I’d assume the lack of interest is likely also informed by the roughly 98% of people who prefer the fiction that COVID is a harmless cold. There is virtually no call in society to do ANYTHING abt COVID. And that’s exactly how negligent governments prefer it. The people are doing their work for them.
It does seem like there is a lot of bias in people’s personal circumstances too.
As people pile on the infections, there’s probably less interest in measuring and quantifying the long-term impacts of repeated infection on the vascular system, the brain, and autonomic functions.
Yes. Our papers and grants that mention Covid are rejected at a disproportionately high rate. The topic evokes shame and guilt among those reading the documents.
Research on COVID is being hampered by a lack of interest by publishers and funding, imo. Considering we are only about 7 years into a brand-new disease, we lost interest pretty quickly.
This is true. No one wants to admit COVID still exists or ever existed. Quite incredible. Where are the huge conferences dedicated to COVID, like there still is for HIV?
The entire country is awash in corruption. There's no incentive for people to be good or fair or work hard or honestly. There's no reward for it. You are either one of the ones who works until they die playing by the rules or you aren't. And you live with shell of a person you've become.
How does Trump spend his time? Corruption. Trump spends a great deal of his time, perhaps his primary focus, finding ways to milk his position for personal or familial gain, and until we learn who is profiting off inside knowledge of his market-manipulating tweets about Iran, that may extend to his erratic comments laid out here. Bunker-ballroom. He spends a lot of time planning to build things and it increasingly seems like his aides view construction as a less dangerous pursuit for the old man than almost anything else he tries. They may be right. Cons. The conman spends a lot of time pitching journalists and the WSJ describes he does this outside any intervention from his staff: “Trump would joke with Leavitt that he had talked to a reporter and made big news, but she would have to wait and see what it was.” When WSJ says he didn’t consult with aides before doing this, it glosses the extent to which an entire press corps reconstructs Trump’s abject bullshit so as to convey it as some kind of plan.
How does Trump spend his time?
Construction, Con, Corruption, and Clubs.
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For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question:
When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?
These monsters from the Valley act as if their own perspective is the organising principle of reality. They flatten the world until it reflects their own image back at them, and they call it order. They recast dominance as necessity, exclusion as clarity, cruelty as truth-telling. What they are building is not just a politics, but a way of being in which other lives appear as obstacles, or worse, as background.
On Palantir’s manifesto, their AI fantasies, and how Silicon Valley billionaires think they are the new Guardians of the Universe.
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So this may come as a surprise to some folks on here, but there are people still living like this today because they can't afford to get reinfected with Covid & the pandemic is *not* over
Curious what Trump's three sacked Cabinet Secretaries have in common....
Noem, Bondi and Chavez-DeRemer were undoubtedly heinous and beyond incompetent....but were they really worse than Hegseth, Kennedy or Patel?
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Patriarchy always sharpens the axe
So according to Trump: Venezuela wants him to be their president (after he learns to speak Spanish); Iran wants him as their Supreme Leader; and Europe also wants him to be their president. This is peak delusion. (Someone please tell him Europe isn’t a country).
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Screenshot of a post by HeyJupiter (@ShesKindaALot). Text reads: “My mom was complaining about how many funerals she’s been to this year. Meanwhile she & her friends are geriatric & constantly socializing unmasked. They’re literally dropping like flies but if I suggest having masked events she acts like I’m insane.” Post timestamp: 3:27 AM, April 19, 2026, with about 11.1K views.
Some of the replies to this post are wild — “vaccines are killing people,” “masks don’t work,” “better to die socialising than alone,” “let them enjoy what time they have left.”
It’s a dismissal of risk and reality. You can stay social and still reduce risk.
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Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”
The most corrupt regime ever.
i dont understand, 2 days ago i was told there was a deal, i was told it was over and we got everything we wanted, i was told the strait would never be closed again, i was told all this just as markets were hitting their stride on friday afternoon
Yes, when you are finally out of office, you incompetent and ridiculously stupid buffoon.
It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.
Also, 6) growing addiction to snuff films.
Except they still depict him as a functional actor here.
If this were anyone else it'd be a 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 story about how the President can't or won't focus on the war he started, which narrative might force the GOP to do something about it.
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
And now will come the usual Thiel-boosting conga line of podcast gurus, singing from the same hymnsheet
Lucy he kneed her I the privates after tearing half her bra off. She was so ashamed. Pinned, thrown and assaulted in public a child.
Disgraceful. Sickening. Scared for our kids.
I saw this footage elsewhere. It’s so awful. This WA cop thug better face consequences, and his fellows all need retraining. This is the racist 🇦🇺 state that also stripped priests & nuns (approx) naked when arresting them for peaceful pray-ins in ministers’ offices over vile anti-refugee policy.
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IMAGE SHOWS AUSTRALIAN POLICE OFFICER IN PLAIN CLOTHES ASTRIDE A 13 YEAR OLD ABORIGINAL GIRL!!!
Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.
Laura Tingle: 'A deranged autocrat mad with power'
Slowly, the issue of the state of the US president's mind is becoming the subject of serious discussion, rather than just the butt of the jokes of late night talk show hosts.
As it should.”
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“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”
