Blake Murdoch

Nice eugenics BBC

The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us

But we can save each other

Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95

Even if you’re vaccinated. Even if you’re “not worried”

It protects you but it also protects everyone else

Bonus? Less colds & flus!

Five and half years since we’ve known covid is transmitted by aerosols and a provicial health authority has released an AI chat bot that disseminates droplet disinformation.

i miss the time when most liberals could identify the policies suggested in the great barrington declaration as evil, eugenic, and unsupported by science!

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death | CBC News Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...

This is a fucking tragedy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Right-wing authoritarians are now buying our video game companies.

They already own almost all of the media.

I find this site has little content on Covid. The world's running amok with so much else going on, but I'm determined to keep banging the Covid drum because I believe it’s in part fueling the crumbling fascist political state we see now

Many of the weird things that you hear people say or do are, at core, a rejection of reality because the problems of the latter are hard to contemplate and solve by those who were raised in the culture of the make believe. The crash landing will be very hard.

I think it's really telling how many of the "it's just health anxiety!" people are really angry about it. It's multiple layers of ableism - pathologising a response to a real threat to discredit it, as well as acting as though hostility is an acceptable response to people's mental health problems.

People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Misinformation makes everything worse, but we are witnessing collapse in peer review: $ cuts and precarity mean fewer people have the time necessary to do basic work. Experts can't do all the reviews so editors go far down the list to the inexpert, editors don't have time to sort out conflicts, etc.

They solicited more reviews so that’s good. I clarified in an additional post. But they should have excluded or clearly discounted in writing the second one.

I should specify there were two other reviews as well and they weren’t great. But while I accept critiques of my work, even rejection, the editors should have at least noted that they discounted peer reviewer 2 (or not included them). I also am writing in a hyperpoliticized space (pandemic ethics).

I should specify there were two other reviews as well and they weren’t great. But while I accept critiques of my work, even rejection, the editors should have at least noted that they discounted peer reviewer 2 (or not included them). I also am writing in a hyperpoliticized space (pandemic ethics).

Just got rejected from the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was pretty illuminating in terms of how far society has fallen.

Infant mortality in the USA

It’s sustainable in that it’s actually not hard to do most of the time, it’s unsustainable as it relies on broad behaviour change in a hyper-politicized context

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve OTTAWA - U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has vowed to improve anti-American sentiment he sees in Canada, no matter how many illegal tariffs, forced annexations, or literal bombs it takes to do it.

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

It seems to me that a "comprehensive overview of cardiovascular prevention strategies across all stages of COVID-19" should start with the most important one: "try to not get covid". It's weird that this step is not mentioned, given all the other things they talk about.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Quebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population | CBC News COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be free for all Quebecers starting this fall, the province’s Health Ministry announced Wednesday.

"However, he said that for people not in at-risk groups, vaccination against COVID-19 and the flu "is not a step we necessarily recommend."

Apparently Quebec's government is anti-vax.

Welcome to the dark ages of kakistocracy.

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ah, well

From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: People grouping around a food truck Explore this post and more from the interestingasfuck community

Contrast it to this apocalyptic video from a drone in Gaza www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

YouTube video by The Guardian 'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? | On the Ground

This is worth 15 minutes of your time when you have it. My goodness
youtu.be/nMyyVaiY4V8

Most people don’t realize that “Love You Forever” was written for Robert’s two precious stillborn children.