indyanwriter

Writer. Foodie. Parent. Podcast ❤️ N95 + Science❤️Anti-Casteist. Monotheist. Anti-imperialist. 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 🇺🇸

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

1/ Healthcare CAN be designed, and IS, a public good.
-Non-excludable: Anyone can use the good without being prevented from doing so 
-Non-rivalrous: Using the good doesn't reduce its availability to others 
-Jointly consumed: Everyone benefits when anyone has access to the good

[Jess @MeetJess]

A new study finds the COVID vaccine was linked with nearly 40% lower risk of events like heart attack and stroke https://t.co/smdrVvq1pw

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@DonEford Good luck!

[Don Ford - The People's Strategist - @DonEford]

We have a VRBPAC meeting for the mRNA influenza vaccines on Thursday... and at 4 am the night before slides are due, I changed my mind about putting one together.

So, I threw this together in just under an hour.

https://t.co/6yMlPbWHVR

Still looking for mistakes.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Don Ford - The People's Strategist - @DonEford]

Three shots of Nuvaxovid should be added to the general pediatric vaccine schedule worldwide.

mRNA vaccines have too many problems, including limited range and protection, and they can potentially make other vaccines less effective via their IgG4 response.

BA.3.2 is teaching us that it takes three exposures to an antigen to reach mutant variants, and kids should get that exposure through vaccines rather than infection.

Nuvaxovid also has the benefit of increasing the range of antibodies with additional shots... so while imprinting and B cell maturation are important concepts, there's a third aspect of Nuvaxovid that gives it a further edge over mRNA.

And no study has ever demonstrated whether Nuvaxovid's response wanes like mRNA's. Everyone who says all COVID vaccines wane the same is incompetent and should not be heard.

The pandemic can never end until we are protecting newly born children to the fullest extent.

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@MarcusShepard @airspothealth We felt so happy in Japan! Masks everywhere and no one batted an eyelid at us. So comfortable!

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@marybakermusic1 @BTnewsroom … says a songwriter who couldn’t ever dream of getting into Stanford. Step down lady, these students actually have minds that think. Signed, an ivy leaguer

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.

The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@BrJoCr @DonEford Unfortunately all doses expired 5/30. Look up Novavax off label on Reddit.

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

wtf. This is not comedy. Fuck this dude. Fucccccckkkkk

[Me🧘‍♀Lucy🕊 @Rock__Lucy]

I found this video on insta....i never watch stand-up comedy...
Kutta jaat (men) are showing their lustful filthy mentality in the name of stand-up comedy...
N girls who r laughing r worst thn these inhuman creatures kutta jaat 🤮

#rapeculture
#Standupcomedy 💩

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@veggiequeen420 @Biff234523 Looks like it. I have the combined ones from Europe that are for Covid, flu A, flu B and RSV. Expired a year ago. Feel bad throwing out hundred tests. :(

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@DonEford Really want them to launch the 6-12, it’s been way too long! Looks promising with the recent “updates”…

[tern @1goodtern]

And... what else people. What else.

Yes.

The Endothelium.

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@DonEford Then again I just realized that the last lots expired 5/31 (hubs and so were boosted) so maybe the question doesn’t hold..

[indyanwriter @ummaaron_]

@gauravsabnis Sigh. Annoying! Biryani and pulaao are primarily different ways of cooking meat and rice. Layering & fried vs absorption. Not rocket science. 🙄 Replace meat with your protein of choice or simply vegetables.

[Don Ford - The People's Strategist - @DonEford]

It's also completely bonkers because we have an excellent vaccine for measles, and the only pediatric COVID vaccine doesn't protect from most long-term issues.

It makes no sense that people are freaked out about measles when COVID can cause almost all the same damage in children.

It's one of the more nonsensical things happening right now.

[john teufel @JohnTeufelNYC]

SpaceX IPO so perfect for right now. A company without profit, sold on a market detached from reality, based on fake promises about things it will never do. Layers and layers of bullshit.