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…
Tag: pandemic
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.
Tycoons demonizing remote work in an agenda to deliberately wreck the government & future society.
My letter to reps: Remote work is a part of modern society and should be prioritized wherever it can be in order to facilitate disability accommodation, tamp down fossil fuel expense and emissions, and reduce the spread of disease. Telework is a necessary part of a functional future society and should be incentivized in government […]
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.
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…
The Long covid issue has been heavily co-opted by the right-wing.
I’m sorry to those just finding out which way people are willing to go right now, I’ve seen it happening gradually over the years. It makes sense because obviously Republicans and conservatives get Long Covid too – perhaps even moreso because they’ve been less likely to take precautions or even get vaccinated in many cases. Science research, […]
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.
Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee November 2024 by Chloe
Going backward is a choice. We know better now. We use surgical gloves, autoclaves, disinfectants, checklists and yes, respirator masks exist. But big healthcare corporations don’t wanna pay for that, they lock up PPE, force nurses to work without sick leave at hospitals, and make patients beg for reasonable accommodation.
The disinfo campaigns around the pandemic are the same disinfo campaigns around climate change.
It’s part of a whole disinformation economy.
Trump admin’s grotesque folly set an extremely low bar for looking good on the pandemic.
More Trump will make more of the worst Democrats look not so bad because the comparison is a low set bar.
Big money industry interests have been on the side of disease all along.
On Knowledge Fight podcast #961, one of the guys said that Alex Jones worked for Covid-19 for free. But there was money behind spreading covid on purpose.
Trump sending tests to Putin — part of a larger cynical pandemic narrative.
So many of these journalists and reporters knew all sorts of things but you don’t find out until they release the “bombshell” books.
Trump said he wants to let RFK Jr. “go wild on” health, food, and medicines.
RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer who promoted an anti-vaxxer in Samoa…
Ron Desantis sure seems anti-vax, since he chose Joe Ladapo.
Ron Desantis doesn’t have to keep Joe Ladapo as the Florida surgeon general.
Trump rally streams still pushing ivermectin.
stream from the Trump rally at Madison Square garden with a 3-way split screen with the featured comedian in the middle, a view of the entire arena filled with people on the left, and on the right an advertisement for ivermectin
Making Novavax into a meme stock is a threat to public health.
All 3 vaccines approved in the U.S., from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax, are basically in the same ballpark with efficacy. There really haven’t been head to head studies of the 3 covid vaccines, of any size to say much about comparing them directly. But they all wane in efficacy over time, and that’s why there […]
The signs are there — people are still avoiding the virus.
Many people, especially older people, are still avoiding covid.