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Nooo don’t have long covid your so sexy aha Exploring the links between Covid, labor, privacy, and politics. Wear a mask.
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Article in The Atlantic by Ed Yong | "Fatigue Can Shatter a Person" "Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.” Read here 👉 ow.ly/QpLh50W6hGL

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically. www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...

"It’s important to know that COVID can hang in the air like smoke, for hours. You can catch COVID from someone who has already left a room if it hasn’t been well ventilated."

Made this to try and explain how I'm feeling about current events. Wheeeeeeeeeeee.

At this point the entire wellness industry is just fear, wrapped in pseudoscience, paving the path to fascism, painted beige.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia researchers screened 5903 drugs using AI to target COVID-19’s 3CL protease. Six candidates stood out including stanozolol, vinblastine, paritaprevir, vindesine, vinorelbine tartrate, and 41-O-demethyl rapamycin. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Feels like Microsoft and tech employees generally should read “IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin Black to really understand how technology facilitated the scale of atrocities committed by the nazis.

⚕️ Public health PSA: Many folks are getting jabs due to worries about decreased vaccine access. Many HCWs are unaware that larger bodies need longer needles for vaccines to be maximally effective. Telling them your weight isn’t enough. Ask directly for your needle size & show them this CDC chart.

It’s not news that Dems suck at selling a message so here’s some free advice from my corner of the internet: “millions will lose healthcare/food assistance/etc” is not a personal message. That’s saying things will happen to other people. Say what’s about to happen TO YOU:

N95 Respirators like the 3M Aura 1870+ remain variant-proof.

“Experts have been closely watching the variant, which is now dominant in China and is on the rise in parts of Asia. Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year…”

“My senate hearing has people asking a lot of questions answered by my senate hearing”

This doesn’t “raise questions” this gives us answers. She doesn’t know her job. She has not read the constitution.

Because resistance isn’t only about saying no, here are seven ways communities are building a future worth saying yes to.

Reminds me of this post Nearly all art is someone's favorite

👀 Watch government transparency in action—frame by frame. We just launched a live feed from the microfiche digitization lab! 📽️ Real-time scanning of government documents & records for Democracy's Library. ⤵️

“Await” is a funny word here in that it makes it sound like they’re just sitting around looking at their watches tapping their feet, and not struggling to survive amid absolute devastation.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

I teamed up with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social to write about why criminalization and the politics of "law and order" will not save us.

The University of Utah has shuttered its popular health clinic for LGBTQ youth — fallout from the Legislature’s 2023 ban on doctors providing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Something RFK Jr. said last week has been bugging the hell out of me. He kept saying they didn’t fire any scientists, which is lie. But it is also degrading to the many staff members who are key parts of the mission. Take accountants, for example. They protect taxpayer money by ensuring that…

Prediction: one day we will call “Long-COVID” just “COVID”

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." -Hannah Arendt

BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Let them eat… tariffs?

I'm not sure if we count as big. media but lord we tried

If ur not masking rn during an ongoing pandemic you believe this eugenic ideology btw, whether you want to admit it or not. If ur not masking you’re ok with infecting and killing/disabling those around u by spewing Covid all over, so mask tf up and don’t talk abt eugenics if ur contributing to it