@itsbabs.bsky.social
artist 📸 + activist / have lupus, studying the spectacularization of hydroxychloroquine / just trying to have a nice time On The Internet™️ / she/they #DoMaskBlocShit 😷🦋🍐🏳️🌈 tiktok/twitter: @babs_zone signal: @babs_zone.93 elsewhere: abbymahler.com/linktree
"The ruling dealt a significant setback for the reduced childhood vaccination schedule championed by Kennedy..."
a W folks, enjoy it.
right like oh you mean that virus is only causing a "little inflammation" then? curious
sincerely though, while i'd already had a feeling things were afoot with my lupus medication in early march, it was what happened today—march 16, 2020—when they started cranking the volume, if you will.
do you remember this tweet? hydroxychloroquine's ascendance? what about the shortages?
![Tracy Beth Høeg, who was at the time the senior adviser for clinical sciences to Marty Makary, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), wrote a short memo with only 12 citations, including two of her own studies, on Covid vaccines in pregnancy. She pointed out that the initial randomized clinical trials from “Pfizer, Modern [sic] and Novavax excluded pregnant women”, but did not note that some people became pregnant during the trials and showed no adverse side effects – and at least 258 studies have since shown the safety and effectiveness of Covid vaccination in pregnancy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/bafkreieko2r35t4hr5t7nj6fabu2ht3u26nxgx2tf745jthaeutldsqyoa)
(she also misspelled Moderna)
“I don’t want to go back in time, I know we can do better, and that a good future is coming. We will make it so.”
thank you, thank you, i do try to keep it real
happy anniversary to some bullshit
"It’s 2026, & culture has frozen into nostalgia—
...creators like Abby Mahler have spoken about the ways COVID has kept us stuck...refusing to grieve, or even acknowledge, the lost life, ability, time, opportunities, & freedoms we had before the ongoing pandemic made the world more hostile."
Newly uncovered memos show the basis for RFK Jr's decision to end the Covid vaccine recommendation for pregnant people and children. They're light on evidence and heavy on ideology, sources told me in my latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Three years for me now. I consider myself lucky. I can nearly always get out of bed and most days I can wash, dress, and feed myself. I can do some work some days and I’ve found work interesting enough to feel valuable and stop me going quite mad. But I barely leave the house & depend on …
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
amused by the conan intro bit joke where he says he “looks like a bette davis with lupus” ok W ?? love that we’re acknowledging lupus is not a totally invisible illness yes girliessss 🫰🏻🫰🏻🫰🏻
with alt text because this is awe-inspiring performance photography 🧡
Christine Stabell Benn, one of the leaders of the Danish research project in Guinea-Bissau, coauthored a leaked document on long Covid after vaccination with an ACIP work group
legit tears streaming down my face like truly !!! no small roles was so true for him—his acting always stood out !!!
this skeet brought to you by i still need to watch the wire
like was anyone else introduced to michael b. jordan in parenthood? ahh just a treat to see him on the stage 🥹🥹🥹
Y’all she had a HIP REPLACEMENT IN DECEMBER.
Today is Long Covid Awareness Day. If this video doesn't break your heart and make you want to do EVERYTHING you can to avoid giving #covid to someone else or getting it yourself, I truly do not know how to reach you. Please wear a mask, at least in essential public places. It's the least we can do.
goes so hard ugh humans doing self-ornamentation rocks
whew i know i didn’t take my adderall today bc i am tEARING uP at these oscars—these sinners wins !!! 🥹
Some context.
The CDC is fighting with the FDA about COVID vaccines.
yessss there are ways we learn to live 🙂↕️
Just because you didn’t develop LongCovid at all, or a certain type of symptoms after your last SARS2 infection doesn’t mean you won’t after your next one.
There are theories about treatments depending on symptoms, but nothing is approved— and there are no cures.
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2b9Mv6K/
put my clothes away aNd my sheets in the wash please clap
i’ve been working so many six-day weeks and the thing about that is you’re always playing catch up—either you have no rest days because you’ve gotta do the chores or you forgo the chores for one rest day and live with all the clean laundry piled instead of hung etc 🫠
The irony that the people who don’t mask in order to be accepted by society and their social circles—knowing they’ll be shunned for masking because they shun those who mask—will end up abandoned by society and their social circles when they inevitably get Long Covid because they don’t mask.
Today, March 15, is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. LongCovid is a constellation of postviral disease states that occur after ~1/5 SARS2 infections, a likelihood that rises with each subsequent infection. It can manifest differently in each person &there’s a lot more to know.
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2b9Mv6K/
