Sarah
Sarah
@sarpnerd.bsky.social
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I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.

It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.

You need to see it to believe it.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Latest publication from @zalaly.bsky.social

Hopefully, the shuttering of the Long Covid Office and gutting of the VA will not prevent this huge body of work🤞🏻

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study
Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infecti...
www.thelancet.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Deaths attributed to the common cold are so rare that they are not captured in most public mortality databases.

On the other hand, while deaths due to COVID have dropped precipitously since vaccination, COVID is still a cause of death in over 47K US death certificates in 2024.

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March 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was thinking about that discourse on what society needs to do to avoid the right-wing radicalization of boys and men and something I noticed was missing from the convo is currently being amazingly demonstrated by my kid’s Gr 1 teacher with the “rambunctious boys” in her class: accountability
March 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Investing in poor people earns greater dividends than investing in corporations. We have got to stop framing this as a solely moral argument when it is actually a logical one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN...
Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show
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March 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM