To me… this is like saying we are going to RCT a vacuum cleaner.

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d ago

A hill I will die on: RCTs of air cleaning technologies are a stupid idea. Well said Nicola Boyd. Via @joevipondmd.bsky.social mattersofperspective.substack.com/p/air-cleani...

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I’ve seen a lot of health care workers rightfully sharing their memories from 2020, and their anger at how their struggle is minimized. I hope that they understand this feeling of being forgotten is akin to how many high risk patients feel today, when they have to beg health care workers to mask.

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We have to learn to live with explosive diarrhea

People are complaining that for two hours in the early morning on one single day, the Exploratorium in San Francisco will require respirator masks. Never mind that this allows disabled and immune compromised kids to safely share in something they’re otherwise excluded from. Fuck them kids.

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Nope nope nope. What we’re not going to do is pretend the abandonment of the vulnerable to Covid was a given fact or an inevitability. The US government could have continued to prioritize safety measures to protect the vulnerable until better treatments were found. You do You was a policy choice.

Batdog@jeffreyschmeffrey.bsky.social · last wk.

He's simply stating a fact

Since we're talking COVID: Masks work, ivermectin does not. Vaccines massively protect you and help against long-term stuff, but you need to keep up with boosters. You need to keep masking; COVID isn't over because WE DIDN'T STOP THE TRANSMISSIONS in 2020-2021. Also many are still at high risk

I have friends dealing with chronic health issues from long covid, loved ones who lost family members to COVID, and immunocompromised friends who have to be very careful still to not get sick and die. Sorry if posting about COVID is annoying but it's not over and I wish people took it seriously.

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I discussed this on my podcast with @baddestmamajama.bsky.social and I think this sentiment is reflective of the overall public desire to ignore Covid. It is somewhat unique in that regard. (For instance, Big dies of a heart attack on the SATC sequel but not Covid, which he would’ve been at risk of)

Great question! Also interesting: why no follow-up articles? My guess is because Blue MAGA grifters use the same threats of excessive litigation as MAGA. Sometimes they even use the same lawyers as MAGA. And I'm no longer guessing!

Numbcat9@numbcat9.bsky.social · 2w ago

We learned about Chorus a long time ago. Whatever happened to any of those people?

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Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting

He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.

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A very thin membrane separates an alternate universe where collectively surviving a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic made our society more compassionate and empathetic and our current one, where the most obnoxious and ignorant assholes of all time got a thousand times louder and more deranged

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fox host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the advice of the network’s own senior medical analyst, Dr. Marc Siegle, by saying there is “not a chance” he will wear a KN95 mask.

Nationwide, COVID wastewater levels are near all-time lows, but the numbers are rising. Does not seem to be driven by any particular lineage. Just FYI.

Please help Kaitlin get through the month! If you’re going to cause long covid, you can also help pay for the damage it does.

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It is an awful time arguing with my disability insurance to cover my ongoing leave due to Long COVID, so I’m asking for some help to bridge the gap until I can get paid the 4+ paychecks I am owed (I may have tried to avoid begging until it was urgent)

“There are many phenotypes of Long COVID... I am encouraged that people are still researching Long COVlD and I hope they will identify the biomarkers.”Odilon Couzin, MPH, interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social at a mask-required event by Breathe Easy London. www.instagram.com/p/DatNqN8R6-...

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From the new @oecd-ocde.bsky.social report on Long Covid. Preventing new Covid cases isn't about living in the past. It's about protecting our future collective health, education, work & the economy

Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard is wearing a high quality mask at the start of the race. He said: “I hear already that there’s some sickness in some teams and I’ve had a history of being sick in my last two Grand Tours, so as you said: ‘Better safe than sorry.’” Great job! 👏

Exactly. People think of long Covid as a binary state - you either have it or you don't. But another way LC exists is by turning up the volume dial to various extents on pre-existing conditions

One of the worst things you can say to anyone going through DV is "why didn't you leave"

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Questions in the coronavirus field: How should public health respond, if at all, to SARS-CoV-2 variants disproportionately affecting children?

This is amazing: The clean air revolution is upon us. One day we'll look back & wonder why we ever normalized casually spreading dangerous respiratory viruses (Pro tip - if you don't want to wait till this is implemented, wear an N95 respirator in public) interceptfund.substack.com/p/ending-res...

Ending respiratory infections

Introducing Intercept, a $500M bet to make respiratory infections like colds and flu a thing of the past.

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New study: “SARS-CoV-2 infection can induce persistent immune dysregulation characterized by hyperinflammation [and] lymphopenia… Post-COVID autoimmune manifestations involve multiple systems, including neurological, hematological, endocrine…” That sure doesn’t sound like a cold to me.