James
@jfalek.bsky.social
#LongCovid since Aug-2022 and looking to understand the science
Former software architect and developer
#tiktokRefugee
Former software architect and developer
#tiktokRefugee
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We are in a massive Covid surge right now.
No one will tell you this, because they’re still trying to prop up the “Covid is over” narrative.
Every day we learn more about the harmful long term effects of repeat infections.
Get your vaccine (if you can). Wear a respirator. Clean the air.
No one will tell you this, because they’re still trying to prop up the “Covid is over” narrative.
Every day we learn more about the harmful long term effects of repeat infections.
Get your vaccine (if you can). Wear a respirator. Clean the air.
September 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We are in a massive Covid surge right now.
No one will tell you this, because they’re still trying to prop up the “Covid is over” narrative.
Every day we learn more about the harmful long term effects of repeat infections.
Get your vaccine (if you can). Wear a respirator. Clean the air.
No one will tell you this, because they’re still trying to prop up the “Covid is over” narrative.
Every day we learn more about the harmful long term effects of repeat infections.
Get your vaccine (if you can). Wear a respirator. Clean the air.
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This past Sunday, Brad and I celebrated 17 years of marriage together. That’s 6,209 days of love, laughter, and levity through it all. Happy Anniversary, Bradder! Here’s to many more.
September 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This past Sunday, Brad and I celebrated 17 years of marriage together. That’s 6,209 days of love, laughter, and levity through it all. Happy Anniversary, Bradder! Here’s to many more.
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🚨It's almost 2am eastern, but the CDC debacle is still unfolding. Very important message from the American Public Health Association:
"We urge people across the nation to contact their representative and call for change to protect our health."
"RFK Jr. must be...
1/3
www.apha.org/news-and-med...
"We urge people across the nation to contact their representative and call for change to protect our health."
"RFK Jr. must be...
1/3
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 6:01 AM
🚨It's almost 2am eastern, but the CDC debacle is still unfolding. Very important message from the American Public Health Association:
"We urge people across the nation to contact their representative and call for change to protect our health."
"RFK Jr. must be...
1/3
www.apha.org/news-and-med...
"We urge people across the nation to contact their representative and call for change to protect our health."
"RFK Jr. must be...
1/3
www.apha.org/news-and-med...
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The virus that won’t quit: new research reveals how SARS-CoV-2 evolves.
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
"Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants."
www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
"Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants."
www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
The virus that won’t quit: new research reveals how SARS-CoV-2 evolves
Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long-term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants.
www.unsw.edu.au
June 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The virus that won’t quit: new research reveals how SARS-CoV-2 evolves.
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
"Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants."
www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
"Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants."
www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
June 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
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This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines.
"It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
"It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
www.statnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines.
"It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
"It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
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Long Covid can be very unpredictable. Just when you think you are feeling great, symptoms can flair up. Tonight is headache night for me in the front of my head after not having a headache for about a week. Add in my ears feeling like they are full of air, and it adds to the misery.
June 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Long Covid can be very unpredictable. Just when you think you are feeling great, symptoms can flair up. Tonight is headache night for me in the front of my head after not having a headache for about a week. Add in my ears feeling like they are full of air, and it adds to the misery.
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Gotta say, when the studies dropped showing Covid causes erectile dysfunction… I thought people would pay attention.
When they said you should avoid Covid for months before trying to conceive? Same.
Now we see the virus persists in semen… will anyone care?
When they said you should avoid Covid for months before trying to conceive? Same.
Now we see the virus persists in semen… will anyone care?
PD06-09 SARS-COV-2 PERSISTENCE IN SEMEN AS A WINDOW TO STUDY LONG COVID | Journal of Urology
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE:Long COVID, a chronic condition following SARS-CoV-2 infection, has raised concerns
regarding its effects on the male reproductive system, particularly viral persistence
in ...
www.auajournals.org
June 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Gotta say, when the studies dropped showing Covid causes erectile dysfunction… I thought people would pay attention.
When they said you should avoid Covid for months before trying to conceive? Same.
Now we see the virus persists in semen… will anyone care?
When they said you should avoid Covid for months before trying to conceive? Same.
Now we see the virus persists in semen… will anyone care?
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The masks ICE agents wear aren’t masks. They’re face coverings designed to hide their identity.
The masks disabled people have been pleading to normalize are KN95s, N95s and other respirators. Which will help protect you from COVID & other airborne threats!
Normalize masking for public health.
The masks disabled people have been pleading to normalize are KN95s, N95s and other respirators. Which will help protect you from COVID & other airborne threats!
Normalize masking for public health.
June 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The masks ICE agents wear aren’t masks. They’re face coverings designed to hide their identity.
The masks disabled people have been pleading to normalize are KN95s, N95s and other respirators. Which will help protect you from COVID & other airborne threats!
