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Bethany
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I'm from Sydney. I'm immunocompromised.
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Highlights of the Adelaide Open 🎾 – day 1

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Day 1 in Adelaide featuring Kasatkina, Navarro, Mboko, and more | WTA Match Highlights
YouTube video by WTA
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January 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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analgoddess770.bsky.social
Done
January 12, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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thetennisletter.bsky.social
Belinda Bencic is back to world #10.

14 months ago when she came back from having her daughter, Bella, she didn’t have a ranking.

She’s the first mom to be ranked inside the world’s top 10 since Serena Williams in 2021.

What an achievement.

🇨🇭❤️
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January 12, 2026 at 7:42 AM
jbethany242.bsky.social
Any tennis 🎾 fans on here? If so, I'll be happy to chat with you all day about the Australian Open 🎾.
January 12, 2026 at 8:25 AM
jbethany242.bsky.social
One of the best rants against Donald Trump ever.

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I Hate Donald Trump?
YouTube video by TheThinkingAtheist
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January 12, 2026 at 7:38 AM
jbethany242.bsky.social
I wish it would stop raining ☔ in Sydney.
January 12, 2026 at 6:54 AM
jbethany242.bsky.social
I just bought a new pack of 3M Aura respirators 😷 from WorkSafeGEAR for $75.
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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It’s very interesting to read about the ‘Pro Social Hypothesis’ in relation to SARSCoV2. #COVID

The core idea is an evolutionary one: a virus's primary goal is to spread. To achieve this, it might have evolved mechanisms to manipulate the host's behavior to increase social interactions…
January 11, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
#COVID #Longcovid
daniellebeckman.bsky.social Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 8d
What we are seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg. The focus on blaming the vaccines instead of the virus will only continue to make things worse. Condemning a whole generation that has not even born yet.
#COVID #LongCovid
January 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Open brief van het World Health Network aan de WHO: meer dan 2.300 ondertekenaars roepen op om mondneusmaskers met hoge filtratie (bijv. N95/FFP2/FFP3) de standaard te maken in de zorg, om patiënten én zorgpersoneel beter te beschermen. Lees hier: whn.global/a-call-for-t...
Open Letter to WHO: A Call for the Universal use of Respirators in Healthcare - WHN
January 7, 2026 The letter below (a button to download it as a .pdf file is at the bottom of this page) was sent to seven top officials at the World Health Organization on Wednesday 7 January. Press c...
whn.global
January 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Amplifying because it's still true.

#COVIDIsNotOver
chantzy.bsky.social Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d
"No one here has symptoms” isn't a reliable way to rule out COVID when around 40% of infections are asymptomatic.

Please don't say this to dismiss others’ precautions
January 11, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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thetyee.ca
When public health is working well, it’s invisible, says podcaster Daniella Barreto. It’s a bad thing that it’s been so visible lately.
Is Public Health Really Dead? | The Tyee
Podcaster Daniella Barreto on how messaging around the COVID vaccine undermined trust, and more. A Tyee Q&A.
thetyee.ca
April 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Canberra CityNews: 'Be warned, covid has not gone away'

'It continues to infect thousands of Australians each month, still puts vulnerable people into hospital, sadly still causes deaths and leaves a steady stream of people living with disability from long covid.'

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Be warned, covid has not gone away | Canberra CityNews
Is there much covid around? Do I need the new booster shot LP.8.1? ADRIAN ESTERMAN shares the science.
citynews.com.au
January 11, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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bbeshoar.bsky.social
Um...uh... geezus!

Mask up while you're protesting ICE.
thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d
US Weekly COVID update: Jan 12, 2026

🔸1 in 55 Actively Infectious
🔸892,000 New Daily Infections
🔸5,600,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸12,000,000 Infections in 2026
🔸280,000 to 1,120,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,600 to 2,700 Weekly Excess Deaths

