Screenshot of a Doctissimo article titled “Wearing a mask is once again mandatory in Paris hospitals, Dr. Gérald Kierzek explains.” Published November 10, 2025, by health editor Jennifer Bouet. The image shows a female healthcare worker wearing a blue surgical mask and glasses inside a hospital. The caption notes that due to rising respiratory infections, Paris hospitals have reinstated mask mandates for staff and visitors, with Dr. Kierzek explaining that masks remain necessary though not sufficient to resolve the hospital crisis.
France: "Wearing a mask is once again mandatory in Paris hospitals"
"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
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12.11.2025 08:04 — 👍 207 🔁 80 💬 4 📌 13
we all hated the lockdowns. that's partly why i still mask. mitigations are much better than the alternatives in worst case scenarios. somehow ppl have generally decided the oppposite. masks are reminders of lockdowns so we don't want to see those either. air purifiers seem to be out of the question
11.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"It should be the default assumption of any study of respirators that all diseases are spread by aerosols...because we know that every time anyone has gone looking for aerosol spread they have found it.
Anything else at this point ...is somewhere between gross incompetence and scientific fraud."
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11.11.2025 07:25 — 👍 52 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 0
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“People who cannot seem to fathom any middle ground between “2020 lockdown” and “doing literally nothing at all ever to prevent COVID spread”.”
#DutyOfCare
#CleanAir
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10.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A news article headline reads: “Molecular Pathways Explain Why Long COVID Hits Women Harder.” The subheading states: “Gut leakiness and low testosterone linked to chronic fatigue in long COVID.” The banner shows “Technology Networks: Immunology & Microbiology.” Below, there is a photo of a woman sitting on the edge of her bed in a dimly lit, blue-tinted room. She looks fatigued, with her head slightly bowed. The bed is unmade, and a lamp glows softly in the background. Tall houseplants sit near the wall, adding to the quiet, subdued atmosphere.
Women are 3x times more likely to develop long COVID.
Researchers found gut leakiness, inflammation, anemia, and hormone imbalances in women with long COVID (including lower testosterone and cortisol). These factors may help explain why long COVID affects women more.
Source: archive.li/pUBSE
10.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 68 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 3
Even as someone who has never had COVID (that I know of) this is so real. It feels like the entire world is gaslighting me abt Long COVID, climate change, capitalism, Democrats, Palestine, etc.
I can see the appeal of just enjoying my life with no sense of responsibility, but I cannot and will not.
10.11.2025 19:25 — 👍 36 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Grant Wakefield
LONG COVID - INTERVIEW WITH CARDIOLOGIST DR. RAE DUNCAN - 27 mins.
In this interview of 2024, consultant cardiologist Dr. Rae Duncan of NHS Newcastle (UK), discusses the physical mechanisms & manifestations of #Covid, & #LongCOVID in particular, & the effects the disease has on society at large -
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youtu.be/ZX_ql12aHGc?...
10.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
hey man, what do you think of the inside of that box?
09.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
absolutely too many people not getting sick in the summer. we need a second flu season to be better prepared for winter flu
09.11.2025 18:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
obviously we must redouble our hand washing. people aren't getting under those fingernails
09.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🫀 Hey all — if you care about your heart health (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?), this one’s for you. Check out this essential article from the Heart Foundation: “COVID‑19 and cardiovascular disease”.
👉 Read it here: https://heartfoundation.org.au/your-heart/covid-19-and-heart-disease-risks
Why it’s worth your time:
•People with heart disease face much higher risk of serious complications if they get COVID-19.
•COVID-19 isn’t just a lung issue — it can cause inflammation throughout the cardiovascular system, and trigger conditions like irregular heartbeat, heart attack or stroke.
🚨🧵by @michaelryan756 on Twitter, on Covid & heart health...
"•People with heart disease face much higher risk of serious complications if they get COVID-19.
•COVID-19 isn’t just a lung issue — it can cause inflammation throughout the..."
Full 🧵
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09.11.2025 16:39 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
We’re now in the 6th year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
➡️ What began as a respiratory illness has evolved into something deeper — a prolonged impact on the immune system.
This is what some call the ‘Leonardi Effect’, after immunologist
@fitterhappierAJ
➡️ He warned early that SARS-CoV-2 could hyperactivate T-cells — the cells that drive our immune defense.
This overdrive may:
• Cause tissue damage
• Exhaust T-cells
• Reduce immune memory
• Leave us less protected against future infections. 1/
🚨🧵 by Vipin M. Vashishtha aka @vipintukur about the damage from Covid...
"He warned early that SARS-CoV-2 could hyperactivate T-cells — the cells that drive our immune defense.
This overdrive may..."
Full 🧵 (see next post for links to research):
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19866...
09.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
lol this is extra funny after years of bungling covid being airborne bc even if avian flu wasn't itself airborne, birds are, so like, yeah, it's airborne my dudes
09.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
covid was a wake up call for me that we live with constantly evolving airborne pathogens but we have tools to deal with them. get a purifier, wear a mask sometimes, ever, at all. every little bit helps. we don't have to do this. it isn't inevitable
09.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(Raising my hand) I knew that too
09.11.2025 00:29 — 👍 125 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
08.11.2025 23:02 — 👍 16544 🔁 3775 💬 67 📌 33
'It often seems that in their eagerness to consign Covid-19 to the past, many people are overlooking the fact that the virus is still widely present in society and the damage that can be done by repeated infections'
08.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health
Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.
re-upping this ‘cuz it’s such a good read.
wanna know how we got here—the constant illness & infection, “tougher & longer” flu seasons, resurgence of measles, etc., etc., etc.?
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social absolutely nails it—libs/progs et al., know thyselves! www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...
08.11.2025 01:58 — 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
i agree completely about them being cowards around age verification, i just still think they are infinitly better than the mecha-hitler training, world's first trillionaire, cause of 600,000 deaths from cutting USAID, destroy truth and wikipedia, replace it with grok guy's site. not even a contest
08.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I try not to be hyperbolic with language but they make it so hard with the levels of failure involved. Sometimes i err in alternating directions
07.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's what each federal department plans to cut under Budget 2025 | CBC News
Tuesday's federal budget offers a glimpse into how dozens of government departments plan to rein in spending following this summer's comprehensive expenditure review. Here's a department-by-departmen...
Could have increased taxation on the rich but instead, he chose to sunset important programs and dump millions and millions into AI - a piece of tech that we're all expecting to bust any minute.
The way Carney's budget has tanked morale in the city of Ottawa is a sight to behold, let me tell ya!
07.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 83 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 3
These three are pure fictions and i have no doubt they lead to some deaths and much suffering. 0 consequences for propogaring these lies and no real effort to correct the misinformation publicly. 'wash your hands' is still somehow standard advice instead of wear a mask. unforgivable leadership
07.11.2025 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two 3D-imaged mice comparing how SARS-CoV-2 and influenza spread through the body. The left image, labeled Spike S1, shows red fluorescent signals across many organs, indicating that SARS-CoV-2 propagated widely throughout the body. The right image, labeled Influenza HA, shows red signals largely limited to the lungs and liver, demonstrating influenza’s more localized infection pattern. The figure caption notes that SARS-CoV-2 affects multiple organs, unlike influenza.
"No Amount of Hand-Washing Can Make COVID-19 a Seasonal Virus"
Published: 14 August, 2024
"The left image shows that SARS-CoV-2 propagated to most organs, whereas the right image shows that influenza was mostly confined to the liver and lungs"
Source: whn.global/scientific/n...
04.11.2025 07:30 — 👍 199 🔁 95 💬 3 📌 9
the idea that kids or teens 'don't get bad covid' is a stupid wrong lie based on casual observations that first infections don't seem to end in as many critically accute infections. dismissing their need for coverage, while also refusing to clean air in schools, will carry a higher cost than vaxxing
05.11.2025 20:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier
New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
This finding emphasizes that chronic disease management must be aligned with effective infection prevention and control to protect this growing at-risk population.
One more reason to adopt enhanced respiratory protection standards, particularly as outlined in the new draft of CSA Z94.4.
4/4
05.11.2025 16:45 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
i don't know about y'all but "could be good for 'the economy' years from now" is definitely the bold leadership i was hoping to see from carney. very brave to cut services and invest in cops, military, and fossel fuels- just like we all voted for him to do
05.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
guy said, “Do you like Marx?”
I said, “I haven’t met him.”
Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”
“Wow, what happened?”
“No, no, he died long ago.”
I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”
“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”
I said, “Sounds amazing.”
I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.
BS: The FBI.
MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
05.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 9406 🔁 2625 💬 43 📌 153
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