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I generally don’t deal in absolutes
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ALSO.
If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community.

WEAR A MASK.
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
They also fend not just the flu and not just this year’s variants but all the many airborne pathogens that harm those too young to receive the vaccines. Engineered non-pharmaceutical interventions can just work quietly and continuously at reducing transmission and viral loads.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
Those who care for them can wear respirators. Upper room GUV can kill germs in the thermal plume from breathing with no risk to the occupants. Mechanical ventilation and portable or permanent air filtration. All of these are inexpensive technologies already available. Yet no mention is made of them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
It genuinely didn’t occur to them that NIOSH actually certifies things and that there’s test data for breathing resistance using extremely accurate benchmarks tools. Like, they don’t even know what their own tools do or how they work. 💀
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
A brainless drooling idiot with the words “Evidence Based Medicine” over their head
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
A “safe room” for toxic gas leaks? That’s not how fluids work at all. It’s like having an “air breathing” room in a school submerged in the ocean. Workers in those fabs likely have wearable supplied air systems to work around that stuff. 😓
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
We need it. We also need to strategize how to lever these bozos out at every level
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
😬
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 AM
jhuff.bsky.social
1 seems better for reasons I can’t articulate. is it the eye contact? But they’re both lovely.
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The plaintiff was such a ham, and his lawyer was sub-par. But the defense lawyer was on a roll and will relish this verdict.
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
jhuff.bsky.social
Do you want your human slow cooker to be nonstick, enameled, or cast-iron?
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
jhuff.bsky.social
This is very insightful. Behaviors that were previously hard to predict seem much more predictable and explicable. It is unstated. This is also a huge driver of “faith” as what society needs. It’s getting something for nothing from an imaginary being. Life hack!
November 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
jhuff.bsky.social
Don’t forget public health lies “for the greater good” around masks and also lies about the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines at preventing infection and spread. Then the IMPACT “research” to declare victory in utter defeat by the virus. Brownstone institute, IPC, HICPAC—all institutional interests.
Re: Taking the Win over COVID-19 After two years that necessitated lockdowns, travel bans, school closures, mask mandates, and nearly a million deaths, nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus. It’s time for Democrats to take credit for ending the COVID crisis phase of the COVID war, point to important victories like vaccine distribution and providing economic stability to Americans, and fully enter the rebuilding phase that comes after any war. Below we lay out some strategic thoughts for Democrats positioning themselves on COVID-19 after nearly two years of the pandemic: • Declare the crisis phase of COVID over and push for feeling and acting more normal. Thanks to Democrats, we are nowhere near where we were two years, or even one year ago. Democrats have a tremendous opportunity to claim an incredible, historic success – they vaccinated hundreds of millions of people, prevented the economy from going into freefall, kept small businesses from going under, and got people back to work safely. Because of President Biden and Democrats, we CAN safely return to life feeling much more normal – and they should claim that proudly. • Recognize that people are “worn out” and feeling real harm from the yearslong restrictions and take their side. Most Americans have personally moved out of crisis mode. Twice as many voters are now more concerned about COVID’s effect on the economy (49%) than about someone in their family or someone they know becoming infected with the coronavirus (24%). Two-thirds of parents and 80% of teachers say the pandemic caused learning loss, and voters are overwhelmingly more worried about learning loss than kids getting COVID. Six in ten Americans describe themselves as “worn out” by the pandemic. The more we talk about the threat of COVID and onerously restrict people’s lives because of it, the more we turn them against us and show them we’re out of touch with their daily realities. • Acknowledge COVID still exists and likely will for a long time. We are not advising that Democrats talk like the Republicans that have largely ignored the pandemic, even pre-vaccine. Declaring a return to the “new normalcy” does not mean ignoring that people will continue to get it, that we shouldn’t be responsible, or that we should turn our backs on the medical community that is treating those sick and developing the therapeutics that will save lives. Instead, it means recognizing that the threat of COVID is no longer what it was even a year ago and therefore should not be treated as such – shutdowns, masks, and lockdowns were meant to save lives when there was not yet a vaccine that could do that. Voters know we now have the tools in the toolkit to be responsible in combatting and living with COVID – vaccines and boosters to minimize illness, and masks and social distancing around vulnerable groups. • Don’t set “COVID zero” as the victory condition. Americans also don’t think victory is COVID Zero. They think the virus is here to stay, and 83% say the pandemic will be over when it’s a mild illness like the flu rather than COVID being completely gone, and 55% prefer that COVID should be treated as an endemic disease. And that’s what most Americans are dealing with—a disease with fatality rates like the flu—because most of us took the personal responsibility to protect ourselves and our families by getting vaccinated. Americans also assume they will get COVID: 77% agree that “it is inevitable that most people in the US will eventually get COVID-19”, and 61% of Americans who have never tested positive think they are likely to be infected over the next year. And thanks to the work Democrats have done over the past year, despite believing contracting COVID is inevitable, most Americans are no longer fearful. (Overflow image to contain the rest of the text) Stop talking about restrictions and the unknown future ahead. If we focus on how bad things still are and how much worse they could get, we set Democrats up as failures unable to navigate us through this. When 99% of Americans can get vaccinated, we cause more harm than we prevent with voters by going into our third year talking about restrictions. And, if Democrats continue to hold a posture that prioritizes COVID precautions over learning how to live in a world where COVID exists, but does not dominate, they risk paying dearly for it in November.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM