FYI, pharmacies near me have started taking Covid vaccine appointments for next week with the updated vaccine. Got my appointment for Wednesday!
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Media should ask public health *how* measles virus transmits
With all the attention on #measles #outbreaks recently, the media should ask public health how the measles #virus can catch a ride in #aerosols to help it stay #airborne for hours and infect people but somehow no other virus like #COVID or #respiratory viruses (#Flu, #RSV) can use the exact same transportation method and fall to the ground. đ¤đ§ľ 1/
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Mad props to @firestorm in #NC for accepting #BannedBooks from #FL and sending them back to FL for anyone who asks. It's a huge good deed.
Furthermore: every person in the photo in this story of them boxing up the books is wearing a mask. All the unmasked photos were taken outdoors. This is what real #inclusion looks like in the age of #COVID.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3wdpyCE
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Oh dearie me đˇ The Billionaire Who Wants To Live Forever Has Long #Covid: âThe billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs.
If you havenât come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.â
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-billionaire-who-wants-to-live
I've mostly ignored CDC's advice, given how unrelated to emerging science and common sense it has been. Instead of smashing a square peg into a round hole, I wish they'd ONLY report the data and emerging science so people could at least make INFORMED choices.
It's mind boggling to me how many educated people think meh, it's just a cold.
There are so many SIMPLE things we could be doing to make this so much better for all.
Note to self. Continue to avoid the hoi polloi.
Iâm highlighting this part since it may be easily missed:
âThe White House has yet to sign off on the guidance that the agency is expected to release in April for public feedback, officials said. One agency official said the timing could âmove around a bitâ until the guidance is finalized.â
They need to hear a ton of pushback from as many of us as possible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/13/covid-isolation-guidelines-cdc-change/
I saw this article going around yesterday but it was behind a paywall. This one should be a gift article. If it doesn't work for you, please let me know and I'll take it down.
Click on the text link, not the preview card (otherwise it loads the subscription version). (Thanks, @technicat!)
It's also archived here: https://archive.is/WKxmf (Thanks @glightly!)
Washington Post: Here's how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need it
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Paxlovid is available for free but nobody knows about the program because it's some back office arrangement, like most of the American healthcare system.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/13/paxlovid-covid-cost-free-paxcess/
đ¤Śđťââď¸Via Steve Herman:
White House no longer requiring routine, asymptomatic #COVID testing for the press corps, including for travel on Air Force One.
Wanna do something awesome today??
If you have no intention of ordering the free #Covid home tests FOR WHATEVER REASON...
Order them anyway and give them to someone who might not be able to buy them.
https://special.usps.com/testkits
2 orders (the limit) is worth $64 or more to buy in the store.
#CovidCautious people who are struggling to survive would welcome this gift! đ
If you don't know anyone, let me know.
Thanks! đŤś
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"NPRâs decision to platform a piece about the difficulty of navigating life with a spouse who canât dine indoors, instead of a piece about the difficulty of navigating a society that has made dining indoors unsafe for vulnerable groups, is just that- a decision, and a political one."
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor
I cosign all of this. To the best of my knowledge, I don't have a medical condition that makes me more "high risk" for Covid than anyone else.
And yet I understand that Covid destroys everyone's bodies and I don't want that to happen to me.
So I always wear respirators, etc.
I would love to live in a world where people resisted capitalist propaganda to protect the people around them and not be ableist... But we don't live in that world...
If you've been cruising the Fediverse recently, you've no doubt seen a number of amusing posts under the hashtag #CDCSays, about why the U.S. Center for Disease Control is probably trying to kill you for capitalism; in particular as that relates to their updated COVID isolation guidelines. While these posts are objectively hilarious, the simple truth is that these aren't really jokes, and pretty much everyone who understands this virus and how it works, thinks the CDC has sold us all down the river for capitalists, corporations, and the bosses, to keep the fuckbarrelTM churning.
Of course, there's only so much these folks can communicate in a joke on social media, so today I thought I'd share a recent article by Reina Sultan on Self.com. Inside, she talks to three medically qualified experts who work in this field about why the CDC's new guidelines, and the drastic reduction of the isolation period recommended if you've contracted COVID, are wishful thinking at best and quite possibly capitalist death cult propaganda:
https://www.self.com/story/cdc-new-covid-19-isolation-guidelines
Although it's definitely worth reading the entire short article, let's look at some important highlights here for folks who're absolutely not gonna click on a link about COVID because they'd rather pretend everything is fine:
- reducing COVID isolation recommendations from 5 days, to 24 hours "if youâve been fever-free" and "your symptoms are improving" will "likely make more people sickâand this approach increasingly places the burden of public health on individual people, which is dangerous for everyone, but especially for those at a higher risk of complications from the virus."
- changing testing from a way to determine if you can leave isolation, to merely something you might want to use to "assist" your decision making, is a terrible idea.
- COVID is most certainly not over; "wastewater analysis data suggests there are still more than 760,000 new cases of COVID a day in the USâmeaning roughly 1 in 63 people are actively infectious."
- Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, says "There is no evidence to suggest that these waves (of COVID infections) are becoming smaller on average over time, or that we're having fewer waves.â
- Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH says "that the CDCâs messaging implicitly communicates two falsehoods: that COVID has âceased to be a threat,â and that it âstops being transmitted when people stop having a fever.â According to Dr. Jirmanus, "infectiousness has little to do with specific symptoms, since you can be sick (and contagious) without a fever and with few, mild, or even no symptoms at all. And if youâre testing positive on rapid tests, youâre very likely still able to infect others, even if you feel fine."
- Shortening the isolation period "supports economic interests and is not in the interest of protecting health." Yes, this means that the bosses and capitalists are okay with making you sick and maybe even killing you, so they can keep extracting wealth from our labor.
- In fact, Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD says the CDCâs updated recommendations are moving in the wrong direction. âCOVID isolation should be expanded, not reduced or eliminated. There is no change in the scientific evidence around COVID transmission that would support reducing the recommended isolation period below five days... Extending isolation beyond five days would be a safer approach, both to prevent viral spread and to allow people adequate time to recover.â Ideally, she recommends you isolate "for 10 to 14 days, if you have that option, and take two rapid tests with negative results at least 24 hours apart before going about your daily life as usual again" but acknowledges that without sick leave, this will be impossible for many workers, who she then advises to wear "a well-fitting respirator and limit in-person activities only to what is essential.â
Additionally, these experts point out that long COVID is real, remains poorly understood, and is therefore something we should absolutely not be fucking around with as a society by continuing to "let er rip" and reducing protective measures; which is precisely what the CDC has done here with its joke ass updated isolation guidelines. Finally, all three experts also remind us that these policy updates all seem to be designed with non-disabled, non-immunocompromised people in mind; which is pretty alarming when you realize that roughly â4 out of 10 Americans have chronic diseases that put them at higher risk of COVID.â All of which just reinforces the argument I've been making for a while; rich people and their captured regulatory bodies will absolutely toss disabled people, sick people, and the elderly into the furnace for five points a share.
Look folks, I get that we're all tired of this virus and this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but these are highly qualified doctors telling you in so many words that "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you." And the CDC at least, sure is.
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PEOPLE. I know you're tired.
And I'm usually not like "please do this" but PLEASE DO THIS.
Please contact every public H5N1-concerned figure you know over this weekend about HR. 1425, "No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act ".
This horrifically MURDEROUS bill from Rep Tom Tiffany (R-WI-07) that passed the House 219-199 on Sept. 11th.
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Latest comic: What did we learn from Covid?
#covid #COVID19 #coronavirus #cartoon #health #healthcare #pandemic #comic
đˇđForbes, not the CDC, warns us about #Covid & provides solutions:
Ppl are increasingly left to their own devices to protect themselves agst. infection. What to do: mask & improve ventilation. Top recom: wear a well-fitting, effective respirator. Ventilation: add a portable air cleaner to your workspace. Schools: 5 air changes per hour & use a MERV13 filter.
