Kelly Harrison

A healthcare worker wearing blue scrubs, gloves, and a mask administers a COVID-19 vaccine to an older woman who is also masked. The headline above reads: “COVID-19 could cost UK £7 billion a year without autumn vaccinations” (Open Access Government, Oct 13, 2025).

UK: COVID-19 could cost UK £7 billion a year without autumn vaccinations.

"A new OHE model shows that stopping annual autumn COVID-19 vaccinations could cost the UK economy £7 billion each year, highlighting the importance of continued immunisation"

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It's diagnoses from all diseases. What this illustrates is how things were before c19 and then as people got covid & their immune systems became dysfunctional, they got all sorts of "sick all the time" diseases, and these are despite rising costs of care, which would typically lower trips to the doc

Data from Finland paints a scary picture of what SARS-COV-2 is doing.

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For Anthony Bourdain day, I suggest this excellent essay.
#bourdainday
TW:suicidal ideation
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The national security implications of DOGE was something @profsaunders.bsky.social and I worried about from the start www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... and our worries should grow given how entrenched Musk’s people are in the systems.

This is depressing. Everyone needs an update.

A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

Great job, Violet!

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Same! The Roci was great.

Stand up, fight back!
#dtsj #50501

Waiting for the amazing Roxane Gay at #awp2025.

Newsom brings the back-to-office push to California California's Democratic governor joins other leaders, including President Donald Trump, in calling for government workers to return to their desks.

So now @GavinNewsom like Trump is demanding in person work, while we have covid, bird flu, measles, TB and a whole bunch of increasing illnesses. What ever could go wrong with this policy?
They really want us dead, don't they?
So much for workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Should I follow you? I mostly read and respond rather than create posts.
If you follow me and I haven't followed you back, like or reply and I'll do my best to fix that!

Same, until I heard someone say don't let the bastards win. Your success is the best resistance.

We're still in covid, so...?

What is up with security at these buildings? Can I just show up, claim I'm with DOGE and then ruin the place?
STOP THEM AT THE DOOR. ARMED GUARDS !
#ResistFascism

Security needs to keep these marauders out. They do not have a legal right to do what they are doing. #ResistFascism
#resistDOGE
#arrestMusk

Let's put it another way: if ocean temps rise, they kill off the small life that feeds the entire oceanic food web.
The raping and pillaging of our country's institutions by Musk and the DOGE goons must stop immediately.
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

Most Americans have no idea how critical #NOAA is to the entire world. They have satellites to monitor and forecast weather, crops, oceans, pollution. They do critical research, especially in ocean systems. 1/

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Apparently, the US opened a concentration camp in Gitmo.
Felon47, in some delusion, wants to take over Gaza.
Racist/sexist South African Nazi Elon Musk broke about a dozen laws or more in an ongoing coup via the US Treasury.
This is in the last 2 days & I haven't even mentioned the stupid tariffs.

Musk, the guy who named cars S3XY. He's emotionally stunted.

Great movie based on the amazing book!

Looks like a sheep butt to me

No. Your headline should really read: No, Trump cannot rename the Gulf of Mexico.
And then you should explain how map making works, how countries name things, maybe use Myanmar/Burma as an example.
Anyone making a map with these names should be boycotted, she says looking for Constantinople...

I had a hospital insist I wear a surgical, so I put it over my N95 Aura and shook my head at the stupidity.

Dear world, I apologize for what the USA has been doing and for what hell is to come. Remember that most of us (65% of eligible voters) did not vote for this.
I hear Mother Nature crying out.

That's why I liked the Seattle Seahawks as a kid. Their colors...and the NFL pencil was cool. I traded the ugly 49er red/brown pencil for that blue and green one! Lmao.

Why am I picturing a big hairy bear behind him? Leather cap tilted to the side. mmmmmasculine!

Went to a play in Stratford last month (masked along with maybe 6 others) and the coughing was insane. I'd love to know if seasoned actors can quantify it. Also noted a lot more rude behavior like talking.