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On 8/2/22 Martin Kulldorff tweeted, “Too bad we got herd thinking before herd immunity.”

It’s now been 1,825 days since this Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya spent 3 days forecasting herd immunity in “6 months”. 

The then future date set for possible herd immunity was 1,620 days ago.

Lastly, 1,158 days since Martin posted this 👇

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Disabled people fight for the right to wear masks during an ongoing pandemic and got told to “just stay home”

We get coughed on, laughed at and threatened

Those mask bans passed

But when California tries to prevent ICE from hiding their faces?

It’s “unconstitutional”.

The cruelty is the point

“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!

A baby sitting in a catapult in a suburban backyard. The baby seems surprised to be there. The text reads: Is this a safe sleep environment for your baby? No! This is a catapult! Put your baby to sleep flat on their back in a crib, bassinet, play yard, or bedside sleeper. If your baby falls asleep in a car seat or other product not designed for sleep, move them to a safe sleep space.

It's Baby Safety Month.

This has been basically every ACIP meeting with The New Batch.

These people are so grossly unqualified, it would be hilarious if it weren’t so serious.

The American political right is a cesspit of bigotry, white grievance, conspiracism, religious zealotry, violent ideation and action, and plutocrat money fueling it all.

Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.

a screen grab from a TikTok from the scene of the crime in Utah showing another person wearing a throwback Mariners S cap

but wait there's more

If a Fargo character showed up it would have broken nothing

I usually say "during quarantine" to represent the time when we took COVID seriously.

Otherwise, I'm gonna ask "Oh, did they cure it? Did you get the cure?".

My dad was a 40-year fed who worked in a scientific agency. I cannot stress to you, based on what he has told me, how hard it is to get even ten people to agree on anything, including the color of the sky or what time it is. To get 1,000+ to take a bold stance is CRAZY. bsky.app/profile/fact...

JUST IN: U.S. military conducts strike on "drug vessel" departing from Venezuela, Secretary of State Rubio says

Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall? It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...

Your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligibility criteria. Please send a letter to your members of Congress today and help spread the word. actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

this article is an important read but i cannot ignore the feelings that come up when i read this phrased as if what’s happening *hasn’t been* spilling over into real world consequences. like this is not all just now happening out of no where? the trajectory since 2020 has been a continuous downhill.

The Biden-era CDC directors downplayed the harms of COVID and the benefits of wearing masks, and recommended handwashing to avoid becoming infected with an airborne virus. Yes things are even worse now. But it truly is different points on the same continuum.

(Remember Maskless Mandy? Good times…)

The entire CDC—and every other HHS-governed institution—should strike until RFK Jr, who allows no dissent, is forced out. Allowing this man to continue to wield power will cost thousands, perhaps millions, of lives. He must be removed. We need to use extraordinary means to achieve that.

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

Prior authorizations are the bane of doctors’ workdays and harm patients. But instead of making them illegal in the private sector, as they should be, the Trump administration is rolling them out for patients on Medicare too. Obscene.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

Text that says "2025 DSA Cuba Delegation 205 Applications 85 Chapters" Below the text is a map of the US with 85 dots all over.

When we say solidarity, we mean it.
🌹 205 members applied
🌹 85 chapters represented
DSA is showing up for Cuba in 2025.

I will die on this hill:

it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

We Thought We Got The Updated Covid Shot. We Didn't. A deep dive on how we got here.

This is the best summary I’ve ever read of the policy choices and subsequent public health disasters that led us to RFK and complete uncertainty about whether we’ll even get updated Covid vaccines today.

You’ve been lied to, a lot.

www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/we-thought...

The attention to nose-cocking in that - top notch

The Director of the National Institutes of Health in a nutshell:

Jesus Christ, someone is actually attempting to do the basic responsibilities of their job

When folks like NIH Director Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary say nobody trusts the mRNA vaccines, it should be understood: They’re spiking the ball.

They worked hard for that outcome. They’re proud of it.

It’s not just RFK. It’s his acolytes too—Makary, Bhattacharya, Høeg, Prasad, Bardosh…

None of these people belong in government.

Vinay Prasad Returns to FDA Within two weeks of his unceremonious departure, the COVID vaccine skeptic is back as the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

One day after a man who reportedly believed that the COVID vaccine had injured him shot up the CDC, HHS announced that a doctor with a history of casting doubt on the safety of the mRNA vaccines is being reinstated as the FDA’s top vaccine regulator.

www.importantcontext.news/p/vinay-pras...

Let’s fucking name ‘em:

Robert Kennedy Jr.
Jay Bhattacharya
Martin Kulldorff
Marty Makary
Robert Malone
Tracy Beth Høeg
Vinay Prasad
Peter McCullough
Mary Holland
Paul Marik
Pierre Kory
Jeffrey Tucker
Kevin Bardosh
Retsef Levi

And many others.