Back in January I said that the Trump administration was taking modern workplaces back to the dark ages, and I didn’t realize that would include also into the literal dark, that federal workers would be forced back to offices without even lights. ‘It was messy’: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and […]
Tag: public health
Energy Secretary embraces climate collapse as having benefits.
There are no pluses to climate collapse, and preventing, stopping, and mitigating ecological disasters is something that should be prioritized.
Poison pill in a pro-mask bill.
Anti mask ban legislation shouldn’t undermine the entire reason for the protection, and it definitely shouldn’t introduce random “Stop and Unmask” checkpoints by law enforcement.
VACCINATION IS POPULAR. It is certainly worth it to keep up the pressure in favour of vaccines.
Keep telling the people in elected positions at all levels of government.
Cuts to good stuff? — OR we could ask tycoons to cut back on the avocado toast and the superyachts.
TAX THE TYCOONS. Problem solved.
Pennsylvania House moves to protect ACA provisions.
I’ve been asking my state reps what they’re going to do to try to mitigate things in Pennsylvania against the onslaught of the maga-doge admin, and there’s some movement.
People who oppose public safety & human health are never right.
This is an example of Kaiser Family Foundation and MedPage Today conforming to manufacture consent, by introducing the topic this way in a PR piece that is of course outrageous clickbait material.
Health disinformation & pseudoscience promotion will likely get much worse.
It’s really unlikely that there will be any policy reforms in the US to combat medical misinformation any time soon.
Alternative crisis pregnancy centers can ignore HIPAA.
They can ask you for all sorts of private do what they want with people’s private health info.
Gavin Newsom is pushing state workers to get butts in seats downtown for fossil fuel and business interests.
This guy’s sad podcast platforming a far right bigot isn’t the first or only extremely anti progressive garbage from Gavin Newsom. Just write this guy off.
Republican Rep. Rich McCormick in Georgia says health should be handled by AI.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC are justified because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
Fossil fuel, commercial real estate, and mid level megalomaniacal managers are behind anti-telework RTO.
The REAL Reasons CEOs Hate Remote Work – SOME MORE NEWS Feb 12, 2025 “Hi. We’ve been told that 2025 is the year that remote working will die, despite it often being good for workers and their employers. CEOs hate it though, and they’re working to get rid of it.“
Don’t shove dubious stuff up your nose, just put on an N95 mask.
“Unproven products can seem attractive, especially when social media marketing overhypes potential benefits, without mention of risks or uncertainties.” – Kaitlin Sundling
Slashing staff at Social Security has really serious consequences that will hit senior citizens most, but nobody’s going to happy about this.
I expect more stories like this hitting the news, and attempts to normalize or justify it.
Can we please end loser leftism and extol the public good?
Stop thinking “if only we could convince people” of something, that things would change. Just stop that. It’s not about explaining.
We need a shadow government to scrutinize everything that happens at HHS.
Every policy decision and everything that comes out of that entire HHS department, and all the agencies within, needs to be scrutinized.
Herd immunity misinformation on the left.
Youtube served up a liberal channel with healthcare professionals that were ostensibly criticizing RFKJr – though I feel like they were trying to bothsides the guy, buying into some of his claims they think they agree with. But the issue is that covid vaccine uptake was never great even for the original series, it never […]
Pasteurization is popular because milkborne pathogens are not.
The risk just isn’t worth it. Especially for the cats.
Not the worst pandemic takes, but why do people seem to miss the experience of entire segments of the population?
And it’s not that I’m alone or unique because I know many many people who are in similar situations to me. Marketplace – Make Me Smart Unpacking our collective COVID-19 trauma, five years on Episode 1347 Mar 11, 2025 David Wallace-Wells was on Marketplace podcast talking about the covid pandemic declaration anniversary and was surprisingly […]
Offering vaccines at hospitals should be standard across the board.
Now is the time to track your state level legislation around vaccinations. To find out about bills and actions you can sign up for the free citizen level versions of a variety of “bill tracking services” – apps that will send you emails daily or in weekly digests, on topics and keywords you use.
Parks, forests, and nature, are economic powerhouses, actually.
If all you care about is the economics when it comes to parks and public lands, then you should want them, because setting aside and preserving nature is actually very good for The Economy.
Return to Normalcy is not progress anyway.
I hope we all realize by now that nothing will ever be the same again, there’s no normal to return to, and let’s face it normal was never all it was cracked up to be. On the anniversary of the pandemic declaration by the WHO, I’m reflecting on the fact that nothing has really ever […]