Monique ND

God Bless the World. I’m hard to describe. BLM✊🏾 #MaskUp 😷

[Lady Chuan @LadyChuan]

Do better.
Wear. A. Mask.
KN95 or better.

I’m quite sure that you know by now COVID is a CHRONIC VASCULAR DISEASE that enters the body by a virus called SARS which INITIALLY presents itself as a respiratory illness.

I’m also quite sure that you know after 7 years in that there is NO CLEARANCE of COVID which resides in the ENDOTHELIAL LINING and REPLICATES and effects everywhere that blood flows WITHIN WEEKS, MONTHS after a reinfection.

STROKES, HEART ATTACKS, EMBOLISMS increase by over 50%. CANCER increases by 67%.

T-cells are destroyed leading to other illnesses including IMMUNE DEREGULATION which causes IMMUNE DISORDERS by over 40% of the time.

You do know those “colds” that everybody CLAIM that they have is really COVID which is detectable between Day 5-Day 8 on current testing models since Fall of 2021 with the entry of Omicron.

Over 500 mutations later, it’s past time to learn what COVID has done to bodies.

[Monique ND @Monideva]

@maolesen I pray you will heal quickly.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Miami Dolphins using far-UVC?
Well I’ll be damned.
Florida.
The place where they’ll tell you not to trust scientists… right before benefiting from something invented by them.
Funny how science becomes acceptable when it helps your football team instead of your public schools.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

A parasite has now sickened 145 people across multiple states.

It’s called Cyclospora. The symptoms aren’t subtle: prolonged watery diarrhea, cramping, fatigue, nausea, and bloating. Unlike a typical “24-hour stomach bug,” this illness can last for weeks.

A few important points:

• It’s usually linked to contaminated fresh produce, not meat or sushi.
• Washing fruits and vegetables is still a good idea—but normal home washing, vinegar, or baking soda have not been shown to reliably remove or kill Cyclospora.
• The source of the current outbreak is still under investigation.
• The preferred treatment is Bactrim (TMP-SMX), although many healthy people eventually recover without antibiotics.

This is also a reminder that food safety doesn’t begin in your kitchen. It begins in the field, during irrigation, harvesting, processing, and distribution.

As always, follow the evidence—not the rumors.

[tern @1goodtern]

Why can't people understand that the damage caused to the body by covid infections comes *after* the infections, not just during?
<screams>

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

I think it was just hate.

By Sincerely, American:

"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'

Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.

He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.

Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.

Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.

Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”

Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........

He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.

He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?

If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: May we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[tern @1goodtern]

I am supporting an astonishing number of people with prostate cancer through my work, and more friends and family have been diagnosed separately in the last 6 months too.

I can't help but wonder if the effect that Covid infection can have on lung cancer also applies to prostate.

[Monique ND @Monideva]

@LauraMiers Sorry to hear about your Dad. Sending prayers for a successful surgery and recovery.

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD, MPH @fitterhappierAJ]

I was a fellow at the National Cancer Institute for 4 years in immunotherapy of cancer

They paid for my PhD

I am happy to explain hypotheses for a potential SARS Cov 2 based increased risk of cancer:

1/4

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

Tired of watching Black people be disrespected, mocked, and dehumanized for simply existing. Michelle Obama has spent years carrying herself with grace, intelligence, and dignity, yet people still attack her with racist and hateful insults.

This is why it’s fuck everybody who aligns themselves with people like Trump who is a racist, rapist, and pedophile!

[tim russ @timruss2]

Yeah. Gotta make sure those minorities aren’t recognized for their contributions to the country.

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

I’m so excited. My secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance.

FIFA World cup.
1/
@SecureBio
https://t.co/3Yi9LFwNz2

[ABC News @ABC]

Sunday marks the 105-year commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The events of that day in Tulsa, Oklahoma, still reverberate throughout a community seeking justice. https://t.co/Nrkz07Ub2F

