“the medical profession’s response to covid-19 has been in effect to walk away from the established public health principles of ‘control, eliminate, eradicate’, adopting instead what I have termed the ‘surrender narrative’” www.bmj.com/content/392/...

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

Do you see it yet? “Die faster”.

This is gutting Archive version: archive.is/cZ0Lj

Bruh

ICYMI tonight’s livestream is now available in our public feed Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

NEW: Group sending Canadian right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel quietly funded by Israeli government Documents unearthed by @pressprogress.ca show Israel's foreign ministry granted the Exigent Foundation $175,000 CAD to bring "Canadian influencers and policymakers" to Israel

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Sharing the Go Fund Me for Maya, the 12 year old girl in the Tumbler Ridge shooting who was airlifted to Children's Hospital in Vancouver with a gunshot wound to the head and neck. No words 💔 will be hugging my teen extra tonight www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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.

Decriminalization was intended to fail — its *unstated* goal was achieved: the increase of police power and budgets throughout B.C. breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

we have become so inured to mass death that it is immediately exploited to advance reactionary agendas, scapegoat vulnerable minorities, and calls for political violence are louder than the mourning of the bereaved. and mass death continues

Disgusted by the level of anti-trans misinformation already spreading about the shooting in Tumbler Ridge. I wrote about it after Charlie Kirk in September, and I hate that I’m probably going to have to write about it tomorrow xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

“The shooting at the small, rural high school today is the second deadliest school shooting in Canadian history, behind the massacre that left 14 dead at L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989”

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Podcast Poll: We're stuck on which article to pick for the next Public Health Media Club episode. "Like" (because you probably don't actually like it) the one you want MJ @everythingisph.bsky.social and I to talk about! And feel free to comment on your pick, maybe we'll read it on the show

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...

i am SO ready to radicalize my intro to STS students with daniella’s ‘bad press’ episode next week 💕💕💕💕

That one image of a COVID placenta from a study a few years ago genuinely haunts me

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Some of us have been screaming this for years www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Absolutely laughable conclusion and focus on handwashing for airborne diseases but OMG THEY SAID COVID, INFLUENZA, MEASLES, TB ARE AIRBORNE without squirming and tying their words into unintelligible knots. Is this... progress? Is this... beginning to face reality?

Public health by bandwagon: ""If lots of people believe it and it’s moving public health, we as NIH have an obligation...to treat it seriously,” Bhattacharya said" A lot of people believing something bc vibes and podcasters [derogatory] doesn't make it reasonable 😓 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

For BHM you can listen to another podcast I made about surveillance tech, policing, and systemic racism. It’s currently featured on Apple Podcasts (and not boring or hard to listen to!) One ep is specifically about the bad idea that is Ring cameras and when I have time, I will break it down here :)

Last October.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

I present for your consideration: www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

It's Black History Month! If you'd like to support a Black creator making critical public health content please support my work! There are so few Black podcasters and even fewer in science comms. Making "Public Health is Dead" is a lot of labour I do for free 💚💖💀 www.publichealthisdead.com/support

An airborne virus is a virus that can infect other people through unseen particles in the air, sometimes for hours after the sick person has left the area! Masks and clean, ventilated air can reduce the risk of getting sick from airborne viruses or infecting others.

Check out a podcast episode we did about CBC's measles coverage. Spoiler: it's Not Great. public-health-is-dead.simplecast.com/episodes/pub...

This is just straight up incorrect. “Lagacé-Wiens said that unlike with COVID-19…masks do little to protect someone from contracting it.” Respirators (masks designed to block airborne pathogens) are incredibly effective against measles. Why is CBC publishing easily disproven nonsense?

Re-upping an older piece to illustrate that Covid precautions - especially for athletes - are not “extreme”. It’s not just about performance on the day of competition; long Covid can literally cost athletes their careers

this helps manufacture consent that people trying to not get a neurotropic disease that can cause lifelong disability without a cure are the crazy ones. this framing is explicitly condescending, misleading, and does real harm.

Oh… okay we are *here* now. www.reddit.com/r/COVID19pos...

Begging folks to realize that ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event. People are being shot. They’ve been blinded. They’ve been traumatized. The camps are full of disease. TB, Covid and measles can all kill but they also disable. It’s eugenics. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...

disease is a weapon of fascists. concentration camps make it even easier to accomplish this goal. free all these people.

This patient died bsky.app/profile/barr...

“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family…she was rushed to a children’s hospital in San Antonio, where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.” And then sent back.

Sickness everywhere. Newsletter: “doctor says I have a 6 week cough. Been 5 weeks already” Two young people I know have pneumonia Outside today: a tiny child with a deep hacking cough Runners FB group: “getting sick. Are there any magical cures out there to prevent it turning into a full virus” (??)

Just like the answer is not “train ICE ‘better’ with more money”, the answer is not “make it harder for disease to spread in ‘detention centres’ (concentration camps)”. The answer is: abolish the systems and structures that produce these outcomes in the first place.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

⚡️“…there’s hope and liberation on the other side of a realistic risk assessment – and there’s no need to pick and choose safety based on the criteria set by capitalist forces” ⚡️HELL YEAH (listen to it if you can— even better!) positivedeviancenyc.substack.com/p/covid-cons...

"It’s 2026, & culture has frozen into nostalgia— ...creators like Abby Mahler have spoken about the ways COVID has kept us stuck...refusing to grieve, or even acknowledge, the lost life, ability, time, opportunities, & freedoms we had before the ongoing pandemic made the world more hostile."

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

So all the years that systemically marginalized people spent, expending time, energy, and emotional and intellectual labour to explain to those around them, being Cassandra, likely at personal and professional cost—all gets erased. It never happened. We're all only learning now. No one knew before.

This often results in experts or "experts" being consulted or platformed on serious issues implicating people whose vulnerability/ies they don't share, yet showing no compulsion to pass /share the mic to them, while those impacted or with dedicated, directly relevant expertise remain invisibilized.