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#COVID isn’t over. Wear a mask! Clean the air! #whn Commenting in English, en français & trying to learn Deutsch.
@jamellebouie.net Here's a great article for you. Thanks for caring so much about yourself and others. s/
www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...
Beyond all reason
Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.
www.thegauntlet.news
October 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@jamellebouie.net Here's a great article for you. Thanks for caring so much about yourself and others. s/
www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...
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Remember this as public health authorities keep coming out with more excuses to discard responsibility for their mismanagement of COVID, end vaccination, etc. They *love* the idea of COVID becoming endemic and #longCOVID being unpreventable, because 👉they can pretend there's nothing they could do.👈
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Remember this as public health authorities keep coming out with more excuses to discard responsibility for their mismanagement of COVID, end vaccination, etc. They *love* the idea of COVID becoming endemic and #longCOVID being unpreventable, because 👉they can pretend there's nothing they could do.👈
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I always wondered what it was like for scientists trying to pull the curtain down to expose AIDS or that tobacco causes cancer.
This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.
This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.
September 15, 2023 at 7:06 PM
I always wondered what it was like for scientists trying to pull the curtain down to expose AIDS or that tobacco causes cancer.
This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.
This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.
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Honestly… it is scary how quickly “you don’t have to wear a mask” turned into “you don’t need to wear a mask” and now to “you aren’t allowed to wear a mask…” in so many places.
June 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Honestly… it is scary how quickly “you don’t have to wear a mask” turned into “you don’t need to wear a mask” and now to “you aren’t allowed to wear a mask…” in so many places.
2 yrs ago I was still trying to engage w/ friends, family & colleagues regarding Cvd. My attempts to educate & raise awareness led to losing friendships & (safe) work opportunities. I was so naive & hopeful. 😩
June 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
2 yrs ago I was still trying to engage w/ friends, family & colleagues regarding Cvd. My attempts to educate & raise awareness led to losing friendships & (safe) work opportunities. I was so naive & hopeful. 😩
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🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart
“Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.”
piers: “Wow.”
“Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.”
piers: “Wow.”
June 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart
“Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.”
piers: “Wow.”
“Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.”
piers: “Wow.”
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Violet Affleck is literally the only good Hollywood celebrity.
She even attacks the vile past tense "during Covid" language.
She even attacks the vile past tense "during Covid" language.
A chronically ill earth, Declining life expectancy, Devastated elite athletes, Evermasking, and more
open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...
open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...
A chronically ill earth, Declining life expectancy, Devastated elite athletes, Evermasking, and more
Bonus Medical fascism and Trump’s most dangerous pick yet
open.substack.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Violet Affleck is literally the only good Hollywood celebrity.
She even attacks the vile past tense "during Covid" language.
She even attacks the vile past tense "during Covid" language.
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Pierre Poilievre in a nutshell.
If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...
If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...
May 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Pierre Poilievre in a nutshell.
If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...
If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...
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No one I know cares. And yet, it would be so easy.
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate
This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.
healthydebate.ca
April 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
No one I know cares. And yet, it would be so easy.
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
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Her: Talk dirty to me
Me: *whispers* let's explore an independent bookstore on a rainswept cobblestone side street.
Me: *whispers* let's explore an independent bookstore on a rainswept cobblestone side street.
April 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Her: Talk dirty to me
Me: *whispers* let's explore an independent bookstore on a rainswept cobblestone side street.
Me: *whispers* let's explore an independent bookstore on a rainswept cobblestone side street.
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"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift."
Vital piece:
Vital piece:
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
www.theatlantic.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift."
Vital piece:
Vital piece:
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In case you hadn't noticed:
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In case you hadn't noticed:
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"[...] Governments also seemed content to promote measures that only require personal responsibility, such as handwashing, and were much more reluctant to explain airborne transmission clearly as it would require [...] to improve ventilation and filtration in public buildings.[...]" 1/n
#airborne
#airborne
What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID‐19 pandemic?
The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission res...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"[...] Governments also seemed content to promote measures that only require personal responsibility, such as handwashing, and were much more reluctant to explain airborne transmission clearly as it would require [...] to improve ventilation and filtration in public buildings.[...]" 1/n
#airborne
#airborne
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Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
April 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
When I talk about the importance of air quality, ppl look at me as if I were discussing the urgency of having fur-covered toilet seats installed everywhere. Yes, that's how impt IAQ is to them. Their eyes glaze over. I see this all the time. THEY JUST DON'T CARE.
April 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
When I talk about the importance of air quality, ppl look at me as if I were discussing the urgency of having fur-covered toilet seats installed everywhere. Yes, that's how impt IAQ is to them. Their eyes glaze over. I see this all the time. THEY JUST DON'T CARE.
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Julia's essays are always impactful. This one made me cry, because it's my life too. (Different specific symptoms, same overall terrible + neglected illness.)
New personal essay from me about long covid migraines, (medical) Botox, and other things that hurt
www.thegauntlet.news/p/this-may-h...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/this-may-h...
This May Hurt
CGRPs, Triptans, supplements, diets, and now Botox- are my Long COVID migraines ever going to end?
www.thegauntlet.news
April 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Julia's essays are always impactful. This one made me cry, because it's my life too. (Different specific symptoms, same overall terrible + neglected illness.)
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"Evidence Based Medicine" as currently practiced puts far too much trust in non-expert opinion, oversells its own objectivity, overestimates its ability to find errors and bias, and overvalues its own past products.
The only thing more dangerous than EBM's GIGO problem is EBM's coprophagy problem.
The only thing more dangerous than EBM's GIGO problem is EBM's coprophagy problem.
Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health
The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.
canadahealthwatch.ca
April 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Evidence Based Medicine" as currently practiced puts far too much trust in non-expert opinion, oversells its own objectivity, overestimates its ability to find errors and bias, and overvalues its own past products.
The only thing more dangerous than EBM's GIGO problem is EBM's coprophagy problem.
The only thing more dangerous than EBM's GIGO problem is EBM's coprophagy problem.
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Happy Easter from those of us holding society together with respirators, filtered air, caffeine, and emotional duct tape.
🐰🩷🐰🩷
🐰🩷🐰🩷
April 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy Easter from those of us holding society together with respirators, filtered air, caffeine, and emotional duct tape.
🐰🩷🐰🩷
🐰🩷🐰🩷
I had a letter published in the Toronto Star today, rebutting journalist Rosie DiManno's assertion that Cvd is over. They even highlighted a quote from the letter at the top of the Letters to the Editor page! Yes, I'm chuffed.
April 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I had a letter published in the Toronto Star today, rebutting journalist Rosie DiManno's assertion that Cvd is over. They even highlighted a quote from the letter at the top of the Letters to the Editor page! Yes, I'm chuffed.
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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If you think the pandemic you can’t remember was traumatic, try being one of the few who knows we’re still in one while everyone else pretends it’s over.
#COVID #WearAnN95
#COVID #WearAnN95
April 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you think the pandemic you can’t remember was traumatic, try being one of the few who knows we’re still in one while everyone else pretends it’s over.
#COVID #WearAnN95
#COVID #WearAnN95