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Former lab rat. Zero-Covid proponent. All views my own.
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NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.
February 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Someone asked me the other day about the mortality impact of the Justinianic Plague (6th-8th century). #medhist alert: we have never had foolproof methods for counting pandemic fatalities. We're still learning about COVID-19's impact. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths
The new study provides the most compelling data yet to suggest that excess mortality rates from chronic illnesses and other natural causes were actually driven by COVID-19 infections.
www.bu.edu
February 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Trump makes these enormous bluffs in order to drag the entire world right. The "compromise" position winds up being almost exactly what he really wanted. I'm sure he talks about this strategy in one of his books, and it's a pretty common aggressive negotiating tactic.
February 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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"Oh no, anti-bird spikes. Those humans sure have outwitted me this time."

#birds 📷
January 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Got my "resign now or risk being terminated later" letter. This is going out to all civilian fed employees
January 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Never seen such important asterisks...
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Some people have been asking how they can set up a UVC disinfection box/cabinet. Here's what we did:
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/how-we-mad...
How We Made a UVC Disinfection Chamber
Feel free to share your own set up.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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OPM directed fed agencies to send this note to all employees. DEIA office employees were immediately placed on leave today and their names are to be shared with OPM tomorrow. A RIF plan for them is to be submitted by 1/31.
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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IMPORTANT

The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline

"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year

@evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
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January 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'
December 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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Thou shalt not kill. Unless you’re a superpower, or a billionaire, or a health insurance company that’s bribed all of Congress.

Then you get to do whatever you want, apparently.
December 11, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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Got eclipsed by the manifesto but today I also published talking points UnitedHealthcare is giving employees to instruct them on how to defend the company:
UnitedHealthcare's Leaked Talking Points
UHC tells employee to dispute social media criticism, praise slain CEO
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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If you haven't read this yet, it explains a lot about the world right now.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/youre-not-...
You're Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence.
Some of us can hear the future.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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I think it's weird that everybody is fixated on what the shooter's identity can tell us and not interested at all in what the stories we told about the shooter before he was captured tell us about our circumstances.
December 10, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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How public health workers feel when they encourage people to get vaccinated or wear a mask, but they refuse.

(Animation by AnimatedAnna)
December 9, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Since yesterday I was talking about Gates McFadden’s struggles to get behind the camera opportunities, it’s time for me to share a story about the Doctor and how she’s one of the reasons I’m a Professor. 🧵

(Here’s us at the 2024 #StarTrek convention #STLV)
December 8, 2024 at 4:11 PM
December 8, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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Less than half a day into this BlueSky venture, I am followed by 4 people and 16 disembodied sets of boobs. Hmmm.
December 7, 2024 at 6:35 AM
First obligatory post to say I am not a bot. Of course, this is just what a bot would say.
Random human art attached.
December 6, 2024 at 3:21 PM