Don't be COVID Complicit at No Kings today! Ending SARS-COV-2 protection was all about the 1% pinning all the costs on the Working Class. It DOES still spread outdoors, especially when a crowd is chanting together, plus an N95 & sunglasses gives facial recognition a hard time. Long COVID sucks.

Some items to consider if your org values inclusion:

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some examples of inaccessibility: 1. Lack of Covid precautions in-person could lead immunocompromised people to stay home 2. People with mobility issues having problems getting to the place 3. Anyone with an energy limited condition trying to make it through an hours long even IRL is a challenge.

You can get the HPV vaccine for kids (boys and girls) as young as 9. You have to ask, but our pediatrician didn't need any more reason than "We're big believers in vaccines and we'd like him to get it as soon as possible."

Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com · 5mo ago

anyway everyone, and ESPECIALLY CIS DUDES who do sex with people with vulvas, should get the HPV vaxx, it's great and saves lives

Where is our collective outrage that we’re being harmed in healthcare settings? Patients shouldn’t have to risk preventable infection that can result in death, disability, lost work time, harm to infected loved ones, &c. As a HCW & patient, I want universal & permanent n95s in healthcare settings.

Please teach your parents and grandparents that ChatGPT isn't an authority?! I'm in the waiting room at a big cancer institute and overheard an older person explaining to a nurse that "ChatGPT told me to take this medicine at this time of day..." even though the actual instructions say differently 😱

We can’t comply our way out of fascism any more than we can ignore our way out of a pandemic. ICE is a tool of fascism. So are unmitigated pandemics & the people who won’t wear an n95. So are anti-trans laws & those who want to delay trans liberation. So are genocides & those who ignore them.

Test as much as you can, mask, HEPA filters, crack a window!

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 8mo ago

PMC COVID Update, Dec 22, 2025 (U.S.) All indicators are that million of Americans are about to get COVID-19 "surprise" holiday infections. pmc19.com/data

I'm so curious to hear if anyone in South Korea has used the LG Electronics MediPain MSP1 device. It was made to stimulate the c fibers to relieve small fiber neuropathy pain. It looks like they're not produced anymore, but may be available used in SK? #chronicillness #smallfiberneuropathy

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

We white folks need to come right out and say, not just defund ICE, but ABOLISH ICE. We should not have these jackbooted thugs abducting people off the streets and abusing them in illegal concentration camps.

When Ezra Klein of all people says the Dems are losing by compromising, you KNOW you fucked up

What happens to disabled people WILL ALWAYS happen to you.

I love this. I have hated that in the past few years it has felt like American flags are reserved for Republicans. Fuck that shit, this is our country too.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 10mo ago

Y'all need to understand - there were a LOT of flags. #NoKings #Manhattan

I don’t do the disability advocacy thing out loud as much anymore, but being at school this week had me thinking about the way well-meaning abled people move to help and what actually helps. This is not shaming anyone. But I appreciate when folks who do instinctually help move intentionally. 🧵

Shout-out Big Mike at the Keene, NH Pride Festival who manhandled my wheelchair tire back into the rim it had yeeted itself off of - may your pillow always be cool. 🏳️‍🌈🌈🥰

Check your cyclobenzaprine! #NEISVoid #chronicillnes #disability

I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux🥄😷@nwayne66.bsky.social · 11mo ago

They mislabeled #cyclobenzaprine as #meloxicam. #Pharma #Recall

There is a kind of mouse that has been bred over decades to be suitable for skin cancer research. They are *ridiculously* expensive. They're also living animals. You have to feed them and clean their enclosures and take care of them, or they die.

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 12mo ago

Biomedical research isn't a YouTube video, you cannot hit pause for an indefinite period of time and then hit play whenever the regime wants. Samples are destroyed, labs dismantled, scientists leave...

If we’re going to make any progress, we’ve got to quit engaging with the pretext. The DC invasion isn’t about crime, is about authoritarianism. Occupying LA isn’t about immigration, it’s about the racial hierarchy. Stop engaging with the phony pretext.

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · last yr.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

...great...

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12mo ago

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

We just learned about a 3rd dimension of how Covid can affect our arteries. erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-and-...

Covid and Our Arteries

A new study on acceleration of vascular aging adds to the body of evidence

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Oooo, I was just looking for some new, good historical romance recs!

SuperWendy@superwendy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

For a sub genre that's supposedly dead, these posts sure are taking me a lot of time to put together. 17 Unusual Historicals on tap for August, with just one reprint. Head on over to the blog to read all about 'em wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/08/long... #RomBkBlog #Romancelanedia

NEW: Scientists made a sugar-coated nanoparticle that blocks the SARS-CoV-2 virus from binding to human cells — cutting infection in lab tests by ~99%. Not a vaccine. A microscopic shield. 🛡️🦠 www.news-medical.net/news/2025081... #BlueSky  #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #SciSky#fmsky #pedsky

Synthetic sugar-coated nanoparticle blocks Covid-19 from infecting human cells

Groundbreaking research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem - a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle - that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing i...

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“[service or place] is not wheelchair accessible” in 2025 is going to make me lose whatever shreds of calm I had left. Looking at you, Europe, and your oh-so-sophisticated public transit.

If you have republican senators and representatives, call them and say, “I didn’t vote for CANCER! Come on now, canceling mRNA research is too far.”

David Fisman.@dfisman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I’m an infectious diseases scholar and a huge fan of mRNA vaccines for existing and emerging infections. But lets be clear: the most exciting application of this technology is in smart, targeted and non-toxic cancer therapies (and cures). These idiots want to destroy that.

Today is @oliviawrites.bsky.social 's event at East City Bookshop in DC and I am SO EXCITED!! 🎉

Olivia Dade@oliviawrites.bsky.social · last yr.

💜 TODAY'S THE DAY! The zombies are going down!** 💜 **and so is Max, albeit in a very different way AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/Zamz B&N: go.oliviadade.com/Zbn Kobo: go.oliviadade.com/Zk Bookshop.org: go.oliviadade.com/Zbs AMZ UK: go.oliviadade.com/Zamzuk Other links: go.oliviadade.com/Zprh

“Defund the police was a bad slogan.” Yeah whatever. Call it what you want, but this is a conversation about money, and what local governments choose to prioritize

Chart Sommelier@cambrianera.radical.town · last yr.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

Disability is not a vacation. It’s not like that time you took a week off sick from work. It’s a 24/7 job. It’s unrelenting pain, fatigue and suffering. It’s dealing with a medical system that ignores and gaslights you, a society that views you as expendable & people who resent you for existing

I'm really interested to see studies like this and with bigger sample numbers- how I describe my quick muscle fatigue to my PT is like: that lactic acid buildup feeling that I used to get after a long workout, I now get in my arms when I try to fold laundry for 30 seconds.

ME/CFS Science@mecfsscience.org · last yr.

1) Spanish researchers exposed muscle cells to serum of ME/CFS and Long Covid patients and found: - reduction in muscle contraction strength - upregulation of genes involved in protein translation - elevated oxygen consumption