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I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

How long do the effects of Covid really last? Researchers are still discovering new neurological issues.

We’ve known this since 2020.

“Covid was indeed behaving like a virus capable of reaching the brain. He’d seen the pattern before, with HIV, Ebola and SARS-CoV-1—infections that first appeared to target one organ system before revealing quieter, more lasting damage in the brain and elsewhere.”

Well this is terrifying reading but sure, wearing a mask, cleaning the air and making vaccinations available is just TOO DIFFICULT

Very few people are willing to have a real conversation about why everything feels off.

Vírus do resfriado se ‘esconde’ e se multiplica nas amígdalas e adenoides mesmo em pessoas sem sintomas Estudo conduzido na USP mostra que o patógeno pode persistir por longos períodos nesses tecidos, ser transmitido de forma insuspeita e gerar novos surtos da doença

Estudo conduzido na @uspoficial.bsky.social mostra que o #rinovírus pode persistir por longos períodos nesses tecidos, ser transmitido de forma insuspeita e gerar novos surtos da doença. Achados foram descritos em artigo no Journal of Medical Virology. agencia.fapesp.br/57226

sorry, who’s “all of us” ?
clean air organizers have been out here for years now doing the essential work. if you’ve not heard about it, time to catch up.

Studies suggest COVID vaccination in pregnancy cuts risk of preeclampsia, doesn’t cause miscarriage

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colorful green and pink pastel graphic titled “Things That Will Stop the Spread of COVID” with a green check mark showing a person wearing an N95. Below, under “Things That Won’t” with red X marks: surgical masks, handwashing, elbow coughing, various potions, being young and healthy, potatoes in socks, healing crystals, staying 6 feet apart

Loving this comic on Covid safety by Gilly, a writer & illustrator from the PNW 😷

YES to N95 masks, no to potatoes in your socks

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Tess Finch Lees: From the Winter Olympics to Nasa, wearing masks is back – except when it comes to our hospitals Masks are back: at the Olympics, at Nasa and with A-listers.

1. Outstanding article from Tess Finch Lees:

'Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics” '.

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Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections

Infections acquired in health care settings kill three times more people than car accidents each year.

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Inteligência Artificial generativa não tem como estar a serviço da sociedade, ela foi criada roubando o trabalho da população e não vejo como conciliar isso com aumentar qualidade de vida.

These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

A surgery-free way to treat appendicitis? Finnish study suggests antibiotics can be an effective alternative to going under the knife

The go-to treatment for appendicitis has always been surgery. But a new study suggests a less invasive option: antibiotics. https://scim.ag/3ObRJee

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RN...

Mouse model suggests that Covid infections impacts the molecular composition (specifically mRNA) of sperm and may induce changes in the brain of offspring.
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

A CDC toilet seat Headline CDC: Childhood Vaccinations To Be Replaced With Schedule Of Snorting Bags Of Cocaine Off Toilet Rims Story by Barf Gannion and Garret Barnhof Photo from Adobe

CDC: Childhood Vaccinations To Be Replaced With Schedule Of Snorting Bags Of Cocaine Off Toilet Rims

Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain: new study Over 20 million Americans are believed to have long COVID, suffering symptoms such as severe fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness and muscle pain.

As I've said many times before on this platform, the moment I decided that I was going to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2 was the moment I read that acute Covid-19 could cause both cognitive dysfunction and anosmia.

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Os EUA deram um golpe na Venezuela para que o país parasse de fornecer petróleo para Cuba, que exporta medicina e tecnologia medicinal para países pobres, e passasse a fornecer para Israel, que prática genocídio, exporta armas e tecnologia bélica para quem quer matar pobres.

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

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IA democratiza a arte do mesmo jeito que a lasanha de micro-ondas democratiza a gastronomia

lol donald trump invaded venezuela and captured maduro all so that they’d stop sending oil to cuba and start sending it to israel jesus christ man its just too ridiculous

They're not "extreme measures", they're following the science to stop themselves from getting sick.

"Some 30% or more of infected people never develop symptoms but are still infectious.All of these facts explain why aerosol inhalation is much more likely than droplet transmission. They also explain why infection can occur both near and far from an infected source."