all , commentary

Vaccines require high uptake to quell transmission.

Even the measles vaccine requires high uptake to stop transmission. This has always been […]

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Value-based care is a red flag that a healthcare CEO was not thinking things through.

2024-12-05

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Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for Medicare patients.

2024-12-04

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They will keep asking this question because they cannot see the obvious.

2024-11-20

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Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee November 2024 by Chloe

Infection control in healthcare. My public comment to the CDC HICPAC Committee. Direct link […]

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Chloe on North of 48 podcast

2024-11-08

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Elon Musk: “cabinet position tax breaks for me, hardship for thee”

2024-11-04

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Politics is about strategy.

2024-11-04

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What the powerholders do and what the social movement needs to do.

2024-10-31

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Right-wing pandemic denier political event in Pennsylvania.

Important Context – Who’s Speaking At the 2024 Brownstone Institute Conference? This year’s fringe […]

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I am appalled at the news of mask bans. Rejected Letter to the Editor, October 2024.

2024-10-29

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Does anybody see the irony of the “unmask and relax with these tests” hype?

2024-10-28

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Discouraging testing is Trumpian.

2024-10-26

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PM Justin Trudeau said Canadian anti-vax misinfo was amplified by Russian propaganda. 

2024-10-26

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Why Stanford for the pandemic denier convention?

2024-10-26

all

Republicans still undermining remote work for federal workers.

2024-10-26

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Tim Walz rally in Scranton Pennsylvania:

2024-10-25

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Tycoons are all at least somewhat Trumpy

2024-10-25

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Scammy, polluting cryptocurrency.

2024-10-24

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Public comment to CDC ACIP committee

2024-10-24

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Tech tycoon guru reveals the Accusation in a Mirror of conservative pandemic rhetoric.

2024-10-21

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The Tissue-Thin Ruse Economy.

2024-10-21

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Dear people in “blue states”,

2024-10-18

all , commentary , essays , letter to the editor

Thoughts on the Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper.

2024-10-17

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Alt-right podcaster espoused eugenics pseudoscience, then founded a concierge medical clinic.

2024-10-15

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The end of free covid vaccines for uninsured adults in the U.S. is an unacceptable state of affairs.

My letter to reps, state and federal:  It’s unacceptable that the CDC’s Bridge Access […]

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Anti-vax covid contrarian right-wing event in DC.

2024-10-12

all , outdoors , photos , scrapbook

Beaver at White Deer Lake in Delaware State Forest, Pennsylvania.

2024-10-06

all , outdoors , photos

Bald eagle at White Deer Lake.

2024-10-06

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PR saturation and you.

2024-10-04

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It’s called STIGMA.

2024-10-04

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People are not “engaging in the economy” as fully as some industries would like.

2024-10-03

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Wait what? What PR is this for the electoral college?

2024-09-28

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Nose hype…

2024-09-26

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Nobody is old unless they’re older than N-of-1 Paul Offit.

2024-09-25

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I have not forgotten about Dimock. (Ban fracking.)

2024-09-24

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If appliances are less efficient, we all have to buy more energy. 

2024-09-23

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Luzerne County manager makes it harder for the elderly and disabled to safely vote by mail in some Pennsylvania towns.

2024-09-22

all , podcast

Don’t wait for the influencers.

2024-09-21

all , commentary , essays

The woke-washing of product placement.

2024-09-21

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Direct car sales – cut the layers of nonsense.

2024-09-20

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The FTC under Lina Khan’s leadership is good for public safety and freedom from corporate authoritarianism.

2024-09-18

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Supplements need regulation!

2024-09-18

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The information gig economy.

2024-09-18

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The lack of public health and medical publishing on the side of the precautionary principle and public safety.

2024-09-17

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The disability woke-washing of vaccine misinformation.

2024-09-17

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Austria holds woman accountable for spreading covid to her neighbor who died as a result.

2024-09-17

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Air quality scientist was plagiarized, then stalked, impersonated & trolled.

2024-09-17

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Do we want hospitals that are clearly not pandemic-ready at all?

2024-09-17

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Doctor avoided contracting dengue while doing research — with precautions.

2024-09-17

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We need a crackdown on MLMs (multi-level marketing)

2024-09-16

all , podcast

I stay far away from avoidable UV.

2024-09-14

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The “ghost provider” networks of privatized Medicaid, Medicare DisAdvantage, and private health insurance.

