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Fondly remembering the 10 Essential Public Health Services on behalf of the CDC from my disability hermitage.
I think I need to block out everything that's not anti-genocide, covid, or ME/CFS for now.
I think I need to block out everything that's not anti-genocide, covid, or ME/CFS for now.
When are we going to stop saying "might" and "could" when it comes to climate change. An Inconvient Truth is calling and it wants its optimism back. It has been clear catastrophe is inevitable for a while, even if we stopped for good in 2020 instead of ramping up www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...
The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN
The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...
www.cnn.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
When are we going to stop saying "might" and "could" when it comes to climate change. An Inconvient Truth is calling and it wants its optimism back. It has been clear catastrophe is inevitable for a while, even if we stopped for good in 2020 instead of ramping up www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...
For my baby to be fully vaccinated for Covid in time for xmas like it's 2025 and not 2020, she needs shot 1/3 TODAY. But NO WHERE has it for a 6 mo. old thanks to RFK Jr., who is doing his best to increase his child murder bodycount and covid morbidity and mortality.
October 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
For my baby to be fully vaccinated for Covid in time for xmas like it's 2025 and not 2020, she needs shot 1/3 TODAY. But NO WHERE has it for a 6 mo. old thanks to RFK Jr., who is doing his best to increase his child murder bodycount and covid morbidity and mortality.
Why do I feel like a ceasefire is just another way to move people around to genocide them better...oh because that's what's been happening. Please let me be overly pessimistic and wrong.
October 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Why do I feel like a ceasefire is just another way to move people around to genocide them better...oh because that's what's been happening. Please let me be overly pessimistic and wrong.
There goes my kid's IEP
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
There goes my kid's IEP
"Now, instead of scientific rigor and public health, we have panels designed to rubber stamp pet projects." Yep. It reminds me of the todo of "meeting people where they're at," which is unfortunately where money and influence(rs) are. vajenda.substack.com/p/menopause-...
Menopause Hormone Therapy: Politics and Personal Agendas are Threatening Science
The WHI Steering Committee Responds to the FDA Panel on MHT
vajenda.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Now, instead of scientific rigor and public health, we have panels designed to rubber stamp pet projects." Yep. It reminds me of the todo of "meeting people where they're at," which is unfortunately where money and influence(rs) are. vajenda.substack.com/p/menopause-...
I've been thinking a lot about how capitulation to fascism and anti-science views in the Biden admin has only led to more of those things, to devaststing outcomes in the Trump admin. There's a direct line from "just wash your hands" to gutting the CDC now, and it's been tragic since 2021/Omicron.
October 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I've been thinking a lot about how capitulation to fascism and anti-science views in the Biden admin has only led to more of those things, to devaststing outcomes in the Trump admin. There's a direct line from "just wash your hands" to gutting the CDC now, and it's been tragic since 2021/Omicron.
Well, thanks again to NJ, where I can get my baby vaccinated at a clinic even though we don't live there. PA sucks. @governor.pa.gov where are the covid vaccines for children, VFC or just at the pediatrician???
October 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Well, thanks again to NJ, where I can get my baby vaccinated at a clinic even though we don't live there. PA sucks. @governor.pa.gov where are the covid vaccines for children, VFC or just at the pediatrician???
I only lived in NJ for 4 years, but I'm constantly plotting to move back. Pa is only just livable in the largest metro area. The rest of it is...not. This is the stupidest article I've ever seen. Also, go Mamdani.
October 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I only lived in NJ for 4 years, but I'm constantly plotting to move back. Pa is only just livable in the largest metro area. The rest of it is...not. This is the stupidest article I've ever seen. Also, go Mamdani.
This is fucked up. And no, kids with private insurance can't necessarily access the covid vaccine either. Pharmacies won't under 18 months, and our ped. still didn't get a shipment either, so my unvaccinated 6 month old is left vulnerable to RFK's bloodlust. www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c...
Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay
Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.
www.statnews.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is fucked up. And no, kids with private insurance can't necessarily access the covid vaccine either. Pharmacies won't under 18 months, and our ped. still didn't get a shipment either, so my unvaccinated 6 month old is left vulnerable to RFK's bloodlust. www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c...
Where are the pediatric covid vaccines? My county's VFC program says the PA dept of PH hasn't gotten what they ordered yet. My ped. ordered weeks ago and still doesn't have them. Wtf is going on. Is Moderna not shipping them?
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Where are the pediatric covid vaccines? My county's VFC program says the PA dept of PH hasn't gotten what they ordered yet. My ped. ordered weeks ago and still doesn't have them. Wtf is going on. Is Moderna not shipping them?
Remember when we were horrified that a supposedly civilized country "accidentally" bombed a hospital.
September 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Remember when we were horrified that a supposedly civilized country "accidentally" bombed a hospital.
Who buys a 9 year old with ADHD a motherfucking recorder with an infant in the house???
September 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Who buys a 9 year old with ADHD a motherfucking recorder with an infant in the house???
Sometimes I like to think that I don't have ME or fibro because I feel sort of maybe normal (thank you, oxytocin). Then I have some (vegan) wine and walk around for the following week feeling like I'm alseep, reversing the words I actually remember, and snapping at my loved ones.
September 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sometimes I like to think that I don't have ME or fibro because I feel sort of maybe normal (thank you, oxytocin). Then I have some (vegan) wine and walk around for the following week feeling like I'm alseep, reversing the words I actually remember, and snapping at my loved ones.
Has anyone told the orange guy, Marty-anti-vax Makary, and the Harvard Dean of the school of public health about all that actual research that was already done that doesn't show a causal link between Tylenol and autism? It seems like that one guy should rate current research over mice models but 🤷♀️
September 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Has anyone told the orange guy, Marty-anti-vax Makary, and the Harvard Dean of the school of public health about all that actual research that was already done that doesn't show a causal link between Tylenol and autism? It seems like that one guy should rate current research over mice models but 🤷♀️
Fun fact: J&J likes spin-off companies to protect them from lawsuits (see: talc, opiods, etc.), and it's still McNeil, which means they've got the big bucks (as if J&J would give those up; they might even sue idiots who threaten them).
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Fun fact: J&J likes spin-off companies to protect them from lawsuits (see: talc, opiods, etc.), and it's still McNeil, which means they've got the big bucks (as if J&J would give those up; they might even sue idiots who threaten them).
I never had a fever while pregnant with my daughter. If I had, I WOULD HAVE TAKEN SOME GODDAMN TYLENOL. Because fevers are actually bad, unlike Tylenol, and can't be "toughed out," as the idiots say.
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I never had a fever while pregnant with my daughter. If I had, I WOULD HAVE TAKEN SOME GODDAMN TYLENOL. Because fevers are actually bad, unlike Tylenol, and can't be "toughed out," as the idiots say.
I am breaking the "do not take more than 6 pills in a day" direction on the advil bottle a lot. But boatloads of ibuprfen and ice, the mastitis guidelines work.
September 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I am breaking the "do not take more than 6 pills in a day" direction on the advil bottle a lot. But boatloads of ibuprfen and ice, the mastitis guidelines work.
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Reminds me how a lot of those same influencers sold the lie that we could get out of the COVID pandemic by sacrificing vulnerable people.
We’re still in a pandemic, and we still have fascism. The jury’s out about our collective humanity.
We’re still in a pandemic, and we still have fascism. The jury’s out about our collective humanity.
A lot of political influencers within the Atlantic/NYT orbit are very, very eager to sell us on the lie that we can get out of fascism by sacrificing trans people.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
August 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reminds me how a lot of those same influencers sold the lie that we could get out of the COVID pandemic by sacrificing vulnerable people.
We’re still in a pandemic, and we still have fascism. The jury’s out about our collective humanity.
We’re still in a pandemic, and we still have fascism. The jury’s out about our collective humanity.
I liked this but am extremely conflicted about it. Walensky is one of those to blame for what ACIP is today.
“Over and over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine,” writes former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...
Covid-19 vaccines protect children from severe disease. Here is the evidence
“Over and over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine,” writes former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
www.statnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I liked this but am extremely conflicted about it. Walensky is one of those to blame for what ACIP is today.
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At times, those of us who warned about this are blamed for it.
“If only you weren’t so polarizing.”
“If only you weren’t so polarizing.”
I wasted 5 years of my life trying to prevent this from happening. I blame medical establishment, organized medicine, & academic institutions that looked at us like we were crazy & never joined the fight.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Trump to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
At times, those of us who warned about this are blamed for it.
“If only you weren’t so polarizing.”
“If only you weren’t so polarizing.”
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Now if you’re under 65 & want to get a COVID vaccine, you have to read/hear that the vax can harm your immune system & cause viral persistence & harm to newborns.
The actual virus itself does all this, but that’s been repeatedly downplayed by both sides. Maybe doing that set the stage for this?
The actual virus itself does all this, but that’s been repeatedly downplayed by both sides. Maybe doing that set the stage for this?
Final ACIP update for the Covid vaccine:
1) Covid vaccines for all ages will be based on individual decision-making (no recc).
2) 65+ can just go and get it.
3) 6 mos-65yr, vaccine informed consent will be required to be discussed prior to receipt with 6 points of mandated misinformation
1/2
1) Covid vaccines for all ages will be based on individual decision-making (no recc).
2) 65+ can just go and get it.
3) 6 mos-65yr, vaccine informed consent will be required to be discussed prior to receipt with 6 points of mandated misinformation
1/2
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Now if you’re under 65 & want to get a COVID vaccine, you have to read/hear that the vax can harm your immune system & cause viral persistence & harm to newborns.
The actual virus itself does all this, but that’s been repeatedly downplayed by both sides. Maybe doing that set the stage for this?
The actual virus itself does all this, but that’s been repeatedly downplayed by both sides. Maybe doing that set the stage for this?
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Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.
September 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.
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BREAKING: Republicans just voted against a bill to fund the government AND fix the health care crisis THEY created.
Republicans voted to send premiums skyrocketing and to shut down rural hospitals.
Republicans voted to send premiums skyrocketing and to shut down rural hospitals.
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
BREAKING: Republicans just voted against a bill to fund the government AND fix the health care crisis THEY created.
Republicans voted to send premiums skyrocketing and to shut down rural hospitals.
Republicans voted to send premiums skyrocketing and to shut down rural hospitals.
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Kirk Milhoan is now describing as “telling” the fact that COVID19 vaccines are unpopular.
What it is “telling” us is that misinformation by people such as RFK Jr.’s ACIP is harming the public.
What it is “telling” us is that misinformation by people such as RFK Jr.’s ACIP is harming the public.
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Kirk Milhoan is now describing as “telling” the fact that COVID19 vaccines are unpopular.
What it is “telling” us is that misinformation by people such as RFK Jr.’s ACIP is harming the public.
What it is “telling” us is that misinformation by people such as RFK Jr.’s ACIP is harming the public.
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ACIP just reversed the VFC vote from MMRV yesterday, denying coverage to uninsured or underinsured children whose parents want to use MMRV.
Yes, yesterday’s result was strange. But this is not better. It’s also another indication that this committee doesn’t know what it’s doing.
Yes, yesterday’s result was strange. But this is not better. It’s also another indication that this committee doesn’t know what it’s doing.
September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
ACIP just reversed the VFC vote from MMRV yesterday, denying coverage to uninsured or underinsured children whose parents want to use MMRV.
Yes, yesterday’s result was strange. But this is not better. It’s also another indication that this committee doesn’t know what it’s doing.
Yes, yesterday’s result was strange. But this is not better. It’s also another indication that this committee doesn’t know what it’s doing.