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

À 23 ans, elle guérit la lèpre. À 24 ans, elle disparaît.
Et pendant 90 ans, un homme blanc s'attribua le mérite de ses travaux.
Voici l'histoire d'Alice Augusta Ball, le génie qu'on a tenté d'effacer.
Elle grandit à Seattle au début du XXe siècle, dans une famille qui croyait au potentiel des Noirs.
Son grand-père fut l'un des premiers photographes noirs d'Amérique.
Sa mère lavait les sols pour pouvoir offrir un microscope à Alice.
Ce cadeau changea le monde.
Alice dévorait la chimie comme l'oxygène.
Elle obtint deux licences.
Elle publia des recherches alors qu'elle était encore étudiante.
Puis elle s'installa à Hawaï et devint :
📷 La première femme à obtenir une maîtrise en chimie à l'Université d'Hawaï
📷 La première femme noire à obtenir ce diplôme
📷 La première femme professeure de chimie de l'histoire de l'université
Elle avait 23 ans.
Mais pendant qu'elle enseignait, elle fut confrontée à une urgence bien plus grande que le monde universitaire :
La maladie de Hansen, la lèpre.
Un diagnostic signifiait l'exil.
Arraché à sa famille, on était déporté sur une île pour y mourir seul.
Il existait un traitement :
une huile amère et collante, peu efficace et extrêmement douloureuse.
Nombreux furent ceux qui le refusèrent. Nombreux furent ceux qui moururent.
Alice refusa de baisser les bras.
Dans son laboratoire, elle trouva la solution que personne d'autre n'avait trouvée :
Elle transforma cette huile épaisse en une forme assimilable par le corps.
Une injection révolutionnaire qui sauva enfin des vies.
Les patients commencèrent à guérir.
Des familles furent réunies.
Des personnes condamnées guérirent subitement.
Sa découverte devint la méthode Ball.
Elle changea l'histoire de la médecine avant même que la plupart des gens n'aient terminé leurs études.
Et puis… elle disparut.
À seulement 24 ans, un mystérieux accident de laboratoire lui coûta la vie.
Elle ne vit jamais le miracle qu'elle avait accompli.
Puis vint le vol.
Le président de l'université, un chimiste blanc nommé Arthur Dean, s'appropria ses recherches, en retira son nom et les rebaptisa :
« La Méthode Dean ».
Pendant des décennies…
📷 Son nom figurait dans les manuels scolaires.
📷 Son nom était encensé par les médecins.
📷 Son nom était attribué à la seule reconnaissance de ses mérites.
Son nom a failli disparaître complètement de l'histoire.
Un vol si discret que la plupart des gens ignoraient même qu'un crime avait été commis.
Il fallut 90 ans pour que la vérité éclate enfin.
Des chercheurs ont mis au jour les documents originaux d'Alice.
Son travail.
Son génie.
Ses découvertes majeures.
Les projecteurs se sont braqués sur elle. Le mensonge s'est effondré.
Et aujourd'hui, le monde le sait :
C'était la Méthode Ball – TOUJOURS.
Alice Ball a guéri une maladie qui avait ravagé des vies pendant des siècles.
Elle a libéré des familles.
Elle a sauvé des milliers de personnes de l'isolement et de la mort. Et elle a accompli tout cela en une seule année.
Imaginez ce qu'elle aurait pu faire en une vie entière.
Alice Ball méritait un prix Nobel.
Elle méritait des statues.
Elle méritait que son nom soit sur toutes les lèvres des étudiants en sciences.
Au lieu de cela, elle a été étouffée par le silence…
Jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Nous prononçons son nom parce que l'histoire a refusé de le faire.
Nous l'honorons parce que d'autres ne l'ont pas fait.
Nous nous souvenons d'elle parce qu'elle l'a mérité.
Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916)
La chimiste qui a changé le monde avant même d'avoir eu le temps d'y vivre.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I picked my little girl up from daycare, and the staff could barely hold back their laughter.

Apparently, she spent the entire day completely obsessed with a giant Great Dane named George.

Everywhere he went… she followed.

From room to room.
Nap spot to nap spot.
Water break to water break.

If George moved even a little, she was right behind him like his tiny shadow.

And judging by the way she looked at him… she was absolutely in love.

The moment I saw her face, I had to take a picture. She looked unbelievably happy like she had just met the love of her life and still couldn’t believe he was real.

Honestly, it was one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen.

It’s funny how dogs somehow experience crushes almost exactly like humans do… because my girl definitely fell head over paws for George.

Credit: Grace Jenkins

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

“Cost optimization” should never determine whether the public learns the primary ways infectious diseases spread.

Knowledge shapes behavior.
Behavior shapes exposure.
Exposure shapes outcomes.

When institutions suppress, soften, or strategically omit information about airborne transmission because the implications are economically or politically inconvenient, they are shaping intervention efficacy before an intervention even begins.

The public deserves accurate information about how pathogens move through air.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

🦊 🦊🦊🦊 Sake!!!

Apparently suggesting aerosol scientists, engineers, industrial hygienists, and ventilation experts should help shape infectious disease policy is controversial now.

You know… the same types of people responsible for:

clean water systems
sewage infrastructure
filtration
occupational safety
hospital ventilation
indoor air standards

Instead we’re told to “trust the experts” after years of public health agencies fumbling airborne transmission guidance, removing aerosol language from websites during outbreaks, and acting like respirators are exotic technology from the future.

Meanwhile the “random guy on the internet” they’re dismissing:

has a PhD
works in a College of Applied Health Sciences
teaches Tech-Driven Health Interventions
studies behavior, cognition, health technology, and intervention design
and understands the physics behind why respirators, ventilation, filtration, and germicidal UV work

But sure. Better to keep pretending infection control begins and ends with hand sanitizer and vibes.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Before Memorial Day was recognized across America, freed Black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina gathered in 1865 to honor 257 Union soldiers who gave their lives fighting for freedom and the preservation of our nation. Black troops marched, families laid flowers, and a grieving but hopeful community came together to ensure these men would never be forgotten. This Memorial Day, we honor this history and all the brave soldiers whose sacrifices helped shape the freedoms we cherish today.