Now, replace AI with “Living with Covid” and see how all of you feel about that.

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · last mo.

This "ai code/art is already everywhere and impossible to avoid so you should just relax about people using it" shit has to stop, it's not remotely true. Same exact shit as "it's the inevitable future!" or "you can't put the genie back in the bottle!!" We can literally do whatever the fuck we want

Respirators in social settings work extremely well and allow one to avoid infections for years…as I have. There is NO way I would not take that option. I have a family & there are things I want to do in life. I don’t succumb to peer pressure. Is this high school? People are DYING from Long Covid.

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️@dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've seen lots of posts from covid cautious folks wondering why some of the biggest reputable names in covid research don't mask. I can't speak for all of them obviously, but I have spoken with someone who has a very good understanding of the risk profile of this disease & is a recognized scientific

1/ Public health has become overly insular and insufficiently interdisciplinary. I work in applied health science. What I don’t have is indoctrination into decades of droplet-era institutional inertia. That’s the difference.

WHO just removed the word "AEROSOL" from the modes of transmission of Meningococcal Meningitis from its website. 1/x @catinthehat.bsky.social

1/ Please put aerosol scientists and engineers back in charge of public health. We built infectious disease policy around outdated droplet assumptions while ignoring aerosol physics, ventilation, and indoor air quality.

1/ Public health has an education problem. Airborne transmission is still incorrectly described — or omitted entirely — in many Master of Public Health programs and the textbooks used to train future professionals.

A proper contemplation of the Precautionary Principle should be incorporated into the standard curriculum, forthwith. 📚 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precaut...

Check out this conversation on the AI tool built for censorship of specific health topics at the NIH 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4iY...

NIH Whistleblower Exposes Grant Terminations, AI Censorship & Research Cuts - Jenna Norton Interview

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The problem is almost none of the people in these decision making positions has much of an understanding of science, and they're all trained to think that absence of evidence = evidence of absence. And since the entire GRADE pyramid is purely reactive, the only evidence they accept is dead bodies.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Reminder: if you're dealing with one of those medical types who can't admit "I don't know", and you wonder if they're just making stuff up 👉they may well be👈. Many were taught their opinions outweigh everything outside medicine. The ones with enough humility and intelligence figure it out. But...🤷

Tennis taught me emotional regulation at the deepest level. The ball does not care about your frustration, excuses, momentum swings, ego, or story. You reset between points or you lose. Honestly, that’s most of life.

A virus that damages every organ system is not “endemic.” It is unaddressed. There is a difference. Words matter when they’re being used to lie to you.

Indoor air is the new tobacco. We’ll look back stunned that we breathed it without thinking. The lawsuits will be enormous. The recovery will be slower.

Five years in and we still treat masks like a personality. Surgeons aren’t making a statement. They’re protecting a patient. So am I.

The Sliding Window re: tuberculosis Decades before 1920 Glass manufacture innovation, 1902 Dr. Karl Turban & architect Jacques Gros adopted a new type of window in their TB Sanatoriums. Folding and sliding doors and windows that allowed complete opening of window frames composed of several sashes.

Higher ed is going to spend the next decade pretending nothing is wrong with student cognition except “use of AI.” By the time the data is undeniable, the cohort will be in their 30s, wondering why everything feels so hard.

Cognitive fatigue is real. We mock it because admitting it would force us to redesign everything: schools, workplaces, classrooms, hospitals, parenting. Mocking is cheaper.

You don’t have a phone problem. You have a meaning problem. The phone just fills the vacuum a faster than anything else ever has.

Attention is the rarest cognitive resource we have. We are feeding it, hourly, to slot machines that don’t even pay out.

Self-complexity is a buffer against grief. We never teach this. We should. Lose one self and there are still nine left to walk you home.

We tolerate indoor air in 2026 that would have horrified sanitation engineers in 1926. We just don’t see what’s killing us.

The most underrated public health intervention of the next decade is going to be opening a window.

The immune system has a memory. So does the heart. So does the brain. Survival is not the same as escape.

The most dangerous lie of the last six years was that getting it over with was a strategy. You don’t out-tough a virus that hides in your tissues.

Clean air will be the sanitation revolution of the 21st century. Or it won’t. And we’ll pay for it for three generations.

This was really fun, Sean, amateur virilogist here. I missed 3 and was happy to learn something new. When I have more time I'll take the longer test. Everyone should check this out if you've been keeping up with the research: 😷🫰

Sean Mullen, Ph.D.@drseanmullen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I moved it here: exercisetechlab.com/educational-...

Can I add this to my dossier? A Zoom conversation with a family about airborne precautions was followed by a $200 donation to my lab. Some of the most meaningful academic impact never shows up in citation metrics. /1

Dr Ryland Grace ( a book character )@drrylandgrace.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you so much for creating the “Still Masked Still Right” Document. We added it to our holiday cards in December 2025 , to justify why we continue to wear N95 masks. uofi.app.box.com/s/9llu70jkrf...

Unroll of @jmcrookston.bsky.social 's citation-filled thread from 2022 on reasons public health should not be so mindlessly dismissing airborne transmission of #Ebola

Wait… people still read papers? Gnarly 😎 Pretty wild that our paper on exercise breaks and executive function landed among the top 10% most-viewed papers published in Advanced Science in 2024. Go team 🙏

Congratulations graduates! Be safe out there. 😷

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