Nichole

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

This passage stood out to me, and I see it everywhere in real life.

It’s such a mindfuck to see ppl walk around in LA without masks because we KNOW the air is toxic. Even if the AQI is good, 9/11 showed us that the air was deadly even though officials said it was safe. It’s mind boggling to see people walking around like everything is normal🧵1/

Make no mistake… “personal responsibility” Covid policies helped lead to this.

People have been told for years that only the “vulnerable” are at risk. That they’re acceptable losses. That their health is no one else’s responsibility.

Staying home to protect others is no longer “cool”.

Screenshot of the linked article with Gaiman

About to read the Vulture piece on Neil Fucking Gaiman

Here’s the free archived link archive.ph/TKpxH

B.C. teen no longer critical with avian flu, has been taken off oxygen | Globalnews.ca According to the case summary, the patient was a 13-year-old girl with a history of mild asthma who first reported to a hospital on Nov. 4.

This article about BC teen who ended up in the ICU with bird flu is terrifying

I want to remind people that a well fitted respirator offers excellent protection

Don’t handle sick birds or other wild animals

Our hospital system would NOT be able to provide this level of care if H5N1 goes pandemic

Screenshot of the study published yesterday Annals of Neurology. Title: Neurologic Manifestations of Long COVID Disproportionately Affect Young and Middle-Age Adults. Interpretation: Younger and middle-age individuals are disproportionally affected by post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Neuro-PASC) regardless of acute COVID-19 severity. Although older people more frequently have abnormal neurologic findings and comorbidities, younger and middle-age patients suffer from a higher burden of Neuro-PASC symptoms and cognitive dysfunction contributing to decreased QoL. Neuro-PASC principally affects adults in their prime, contributing to profound public health and socioeconomic impacts warranting dedicated resources for prevention, diagnosis and interventions. ANN NEUROL 2024

You may think that neurological symptoms in #LongCovid are for old people, but it is the opposite. Young adults (18–44 years) and middle-aged (45–64 years) with mild acute #COVID cases (non-hospitalized), represent 90% of the cases of #NeuroCovid. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Heads up, lots of fake gun club, antifa, and general anarchist (usually some flavor of LGBTQIA+) accounts popping up

Frustrating to see the outrage of liberals now as Trump appoints disruptive figures to leadership over US health when these same liberals spent the last four years content to just let Biden do nothing at all to alter an indefensible status quo. Entirely predictable outcome.

The refusal of both the left and Democrats to turn a reconstruction of US public health systems into a progressive populist platform after a pandemic killed over a million US residents and bankrupted many more is perhaps the single biggest, most odious political fail of our era.

Last call for stories from patients (or caregivers) who had difficulty getting healthcare workers to mask.

If you had pushback, reduction in care, were infected with Covid, experienced retaliation or accusations of “anxiety”… I want to hear from you 👇🏼!

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

-- DNA, Restaurant

The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill Attacking civili society is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes — and the House, including some Democrats, just gave Trump the power to do it.

BREAKING: Attacking civil society is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes — and the House, including 15 Democrats, just gave Trump the power to do it.

FYI, you can remove your post from a troll quoting you. Here’s how.

Twitter is hurtling toward the same cultural graveyard as MySpace and Vine. It's a case study in how billionaires will destroy the public commons for sport. The ultra-rich thrive on wrecking the spaces that connect us. Back in the day, they used to ban us from having banquets or merely congregating.

I don’t think people realize how much of our free time chronically ill, neurodivergent, and some disabled people give up so they can work.

My doctor once told me that every disability/chronic illness you have is in itself a full time job.

So if one *has* to work (like me), you have your job that pays, and your job(s) that you also can't quit.

Calif. health officials dip into pandemic stockpile in response to bird flu Over 2 million pieces of PPE have been distributed to farmworkers in response to confirmed human cases of bird flu

Calif. health officials dip into pandemic stockpile in response to bird flu.
www.ems1.com/infectious-d...

I’m nursing multiple small but annoying injuries - one of the side effects of living with EDS.

I’m housebound - so I can’t just pop to a pharmacy when I require first aid supplies.

I’m immune compromised & trying to avoid the ER at ALL costs.

🧵 on first aid survival kits for the chronically ill

Welcome to my timeline.

I'm the Florida scientist who was fired for refusing to post misleasing data during COVID:
web.archive.org/web/20221110...

I founded the only national database for tracking COVID in k-12 schools: www.thedailybeast.com/rebekah-jone...

1 Dead, Dozens Sick After Eating Carrots Contaminated With E. Coli The carrots were sold in stores under multiple brand names, including 365, Cal-Organic, Nature's Promise, O-Organics, Trader Joe's and Wegmans.

An outbreak of E. coli has infected dozens of people who ate bagged organic carrots sold by Grimmway Farms, and one person died from the infection

Twitch updates Hateful Conduct Policy to include 'Zionist' as potential slur Twitch has updated its

The ruling class is so desperate to make people stop talking about the genocide that they're making it a violation of the ToS to say what's actually going on in Gaza.

Apparently Genocide Joe isn't worried about Trump, because he's intent on ending the world before January 20.

Several weeks ago, I posted on another site about my
8 year-old niece who contracted Covid 4x during the last school year, and is now suffering from significant memory loss.

Recently, I picked her up to take her apple picking and noticed a drastic personality change.

Disabled people have been right about almost everything that’s happened over the last five years.

People don’t listen to us because they don’t think of us as real people. We’re invisible (at best) and completely disposable (at worse).

We are the canaries - and we are trying to warn you. Listen.

a lot of you are loudly condemning this but interestingly enough have stopped masking in public spaces, making it more possible to normalize the idea that COVID is not a pandemic and isn't killing disabled and chronically ill people anymore, therefore you're pedaling this. disagree? WEAR A MASK.

Top caption says "I never thought back then that one day we'd actually be doing this (awkward sweat emoji)" above a scene from The Jetsons cartoon where a doctor, wearing a mask, exams a little boy's mouth via video screen technology, as thought about in the 1960s, while the mother looks on.

Just ran across this pic on FB and thought it striking that even when The Jetsons was made (1960s) a Dr wearing a mask was so iconic that they kept the Dr wearing one during a video camera exam when not even in the room with the patient.
#KeepMasksInHeathcare
#CovidIsNotOver

“we would have been safer protesting under kamala,” joe biden has literally been siccing cops on college students in encampments???