Indie bookstores have often served as hubs of political action and community care. Read more about their masking policies and COVID-19 consciousness in 2026. https://t.co/StqkD3rH2J
This week I start a major project to analyse Govt's response to the Covid Inquiry (the largest in UK history) - for @CovidJusticeUK
Looking back at 30 public inquires into health scandals & over last 3 decades - its alarming how few recommendations were ever implemented
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“Some comrades started saying that they wanted to ‘go back to normal,’ and it absolutely crushed me. We poured so much of our lives into fighting ‘normal.’ ‘Normal’ was never okay before.” https://t.co/6jlMaLaph9
Psychologizing recovery from illnesses like Long Covid is one of the most common and covert forms of ableism, seething hatred disguised as concern. It blames the individual both for their disability as well as their inability to magically heal through things like religion or brain retraining. There is a big difference between hatred and concern, concern and acceptance.
Thank you, Dr.@michael_hoerger for calling out the author @WIRED on this terribly incompetent and hurtful article. At a time when so many are very disabled with some committing suicide because of this BIOLOGICAL condition of unknown cellular dysfunction and finding it's next to impossible to get any real help from Healthcare, it's a little like being handed a shovel to dig one's own grave. 😡
If you talk to someone who doesn't understand that people are still dying of COVlD, here I explain excess deaths in a way a 5 year old can understand. The key is understanding mortality displacement.
This is what these social media ID verification/age verification laws are really about, and you’re an idiot if u think any of this is about “protecting children.”
The AC on my neighbour's house is blowing hot air into the street at day and nights.
42 degrees outside. Everyone's units running.
At what point does "personal cooling" become a shared public health problem?
Asking for every city in Asia right now.
#Heat_And_Cooling #PublicHealth
"Singapore saw the number of Covid-19 cases surge by 59% in just one week (May 10-16) with the total reaching 12,700..
This is a significant jump from the previous week’s total of 8,000 Covid cases..
The NB.1.8.1 variant, a descendant of the JN.1 variant, is the main Covid-19 variant circulating in Singapore, accounting for more than half of locally sequenced cases..
The surge could be due to several factors, including waning population immunity.."
Waning interest must be one of these factors.
'Singapore Covid cases soar 59% in one week'
https://t.co/wFkbahon1X
Recent Celebrity Sepsis (not comprehensive)
There are entire articles about this. This is not normal.
Kyle Busch
Perez Hilton
Madonna
Billy Porter
Larry King
Whoopi Goldberg
John Daly
Erin Bates
Tyler James Williams
Stephen Colbert
Charlbi Dean
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Ashley Park
From 2020 on, we watched in horror as young people acquired Covid & died of sepsis in absolutely unprecedented, eye-watering numbers. Adults & children were going from sniffles to dead in under 48 hours. Everyone was scared. Then we memory-holed it as it continued to occur.
What ties all the Polybio presentations together is a strong emphasis on the persistence of SARS2 - often in a replication-competent form.
This persistence is primarily located in tissues, especially in the gastrointestinal tract (ileum, lamina propria, sigmoid colon).
Nicolas Huot
Found replication-competent SARS2 in the ileum of primates, localized near lymphoid structures.
Marcus Buggert
Detected persistent viral RNA in the gut along with increased interferon signaling.
Tim Henrich
Showed persistence in the lamina propria and associated changes in immune cells.
Eduardo Reategui
Presented the BARA platform (using extracellular vesicles) with very strong detection accuracy.
Van Brocklin
PET scanning to identify areas of T cell activation across patient’s whole bodies
These studies strongly suggest functional parallels with HIV -
Viral reservoirs in immune cells and GALT
Chronic T-cell activation and exhaustion
Long term immune dysregulation driven by persistent viral antigens.
PolyBio is approaching Long COVID as a chronic infectious disease with a viral reservoir, rather than merely a post-viral syndrome.
The transfer of knowledge and experience from HIV research is one of the strongest accelerators of progress in this field!
The WHO forbids contact tracers from masking or gloving up.
"Do not conduct home visits wearing personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, or
gowns."
It gets worse.
Fully agree with @j_g_allen
Failing to investigate the impact of ventilation on the cruise ship is ignoring a major (or possibly the most important) factor of this hantavirus super spreader event.
An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal on Wednesday afternoon due to concerns that one of the passengers on board may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. https://t.co/ifcOQ7cf0N