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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Text that reads: SC senator resigns seat following Alzheimer’s diagnosis Nutt, a 59-year-old father of three, spent a decade on the Spartanburg County Council before winning a seat in the House in the 2020 election. He was elected to the Senate last November after emerging as the victor of a contentious, four-way GOP primary for an open seat. Rep. Roger Nutt, R-Moore. (Provided by Roger Nutt) Nutt had been receiving medical treatment for what he believed were symptoms of long COVID, in which symptoms of the virus linger after the infection itself has ended. Doctors instead determined that Nutt had neurodegenerative disorder Alzheimer’s disease, according to a news release. “While we are saddened by this news, we will face this trial with faith in the grace of God that has sustained our lives, our marriage and my career in public service for nearly 15 years,” Nutt said in a statement.

SC senator resigns after starting treatment for #LongCovid and then receiving an Alzheimer's diagnosis. "Doctors INSTEAD determined that Nutt had neurodegenerative disorder". Instead? Early-onset Alzheimer's (before 65 Years old) used to be rare, but it will not be anymore.

At the top, a green button reads: “Take Action.” Below it: Canada is on the verge of adopting a national standard for universal respirator use in healthcare. Subtext: For the first time, N95s would be expected for all healthcare workers, patients, and visitors — unless equally protective substitute measures are in place. Final paragraph: To our knowledge, this is the first national standard of its kind — anywhere in the world. In the background is a faint image of a CAN95 respirator. The WHN logo and a row of six colored dots appear at the top.

Headline in bold: If this CSA standard is finalized, it sets a critical precedent for other countries to follow. Followed by: It can shape global policy for decades on: • Clean air in healthcare • Pandemic preparedness • Protection of the most vulnerable Final sentence: This is about making healthcare safer — for everyone. Background includes a faded image of an N95-style respirator. The WHN logo and six colorful dots are at the top.

Bold headline: Every single person can help. Subtext: The CSA is accepting public comments until August 19. You can help make this a reality — by submitting your comment. A dark green button reads: “See caption for details.” Faint background shows a close-up of a CAN95 mask. Top shows the WHN logo and colored dots.

Canada is on the verge of adopting a national standard requiring N95s in healthcare—and your voice can help make it happen.

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K Kimberly Faye Crawley <kim.c it.com> to Lucia▾ No. Don't use ChatGPT. I refuse to use ChatGPT. I'm a professional writer and you're burning the planet to replace me. L Lucia Bmo <lucia.bruno@digi dustries.it> to me I don't want to replace you. K Da: Kimberly Faye Crawley <kim.crawley@faculty.ogit.com> Inviato: mercoledì 2 7 novembre 20 24 11:19 Kimberly Faye Crawley <kim.crawley@faultyropite to Lucia You have insulted me greatly. https://www.vulture.com/2023/09/george-r-r-martin-authors-guild-chatgpt-lawsuit-openai.html And you are trying to replace me. "Writers are aggrieved by ChatGPT and other Al-written content not because it threatens our jobs, but because it's so clear how and why it's doomed to be a disa https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/why-writers-know-using-chatgpt-is-a-bad-idea And destroying the planet too. "Analysis: The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: Al is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates"

K Kimberly Faye Crawley <kim.c it.com> to Lucia▾ No. Don't use ChatGPT. I refuse to use ChatGPT. I'm a professional writer and you're burning the planet to replace me. L Lucia Bmo <lucia.bruno@digi dustries.it> to me I don't want to replace you. K Da: Kimberly Faye Crawley <kim.crawley@faculty.ogit.com> Inviato: mercoledì 2 7 novembre 20 24 11:19 Kimberly Faye Crawley <kim.crawley@faultyropite to Lucia You have insulted me greatly. https://www.vulture.com/2023/09/george-r-r-martin-authors-guild-chatgpt-lawsuit-openai.html And you are trying to replace me. "Writers are aggrieved by ChatGPT and other Al-written content not because it threatens our jobs, but because it's so clear how and why it's doomed to be a disa https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/why-writers-know-using-chatgpt-is-a-bad-idea And destroying the planet too. "Analysis: The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: Al is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates"

This is a thread about how I may not be living and surviving for much longer, thanks to Gen AI. Please read next posts... 🧵

Wow. Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV spread was just approved by the FDA.

The problem? Due to government cuts to Medicaid, PEPFAR, and Global Fund, it's unlikely this game-changing drug will reach the many people who need it most in the US and globally.

a woman is standing in front of a chain link fence with the words wake up on her face . Alt: Sarah Connor from Terminator yelling "wake up!"

