OHjaeCHAOS

Just your chaotic alter-ego superhero, art-fiend, and über-nerd living a Spoonie life. She/They

[OHjaeCHAOS @ohjaechaos]

I am exhausted with all this talk of the pandemic “being over,” because it’s not. It’s not over. If you think it is, your ableism and narcissism are showing.

…and if you get “hurt” by what I just said - maybe you should do a little introspection on the why that is.
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[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Several mainstream public health experts are normalizing Trump's health picks in naive hope that they can limit the damage by finding common ground. This is an example of obeying in advance. Rather than reducing harm, it legitimizes deadly policies and paves the way for worse.

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning. The whitewashed story of unity with the Wampanoag people—who have long lived in southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island—obscures the true history and ongoing violence against Indigenous life.🧵

[רייצ'ל @rach3lburn3tt]

masterclass in why the oxford comma matters from @nytimes

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

A devastated Palestinian mother holds the body of her son massacred in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

[Ema🇵🇸 @Ema97n]

Israel was built on the blood of Palestinians—The claim of "a land without a people for a people without a land" was nothing but a myth—Now, Israel is repeating the same tactic by alleging that northern Gaza is empty of people—(1/2👇🏻)

[Infectious Disease Tracker @HmpxvT]

⚠️ BREAKING:

California reports 41 new dairy herds infected with H5N1 bird flu, bringing the statewide total to 335.

Over 30% of the state's dairy herds have been confirmed to be infected, according to USDA.

[tern @1goodtern]

If you have a new serious health condition that has developed since you had a covid infection, it may have been caused by the covid infection.

Covid can do damage to every organ system.
Lasting damage.

Even if you've been vaccinated or had Covid before.

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

Mariam is a freelance voiceover artist, while Mahmoud works as an accountant. But their lives have been blown apart. Please support their fundraising campaign: https://t.co/xxgZ5NgLFh

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

The H5N1 sequence found in the hospitalized teenager shows two important mutations that improve the virus's ability to bind to human α2,6 sialic acid receptors.

This adaptation is crucial for the virus's potential to spread between humans.

The virus is evolving.

#H5N1

[Salamāsina (she/her) @salamasinamusic]

The people who need the most protection from infectious diseases are the people who are least likely to receive or have any access to protections.

White people who don't mask really need to see themselves in the big picture of how their actions affect the most marginalized.

[Covid Caution - BA.3.2, XFG, LF.7, LP.8.1 @CovidCaution]

Reply guys would say "wastewater isn't accurate" or "that's just viral shedding" (okay?) but let me remind everyone that until testing ramped down prematurely, wastewater was almost exactly 1:1 with cases. It is THE most accurate picture we have.

[Dr. Theresa Chapple has moved to bluesky @Theresa_Chapple]

In 2020, I wrote letters to governors asking, no begging them to decarcerate before COVID killed prisoners and prison staff. It was clear that prisons/jails would be a hotbed for the virus to spread. I'm sad it took so long before the advice of public health folk was heeded.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Yes, we should fight greedy pharma practices that often make drugs less accessible to the people who need them most. But that's not what RFK is railing about.

RFK wants regulatory policies dismantled so supplement manufacturers can make unproven claims without accountability.

[Antony Loewenstein @antloewenstein]

Truths:

“Kids aren’t terrorists,” Chris Sidoti told the handful of journalists assembled in the quiet of the UN’s New York headquarters.

Thousands of kilometres from the conflict in Gaza he was documenting, Sidoti felt compelled to repeat it: “Kids aren’t terrorists.”

“On 7 October, 38 Israeli children were killed, one of them under the age of two years. Since then, at least … 13,319 children have been killed in Gaza, of whom 786 were under the age of one. In addition, 165 children have been killed in the West Bank,” he said.

“It’s a statistic that, to me, says everything.”

Sidoti, Australia’s former human rights commissioner, told Guardian Australia in a subsequent interview this week that he feared an already intolerable conflict would only worsen: “People are still being killed, in particular, kids are still being killed in very large numbers, and the likelihood is it will get worse before it gets better.”

Sidoti was in New York to present a report by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. He is one of the commission’s three members.

He told the UN press briefing the ongoing bombardment of Gaza was sowing the seeds for generations of conflict, every day of violence making peace harder to achieve.

“When the current Israeli prime minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu talks about finishing off Hamas, I wonder about what the 1 million children in Gaza will be doing in 20 years’ time. The conflict in Gaza is an Israeli terrorism creation factory and there is no sign of it finishing.”

https://t.co/pt7WvBR2kM

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

And if I said y’all already live by the motto “your body, my choice” by existing maskless in public spaces and determining other people’s health for them by spreading covid wherever you go?

25% of all covid infections have no symptoms, but all infections cause damage. Mask up.

[Danilo.Buonsenso_Surf4Children @surf4children]

we’re on for this hell of a emotional day!
#longcovid in children meeting

on stage @PutrinoLab

#longcovidkids

[Angela M. Vázquez made 🦠their whole personality @AngelaMSWinCA]

Where was this big vaccine energy when the Biden administration stopped paying for vaccines for uninsured people earlier this year?

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Israeli occupation soldiers released a picture of blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinians they kidnapped from the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

[OHjaeCHAOS @ohjaechaos]

Hey folks, I'm in the process of winding things down here I think -- so if you have blsky, or other socials - find me with my handle @ohjaechaos

And don't forget, masks save lives.