🇮🇪 rae (rachel) 🏳️‍🌈

tbh i believe him when he says he works for the cdc. i believe that the

publichealthguy1: i must admit, watching RFK Jr. burn down all those years of hard work on CDC's website for nothing has not been great for my mental health valkyrie thunderbitch (quote): I am once again reminding people to stop memory holing 2020 and the entirety of the Biden administration where the CDC completely abandoned science in favor of pushing capitalist-friendly lies about public health. If you think the CDC just now started sucking, you weren't paying attention. publichealthguy1 (quote): never change, bluesky

she's right. but he can't think critically about the cdc under the biden administration. because he refuses to listen to covid cautious people. and doesn't consider that maybe his persistent hostility to covid cautious people and defence of biden-era cdc is linked to why we didn't trust biden's cdc.

very cool that when people start responding with actual scientific papers suggesting otherwise he responds by going "nuh uh" and then turning off replies and quotes. very compassionate. great public health communication.

also, he is fully capable of being hostile to people he believes to be misinformed. compare how he speaks about antivax parents to how he speaks about covid cautious people. he's selective about who deserves this compassion, and he's decided antivax parents deserve it more.

Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you!

"We vibe code everything here at Bluesky"

Pretty much every user looking at these outright careless design oversights: "Yeah, we can tell :D"

Screenshot of my profile page with the ellipses on the top right and a blue dot on the top right corner of that

Ok if you want to make this fucking dot go away you have to enter this menu and then physically click Go Live even if you don’t currently intend to and never fucking intend to Go Live

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

can cool people start masking again I do not want to be the only masker many people know I am terrible representation

I want to fight against the stereotype that maskers are neurotic but unfortunately I can't because I am a bit neurotic actually

for some reason they never say what the specific allergies are, it's always just "allergies"

I don't want to pick a fight about it but I saw someone claiming that shaming doesn't work where vaccines are concerned and then try and turn around and say "How many of you are wearing masks?"

And that's the thing: People stopped wearing masks because they were shamed OUT of it.

when it comes to covid-cautious people, he does not apply the same commitment to compassion, or even to fucking communication. he doesn't cite any sources, after a few people start correcting him he shutts off criticism, he is at best patronising and at worse hostile to covid-cautious people.

he then turned off replies and disabled quotes to avoid anyone proving him wrong. so no, i don't think this sympathy for anti-vax parents is because he has to be compassionate as a public health communicator.

reply by casporleder.bsky.social that reads: How many cases of long covid are there? That’s not rare publichealthguy1.bsky.social responds with: long covid isn’t the same thing as immune dysregulation

reply by casporleder.bsky.social that reads No. But very related and commonly overlapped he then links to a springer nature article titled "T cell-driven sustained inflammation and immune dysregulation mimicking immunosenescence for up to three years post-COVID-19"

and then there's this interaction. misrepresenting his argument, and then ignoring him once he provides actual evidence refuting his claim. where's the compassion public health communicators supposedly have?

if he were actually compassionate towards covid cautious people he'd show some evidence behind his claims rather than jump straight out of the gate by calling people conspiracy theorists and cranks.

he follows this up with "i feel so bad for disabled people who are being duped by this conspiracy theory :(" but that reads more as condescension then genuine compassion.

a lot of people going "well it's a public health communicators job to be compassionate" and yes, that's true, but he does not extend the same compassion to covid cautious people.

like, it's so frustrating that he emphasises how anti-vax parents are "not bad parents" even though they're killing their children out of negligence and ableism, but then comes out and calls covid cautious people cranks and fake experts.

if i am wrong, he is partly responsible by doing nothing to prove his point, just resorting to ad hominem attacks and baseless claims.

reply by cristyceeck.bsky.social that reads I'll probably regret posting this but there is some research beyond this recent preprint that there might be an issue. she then quotes a post by labwaggoner.bsky.social linking to the biorxiv paper titled "Post-COVID impairment of memory T cell responses to community-acquired pathogens can be rectified by activating cellular metabolism"

reply by publichealthguy1.bsky.social that reads: it’s not reflected in the clinical or pop epi data, which is how we know any potential issues are limited. there’s a lot of fake experts pushing bad interpretations of those data out there, unfortunately.

when someone responded with a preprint suggesting that this is an issue, he responds with this. and like, what about the nature article i just brought up? does that not count? were the authors fake experts? he doesn't mention it. he still doesn't cite a single study.

if i'm misrepresented this study, please correct me. but also, i am doing more to prove my point than he did. he never cited his sources stating that this immune damage following covid is rare, that it only occurs in severe cases, or that this can be largely traced back to one crank on twitter.

Immunological dysfunction persists for 8 months following initial mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection - Nature Immunology Phetsouphanh and colleagues show that individuals with long COVID have persistent activation of the innate and adaptive immune system at 8 months after infection and define a set of analytes associate...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... this article showed that people with long covid have immunological dysfunction following initial *mild-to-moderate* infection. (before you say "oh but long covid is rare" no it's not. in 2024 about 6-7% of adults had long covid. www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

he doesn't cite any evidence that this isn't true, he doesn't even name the crank. he just calls it conspiracy and said that it's rare for covid to call immune system problems, and only limited to severe cases.

same person said this about the claim that covid's impact on people's immune systems has led to a worsened flu season. so it is frustrating that he seems to have more compasssion towards anti-vax parents than covid cautious people.

polygamy without these caveats is no more misogynistic than monogamy.

also like, if you're criticising these group's tendency to allow men to have multiple wives but not women to have multiple husbands, there's a more specific word for that. it's polygyny. permitted polygyny but not polyandry (let alone other forms of polygamy) is misogynistic.

i'm not saying that the way these cults practice polygamy is fine but polygamy on its own is fine. should be legal. has the potential to be oppressive but it's no more inherently oppressive than monogamy.

whenever people list all the bad things about a particular cult it's always like "child sex abuse, racism, and POLYGAMY" and i'm like okay. one of those are actually fine.

have we considered that the irish government's free-for-all on data centres is not only accelerating the climate crisis, straining our water system and driving up energy bills

but might also be making us an attractive target for state or terrorist attacks ??