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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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Image description: A graph from Data for Progress showing that voters across party lines want to increase - not cut - funding for social security medicare and medicaid. Even among republicans the lowest percentage in favour of funding medicaid is a majority at 59% and the highest support for cutting medicaid tops out at a minority of 20%. of all likely voters the numbers for increasing funding for the programs are 86% to increase Social security, 84% medicare, and 74% for medicaid. Democrats support increasing funding for them by 90%, 89%, and 82% respectively.

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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

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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

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Incoherent natural immunity claims at FDA meeting on vaccines

2023-01-26

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Jessica Burn Notice

2023-01-22

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Posted by Matthew Cortland on twitter. Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Voters Support Masks in Indoor Public Spaces. Description: Do you support or oppose requiring that all individuals wear masks in public indoor spaces, like in grocery stores, restaurants, and retail shops, in order to combat another surge of coronavirus infections? All likely voters — Support: 55%, Oppose: 43% Democrat — Support: 83%, Oppose: 16% Independent / Third party — Support: 54%, Oppose: 44% Republican — Support: 29%, Oppose: 69% Black or African American — Support: 71%, Oppose: 28% Hispanic or Latino/a — Support: 80%, Oppose: 18% White — Support: 52%, Oppose: 47% Disabled — Support: 61%, Oppose: 38% Not disabled — Support: 52%, Oppose: 47% Disabled household member — Support: 62%, Oppose: 37%

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Don’t fall for Pluralistic Ignorance on Masks

2023-01-02

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Moving forward, forever – community adaptation

2023-01-01

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Caption Hi! one way masking what? next to a cartoon picture of Hello Kitty wearing a space suit

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Pandemic memes 2022

2022-12-31

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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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Quote Tweet with Elmo hands outstretched in front of the flames, quoted tweet from Chloe says “The Economy” as a false god is one that I refuse to worship. The economic system is supposed to serve humans, not for us to serve other humans to it. We supposedly gave up human sacrifice as a ritual a long time ago, right?

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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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A collage of photos of doctors, scientists, public health and clean air experts partying, dancing at conferences or on social media, at book tours, older passengers on an airline flight, social media posts, nurses singing at the White House, maskless selfies, January 6th rioters, a crowded sports stadium,, a Joe Biden rally in Wilkes-Barre with signs that say Safer America, almost nobody wearing masks, and includes a ribbon cutting ceremony where the ribbon is made of masks that is cut and celebrated.

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Forcing Normal in the Roaring 2020s

2022-12-13

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Crypto pandemic astroturf?

2022-12-12

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It was never really about the masks.

2022-10-17

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There’s a photo of an open sandwich one side jelly, the other side peanut butter. And below that is another picture of someone’s hand holding the sandwich which was made inside out with the peanut butter and jelly on the outside so the hand is smooshed into it. The caption reads repeat the truth don’t lead with the lie and make a mess make a truth sandwich instead.

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Repeat the truth, don’t lead with a lie

2022-10-14

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The Pfizer earnings call: profits driven by surges

2022-10-02

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Derwezeh gas crater, Turkmenistan photo by P.Lechien, Public Domain

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APHA: portal to a public health bizarro world hellscape

2022-08-20

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