Dr. Athena Andreadis

Clickbait articles about (rare & ~mild) vaccine breakthroughs create false panic & distrust of expert advice b/c they promote magical exceptionalist thinking about COV-2: it's a fast-mutating RNA-genome virus that will ALWAYS require booster shots just like the flu. #VaccinesWork

If you even remotely contemplate ingesting bleach or a sheep deworming drug, your issue is not lack of trust but willful stupidity and/or terminal bad faith. "Freedumb till death!!!" #COVID19 #VaccinesWork

A Google search would have led them to discover that I had discussed le Carré's women characters in the larger context of his cumulative oeuvre in The Circus Ringmaster back in 2011. https://www.starshipreckless.com/blog/?p=5591  So once again: Someone did; namely, me. 3/3

To which my response was: "Someone did; namely, me." As a da capo, a few days ago someone enthused on Twitter that someone else had FINALLY, for the first time, analyzed Ann Sercombe Smiley, the bizarre abstraction in le Carré's Smiley books. 2/3

Apparently, for something to count it must bear an Anglo name, or something equally, um, First World. I once submitted a research paper, to get the following comment from one of the reviewers: "If this were true, someone would have discovered it by now." 1/3

US deaths in 20 yrs of Afghanistan "nation building": 5.5K (soldiers & contractors, though this omits the 160K Afghan civilian & military dead); ReQAglicans: BenghaziBiden (crickets re: Bush et al) US COVID deaths 2019-20: ~640K (under-reported) ReQAglicans: HoaxFreedumb

It's no surprise whatsoever that the grifter thugs & deranged cultists who coalesced around Drumpf find themselves in harmonious agreement with the Taliban about women's rights, freedom of speech, attitude to science, what constitutes a functioning government...

As long as the Saudi fundamentalist radicalizing machine is functioning and fully supported by just about every government for too obvious reasons, this issue & all related ones will continue to fester & destroy countless lives. The Anthropocene era may be humanity's last. 3/3

As always with such wars, but especially at that part of the world, the horrific repercussions are already falling on women, who have almost zero options of protection or escape for themselves & their children. The UN is already reporting ISIS- & Boko-style abductions. 2/3

The awful tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan was inevitable not just from the US declared (theater) war on terror in 2001, with occupation & puppet governing part of that strategy, but ever since the US diligently armed warlords & militias during the Russian "intervention". 1/3

About to appear: yet another round of Tolkien napkin scribbles...er, "essays", The Nature of Middle Earth. Inter alia, we learn that Elven pregnancy lasts ~100 years with an equally lengthy postpartum depression. Totally enticing! I bet not one woman was involved in this churn.

À propos of the #Plymouth tragedy: the most reliable indicator of terrorist radicalization/action is abuse of women. The Plymouth shooter was an incel whiner & his first victim was his mother. #Misogyny is the gateway to all other atrocities & rape is a first-line terror tool.

The raging #Greecewildfires are nearing places where family & friends live. The govt dissolved firefighter units specializing in forests & assigned the task to regulars, who have zero knowledge of the parameters. Huge error of ethics & judgment in a country plagued by drought.

Real death panels for would-be watchers w/ cast-iron stomachs: the performative malice & willful stupidity of Rethuglican state "leaders", w/ FL & TX leading the cultist prancing. And to Mayor Janey: proof of vaccination is not even in the same universe as slavery or birtherism.

COV-2 doesn't care if you're an "alpha male" (biologically non-existent in humans) or an omega clown, as mounting deaths among the "Libby hoax!" contingent amply demonstrate. Sympathy for "misled" #COVIDIOTS is waning as the US & the world remain hostages to willful #stupidity.

With school openings looming, we must remember the iron lungs of the polio decades. The 2 viruses share transmission profiles (asymptomatic carriers) & natural child immunity is an exceptionalist myth. "Oldsters" were airily deemed expendable; now kids, too? #COVID #VaccinesWork

Cuomo is guilty of harassment, hostile work environment, maybe assault. But so are Drumpf (19+ accusations), Gaetz, Thomas, Cavanaugh...& none of the Rethuglican #MeToo-ers have shown remorse or resigned. To say nothing of #COVIDIOTS Abbott, De(ath)Santis, ad nauseam. #justsaying

I once drove thru a rain of cinders & arcing flame tongues in a previous biblical #wildfire NE of Athens. The pine forest regenerated but today more wildfires are raging there, near my parents' home. #Greece has always suffered from summer fires, now worsened by climate change.

It's abundantly clear that #COVID19 vaccines are unusually effective, preventing serious symptoms & death: amazing luck that we're squandering. The FDA should expedite full approval, so that mandates can stem the infection surges & enable return to normalcy. #VaccinesWork 2/2