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Adopted/reconnecting RR Métis, antiZio Ashkenazi, mixed settler. AntiAbleism/antiRacism. Disabled 😷 and screaming #freePalestine and practicing #Doikayt on Skwxwú7mesh territory
This 🎯 article was published FIVE YEARS AGO.
Rage, weep, grieve.
#CleanTheAir
BREAKING: Resident of Washington state dies after being infected with H5N5 bird flu
A Grays Harbor County resident receiving treatment for H5N5 avian flu has died. The Washington State Department of Health extends its condolences to the family.
In case you’re wondering:
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
22.11.2025 00:01 — 👍 908 🔁 222 💬 58 📌 22
This exhibition reimagines Tibet by showing how it has historically been represented by outsiders and how Tibetans now talk about Tibet. #TyeePresents #Sponsored
22.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I know, but like, decades working in sustainability has definitely taught me it's okay & even necessary to get people to do the right things for the wrong reasons.
22.11.2025 02:30 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A screenshot of an article page from npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. The headline reads: “Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts.” The article is written by Amit Bansal and published on 21 November 2025 as an open-access brief communication. The abstract text explains that Long COVID—defined as symptoms lasting more than three months after SARS-CoV-2 infection—poses a major global health and economic challenge. It notes a global prevalence estimate of 36%, with reported ranges from 1–92%. The article summarizes current estimates of economic impacts, including macroeconomic costs, cost-of-illness, and microeconomic effects. It highlights an average annual global economic burden of $1 trillion and about $9,000 per patient in the USA, where some individuals also face substantial out-of-pocket costs. Lost earnings in the USA are estimated at $170 billion annually. The abstract further mentions increased unemployment, financial distress, and work impairment lasting up to three years post-infection. The paper calls for standardised metrics, notes methodological discrepancies, and identifies research gaps, including the lack of longitudinal studies, limited economic aggregation, and insufficient data on long COVID subtypes, biomarkers, and intervention evaluations.
Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts
Published: 21 November 2025
Long COVID affects an estimated 36% globally, creating a huge economic burden: about $1 trillion a year worldwide, roughly $9,000 per US patient and $170 billion in lost US earnings.
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
22.11.2025 01:03 — 👍 11841 🔁 3236 💬 102 📌 135Totally agree 💯
22.11.2025 03:02 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
They're still calling it a "cease-fire," with a straight face: www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...
21.11.2025 01:04 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
We live in hell. Not even a sexy hell with cenobites and such sights to show us. It's the one formed from the mundanity of stupid rich white men thinking their feelings are truer than science, facts, or reality and in order to prove it they'll kill as many babies, kids, and adults as it takes.
21.11.2025 03:15 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
A chart showing cancelled clinical trials by category
Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health. By @danvergano.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/halt...
20.11.2025 21:53 — 👍 107 🔁 72 💬 2 📌 6
NEWS: The Trump administration is allegedly holding up files elsewhere too.
Mahmoud Khalil is suing the Trump admin as it refuses to release files related to its coordination & communications with pro-Israel, anti-speech groups like Canary Mission in the lead up to his arrest last March.
I chose the subtitle very carefully. It was dangerous that doctors embraced the antivaccine movement.
Now, here we are.
Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous.
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
I signed on to this letter because I refuse to accept the framing of "AI" as inevitable or even urgent. Generative "AI" in particular is slop tech for a fascist era and this rushed "consultation" period is just part of the overall griftosphere that constitutes modern tech.
bccla.org/policy-submi...
Best thing I've read today. WTF are the Police and Government doing?
30.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 70 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 0Because Greenblatt thinks Tucker and Nick Fuentes are the future of the GOP, apparently.
31.10.2025 01:52 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Doctors, not scientists. The science is unequivocal. COVID is a dangerous vascular disease that no one should contract. The problem is that most doctors are *not* scientists. An MD isn't remotely equivalent to a Ph.D.
29.10.2025 06:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I just want to make this *abundantly clear*.
When “experts” say COVID-19 is mild for kids…
THEY HAD, AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TEN YEARS WORTH OF INFECTIONS WILL CAUSE.
I know a truly alarming number of kids who were strapping and hale in 2019 but now struggle with multiple debilitating health problems. That's just an anecdote, but it's a real-world reflection of the data. www.pennmedicine.org/news/second-...
29.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 41 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2Defaulting to surgical masks in health care settings in 2025 is one of the most dissapointing examples of reluctance to change despite overwhelming evidence.
Even defaulting to KN95 style would significantly increase protection of the most vulnerable.
Infuriating inertia in the HC industry.
I’m still here saying the same thing!!!!
And there’s more evidence than ever!
Link to video on CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6956977 Link to Keith's tweet: https://x.com/keetmuise/status/1983707434704368104?s=09 “Covid is not Over”. Newfoundland Doctors talk to CBC’s Adam Walsh about Covid and Long Covid. Video still image is that of Dr. Mike Hall being interviewed for the piece. He's wearing a grey suit, blue shirt, and a black KN95 respirator.
🎯3min clip shared by @keithmuise.bsky.social on Twitter:
CBC clip: Long COVID is underdiagnosed, researchers say, and there’s work to be done to change that
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
[ I'm linking to the CBC video, so I tucked the link to Keith's tweet in the ALT text ]
The public should be beautiful. It's ours. #cdnpoli
31.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 60 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3Canada is about to lose measles elimination status. The stupid are so stupid.
27.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Wide shot of a packed stadium.
Good evening from Queens.
New York is not for sale.
“Children with reinfection had significantly higher risks for myocarditis, thrombophlebitis, thromboembolism, arrhythmias, fatigue, cognitive impairment, dysautonomia (including POTS), and abnormal liver enzymes. “
www.emjreviews.com/microbiology... #IDSky #COVID #longCOVID
Mamdani might be a case study in something different: that being an immigrant = freedom from the imperial demands of born US citizenship...that being a member of the Global Majority first and a citizen of the US second might create more interesting & powerful political realities
27.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 42 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
