Profile avatar
aparachick.bsky.social
Kindness, Empathy, Love always. Covid damages your health.🦠 Bird Flu (H5N1) maybe soon too N95😷 to keep each other safe My List - Covid Info/Science I have friends on here who need us to use the alt text feature on images. Try and remember to 🙏🏻
498 posts 1,532 followers 1,751 following
Prolific Poster

Here's @instanterudite.bsky.social. 'Dutton’s dangerous dance: decrying one form of racism while stoking all the others'

A new framework,VIRUS-MVP, to track mutations like SARS-CoV-2 S:R346T (increased ACE2 binding), S:E484A (Omicron immune evasion), and RdRp mutations (antiviral resistance) https://buff.ly/4h1NiLT

The nightmare has come true A great article with a lot of data ... https://buff.ly/411PaxV

COVID-19 may increase risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, study finds potential mechanisms linking the two. https://buff.ly/3COTqsJ

DECODING COVID-19 RECOVERY 👍 Uncovering the IMMUNE MECHANISMS BEHIND SUCCESSFUL RESOLUTION of SARS-CoV-2 INFECTION in Human Lung Tissues Through Innovative Humanized Mouse Models https://buff.ly/3ZTx8NY

www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

JN.1's spike protein change slows growth, but other changes boost it. This balance helps the virus escape the immune system while still replicating, suggesting such mutations are key to its evolution and survival. https://buff.ly/4hLHx62

And so it begins: National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeffrey Weisner writes: We were scheduled to perform with Gay Men's Chorus of Washington May 21st as part of World Pride. The concert was canceled without explanation and removed from the Kennedy Center website. This is just the beginning, folks.

Criminals are running amok inside our government and nothing will be done about it because—oh, that’s right!—America voted for a convicted criminal to be in charge of all federal law enforcement See how that works

The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to emerging outbreaks.

Epidemic intelligence service officers are the cream of the cream. They're top doctors, veterinarians & other health professionals. They sign up for a two-year training program to serve the country. Not only is terminating them bad for the country, it's also a disgraceful violation of a commitment.

Two essential CDC training programs—the Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) and Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS)—are reportedly being dismantled. Our ability to detect and contain health threats including H5N1 is already strained. This not the way to make America healthier.

Fossil fuel industry accused of seeking special treatment over oilfield emissions

⚠️ BREAKING: U.S. 🇺🇸 reports 4.676 million new COVID-19 cases in a single week, with 668,000 daily infections. Currently, 1 in every 72 Americans is infected with COVID-19. Transmission rates are now higher than at any point during 59.3% of the pandemic.

Actual quote from Creative Australia about dropping a Lebanese-Australian artist due to pressure caused by his past statements in support of Palestinians: “Creative Australia is an advocate for freedom of artistic expression and is not an adjudicator on the interpretation of art. However,”

Creative Australia ditching Khaled Sabsabi as our representative at the Venice Biennale is an extraordinary denial of artistic freedom by our supposedly leading & independent arts advocate. A week ago Sabsabi said he thought the honour "wouldn’t happen because of who I am.” Turns out he was right.

The ABC can f*ck off and keep f*cking off

RFK Jr seems intent on erasing chronic illness with “wellness activities”… Remember that healthy living can’t make you bulletproof & the wellness movement is often toxic & dangerous Before I became disabled I was big into holistic health. The community turned on me the moment I didn’t “heal myself”

JFC #HousesAndHoles #TanyaMinisterForHabitatDestruction #FuckedUpStupidPolicies #LaborHateAustralia #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Your new alternative to #insiders The Sunday Shot premieres on Sunday at 9am! For those intending to watch, please click below and subscribe to our new YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot - apparently we need at least 50 subscribers to ensure a smooth YouTube livestream experience!

Hey HCWs: Keep your pts safe and wear an appropriate mask.

Feels like this should be a bigger political story. “Both time and cost won’t allow nuclear to be done on time ... the question right now is about getting on and getting this done as soon as we can." bsky.app/profile/aust...

Some evidence of compliance

Smoke Billows From Bushfires in Tasmania ->NASA Earth Observatory Natural Hazards | #Bushfire | More info from EcoSearch

New -- Elon Musk claimed in the Oval Office that DOGE was providing maximum transparency, a statement at odds with the reality of how he has operated in deep secrecy @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Wasn’t it just a week ago that we were supposed to get a 30-day pause? And now, suddenly, he’s focused on steel and aluminum imports? No one in Canada is surprised. Did anyone actually believe this guy? That his word meant anything? He’s a criminal.

Chain of command. My @smh cartoon.

ICYMI- Holding the Line- my #auspol #tariff cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

Physician's Weekly: 'Long COVID Risk Higher in Women' www.physiciansweekly.com/long-covid-r...

AskJan is apparently a service of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy. They just deleted the accommodations page for #LongCOVID. The information is all on the Wayback, but it needs to be an official source for people to use it. thesicktimes.org/2025/02/11/n...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says the forced displacement of Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank is escalating at an alarming rate, with the number of people evacuating reaching 40,000 aje.io/u6u5ad

How appalling that the Australian Government has not shown support for the International Criminal Court after the US Government’s sanctions against it. This is a matter of principle. The ICC deals with war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

London police officers who responded to Sam Kerr’s claim of being kidnapped by a taxi driver have been criticised. Her lawyer says they failed to investigate properly at the time or since. The jury in Kerr’s racially aggravated harassment trial has now retired to consider its verdict. #auspol

Your reminder that every single surviving Palestinian in Gaza, the West Bank, held in Israeli "administrative detention" or some other kind of Israeli prison IS A HOSTAGE. #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Do you know China manufactures 90% of small rare earth magnets needed by all electronic devices, like smartphones, laptops, airbuds etc.

I'm a very upset listener and watcher of the ABC but my views are never taken into account #auspol What exactly does it take for your views to be listened to? #LattoufvsABC

🚨Anaesthetists United will be in Court to protect patient safety on 13-14th May You can support the case in the thread below - they need our help to see this through! youtu.be/yrwmT255MVY?...

And Laura Tingle showed just how much integrity and guts she has to go out on a limb for another journalist, not knowing if writing to the big boss so fearlessly would bring reprisals, retaliation and retribution her way

The transition is well and truly underway. But we have to stay the course

According to the ABC’s Ita Buttrose, a journalist isn’t critical of Israel - This would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous, racist, & supportive of genocide.