Cynthia Baker

Thanks! We’ve become quite accustomed to spending all our time with family outdoors. And we get to skip all the holiday drama.

My husband being one of those. Substantial impairment after a very mild case.

Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.

Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.

SARS-CoV-2 causes long-lasting structural changes in the brain - even in people without symptoms. Recovered ≠ normal. In this study, every single recovered participant still showed measurable abnormalities. And this is 6-12 months after infection🧵

🚨🧵 by @ZdenekVrozina (from Nov 28) on Covid's impact on the brain...

"SARS-CoV-2 causes long-lasting structural changes in the brain - even in people without symptoms.
Recovered ≠ normal. In this study, every single recovered participant..."

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“To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.”

— Andrew Collier, Marx: A Beginner’s Guide.

Red pill? Blue? What the fuck did I just see?

What’s he getting for that?

NYC subway

ERs in Spanish hospitals are beginning to collapse due to flu infections.

“Many of us have…learned 2 accept that our friends & loved ones have lingering, persistent coughs. I notice it mostly in the lull between songs in a live set. People seem genuinely puzzled that they’re now sick all the time, & not just getting sick more frequently, but being hit harder, too.” #COVID

Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

What a sick joke. Will they put photos of the murders in the Caribbean Sea in the lobby? How about a photo of Trump clapping as the murderer Putin arrives in Alaska? Or Trump having the time of his life with the murdering Saudi Prince MBS?

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.

Context:

Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).

Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).

Dr. Ron Davis: "When you have an infection, you feel tired. That's because of this activation [Itaconate Shunt]. One of the hypotheses..a JAK-STAT inhibitor should shut it off..we've had two patients that have taken JAK-STAT inhibitors..they've gone in complete remission..they're still in remission"

6 Years of SARS-CoV-2 (Dec 1, 2025): 😡AN UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY! My personal summary of TODAY’S ongoing Pandemic! ➡️Global Impact & XFG Variant: - As we mark 6 years since the first cases in Wuhan, SARS-CoV-2 persists with ~105k new global cases (Oct-Nov 2025), low hospitalizations in general, but still with deaths.

🎯 recap 🧵 by @harryspoelstra.bsky.social on...

"6 Years of SARS-CoV-2 (Dec 1, 2025):
😡AN UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY!

My personal summary of TODAY’S ongoing Pandemic!

➡️Global Impact & XFG Variant:
- As we mark 6 years since the first cases in Wuhan..."

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She sounds catholic.

A study comparing the immune system 3 months after COVID-19 and after influenza shows something clear. SARS-CoV-2 leaves behind a far deeper and longer-lasting immune imprint than seasonal flu. And the difference isn’t subtle🧵

Here's another 🚨🧵 by Zdenek Vrozina (also today):

"A study comparing the immune system 3 months after COVID-19 and after influenza shows something clear.
SARS-CoV-2 leaves behind a far deeper and longer-lasting immune imprint than seasonal flu..."

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Group Therapy Anjuna25 Special with Above & Beyond (DJ Mix) - Album by Above & Beyond Listen to Group Therapy Anjuna25 Special with Above & Beyond (DJ Mix) by Above & Beyond on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

For CC & LC folks, sharing this album if like me you can find strength in its songs & melodies:

Group Therapy Anjuna25 Special with Above & Beyond (DJ Mix) music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Vaccinated Dead Make Their ACIP Debut What happens at FDA CBER doesn't stay at FDA CBER

If you disliked Vinay Prasad's CBER memo that outlined his plans to destroy evidence-based vaccine regulation based on unsupported claims that COVID vaccines kill children, you are REALLY going to hate what is going down at this week’s ACIP meeting.
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My god…they just took 50 million from the general budget for vouchers going to private religious schools.

Now, another 100 million?

To commemorate the 6th year of the pandemic, here's an animated map showing the early spread of SARS-CoV-2 from December 2019 to January 2020, based on the genomic sequences shared in GISAID.

Locations are approximate - typically country and state/province.
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FIRST OPINION Kids don't need Covid-19 vaccines to return to school By Vinay Prasad Feb. 3, 2021

There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time.

Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.

Always.

Chocolate cake with whipped cream, raspberry and chocolate ganache filling, decorated with sugared local cranberries and rosemary from my yard

GF Birthday cake!

COVID can cause a long-lasting breakdown of immune homeostasis, where elevated IL-7 and IL-15 keep T cells activated for months after the acute infection. In some people this dysregulated state becomes persistent - and may directly contribute to long COVID🧵

🚨🧵 by Zdenek Vrozina on Covid's impact:

"COVID can cause a long-lasting breakdown of immune homeostasis, where elevated IL-7 and IL-15 keep T cells activated for months after the acute infection.
In some people this dysregulated state becomes..."

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If you want to know what's coming next - for all of science that the US government can touch, not just biomed - this thread looks at the roadmap laid out by Bhattacharya's fellow GBD author (and current chair of some cosplay vaccine authority I can't be bothered to look up):

Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.

🧵 Here we go, exactly as predicted. Institutional medicine is going to roll right over for all of this, because science was discarded and replaced with "Evidence Based Medicine" heuristics that lock experts out of the room, and let medicine's management class cosplay as scientists.

Criminal

😮I want to smash something. I've just stumbled across the official NHS coding guidance for U07.3 - 'Personal history of Covid-19' - and it left me on the floor. 🚨When paired with the data on the number of times it is currently used, it is a huge unknown national scandal.

🚨🧵 by @1goodtern.bsky.social on Twitter:

"... I've just stumbled across the official NHS coding guidance for U07.3 - 'Personal history of Covid-19' - and it left me on the floor.
🚨When paired with the data on the number of times it is currently used, it is a..."

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I loved this book!

Spent the night in the bomb shelter cause the peace negotiations were exploding over Kyiv just so damn loud