Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial because they call attention to what’s being ignored.
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Heather ☮️ retweeted
This PSA is because either H5 is already spreading _or_ the CDC expects it will.
#H5N1 #birdflu symptoms may include fever or feeling feverish or chills, eye redness or irritation, and respiratory symptoms, such as cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, and tiredness. More: cdc.gov/bird-flu
Heather ☮️ retweeted
We won't mince words. The reelection of Donald Trump is a disaster for the Boundary Waters. This is not hyperbole. This is not a case of Trump-Derangement Syndrome. This is based on Trump’s campaign promises and attacks he has already made on the Boundary Waters.🧵
📸 Alli Faricy
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Heather ☮️ retweeted
For those who wondered how American society allowed the sins of our past, realize that tonight Trump won the majority in spite of his lack of character and integrity. He demonstrated his racism, misogyny, xenophobia and tried to overthrow the government with an insurrection with any accountability or consequence. He is celebrated for his strategy of packing the court that will ultimately give him immunity and throw out his convictions. His indictments will disappear. This says everything about our society. We absolved this behavior by electing him. A celebration of criminality.
Heather ☮️ retweeted
"we spent a lot of time wasting $ on deep cleans and talking about being 1.5 m away from people, when in fact, we should have been educating the public about the importance of breathing clean, safe air, particularly in crowded indoor public situations." wamnnews.com.au/news/exclusi…
Heather ☮️ retweeted
One COVID infection per year might sound manageable, but the simplest projections tell a different story.
With a 13% risk of LC per infection, about 1/3 could already be affected.
ALT A line graph titled "Projected Cumulative Long COVID Risk by Infection Rate (5-10% Initial Infection Rate in 2022)" shows the projected cumulative risk of developing Long COVID over time based on different infection rates per year. The x-axis represents years from 2022 to 2032, while the y-axis represents cumulative Long COVID risk as a percentage. Three lines depict different infection rates: Green line: 0.5 infections per year, reaching 50.6% by 2032. Blue line: 1 infection per year, reaching 75.4% by 2032. Red line: 3 infections per year, reaching 98.5% by 2032. Each line has data points labeled with cumulative risk percentages at intervals across the years. The risk increases more sharply for higher infection rates, with the red line (3 infections/year) reaching near-total risk by 2032.
It looks like 2022 was the Tipping Point for opportunistic infections due to Covid
Which makes sense
Since 2022 was the year the world abandoned Covid precautions
Thx @1goodtern 🙏 ☺️
Heather ☮️ retweeted
I’ve reported on infectious diseases for 15 years, but during the covid-19 pandemic and even more during the global outbreak of mpox clade IIb, I was shocked by the amount of misinformation I was seeing. Misinfo had always been part of any outbreak, but this felt different.
The current state of misinformation started in 2013 and is strongly correlated with political agendas and how crises are interpreted.
science.org/content/article/…
Gee I wonder why TB is back. What could have possibly damaged our immune systems in the last 4 years????
🆕 #Tuberculosis, also known as TB, resurged as the leading infectious disease killer in 2023.
Approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with #TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995 bit.ly/3A8WsXw
Heather ☮️ retweeted
We have long known that children who become seriously ill with certain respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are at elevated risk of developing asthma later in life. What we haven't known is why. 1/
Heather ☮️ retweeted
A review from UCSF outlines key long COVID mechanisms: persistent virus, immune dysfunction, inflammation, and microclots.
Potential treatments include antivirals, anti-inflammatory drugs, anticoagulants, and therapies targeting immune responses.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Heather ☮️ retweeted
1/n
"Welcome to the new normal, an age where many things that we used to deem unusual or unacceptable have become just what we live with."
"Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial because they call attention to what’s being ignored."
scientificamerican.com/artic…
Heather ☮️ retweeted
NEW Longest prospective study of #LongCovidKids: 1.3K kids who tested pos for #COVID19 were followed up to 3y. Of note, 89% of cases were “mild” & 9% had no symptoms, & 80% had zero doses of vaccine. Mix of variants, but most were Omicron then Delta. /1 thelancet.com/action/showPdf…
Heather ☮️ retweeted
We practiced with caskets that were stored outside our barracks building. To simulate the weight of honored remains, we’d toss several full sandbags into the belly of the casket and then, for hours, we’d go through our exact movements.
Over and over and over.
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This is so accurate. Medicine is plagued by archaic and rigid thinking
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Yes. And then everyone got capitalism amnesia.
ALL of the SARS-CoV-2 studies from 2020-2023 are like “SARS-CoV-2 inflicts immense permanent damage to every organ system. It will be ESSENTIAL to follow up with every human who acquires Covid in order to monitor them for the onset of extremely serious complications—which often begin silently.”
And then we pretended the pandemic was over, while normalizing endless reinfection. No one is being monitored and doctors insist Covid is mild & benign. When folks show up with Covid complications that cannot be ignored, individuals and their lifestyles are blamed, instead of the virus.
FIVE YEARS of data & studies are aggressively memory-holed, & we are forced to continue pretending for profits & convenience.