Petition for NYC to Recognize "International Long COVID Awareness Day" Let's sign this petition to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking NYC to join Los Angeles and other cities around the world in recognizing Long COVID as a historic struggle. NYC was an early pandemic epicen...

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Back when my mentor was the dean of the graduate school of biomedical sciences at Mount Sinai in NY, they made a welcome video for the new PhD students and this will never get old. #Academicsky #PhDchat #PhDlife

Done!

Toronto Board of Health Advocacy-CIATO We have over 750 signatures, help us get to our next goal of 800! Join Clean Indoor Air Toronto in sending a clear message to the City of Toronto that you want a city that’s healthier, more accessib...

Adopting Health Canada’s indoor air quality guidelines would significantly improve public health while strengthening accessibility and climate resilience across Toronto. I encourage residents to join @CleanIndoorAirTO and tell the City you support a healthier, future-ready Toronto.
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Glad you're enjoying yourself. One of our kids will be leaving soon for a two-month stay in Japan.

Beyond all reason Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

@jamellebouie.net Here's a great article for you. Thanks for caring so much about yourself and others. s/
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I'm so jealous of you. I would love to sing again with others, but I don't know of any masked choirs in my area. I'm so glad you can sing safely, though!

Remember this as public health authorities keep coming out with more excuses to discard responsibility for their mismanagement of COVID, end vaccination, etc. They *love* the idea of COVID becoming endemic and #longCOVID being unpreventable, because 👉they can pretend there's nothing they could do.👈

I always wondered what it was like for scientists trying to pull the curtain down to expose AIDS or that tobacco causes cancer.

This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.

Want to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer? Heart Disease? Diabetes? Dementia? And More? Here's How. - WHN What if simple changes could significantly reduce your risk for serious illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and more? We all want to protect our health: eat better, move more...

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Honestly… it is scary how quickly “you don’t have to wear a mask” turned into “you don’t need to wear a mask” and now to “you aren’t allowed to wear a mask…” in so many places.

2 yrs ago I was still trying to engage w/ friends, family & colleagues regarding Cvd. My attempts to educate & raise awareness led to losing friendships & (safe) work opportunities. I was so naive & hopeful. 😩

🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart

“Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.”

piers: “Wow.”

Violet Affleck is literally the only good Hollywood celebrity.

She even attacks the vile past tense "during Covid" language.

Pierre Poilievre in a nutshell.
If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...

The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.

No one I know cares. And yet, it would be so easy.
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Her: Talk dirty to me

Me: *whispers* let's explore an independent bookstore on a rainswept cobblestone side street.

A Ticking Clock on American Freedom It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift."

Vital piece:

In case you hadn't noticed:

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What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID‐19 pandemic? The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission res...

"[...] Governments also seemed content to promote measures that only require personal responsibility, such as handwashing, and were much more reluctant to explain airborne transmission clearly as it would require [...] to improve ventilation and filtration in public buildings.[...]" 1/n
#airborne

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

When I talk about the importance of air quality, ppl look at me as if I were discussing the urgency of having fur-covered toilet seats installed everywhere. Yes, that's how impt IAQ is to them. Their eyes glaze over. I see this all the time. THEY JUST DON'T CARE.

Julia's essays are always impactful. This one made me cry, because it's my life too. (Different specific symptoms, same overall terrible + neglected illness.)

Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.

"Evidence Based Medicine" as currently practiced puts far too much trust in non-expert opinion, oversells its own objectivity, overestimates its ability to find errors and bias, and overvalues its own past products.

The only thing more dangerous than EBM's GIGO problem is EBM's coprophagy problem.

Happy Easter from those of us holding society together with respirators, filtered air, caffeine, and emotional duct tape.
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