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Researcher who transformed COVID transmission science wins PM's prize Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.

“In a society like ours, more than 90% of the time we are indoors, be at home, office, school … so it is indoor air which is most important for our health

This is the problem right now. we must establish indoor air quality standards & mandate those standards”

Huge congrats to Prof Morawska!

Minimizing Covid-19 is maximizing social harm

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Holiday-themed flyer which reads this year, we're doing holidays OUR way! 12 Days of Covid Consciousmas. Get read for 12 days of free (but priceless) virtual events designed to bring connection, community, and celebration to Covid Conscious folks during this holiday season! Want to get on the invite list, share your ideas, or be part of the planning? DM @guinesspig.bsky.social or @KaliButterfly.bsky.social

Holidays can be especially hard for Covid Conscious folks. Let's make this year different.

12 Days of Covid Consciousmas -a holiday season of our own- is coming your way!

Crafting, game nights, movies, comedy, and more are in the works! Details in graphic below. Stay tuned!

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

Yaneer Bar-Yam at MIT sees the real data, and understands the present and future of Covid more clearly than anyone. We all need to listen.
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The post shows a tweet from journalist Taylor Lorenz responding to a tweet by David Moscrop. Moscrop mentions getting his annual flu and COVID shots, noting it should reduce illness and transmission. Lorenz replies, emphasizing that current COVID vaccines do not significantly prevent infection or transmission, warning that some vaccinated people may take more risks believing they’re fully protected. She adds that vaccines help prevent severe outcomes and death, but urges people to wear masks to stop infecting others.

Exactly this — vaccines help prevent hospitalisation and death, but they don’t stop infection or transmission. That’s why masking is still so important. 😷

Source: x.com/TaylorLorenz...

Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”.

No we do not agree!

Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health.

It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling.

Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.

Now I'm just a simple country lawyer but I don't think Nazis should be in the news this often

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

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People think if you’re disabled your family must support you

They don’t understand how many folks are on their own

How many have families who can’t support them for various reasons

Everyone deserves help

Having your basic needs met is not “frivolous”

Lacking family shouldn’t be a death sentence

This is No Kings Chicago, where we learn that "America-hating" protesters *love* to wave American flags. Who knew?

What's extreme is their disrespect for you and your child's health and for your parenting decisions. Sorry you had to deal with that nonsense. Fast food is so very easy to eat outside.

bob from chicago is doing good shit

Clean Air is human right.
Ethics, safety laws and risk assessments stands in the way of unethical money making and the plans of Oligarchs and the eugenic morals of fascists.
Vote, demonstrate, write petitions and follow the science. Democracy isn't for sale
Unite #CallForPublicHealthAction
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Another little teaser / spoiler for the coming "Airborne AIDS" paper. The forms are filled, the CC license (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) selected for maximum reach. Will the world know? It's up to you! #share #follow

🚨🚨🚨from Dr. @salamonsmd.bsky.social on Twitter about an upcoming paper...

"Another little teaser / spoiler for the coming 'Airborne AIDS' paper..."

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Underlying post (w/ the charts)
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More than one! We continue to go through this with covid.

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

On the occasion
of the old punk
becoming an even older punk
I called to wish them well,
and when I asked
how they maintained
their youthful energy
(even after all these years)
the old punk replied:
anger, bitterness,
and an undying belief
that a better world
is worth fighting for.

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

🥴

I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

I haven't seen one single study that shows it's harmless to keep getting Covid again & again. But there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies that document long-term harms

Feeling discouraged or hopeless about the state of things?

This message from @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social is one of the most true and heartening things I’ve heard in a long time. ❤️

a woman wearing glasses is waving her hand in front of a window in a room . Alt: Tina Fey high fives herself

Stranger: Why you wearing a mask
Me: I have to for work
Stranger: That sucks
Me: Yeah my boss is a huge asshole
Stranger: Sorry, who do you work for
Me: I’m self employed