Source: pmc19.com/data/
COVID-19 heat map of the United States based on CDC wastewater data and transmission levels, dated January 12, 2026 (data last updated January 3). States are colour-coded from very low (pale yellow) to very high (dark maroon), with diagonal hatching indicating limited data. Much of the Midwest and Northeast show high to very high COVID activity, while parts of the West and Southeast show lower levels. Text below notes the 12th U.S. COVID wave is peaking or may have peaked in late December, with about one-third of states having poor data quality and the Midwest and Northeast experiencing the highest transmission overall. Table titled “National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.)” dated January 12, 2026, from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative model (pmc19.com/data). It reports an estimated 1 in 55 people (1.8%) actively infectious, about 892,000 new infections per day, and 5.6 million infections in the past week. Total infections in 2026 are estimated at 12 million, with 4.94 cumulative infections per person. Estimated long COVID cases range from 45,000–178,000 per day and 280,000–1.12 million per week. Estimated excess deaths range from 260–440 per day and 1,600–2,700 per week. A note states daily infections may have dipped to around 900,000 if the wave has peaked. Table titled “COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates” dated January 12, 2026, from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (pmc19.com/data). It lists U.S. states with CDC transmission levels and estimated percentages of people actively infectious, shown as ratios (e.g., 1 in 24 to 1 in 150). Several states, including Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Michigan, are marked high or very high, with roughly 1 in 15 to 1 in 27 people actively infectious. The table also estimates the chance that at least one person is infectious in gatherings of 10, 25, 50, or 100 people, reaching 80–99% in high-prevalence states. A note states Arkansas, Michigan, and Mississippi have limited or low-quality data this week. Table titled “COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates” dated January 12, 2026, from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (pmc19.com/data). It lists U.S. states with CDC levels and estimates of the share of people actively infectious, shown as ratios and percentages. Several states are marked high or very high, including Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, with some as high as 1 in 14 people infectious. The table also shows the estimated chance that at least one person is infectious in gatherings of 10–100 people, reaching over 99% in very high prevalence states. Notes indicate limited or imputed data for some states, including Oregon and New York.
January 12, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
When the Anglican Church is more woke than most of your progressive friends
= @ stmargaretscedarcottage.ca ST. MARGARET'S CEDAR COTTAGE ANGLICAN CHURCH 1. There is no anti-oppression without disability justice. Immunocompromised people - including people whove had organ transplants, those receiving cancer treatment, or those on immunosuppressive drugs to treat autoimmune conditions such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis — are more vulnerable to really bad outcomes if they get COVID. Immunocompromised and other disabled people who would be badly impacted by COVID should be able to engage in public life. All groups that experience systemic oppression include disabled people, and groups that experience systemic oppression consistently face health inequities. Children are another equity-deserving group that includes disabled people. Their agency and power is limited in society; they're required to attend schools in-person with no prevention or mitigation strategies in place to protect them. Despite claims to the contrary early in the pandemic, children are also susceptible to the harms of COVID and often silently struggle with the impacts of Long COVID and repeat infections which could last their entire lifetimes. COVID isn't only a risk to "vulnerable" people: every COVID infection makes a person more vulnerable because of the silent and accumulating damage it does to the body.
January 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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#SARSCoV2 prevalence is easily detected by wastewater and the #COVID pandemic has been raging since 2020. We’re in a wave now.

Governments and bankers have been trying to make you not notice.

#maskup with a respirator to avoid it and in the office, shopping, in busy places. #LongCOVID isn't fun.
During the "pandemic" is a misnomer. Governments and bankers have been trying to make you not notice.
January 12, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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Photos of Atlantic puffins by Neil Dawe (taken on an island just off the west coast of the UK):

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January 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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a pod of wild orca, including a tiny calf 🖤🤍 so beautiful I felt like bursting into tears. seen yesterday in the waters around Skjervøy, Norway
January 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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@chrischirp.bsky.social Why did you sell out and go maskless?
January 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM
jbethany242.bsky.social
@chrischirp.bsky.social Still going maskless? What a despicable sell-out you are.
January 11, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Deepti Gurdasani hasn’t taken the plunge yet ?
August 19, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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mveo.bsky.social
When will Deepti Gurdasani come over here?
When will Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasp..... come over here?
November 19, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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The grass is rarely greener the other side of the fence and the sky is rarely bluer the other side of the atmosphere.
Bluesky is clunky, buggy, laggy, and overall is unable to maintain a critical mass of users.
January 11, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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US measles cases surpass 2,000, highest in 30 years: CDC
The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the CDC.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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BREAKING: Masks return to New York hospitals amid 2026 ‘super flu’ outbreak
January 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM