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Testing before visiting someone vulnerable isn’t overcautious, it’s caring.

Antigen tests help, and PCR or LAMP tests more reliably prevent weeks of illness for someone else.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Very glad to hear 👏
Around 80-90% of our time is spent indoors - but indoor air pollution is becoming an increasingly significant part of the wider air quality challenge we face.

Today, I was glad to sponsor a roundtable on how policy can drive better practice and outcomes for indoor air pollution in our communities💨
May 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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NY Governor Hochul is trying to pass a mask ban in State Budget!

Please call your NY Senator & Assemblymember, Senate Majority Leader, Assembly Speaker, & Governor Hochul & urge them to reject any mask ban & anti-mask legislation in the State Budget! #NoNYMaskBan

covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny
March 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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As a personal advocate for healthy diet & exercise, I don't get these "wellness" junkies who ignore mountains of peer-reviewed science. Yes way fewer are dropping dead from covid. But Long Covid + post C health conditions are still a threat. Even for the young & healthy regardless of broccoli intake
RFK Jr. also falsely claimed that “healthy Americans were not dying of Covid... It was a disease that attacked the sick, as with all infectious diseases.”"

1) Well, that's definitely not true.
2) Pretending it were, that would've made it okay that they'd died?

This is just monstrous.
March 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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1. Perhaps the most damaging blowback from the response to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 is the mainstreaming of a public health ideology that is rooted in a dangerous combination of survivorship bias, nostalgia, and the naturalistic fallacy.
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Re-post this until you drop. Talk to your MP too. We're being swept under the carpet, zero help. Into my #LongCovid YEAR FIVE, after 2020 infection wave 1, 2022 hospital review & scans (damaged lungs+), I'm only now offered Talking Therapy (& Occupational despite being self-employed & bed-bound).
🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨

Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions.

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths.

Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.
March 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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This isn’t a novel concept, it’s highly popularized. And the fact that we’re seeing this attitude resonate so deeply within the so-called opposition party should alarm the shit out of overton-window watchers.
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I don’t think it’s widely appreciated yet just how much COVID disinformation is an assault on democracy.

COVID conspiracy theories were the best recruitment tool for the far right in decades.

They’ve left us damaged—undermined faith in our governing institutions, science, and modern medicine.
March 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Nearly all the nominees for health agencies have engaged in spreading COVID disinformation & conspiracy theories over the last 5 years. I can't emphasize enough how dangerous it will be if they are confirmed. Motivated by revenge, they will try to dismantle all critical public health infrastructure.
March 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.
February 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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And none of it will stop with COVID
bsky.app/profile/enir...
Saying this again because true to MO, the RFK Jr. crew is blaming US measles outbreaks on the vaccine: there is no such thing as an outbreak of measles caused by the measles vaccine. It has literally never happened.

Furthermore, in the data we have, all but 4 cases in Texas are unvaccinated or...
A systematic review of human-to-human transmission of measles vaccine virus
Measles is one of the most contagious human diseases. Administration of the live attenuated measles vaccine has substantially reduced childhood mortal…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.

Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”

We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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@msnbc.com “cruelty” isn’t working. They don’t care. They lavish in the cruelty. Change your rhetoric. What the Republicans are doing is IMMORAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL
January 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Hello, friends of #NBASky (and all the recent new arrivals). Quick 🧵.
It’s been really cool/gratifying to see so many NBA fans/media gather here. I feel like we’ve reached critical mass, to the point where I barely check the other site anymore, and hardly miss it. (cont.)
January 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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This is, though, another opportunity not to ask "How do we help her message reach the broader public?" but to ask "Why doesn't my member of Congress talk like this?"
AOC 🔥🔥🔥
January 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Want an example of powerful, moral rhetoric about inauguration? Speaking truth to power in the most literal way?

I give you Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal bishop of DC, at the National Cathedral prayer ceremonies today.

Note the classiness ( /s) of reaction from Trumps and Vances.
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“When women are free to make their own decisions about their lives and to follow our dreams, we are unstoppable.”

Cecile was a force of nature. May her memory be a blessing.

19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky

If you could, please help us regain our following
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Together we can change the world.
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM