MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️

Writer, editor, traveler, teacher, chef, tall ship sailor who loves alpine lakes and fire-roasted breadfruit with fresh coconut milk. #binders #amwriting

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

I Tweet a decent number of thoughtful, carefully worded opinions on this platform, and no one reads those. But my single-point responses (no room for nuance) to other people's Tweets earns me a metric ton of derision. Everyone notices what I can't say...

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@POTUS We want #Novavax

[Friesein @Friesein]

Novavax is a safe and effective vaccine booster.

France, Swizterland and South Korea approved it regardless of vaccine history after it produced a favorable immune response following phase 2 clinical trials out of the US, Australia, South Africa, and the UK.

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@catladyactivist I’ve heard the elephant is harder to use. I’m going where the sky is blue…

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

OK, I’m ready for the place where the sky is still blue. Anyone have a code…?

[BNO News Live @BNODesk]

Elon Musk says the ability to block people on X/Twitter will soon be removed

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

Yet more evidence that most humans don’t act to save their own lives unless they’re told to do so by some authority figure.

[Amanda Hu @amandalhu]

Why. Are. They. Standing. There. Watching.

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

HCWs take note

[National Nurses United @NationalNurses]

Pssst... @CDCgov is secretly trying to weaken infection control guidance. This means you're more at risk of getting sick if you work in or visit a hospital, clinic, or nursing home.

Any kind of infection: measles, tuberculosis, Covid, influenza. Here's what's going on. 🧵 (1/7)

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@MJSEyesOpened Sounds like a failure to do no harm.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Houston wastewater numbers now at 239% up from 180% wk before, 135% wk before that, 90% 70% 50% before that. I don’t understand the delays in rolling out the XBB mRNA booster given the months in the planning? Now is when we need it…

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@esfletcher Thanks for letting me know. Such a challenge to find good peaches!

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

Does anybody still make homemade, hand-cranked ice cream? Umm, boy! So many memories. Sunday evenings in the shade of an old oak, with family and neighbors – a bygone era. But the taste and thoughts of that simpler time remain in the backroads of my mind.

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@POTUS People are still dying of acute infection and of Long Covid. We have fewer and fewer tools. You have gaslit and abandoned us.

[Julia Marie @julia_doubleday]

I canNOT cannot cannot get over that our new normal is just everyone getting COVID over and over again and developing new health problems while our idiot president goes on tv and says he forgets a million people have died sometimes omfg

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@esfletcher Where do you order from?

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@Aster26372073 Whaaat? You mean Pfizer bought them and then just stopped making them?? WTAF.

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@VirginiaBuysse #Novavax?

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

The LAUSD policy represents an engrained, well-accepted American approach to student attendance, albeit one that has never worked especially well (for human beings; it was designed to benefit the economy, not living bodies), and which now makes even less sense than it did before.

[J. Offir, Ph.D. @dontwantadothis]

I tried to write a commentary🧵 tonight on the recent letter from LAUSD to parents re: their "new" sickness policy, but it turned into an essay. Please read it, so I don't have to go back & write a summary thread. (I'm tired.) It's shorter than my usual.😉
https://t.co/iXUBlzGnzy

[Yoni Freedhoff @YoniFreedhoff]

Given reactions people have to masking, the claim that those still wearing them are pathologically fearful is laughable. On the other hand those not masking when appropriate because it's no longer socially normal? Yep. Fear. Not judging btw, social norms are powerful forces.

[Jim Rosenthal @JimRosenthal4]

I just received word that one of my major suppliers is not able to fulfill orders on time because one third of their employees are out with Covid. Good reminder: We might be done with Covid, but Covid is not done with us.

[laurie allee (retired account) @laurieallee]

Several years ago public health authorities said folks didn't really need to wipe down groceries and packages because Covid is airborne, and fomites on surfaces weren't a big concern.

Yet now their ONLY advice to prevent catching (still airborne) Covid...is to wash hands.

🤔

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@voisine @thechosenberg That’s a non-answer answer.

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@writesloud @TBQuarterly That actually sounds like something I’d want to attend. I went once to AWP and not again.

[MaineJane.bsky🌎🫐😷⛵️ @manavanava]

@Surgeon_General We want #Novavax We want transmission-slowing/stopping variant-matched mucosal vaccines. We want clean air. We want leadership to stop lying/falsely encouraging people to unmask/creating an anti-mask environment for those of us trying to protect ourselves. #DavosSafe