Normalize masking for public health.
The masks disabled people have been pleading to normalize are KN95s, N95s and other respirators. Which will help protect you from COVID & other airborne threats!
Normalize masking for public health.
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4 members of #CDC's vaccine expert panel have received termination notices — their special gov't employee contracts have expired. Not clear if job cutting has hamstrung the bureaucracy or if more is at play here. But unless they get new SGEs they can't serve on #ACIP www.statnews.com/2025/06/08/c...
With U.S. vaccine policy in flux, four members of CDC advisory panel receive termination notices
Four members of the ACIP, which advises the CDC on vaccination policy, have had their status as special government employees terminated
www.statnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
4 members of #CDC's vaccine expert panel have received termination notices — their special gov't employee contracts have expired. Not clear if job cutting has hamstrung the bureaucracy or if more is at play here. But unless they get new SGEs they can't serve on #ACIP www.statnews.com/2025/06/08/c...
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As NB.1.8.1 “Nimbus” and XFG rise, people need to realize the risk of COVID-induced organ damage in all ages. This graphic is from Ewing et al, “Review of organ damage from COVID and Long COVID: a disease with a spectrum of pathology”, Medical Review (2024), www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi....
May 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
As NB.1.8.1 “Nimbus” and XFG rise, people need to realize the risk of COVID-induced organ damage in all ages. This graphic is from Ewing et al, “Review of organ damage from COVID and Long COVID: a disease with a spectrum of pathology”, Medical Review (2024), www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi....
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1970: Four dead in Ohio. Members of the Ohio National Guard open fire on more than 300 anti-Vietnam War demonstrators at Kent State University, killing four students, wounding eight and paralyzing another. /1
Today in history, 1970: Four dead in Ohio. Members of the Ohio National Guard open fire on more than 300 anti-Vietnam War demonstrators at Kent State University, killing four students, wounding eight and paralyzing another. /1
May 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1970: Four dead in Ohio. Members of the Ohio National Guard open fire on more than 300 anti-Vietnam War demonstrators at Kent State University, killing four students, wounding eight and paralyzing another. /1
Today in history, 1970: Four dead in Ohio. Members of the Ohio National Guard open fire on more than 300 anti-Vietnam War demonstrators at Kent State University, killing four students, wounding eight and paralyzing another. /1
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Love to see it !!!
Twitter’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research.
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Love to see it !!!
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You can’t say that the House judiciary committee has voted to deport US citizens. You can’t deport US citizens. That’s called human trafficking. That’s called selling them to foreign gulags. The United States is back in the human slavery business. Call it what it is.
May 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
You can’t say that the House judiciary committee has voted to deport US citizens. You can’t deport US citizens. That’s called human trafficking. That’s called selling them to foreign gulags. The United States is back in the human slavery business. Call it what it is.
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My gf in WVirginia called me utterly distraught. Her 14 yo son b/home lots of new paperwork/rules from school. He’s on the spectrum, is losing his EA & now he’s in full meltdown, refusing to leave his room, out of fear he’ll be taken away.
The intentional cruelty of this admin is breathtaking.
The intentional cruelty of this admin is breathtaking.
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
May 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My gf in WVirginia called me utterly distraught. Her 14 yo son b/home lots of new paperwork/rules from school. He’s on the spectrum, is losing his EA & now he’s in full meltdown, refusing to leave his room, out of fear he’ll be taken away.
The intentional cruelty of this admin is breathtaking.
The intentional cruelty of this admin is breathtaking.
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There was no "pandemic exit" as covid is still infecting and disabling people, and triggering diabetes, heart attacks, etc.
And covid has been known to interfere with our immune systems, so extra and bigger waves of influenza is not a surprise.
We need to seriously control these airborne diseases.
And covid has been known to interfere with our immune systems, so extra and bigger waves of influenza is not a surprise.
We need to seriously control these airborne diseases.
May 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There was no "pandemic exit" as covid is still infecting and disabling people, and triggering diabetes, heart attacks, etc.
And covid has been known to interfere with our immune systems, so extra and bigger waves of influenza is not a surprise.
We need to seriously control these airborne diseases.
And covid has been known to interfere with our immune systems, so extra and bigger waves of influenza is not a surprise.
We need to seriously control these airborne diseases.
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So… I did a thing I'm proud of. Grateful to @thewhn.bsky.social for publishing my piece on masking at work, long-term health, and staying grounded in a chaotic world. If you’ve ever felt stuck between clowns and jokers… you’ll get it. whn.global/stuck-in-the...
Stuck in the Middle with Masking: Playing the Long Game in a Short-Sighted Age - WHN
by Sean Mullen, PhD “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…” That line plays in my head more often than it should—especially when I’m the only one walking into a conference ballroom, faculty m...
whn.global
April 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
So… I did a thing I'm proud of. Grateful to @thewhn.bsky.social for publishing my piece on masking at work, long-term health, and staying grounded in a chaotic world. If you’ve ever felt stuck between clowns and jokers… you’ll get it. whn.global/stuck-in-the...
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Here's the video; thanks to folks who sent it to me.
Pls watch to the end; it heats up about 2/3 of the way through, but of course, the true impact is in how comprehensive the damage to public health is - watching it all will give you a fuller sense of the s* we're in.
youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
Pls watch to the end; it heats up about 2/3 of the way through, but of course, the true impact is in how comprehensive the damage to public health is - watching it all will give you a fuller sense of the s* we're in.
youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
April 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Here's the video; thanks to folks who sent it to me.
Pls watch to the end; it heats up about 2/3 of the way through, but of course, the true impact is in how comprehensive the damage to public health is - watching it all will give you a fuller sense of the s* we're in.
youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
Pls watch to the end; it heats up about 2/3 of the way through, but of course, the true impact is in how comprehensive the damage to public health is - watching it all will give you a fuller sense of the s* we're in.
youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
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The #Novavax BLA application is still alive!
Novavax has “received formal communication from the FDA in the form of an information request for a postmarketing commitment (PMC) to generate additional clinical data”, and will be providing the data “expeditiously”.
ir.novavax.com/press-releas...
Novavax has “received formal communication from the FDA in the form of an information request for a postmarketing commitment (PMC) to generate additional clinical data”, and will be providing the data “expeditiously”.
ir.novavax.com/press-releas...
Latest update on U.S. FDA BLA for Novavax's COVID-19 Vaccine - Apr 23, 2025
We believe our BLA is approvable and are working with the FDA to address a PMC request received post-PDUFA to move toward final approval.
ir.novavax.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The #Novavax BLA application is still alive!
Novavax has “received formal communication from the FDA in the form of an information request for a postmarketing commitment (PMC) to generate additional clinical data”, and will be providing the data “expeditiously”.
ir.novavax.com/press-releas...
Novavax has “received formal communication from the FDA in the form of an information request for a postmarketing commitment (PMC) to generate additional clinical data”, and will be providing the data “expeditiously”.
ir.novavax.com/press-releas...
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The US government has dismantled all covid related tracking & reporting despite people dying and becoming disabled every day… Yet they’re establishing a registry to track autism cases and plan to access people’s private medical data.
Autism doesn’t kill. It’s not contagious. This is eugenics
Autism doesn’t kill. It’s not contagious. This is eugenics
April 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The US government has dismantled all covid related tracking & reporting despite people dying and becoming disabled every day… Yet they’re establishing a registry to track autism cases and plan to access people’s private medical data.
Autism doesn’t kill. It’s not contagious. This is eugenics
Autism doesn’t kill. It’s not contagious. This is eugenics
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Why does everything this admin does sound like it's straight out of the Nazi playbook? The new “National Medal of Motherhood” proposal for women w/ 6 or more kids sounds eerily similar to the Nazi Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter, or "The Cross of Honour of the...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children
Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Why does everything this admin does sound like it's straight out of the Nazi playbook? The new “National Medal of Motherhood” proposal for women w/ 6 or more kids sounds eerily similar to the Nazi Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter, or "The Cross of Honour of the...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
Bluesky Spaces?
Does anyone know if work is going on to create something similar to Twitter Spaces?
I know a large number of people who have said that they need that feature before they can let go of Twitter.
Any info or direction would be appreciated!
Does anyone know if work is going on to create something similar to Twitter Spaces?
I know a large number of people who have said that they need that feature before they can let go of Twitter.
Any info or direction would be appreciated!
April 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Bluesky Spaces?
Does anyone know if work is going on to create something similar to Twitter Spaces?
I know a large number of people who have said that they need that feature before they can let go of Twitter.
Any info or direction would be appreciated!
Does anyone know if work is going on to create something similar to Twitter Spaces?
I know a large number of people who have said that they need that feature before they can let go of Twitter.
Any info or direction would be appreciated!
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Keystone oil pipeline shut down after a rupture in rural North Dakota
Keystone oil pipeline shut down after a rupture in rural North Dakota
The Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after it ruptured in North Dakota, with the spill confined to an agricultural field.
www.ctvnews.ca
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Keystone oil pipeline shut down after a rupture in rural North Dakota
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Here comes the snow.
First power outage reported. Fingers crossed the grid holds.
Brace for impact.
#icestorm2025
#MidlandStrong
First power outage reported. Fingers crossed the grid holds.
Brace for impact.
#icestorm2025
#MidlandStrong
April 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Here comes the snow.
First power outage reported. Fingers crossed the grid holds.
Brace for impact.
#icestorm2025
#MidlandStrong
First power outage reported. Fingers crossed the grid holds.
Brace for impact.
#icestorm2025
#MidlandStrong