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Snopes fact-check article titled โ€œNo, doctors werenโ€™t warning about new โ€˜COVID-25โ€™ strain with โ€˜very different signsโ€™.โ€ Subheading reads, โ€œDifferent strains of the COVID-19 virus sometimes come with symptoms that are specific to them.โ€ Below, a woman wrapped in a blue blanket sneezes into a tissue, illustrating illness.

Snopes fact-check article titled โ€œNo, doctors werenโ€™t warning about new โ€˜COVID-25โ€™ strain with โ€˜very different signsโ€™.โ€ Subheading reads, โ€œDifferent strains of the COVID-19 virus sometimes come with symptoms that are specific to them.โ€ Below, a woman wrapped in a blue blanket sneezes into a tissue, illustrating illness.

"Different strains of the COVID-19 virus sometimes come with symptoms that are specific to them"

Two new SARS-CoV-2 strains circulated in 2025:

โ€œNimbusโ€ (NB.1.8.1) causing a โ€œrazor blade throat,โ€ and โ€œStratusโ€ (XFG) causing a โ€œpersistent dry coughโ€ and spreading much faster due to immune evasion.

12.11.2025 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Socialism doesnโ€™t believe the government can do a better job than private industry.

Socialism believes that a government given a mandate can do the job with equity to all, and without a view toward making a profit.

Profiteering in healthcare, education, and the prison system is killing all of us.

07.11.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 376    ๐Ÿ” 102    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Okay this one is more realistic.

06.11.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
A news-style webpage titled โ€œDementia Heightens COVID-19 Risks in Swedenโ€™s Seniorsโ€ from Bioengineer.org. Below the headline is a photo of two older adults sitting together indoors.

The man in the foreground has short white hair and glasses, and is wearing a light blue sweater. He is writing or reviewing papers on the table in front of him. Sitting beside him is an older woman with gray hair wearing an olive-green sweater. She looks toward him with a calm, slightly concerned expression.

The setting appears warm and home-like, suggesting a senior living environment or private home. The mood is gentle, reflective, and supportive, aligning with the articleโ€™s focus on dementia and COVID-19 risks in elderly populations.

A news-style webpage titled โ€œDementia Heightens COVID-19 Risks in Swedenโ€™s Seniorsโ€ from Bioengineer.org. Below the headline is a photo of two older adults sitting together indoors. The man in the foreground has short white hair and glasses, and is wearing a light blue sweater. He is writing or reviewing papers on the table in front of him. Sitting beside him is an older woman with gray hair wearing an olive-green sweater. She looks toward him with a calm, slightly concerned expression. The setting appears warm and home-like, suggesting a senior living environment or private home. The mood is gentle, reflective, and supportive, aligning with the articleโ€™s focus on dementia and COVID-19 risks in elderly populations.

Dementia Heightens COVID-19 Risks in Swedenโ€™s Seniors.

"A significant study conducted in Sweden has revealed alarming insights into how dementia not only affects the risks of contracting COVID-19 but also influences the outcomes for those infected."

Source: archive.li/BVzwv

06.11.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m pretty good at airborne precautionsโ€ฆbut I have been bitten twice by a mozzie today.

Iโ€™m doing a root cause analysis!!!

04.11.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Bloody female mozzies.
Not the placid male mozzies. ๐Ÿคฃ

05.11.2025 09:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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newsGP - Flu deaths overtake COVID-19 fatalities In August, 211 patients died from influenza compared to 153 from COVID-19, amid Australiaโ€™s record-breaking flu season.

Australia: In August, 211 patients died from influenza compared to 153 from COVID-19, amid record-breaking flu season.

Reported deaths so far this year:

๐Ÿ”ธCOVID-19: 1,473
๐Ÿ”ธInfluenza: 977
๐Ÿ”ธRSV: 149

www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...

03.11.2025 07:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Now you know what the discussion between Trump & Netanyahu at the peace talks was all about.
Netanyahu, the war criminal is a master of "starvation" as a war tactic.
Shame, shame, shame

01.11.2025 19:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a New York Times article titled โ€œCovid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack.โ€ The subheading reads, โ€œA new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease.โ€ Below, a photo shows a person sitting indoors wearing a dark shirt and grey cardigan, clutching their chest with one hand and raising the other toward their mouth, suggesting chest discomfort.

Screenshot of a New York Times article titled โ€œCovid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack.โ€ The subheading reads, โ€œA new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease.โ€ Below, a photo shows a person sitting indoors wearing a dark shirt and grey cardigan, clutching their chest with one hand and raising the other toward their mouth, suggesting chest discomfort.

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack

Heart attack risk triples within weeks after a COVID-19 infection and quadruples within a month after a flu infection, per a large review and analysis published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Source: archive.li/kbL8w

30.10.2025 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 198    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Grief

30.10.2025 01:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A virus that needs to move, to spread, to mutate. Our dumb are we as the supposed intelligent species that most no longer care.
If everyone masked for an extra year there may longer be covid
I'll continue to mask because I care for myself, family & friends
It's certainly not an inconvenience to mask

29.10.2025 05:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can also boost cancer treatment success Innate immune response to vaccines helps people with cancer live longer

The messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines were game changing during the course of the pandemic; now another benefit is emergingโ€”the same vaccines are improving how long people with cancer survive while they undergo immune therapy. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky ๐Ÿงช

26.10.2025 13:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Headline: What is Cardiac long COVID?

Alt text: A medical illustration shows a human heart wrapped in a heavy metal chain, shackled to a large SARS-CoV-2 particle with spike proteins. In the background, ECG tracings line a wall, symbolizing cardiac monitoring and the burden of Long COVID on the heart.

Headline: What is Cardiac long COVID? Alt text: A medical illustration shows a human heart wrapped in a heavy metal chain, shackled to a large SARS-CoV-2 particle with spike proteins. In the background, ECG tracings line a wall, symbolizing cardiac monitoring and the burden of Long COVID on the heart.

What is Cardiac long COVID?

Published: October 24, 2025

โ€œThe main symptoms that could relate to cardiac long COVID include breathlessness, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, fatigue, and orthostatic intolerance.โ€

#LongCOVID

Source: archive.li/VxqkQ

25.10.2025 23:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 73    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Wouldn't it be nice if these 4 helped the needy.
But then again maybe those qualities of compassion and empathy are handicaps to acquiring "sickening" mega wealth.

25.10.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.

There's been some recent coverage of this study. This reporting is pretty good, so here's a gift ๐ŸŽ link.

> 1,000 patients undergoing immunotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer & melanoma; having had an mRNA covid vax nearly doubled survival time.

1/2

wapo.st/49gZB6w

24.10.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

When it comes to politicians, they often tell you what you want to hear rather than what you need to hear.

#MaskUp and protect your health. Down the road, youโ€™ll be glad you did. #COVID

24.10.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 111    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
20 October 2025
Australian researchers unlocking secrets of COVID-19 may have landed on new ways to reduce organ injury from heart attacks and stroke

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused enormous global healthcare challenges and further led to longer-term health complications for millions of infected individuals. Much remains to be learned about the virus, but one thing is clear: the SARS-CoV-2 virus can unleash widespread, systemic effects throughout the body due to its ability to cause damage to endothelial cells (termed endotheliitis). This process is associated with microvasculature dysfunction and is a major cause of the acute and chronic complications (Long-COVID-19) of the disease.

20 October 2025 Australian researchers unlocking secrets of COVID-19 may have landed on new ways to reduce organ injury from heart attacks and stroke The SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused enormous global healthcare challenges and further led to longer-term health complications for millions of infected individuals. Much remains to be learned about the virus, but one thing is clear: the SARS-CoV-2 virus can unleash widespread, systemic effects throughout the body due to its ability to cause damage to endothelial cells (termed endotheliitis). This process is associated with microvasculature dysfunction and is a major cause of the acute and chronic complications (Long-COVID-19) of the disease.

"Australian researchers unlocking secrets of COVID-19 may have landed on new ways to reduce organ injury from heart attacks and stroke"

SARS-CoV-2 can damage endothelial cells, disrupting blood flow and oxygen delivery. This microvascular injury drives organ damage and Long COVID.

archive.li/AMBdJ

19.10.2025 23:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon's Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study

I don't know about Lego blocks, but definitely enough for a spoon, just in our brains:

share.google/MI5mcqduVzvX...

19.10.2025 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd say most adults over 50 would have enough micrp plastics circulating to make a dozen multi coloured Lego blocks. And moi at 69 enough blocks to build an F1 racing car.

19.10.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As new treatments for microplastics emerge, hereโ€™s the evidence on how well they work Entrepreneurs aim to remove microplastics from the body, but the cost can be steep and the clinical benefit remains uncertain.

"There is little published evidence that any therapy is effective at removing microplastics from the body."

But that's not stopping entrepreneurs from selling treatments or consumers from buying them.

This is an issue to solve w/ regulation, not probiotics.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

19.10.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe the orange pile of paedophilic phlegm can give back the $millions he and his lickspittle family have stolen from America.

18.10.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œKidsโ€

16.10.2025 03:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16119    ๐Ÿ” 6851    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1549    ๐Ÿ“Œ 818
PUBLISHED February 28, 2024

Abnormal Brain Scans In Children With COVID-19 Revealed In Data From 96 Studies

The research underscores how much more we have to learn about what the virus can do to the brain.

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Laura Simmons Health & Medicine Editor

PUBLISHED February 28, 2024 Abnormal Brain Scans In Children With COVID-19 Revealed In Data From 96 Studies The research underscores how much more we have to learn about what the virus can do to the brain. Laura Simmons headshot Laura Simmons Health & Medicine Editor

"Abnormal Brain Scans In Children With COVID-19 Revealed In Data From 96 Studies"

"The research underscores how much more we have to learn about what the virus can do to the brain."

Published: February 28, 2024

Source: archive.md/yWzIs

11.10.2025 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 131    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Since Iโ€™m a neuropathologist, Iโ€™ll put my two cents into this MND discussion.

SARS-CoV-2 isnโ€™t just a respiratory virus. Emerging evidence shows it can infect human motor neurons. Could this link to motor neuron disease (MND)?

Letโ€™s break down the neuropathology. ๐Ÿงต

Since Iโ€™m a neuropathologist, Iโ€™ll put my two cents into this MND discussion. SARS-CoV-2 isnโ€™t just a respiratory virus. Emerging evidence shows it can infect human motor neurons. Could this link to motor neuron disease (MND)? Letโ€™s break down the neuropathology. ๐Ÿงต

๐ŸŽฏ๐Ÿงต by Dr. @jamesthrot.bsky.social on Twitter:

"Since Iโ€™m a neuropathologist, Iโ€™ll put my two cents into this MND discussion.

SARS-CoV-2 isnโ€™t just a respiratory virus. Emerging evidence shows it can infect human motor neurons. Could this link to..."

Full ๐Ÿงต
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10.10.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care homes

National snapshot

As at 8:00 am 9 October 2025, there are 225 active COVID-19 cases reported in 48 active outbreaks in residential aged care homes (RACHs) across Australia. There have been 22 new outbreaks, 1 new resident death and 223 combined new resident and staff cases
reported since 2 October 2025.

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care homes National snapshot As at 8:00 am 9 October 2025, there are 225 active COVID-19 cases reported in 48 active outbreaks in residential aged care homes (RACHs) across Australia. There have been 22 new outbreaks, 1 new resident death and 223 combined new resident and staff cases reported since 2 October 2025.

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 9 October 2025

๐Ÿ”นActive cases: 225 (-16.9%)
๐Ÿ”นActive outbreaks: 48 (+2.1%)
๐Ÿ”นResident cases: 181 (-16.2%)
๐Ÿ”นStaff cases: 44 (-20.0%)
๐Ÿ”นReported deaths in 2025: 391 (+1)

@SamRaeMP

Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

10.10.2025 03:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Another study showing links between COVID and cancer.

โ€œThe findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay between viral infections and cancer development, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.โ€

08.10.2025 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot showing links & stock images for 4 recent news articles on a sharp rise in cognitive difficulties for young adults.

A screenshot showing links & stock images for 4 recent news articles on a sharp rise in cognitive difficulties for young adults.

Know what else causes cognitive issues & disabilities? COVID infections. Weโ€™ve known this since the beginning but it was shushed up in the rush back to โ€œnormal.โ€

This study went from โ€˜13 to โ€˜23 so clearly other factors are also at work. But to not also acknowledge COVIDโ€™s role is pure foolishness.

29.09.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 127    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Two mass shootings within hours of each other and this is what is on this sick motherfuckerโ€˜s mind.

28.09.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Polystyrene & a can of gold spray paint.
Sorry USA, your gun laws will never change.

28.09.2025 22:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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