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220k daily infections currently, with new variants. Fauci said in Nov 2021 that we had to get below 10k daily cases to have any sort of control or normalcy. That target was completely abandoned. Not because "COVID is over/mild" but because the economy couldn't wait any longer.

Masking is resistance against the corporate demand to sacrifice your body in order to turn billionaires into trillionaires.

Now instead of "just wear a mask", it's "you're crazy for wearing that!" even from medical staff. Humans have a primitive need for conformity, not just to fit in, but to have uniformity among the "tribe"; Any individualistic behavior is disturbing when one wants to bury their head in the sand.

I had a painful reminder today of how much my social circle has diminished due to my chronic health conditions and COVID avoidance. Even so, cashing my brain and body in for some broader social acceptance still just isn't worth it. But that doesn't make it hurt any less.

I’ll never understand how “we have to learn to live with the virus” was interpreted as “completely abandon every possible mitigation.”

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

I get social media fatigue so bad it's really hard to post up both here and on X. But I'm trying! Hope you're all staying safe.

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

I need everyone to understand that we who are protecting ourselves from COVID infections did not “do our own research” and “come to the conclusions” about its effects on our own. What we’re doing is trusting in the largest body of scientific research for any disease in history.

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

The economic black out is tomorrow. I'm participating.

You first.

Every public health decision was/is an economic strategy.

⚠ New mask ban being attempted in Maryland. ⚠ Democratic members of the Maryland General Assembly are sponsoring a new mask ban TODAY 2/18 at 1pm. Similar to Nassau, NY this ban puts the burden of proof on the mask wearer to demonstrate medical need. Please share far and wide! Links in thread:

Totally normal. What's that you say? CDC, WHO, Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, every researcher on Earth warned us that this would be the consequence of repeat COVID infections? Hrm, OK well I don't think it's that. I'd rather keep calling it a mystery instead. /s

Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability

SARS-CoV-2 harms your vascular system. It disrupts the ACE2 receptors on your endothelial cells, leading to a cascade of harmful effects: These mechanisms underline how SARS-CoV-2-induced endothelial dysfunction can cause severe cardiovascular complications.

Remember when NYT ran a front-page article at 100k COVID deaths, calling it "an incalculable loss"? Well 1,000 Americans are still dying per-week from COVID-19, and not only is it not front-page news, it's been manipulated into being "just everyday life." This was performative.

PBS News wants to hear from those who have been affected by COVID. The more information they have on what COVID has done and is still doing to people, the better. pbsnewshour.formstack.com/forms/covid

Simply providing objective, scientific information is accused as "fearmongering" because it invokes fear *in them* and they can't handle the reality of the implications. This is a coping mechanism. "Anything bad is fearmongering." See also where we are with politics.

Leon Muskrat is calling all of this a “democrat slush fund”

The same media that isn’t covering the protests happening in 50 states is the same media that for the past 4 years has suppressed the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. Are you getting it yet? Corporate interests control our information streams.

This country is being run into the ground by a cringe lord. "Haha balls, haha S3XY" what a dork ass loser.

37% showed objective evidence of cognitive impairment.

The way people gleefully normalize and fold a whole new level of death and disease into everyday life as if it's just another minor hazard is honestly shocking. Everyone who died of COVID did so in vain. Everyone who suffers from complications does so in vain. It's so callous.

Another day, another study showing why we still must take precautions against being infected with COVID-19.

People who don’t include disability liberation in their understanding of social justice will never make sense to me. Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?

Articles about COVID-19 damage are gaining traction on science and health Reddits again which is great to see. But reading through thousands of comments is sad; Same story of how "I'm not the same since I had COVID" - reduced mental faculties, vertigo, on and on. WEAR A MASK.

Invivyd Announces Positive Phase 1/2 Clinical Data for VYD2311, a Monoclonal Antibody Designed to be a Superior Alternative to COVID-19 Vaccination for the Broad Population www.globenewswire.com/news-release... I am not a doctor so curious to hear thoughts.

Watching all this Grammy / pop culture chatter while an unelected person is raiding the treasury and deleting entire sections of the government with no oversight or legal recourse is cognitive dissonance beyond what I'm capable of comprehending.

BREAKING: CDC's top advisors demand answers and a restoration of crucial public health data. New story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

If reading scientific data and using rational decision making to protect my long term health makes me a cult member, then baby I’m cult member #1 If you want to cut your life short to fit in and stay blissfully ignorant, go right on ahead. But who’s the one living in fear?

We can’t keep ignoring it & continue getting infected Significant increase in the IR of POTS post-COVID with the IR increasing from 1.42/1000 000 to 20.3/1000 000 cases per person-year @elhopkins.bsky.social @elisaperego78.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehjqcco/adva...

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

"It's OK to directly reach your hand into the pot of boiling water. It isn't any more deadly than other kinds of heated pans."

Sounds like we're back on this shit again. COVID is apparently a deadly bioweapon and just the sniffles (or doesn't exist at all.)

"You're still avoiding COVID? Why?" Exhibit 382,958:

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

I found a cool XITTER > BSky migration app called "Sky Follower Bridge" that I'm using at the moment to try and follow everyone I was over there. Hello hello!

Trump officials ask US health agencies to pause external communications, Washington Post reports That includes wastewater or respiratory illness data. We're about to be totally in the dark. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

“If COVID is so bad why don’t I see it in my Apple News feed??!” I’m sure the WHO, Yale Public Health, American Heart Association, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and countless others also wonder why their studies and warnings are not in the news. If you have to ask, you’ve failed.

Politics have been long dead. It's all media now. The American empire is a media empire. Please study media theory, the rise of Trump will make so much more sense.

I'm still new here, who should I be following? I've lost track on That Other Site!

Reminder that mid-2024 Dr. Fauci put to rest the mythical fantasy of "herd immunity" with SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19. The media acting surprised that we have yet another COVID wave again after ~90 days is willful ignorance, and deliberate misinformation.

"Long lull?" we had a record-breaking wave in September/October. The collective amnesia is really getting on my nerves.

"Exonerative tense" is when reports are softened to the point that any real information or context is utterly removed. Here, "Investigators confirm a Scottsboro Police officer shot his wife before killing himself" became "Scottsboro officer killed, wife critically injured after shooting"

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