Public health isn’t about a niche group with special or secret practices, and community care shouldn’t be gate kept away from people who for whatever reason haven’t been afforded information or opportunity.
Tag: misinformation
Many people still don’t really know how respirator masks work.
It’s really no wonder people are susceptible to anti-mask propaganda undermining masks as an effective way to control the spread of aerosol transmitted diseases when the fact is, public health leadership has failed to properly explain to the public how respirator masks work. I invite people to read the various ways people have misunderstood how masks […]
The woke-washing of right-wingers in opposition to public health.
Spare me arguments that someone against public health is going to solve public health issues.
“If you’re not the one paying, you’re not the customer.”
It’s really problematic that so often good information is behind paywalls, and disinformation is of course made free, for maximum spread for deceit.
The same problems continue no matter the platform.
Is it a fresh start for you and me, or for engagement clout chasing influencers making money off our attention?
Elite gambling in the stock market is a threat to public health.
RFK Jr. is a threat to public health, but elites gambling with healthcare on the stock market is also a threat to public health. NBC NEWS – Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS The stocks fell in the final hour of trading as reports emerged about Trump’s expected pick. […]
Misinformation and pseudoscience may take over every online space.
This is a huge problem.
Seed oil panic is right-wing health misinformation.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the whole seed oil panic stuff is a right-wing conspiracy theory based “health concern” that’s promoted mostly by masculinity grifters.
But many did not survive the first time.
I realize that some people think they’re being helpful or consoling somehow when they say “the country survived the first Trump term”, but it’s unthinkingly insulting to all the people who lost their lives…
Doctors who spread medical misinformation have been free to do so.
Covid contrarians repeating false information have not typically faced much in the ways of consequences.
Public Health has “public” in it for a reason.
Buying into stigma by seeking “discreet” solutions is individualist hopium.
Marty Makary is a covid contrarian, cozy with anti-vaxxers.
There’s good reason he’s welcomed into the seedy MAGA ranks of Trumpy Trumpworld.
Natural herd immunity debt misinfo inexplicably published in liberal media in November 2024.
The CDC warns that a respiratory illness preceding a case of walking pneumonia can increase the risk of severity. But Huffpost wants people to blame mask mandates from 3+ years ago.
Twitter was just a tool, a tavern that’s changed hands.
It’s not the world, it never was – even at its height, only a small percentage of Americans were ever even on Twitter.
The grass is not that much greener on the blue sky.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 013
Pandemic Revisionist History.
I don’t know how these things got memory holed other than there’s been just a continuous firehose of covid minimization, pandemic disinformation, and lockdown revisionism…
Right-wing talk show used Steve Hassan’s BITE model for anti-mask propaganda.
there was a right-wing talk show on broadcast radio where the talk show hosts were using Steve Hassan’s cult “BITE model” to assert anti-mask propaganda…
Vaccine uptake is really low, so why are the anti-vaxxers still so riled up?
It’s like the trucker convoy people protesting public health mitigations that had no longer existed for quite awhile.
JD Vance laid out the Trump anti-vax plan to Joe Rogan.
There’s a perfectly good program for vaccine adverse events which has a lower bar than the normal courts, and has functioned well for a long time. And even Republicans in Congress have suggested moving covid vaccines to that program. But it seems like MAGA doesn’t want that now that RFK Jr. is on board.