The “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD” tweet was exactly 1 year ago today.
For those who have been with me this past year, I hope and pray your families are safe.
Let’s work together to end this pandemic. #COVID19
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Why on God’s green earth does Ron DeSantis want to know when girls who are athletes are menstruating?
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The rich are continuing COVID precautions like requiring masks & tests, indoor air cleaning infrastructure, & priority access to vaccines & treatments. But they're telling the rest of us the pandemic is over because they think protecting the working class will cut their profits.
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NASA Says 2022 Fifth Warmest Year on Record, Warming Trend Continues | NASA
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I’m reading the replies to my earlier COVID post & the saddest part is the total rejection of vaccines & masks from right-wing Twitter. These people have been fed a bunch of lies & BS from right-wing media & elected officials — & they are now completely anti-science & facts.
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The Bakersfield Police Officer pulled on the toes of the unarmed victim who the officers had just murdered and said "tickle tickle,” and manipulated his head and the officer told a trainee he "loved playing with the dead bodies” of victims. This is #KillingCounty. On Hulu now.
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“The bottom line is #LongCovid is why the labor force participation rate has not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, even in a situation with solid wage growth," wrote Torsten Slok, chief economist and partner at Apollo Global Management
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"Children don't get sick" minimizers say...
This is a LIE!
🚨As usual, after 60+, #COVID19 hospitalizations in children 0-9 are more than other age groups in Italy🇮🇹.
Share it! And spread the truth!
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Apples🍎 to apples🍎:
Biden post-recovery job growth (after ~22 million jobs lost during pandemic regained):
➡️349,000 jobs/month
Trump pre-pandemic jobs (excluding pandemic recession**):
➡️182,000 jobs/month
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NEW: My essay "The Paper Haunt: Long Covid gave me a masterclass in corporate and government dysfunction" is live.
I write what it's like trying to access disability with #LongCovid, America's corporate failings and the journey of recovery.
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Folks—Me thinks the AIR CLEANING & AIR QUALITY at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is too damn poor… Someone there please clean the HVAC and air ducts there, sheesh. 🤦🏻♂️
But not that Trump cares about indoor air quality during a pandemic… #COVIDisAirborne
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Yes, it's been known since the start
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DON’T RECOMMEND USING THIS—the #COVID antiviral #molnupiravir is basically a genetic
grenade that kills viruses but also spawns new mutant variants—new study finds mutant SARS2 coronaviruses SURVIVE & COMPETE! Dr @WmHaseltine: “WE ARE COURTING DISASTER”.
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grenade that kills viruses but also spawns new mutant variants—new study finds mutant SARS2 coronaviruses SURVIVE & COMPETE! Dr @WmHaseltine: “WE ARE COURTING DISASTER”.
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This password rule is SO dumb—log onto home WIFI once a month / 7 day travel limit?! What if you travel a lot, longer than 7 days? What if visiting parent’s for a month? What if a pilot/FA/trucker? What if you don’t have wifi—or don’t have a home?
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“There can be no “return to normal” as long as COVID-19 continues to trigger chronic illness and disability en masse. The push to return to normal amounts to a denial or wilful ignorance of long COVID.“
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Long COVID Has Never Been Taken Seriously. Here’s Where It Left Us. We need a public health plan for Long #COVID.
@sophiehh14 is only 28 and one of many disabled from the pandemic. Listen to this saga. HT also @loscharlos on #LongCovid advocacy. thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/
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5) some researchers downplayed significance of molnupiravir-caused mutations. “Right now, it’s much ado about nothing,” says Raymond Schinazi—noting with SARS-CoV-2 infecting millions of people, ➡️the virus is naturally mutating at a fast clip. (UMMM, NOT ENCOURAGING EITHER!) 😳
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4) “I think we are courting disaster.” Says
But a Merck spokesperson disputes that the drug has led to the emergence of widely circulating variants.
(Of course downplays it). 🤦🏻♂️
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3) A survey of viral genomes reported in a new preprint, however, suggests some people treated generate novel viruses that not only remain viable, but spread.
“It’s clear that viable mutant viruses can survive [molnupiravir] & compete [with existing variants],” says
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2) A widely used COVID-19 drug may be driving the appearance of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, sparking concerns it could prolong and even reinvigorate the pandemic. The drug, molnupiravir, produced by Merck & Co., is designed to kill the virus by inducing mutations in the viral genome
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DON’T RECOMMEND USING THIS—the #COVID antiviral #molnupiravir is basically a genetic🧬 grenade that kills viruses but also spawns new mutant variants—new study finds mutant SARS2 coronaviruses SURVIVE & COMPETE! Dr : “WE ARE COURTING DISASTER”.