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Digital activism in Kenya: moving from the digital center to the digital periphery of Long Covid experience - Globalization and Health Digital activism around Long Covid has reverberated around the globe, as patients, researchers, and clinicians worked together to understand the chronic condition. However, Long Covid networks, much l...

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While many in the Global North have had the privilege of using online communities to raise awareness & to advocate around #LongCOVID, these digital tools are much less accessible in economically disadvantaged countries like 🇰🇪 Kenya -

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As it stands in 2025, socialists and communists are excluding disabled people from their praxis.

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

What a cool thing to see. Thanks for sharing

ast fall, children in China were coming down with respiratory illnesses earlier and in greater numbers than usual. Ditto for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in the US and elsewhere in 2021 and 2022. And the current winter sea- son doesn't appear to be much differ- Medical News website ent as far as higher- than-usual case numbers, according to CDC surveillance data. The surging case numbers and their out-of-whack timing have fueled an ongoing debate about how the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to rates of other infectious dis-eases. No one yet knows for sure. "Right now, this is phenomenology," Wolfgang Leitner, PhD, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told JAMA in an interview. "People are assuming a lot about the mechanism." Much of the discussion has centered around immunity debt and immunity theft, terms born of the pandemic and not found in textbooks. The former generally refers to the reduced spread of other pathogens because of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPls) imposed to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, such as school closures and mask mandates. In early January of this year, a PubMed search for immunity debt resulted in only 22 hits, the earliest reference published online by French researchers in May 2021. "The lack of immune stimulation due to the reduced circulation of microbial agents and to the related reduced vaccine uptake induced an 'immunity debt' [that] could have negative consequences when the pandemic is under control and NPls are lifted," the authors predicted. Indeed, Chinese authorities have attributed the increase in influenzalike illnesses in their country to the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions and the circulation of known pathogens such as influenza and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, not some new JAMA February 6, 2024 Volume 331, Number 5 infectious agent, according to a November 22, 2023, statement from the World Health Organization. And as Leitner pointed out, echoing…

It's unlikely that immunity debt, or immunity gap, as some prefer to call it, completely explains recent surges in respiratory infection, Leitner acknowledged. "Re-duction in immune status is contributing to rebound, but I don't think it's the whole story," he said. Population vs Personal Immunity When it comes to protecting against viral infections, people can't have their cake and eat it, too. "In 2020, we needed lockdowns absolutely desperately," epidemiologist William Hanage, PhD, associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, emphasized in an interview. He takes issue with those who suggest "that we would have been able to somehow come up with an optimal solution that would have both minimized the pandemic and these consequences for other infections." That notion, he says, "is utterly, utterly false." The effects on other infectious diseases of implementing and then lifting COVID-19 mitigation measures are not at all surprising, Hanage noted "Do you expect fewer infections in this season to end up leading to more infections next season? Yeah," he said. "That's the way it works. The interventions that were put in place and were extremely effective in bringing [COVID-19] surges under control also stopped other things. It's basic infectious disease epidemiology." Just don't call it immunity debt, Hanage urged. "I dislike the term. It suggests you've been sort of profligate, that you have not been taking care of your immunological finances. Immunity gap. I think, is a less-loaded term." There's precedent for the concept. Although immunity gap and immunity debt hadn't yet been coined at the time, a dip in respiratory infections due to social distancing followed by a rebound when people resumed normal activities occurred in France nearly 30 years ago, Leitner pointed out. During a Paris public transport workers strike that began on November 30, 1995, many people in the region-including children who nor…

deaths. For example, the Yamagata lineage of influenza B viruses, first identified in the 1980s, hasn't been isolated since March 2020, leading scientists to assume it is now extinct. And from 2019 to 2022, asthma attacks among US Black adults, who have higher rates than Hispanic or White adults, decreased from 29.3% to 22.1%, according to a national survey study published recently as a research letter. The authors noted that decreasing chronic airway disease exacerbations have been attributed at least in part to reduced circulation of common respiratory viruses. A 2023 review article he coauthored concluded that some long COVID symptoms may be due to chronic immune activation and the presence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 A Thieving Virus? Since the beginning of the pandemic, many people have either dismissed COVID-19 as nothing worse than a cold or, at the opposite end of the spectrum, have referred to it as airborne AIDS. "We work with children with HIV, and it's just offensive to see people make those kinds of statements," Munro said of comparing COVID-19 with AIDS. Reality lies somewhere between those extremes, experts say. Almost all viral respiratory infections, especially when they are severe, cause imA small study published in Cell in August 2023 found that severe COVID-19 can cause long-lasting immune system changes, but the alterations were related to persistent ac-tivation, not suppression. The researchers compared blood samples from 57 people, some who were recovering from severe COVID-19 or other severe illnesses and some who were healthy. They found gene expression differences in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC- long-lived precursors to diverse immune cells-between the patients recovering from severe COVID-19 and the other study participants that persisted for up to 1 year after the patients became ill. In the recovering patients, those differences were associated with a higher production of white blood cells that seemed to produce more infla…