Itâs advantageous to employers to make a safer work ENVIR -If their employees are out sick -lose productivity-. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2024/03/22/ventilation-should-be-a-larger-focus-in-our-fight-against-covid-19/?sh=34f84b41529f
âThis is really its own illness, lots of times affecting young, healthy people.â
Millions of Texans have already come down with long #COVID symptoms, and many more could be at risk in the future if we don't make changes. For this @TexasObserver magazine feature, I interviewed both sufferers and medical experts about solutions we can take: https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/
#news #politics #USpol #healthcare #health #disability #HumanRights #Texas #Austin #pandemic #science
âI was trying to prioritize my physical health because I couldnât lift things; I couldnât open things. I didnât understand why I was getting weaker.â
Even a single #COVID infection can destroy the lives of young, healthy Texans, as my feature from @TexasObserver magazine, out today, reveals: https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/
#LongCovid #health #news #politics #USpol #disability #HumanRights #Texas
In addition to being a massive global eugenics project, it is now increasingly clear that rich people used the pandemic as an excuse to accelerate and prosecute the class war:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-pandemic
"Four years ago, the United States entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its 34th annual billionaire survey shortly after with data keyed to March 18, 2020. On that day, the United States had 614 billionaires who owned a combined wealth of $2.947 trillion.
Four years later, on March 18, 2024, the country has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.529 trillion, an 87.6 percent increase of $2.58 trillion, according to Institute for Policy Studies calculations of Forbes Real Time Billionaire Data."
The numbers here are staggering, but I think what's most important to remember in all of this is how this vast economic change was sold to us by "Very Serious People" and for-profit media. After thousands upon thousands of stories about "inflation" and how giving poor people money to survive the pandemic would wreck the economy, the obvious truth is that the greed of billionaires and their minions are why you can't afford groceries and everything costs too much now. Rather than us "all being in this together" the pandemic is when the knives came out and the rich bled us all dry. Tax the rich? To hell with that; it's time to abolish them.
I still wear #masks whenever I go to a medical facility, whether they're required there or not. I wonder how many such facilities do still require them.
Informal poll: Are masks required at your primary doctor's office (or wherever get routine medical care)?
It would be helpful if you also mention where you live in the comments.
Options: (choose one)
đđNew #Covid study:
"The researchers discovered that 10.6% of exposed household contacts developed symptomatic illness within 14 days of exposure to asymptomatic test-positive children, a rate higher than expected.
The risk of developing symptomatic illness within 14 days was 5X greater among household contacts of asymptomatic Covid positive children.
6 of 77 asymptomatic Covid infected children during a 3-month follow-up developed long COVID, or 7.8% of them-."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-kids-covid-no-symptoms-play-key-role-household-spread
One Pluslife SARS-CoV-2 testing dock and test pack has been ordered!
Please, please, please share this fundraiser so I can get more expensive but highly accurate Covid testing kits to people who cannot afford them!
"This fundraiser will continue. Each time enough money is raised for another dock and tests ($350-500 depending on discount codes and shipping), I will order them to be shipped to the lucky recipients' address at the full expense of this fundraiser"
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-with-naat-testing-to-protect-us-from-covid
I'm fundraising for PlusLife Covid testing for myself and for people in need in my community.
Accurate Covid testing can save lives.
Please donate or share. #Covid #MutualAid
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-with-naat-testing-to-protect-us-from-covid
A pandemic habit Iâve kept: I set out free seedlings for people in the neighborhood to take.
Debunktion Junction:
#Covid vaccines not linked to fatal heart problems in young people, CDC finds
The new report debunks widespread misinformation that the mRNA shots were connected to sudden cardiac death in young athletes. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-finds-covid-vaccines-not-linked-sudden-death-young-people-rcna147188