1. COVID is only starting as a crisis of chronic illness. You cannot talk in the past tense
“For so many NHS staff, in many ways covid never really left… There’s been no pause, no time to heal, just a relentless push forward in a system permanently stuck in crisis mode”
Merci, EmmanuelMacron 💙💛
Every European will be safer if every part of Ukraine is sovereign and pro-European.
russian occupation of an independent country creates a precedent that endangers the entire continent.
Trump day 91: First day with no decisions, Easter message about ‘millions of criminals,’ American detained 10 days for ‘illegal entry,’ Hegseth shared classified info with his wife and brother & more: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-91... #trump100
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
At least three people who are obsessed with criticizing me are being published in this book and I just want to point out that I travel and write regularly making the case for science funding and why cosmology is imporrant and these guys have had fuck all to say about science funding
It’s bad enough we have healthcare workers refusing to mask, now one admits to practicing medicine while he has measles
Does the HHS Secretary condemn this behaviour? No. He praises the doctor as an “extraordinary healer”
Measles is airborne & wildly contagious. This doctor should lose his license
We need to stop making concessions to the right bc right-wingers get mad.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
I hate the trope about "elites looking down their noses at rural folks lives". I lived in rural areas, and believe me, there was plenty of disdain there for the way urbanites lived *their* lives. It's not a one-way thing and in any case doesn't excuse fascism.
EU 2024 electricity generation:
49% renewable energy
24% nuclear
Only 28% fossil fuel 👍
Wishing him the best of luck with that. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
"We have footsteps to follow, and shoulders to stand on! Fascism wins when you lose hope. To joyful persistence, my friends!"
In the immortal words of Toni Morrison.
It applies to ableism too.
The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
Good to see you here, by the way.
No kidding
We’re either heading for a recession or are already in one, paired with a stock market collapse, all because Trump did something real stupid that he could undo at any time. The US economy is crashing because a single dipshit *wants* to crash it, and nobody with the power to stop him will do so.
We know masks prevent Covid & other respiratory infections
We know hospital acquired covid has a 10% mortality rate
We know patients are scared or postponing medical care because they can’t risk Covid
We know many HCWs are burned out & suffering Long Covid
So why aren’t we masking in healthcare?
🚨 NEW: RFK Jr. Fanboys Owe You An Apology
Supporters of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. now have to face the music: RFK Jr.'s critics predicted exactly how his tenure as HHS Secretary would go, and a child is now dead of measles as the result.
👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/rfk-jr-fan...
My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
A flyer with text describing Airborne Infection Prevention training for using germicidal UV-C. A QR code for an interest form and logos of sponsors are at the bottom.
80% of German VOTERS went for parties that promised to have nothing to do with the AFD...
MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!
WIRED continues to lead the reporting on what's happening inside the US government right now.
A 25-year-old Musk acolyte now has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
This paper showing that a bunch of interventions didn't work for #longcovid is used as evidence that #longcovid is psychosomatic. But if the interventions tested didn't address the biology of the disease, they wouldn't work. See my field for another demo of this tautology.
Stell Dir vor , Dein Kind geht zu Schule, kommt krank wieder heim und wird nie mehr gesund. Das darf einfach nicht passieren und schon gar nicht tausendfach. #BildungAberSicher www.srf.ch/wissen/gesun...
So I see Marty Makary is being pushed as FDA chief. The Fox News-ification of fed positions continues. Some background on him during the height of the COVID pandemic and co-author of a highly criticized paper on medical errors as a cause of death... medsky idsky lawsky health polucy
Reading RIVM's comments regarding avian influenza is likely to trigger a bit of deja vu in anybody who was in the Netherlands in January and February of 2020.
Screenshot of auto translation Dutch to English from https://www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/2796375/vogelgriep-duikt-weer-op-kunnen-mensen-ziek-worden-en-is-een-ei-eten-nog-veilig Can humans get sick from bird flu? Bird flu is rare in humans. Only in rare cases can bird flu be transmitted from animals to humans. This is done through intensive contact with infected animals. Those who do get infected with the bird flu virus do not get very sick from it. The symptoms in humans correspond to 'normal' flu symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches and cough. Sometimes people get an eye infection from bird flu. The risk of someone with bird flu infecting other people is negligible. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) advises people who have been in contact with a sick bird to contact their GP.
Good news, everybody!
Avian influenza has been detected again in the Netherlands but don't worry:
"[Humans] who do get infected with the bird flu virus do not get very sick from it."
www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/27963...