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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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Politics is about strategy.

2024-11-04

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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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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

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Public comment to CDC ACIP committee

2024-10-24

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The Tissue-Thin Ruse Economy.

2024-10-21

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Dear people in “blue states”,

2024-10-18

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

2024-10-12

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PR saturation and you.

2024-10-04

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

2024-09-22

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Don’t wait for the influencers.

2024-09-21

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The woke-washing of product placement.

2024-09-21

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

2024-09-17

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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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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

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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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Hyping for Godot.

2024-08-20

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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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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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The problem of busy work activism.

2024-07-30

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

2024-07-06

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The CDC Vaccine Guidance Contradiction.

2024-07-05

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

2024-07-04

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Real suffering — dubious and expensive treatments.

2024-06-29

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

2024-06-25

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The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle of Content Production

2024-06-23

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

2024-06-21

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“Early Treatment” is a right-wing buzzword

2024-06-13

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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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Less than optimal organ transplants are preferable to death.

2024-05-20

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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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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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FDA VRBPAC covid vaccine public comment, date extended

2024-05-11

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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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A Long Hauler Redditor.

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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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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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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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

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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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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

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

2024-03-30

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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

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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 […]

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

2024-03-15

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

2024-03-11

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

2024-03-02

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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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CDC ACIP public comment by Chloe, February 2024

2024-02-16

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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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Red Flags for Disruption

2024-01-19

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

2024-01-16

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Pandemic patient displacements

2024-01-14

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Public Health Debt

2024-01-05

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

2024-01-04

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Mere Exposure Effect

2024-01-01

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Ridiculous headlines in the New York Times, 2023

2023-12-31

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Public comment to US Census Bureau on the criteria for disability

2023-12-18

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Upgrade Your Masking Chart, Explained

2023-12-04

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The whole point of government

2023-12-01

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

2023-11-04

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

2023-10-29

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Jessica Whatever Validates Your DoomScroll

2023-10-29

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They may hate you, but they love each other.

2023-10-27

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

2023-10-15

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Too much money incentivizes shmoozing.

2023-10-14

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Project 2025 proposes taking masks out of healthcare.

2023-10-07

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A broken clock is wrong most of the day.

2023-10-07

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

2023-10-07

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

2023-09-14

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

2023-09-11

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

2023-09-08

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Public comment to CDC ACIP committee

2023-09-06

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Anti-mask Woke-washing

2023-08-31

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Aerosol transmission & respirator masks, a PPE timeline

2023-08-22

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Manufacturing MILD

2023-08-05

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People should not take medical advice from economists.

2023-07-31

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Elite Panic.

2023-07-13

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

2023-07-10

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

2023-07-01

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The Wrong Impact Research

2023-06-25

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Privilege, pseudoscience, and toxic positivity

2023-06-12

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

2023-06-12

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

2023-06-01

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Cats in Wonderland – the Uncanny Valley of lying AIs

2023-05-29

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

2023-05-22

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

2023-05-01

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Deplatforming is not silencing. Voila: the evidence.

2023-04-29

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Stop saying “post-pandemic”

2023-04-28

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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

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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

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And Voila, An Anti-Mask Twitter Rando

2023-04-07

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

2023-04-02

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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

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Seek protection from noise and spiraling gloom

2023-02-16

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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

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Incoherent natural immunity claims at FDA meeting on vaccines

2023-01-26

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Ridiculous headlines in the New York Times, 2022

2022-12-31

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Moral Sabotage & Community Care Disengaged

2022-12-30

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

2022-12-23

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Disinformation and abnormal influence is big money on social media

2022-12-18

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Forcing Normal in the Roaring 2020s

2022-12-13

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The risky shift – you’re not imagining it

2022-11-22

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Repeat the truth, don’t lead with a lie

2022-10-14

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Mere Exposure Effect, leads to Exposure

2022-07-30

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

2022-07-18

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

2022-05-16

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Pandemic Political Abuse of Psychiatry

2022-05-09

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Political church sign in Scranton claims Biden is a Marxist

2020-07-12