North Carolina bans medical masks (seriously), US/UK/NZ surging, covid 60% deadlier than influenza, weird new variant symptoms, US: no fall vax for uninsured, covid ripping through New Zealand schools, rAW MiLk eNTHusIaSTs, masking on the Fallout set, and more.
There is no #conspiracy as to why it’s being withdrawn- it’s just outdated now and we have better, newer vaccines that are more effective for the current versions and strains in circulation.
It's ridiculous that most Democrats are just watching passively as Republicans are passing mask bans. In states where Democrats hold power, they should absolutely be passing laws that codify and protect people's rights to wear a mask.
"Unfortunately, the newest widely circulating pathogen in the human population uses a broadly expressed ACE2 receptor to infect cells, meaning it can damage almost any part of the body."
"They want your ignorance and incur no cost if you are harmed by being repeatedly infected by COVID-19 or any other pathogen that might be surging in its wake."
Some good health news: an effective, universal vaccine will likely be developed for #Covid:
"The first pan-coronavirus ("universal") vaccine Phase 1 clinical trial results are encouraging for eliciting broad sarbecovirus, #SARSCoV2 variant immune response.
We haven't seen this in people before:
Individuals vaccinated with SpFN/ALFQ had robust
cell-mediated and antibody responses against multiple clade 1 sarbecoviruses."
-Eric Topol
North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons, too
People wearing a mask during protests could face extra penalties if arrested, under proposed legislation critics say could make it illegal to wear a mask in public to protect against COVID-19 or for other health reasons.
“The world is different now. We can’t go back to when pandemics didn’t happen.” - Sen. Natasha Marcus (D)
Many #COVID19 cautious are posting endlessly about H5N1. I am not going to follow them down the rabbit hole. Avian flu may or may not become a human-to-human pandemic, but...
I continue to believe we're ignoring the immediate and real risk we face with COVID
We don't help mental health by constantly promoting POTENTIAL risks
If it becomes a pandemic, we'll know
If morons want to drink unpasteurized milk and risk death, blindness and illness, I am powerless to stop them, anyway.
For the public, for certain parts of the population, Monkeypox is an immediate and very real hazard, and a threat for many others.
For the public H5N1 is something to be quite aware of, but playing it up as a huge hazard now is questionable.
However, as we have learned from other flu strains, it is only a matter of time until H5N1 gains human transmission. And given its lethality at >50% -warning!
Wow, apparently #covid can not only cause sudden hearing loss, but also sudden vision loss. This disease truly is like a wheel of prizes, but you win #disabilities.
You think it makes me happy to have to tell you vaccines aren't enough? That air purifiers aren't enough? That there are situations where we have to filter each breath we take, because we let a stealth predator like SARSCoV2 loose? One that prefers to maim instead of kill, though kill it still does? I am not having fun, here. I derive no glee from this. This isn't my idea of a good time. This is 24/7 Cassandra syndrome -- truth exemplifying how much stranger it is than fiction
It's not about living in fear. It's about adapting to the actual reality. I experience less fear when I go out in a respirator because of what I understand about #covid. The pre-2019 world is not coming back, and we either process that, grieve it, and adapt, or slowly succumb to a virus far more dangerous than we have been led to believe. It doesn't matter what you think of me. It matters what you think of that. I am just a messenger (like messenger RNA, you know?)
It would criminalize mask-wearing in public even for medical reasons ... It's just unacceptable.. there's a change petition https://chng.it/6kf5XTsv6t and people we need to email tonight/before 9am Wed morning (5-15), this endangers us / violates rights! George.Cleveland@ncleg.gov; chris.humphrey@ncleg.gov; bill.ward@ncleg.gov; harry.warren@ncleg.gov; David.Willis@ncleg.gov
Following his misinformation campaign to reduce use of masks (as they were a visible sign that Biden didn't really end the pandemic) Biden is now using tariffs to increase the price of masks: "For certain personal protective equipment (PPE), including certain respirators and face masks, the tariff rates will increase from 0–7.5% to 25% in 2024." #Covid
"More than four years after covid first raged through many U.S. nursing homes, hundreds of lawsuits blaming patient deaths on negligent care have been tossed out or languished in the courts amid contentious legal battles.
Even some nursing homes that were shut down by health officials for violating safety standards have claimed immunity against such suits, court records show."
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from California corrections officials who sought immunity from lawsuits claiming they acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at one of the world’s most famous prisons four years ago.
The justices turned down the appeal without comment or dissent."
I'm gonna ruffle some feathers that need to be ruffled...
It's vital to improve air quality in all indoor spaces. But no amount of ventilation and filtering makes restaurant dining safe. Near field transmission! An infectious waitstaff or diner can give you Covid still!
Quit this bullshit! The problem with Nukit isn't just that the device is unaffordable for most people and using it for restaurant dining is very privileged...
It's also that it doesn't make indoor dining safe. 1/2 #Covid