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“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.” -- Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love

[Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD (aka Aleksandrs Zavoronkovs) @biogerontology]

This young scientist reminds me of me. It is midnight and she is explaining her aging clock concept. And while we all know the success stats in the aging clock industry, we will be hearing about Dr Alina Su often. We need more of the ambitious and energetic scientists to move the needle in longevity.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The immunology of Covid and the Future
In the new Ground Truths podcast with @VirusesImmunity
An invigorating conversation about #LongCovid, nasal vaccines, the future of the field, and women in science
Audio and transcript with external links posted (see link in profile)

[Dana Parish @danaparish]

🚨 How I went from working with superstars at the prime of my life to homebound after a tick bite nearly killed me.

Covid isn’t the first highly-politicized, common, chronic infection 🦠 on earth.

That would be Lyme…

My crazy story: https://t.co/CXxY74F7IQ

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

I was born Muslim and lived all my life as an Arab. There was not a single day that I felt like a minority, that my mother tongue or culture was threatened with extinction, or that people singled me out because of my color, language or whatever I say or do. We have 21 Arab countries, half of them are dumpsters not worth being called states.

The total mass of territories under Arab sovereignty is 13.3 million sq km. The total mass of Israel with Palestinian Territories is 25 thousand sq km. Yet, somehow, the majority of Arabs think that conceding this tiny fraction of land to Jewish sovereignty is the end of the world, and that our salvation is incumbent on destroying Jewish nationhood.

My closest friends are Jews with an Arab mother tongue. Their life experience has been the total opposite experience of mine, suffering discrimination, unfair treatment (socially and politically) and everything that we today call antisemitism. Naftali Bennet captures it beautifully in his Post below.

You don't have to be pro-Israel. You only have to be fair and graceful. A negligible 25k thousand sq km allows Jews to maintain their culture -- including language and traditions -- and pass them onto their off springs like all other cultures do. Jewish existence in the midst of Arabs offers desperately needed diversity and breaks the liberty-suppressing uniformity of the Arab/Muslim world.

But no, we Arabs, who cannot even sort out the endless bloody feud between Sunni and Shia, who force minorities like Druze, Alawis and others to hide their faith, think that Jews will have a blast living under our sovereignty, a fantasy that not a single stretch of our history can substantiate.

And now on top of it all, we the Arabs got anyone with insecurity from other nations (Western and non-Arab Muslims) to join our own craziness and cheer for us.

It's incumbent on us, Arabs, to stand up and say no. Our world will only be fixed with our own hands and our own ideas. Time to break taboos and think outside the silly Palestine box.

Signed: Arab peace with Israel and liberty everywhere

[CaliforniaHeartBavariaHome 😷📯 @lgoshen]

@dgurdasani1 Why my family switched over to Pluslife POC-NAAT tests. The much higher sensitivity (near PCR level), ability to test at home & ability to pool 3-4 samples per test card, makes Pluslife tests competitive on price after initial investment in the card reader but much more reliable!

[tern @1goodtern]

If you're still wearing a respirator to avoid catching and spreading covid, I want to follow you - if I'm not already, reply and I'll hit that button. ❤️👇

[Boaz @Boazav]

@1goodtern ❤️

[Boaz @Boazav]

This Muslim Israeli Woman Is the Future of the Middle East https://t.co/KXX0EZFPt7 via @YouTube

[Holly @HollyBlomberg]

@KashPrime Seems like many still don’t understand that medical educators are still repeating an 60+ year old error about droplet versus airborne transmission https://t.co/aCRohSmACu

[The John Snow Project @JohnSnowProject]

Governments around the world face a choice: continue to ignore deaths from COVID-19 or prevent them.

#CovidAwarenessWeek #CovidIsntOver #NotMild

[The John Snow Project @JohnSnowProject]

Which #halloween mask is best? 🎃

[Boaz @Boazav]

Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn't.
https://t.co/2K2XEkuh0h

[Boaz @Boazav]

And Thomas Pueyo's response to feedback: https://t.co/zhf14OcK1u. With quote from one study nicely summing up: "The studies that did not find statistically significant effects prove only that masks cannot offer protection if they are not worn." 😀😷

[Boaz @Boazav]

More context...

[Health Nerd @GidMK]

People are sharing this thread around a lot, and I have to say that it's extremely unfair and mostly incorrect when it comes to the specifics of the Cochrane review

[Jess @MeetJess]

Do you know a business taking these precautions and focusing on keeping their clients and staff safe ?
Post it below ! Let’s start a thread !

[Boaz @Boazav]

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —@JimCameron via @momentumdash

[Mikhail V. Blagosklonny, MD PhD Professor Oncology @Blagosklonny]

This is my favorite essay (of mine) on hyperfunction theory of aging via age-derated diseases.

Skip sections on menopause and grandmomthers: they are irrelevant and journalism trick. Skip Abstract. Start from “prostate cancer” reading to the end.

https://t.co/6mino30tzp

[Dr David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACGP-RG DTM+H @YouAreLobbyLud]

This may sound crazy, but hear me out. I actually value my brain. I think it's pretty incredible, its very existence a seeming miracle that gifts me consciousness and the ability to reason and create. I'm kind of averse to infecting it repeatedly with a brain-eating bat virus.