This is what it felt like with the gradual but steady un-masking after mass COVID vaccination: "It's nothing to worry about anymore. You're being histrionic if you still wear a mask." We get shamed and heckled into compliance, gaslit into disbelieving evidence, making believe, all just to get along

New feature: Which nextgen Covid vaxes are advancing the most? I highlight 3 in mid- to late-stage trials with manufacturers—including a "universal" Covid vax & a mucosal one—and another 6 vaccines. Plus more trial results & 10 preclinical reports: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/04/02/a...

“The Oregon Health Authority, along with Clackamas and Multnomah County public health departments, said exposures may have occurred at the following locations and times: - Lark Café, 1980 Willamette Falls Drive in West Linn, between noon and 3 p.m. on March 27” 1/?

"FDA vaccine chief Vinay Prasad, ​who had pushed for the placebo-controlled trials in healthy adults and children, is leaving the agency this month. Experts warned that requiring large new trials could delay or limit the availability of updated shots for lower-risk groups."

For a potential story, if you've been harassed for wearing a mask in North Carolina or New York's Nassau County, please reach out at [email protected] Noting I'm a big fan of 3M Auras myself and you will not be belittled.

This is getting passed around a bit so I want to note that it’s just one study, BUT it includes early indications that duration of illness is also improved with azelastine. (The idea of 5 x day dosing is comical for those of us who find it lights-out sedating but I guess lots of people feel fine!)

And if you live in the Wildland urban interface do your best to clear brush around your home, clean out gutters, put a spark filter on your external air vents and generally harden your home. It makes all the difference if me and my brothers & sisters in the fire service are trying yo save your home

Just another reason high quality masks should be worn in all healthcare setting: “Health officials are flagging another measles exposure site in Multnomah County: the emergency waiting room at the Providence Portland Medical Center on Northeast Glisan Street.”

Seeing a photographer wearing a KN95/KN94 near the astronauts suiting up made me wonder about the infectious disease/covid protocols, since NASA crew didn’t seem to be masked. They had to quarantine for 14 days! NASA practices covid caution and you should too. www.wral.com/weather/arte...

Time to get your air purifiers in working order, purchase those replacement filters, stock up on N95s and figure out a way to seal up any leaks before wildfire smoke rolls into town this summer.

Part of the strategy the anti trans side had was normalizing bathroom bans in government buildings which are now in effect in over 20 states. They'll move to private businesses quickly in a legislative cycle and make it so opposition can't be mounted effectively.

I'm also still running this fundraiser to cover relocation costs for trans people seeking to leave hostile US states & flourish elsewhere. So far we've raised $679 for Trans Continental Pipeline. I'd love to get it up to a grand today, so watch the TL for more samples, incl some discovery sets!

Greendale Community College alum Troy Barnes

lying about it happening on april fool's day: mean-spirited, hurtful, not funny at all it actually happening on april fool's day: possibly the funniest thing of all time

“Portland came in at #21 on the list. The salary needed for a single adult to live comfortably is $116,106. For a family of four, it’s $313,747.”

this is burnout. a lot of people I know need a lot of sleep and doing very little. and it takes more than a week, unfortunately.

While they nyt is rolling out a political ops campaign against trans ppl, our medical care and civil rights, serious ppl are writing about the grave harms of transphobia based on actual research of science, law and politics. Here's one. Please read and spread this thread bsky.app/profile/gavi...

Have not seen level of restraint from DHS officers as I’ve seen at Portland ICE facility so far tonight. Protestors shook open gate (did not cross threshold into building) and about a dozen officers are just standing, holding a line. No flash grenades, no gas, no one on the roof with pellet guns.

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

if you have a kid with only 1 dose of the MMR, like this partially vaccinated person who just caught measles did, call your pediatrician right now and schedule the second dose right now. they can get it any time >28 days after the first dose. if they won't administer it get a different pediatrician

Via @longcovidjustice.org on Instagram: iHealth is offering free Covid/flu test kits for schools, clinics & organizations (near expiration: 5/24/26 or 5/26/26). IG post: www.instagram.com/p/DWW5Q8ZiXPx/ Request free tests here: ihealthlabs.com/products/ant... H/t @maskblocsunsetsf.bsky.social!

