Month: June 2024

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Study finds infections are bad for work attendance, and workdays lost were associated with being unvaccinated.

2024-06-30

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drawing of NIOSH N95 mask

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Ableist mask bans raise questions of how they could be enforced, and also questions about why there’s not another way to deal with the issue of juvenile delinquent vandals.

2024-06-30

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Dianna Cowern @thephysicsgirl #MECFS is unimaginably isolating, especially for severe patients like Dianna. The disease just doesn't make sense; even for me, it's taken a year of caring for her every day to start to understand. To get a sense, Dianna has spent the last year and a half in her room, unable to watch tv or read a book or spend time with friends. She cannot walk or take care of herself. She can brush her teeth and feed herself, but not much more than that. We can cuddle and hold hands, but sometimes that's too much for her. It's so removed from normal life, and so much worse than you could ever imagine. It's hard to share these things, because I fear people will blame me or blame her for not treating her properly, for not taking this medication or that supplement, or following such and such a protocol. Or worse yet, suggesting that all she needs is to get up and go for a walk. Even on this post, people will say those things. But there's no consistent treatment or even diagnostics at this point. So, we are left alone, in pain, wondering if what we're doing is right or wrong, if there's something else we should have done a year ago that would have avoided all this. We try not to think like that, but it creeps in from time to time. If you are a physician, please consider getting involved in treating and researching #longcovid and #MECFS While Dianna is still very sick, her doctors and treatments ease her burden and give us hope. Written by Kyle, Dianna's husband.

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Real suffering — dubious and expensive treatments.

2024-06-29

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Why is it the contrarians and the nonsense that seems to get published so much?

2024-06-28

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Stigma has always made it easy for people to spread dubious rumours during disease outbreaks.

2024-06-28

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Chloe’s Public comment to CDC ACIP meeting, June 2024.

The recommendation for a spring covid vaccine boost for seniors was NOT well promoted.

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Kite in sky over Scranton Pennsylvania USA

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Thanks to those using podcast paid membership shoutouts to spread public health messaging.

2024-06-27

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Video screenshot is labeled false propaganda in all caps on red, the image is of Michael Flynn wearing headphones and a seatbelt inside some kind of vehicle, and the caption reads quote “always start out some type of laboratory environment because they’re experim” (the video clip of Mike Flynn on a podcast video was posted on twitter by Jim Stewartson)

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The assertion that infectious diseases are created in labs is confused circular reasoning for those born yesterday.

Do people who believe this somehow think that history began with the time period of modern medical science?

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Conflation of social media with free speech is disingenuous & inaccurate.

2024-06-26

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Legitimate fundraising shouldn’t involve guilt-trips or high pressure sales tactics.

2024-06-26

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Don’t insert ads disguised as testimonial into any conversations anywhere!

2024-06-26

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Nobody wants a huge chunk of electricity to go to AI.

2024-06-25

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Synthetic media spills are a public health threat, and also a threat to human connection.

2024-06-25

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Running nursing homes like a business is a safety hazard.

2024-06-24

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Newspaper clipping: The Philadelphia Inquirer. Healthy schools. A recent op-ed rightly highlighted the financial barriers to becoming a Pennsylvania teacher. However, the state should also prioritize tackling airborne viruses in schools, which are now hazardous workplaces due to the spread of COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza. The CDC found that students were the main driver of COVID transmission during the initial reopening phase, endangering their health and that of their teachers. Insufficient air filtration and poor ventilation in buildings and buses are at the core of this problem. In 2023, the governor budgeted $500 million to reduce environmental hazards, which could be used to update school HVAC systems. Federal American Rescue Plan funds are still available. Inexpensive HEPA or Corsi-Rosenthal filters should be placed in every classroom, and opening windows encouraged. Let’s not tolerate sick schools anymore. If we literally clear the air, we can help attract quality teachers and protect the health of our kids. James G. Lertola, Pennsylvanians Against COVID, Kennett Square

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Pennsylvanians Against Covid Letter to the Editor published in The Philadelphia Inquirer about pandemic barriers to attract people to the teaching profession.

2024-06-24

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Stigma and social myths about physical realities is what hampers progress and improvements.

2024-06-23

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The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle of Content Production

2024-06-23

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Elite panic style: Only the status quo matters in a changing world. They will sacrifice the restaurants to try to force the olden days.

2024-06-22

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Learn nothing and accept poor treatment isn’t good advice.

2024-06-21

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Don’t wait for vaccines to be restricted to speak up.

2024-06-16

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“Early Treatment” is a right-wing buzzword

2024-06-13

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No thanks on the Jeremy Faustian crystal ball, I’ll wait for relevant science results on Paxlovid.

2024-06-10

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