Covid Caution - KP.2, KP.2.3, KP.3.1.1, LB.1, XEC

If you want to block all the AI-slop-riddled propaganda bots that are being slung by the current regime here on BSky, here's a handy list to get you started.

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YOU ARE EXPENDABLE. The corporations that control the White House, public health, and media narratives do not care if you live or die.

Don't die to make billionaires an extra buck.

220k daily infections currently, with new variants.

Fauci said in Nov 2021 that we had to get below 10k daily cases to have any sort of control or normalcy.

That target was completely abandoned. Not because "COVID is over/mild" but because the economy couldn't wait any longer.

Masking is resistance against the corporate demand to sacrifice your body in order to turn billionaires into trillionaires.

Now instead of "just wear a mask", it's "you're crazy for wearing that!" even from medical staff.

Humans have a primitive need for conformity, not just to fit in, but to have uniformity among the "tribe"; Any individualistic behavior is disturbing when one wants to bury their head in the sand.

I had a painful reminder today of how much my social circle has diminished due to my chronic health conditions and COVID avoidance.

Even so, cashing my brain and body in for some broader social acceptance still just isn't worth it.

But that doesn't make it hurt any less.

I’ll never understand how “we have to learn to live with the virus” was interpreted as “completely abandon every possible mitigation.”

It's only "stinky" air that counts I guess. Time to break out the plague doctor masks with some herbs in 'em.

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

I get social media fatigue so bad it's really hard to post up both here and on X. But I'm trying! Hope you're all staying safe.

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

Yale, Harvard, Cedars Sinai, American Heart Association, Johns Hopkins, WHO, CDC — THEY have done the research and published the hard scientific facts. WE are simply paying attention and being realists.

If it’s too hard to hear, that’s on you.

I need everyone to understand that we who are protecting ourselves from COVID infections did not “do our own research” and “come to the conclusions” about its effects on our own.

What we’re doing is trusting in the largest body of scientific research for any disease in history.

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

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A screenshot of article which says: CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists. By Matt Shuham Feb 28, 2025, 12:37 PM EST Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been prohibited from co-authoring publications with World Health Organization staff, dealing a blow to global research efforts and continuing the Trump administration’s aggressive attack on government-funded science. “CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” an interim guidance document dated Thursday and obtained by HuffPost says, adding that CDC staff should also not author publications related to work “funded by WHO.”

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

CDC: 13% of kids who died from flu this year had brain damage

In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

The official store of the Hyrax

The economic black out is tomorrow. I'm participating.

Thank you! I’m trying to get better at that.

You first.

COVID excess deaths “saved” $300 billion in Social Security payments A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research estimated that in the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1.75 million excess deaths.

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Every public health decision was/is an economic strategy.

If you contact these people I would personally lean in on the Trump / RFK policies of dismantling public health data as yet another reason to not block people's personal protections against myriad diseases.

DO NOT LET NATIONWIDE MASK BANS PASS. A federal mask ban would be a critical blow to health, right as H5N1 and other diseases are going unchecked and unmonitored by this new administration.

You can also email the Maryland ACLU at: aclu@aclu-md.org

Sponsors and their phone numbers:

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Link to the bill HB1081

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⚠ New mask ban being attempted in Maryland. ⚠

Democratic members of the Maryland General Assembly are sponsoring a new mask ban TODAY 2/18 at 1pm.

Similar to Nassau, NY this ban puts the burden of proof on the mask wearer to demonstrate medical need.

Please share far and wide!

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An image of numerous graphs showing linear spikes in nearly every type of pathogen, illness, and even disability in the U.S. and U.K. since 2020.

Totally normal. What's that you say? CDC, WHO, Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, every researcher on Earth warned us that this would be the consequence of repeat COVID infections?

Hrm, OK well I don't think it's that. I'd rather keep calling it a mystery instead. /s

I have a feeling Donnie Diapers has to let Leon cook as part of whatever scam deal he has going with our adversaries.