The good governor is right.
For more information, sadly not immediately available, I have a book on the history of vaccine rejection coming out next spring.
Early details here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113...
14.10.2025 03:31 β π 29 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
11.10.2025 01:10 β π 1958 π 899 π¬ 121 π 71
Canadians β If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.
12.10.2025 15:49 β π 209 π 213 π¬ 16 π 3
Smithsonian closes as government shut down continues
The Smithsonian's museums and zoo are now closed due to the government shut down. Tours of historic Washington, D.C. sites have been suspended and the National Gallery of Art is also closed.
The Smithsonian's museums and zoo are now closed due to the government shut down. Tours of historic Washington, D.C. sites have been suspended and the National Gallery of Art is also closed.
12.10.2025 14:43 β π 349 π 136 π¬ 24 π 15
Been strolling around central Madrid this evening, two observations:
1. The outdoor-cafe game here is so on point. They are everywhere! Tucked in every nook & cranny. Everyone is outside, *with one another*.
2. People live here, there are schools here, & so there are families with kids everywhere.
10.10.2025 19:16 β π 567 π 43 π¬ 31 π 9
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
12.10.2025 04:59 β π 9447 π 3711 π¬ 216 π 371
So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an βerrorβ and many will be brought back.
Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.
11.10.2025 23:27 β π 2887 π 942 π¬ 133 π 49
What could go wrong? π€‘
11.10.2025 22:26 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Immunosupremacy, Everyoneβs got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more
Bonus One mutation away from the next global pandemic
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Immunosupremacy, Everyoneβs got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more
johndupuis.substack.com/p/immunosupr...
10.10.2025 03:51 β π 30 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0
This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.
11.10.2025 10:06 β π 237 π 107 π¬ 7 π 2
βIn addition to the officials, staff and editors of the CDCβs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also received notices of their terminationsβ
thehill.com/policy/healt...
11.10.2025 17:57 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
They have fired the staff of the CDCβs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
11.10.2025 17:21 β π 4547 π 2016 π¬ 156 π 99
MARCH FOR HEALTH & SCIENCE
Washington DC, November 5@4PM
Thereβs a March for Health and Science being organized in DC for Wednesday, November 5.
11.10.2025 17:50 β π 211 π 95 π¬ 1 π 4
βIn addition to the officials, staff and editors of the CDCβs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also received notices of their terminationsβ
thehill.com/policy/healt...
11.10.2025 17:57 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
So...if a Russian asset wanted to sabotage the American government's outbreak surveillance system in preparation for biological warfare against the US population, how would their absolute dream celebrate-victory-with-vodka-and-caviar outcome look different from what just happened at the CDC?
11.10.2025 13:57 β π 67 π 26 π¬ 4 π 0
They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.
11.10.2025 13:54 β π 712 π 209 π¬ 25 π 12
The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us
But we can save each other
Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95
Even if youβre vaccinated. Even if youβre βnot worriedβ
It protects you but it also protects everyone else
Bonus? Less colds & flus!
11.10.2025 07:45 β π 605 π 178 π¬ 10 π 12
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
11.10.2025 02:10 β π 15380 π 8471 π¬ 860 π 1123
Jim Lee Says DC Comics Will Never Support Generative AI
So long as Lee is president of DC Studios, the company will not have its heroes drawn or written by AI.
Both DC and Marvel have expressed that gen AI has no place in their comic books.
Thatβs significant.
I hope they go further and enshroud that in contracts if they havenβt already. #CreateDontScrape
DC:
gizmodo.com/dc-comics-ji...
Marvel:
bleedingcool.com/comics/nycc-...
11.10.2025 00:12 β π 150 π 34 π¬ 2 π 2
Copy of book by Cory Doctorow
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10.10.2025 22:24 β π 43 π 4 π¬ 5 π 0
I've seen this movie. It doesn't end well.
10.10.2025 17:07 β π 90 π 18 π¬ 9 π 1
Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.
But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.
09.10.2025 22:53 β π 11112 π 3507 π¬ 484 π 141
Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more
Bonus Hidden damage to human organs
Children are our future, and weβre letting them down by letting Covid run rampant.
Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more
open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...
06.10.2025 19:59 β π 74 π 30 π¬ 0 π 2
Immunosupremacy, Everyoneβs got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more
Bonus One mutation away from the next global pandemic
Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter:
Immunosupremacy, Everyoneβs got a little brain damage these days, Long Covid is here to stay, and more
johndupuis.substack.com/p/immunosupr...
10.10.2025 03:51 β π 30 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0
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