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Årsakene er selvfølgelig mange, men symptomatisk at dette ikke engasjerer i den brede debatten hverken her eller i offentligheten generelt, i tråd med folkehelsepolitisk konsensus om at pandemien er vi ferdig med, Long COVID er et marginalt, biopsykososialt problem, og COVID er helt ufarlig for barn

3/ 🥜 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥: the adoption of this resolution is about signalling diplomatic support for the legal findings contained in the landmark climate ruling delivered unanimously by the International Court of Justice in July 2025 regarding the scope of States' existing obligation re: climate action...

Brilliant story on RFK's push for an unethical study that withholds vaccines from 7000 children in Guinea-Bissau, based on a "house of cards." Guinea-Bissau says they never approved of this. And yet HHS calls it an "opportunity." By Arthur Allen @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/a-dani...

Et tu, Norway?

You can add (parts of) Scandinavian Public Health to this necropolitical web. Former director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health recently came out in defense of Tegnell, calling the critique of him unreasonable, claiming we didn't know what was the best way to handle a pandemic. 🧵

Bad actors seeking more power begin to call for cultural erasure. That's where we're at now. Demonization of trans folks has been steady already, so we need to push back. Eventually the targeted group is labeled too dangerous to exist in society, which is followed by detention. HOWEVER... [2/3]

Sier som Anders Skyrud, det er nok fryktelig tungt å leve med senfølger, men hvor mange saker skal en liten krets norske fagpersoner få i NRK (og noen svenske da, og amerikanere)? La oss heller fokusere på den virkelige trusselen mot folkehelsen, sånn som Irans hemmelige Tran$ plan og Imane Khelif.

Oji Cree Healing Flower Tree Christian Morriseau ~ Anishinaabe n.d.

"If the process initiated in Santa Marta represents a rare opportunity to reorient climate politics, its radical potential is already under threat." Reflections from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Joel Wainwright on the wins and weaknesses of Santa Marta www.break-down.org/santa-marta-...

Or you can live in Scandinavia, where broad parts of the Swedish left loyally supported the social darwinian early 2020 response, or in the Nordics in general, where you'd see a shooting star more regularly than a leftist (or anyone) with a mask.

Finnes det noe mindre maktkritisk i sykefraværdebatten enn "har politikerne noen gang hatt en ordentlig jobb"-argumentasjonen? Vi vet fra NAVs statistikk og forskere at mye av det økte langtidsfraværet kan kobles til diagnoser knyttet til senfølger. Vi vet at regjeringens "leve med COVID-stategi"..

“Today, it’s no longer about class struggle between capital & labor but about an economy that either serves life or death.” - Gustavo Petro We need an “economia para la vida”. In the energy crisis this means a multilateral oil buyers’ club instead of Darwinian markets.

Uansett hvor mye/lite av sykefraværet som skyldes senfølger, er det viktig å forstå at offisiell politikk er at majoriteten av befolkningen skal opprettholde immunitet gjennom gjentatte infeksjoner. Faktisk råder FHI at færre infeksjoner kan føre til verre sykdom. Andre perspektiver skal ties ihjel

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

Hardly a coincidence that among some influential people in Scandinavian public health, support for the current NHI-regime overlaps with vile transphobia. Apparently fighting fascism in Norway means obsessing over America while simultaneously being oblivious to the ONLY part of MAGA/MAHA...

If you're curious about what happened at the first-ever international convening on transitioning away from fossil fuels, please read @ninalakhani.bsky.social's excellent analysis.

"They are using the same playbook as Project 2025...Anytime we see something come out of the Heritage Foundation now, we should take it seriously, because this administration is basing their policies off of their playbook.”

Because of the long incubation period, it will actually be some time before we can have a formal 'all clear' and be sure this is over. The most likely sceneraio by far is that this fizzles out quickly, and most onward infections happen within quarantine, and only close contacts are affected. However

Concerning. Policy Exchange is a major think tank for Westminster, rated "highly opaque" abt its funders by Transparify. Their Project 2029 Team includes anti-trans Kishwer Falkner & Iain Mansfield, anti-BLM Charles Moore, anti-EHCR Conor Casey, anti-left Trevor Phillips & more Some of P29's aims ⬇️

Skyrud har en ganske nyttig funksjon på norsk bluesky som indikator på folks grunnleggende (online) leseferdigheter.

In a world of fossil price shocks and Chinese cleantech dominance, carbon shock therapy emerges as the default stance of states unwilling, or unable, to support their industries through a green transformation. New with @danielagabor.bsky.social on green macrofinancial regimes in the Hormuz crisis.

The new Copernicus state-of-climate report is out! It shows that Europe is the continent warming strongest. And it also shows the northern Atlantic 'cold blob'. These two things may well be related, as this study argued 10 years ago and more studies since: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1.... 🌊 1/2

FHI ved Preben Aavitsland, som deler transfobiske konspirasjonsteorier og åpnet sympatiserer med anti-folkehelse-miljøet under RFK jr., mener at en av verdens ledende immunologer driver med uansvarlig skremsel og ville spekulasjoner med bakgrunn i forskningspengemotiver. Han har tidligere (dax18)..