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Long COVID Has Never Been Taken Seriously. Here’s Where It Left Us. We need a public health plan for Long #COVID.
is only 28 and one of many disabled from the pandemic. Listen to this saga. HT also on #LongCovid advocacy.
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Hey ! —You know what really didn’t happen? Your deranged boss’ so-called “largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period” deranged lie for your old boss. But, hey, cool dance moves, bro.
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Wind and solar overtook hydroelectric years ago. Overtaking fossil fuels and nuclear took until 2022. We are well on our way… in Europe. But not far enough elsewhere. C’mon folks.
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Monumental—WIND AND SOLAR energy has, for the first time, surpassed fossil fuels and nuclear energy in the EU. #GreenEnergy
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Very well said. We don’t get to decide when #COVID is over. Pandemic doesn’t follow daydream wishes—it follows only what ACTIONS we take to stop the virus. it’s not over until we have VENTILATION / AIR DISINFECTION / MASKS / BETTER TRANSMISSION-STOPPING VACCINES. #CovidIsNotOver
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This pandemic is not over. We still have residents being hospitalized and families having to say goodbye to their loved ones because of this deadly virus. We must continue to provide resources to combat COVID-19, including the impacts of long COVID.
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It is one thing to be an anti-vaxer. Quite terrible.
But to be a trained doctor and become an anti-vaxer during a pandemic in order to get followers on twitter and make money from talks etc, is something else.
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Wait until you hear about this dude who once started Operation Warp Speed. At this point, Trump vs DeSantis will not only destroy each other, but they will cause countless GOP voter casualties.
➡️I know many think “let them fight”—but it’s common people who will be most harmed.
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In a sign of how toxic the conversation about the coronavirus vaccines has become within the GOP, Mr. Trump’s allies are building a file of “opposition research” on Mr. DeSantis that consists of videos of him praising the vaccine in its early days. nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/
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American politics is so bizarre. Lindell was even recently a contender for RNC (GOP) party chairman—who even got votes. 2 days later he does interview sitting in an arcade claw machine. This is real.
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what is going on with this Mike Lindell interview on Jimmy Kimmel's show
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💡NOTA BENE—If you were planning to get the Novavax protein COVID vaccine— don’t wait any longer. Get it ASAP— supply will expire FEB 28th 2023 and FDA will not not extend expiration. #Novavax has decent broad spectrum variant coverage, and it’s a protein based shot.
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The U.S. has now shut off distribution of @Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine
ahead of the expiration of all government-bought doses next month
the @US_FDA is not expected to extend the shelf life for the doses
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Everyone dying and no one caring is part and parcel of the post-substance, all-affect, vibes-only crisis that we are now living in. Material reality like illness and death from SARS2 is now a lower priority than how people feel when they have to read about that stuff on twitter
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🧵 What is causing the increasing number of excess deaths?
With each wave of COVID, excess deaths increase at the same time as COVID deaths. The surges in excess deaths do not follow the vaccine campaigns.
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P.s. in other news, up is down, down is up. And Biden is ending the COVID health emergency in May, but it’s actually gonna be bad, says the . But Biden lives and works in the WH im told?
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Wait, why are we ending #COVID emergency again? “An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty—for states, for 
& doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans” says @WhiteHouse
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Wow… the loudest anti-masker in Congress… actually wears a mask on a commercial airplane when traveling. I can’t believe I’m gonna say this - but well done - applaud you for masking. Now just tell your supporters? Thanks. 🙏 #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver twitter.com/JHaidak/status
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NEW ONSET AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE—New study in 640k patients shows that #SARSCoV2 infection leads to 
43% increased risk of developing **new-onset autoimmune diseases** after acute #COVID19 over. Another autoimmune disorder also exacerbated 23%. Not good!
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They call us alarmists. We are realists just trying to save humanity. Many see empathy as a weakness. I think it’s my strength. Despite being treated as expendable for all of the pandemic bc I’m chronically ill and immunocompromised I still want everyone to live and try empathy
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NEW ONSET AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE—New study in 640k patients shows that #SARSCoV2 infection leads to 43% increased risk of developing **new-onset autoimmune diseases** after acute #COVID19 over. Another autoimmune disorder also exacerbated 23%. Not good!
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