Cee • Artsy Black DrPH Student • MPH, MCHES 💖

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Award-Winning Scientist • Makeup Artist & Lace Maker in Training Regional Director (IOLI) 💋 Soon To Be Prof/DJ | 30+ 2026 Onyx Award Streamer of the Year Nominee Unity Guild & Creator Club Member | https://projectc7.carrd.co/ Email: echtirid@gmail.com

PMC COVlD Update, Oct 12, 2026 🔸Levels revised upward for a double-peak 🔸39-state outbreak (see ALT) 🔸PMC estimates 750,000 new daily infections, & 1 in 65 people actively infectious 🔸1st time starting Oct w/rising levels since 2020 Interactive map (best on computer): pmc19.com/map 1/🧵

States with observed outbreaks include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. Additional states with poor monitoring likely have outbreaks based on high levels in bordering counties in adjacent states.
Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m doing a 5K on October 18th to support cancer research. I wanted to do something fun, so in addition to wearing an N95, I will wear an additional N95 on my person for every $50 donated (runsignup.com/mask). Thanks for a reshare or any contribution. Even a penny would help! Details in ALT text.

I’m doing a 5K on October 18th to support research at the Tulane Cancer Center, here in the Deep South.

I wanted to do something fun, so in addition to wearing an N95, I will wear an additional N95 on my person for every $50 donated (http://runsignup.com/mask).

$50 = 1 N95
$500 = 10 N95s
$5,000 = 100 N95s
$50,000 = 1,000 N95s

Any partial donation would help. $10 would add an additional mask for 1K of the race. A penny would add 1 meter with an additional mask. I’ll sum partial donations and round up in the end. Even a penny🪙 or reshare🔁 would help. 

FAQs

World Record
🔹There does not presently appear to be a Guinness World Record for most N95s on an individual in a 5K.
🔹This year, I will go for an informal record. Guinness has not yet responded to my request to go for an official record, but there is always next year.

Good Health, Safety, and Environmental Modeling
🔹I will mask properly. Extra masks will not be worn on top of my mask.
🔹All masks will be individually-wrapped N95s. I will eventually wear them or donate them, if someone wants them.

Caveats
🔹It’s a fun run. All donations are final, even if weather or an injury strikes.

Inclusivity
🔹There are many ways to support health and health justice. Please also contribute to your local mask bloc or engage in advocacy in other ways too. There are many great causes.
🔹Many people with chronic and serious illnesses are housebound or cannot run or could run but would then crash for days or weeks after. This is no endorsement of the primacy of exercise-based activities.

How Your Donation Helps
🔹Your donation supports the fight against cancer and normalizes masking.
🔹Funds support the Tulane Cancer Center. Last year’s funds went toward a project to reduce the chances of bone metastases in the context of breast cancer.
🔹I avoid financial conflicts of interest like the plague, so I will not accept any payments or apply for any funds.

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"...At the same time, there are many other causes and effects of human and animal pain that need further investigation, for example attentional capture or long-term behavioral disruption..." The second sentence in the paper itself in the limitations section. Plus it's not peer-reviewed yet so.

Science Magazine@science.org · 3w ago

Can the new cutting-edge AI models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. The work, which has not been peer reviewed, has divided #AI researchers. https://scim.ag/4hHU6BA

Can an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it does
Study reignites debate over what, if anything, machines can feel

wedding look #4 — the final unique look in this whirlwind series! remembered to take a full length photo when the rain from hurricane isaias let up 💃🏻

babs (a white femme person with shoulder length blonde and brown hair) poses outdoors on a damp night. they are wearing a teal-brown floral strapless dress with gold jewelry, and a breatheteq kn95 with a complementary fabric cover made special by a friend ♥️babs (a white femme person with shoulder length blonde and brown hair pulled half back) takes a selfie outdoors on a damp night. they are wearing a teal-brown floral strapless dress with gold jewelry, and a breatheteq kn95 adorned with a complementary fabric cover and gold mask chain made special by a friend ♥️

While there are not a lot of direct initiatives for the above exact issue, you can assist the NW Shoshone in their restoration efforts along Wuda Ogwa (Bear River) or participate in their fall Planting Days if you're up for a bit of a drive. nwbshoshone.com/wudaogwa/

A flyer that reads:
WUDA OGWA (Bear River)
FALL PLANTING DAYS

November 6 & 7, 2026
10am-2pm

Volunteer with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and partners to plant willows, cottonwoods, and other native plants at the Wuda Ogwa restoration site!

Near Preston, ID - 2 hour drive from Salt Lake City.
Scan to learn more and sign up: (QR code)

Plant illustrations by Rios Pacheco

Happy Indigenous People's Day. Take time time to learn about local tribes/tribal culture as well as modern local landback/restoration initiatives. Utah's crisis with the Great Salt Lake can be quite directly tied to their lack of native committee representation, so lots to read about for me today.