2024-09-09

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Stanford University to host right-wing trucker convoy adjacent political event.

2024-09-08

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The indirect funding of promoting products, politics, and propaganda against public health.

2024-09-06

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What does it mean when “cases” of a disease are reported?

2024-09-06

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Mark Zuckerberg’s insufferable letter on covid censorship.

2024-09-06

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Rumble pundits think latest round of covid and other infectious diseases… is “a Deep State plot” of some kind.

2024-09-05

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Safety measures are not “penalties” and you can’t go to Friday Night Football if you’re hospitalized or dead.

2024-09-05

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The DNC was a superspreader event because they failed to adhere to CDC guidance recommending masking — at least for actively sick people!

2024-09-04

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Voting by mail is a safe option.

2024-09-03

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AI and poor infection control standards at hospitals, what could possibly go wrong?

2024-09-02

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Health product misinformation sometimes comes via stock manipulation PR web posting.

2024-09-01

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The disability woke-washing of vaccine misinformation.

2024-08-30

all , commentary , letter to the editor

Scary letters to the editor on mask bans from people who want us to live in a surveillance state.

2024-08-28

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It’s ok to not want school children infested with head lice.

2024-08-28

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Cory Doctorow still masking.

2024-08-27

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Mary Trump thinks the pandemic is still a problem and masks in indoor crowds.

2024-08-27

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Don’t assume CDC HICPAC will recommend controlling infection in hospitals

2024-08-24

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Does CDC HICPAC want to make a mockery of infection control in healthcare?

2024-08-21

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Hyping for Godot.

2024-08-20

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Veterans should not be sent to jail for being on heart failure & diabetes medicine.

2024-08-19

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Penalties possibly coming for fake reviews for products pushed on social media. 

2024-08-17

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The CDC needs to be brought into compliance with the public interest.

2024-08-17

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Healthcare tech pitfalls that universal masking and common sense isolation rules could fix.

2024-08-17

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I stay far away from any avoidable UV lights.

2024-08-07

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Doctors are humans who have biases and need guardrails. 

2024-08-06

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I keep hearing about pandemic related staffing shortages.

2024-08-05

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Information alone is not enough. The levers of power don’t work themselves.

2024-08-05

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Nobody is immune to misinformation. 

2024-08-04

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Healthcare AI is going to have hospitals mainlining health disinformation straight into patient care.

2024-08-04

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Hallucinating chatbot healthcare tech tools hopped up on medical conference hype. What could possibly go wrong?

2024-08-04

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The problem of busy work activism.

2024-07-30

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Peter Thiel wanted Trump to appoint this weird anti-FDA tycoon to lead the FDA

2024-07-27

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Far-right British media commentator and covid contrarian Katie Hopkins excited about pro-Trump militias in America.

2024-07-27

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Beaver at Bowman Lake State Park, New York

2024-07-21

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Anti-vax Trump phone call with RFK Jr.

2024-07-20

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Alex Jones is traumatizing his audience with a disturbing wildlife video he compares to hospitals and vaccines.

2024-07-13

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Jessica Misfire

2024-07-09

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I wouldn’t cite Dr. Robert Redfield if he said blood is red.

2024-07-08

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Don’t take vaccines for granted.

2024-07-07

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Don’t take vaccines for granted.

2024-07-07

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It took 4 years after “expression of concern” to retract a problematic paper on Vitamin D as a covid treatment.

2024-07-06

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Where did the lunch hour go? The pandemic didn’t steal it, but employers probably did.

2024-07-06

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There’s a horrendous irony in being accused of being “anxious” when you want to avoid covid.

2024-07-06

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What a combo! Bullets and AI.

2024-07-05

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The CDC Vaccine Guidance Contradiction.

2024-07-05

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Excessive screen time was not caused by the pandemic, and lockdown scapegoating is getting really old. 

2024-07-05

all , commentary , outdoors

Lying chatbot AI misinformation outdoors tips – what could possibly go wrong?

2024-07-04

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Maga is pro mail ballot this time around.

2024-07-04

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Who initiated and presided over this Pentagon anti-vax scheme?

2024-07-03

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They’re prepping for “weeding out” potential “resistance” to Trump from the civil service.

2024-07-02

all , outdoors , photos , scrapbook

Beaver & Heron at Lackawanna State Park in Pennsylvania

2024-07-01

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Any mask is better than none, but there are vendors promoting dubious quality masks and counterfeits.

2024-07-01

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Alex Jones compared vaccinated people to dead cows. 

2024-07-01

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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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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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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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Public comment to CDC ACIP meeting.

2024-06-27

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

2024-06-27

all , commentary

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

2024-06-26

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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

all , commentary , letter to the editor

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

all , commentary , essays

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

2024-06-10

all , photos , scrapbook

The Captain, first and last.

2024-06-06

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If the Rhode Island Department of Health is ok with intractable bedbugs, what else is considered ok at the nursing homes?

2024-06-04

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AI hype is just going to turn out to be the modern day mechanical turk scam.

2024-06-01

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Your healthcare data is out there. Your mental healthcare data is out there.

2024-05-31

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Some will “say anything” when it comes to diseases misinformation.

2024-05-31

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A Full Measure Transcript of Omission

2024-05-29

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Are they really planning an anti-vax military retiree interahamwe in America?

2024-05-28

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Healthcare misinformation is a big problem, but we’re probably not going to solve this on social media alone.

2024-05-28

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Sam Altman shouldn’t even advise on the security of a cookie jar.

2024-05-27

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Safety gear is good.

2024-05-27

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Less than optimal organ transplants are preferable to death.

2024-05-20

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Dairy farms avoid fixing problems even if it can be their financial ruin.

2024-05-18

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Posting and reposting sick burns that look like endorsements on social media.

2024-05-17

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The pandemic era is now, and mask bans are unethical.

2024-05-17

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Conservative pundit influencer Dave Rubin incites fear and possible aggression toward people who wear respirator masks.

2024-05-16

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Farm bill should include regulating the bird flu in cows situation.

2024-05-15

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Scruples?

2024-05-15

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Let’s not pretend that depressing voter turnout isn’t sabotage.

2024-05-14

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Where a disease is permanently circulating, mitigation must be permanent.

2024-05-14

all , commentary , public comment

FDA VRBPAC covid vaccine public comment, date extended

2024-05-11

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Taxpayers expected to pay for somebody else’s coal burned cryptocurrency stash.

2024-05-10

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Vaughn, what team is he actually on?

2024-05-08

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Bassist leaves The Pixies under cloud of gossip about supporting an anti-vax covid denier who attended Jan. 6th.

2024-05-07

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On Seeking Vacation Absolution.

2024-05-06

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The Trump & Republican Project 2025 agenda is to dismantle public health. 

2024-05-06

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Mitigating harm is an economic good

2024-05-01

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A Long Hauler Redditor.

2024-04-30

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Accelerationist apocalyptic hopium is a trick

2024-04-30

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If it sounds too good to be true, stop and review.

2024-04-29

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Lauren Boebert is NOT claiming “vaccine injury”.

2024-04-29

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I don’t trust my safety to science hype in the pop culture press.

2024-04-28

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Perhaps a respirator mask should be recommended in all stages of food production?

2024-04-27

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I don’t feel left behind, I feel disrespected. 

2024-04-25

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Noncompetes have harmed healthcare too.

2024-04-24

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The campaign against child vaccination and in favour of widespread infection with contagious diseases is the same project. 

2024-04-24

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Old Twilight Zone Magazine with a sketch not-Apple computer ad. (February 1987)

2024-04-23

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A potentially serious illness should prompt seeking personal medical advice.

2024-04-22

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Preventing pollution at Everest, but are they preventing covid at the camps?

2024-04-21

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Normalize asking people if they’re being paid to promote products and services!

2024-04-20

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Many references to “climate engineering” are actually a part of climate denial & disinfo narratives.

2024-04-19

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Political abuse of behavioral science and mental health.

2024-04-12

all , commentary , essays

Lefty zine promoting right-wing pseudoscience protocols of an expensive concierge clinic?

2024-04-10

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The need to slow down, review, and engage critical thinking when making purchases or investments.

2024-04-10

all , commentary , essays , letter to the editor , mail

Antiviral Injustice

2024-04-08

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The memory holed knowledge of presymptomatic and asymptomatic spread of infectious diseases.

2024-04-07

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Don’t waste money on dubious products without a proven record of safety.

2024-04-06

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What definitions of “extremist” are being used?

2024-04-06

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The shadowbanning of the pandemic.

2024-04-05

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Sammy4723, anonymous pandemic influencer sock puppet account.

2024-04-04

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Journalist thinks covid is no longer political — just “trusts” right-wing covid denial.

2024-04-03

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It’s Dark Sky Week & there’s a light pollution debacle in Scranton Pennsylvania.

2024-04-02

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Imagine if your doctor withheld cancer treatment because your employer needs you on the job for the next few months.

2024-04-02

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Covid denial, the musical

2024-04-01

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Untrustworthy wellness influencer.

2024-03-30

all , commentary , letter to the editor

Pointless Great Barrington Declaration b.s. in a letter to the editor in my local newspaper.

2024-03-30

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Business incentives run counter to public health.

2024-03-30

all , commentary , essays , letter to the editor

How about let’s take the temperature down on the rhetoric?

2024-03-29

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign.

2024-03-28

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Anti-vax & health misinfo is just part of right-wing orthodoxy now.

2024-03-26

all , commentary , scrapbook

The Shadowbanning of Nicolas Smit

2024-03-26

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Jeffrey Tucker, covid contrarian and right-wing propagandist

2024-03-23

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Disease denialism is cognitive warfare.

2024-03-23

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Denying children vaccination is inappropriate, cruel, and not based on science.

2024-03-23

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Lying AI should not be doing the people’s business or science.

2024-03-22

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Politics isn’t a crockpot, and Trump certainly won’t save anyone.

2024-03-22

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Peter McCullough’s repeated retractions.

Retraction Watch February 19, 2024 Adam Marcus: “A journal is retracting a paper on […]

all , commentary , letter to the editor , scrapbook

Daylight Savings Time, Letter to the Editor

2024-03-22

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Infectious disease is surely a national security threat at the White House.

2024-03-21

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There were lots of choices that could’ve been made differently the whole pandemic, and still could be made differently.

2024-03-20

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Trump still promoting covid pseudoscience quack products.

2024-03-20

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Sabotage works best when it looks like incompetence.

2024-03-19

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Covid minimizers now reveal themselves to also push HIV bigoted conspiracy theories, as Brett Weinstein goes on Joe Rogan to spread AIDS denialism

2024-03-19

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Everything is political.

2024-03-18

all , commentary , essays

I had a dream of soylent chatbots made out of people.

2024-03-15

all , commentary , letter to the editor

Geisinger Healthcare System to nurses: “Work sick!”

2024-03-14

all , commentary , essays

The Economy First Model.

2024-03-12

all , commentary , mail , scrapbook

FOIA request to CDC / HHS – RE The CDC’s Unmasking Decision of May 2021

2024-03-11

all , commentary , essays , outdoors , scrapbook

The Dump Stink.

2024-03-08

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Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, chair of the Aging Committee in the US Senate, supports Medicare DisAdvantage?!

HEALTH CARE un-covered As Medicare Advantage’s shortcomings echo in the press, key legislators still […]

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Tubb & Lang, Email Subject RE Red Dawn Rolling, April 2020: Managers wanted the CDC to help them avoid liability for worker safety.

2024-03-05

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The CDC, Media and PR: a public health disinformation campaign.

2024-03-04

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The CDC appears to be planning to update MEDICAL ADVICE to fall in line with industry motivated guideline changes.

2024-03-03

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A U.S. federal court backs Iowa governor banning masks as a disability accommodation in public schools.

2024-03-02

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Anti-Science MAGA CDC: “It’s like the flu”

2024-03-02

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FDA shouldn’t have Purdue and the Sacklers involved in Opioid Abuse Surveillance

2024-03-01

all , commentary , scrapbook

Robin Hanson’s 2020 Viral Valentine Tweet

2024-02-29

all , commentary , essays

WaPo reporter’s citation used fraudulent appeal to authority to make anti-vax “natural herd immunity” claim.

2024-02-26

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Once more, this time with feeling, propaganda about “learning loss” is a myth.

2024-02-25

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Scammers and Human Trafficking

2024-02-23

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MedPage Today publishes business PR consultant written op-ed arguing for lax infection control for covid (and other diseases)

2024-02-20

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CDC ACIP public comment by Chloe, February 2024

2024-02-16

all , commentary

Visual multitasking is not physically possible, even if Apple Vision Pro creates that dangerous illusion.

2024-02-12

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Fraudulent Appeal to Authority. The tactic of citing sources that don’t actually back up a claim.

2024-02-09

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New York Times Op-ed details the signs of anti-vax propaganda like an astronomer showing evidence of a black hole that cannot be seen directly. 

2024-02-07

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The evidence for pandemic virus related heart risks observed since 2020.

2024-02-05

all , commentary , scrapbook

Project 2025: Righties ready to roll. (Heads up, yes it’s real & you might not like it.)

2024-02-02

all , commentary

School voucher paradoxes

2024-01-19

all , commentary , scrapbook

Red Flags for Disruption

2024-01-19

all , commentary , essays

Yes, Paxlovid is recommended for covid and the science says it works pretty well.

2024-01-16

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Corporation’s pitches land daily in the inboxes of YOUR elected representatives

2024-01-15

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Pandemic patient displacements

2024-01-14

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry

2024-01-10

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The promotion of more privatization of water in Pennsylvania is unacceptable

2024-01-08

all , letter to the editor , scrapbook

Sedevacantism, and naming “progressives” as “the enemy”

2024-01-06

all , commentary , essays

Public Health Debt

2024-01-05

all , commentary

Manufacturing doubt on the physical harms of alcohol with a tepid promotion of one month off for “psychological” reasons.

2024-01-04

all

Pandemic Organizing Directories, as of January 2024

2024-01-04

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Don’t miss the message because social media incentivizes us to prioritize rage over action and change.

2024-01-03

all , art , commentary , scrapbook

Mere Exposure Effect

2024-01-01

all , scrapbook

Ridiculous headlines in the New York Times, 2023

2023-12-31

all , scrapbook

Pandemic memes 2023

2023-12-31

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Pennsylvania about to allow tire burning to make cryptocurrency.

2023-12-28

all , commentary , essays , scrapbook

Christmas movie propaganda, job creator myths, and “sides” in perpendicular axis

2023-12-25

all , commentary , essays , letter to the editor , scrapbook

The problem is, we’re not post pandemic.

2023-12-03

all , commentary , essays , letter to the editor , scrapbook

Lockdown revisionist hysteria taken to its ultimate conclusion.

2023-12-20

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Public comment to US Census Bureau on the criteria for disability

2023-12-18

all , commentary

Biden admin boasts more public input on rulemaking while agencies ignore key constituencies

2023-12-09

all , commentary , scrapbook

Upgrade Your Masking Chart, Explained

2023-12-04

all , commentary

The right-wing has infiltrated both sides of the aisle on both sides of the pond

2023-12-04

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“Chronic absenteeism” is a failure of public health.

2023-12-02

all , commentary , letter to the editor

Compuslory teen poll workers sounds like a bad idea.

2023-12-02

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The whole point of government

2023-12-01

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Eugenics as an ideology

2023-11-30

all , commentary , letter to the editor

Covid contrarian trucker offers charity infection control supplies.

2023-11-18

all , commentary

Medicare Advantage plans are using AI to determine which seniors get healthcare

2023-11-15

all , commentary

The ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese

2023-11-11

all , commentary , public comment

My public comment to HHS on: Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Service Programs or Activities

2023-11-11

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False hope in “60 Minutes” covering the indoor air quality issue.

2023-11-04

all , commentary , public comment

Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee November 2023 by Chloe

2023-11-02

all , commentary

Accept your fate and catch covid

2023-10-31

all , commentary

People know how covid spreads, they’ve just been told it doesn’t matter.

2023-10-29

all , commentary

Jessica Whatever Validates Your DoomScroll

2023-10-29

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They may hate you, but they love each other.

2023-10-27

all , commentary

Public comment at PA DEP environmental justice meeting

2023-10-25

all , commentary

Accusation in a Mirror warning

2023-10-24

all , podcast

Influencers and Direct Marketing

2023-10-21

all , commentary

Brown University trashed air purifiers that were in the student dorms. 

2023-10-21

all , commentary , essays

Multiple layers for safety: public health is not an à la carte menu.

2023-10-15

all , commentary

Too much money incentivizes shmoozing.

2023-10-14

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Project 2025 proposes taking masks out of healthcare.

2023-10-07

all , commentary , scrapbook

A broken clock is wrong most of the day.

2023-10-07

all , commentary , podcast

Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, and Botnets – The Internet of Fakes

2023-10-07

all , commentary

Who’s side is Shira Doron on?

2023-10-03

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Shitposting into a void

2023-10-03

all , commentary , podcast

Accusation in a Mirror

2023-09-22

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Anyone telling me to shut up and do nothing is not an ally.

2023-09-15

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Leana Wen, on her serious illness: yay, back to work

2023-09-15

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Leggetts Creek Flood

2023-09-14

all , commentary , essays , scrapbook

The Internet of Fakes — PR Tactics, Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, Botnets, Influencers, Operatives, & Chaos Agents

2023-09-14

all , commentary

Republicans are still on about “flat-screen televisions” in 2023 Heritage Foundation publication.

2023-09-11

all , commentary , podcast , public comment

Public Comments to CDC HICPAC – The only time they have to listen to us. (Maybe)

2023-09-08

all , commentary

Public comment to CDC ACIP committee

2023-09-06

all , commentary , essays

Anti-mask Woke-washing

2023-08-31

all , commentary

Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee August 2023 by Chloe

2023-08-25

all , commentary , podcast

Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational incompetent panicked public

2023-08-25

all , commentary , essays , outdoors , scrapbook

Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational panicked public

2023-08-25

all , commentary , scrapbook

Aerosol transmission & respirator masks, a PPE timeline

2023-08-22

all , commentary

CDC HICPAC to decide infection control guidelines

2023-08-15

all , commentary , podcast

Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.

2023-08-11

all , essays

Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.

2023-08-08

all , essays

Manufacturing MILD

2023-08-05

all , commentary

People should not take medical advice from economists.

2023-07-31

all , essays

Elite Panic.

2023-07-13

all , commentary

Nobody in charge learned anything, I learned who people really are

2023-07-10

all , mail , scrapbook

10 postcards out of 100 to Biden, Recommendations from the People’s CDC External Review of the CDC

2023-07-07

all , essays

Thanks to vaccines, the threat is reduced – so we will no longer be requiring vaccination. Ba dum bump.

2023-07-01

all , commentary

Jessica Where There’s Smoke, and Mirrors

2023-06-28

all , commentary , scrapbook

The Wrong Impact Research

2023-06-25

all , commentary

Who gets safety precautions in healthcare?

2023-06-19

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Privilege, pseudoscience, and toxic positivity

2023-06-12

all , commentary , outdoors , scrapbook

The push against public health is all part of the same problem: profiteering on a wrecked living environment.

2023-06-12

all , commentary , public comment

Public Comment to CMS on Hospital Acquired Infections

2023-07-08

all , outdoors , photos , scrapbook

Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023

2023-06-06

all , commentary , essays

Ally, role model, or celebrity influencer? For Thee But Not For Me is not public health.

2023-06-01

all , essays , scrapbook

Cats in Wonderland – the Uncanny Valley of lying AIs

2023-05-29

all , commentary

The Public Health Emergency Declaration was always a Sword of Damocles.

2023-05-22

all , art

cat & moon human generated AI art

2023-05-11

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Chloe’s Public comment submitted to the ACIP June 21-23 meeting_05.05.2023

2024-05-05

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The CDC discourages testing, because of course, they always have

2023-05-01

all , commentary , essays

Deplatforming is not silencing. Voila: the evidence.

2023-04-29

all , commentary , essays

Stop saying “post-pandemic”

2023-04-28

all , commentary

Erica Shenoy can “read my lips” — I don’t want to risk my health & family to see her face unmasked in person

2023-04-24

all , commentary

The PR industry works for people with a LOT of money. Billionaires, industries and corporations.

2023-04-23

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Healthcare is all about “delaying the inevitable” — that’s the whole point of doctors and hospitals

2023-04-23

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Safety for me, but not for thee: CHOP’s Dr. David Rubin

2023-04-22

all , commentary , mail

Universal masking in healthcare as a disability accommodation

2023-04-19

all , essays , mail

ESSENTIAL SERVICES NEED MASK REQUIREMENTS

2023-04-12

all , commentary , mail

Wastewater data is valuable infrastructure

2023-04-09

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And Voila, An Anti-Mask Twitter Rando

2023-04-07

all , commentary , essays , scrapbook

Restricting vaccine access because of anti-vax bs or waiting for hospitals to overflow is unethical

2023-04-02

all , commentary , essays , scrapbook

Socialism for me but not for thee. The Elite Panic of Star Trek’s Prime Directive.

2023-04-01

all , commentary , scrapbook

Stay Healthy During Your Live Battlefield Tour

2023-03-24

all , commentary

Following the Politics instead of Following the Science

2023-03-21

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Zients vs. everyone left of the John Birch Society

2023-03-20

all , essays

Risky Shift, a groupthink vulnerability

2023-03-19

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Noncompetes hurt employees and patients

2023-03-16

all , photos , scrapbook

Cat in a box

2023-03-12

all , commentary

Most voters in the U.S. want to increase funding for Medicaid, but the elected lawmakers decided to cut people off Medicaid instead

2023-03-06

all , commentary , scrapbook

Seek protection from noise and spiraling gloom

2023-02-16

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Office workers are saving real money working from home

2023-02-15

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Anti-vaxxers attempt to co-opt disabled community social justice language for anti-vax purposes.

2023-02-06

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Long Covid Community under siege by info-laundering anti-vax campaigns

2023-02-06

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Emergencies must be dealt with, not magically declared ended

2023-02-06

all , commentary

Incoherent natural immunity claims at FDA meeting on vaccines

2023-01-26

all , commentary , essays , mail , scrapbook

Writing Letters to Elected Representatives, a guide

2023-01-24

all , commentary

Jessica Burn Notice

2023-01-22

all , commentary

Don’t fall for Pluralistic Ignorance on Masks

2023-01-02

all , commentary , essays

Moving forward, forever – community adaptation

2023-01-01

all

2022 Pandemic Newsletters

These are pdf copies of the weekly pandemic newsletter Teams Human on Substack. All issues from 2022.

all , scrapbook

Pandemic memes 2022

2022-12-31

all , commentary , scrapbook

Ridiculous headlines in the New York Times, 2022

2022-12-31

all , commentary , scrapbook

Moral Sabotage & Community Care Disengaged

2022-12-30

all , essays

The Economy demands full participation, herd debt paid on an altar of lies

2022-12-23

all , commentary , essays

Disinformation and abnormal influence is big money on social media

2022-12-18

all , essays , scrapbook

Forcing Normal in the Roaring 2020s

2022-12-13

all , commentary

Crypto pandemic astroturf?

2022-12-12

all , outdoors , photos , scrapbook

White rabbit backyard bunny

2022-12-09

all , essays

The risky shift – you’re not imagining it

2022-11-22

all , commentary

It was never really about the masks.

2022-10-17

all , commentary , essays

Repeat the truth, don’t lead with a lie

2022-10-14

all , commentary

The Pfizer earnings call: profits driven by surges

2022-10-02

all , commentary , essays

APHA: portal to a public health bizarro world hellscape

2022-08-20

all , commentary

The pandemic is too often erased on the topic of teacher shortages in the U.S.

2022-08-15

all

Jury Duty in the pandemic

2022-08-10

all , art , scrapbook

Mere Exposure Effect, leads to Exposure

2022-07-30

all , commentary

“If it was really unsafe, government would be doing something.”

2022-07-18

all , commentary , scrapbook

Overcrowded hospitals are bad for physical and mental health.

2022-07-11

all , essays

Alarm is appropriate, the volcano is erupting

2022-07-06

all , commentary , essays

Maybe skip Pandemic Buttons

2022-07-01

all , commentary , scrapbook

Birding in the Pandemic

Last week I went on a mini-vacation road trip 2-1/2 hours drive away from […]

all , commentary , scrapbook

CDC documented concern about airborne transmission and had advised for airborne precautions as early as January 2020

2022-05-16

all , commentary , scrapbook

Pandemic Political Abuse of Psychiatry

2022-05-09

all , commentary , photos , scrapbook

Things change all the time.

2022-05-09

all , art

Herd Death

2022-05-01

all , commentary , essays , letter to the editor

Prom covid can lead to worse than quarantine.

2022-04-25

all , art

Fox

2021-04-14

all , commentary , mail

Letter to Joe Biden about mask bans in Feb 2021

2021-02-03

all , commentary , photos , scrapbook

Political church sign in Scranton claims Biden is a Marxist

2020-07-12

all , scrapbook

Monica Gandhi mask cutting celebration in San Mateo County (video)

all , art

watermelon in color pencil

2017-04-15

all , commentary , scrapbook

The SUV problem

2008-07-21

all , art , scrapbook

Angry Villagers with Flaming Torches smiley

2008-01-01

all , commentary

Rollerskating in a china shop accidentally on purpose

2007-05-05

all , commentary

Corning Glass Secret Agency of International Super Spies

2005-10-23

all , essays

Warning: Cell phones contain Pavlov’s Bells!

2004-12-05

all , essays

Are you a “dog person” or a “cat person”?

2004-11-29

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Moon

2003-10-08

all , art , scrapbook

graphic watermelon

1999-12-31