Best speech by a world leader ... in a very long time’: Carney’s Davos address draws global attention www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Carney made a good speech today. Now we'll see how he's going to implement it in his actions towards Donald Trump. IMO he's gotta do it before "it" happens, so that Trump's evil sycophants and puppeteers can't try to make us believe it wasn't as bad as it was and demand that we forgive and forget.

European businesses that export to America could face significant additional bureaucratic headaches if the US president follows through on his latest threat, trade analysts have warned. ft.trib.al/P3NGAaY

The Pension Schemes Bill going through UK parliament makes it easier for employers to grab scheme surplus (see clause 9). Will they invest in productive assets, pay high dividends, exec pay, share buyback? Who would suffer when company goes bust and the scheme has a deficit?

I’m amused by those who are trying to tell me sugar pills help with flu symptoms. It takes hard work to screw your mind up that much. I’ll give you that. There is one molecule of duck in every 10 to the 400 molecules in it. Oh, there are 10 to the 80 atoms in the whole visible universe. Morons.

Carole Cadwalladr, "But trying to suck up to Trump.. Totally disastrous deals with Silicon Valley companies in which we're bringing their software into the critical functions of how the UK state operates" "We have put ourselves in a vassal of complete surrender"

James Orr is one of Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick’s closest advisers. He admires authoritarianism, JD Vance, far-right philosophy and fundamentalist religion playing its part in politics. And yet nowhere in this Times article is he identified. Anywhere. Why?

My last two shots before my world went dark.