Their study didn't answer the question of whether COVID-19 infections might be linked to increased susceptibility to less serious non-COVID-19 infections, Andersson acknowledged in the email. "We do not include milder infections seen in primary care or those not requiring medical attention, and, as such, we cannot exclude that the risk of these infections could be increased," he wrote. He and his coauthors did find that people who'd been hospitalized for COVID-19 were more likely to be hospitalized for another infectious illness than those who'd never had COVID-19. "Not surpris-ingly, those individuals who had been hospitalized for one type of infection would tend to have higher odds of later being hospitalized for another infection," Andersson explained. No question, SARS-CoV-2 "messes with your immune system," Leitner said. "It kills T cells...What I don't know, and it hasn't been shown, is how much does that contribute in what we're seeing in terms of outbreaks? My theory is it contributes, but it's certainly not the only reason." Published Online: January 10, 2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.26608 Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Hanage reported serving as a paid scientific advisor to News & Analysis Merck Vaccines, Shionogi Inc, Pfizer, and Biobot Analytics, a company in which he holds stock options. Dr Erdmann reported serving as an investigator for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial and COVID-19 Prevention Network and the National Institutes of Health's Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Initiative and COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines public-private partnership. Dr Erdmann also reported receiving payment for serving as a member of Perspectum's Scientific Advisory Board and having a patent for human neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 that has been licensed to the PlantForm Corp. No other disclosures were reported. Note: Source references are available through embedd…

Nor does immunity debt explain the rise in cases of other respiratory illnesses from TB to Mycoplasma. There is a better explanation. Namely, #ImmunityTheft jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If you want to show solidarity with disabled please, please mask up (ideally an N95 or better).

Public health is being gutted. Medicaid is on the chopping block. Fascism is here & fascists always target the disabled.

By masking you help protect yourself & us.

It’s a powerful form of resistance.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID.

The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

Characterizing Long COVID Symptoms During Early Childhood This cohort study evaluates which prolonged symptoms in early childhood are associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.

Yasemin Acar is a German citizen.

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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

Remembering this trans man for Pride. Mexican Revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila, who threatened to shoot anyone who misgendered him and said "he did not want to die without being known as a man,” lived his life as a man after transitioning. One of Zapata’s top commanders.

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First Nations chief warns of ‘fierce resistance’ to Premier Doug Ford’s mining bill Fiddler said last-minute government amendments aimed at easing Indigenous concerns about the bill are not enough because no details have been provided.

A prominent First Nations leader is warning Premier Doug Ford to expect “fierce resistance” to his Bill 5 fast-tracking mines and infrastructure projects in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

"In the same way COVID-conscious celebrate each chain of transmission broken, climate scientists recognize that each deg of warming we avoid will be a victory. It’s time for everyone who cares about the latter to engage with the people and the political commitments that make the former possible."

Mask 😷 the working class because we have no national health care, c19 never went away, and they won't tell us what's coming next.

Unmask 👀 the Proud Boys bc we need to know who they are so we can ostracize them like you're supposed to with Nzi fucks.

Joe Biden: It Would Be an Insult to My Dead Son for Everyone to Have Healthcare The former vice president released an ad invoking family tragedy and attacking rivals who have plans to ensure everyone has access to healthcare.

Good read on one of many vile things Joe Biden did as president. Hell is not hot enough for him imo.

“The world cannot silently just watch while this humanitarian crisis is happening & this siege is also, of course, a continuation of many, many decades of illegal occupation.”

Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship w/ drones w/ humanitarian volunteers on board.

Some so-called leftists also mocked disabled people who still took protections like masking, because to their minds, Covid was ‘over’ because they had been vaccinated. And their refusal to advocate for wfh is part of this pathological desire for normal.