Mike Busniak
@mikebusniak.bsky.social
Environmental Health Specialist / Licensed Public Health professional / Lecturer / Sometimes I get ridiculous
More parents refusing Vitamin K shots for newborns. “Parents are equating vitamin K injections to vaccines,”[Dr. Tiffany] McKee-Garrett said, adding that a vitamin K shot is not a vaccine, but a supplement derived from a plant. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
More parents refusing vitamin K shots for newborns, study finds
Babies aren't born with enough vitamin K, which the body needs for blood to clot. An injection at birth helps prevent severe bleeding in infants.
www.nbcnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
More parents refusing Vitamin K shots for newborns. “Parents are equating vitamin K injections to vaccines,”[Dr. Tiffany] McKee-Garrett said, adding that a vitamin K shot is not a vaccine, but a supplement derived from a plant. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
That weird thing when you're reading a book on cultural anthropology and the author manages to work in a disaster response reference from Charles Fritz! @samlmontano.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
That weird thing when you're reading a book on cultural anthropology and the author manages to work in a disaster response reference from Charles Fritz! @samlmontano.bsky.social
They're terrified of "pawtism". What a time to be alive. slate.com/life/2025/11...
A Growing Number of People Refuse to Vaccinate Their Pets. They Have a Mind-Boggling Reason Why.
No rabies shot for you, Baxter.
slate.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
They're terrified of "pawtism". What a time to be alive. slate.com/life/2025/11...
"More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year..." www.nj.com/news/2025/10...
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
"People are literally going to die from it," warns researcher who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for decades.
www.nj.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year..." www.nj.com/news/2025/10...
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An AP investigation found that more than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses this year, part of a campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. https://to.pbs.org/43dxCkD
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
to.pbs.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An AP investigation found that more than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses this year, part of a campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. https://to.pbs.org/43dxCkD
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For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
October 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
"1.1 million New Jerseyans — about 1 in 9 residents — are considered food insecure, 270,000 of whom are children. That’s an increase of 65% since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic." via @murjanirawls.bsky.social www.nj.com/food/2025/08...
N.J.’s hunger crisis intensifies amid cuts from ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ How pantries, farmers are surviving.
Food banks that once served dozens now help hundreds daily as inflation and benefit cuts push more families to the brink
www.nj.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"1.1 million New Jerseyans — about 1 in 9 residents — are considered food insecure, 270,000 of whom are children. That’s an increase of 65% since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic." via @murjanirawls.bsky.social www.nj.com/food/2025/08...
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The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanagement. www.apha.org/news-and-med...
Kennedy’s attack on public health must be stopped
The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanageme...
www.apha.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanagement. www.apha.org/news-and-med...
Feeling like maybe I'll get this framed for my office. Because that's the timeline I'm living in right now.
August 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Feeling like maybe I'll get this framed for my office. Because that's the timeline I'm living in right now.
@samlmontano.bsky.social It's not a shark on the highway from Irene, but NJ can now claim Karaoke shark www.nj.com/news/2025/08...
Shark crashes karaoke night at Jersey Shore bar during Hurricane Erin flooding
The small shark was tossed back in the bay, but returned a second time and “kept swimming around and hanging out with us” near the bar's host stand.
www.nj.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@samlmontano.bsky.social It's not a shark on the highway from Irene, but NJ can now claim Karaoke shark www.nj.com/news/2025/08...
Here's my hot take - the public health preventative and emergency response services you experience shouldn't be tied to your ZIP Code, full stop. As human beings, we should be unified in how the horrific situation in TX should be addressed in the present - and ideally prevented in the future.
July 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Here's my hot take - the public health preventative and emergency response services you experience shouldn't be tied to your ZIP Code, full stop. As human beings, we should be unified in how the horrific situation in TX should be addressed in the present - and ideally prevented in the future.
🛟 Feels like maybe right now would be a good time to get all the information from this page before it goes missing
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Thimerosal and Vaccines
Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and thimerosal.
www.cdc.gov
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🛟 Feels like maybe right now would be a good time to get all the information from this page before it goes missing
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
@greenleejw.bsky.social are you a fan of board games? oinkgames.com/en/games/ana...
Wriggle Roulette - Oink Games
Those who repeatedly plunge their hands into the dark mud and grab the most eels gain the glory! But eels aren't the only thing lurking within. There are many frightening snakes, too! Only those who g...
oinkgames.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@greenleejw.bsky.social are you a fan of board games? oinkgames.com/en/games/ana...
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A long time ago my community was under siege & the reaction was to play nice. There were proper ways to channel your concerns & damn it we were nothing if not rule followers. Until Larry Kramer. He urged us to act up, not be polite. I wrote about him this week. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/acti...
We Need to Turn Our Outrage Way Up
This is no time to sit idly by. People’s lives are at stake. We have to put our bodies on the line.
www.thenation.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A long time ago my community was under siege & the reaction was to play nice. There were proper ways to channel your concerns & damn it we were nothing if not rule followers. Until Larry Kramer. He urged us to act up, not be polite. I wrote about him this week. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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I’m very proud that the Morning Call, a local Lehigh Valley paper, published my op-ed on the risks of the Trump administration current actions to public health. “Here is a wise rule of thumb attributed to G.K. Chesterton: “Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.”
February 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I’m very proud that the Morning Call, a local Lehigh Valley paper, published my op-ed on the risks of the Trump administration current actions to public health. “Here is a wise rule of thumb attributed to G.K. Chesterton: “Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.”
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Scheduled meeting of CDC vaccine advisers postponed
The postponement comes amid concerns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, could make changes to the group, or get rid of it altogether.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
The postponement comes amid concerns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, could make changes to the group, or get rid of it altogether.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
February 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Scheduled meeting of CDC vaccine advisers postponed
The postponement comes amid concerns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, could make changes to the group, or get rid of it altogether.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
The postponement comes amid concerns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, could make changes to the group, or get rid of it altogether.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
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Louisiana Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination
www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/h...
Louisiana Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination | CNN
The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday.
www.cnn.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Louisiana Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination
www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/h...
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🛟 Hopefully the link to this 2023 study doesn't disappear, but in case anyone is looking for info about how the NIH has impacted our society, www.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
www.nih.gov
January 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
🛟 Hopefully the link to this 2023 study doesn't disappear, but in case anyone is looking for info about how the NIH has impacted our society, www.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
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As I say often, universal health care is disaster mitigation and preparedness. This is why.
Remembering this 2022 study that found that universal health care in the US could have saved 330,000 lives in the early days of covid.
It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...
It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...
Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID
The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says
www.scientificamerican.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:28 PM
As I say often, universal health care is disaster mitigation and preparedness. This is why.
@neorsd.org Do you have any thoughts on this? www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The people growing their own toilet paper
One million trees worldwide are cut down each year to make toilet paper. Is it more sustainable to grow your own?
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:00 PM
@neorsd.org Do you have any thoughts on this? www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Once again plugging this: Our hard-hitting rundown of everything you need to know about Bhattacharya.
We’ve covered this man’s rise for years.
Spread it around. www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...
We’ve covered this man’s rise for years.
Spread it around. www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...
Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s NIH Pick
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a loud voice from the fringes.
www.importantcontext.news
November 28, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Once again plugging this: Our hard-hitting rundown of everything you need to know about Bhattacharya.
We’ve covered this man’s rise for years.
Spread it around. www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...
We’ve covered this man’s rise for years.
Spread it around. www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...