I saw an elderly couple step off the bus wearing very well fitted respirators. Great job. ⭐️

If the person in charge of health and human services stands up and calls diabetes an “exotic disease” and says he has never heard of lupus or crohn’s… he should immediately be fired for gross incompetence. This is eugenics. He’s going after disabled people so they don’t have to pay to treat them.

excited to see "deported because of my extensive social media history" edge ever closer and closer

Let’s rid ourselves of this jerk from Australian politics once and for all! Another cracking explainer from @thejuicemedia.bsky.social youtu.be/euE8eZTyQQg #AusVotes25

If this is behind a paywall then you might want to buy the paper for it. www.smh.com.au/national/cop...

Covid is a novel virus. 5.5 years is nothing in the lifespan of a new disease. We don’t know the long term impacts, but what we do know isn’t good. We went “back to normal” to prop up end state capitalism, not because the threat had passed Great article by @nicktsergas.ca on covid & immune system

To everyone saying to “ignore” what he’s saying because “it will never happen”…you are why we lose.

"Brazilian researchers reveal that even mild cases of COVID-19 can temporarily reduce heart rate variability (HRV), with stress on the autonomic nervous system lasting up to 6 months—especially in older individuals." Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Which makes it the ONLY thing I want to talk about. Good job, moron! 😂

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

'Measles is so contagious that in 1991, a single athlete with measles in a sports stadium infected 16 other people, including 2 sitting at least 30 metres away (about the length of a gymnasium).' @plantnerd.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UK: Dr. Alexis Gilbert, 41, from Burley in Wharfedale in West Yorkshire, caught COVID in July 2022 and still suffers from fatigue, pain, and brain fog. Long Covid affects the daily lives of 1.5 million people in England and Scotland. Source: archive.md/hGQzp

They've had to recall every Cybertruck because the sides fall off. youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?...

"Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage" "Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you" "There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino Source: archive.md/pwmdd

Today at the DOJ Trump named himself “the chief law enforcement officer in our country” and hollered about jailing his political rivals. We aren’t sliding into fascism we are there. If this was happening in another country we would call it a dictatorship, because IT IS.

During a highly unusual speech at the DOJ, Donald Trump said that CNN and MSNBC are ‘illegal.’ This is what fascism looks like.

Australia: I loved lockdowns (no, I’m not deranged) "The idea that those who complied with the laws to protect our health during the pandemic lacked backbone is pretty insulting." Source: archive.md/KINku

Yep. Still with "immunity debt" five years later. This is beyond absurd.

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 13 Mar 2025 🔹Active cases: 731 (+166) 🔹Active outbreaks: 113 (+10) 🔹Residents: 504 (+94) 🔹Staff: 227 (+72) 🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 128 (+7) @AnikaWells @Mark_Butler_MP Source: www.health.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Symptoms of long COVID can last up to 2 years after infection, research suggests. "Some 23% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 between 2021 and 2023 developed long COVID, and in more than half of them the symptoms persisted for 2 years." Source: archive.md/FLpeI

It's not just Trump who has decimated your standing in the world, America. You have an entire political party going along with it, and the other doing nothing to stop it. You have media normalizing it, institutions obeying in advance, and a tiny fraction of the people fighting.

Australia: Plum Stone, a healthy 38-year-old, first contracted COVID in March 2020 with mild symptoms. Over time, she developed heart issues, brain fog, and numbness. She was reinfected in Nov 2022, worsening her POTS. 5 years later, she still struggles with neurological and cardiovascular problems.

Here's a current story on the inspirational Plum Stone. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

The 15th of March is LC Awareness Day! I acknowledge people everywhere impacted by LC, & am very grateful for the leadership of those with LC who's awareness raising is the single most important factor in finding solutions - @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social @plumskyjam.bsky.social & many others.

That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

Kudos CDPH for the mask/respirator as the 2nd mitigation mentioned. And that mitigation also works very well against other respiratory pathogens (which we know there's a lot of floating around in shared indoor air right now). 👇

Ireland: Number of chronic absences from school has more than doubled post-COVID. "More than a quarter of primary schoolchildren, and more than a fifth of post-primary students missed at least a month of school days during the 2022/23 school year." Source: archive.md/Z3eb9

India: 50% of heart attack cases since 2020 among adults below 40. “Heart attacks used to be a disease of the elderly, but in the last 4-5 years, cases among young adults have increased significantly.”

US COVID update: Feb 24, 2025 🔸1 in 87 people currently infected 🔸550,000 new daily infections 🔸3,850,000 new weekly infections 🔸193,000 to 770,000 weekly Long COVID cases "There is more transmission today than during 48.6% of the pandemic" Source: pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...

Victoria: H7N8 Bird flu detected on fourth poultry farm in Victoria. #BirdFlu #H7N8 #Victoria Source: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH

Elon is accusing people of committing crimes while he’s actually committing crimes.

NEW: After consulting former Treasury staff, the Progressive Change Institute just released a memo outlining the worst case scenarios of Musk's hostile takeover. This is nothing more than an economic coup.

A study has found that brain samples contain a spoon’s worth of microplastics, and studies have found that Covid spike-proteins persist in skull meninges, so when people tell you your worries are all in your head, remind them: that unfortunately we have many things in our heads.

USA: Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests. "The authors said there may be an under-reporting of long COVID in younger children due to difficulty with the verbalization of their symptoms." Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

ACT: "Publication of the Weekly Respiratory Illness Report will pause from Friday 24 January 2025, re-commencing in the autumn/winter months of the year, when the ACT is likely to observe an increase in respiratory illnesses again." @ACTHealth Source: www.act.gov.au/directorates...

Both WSJ and the Post turning on RFK make me pretty hopeful

AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 31 January 2025 #COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE

By Visual feast @visualfeastwang "Some people don't want to be saved" Source: x.com/visualfeastw...

‘Study comparing severity of COVID-19 and influenza among ~6 million Denmark residents finds higher rate of hospitalizations and deaths in those infected with #SARSCoV2 (mainly among unvaccinated people, those with chronic conditions, and males) from 2022 to 2024.’ www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

I've just reposted a bunch of alerts from journalists reporting that CDC data pages have become inaccessible. Then I myself tried to access the data behind PEPFAR, the George Bush-created international program for alleviating HIV. This is what I get:

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 30 Jan 2025 🔹Active cases: 750 (-115) 🔹Active outbreaks: 122 (-39) 🔹Residents: 529 (-81) 🔹Staff: 221 (-34) 🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 88 (+6) @AnikaWells Source: www.health.gov.au/sites/defaul...

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If you are tired of the pandemic, say it. But don't become a minimizer simply because you are tired. The evidence has never been stronger that COVID was and is a clear and present danger. Long COVID is ravaging society, and it will only get worse as unbridled contagion continues.