SFMPhilly - Fighting 🦠 in the 💨 since 2020

Expected results after 2020: Masking becomes acceptable and more masks are worn during flu and cold season.
Uptake of flu and other vaccines increase.

Not expected: Complete eradication of public health and government abdication of all responsibility to protect citizens.

It would be nice to have a “nearby” search option to even further facilitate hyper local organizing.

This ideological drift that goes in more or less one direction, with “mainstream”/center-right figures like Leana Wen and Emily Oster ceding ground to PH contrarians in opinion essays in the week after the election (but before RFK was announced).

“If the apporach advocated by many, and advised within the GBD, had been implemented we would expect the time frame for shielding our vulnerable to be between 3 - 6 months, and this would be advised and encouraged but not mandated. At present we have all shielded for much longer.
5:08 AM • 1/14/21”

UPDATED: Trump's confirmed picks to lead US health agencies:

HHS - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
NIH - Jay Bhattacharya
CMS - Mehmet Oz
CDC - Dave Weldon
FDA - Marty Makary
Surgeon General - Janette Nesheiwat

All have spread disinformation on vaccines and public health measures.

Journalists writing about Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, remember he said we could have herd immunity in 3-6 via mass infection.

Many such examples.

If Dr. Marty Makary were to arrive here, he would be reminded of this on a frequent basis.

Hence he will not come here.

Trump transition closes in on picks for top health posts Many of the candidates are allies of RFK Jr. and have maligned the agencies they would oversee.

N5H1 pandemic is approaching. Here are our probable leaders.
Trump transition closes in on picks for top health posts
HHS: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
NIH: Jay Bhattacharya, MD
CMS: Mehmet Oz, MD
FDA: Marty Makary, MD ???
CDC: Joseph Ladapo, MD ???
Surgeon General: Vinay Prasad ???

Of course Trump not only wants RFK Jr, but Makary, Prasad, Bhattacharya and now Dr. Oz!!!
We live in the dumbest timeline.
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Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr. once compared wearing a mask to Hitler’s Gestapo murdering artists and poets during World War II.

He’s also against boosters, before that, he immediately latched on to the subclinical myocarditis thing Høeg, et al. cooked up with Great Barrington Dave (Zweig), which was always a transparent effort to undermine vaccinating kids, and that’s just the start of it.

A blonde woman and a brunette woman wearing masks are taking a selfie in front of some pastel graffiti

Ooh, I wonder if I can post a masked selfie on Bluesky and not get absolutely slammed with horrific ableist and sexist harrassment!?

Here goes:

#CovidIsntOver #Masks

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat spreading misinformation about vaccines, masks, and COVID on FOX News.

NEW: Trump has picked Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General. Nesheiwat has spread misinformation about vaccines, masks, and COVID.

Trump advisers are reported to be debating whether FL's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo, who, among other things, failed to appropriately address a measles outbreak and suggested Covid boosters are dangerous, "should be CDC director, surgeon general or Kennedy’s assistant secretary for health."

All Trump's healthcare picks peddled dangerous COVID conspiracy theories and quack treatment not backed by evidence and used their positions to enrich themselves. They'll undermine healthcare agencies and seek to dismantle institutions under the camouflage of "reform" and "shakeup."

Boy these headlines from The Onion are getting out of hand! 🧐