France: ‘Very worrying’ surge in sick leave. “We have a very worrying drift in the budgetary impact of sick leave. If we address it too late in the year, no action will be possible, useful, or effective,” Sebastien Lecornu said, stressing the need to control sick leave “whatever happens.”

"Almost 200,000 New Zealanders are now living with long COVID" 🔹4 out 5 (77.7%) adults had COVID (~3.3 million people) 🔹1 out 11 (9.2%) adults report long COVID (~401,000) 🔹185,000 adults (4.3%) currently experiencing long COVID 🔹1 in 7 (14.9%) women vs 1 in 12 (8.5%) men having long COVID symptoms

"Covid connection? 4 out of 10 Austrians can no longer taste or smell, or hardly at all." A high proportion of people in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland report loss of smell and/or taste, with prevalence around 40%, based on survey data from 2,340 participants. Source: archive.md/UVat9

"Goo Goo Dolls cancels third show in a row after singer falls ill" "The Grammy-nominated rockers were forced to cancel another performance after lead singer John Rzeznik was diagnosed with pneumonia."

Serj Tankian chose to wear a mask while signing autographs at his new coffee venue Kavat Coffee earlier this week. Protecting your health and the community around you is still relevant and still matters. Clean air and small precautions aren’t overreactions, they’re care in action. #MaskUp

"COVID-19 Reduces Brain Blood Flow" "Severe COVID-19 can leave a lasting mark on the brain. Even more than a year after recovery, individuals who experienced serious illness may continue to show reduced blood flow, which could subtly influence cognitive performance." Source: archive.md/50u3t

"Skin as a potential entry point for SARS-CoV-2" Sigh... It just keeps getting better doesn't it. 😐 #COVID #healthcare #publichealth #maskup #N95

I really despise how risky hospitals are for respiratory transmission today. Its mitigatable right up to the point you have an issue that makes it not mitigatable. Hospitals should not be a place of unmanaged risk resulting in health danger. #COVIDisAirborne

Measles cases in Victoria are running at an even steeper rate than last year. It took several months for last year's local outbreak to end, and we returned to the pattern of sporadic introductions. 🧵

Australian COVID-19 cases update: Reported Cases have started rising again across most of Australia, signalling a fresh wave. So far, the growth rate seems relatively slow, and the levels are still around half those reported from recent waves. #COVID19 #Australia 🧵

The Australian data also seems to show a jump in GBS (Guillain-Barré syndrome) incidence among the 75+ cohort, since COVID-19 became widespread here. From AIHW, via my dataviz project: github.com/Mike-Honey/A...

Severe COVID-19 linked with lung cancer @nature.com People who are hospitalized with severe COVID-19 are 24% more likely to later get lung cancer than people who had mild or moderate COVID-19.

Bird flu antibodies found in cow in the Netherlands, a first outside of U.S. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

rfk is directly responsible for stopping research on a BIRD FLU vaccine that had already entered late stage trials. i hate antivaxxers

If you think US fascism is bad now, wait until a Bird Flu pandemic rips through our country completely unmitigated. 😷❤️

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"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing

Children are dying in the US concentration camps www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith...

Maher Tarabishi was detained in October during a scheduled check-in at an ICE facility. He was the primary caretaker of his son, who died last week. The family is seeking Maher's release so he can attend his son's funeral. ICE reportedly denied the request. Unimaginable cruelty.

NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social: “I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.” "In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino. They must all resign and be held accountable.

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate increased a touch to 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-812. That implies a 4% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia 🧵

The unprecedented second wave of influenza in NSW continues to grow, driven by A/H3N2 subclade K - "Kangaroo variant". Even if the peak is imminent (no sign of that), it looks set to continue well into January. No sign of any effective public health response.

"...significant alterations in brain neurochemicals, brain signal intensity, and tissue structure not only in individuals with Long COVID but also in those who considered themselves fully recovered." I really wish people would stop fucking minimizing #Covid and denying that #LongCovid exists.

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-... Holiday goers warned to 'mask up' as majority of planes carry deadly virus #flight #travel #covid19 #covid #coronavirus #mask #flight #virus #maskup #deadly

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This young man has it exactly right.

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

When Trump was asked about the release of the Epstein files, he called one reporter "piggy" and said another was "being insubordinate." When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video. He's a tyrant.

In a new phase 3 trial, people randomly assigned to receive a flu shot made with modified mRNA were 34.5% less likely to be diagnosed with an influenza-like illness than people given a standard flu shot made with inactivated virus. We need to stop the anti-science attacks against mRNA vaccines!

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someone's mad at this

ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.” www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Too mean? 🤷🏼‍♂️

This is really awful. The CDC’s page stating vaccines do not cause autism (reality) has been zombified as a platform for conspiracy theories saying they do. Such a crime to dissuade parents from these safe vaccines and bamboozle parents of kids with autism on the causes www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Measles alert for Sydney. "A person has recently been confirmed to have acquired measles in Sydney. This person has had no known contact with anyone else with measles and did not attend any known exposure locations in Sydney." Source: www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...

The Department of Education wants to limit what degrees count as “professional”, impacting people’s ability to access loans. Unsurprisingly, it’s women dominated professions being targeted. It’s also a disability rights issue as they’re targeting paramedical programs. NPs, PTs, SLPs & social work

Steven Crowder is a millionaire That didn’t stop him from taking out 70k in PPP Loans at the beginning of the pandemic He didn’t pay it back Apparently those kinds of government handouts are “ok”… but feeding hungry kids? Disabled people? Folks living in poverty? That’s where he draws the line

“We need to start, now, to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, by at least 5% per year. This must happen in order to have a chance to avoid unmanageable & extremely costly climate impacts affecting all people in the world.” PIKs J. Rockström @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’d just like to remind everyone that the alternative to being vaccinated against a disease is not a heavenly state of disease-free utopia. You enter the “susceptible” pool, and face a world full of diseases that are more likely to find you as that pool gets larger… unprepared…

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

11/10/25 Colfax and Schiller near an elementary school: Neighbor filmed 20+ ICE GOONS driving onto her neighbors lawn and abducting a landscaper, then Tasing him while he was in the car. No warrants, no names, no faces. Palatine, Illinois 11/10/25

notable but not surprising that Fetterman chose Fox & Friends as the place to promote his new book

1.5 degrees of warming plus deforestation might already be too high for the Amazon rainforest.” PIK scientist Nico Wunderling speaking today at the Planetary Science Pavilion at #COP30. Check out the full agenda: planetarysciencepavilion.org

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale