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Postcard with postcard stamp postage and addressed to President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington DC. Written text reads: May 29th 2024, Dear Joe Biden, It should not be legal to buy and sell healthcare data of patients. Data brokers should not be selling mental health data. Why aren’t these data brokers charged with selling stolen property? Why is it legal? Chloe Humbert in Scranton PA.

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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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Image is a partial screenshot of the Full Measure video on Youtube Transcript shows the following closed captioning text: quote “ACCORDING TO A NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH STUDY, UP TO 25% OF ADULTS ARE STRICKEN WITH LONG COVID SIX MONTHS AFTER INFECTION. SYMPTOMS INCLUDE RETINA DETACHMENT, ATRIAL DEFIBRILLATION, AND OTHER ART PROBLEMS, BLOOD ISSUES, WEAKNESS, NERVE PAIN, AND MORE.” unquote. It has omitted the sentence spoken in the voiceover of the video, quote “Which could also be long vax if they were vaccinated.” unquote.

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A Full Measure Transcript of Omission

2024-05-29

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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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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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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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FDA VRBPAC covid vaccine public comment, date extended

2024-05-11

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Image is a screenshot of a youtube video called Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson April 7, 2024 — COVID Concerns, the transcript is to the right of the screen and some of the text is highlighted with marker in yellow that says quote “Together, Doctors Vaughn and Kory” and there’s a red marker arrow pointing from their names to two people on the video being interviewed by Attkisson in a room with lights on a boom, and a lamp on an end table lit in the corner. Jordan Vaughn is seated at the left with his hands folded, wearing a sport coat and light color pants and he’s watching Pierre Kory’s face as Kory is speaking. Kory is dressed in a dark black suit jacket with prominent shoulders, and black pants.

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Vaughn, what team is he actually on?

2024-05-08

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

2024-05-06

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A Long Hauler Redditor.

2024-04-30

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Image is purple with images of fold-flat KN95 masks, the text reads INFECTION IS NOT INEVITABLE - Gathering with precautions saves lives and extends community care to all. #SeeYouSafer seeyousafer.org

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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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Screenshot is a link card from USA Today dot com, with the headline First human case of bird flu detected in Texas after outbreak of virus among c… photo of some kind of cages with a sign on a paper print out, the sign has images of gloves and boots and says quarantine please wear gloves and boots

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

2024-04-27

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Yes, those are Care Bears sunglasses.

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

2024-04-25

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Banning noncompetes: Good for workers, businesses, and the economy The FTC estimates that banning noncompetes will mean More innovation: an average of 17,000-29,000 more patents each year More startups: a 2.7% increase in new firm formation - that's 8,500+ new businesses per year Higher earnings: typical workers earn $524 more per year Who's affected? An estimated 18% of U.S. workers are covered by noncompetes. That's 30 million people. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

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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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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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Political abuse of behavioral science and mental health.

2024-04-12

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Screenshot with a big X in red marker over the image of a youtube video at the point in the video 36 seconds in, and on the screen is the word colloidal silver in big letters and a screenshot of a PLOS ONE article or study titled “Evaluation of silver nanoparticles for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers: in vitro and in viv” the video title is Nasal Sprays and Reducing the Risk of COVID Reinfection posted on the channel RTHM Health 787 subscribers 820 views Sep 18, 2023 RTHM’s Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jennifer Curtin talks about nasal sprays and their impact on preventing or treating SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Curtin recommends colloidal silver in both nasal sprays and oral rinses and uses them for her own COVID risk reduction.

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

2024-04-10

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You know, I'm something of a scientist myself Meme with Willem Defoe with a confident smile and the caption reads at the top You know, I’m something of a scientist myself, and the text underneath says here’s a buncha quote science unquote that’s actually vendor marketing material

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

2024-04-10

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Antiviral Injustice

2024-04-08

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