The strongest El Niño in 150 years? That’s not hype, it’s the actual median forecast right now for the developing event later this year. It could rival — or even surpass — the legendary 1877 El Niño, the strongest on record, which was linked to widespread drought, monsoon failure, and food crises 1/

Forsker og lege Judith Bruchfeld om #LongCovid: - ...om man är van vid långtidscovid så känner man snabbt igen tillståndet. Det är en klinisk diagnos, och det finns både typiska fynd och funktionella tester som gör att vi kommer fram till diagnosen. www.mabra.com/halsa/har-ar...

"The short-term heat we’re about to experience (due to El Niño), and the havoc it will wreak on our agriculture, are just a taste of what’s to come on our current path. We should take them as a warning"...

Er du er helsefagarbeider, sykepleier, servicearbeider, barnehagelærer, bussjåfør osv. er du først og fremst en liten lus. frifagbevegelse.no/nyheter/apmi...

Addendum: www.nrk.no/vestland/nho...

The #AMOC by 2100 will thus be so weak (~8 Sv) that it is very likely on the way to full shutdown, as our study last year showed: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... In my view, this now makes a full #AMOC shutdown more likely than not. Definitely not a low likelihood risk, as we used to think.

Selvfølgelig pisker jeg en død hest her, likevel dypt fascinerende at 4 akademikere, inkl en pandemi-professor og en medisin og vitenskapshistoriker, kan diskutere pandemien uten på noe tidspunkt reflektere over (eller forstå?) at vi har vært gjennom et epistemisk skifte fra dråpesmitte til aerosol.

Her ble det treigt svar, er ikke alltid like flittig på å følge med på Bluesky. Et litt komplisert spørsmål, dette, og det er en del forsyningskjeder jeg ikke har oversikt over og det er vel også en del jeg ikke tar på husken. Men skal prøve å ta det punktvis:

As people say, is this bad?

Med fare for å gjenta meg selv, det er umulig å ta en liberal/bluesky/generell offentlig diskurs seriøst når den kun evner å se karakterer som Schevig eller Charter-Svein, men i det store og hele er/var totalt ok med at Aavitsland, kanskje det nærmeste en offentlig talsmann for FHI 1/4

USD 200 a barril is the kind of carbon shock therapy that will have devastating social and economic effects across the world. Yes over long run it may shift us faster to public renewable but till then there's a lot of short term pain bsky.app/profile/bloo...

Et dette riktig @zweizz.bsky.social? I et krise/selvforsyningsperspektiv er vi relativt sett isolert for mangel på kunstgjødsel og diesel, da yara har avtale om prioritere norsk landbruk og Mongstad raffinerer. Men, med en selvforsyningsgrad under 50% vil uansett inflasjon på importert mat...

We're on track to cross 2C in the forties, and guess what, 2040 is as far into the future as 2012 is in the past.

Food for thought: In Sweden the people who pushed for mass infection were already in power in public health, and were never pushed out. Now they're even being rehabbed by a current top official and the x-director of NIPH. Thread below in Norwegian, with receipts.

Dette er aktiv historieomskriving fra Stoltenberg (nåværende FHI-topp Aavitsland driver med det samme på twitter), i forbindelse med Tegnells besøk. Flere burde stille spørsmål om hvorfor dette ønsket om å forsvare den svenske pandemiresponsen. www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/hane...

"People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets." Read @pkrugman.bsky.social on the latest incident of people making piles of cash using insider info about national security matters & how it could amount to treason. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Not arguing against this, but here's a riddle: WHO (and various entities of public health, the UK pandemic hearings etc.) have acknowledged the droplet theory was wrong. A huge epistemic shift. Yet public health continues to recommend surgical masks, filtering masks for AGP only, and arbitrary 1/2

Herd immunity by May, they say or maybe it's in June Certainly by August never change the tune Sickness is inevitable just like life and death COVID is a common cold droplet breath by breath

The pandemic has been a brutal eye-opener to how inertia, individually and institutionally, leads to various levels of denialism and historic revisionism. Tegnell (former Swedish state epidemiologist) is lecturing Scandinavia, amongst others Norwegian public health officials 1/4

11/ Full piece with @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social -- no paywall www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Family of Birds with Fish Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe 1989

Module 3 of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. Encouraging to see explicit recognition of the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand aerosol science, and the "clear failure" of IPC leaders to understand that they might be wrong. #medsky #scisky covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu....

"In 2022, Semieniuk and his co-authors found that US-owned fossil fuel companies recorded over $300 billion in profits(...)The profits were not the result of scarcity; they were the result of pricing power exercised under the cover of geopolitical instability."

The ultimate "we'll update our understanding but keep the old praxis" is when public health (like in Norway) made the pretty effing huge epistemic shift from droplet to aerosol, while simultaneously keeping recommendations of surgical masks, 2m, and FFP for AGP and highly symptomatic patients only.

News from Sweden: "Long-term changes to the peripheral immune system lasting weeks to months in individuals recovering from mild to moderate or severe SARS-CoV-2 are likely to have implications for susceptibility to new infections". Certainly sounds like a great thing to catch regularly.

The common post-COVID condition that doesn't exist in Norway. And if it does it's surely brain prediction errors amplified by social contagion. European Hart Journal: "Our findings demonstrate a significant increase in the incidence of POTS following the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting a...