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currentbias, 2 months ago to random

When "pandemic fatigue" (see also: the bystander effect) results in outcomes that can accurately be described as eugenics -- no matter how passive the form -- then succumbing to pandemic fatigue is succumbing to eugenics

Someone who doesn't intend to be a eugenicist can nevertheless express eugenic behavior by failing to resolve the cognitive dissonance of knowing better and failing to act accordingly

#covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #eugenics #CovidIsNotOver

currentbias, 2 months ago to random

My lower back is so fucked up from an inflammatory injury that the sitting positions that help most (like seiza or lotus) shift the weight to my knees, creating new problems

currentbias, 2 months ago to random

#MaskMonday #MaskedMondays

Brad, 2 months ago to random

March 16, 2024- “I have spent hundreds of hours in the microscope looking at the worst viruses can do to the brain, including the Zika virus, HIV, Flu, and others. I've never seen the type of damage SARS-CoV-2 leaves behind after infection with other viruses.” - Danielle Beckman, Neuroscientist specialized in high- res microscopy. Pharm.D, M.S (Biophysics), Ph.D (Biological Chemistry).
https://www.daniellebeckman.com/about-me

maleve, 2 months ago to random

Canada heading toward major measles outbreak without vaccine boost, new modelling suggests - CBC News
https://apple.news/ADzZms5kUS-SZbGLNPaCc-w

feisty_lemming, 3 months ago to random

“‘Who are those people who never had Covid?’ You have to try pretty hard to have still not been infected. ‘Are they the sort of people who for whatever reasons have higher cognition?’” #CovidIsNotOver https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-covid-made-the-world-stupider-5qvz6sbhj

currentbias, 3 months ago to random

"If long COVID is to be properly acknowledged then people may ask questions like:

• Why they’ve been told things were safe when they aren’t

• Why a generation of kids’ long term health has been gambled with

• Where the financial support for those disabled is at"

• @dave

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovidAwarenessDay

currentbias, 3 months ago to random

Breakthrough #measles is here:

"The health unit isn't revealing details about the infected person except to say they was [sic] immunized and had not travelled recently or been in contact with a known case of measles."

https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/1st-confirmed-case-of-measles-in-simcoe-muskoka-is-an-immunized-person-others-may-have-been-exposed-1.6805970

Adults better get #MMR boosters, because all those mild covids are not doing the immune system any favors

#covid #longcovid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

actualham, 3 months ago to random

Doing my civic duty at Town Meeting in my rural New Hampshire town, where one of the articles is to remove the voting machines and require hand counting for all elections in order to reduce the rampant but never actually detected voter fraud. We are 30 minutes in and they haven’t even gotten half the people through the entrance line yet. Follow this thread for a blow-by-blow of tonight’s small-town democracy in action! Suit up, muthafuckas! It’s Town Meetin!

Scienceisnotopinions, 3 months ago to random

If governments want people back to work then they should work towards eradicating covid. I think it can be done.

Scienceisnotopinions, 3 months ago to random

Question: why is the CDC really minimizing covid? Are they just telling the public what they want to hear?

currentbias, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I love that in the middle of that ableist perspective piece that NPR published under the "Life Kit - Perspectives" section, there's a plug for a different article in the "Shots - Health News" section titled: "Millions of people have long COVID brain fog — and there's a shortage of answers"

Really drives the dissonance home

#covid #covid19 #longcovid #pandemic #NPR #CovidIsNotOver

currentbias, 3 months ago to random

I hate living in a hostage situation of a country where every vote that is supposed to be for someone is actually coerced into being a vote against someone else

My entire life people have been saying that US elections should switch to ranked choice voting, and it has never happened

currentbias, 3 months ago to random

There is language within the US CDC's biosafety guidance suggesting that the airborne nature of SARS-CoV-2 is not what is being denied by the WHO's March 11 biosafety downgrade, but the intrinsic severity of the pathogen:

Under BSL-2, for pathogens with "moderate hazards to personnel and the environment ... all procedures in which infectious aerosols or splashes may be created are conducted in [biosafety cabinets] or other physical containment equipment"

They are doubling down on covid = mild

currentbias, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Well fuck, it's "time to write a reference-laden analysis of the WHO's March 11 downgrade of SARSCoV2 from biosafety level 3 to biosafety level 2" o'clock

Didn't actually think we would go backwards on #CovidIsAirborne

Oh, and on the anniversary of the pandemic declaration, too. At this point it seems beyond speculation that this is a genuine coverup. None of the scientific literature whatsoever backs up this decision, and the usual chorus of actual scientists will be vehemently opposed

shoq, 3 months ago to random

They say these recent covid variances aren’t that toxic if you’re well boosted, but with my luck lately, it will probably do something weird like cause a break out of rashes on my butt that that look Laura Ingraham or Lara Trump. Something really foul.

gratefuldread, 3 months ago to random

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currentbias, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

It is difficult to grieve a fundamental loss of respect for someone. When they never promised to act differently, it feels less like a betrayal, and more like a death

In tarot, death doesn't have to be literal, and usually isn't. It signifies an inflection point where irrevocable change takes place, leaving you with only your ability to process it

Some conclusions change a person forever, and there's no unconcluding them

currentbias, 3 months ago to random

Behold, the mass melting of blood-brain barriers
It's Brave New World, 'cause they've never been merrier
Contagion camaraderie's gotten much scarier
To those who don't want to be good little carriers

#CovidIsNotOver #verse #micropoem

luckytran, 3 months ago to random

“In the earliest days of the AIDS crisis, America ignored the problem, even though people were dropping dead by the thousands.

We’re repeating the mistake now with long COVID. Millions are suffering, but the government has largely turned its back, as new cases emerge with each passing wave.”

Thank you NJ.com editorial board 👏

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2024/03/we-ignored-aids-lets-not-repeat-the-mistake-on-long-covid-editorial.html