How to get disowned by your family. Available on Amazon for $13.94.

Something that burns me, still, every time I think about it: As soon as it became clear that COVID was mostly killing demographics we think of as the least economically productive, this country abandoned efforts to control its spread—under the guise of being “realistic” and recognizing trade-offs.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Taking some time this sunshiny morning to have a nice cup of coffee and clear out some of the open tabs. This one seems like a good reminder before I get to far in my reading.

The next season of co-resting starts in early April and there is currently space open in all three cohorts. www.co-resting.org #rest #ME/CFS #MECFS #PWME #LongCovid #NEISvoid #community

“Stupid cute” is right

👀 a sighting: “Events like the Clear Air Festival and its partners (Canadian Covid Society, DoNoHarm BC and the Public Health Is Dead podcast among them)...are working at the grassroots level to envision a better future with the knowledge that COVID is (still) here...” exclaim.ca/music/articl...

This is the worst type of messaging, and further undermines trust in public health 🔸️Meningococcal meningitis absolutely spreads through respiratory droplets 🔸️Masks significantly limit transmission, especially via source control. 10% Case fatality rate. I'd be wearing one if I were at Kent.

My kid turned 13 this week. They are already 6’2”. Did a couple of those online adult height prediction calculators. They estimate my kid will end up between 6’8”-6’11”. I’m going to need a bigger fridge.

Tennessee republicans voted unanimously to advance an anti-trans bill to create a public list of trans people located in the state. House Bill 754 would force medical providers to provide information to the state and identify them. (transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-...)

“And you’re not just taking their DNA right in this moment in time, you’re taking their children’s DNA and their children’s children’s DNA.”

This is why so many people have had their home insurance policies cancelled. But data centers…

This essay about being an ACLU Legal Observer during the 2020 protests -- and the aftermath -- is the best thing I've read this week. www.thewesternedge.media/p/a-life-of-...

Your last Harry Potter purchase is now funding trying to deny trans women from swimming in a pond now.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

The war & AIPAC are nightmares, but so is Joe Kent, one of the most openly fascist figures in Trump’s regime, a comrade of Proud Boys and Fuentes, a man who says Black Lives Matter was a child trafficking ring, a guy who complains that Hitler is misunderstood. Don’t take the bait.

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.

On March 11, OHA announced 2 new COVID deaths in Oregon; the total is now 10,960. Hospitalizations are at 0.1 per 100,000, compared to a national average of 0.6. Wastewater levels are well off the peak, except for Hermiston, which is showing a sustained increase.

The worst failures of the Biden era was the majority emphatically wanting to "go back to normal" and pretend that a pandemic, a violent coup attempt, and escalating white supremacist misogynist extremists were something everyone could stop worrying about. Normal was already long gone.

🧵, and as @histoftech.bsky.social notes, if you're faving and reposting, commit to do least 2 of the 3 following things: 1) masking in public spaces 2) taking steps to clean the air in local schools 3) adding remote options for people who can’t physically go to stuff in person

This is the best video about Covid that has ever been made www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqWx...

Sometimes I look at maps like this and remember what a freakin backwater my home country is. There's like 30-40% of my country's geographic area that I'm safe within as a queer person. The US really sucks. We coulda been a country, but decided not to be.

“The NIAID/NIH trial for an intranasal fusion protein vaccine called BOOST-2867 is now recruiting at all 6 sites in the US: Baltimore, Nashville, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, and St Louis. Contact details are here.”

An effort to allow Oregonians to use these died in the most recent legislative session sadly.

When the WHO later said that the “emergency status” had ended literally everyone neglected to read their very next sentence of “but that doesn’t mean covid is any less dangerous and should still be avoided and capitalism rejoiced.

The 3 genders

☀️ My morning routine is coffee, bagel, and the brain teaser Wordle minigame that funds the islamophobic editors at the most successful propaganda outlet in america