America also has a specific problem with disabled people asking for any kind of accommodation, because they value their right to convenience above someone else’s right to stay alive.
Boston Public Health FAIL! Only one person in a respirator-grade mask, everyone else raw-dogging the toxic wildfire smoke. It was predictable that crowds would gather to see the Tall Ships. With minimal planning there could have been PSAs, signage, workers handing out info and N95s....
Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.
🍁Mel🇨🇦@melhathnofury.bsky.social · 3w agoHere’s instructions on building your own Corsi-Rosenthal box.
Every time I see someone brag about being "Independent" in this day & age, all I can think of is that quote from Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Democrats are not the problem. Republicans are. Pick a side.
If you have a loved one currently in skilled nursing facility or hospital, you already know how severe the staffing shortages are.
Physicians for a Healthy Democracy@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · last mo.
A poll worker in Syracuse, New York said she was left unsettled after a pair of ICE agents showed up at her polling place to tell her to delete Instagram content calling for the indictment of the agent who shot Renee Good in January.
'Honestly, it shook me': Stalked poll worker unnerved by ICE confrontation
A poll worker in Syracuse, New York said she was left unsettled after a pair of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at her polling place to tell her to delete Instagram content calling for the indictment of the agent who shot Renee Good in January.The worker, Paigelynne Gonyea, w...
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C02 reading in-flight. Indicates how much unfiltered exhaled breath of fellow passengers is in the air that you breathe on a plane. This passenger kept their FloMask elastomeric respirator ON. But DO go on about how well the air is filtered on airplanes & skip the airplane wastewater virus studies.
Barbarism and hypocrisy at work from fine “Christians.” Tennessee to restrict medical aid for critically ill undocumented children www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Tennessee to restrict medical aid for critically ill undocumented children
Families have been notified that a Tennessee law aimed at cutting undocumented immigrants off from public benefits will also be applied to ill children.
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Thanks to Trump's tax cuts, 88 corporations — including Coinbase, CVS, and Disney — paid ZERO federal income tax last year. They also spent $852M on political donations and lobbying. Their combined tax savings: over $26 BILLION (a 3,000% ROI!) We must break this corrupt cycle.
As Texas reviews the future of its Maternal Mortality Review Committee, researchers warn that failing to reauthorize the panel would leave the state with fewer answers—and fewer opportunities to save lives.
Texas May Eliminate a Critical Tool for Preventing Maternal Deaths
As Texas reviews the future of its Maternal Mortality Review Committee, researchers warn that failing to reauthorize the panel would leave the state with fewer answers—and fewer opportunities to save…
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Wealth inequality is a public health threat.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2mo agoMusk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Top leaders at the American Diabetes Association have resigned in wake of the huge outpouring of support for the 5 scientists — incl an ADA flagship journal editor — that the ADA forcibly removed from the annual meeting for disturbing an editorial from the ADA’s own flagship journal.
Leaders Resign From ADA After Experts Booted From Meeting
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
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Insist elections are rigged despite zero evidence, silence the press... and find an excuse to deploy our military around election season to intimidate voters. This is the authoritarian playbook.
ADA censors scientists at their own conference on Friday 2 (maybe more) board members resign by Monday It shows scientists in solidarity with each other 👏🏻 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Leaders Resign From ADA After Experts Booted From Meeting
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
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I just yelled at my mom for texting me that long covid Wired article. Somehow the retrain your brain article is EVERYWHERE and the "long covid is transmissible by blood in mice" article is not. WONDER WHY.
Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints of editorial critical of the Trump administrations's ongoing attacks on science. Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz...
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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www.newsweek.com/worrying-cov... "It is unfathomable for wastewater surveillance to be cut at a time when there are multiple major outbreaks circulating across the globe for highly pathogenic viruses.." "cost of treating ...'is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of wastewater surveillance'"
Worrying COVID 'cicada' variant spreads as US maps go dark
Cuts to one of America's major disease surveillance programs could threaten public health, experts say, as COVID 'cicada variant spreads.
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Long Covid Estimate Revised Up After Researchers Include People With Long Covid
Long Covid Reframed As Fight-Or-Flight Loop By People In Ignore-And-Deny Loop
Please, my friend, do not despair if you find yourself unable to convince anyone that the pandemic isn’t over, after all, my friend, catching Covid repeatedly isn’t enough to convince them either, but please, my friend, keep trying to convince them, please keep trying.
Good morning. Reminder. You need to prove infectious aerosols are not a hazard… before denying respiratory protection by leaving them out of guidelines. Not the other way around. Workers don’t need to prove by getting ill/dying that infectious aerosols are circumventing the PPE plan.
Just completed a congressional oversight visit with members of the New Jersey delegation. Delaney Hall should be shut down. This is not America.
In May 2024 when the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) was updating its IPAC advice to doctors I met with the staff at the CPSO.
RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...
This is an absolutely terrifying escalation by the regime. They have now criminalized our freedom to fight the crimes they commit against us and our neighbors. These protesters acted with extraordinary courage and moral clarity.
Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...
3/ Public health accreditation bodies should immediately reevaluate training standards for airborne disease prevention, ventilation, filtration, respirators, and aerosol science. Droplet dogma has already cost enough lives.
2/ If your infectious disease training still treats airborne transmission like a rare exception instead of a central mechanism, your curriculum is obsolete.