Tag: PR

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Stay Healthy During Your Live Battlefield Tour

2023-03-24

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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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Emergencies must be dealt with, not magically declared ended

2023-02-06

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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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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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The risky shift – you’re not imagining it

2022-11-22

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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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Drawing in watercolor of 4 polaroid instant camera prints and from left to right they are labeled Mere Exposure Effect exclamation point. In the photos, it’s a poo emoji that gradually morphs into a heart emoji. An owl is sitting nearby looking concerned with his one wing bent up to his beak like a hand. The caption reads, After repeated exposure to something it becomes familiar, and even if it’s false or bad, it can come to be viewed as true or acceptable - even favorable, simply because it feels familiar. reiteration effect, illusion of truth effect, validity effect, illusory truth effect, and the truth effect. Those in the know regularly capitalize on this influential advertising trick to promote products, services, people, actions, agendas, politics, beliefs, ideas & attitudes — you name it. Signed by Chloe 2022, watermelonpunch.com

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Mere Exposure Effect, leads to Exposure

2022-07-30

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drawing of NIOSH N95 mask

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

2022-07-18

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The image is from the NY Project Hope web site and written in marker are the words Project Hopium! with a facepalm emoji. Text on image reads NY Project Hope Coping with COVID 5. Look at uncertainty from a different perspective… It’s been said that uncertainty can be an “emotional amplifier,” meaning that uncertainty amplifies the emotions of whatever you’re thinking about. For example, it can be unpleasant to be uncertain about whether you’re going catch COVID-19, but it’s pleasant to be uncertain about how the new food you’re trying will taste. Looking at uncertainty in the lense of unexpected joy can take away some of the fear. Leaning into uncertainty as you do when you’re going to a new place, reading a new book, eating new food, learning a new language, and traveling abroad can help you to be more open to uncertainty, and more creative. We don’t know how these experiences will turn out, but we are still willing to engage in them.

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Pandemic Political Abuse of Psychiatry

2022-05-09

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Monica Gandhi mask cutting celebration in San Mateo County (video)

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i want to believe poster with a SUV instead of the flying saucer

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The SUV problem

2008-07-21

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