Vincent Tayag, M.D.

Pediatrician

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Why-

*cough*

Why-

*cough, cough*

Why are-

*cough, hack*

Why-

*COUGH, COUGH, HACK*

Why are you-

*COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, HACK, HACK, COUGH*

Why are you still-

*COUGH, HACK, COUGH, COUGH*

Why are-

*COUGH, HACK, COUGH, COUGH, HACK*

Why are you still wearing a mask?

[tern @1goodtern]

🚨🫀European Heart Journal:
"Our findings suggest that COVID-19 infection may lead to persistent endothelial dysfunction and hypercoagulability, portending increased severity of coronary artery ectasia and coronary thrombosis even after recovery from the initial infection."

Just a cold, eh, you dingbats.

https://t.co/1CFupy3u5Y

[tern @1goodtern]

There's a new virus going around in the UK called nastiflu.
Unlike other flus, you can't detect it using flu tests, so it's not being picked up by hospital tracking.
But it does show up on covid tests, which is weird, because one of its nicknames is notcovid.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

These clips are just fabulous

[JR Santiago @oslecjunior]

Remembering a former public official who was never afraid to answer questions in any Congressional hearings.

And he never used a wheelchair or a neck brace to avoid being held accountable.

Kasi nga, kapag walang tinatago, walang dapat ikatakot.

#SinongTunayNaMatapang #PNoy

[WesElyMD @WesElyMD]

1/🧵This weeks 2 important studies on Long COVID

📌Include ~340k COVID patients vs ~7M controls out to 2 yrs
 📌Organ dysfunction persists in 33%
 📌Levels of disability from #LongCOVID exceed those of cancer & heart disease‼️

Links at end of this thread

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

As a couples therapist, I noticed 7 patterns within couples who "made it."

Here They Are:

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

“This is Jesse, he is a drifter who lives near the bridge in my area. He owns nothing but a bike, a bird and a bag of about 10 items!

Yesterday, while I was riding my bike down around the beach – which is about 3 miles from my house – I got a flat tire. I had no choice but to turn around and wheel my bike the long walk home.

A few people rode past and didn’t really pay me any attention and I didn’t expect them too, but as I started walking, headphones in my ears, I noticed the homeless guy from under the bridge saying something to me.

At first I thought he was going to ask me for something so I popped my headphones out and asked him what he wanted? He then replied “I don’t want anything- but I’ve got a new tube in my bag and you can have it if ya want!”

Shocked at first I said no thanks but he insisted. So I walked over to his little clearing where he had his things and his pet bird sat in a busted cage.

He opened up his empty bag and gave me the tube (which was one of the very few things he had) helped me change the tire, even pumped it up! I asked him how I could pay him back and he said to me “don’t worry about it, this is what it’s all about!”

The enormity of his situation and the fact that he went out of his way to help me was so humbling, I mean this guy was willing to give me his stuff and didn’t want anything in return. To you and I, a bike tube would probably not mean much but to a guy with so little this item must hold enormous value!

I could go on and on about how selfless this guy was to give me, a total stranger, clearly in a much better position than him some of his possessions, while people like us are so selfishly attached to all our useless crap.

Anyway I just wanted to show you a pic of Jesse with his new Versace lenses, some fresh Sneakers, a full belly and a cold beer… Felt good to do something for him. I also went up to our local fast food chain and got him a couple weeks worth of food and some seed for his bird…

Man he was ecstatic even had tears in his eyes and couldn’t thank me enough, but amidst me sitting there proud of my good deed, and him singing me praises, I suddenly felt pretty bad because the truth is if he didn’t go out of his way to help me, I wouldn’t of done anything for him.

I ride past this guy all the time and never even think twice!

Really knocked me off my high horse!

Even tho we sit around with all our materialistic needs and pass judgment, this dude has something that none of us can buy!
I guess what I’m trying to say is thanks for the lesson in humanity champ!”

Credit: Tony Biggs

[Leila de Lima @manayleila]

Siniraan, ginipit, ipinakulong ng 7 taon at 7 buwan. Buong loob na ipinaglaban ni Ninoy ang Demokrasya, Katarungan at Karapatan ng Pilipino.

Di pa tapos ang laban ni Ninoy. Ituloy natin ito hanggang makamit ang tunay na kalayaan mula sa katiwalian at kahirapan. 

Salamat, Ninoy!

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

"It’s been described as the most deadly Covid strain since Omicron."

By whom?? No one who is tracking it, that's for sure.

https://t.co/eHFHNtRo7t

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

"Typically, viruses become less deadly as they mutate as this gives them a better chance of survival".

❌ NOPE.

https://t.co/LLgmNIfPPh

[Vincent Tayag, M.D. @docd12]

@RpsAgainstTrump https://t.co/5xUXBlIhr6

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[Rare Stories @rarestorees]

@historyinmemes Michael Collins took this picture of the lunar lander which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin where inside. Behind is Earth.

The photo has become known as “Everyone in the world except Michael Collins.”

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Michael Collins passed away on April 28th, 2021. While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon, Collins was in the Command Module, orbiting the moon by himself for 28 hours. He is often referred to as the "forgotten" astronaut. While half a billion people on Earth watched as Armstrong took his first steps and uttered his famous words, Collins was on the far side of the moon, cut off from all communication. "I had this beautiful little domain. It was all mine. I was the emperor, the captain of it, and it was quite commodious. I had warm coffee, even."

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING. 😂

“A father passing by his son's bedroom was astonished to see that his bed was nicely made and everything was picked up.

Then he saw an Envelope, propped up prominently on the pillow that was addressed to 'Dad.'

With the worst premonition he opened the envelope with trembling hands and read the letter.

‘Dear Dad: It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mom and you.
I have been finding real passion with Stacy and she is so nice.

But I knew you would not approve of her because of all her piercing, tattoos, tight motorcycle clothes and the fact that she is much older than I am. But it's not only the passion...

…Dad she's pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy.

She owns a trailer in the woods and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more children.

Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone.
We'll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people that live nearby for cocaine and ecstasy.

In the meantime we will pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so Stacy can get better. She deserves it.
Don't worry Dad. I'm 15 and I know how to take care of myself.

Someday I'm sure that we will be back to visit so that you can get to know your grandchildren.

Love, Your Son John…

PS. Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at Tommy's house.

I Just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than a Report card that's in my center desk drawer.

I love you.

Call me when it's safe to come home.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How bigs are the cells? Microorganisms in Perspective 🦠

[📹 full video, MetaBallStudios: https://t.co/yIkoGOhV7i]

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The legend of Pheidippides lived on through the centuries and when the first modern Olympic Games were organised in 1896 they created a new, flagship event inspired by his exploits.

Runners would race to complete his same journey of 25 miles, and it would be called the marathon.

[NBA Memes @NBAMemes]

Bro went from Jason Williams to Dikembe Mutombo

...on his own teammate 😭

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Anatomy and movements of the human eye

[📹 https://t.co/5LOnyQTg8u]