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researcher, planner, coordinator, psychologist

[tern @1goodtern]

He can't infect me.
I wash my hands.

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

Are you aware that Covid is a *vascular disease* that can feel "like a cold" but meanwhile be silently fucking up just about any organ in the human body? (If you're not, it's not your fault – public health has steadfastly refused to give the public the facts.)
Case in point

[Kirsten Verdel @locuta]

- Luchtverkeersleiders spreken de uitleg van Duffy en Mullin tegen dat de storing ontstaat door updates aan verouderde systemen. Zulke updates voeren ze volgens een verkeersleider midden in de nacht uit, wanneer er weinig vluchten zijn.

[Jess @MeetJess]

Imagine being alive at a time when we have the technology to connect the entire world, the resources to help one another, and the knowledge to make life better — yet somehow we're becoming less compassionate, less humane, and more comfortable with cruelty.

[tern @1goodtern]

All of these 'respiratory viruses', THEY'RE AIRBORNE.

Yes, washing your hands is a great idea. Brilliant. Really important.

BUT IT DOESN'T STOP YOU INHALING VIRUSES THAT ARE DRIFTING THROUGH THE AIR.

Wear a mask designed to stop particle inhalation, and wear it properly.

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

SARS-CoV-2 variants and cardiovascular complications–Implications for surveillance and vaccination: A narrative review

🚨Another warning: Overlooking the cardiovascular impact of SARSCoV2 poses a significant risk to public health!!

➡️One more well appreciated narrative review, this time from a French CV colleague synthesizing 165 studies on SARSCoV2 and cardiovascular outcomes. Worth your ATTENTION!

- Elevated post-acute risks of arrhythmias, ischemic/inflammatory heart disease, heart failure, cerebrovascular events, and thromboembolic disorders persist beyond the acute phase, including in non-hospitalized patients. Risks rise with infection severity.

- Mechanisms include direct viral injury (virus detected in heart tissue in autopsy series), endothelial dysfunction, complement activation, dysregulated inflammation/coagulation, and RAAS disruption via ACE2 downregulation.

- Spike mutations alter viral entry (ACE2 affinity, furin cleavage, etc.) and enable antibody escape, but direct effects on cardiovascular outcomes remain unclear.

- Vaccination is associated with fewer cardiovascular events and post-acute sequelae( #LongC0VID), though protection is incomplete.⁠

- Ongoing genomic surveillance( in many countries +/- non existing), vaccination, and cardiovascular follow-up are essential.

‼️So, AGAIN FOR ALL THOSE DENIALISTS/MINIMALISTS, SARSCoV2 continues to impose a measurable long-term cardiovascular burden across variants that vaccination mitigates but does not erase, leaving unmonitored populations exposed to cumulative excess heart disease risk.

‼️Treating SARSCoV2 as a mild, self-limiting respiratory illness is a dangerous, and potentially lethal, long-term mistake. At a population level, COVID-19 does not simply come and go, it continues to drive excess heart attacks, blood clots, and heart failure!!

‼️To reduce this cardiovascular toll, ongoing genomic surveillance remains critical, as emerging variants trigger heart complications far more readily through infection than vaccination. Furthermore, because even mild or recurrent infections impose a measurable cardiac burden on younger and middle-aged adults, vaccination strategies must extend well beyond the over-65 demographic. Although current vaccines only partially reduce downstream heart risks, their strong protection against severe illness makes vaccination, combined with mitigation measures, the best preventive strategy available.

‼️On an individual level, anyone recently infected or repeatedly exposed must stay alert for new or worsening heart symptoms, such as chest pain, palpitations, or breathlessness. Vigilance is vital for older adults and people with underlying conditions, particularly since a prior COVID-19 infection already counts as a cardiovascular risk factor.

😡Until we treat SARSCoV2 as the systemic cardiovascular threat it is, preventable heart attacks, clots, and deaths, even in the young, will remain the price of our complacency!
#Avoidsars2 #AvoidReinfections #UpdateVaccination
https://t.co/gruq1dpbvb

[Freedom Fighter @ROBERTALINDON]

Odd how having sex with mistresses can bring down a CEO. But raping children doesn't bring down a president. 🤔

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

The currently spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is PJ.2.1, which has over 25 spike protein mutations. PJ.2.1 has demonstrated unusually strong binding to human cells compared to previous variants (e.g., JN.1). These changes may help this variant to spread further among people, although no one cares.

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

Preprint: Limiting COVID vaccines to 65+ could raise hospitalizations 23–27% across all ages.

➡️Modelling (Illinois data) shows vaccinating younger adults & children cuts transmission enough to meaningfully protect higher-risk older adults.
Restricting eligibility to 65+ only increases infections (especially in kids) and hospitalizations (especially in the elderly) over multi-year horizons!

➡️Those indirect effects matter!

➡️The authors note that serious vaccine side effects are rare. Therefore, any reduction in side effects from limiting eligibility would not outweigh the resulting increase in COVID hospitalizations.
https://t.co/qjU4pNKs3s

[tern @1goodtern]

One of those *holy shit* studies.

Covid infection doubling the risk of pulmonary fibrosis.

Like it increases the risk of *so many health problems*.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

5:00 PM: 🇺🇸 U.S. judge ordered the DOJ to unredact Jeffrey Epstein files that name alleged co-conspirators.

8:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump REJECTED to comply with court order to hand over redacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files.

No one will Forget this

[Irish Dads for Air Quality in Schools @CovidAwareCork]

"University lecturer and disability advocate Eleanor McSherry revealed she is spending up to €300 a month on medications alone to manage brain inflammation, severe migraines, and chronic fatigue after contracting the virus for a second time in Sept 2024"

https://t.co/hO3IvCVPhG

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨JUST IN: JB Pritzker says Stephen Miller will be investigated. Then he adds Trump to the list.

PRITZKER: “Stephen Miller is awful.

It doesn't shock me that Donald Trump has chosen him to lead his White House. He's going be investigated, there's no doubt about it, both of them frankly, and rightly so.

We should expose the corruption of this administration, the most corrupt administration ever in the history of the United States.

We should be holding people accountable publicly.”

[MAH @Med58ll]

Het RIVM onderzocht de overdracht van Covid-19 bij 678.482 mensen en stelde vast dat vaccinatie zowel de kans op besmetting als de kans om anderen te besmetten verlaagde.

De meeste besmettingen vonden plaats tussen niet volledig gevaccineerde personen.

https://t.co/vv3bbQd2jn

[Harry 🇬🇧 @Harry20211959]

When I crossed paths with an abandoned dog I named ‘Hope’ it was fate, I know that now..

#hopesjourney has over the last three years led me down many paths, and has thankfully led me to many wonderful people, wonderful people I would never have known even existed before a simple act of kindness towards an animal in distress led me to this point..

I have felt humbled and blessed in this journey, I have no regrets, none..

Blessed enough to come across extraordinary people..

Here is one of them, one of the best, it’s difficult to put into simple words..

@John_Dabell

Dear John,
In a world that so often measures life by what it takes away, you measure it by what you still give, stubbornly, generously, and with a light that refuses to dim. Your undying love for life doesn’t ignore the weight of the days; it walks beside it, turns up anyway, and keeps the door open for tomorrow. That quiet, unyielding tenacity humbles those of us who watch you. You remind us that the difference between a warrior and a worrier really is just a couple of vowels, and that choosing the first, day after day, is one of the most profound acts of love there is.
You are not merely surviving; you are expanding the definition of what it means to be fully alive. In your presence, many of us feel smaller in the best way, not diminished, but called higher. You are loved, respected, and deeply adored, not in spite of the fight, but because of the way you meet it: with grit, humour, honesty, and an optimism that earns its stripes every single morning.
Here is a small quote written just for you:

“Hope is not the absence of the storm; it is the quiet decision to keep planting seeds in the rain, trusting that life will find a way to grow through the cracks you refuse to let close.”

Keep turning up, John. Keep being stubbornly still in the game. The world is brighter because you are in it, and so many hearts, including those walking alongside Hope’s journey carry your light with them.
With deep admiration and warmth,
From all who feel humbled and inspired in your presence.

Harry & Hope 👍💕

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

He’s never been in my house.

He’ll never be in my house.

Thank you for your attention to the matter of my house.

[Alan Barnard @alanbarnard1]

Highest level of cancer diagnosis in history. It's suggested that better diagnosis is the reason (may be true) but no mention of an airborne virus (SARS2) circulating and re-infecting which degrades T-Cells, NK cells and the P53 protein, all of which help protect against cancers.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.

His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.

I say that without reservation.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Donald Trump just promoted one of the most vile thugs to ever slither into the Oval Office.

This is an insult to every American who voted for change on Tuesday.

Stephen Miller cooked up the sadistic mass deportation regime that ripped apart families and trampled basic civil rights. Innocent people are dead because of him.

Voters rejected his cruelty and extremism. This is sick.

[the swamp amp ⚠️ @FloridaManPig]

I fuckin love science