Blankets On The Beach

I need art and chocolate•Earth Day every day•Let’s be better humans•You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one•”I never look away. Not really.” #malex

[Blankets On The Beach @blanketsonbeach]

@Lgbt_Vlamis @MalexNM Do you think @MichaelVlamis feels a little bit guilty for just walking around in public, making people turn and then walk into poles? Like slug bug drivers that know damn well the people driving by are beating the sh%* out of each other just noticing their presence? #malex

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

The man ICE Nazis murdered was a 37 year old Minneapolis resident and a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry….where are all the 2A advocates now?

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨 🚨 🚨 ATTN; #TRENTON NEW JERSEY 🚨

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Unbelievably infuriating. First Trump’s ICE terrorists murder an innocent woman in Minneapolis, then they detain and hold Native Americans. From my tribe no less.

Where’s ICE supposed to deport us Natives to anyways?

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

People are constantly asking me — what can I do?

As we head into a critical midterm year, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.

[Judah Friedlander @JudahWorldChamp]

We live in an oligarchy, but with the humidity, it feels like a dictatorship.

[Blankets On The Beach @blanketsonbeach]

Fix it @jonstewart .

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Turns out “never forget” has a surprisingly short half-life.

I’ve long respected @jonstewart
Deeply.
Especially the way he fought for firefighters and first responders after 9/11 when everyone else wanted to move on, look away, and pretend the damage was over.

He understood something then that he seems to be missing now:
the worst harm often shows up later.
After the smoke clears.
After the cameras leave.
After people are told to stop complaining and get back to normal.

That’s what makes this so infuriating.

If you belittle people for masking in today’s world, you are not being brave, rational, or “back to normal.” You’re being the guy who says the fire is out because you don’t see flames anymore.

It’s like denying a firefighter a suit and helmet because the blaze isn’t photogenic enough for TV.
“Relax, man, it’s fine.”
Cool. Then you go in first.

This isn’t courage. It’s object-permanence failure. Full Piaget. Peek-a-boo epidemiology. If the virus isn’t visible on cable news, if it’s not killing fast enough for a chyron, then obviously it no longer exists.

That logic would’ve screwed every 9/11 responder Jon fought for.

Because fires don’t need to be dramatic to keep burning.
Carbon monoxide doesn’t announce itself.
Microvascular damage doesn’t trend.
Cognitive decline doesn’t come with a drumroll.

Masking in the 7th year of an ongoing airborne pandemic isn’t a political statement. It’s PPE. It’s risk management. It’s the same boring, unsexy logic behind seatbelts, hard hats, welding goggles, respirators, condoms, and surgical gloves.

Nobody mocks a welder for eye protection unless they’ve never watched someone go blind.

What’s especially rich is that the people being mocked are often the most informed in the room: clinicians, immunocompromised people, caregivers, researchers, teachers, parents. People who’ve seen what happens after the acute phase. After the applause dies down. After a “mild” infection quietly resets your baseline.

You don’t get bonus points for raw-dogging airborne disease out of spite.

That’s why this hurts coming from Jon Stewart.
Because he once got it.
He understood long-tail harm.
He understood delayed accountability.
He understood that “we’re done talking about it” is usually said right before the bill comes due.

Funny how the guy who fought for first responders now laughs at people still wearing the gear.

And my dude… the fire didn’t go out … we just stopped filming it.

[tern @1goodtern]

Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This 1998 SNL sketch aired once and then was apparently banned.

It says a lot about the dangers of a handful of corporations controlling the vast majority of our media.

It’s also eerily prophetic given the Warner Bros/Netflix/Paramount merger saga. Watch.

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

A REMINDER.

DO NOT BUY ANYTHING.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️EXTREMELY WORRISOME—First ever human case of Bird flu H5N5—has now suddenly died! Patient fell ill and got hospitalized in early November, confirmed H5N5 last week, died Friday November 21st. H5N5 has NEVER BEFORE DOCUMENTED TO JUMP INTO HUMANS before… and now the first human case has now died! Can’t calculate case fatality yet, and patient was older, but this sudden *double first* is very worrying.

[Olivia- covid resources in bio! @o_bel_]

Thread of all the Covid resources I’ve created. Links to PDFs located in my bio. Please feel free to use & share!

Why Your Patient is Covid Cautious

[tern @1goodtern]

Eye problems are one of the most common after-effects of covid infections, and one of the most common issues of Long Covid - but they're not talked about much.

This is part two of my thread working through eye conditions that have become *much more common* since Covid struck.

[World Health Network @TheWHN]

We’re five years into the pandemic, and the science is telling a very different story than “just a cold.” COVID affects blood vessels, organs, metabolism, and cognition — and the impacts compound with each infection. It’s the same pattern we saw with smoking: people felt fine… until the long-term consequences surfaced.

Full article here: https://t.co/N6vpD3YBIa

#LongCOVID #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #CleanAir

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Socialism 101. 😳👇

[Keith @keetmuise]

She went without her mask once. Just once and now she is chronically ill.

This is how easy it is to catch Covid and develop Long Covid.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

@cmclymer Did she get an exorcism?

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Every woman immediately knew this was an issue‼️IMMEDIATELY‼️ duh 🙄

[Elsie white @Elsievotesblue]

People💙This young lady has a point on who the actual terrorist are in this country!! Why the government, have not labeled kkk or any white national hate groups as a home grown terrorists? These people are a threat to our society🤨not the immigrants
#DV1
#DemsUnited
#ProudBlue