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How Ashish Jha and Rochelle Walensky of Newton, MA protect their children from Covid (but not yours) | MR Online Built on seven hills, Newton was one of America’s earliest commuter suburbs.

I will never forget the rage I felt at finding out that Walensky and Jha sent their children to schools with advanced ventilation systems while encouraging the rest of us to send our kids (and ourselves) back to regular schools without mitigation. mronline.org/2022/09/28/h...

I forgot to mention that even in the US, without insurance, it costs about $200 for the covid vaccine. Anyways, if you want more, some good people to listen to on this are crutches and spice, Dr lucky tran, and physics girl (she has severe ME from covid).

Not everyone in the world has access to vaccines even if their body can handle it, especially outside of the US, and who knows if it will still be available in the US in the future. Wearing a mask and air purifiers are our best strategy now. We shouldn't just run away and ignore our problems.

Also reminder that not everyone can get vaccinated. I can't get any sort of injection including local anesthesia or xolair due to how severe my MCAS is because of covid. And covid can compromise the immune system, making vaccines not work so well. Plus you can get long covid while vaccinated.

Getting covid is the reason I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user, had to quit work, and drop out of uni. I have severe MCAS and can rarely leave my home. I have moderate/severe ME/CFS and there's so many who are suffering more than me who can't even get basic necessities. Everyone is at risk for this.

I'm seeing more people saying they are using chat gpt to diagnose them with chronic health conditions and are treating it like an official diagnosis. 😭 Please stop it with chat gpt.

Reminder that covid can cause damage to the immune system. People vaccinating less isn't the only reason we are seeing a rise in viruses, although that is certainly a problem too.

Someone I used to be friends with was asked what her opinion was on Israel, and her answer was "I don't like to be political on here." 🤦 Yet she has posted stuff against ICE and other stuff against the US government. Very upsetting where people decide to draw the line.

Content creators: I’m not speaking up about certain topics because I don’t want to offend my audience.

Me: You don’t want to offend Nazis, fascists and genocide supporters?

asdkfjas;d it's like,,
I GET IT
can't say enough that like I Get What They're Going For

but i'd bet whoever wrote this doesn't wear a respirator at the grocery, the pharmacy, on transit—at least these essential public indoor spaces. & for why? to avoid the stigma masks carry? is that not cowardly?

I feel weird having Twilight Sparkle as my pfp here, knowing her voice actor is not a good person, but I have to remind myself that the character and people who created her are not her voice actor. Twilight is so relatable. I'm just sad because MLP is one of my longest and biggest special interests.

I swear people either don't read past my first photo in my tiktok post and some also just really miss the point of why it's important to acknowledge medical masks and gaiters 🧊 are wearing are not the same thing. Also, weird ppl keep thinking 🧊 only dresses one way.

I recently just made a post about this on TikTok, and some people are getting upset at me for saying this. It's really frustrating. I'm also being told I'm reaching, "not everything is about you", and I keep getting told that it's obvious I don't look like🧊. Idk how they r missing the point.

PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.

Also I should mention, after being out of the house yesterday, I ended up needing to sleep for 4 hours, and an hour after being awake again, I had to lay down again. ME/CFS and MCAS suck. I also barely could walk in the second store. I wished I had my wheelchair.

Covid is low based on waste water in that county I was shopping in, but medium in the county next door so I wonder if that's why. My dentist is in the county with lower covid, and they require patients and staff to mask unless getting worked on of course, & they aren't the only one in that county.

I took a very rare trip to two stores yesterday because I made it early in the morning when less ppl were shopping, and although not a ton, I was happy to see some people wearing masks in both stores. In the county next door, my family usually sees zero masks though aside from some ppl working.

Can people please stop defending immigrants just by mentioning jobs they have? A person's value is more than how they contribute to capitalism. I saw the same thing in April with ppl trying to defend autistic ppl, but based on how ppl contribute to capitalism.

I'm disappointed seeing mutuals use AI. Some creative people such as musicians and cosplayers I follow have posted AI too and it's making me sad.

My mother got raspberries last week and I couldn't find a single one that looked edible to me. I have to be careful due to my MCAS and compromised immune system. This week my grandparents bought strawberries and every single one looked bad. I originally was going to give one to my bunny.

Since I've been back home from Japan, I've noticed the quality of food in California, especially fruits and vegetables, are slowly going downhill. I don't like this. The quality used to seem similar to Japan and now it's making me miss fresh produce there.

A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:

Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS

Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection

Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids

Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit

Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

5 years since the start of the pandemic and it is frustrating that we still need to keep repeating: vaccines, masks, tests, and cleaning the air all play roles in reducing transmission.

Wrongly claiming that any of these layers isn’t important is an anti-science stance.

Congrats to that one trans athlete in becoming state champ by default I guess

Holy shit - Gavin Newsom has clarified that this goes even further.

The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."

California is basically instituting a sports ban.

www.kcra.com/article/cali...

If you’re mad now, but you weren’t mad when Biden’s CDC reduced isolation times, championed handwashing for an airborne disease, ended free testing sites, and all the other rollbacks, you are acting on political bias, not science, and should probably go read some actual science on covid.

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine.

It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions.

The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

The “covid is only a threat to the vulnerable” narrative primed the pump for the eugenics movement we’re seeing now.

It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.

It paved the way for fascism.

By wearing a respirator and protecting yourself from COVID-19, you are “playing god” in Jay’s eyes

Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee Four members said they were informed of the termination on Friday, but it had already taken effect in late March, according to a CDC letter.

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities.