Rebecca Johnson Bista

Something to look up

it’s all I know about Girl Scouts in the USA. Girl Scouts AKA Girl Guides here, are UK-based, invented by Lord Baden Powell and his sister Agnes in the early 1900s, then spread around the world. so I know a bit about Guiding in the UK, and was one once. Bake sales are not a major part of UK Guides.

WHAT THE F**K!

The world may think it has moved on but Covid hasn’t and there are plenty either still shielding - effectively in lockdown - or suffering the after effects. What about an article on still shielding people? The ones in cancer treatment, with long term illness or vulnerability or caring for elderly?

Yeah, just like it has been critically important to have research in ME/CFS for teens and children. Have you looked at that??

Vancouver rally raising awareness around long COVID | Watch News Videos Online Watch Vancouver rally raising awareness around long COVID Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

Global News: 'Vancouver rally raising awareness around long COVID'

'A small demonstration in Downtown Vancouver shedding light on a condition that is not yet fully understood. Millions of Canadians suffer from symptoms of long COVID..that can be debilitating'

globalnews.ca/video/110839...

"We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.... Our problem in part is a failure of imagination. We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions."
--Lee Bollinger, former president of Columbia University.

COVID-19 turns 5 this year, but it's far from being gone For some, it's not much different than dealing with a cold or flu. But for others, COVID completely upended their lives.

KSDK: “COVID-19 turns 5 this year, but it's far from being gone”

"Right now we think that there are more people living with long covid than realize it," Cheng said

www.ksdk.com/article/news...

Surely he can give it to World Food Programme or any other aid charity

Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a philosopher teach me about his ideas?

Good journalism, unlike academic writing, “often emerges from the convergence of disagreement and befuddlement,” Joshua Rothman writes. In a new Weekend Essay, he reflects on his turn to reporting.

Chaos being unleashed

Beware of flu

The Unhinged Axe Falls on the National Cancer Institute and the Rest of NIH Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

They are gutting NIH like a fish. www.splinter.com/the-unhinged...

Betrayal is betrayal. I always thought better of America.

“Love is a great privilege. Real #love, which is very rare, enriches the lives of the men and women who experience it.” —Simone de Beauvoir #simonedebeauvoir #lovers #paris #france

More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastline The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boats

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers Wildfire-management groups say Trump’s latest push to trim government could impede firefighting efforts

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Taking away years of experience': NIH probationary employees fired Friday Scientists and medical researchers being let go by President Donald Trump’s administration walked out of the gates of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Friday afternoon appearin...

NBC Washington: '‘Taking away years of experience': NIH probationary employees fired Friday'

'Scientists and medical researchers being let go by President Trump’s administration walked out of the gates of the NIH..appearing shaken, some in tears..'

www.nbcwashington.com/news/preside...

This!!! Thank you @tribelaw.bsky.social !

Pass it on. Read the comments.

#GlobalHeatingImpossibleToSlowDown

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi

Think we’re immune?

Screenshot of Joe's post on Twitter: "From SARS-CoV-2 on substack: H5N1 Bird Flu Is About to Go Global. The D1.1 strain of H5N1 in Nevada has acquired the PB2 D701N mutation, allowing it to adapt to mammals." The embedded substack message: "H5N1 Bird Flu Is About to Go Global. The D1.1 strain of H5N1 in Nevada has acquired the PB2 D701N mutation, allowing it to adapt to mammals. This mutation is driving a much faster spread in Nevada dairy herds than the B3.13 strain in California, marking a major shift in the virus's evolution. Migrating birds will spread the D1.1 (D701N) strain worldwide, increasing the risk of multiple mammalian outbreaks. This is no longer just a U.S. cattle issue it is a growing global threat."

👀 posted by @jlerollblues.bsky.social on Twitter 30mins ago:

"From SARS-CoV-2 on substack: H5N1 Bird Flu Is About to Go Global.

The D1.1 strain of H5N1 in Nevada has acquired the PB2 D701N mutation, allowing it to adapt to mammals."

OP: x.com/jlerollblues...

The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of: malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique treatment for cholera in Bangladesh a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa nutritional support for children in Ethiopia early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

USAID friends… what’s happening to you?

Great plan. What could possibly go wrong?

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 31 January 2025 States and Territories Trend % Change Reporting Notes WA ⬆️ UP +17.4% Positivity rate: 8.1% SA ⬆️ UP +4.4% Positivity rate: 11.2% QLD ⬇️ DOWN -16.6% 7x more COVID hospitalised (179) than flu (24) NSW ⬇️ DOWN -13.1% Positivity rate: 8.5% VIC — — Fortnightly update, next: 7 Feb 2025 TAS — — Monthly update, next: 21 Feb 2025 ACT — — COVID data paused until autumn/winter NT — — COVID data no longer published Aged Care ⬇️ DOWN -13.2% 6 deaths reported

AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 31 January 2025

#COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE

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