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Kai Kupferschmidt

@kakape.bsky.social

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...

Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm

See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

www.science.org

December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM

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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv

@drmlb.bsky.social

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.

We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM

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🎀FANCY🎀

@fancysplace.bsky.social

December 13, 2024 at 9:46 AM

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Adam H Johnson

@ahjohnson.bsky.social

“They create no value whatsoever” is the take home point. Private health insurance has the dubious distinction of being both astronomically cruel AND providing zero social value. Ask someone in the industry what their value is vs govt-run system and they’ll babble on about “efficacies” or some such

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Dec 12

If you, or a family member, are seriously ill, you are stressed and exhausted. This is the point where America, unlike most other countries asks you to also be your own health care administrator. People intuitively regard this as unfair and enraging.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

Tufekci: Dealing with health insurance companies when you are vulnerable — facing illness, pain and loss — and knowing that such a company is profiting off you is a visceral, enraging experience. Some people want to be rescued, even by an outlaw. A recent Senate report says UnitedHealthcare more than doubled the rate of denials for post-acute care for the elderly as it pressured the company’s human reviewers to strictly hew to the algorithmic recommendation system that it had introduced. The sense that a cold, calculating, profit-making automaton can come at a person when they feel the most fragile, and without accountability and recourse, is the type of environment that can find people cheering on vigilantes.

Goldberg: Whenever I’ve had a health scare, or am waiting for the results of routine tests like mammograms, I tend to be as panicked about all the potential paperwork as about, you know, dying. And the thing is, these companies are purely extractive. Relative to a single-payer system, they create no value whatsoever.

December 13, 2024 at 1:45 PM

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The Democratic Coalition

@thedemcoalition.bsky.social

A rule to live by: Never trust anyone who would rather raise the retirement age than make the rich contribute more to Social Security.

#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity

December 13, 2024 at 2:45 AM

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James Webb Space Telescope Discoveries Tracker

@jameswebbdiscovery.com

This image from the James Webb Telescope showcases the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, situated approximately 390 light-years away from Earth. #JamesWebb #StarBirth #Space Inspired to explore the cosmos with a telescope? Get your own telescope here 👉 amzn.to/49g9lvS #SpaceInspiration #AmazonAffiliate

Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom center, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center.

December 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM

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Andrew Weinstein

@andrewjweinstein.com

It seems rather hypocritical to say you want to end birthright citizenship when you’re basically allowing someone born in South Africa to be your co-president.

December 13, 2024 at 4:42 AM