Dr Kelly Jones
@drpops.bsky.social
Epidemiologist. PolSci, MPH, PhD. Clean Air Activist, Socialist, applied epi, vulnerable children. Sailor. Adj. Senior Research Fellow
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Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data.
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
How failure to regulate indoor air quality exacerbates health inequities www.croakey.org/how-failure-... #publichealth
How failure to regulate indoor air quality exacerbates health inequities
www.croakey.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data.
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
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Turn on the lights, put on your glasses, get out your chemistry set.
It’s time to do individual responsibility style public health for meat testing.
Disclaimer… you’ll have to sort out your own brain worms/other gastrointestinal disaster/sepsis if you stuff up.
It’s time to do individual responsibility style public health for meat testing.
Disclaimer… you’ll have to sort out your own brain worms/other gastrointestinal disaster/sepsis if you stuff up.
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Turn on the lights, put on your glasses, get out your chemistry set.
It’s time to do individual responsibility style public health for meat testing.
Disclaimer… you’ll have to sort out your own brain worms/other gastrointestinal disaster/sepsis if you stuff up.
It’s time to do individual responsibility style public health for meat testing.
Disclaimer… you’ll have to sort out your own brain worms/other gastrointestinal disaster/sepsis if you stuff up.
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btw print media turnaround time means that since we spoke, Canada did lose its measles elimination status! Also likely to happen in the US. COVID denialism continues to fuel grim failures in disease prevention & eradication.
Canada loses measles elimination status, with US on track to follow
The country hasn't been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
btw print media turnaround time means that since we spoke, Canada did lose its measles elimination status! Also likely to happen in the US. COVID denialism continues to fuel grim failures in disease prevention & eradication.
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"Diseases have been eradicated before.
Public Health Is Dead asks: what if public health officials had spent the past few years working to educate the public and actually stop the spread of a preventable, novel illness?":
"Diseases have been eradicated before.
Public Health Is Dead asks: what if public health officials had spent the past few years working to educate the public and actually stop the spread of a preventable, novel illness?":
How great to talk to the wise @sharpflower.bsky.social about COVID-19 leadership failures, the unremembered lessons of 2003 SARS1 containment in Vancouver, and the ongoing Long COVID crisis. Listen to publichealthisdead.com!
And read our conversation, out now in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 😷🫡
And read our conversation, out now in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 😷🫡
Demanding more of public health
Public Health is Dead podcast host Daniella Barreto on the impact of COVID-19 on workers
briarpatchmagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"Diseases have been eradicated before.
Public Health Is Dead asks: what if public health officials had spent the past few years working to educate the public and actually stop the spread of a preventable, novel illness?":
"Diseases have been eradicated before.
Public Health Is Dead asks: what if public health officials had spent the past few years working to educate the public and actually stop the spread of a preventable, novel illness?":
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Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then they’re a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit.
"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."
Our latest opinion piece:
"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."
Our latest opinion piece:
Opinion: D.C.'s new streatery rules are a costly miscalculation
The city's streatery guidelines are punishing small businesses and vibrant neighborhoods. We need a permanent solution to keep these staples of the city’s dining scene.
51st.news
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then they’re a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit.
"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."
Our latest opinion piece:
"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."
Our latest opinion piece:
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I wrote a piece for @deepcutnews about how the media sees some genocides as more important than others
www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...
The Age called out the Myanmar genocide. Why not Gaza's?
The paper's treatment of the Palestinians reeks of double standards.
www.deepcutnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote a piece for @deepcutnews about how the media sees some genocides as more important than others
www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...
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Google symptom searches mapped over COVID waves 👀
5- When combined and looking at the correlation between all of these and past waves, it looks like COVID is still quite active in the US in spite of what we are led to believe.
www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling...
www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling...
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Google symptom searches mapped over COVID waves 👀
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So proud of my daughter, @katemacfarlane.bsky.social, who has been helping organize this project to distribute whistles that can alert immigrants and neighbors about ICE raids. Get your whistle and share with your friends at @wawhistles.bsky.social 1/
Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE share.google/Hrx677HzfH3v...
"ICE relies on shock tactics and moving in very quickly … it turns [an] otherwise pretty silent abduction into a loud, highly visible opportunity for neighbors to rally."
@wawhistles.bsky.social
"ICE relies on shock tactics and moving in very quickly … it turns [an] otherwise pretty silent abduction into a loud, highly visible opportunity for neighbors to rally."
@wawhistles.bsky.social
A Fistful of Loud: Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE
A grassroots whistle project helps neighbors warn each other of ICE activity and stand up for immigrant safety together in South Seattle.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So proud of my daughter, @katemacfarlane.bsky.social, who has been helping organize this project to distribute whistles that can alert immigrants and neighbors about ICE raids. Get your whistle and share with your friends at @wawhistles.bsky.social 1/
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Ken Behrens will häve something to say about that.
