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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.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · last yr.

“If you’re vulnerable just wear a mask or stay home” It’s been nearly 6 years. We can’t stay home forever. We need medical care, groceries, pharmaceuticals. We also deserve to live our lives. As for masking, we do. But the onus shouldn’t be 100% on the vulnerable person

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...

CDC: 13% of kids who died from flu this year had brain damage

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

Harry Dunn@libradunn1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Im excited to take place in the economic blackout boycott tomorrow. I hope you'll join me and millions of others.

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”

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 2y ago

Silencing COVID/Climate Change. No data for infections, means it doesn’t exist. No warnings for hurricanes 🌀 now. 🫠

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?