Mark Ungrin

Hey naive question but if Trump orders Hegseth to abuse the UCMJ to persecute his political opponents, and Hegseth orders his subordinates to implement that order...

...are any of the orders in that chain lawful?

Gosh. What a mystery.

How did vaccines become politicized? What could the answer to that question possibly be?

Conclusion: Infants with RSV bronchiolitis produce aerosols that contain infectious RSV in aerosols small enough to deposit in the lower airways. These findings may influence infection control strategies to prevent aerosol transmission of RSV in a hospital setting.

On CBC news they're talking about the rise of RSV season. Yes, they're recommending vaccines. That's great!

No other suggestions to _help_ stop the spread of RSV. If it's airborne, which it appears to be, then, we should talk about that.

Reference: publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...

Haha classic: “the four citations noted below are incorrect; however they stand by the conclusions and findings"

If you find invalid references after spending 6 or 7 figures for a report, and get told "but it doesn't change anything", that raises the question of what the conclusions are based on.

The thousands are someone else's money, and spending it to keep someone alive lets them be a hero.

The mask that will keep them from killing someone goes on their personal face, and makes it harder for everyone to see them being a hero.

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

A) Public health is part of the *medical* establishment. The distinction is extremely significant. See below.
B) WTF? No! Why would you even think that? The man couldn't lead rats off a sinking ship.

"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"

Whether or not this is true, they do not have the power to stop the truth coming out, or to stop millions of ordinary people voting for political leaders who will change current inadequate policy, to protect healthcare workers, patients & schoolkids, & make #CleanAirEverywhere a human right.

I'd ask @charlieangus104.bsky.social

Calgary Board of Education actively forbids teachers from notifying parents if a kid in the class has COVID, even if the parents of the kid who has COVID ask them to.

When Trump does something unprecedentedly evil, at least it gets reported.

It's not RFK's idea. Yeah, he's running with it, but manipulation of what counts as a "conflict of interest" is how the power games to control medical guidance are played. The groups that launched GRADE now say that 👉just having expertise is a COI👈 as a way to exclude everyone but themselves!

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I’m very relieved to start seeing this reinforced by several accounts now. It all needs to read In this order: fitted respirator mask in public, vaccine incase the first line of defence fails, and wash your hands (it’s irrelevant to transmission but who doesn’t prefer clean hands?)

To be fair, it is technically true that Elon Musk "...poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies."

Possibly not the point he thought he was making, but anyway...

It’s my birthday, but it’s also unfortunately the third anniversary of the day I got the Covid infection that disabled me. This year has been the hardest with the disease. I encourage you to be careful this holiday season, wear a mask and test, do not get or give Covid to anyone.

Happy to chat! I gave a keynote at the Canadian Association of Biological Safety's 2025 conference going into more detail. There's a lot of cross-connection going on right now between groups harmed by the spillover from institutional medicine's toxic empire-building. See 🧵 in 2nd post here:

Russia's amplification of misinformation produced by medicine's many science cosplayers in the anti-vax and anti-PPE areas has been hands down its most effective attack on us in my lifetime. That collaboration killed an enormous number of people, and compromised our institutions in the process.

‘Freedom convoy’ forums find new focus: disinformation about Russia-Ukraine war - National | Globalnews.ca Some pro-convoy forums have shifted from posting misinformation about COVID-19 to posting misinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war.

The rapid pivot of internal comms channels for the big anti-COVID-mitigations protests in Canada (conveniently timed just before Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine) to pro-Russian propaganda made it clear Canada is a target of ongoing information-warfare attacks.

Having cancer during Covid has been eye opening, no one thinks they ought to wear a mask around me ever.
People really give two shits about other people.

I'm really sorry you're having to go through this. Public health and infection control have so much to answer for - as do the medical professional associations that find excuses to do nothing, while their oaths are ground into the dirt. The banality of evil, on full display.

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

Weird how outbreaks are handled differently depending on whether they make public health look bad.

Hey everyone, this is weird! Why would the astroturfing campaign pulling Danielle Smith's strings be based outside of Alberta?

It's almost as if we have external enemies trying to weaken Canada, the same way Russian influence campaigns drove the UK off the Brexit cliff...

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“Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”

— Tommy Douglas

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Everything else aside, the first test for whether anyone is "pro-life" is to see what personal effort they're putting in to protect others from unnecessary infections like COVID.

If they're only "pro life" when it's about what other people should be forced to do, it's just extremist virtue-signals.

Meanwhile...

If this checks out there will be some explaining to do.

Yeah I think it kicked in pretty much as soon as they realized how badly they blew the call on airborne transmission. So much since has just been a panicked attempt to manufacture evidence that their arrogance didn't kill millions of people.

Although their decision making heuristics are also crap.

The elephant in the room is that any effective defence against COVID and other airborne pathogens will end the careers of today's public health and IPC leaders - their only hope to beat charges of negligence is the lie that it was never possible to do better.

They cannot afford a success.

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

That's a major part of the problem with the EBM/GRADE mentality of valuing secondary sources above primary ones. The foundations under life-critical decision-making are sinking into a swamp of historical revisionism, selection bias, and pseudoscience.