Mitch made an innocuous typo at work. From it, a legend was born
Mitch Bowey works as a captioner, and is the man responsible for the typo that has taken Canberra by storm and created a new COVID-19 hero.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Ken Behrens will häve something to say about that.
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The report, by the House of Lords’ UK Engagement with Space Committee, discloses that half of Britain’s satellites are now dependent on Musk’s company.
🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK's infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could 'politicise' our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The report, by the House of Lords’ UK Engagement with Space Committee, discloses that half of Britain’s satellites are now dependent on Musk’s company.
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And this is exactly what I was saying about Mamdani. Yes, he emphasized policy, but there was also this overarching vision. And the two go hand in hand, perfectly compatible, with one tracing the outlines of the other.
Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
And this is exactly what I was saying about Mamdani. Yes, he emphasized policy, but there was also this overarching vision. And the two go hand in hand, perfectly compatible, with one tracing the outlines of the other.
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
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Apart from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and assoc publications Journalists have become extinct at BBC, SKY, ITV,Telegraph, Times etc etc
They’re pumped up PR artists for the right masquerading as journalists, with pretences of intellectual excellence to try & add weight to their lightweight “reports”
They’re pumped up PR artists for the right masquerading as journalists, with pretences of intellectual excellence to try & add weight to their lightweight “reports”
Once again, this isn’t journalism. It’s stroking the ego of a politician who’s done great national harm.
WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny.
His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so.
(iPaper)
WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny.
His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so.
(iPaper)
November 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Apart from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and assoc publications Journalists have become extinct at BBC, SKY, ITV,Telegraph, Times etc etc
They’re pumped up PR artists for the right masquerading as journalists, with pretences of intellectual excellence to try & add weight to their lightweight “reports”
They’re pumped up PR artists for the right masquerading as journalists, with pretences of intellectual excellence to try & add weight to their lightweight “reports”
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Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
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The next 12 months will be the most consequential for American politics since the 1850s. I don't say that glibly. We warned what would happen and they've done it and more. It appears we still have free elections, and so now they will now throw everything they have at us, a fascist kitchen sink.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The next 12 months will be the most consequential for American politics since the 1850s. I don't say that glibly. We warned what would happen and they've done it and more. It appears we still have free elections, and so now they will now throw everything they have at us, a fascist kitchen sink.
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People are not lying about what happens when you do this. I've had five kids so far take potatoes and three take apples.
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
People are not lying about what happens when you do this. I've had five kids so far take potatoes and three take apples.
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You will never, ever satisfy the centre-right. There isn't any actual, material, clearly-defined goal they're seeking.
Their goal is to send everything onto the far-right travelator. Their dissatisfaction must by definition be permanent
Their goal is to send everything onto the far-right travelator. Their dissatisfaction must by definition be permanent
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
You will never, ever satisfy the centre-right. There isn't any actual, material, clearly-defined goal they're seeking.
Their goal is to send everything onto the far-right travelator. Their dissatisfaction must by definition be permanent
Their goal is to send everything onto the far-right travelator. Their dissatisfaction must by definition be permanent
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“A sound democratic government owes people the truth about the potential long-term harms of COVID-19, regardless of vaccination…Minimizing COVID-19 is not equitable or inclusive, it’s not democracy and it’s a violation of the centuries old social contract.”
Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm
One of the best articles I've read all year because it centers social justice and equity. Published today
Gift link 🎁 www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
One of the best articles I've read all year because it centers social justice and equity. Published today
Gift link 🎁 www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“A sound democratic government owes people the truth about the potential long-term harms of COVID-19, regardless of vaccination…Minimizing COVID-19 is not equitable or inclusive, it’s not democracy and it’s a violation of the centuries old social contract.”
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Putting people in cages instead of feeding them is a policy choice
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Putting people in cages instead of feeding them is a policy choice
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Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”
Hat tip to @marcofoster.bsky.social
Hat tip to @marcofoster.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”
Hat tip to @marcofoster.bsky.social
Hat tip to @marcofoster.bsky.social
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In case this week's headlines may have given the impression that the real story is what the President thinks of the Ambassador...
Trump’s new McCarthyism, and what it means for Australia – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/trumps-new-m...
#RecommendedLongRead from Bruce Wolpe
#AusPol
#RecommendedLongRead from Bruce Wolpe
#AusPol
Trump’s new McCarthyism, and what it means for Australia
As the Trump Administration unleashes a particularly virulent strain of McCarthyism upon those perceived as opponents, Australians cannot afford to
www.croakey.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
In case this week's headlines may have given the impression that the real story is what the President thinks of the Ambassador...