Notices by Marc Veldhoen (marc_veld@mastodon.online)

Messages posting about quad-demic are doing the rounds. Very unhelpful clickbait. There is not a single pandemic, let alone four at the same time. At best there can be infection waves close together or coinciding. Names as "COVIFLU" also don´t make sense.

@forbes.com

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/01/26/quad-demic-hitting-us-with-flu-covid-19-rsv-norovirus-surging/
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Calling this a "pandemic" is pure term-inflation, it erodes trust in public health and science. When a real pandemic hits, will people take it seriously? Sensationalism might boost clicks and advertisement income today, but it may cost lives in the future.
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Any of such terms of claims are untrue and identify accounts and writers using clickbait and a lack of scientific understanding.

Annual infection waves are the norm. If the wave is high, and it is generally geographically contained, it may be an epidemic. There is one in some places: influenza.
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Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr, etc. Despite lacking the expertise to lead a Department their nomination reflects a concerning pattern. Leaders who rely on loyalty over competence don’t just mismanage, they actively weaken vital institutions, societies´ foundations, for personal or political gain.
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Incompetence may not be accidental; it can be deliberate. Authoritarian leaders often install unqualified people into powerful roles, not to succeed, but to fail in ways that centralise control and degrade institutions. It’s a dangerous strategy, and it should be noticed and called out.
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Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, described Musk delivering “a Roman salute, a fascist salute most commonly associated with Nazi Germany”.

Elon Musk Appears to Make Fascist Salute at Trump Inauguration Rally

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-20/ty-article/.premium/elon-musk-appears-to-make-fascist-salute-at-trump-inauguration-rally/00000194-8563-d83f-a597-bff78b4e0000
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Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration.

The Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns against antisemitism, defines the Nazi salute as “raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down”.
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Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally

Tech billionaire wades into controversy after shooting right arm on upwards diagonal during celebrations of Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute
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Elon Musk Lost a Bet That COVID Would Quickly Fade, and What He Did Next Says a Lot About Him as a Person

During the early days of the COVID pandemic, Elon Musk lost a bet to a longtime friend — and apparently took the loss incredibly poorly,

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-lost-bet-covid-005051446.html
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in what sounds like an early warning sign of his now near-permanent state of self-humiliation.

That now ex-friend, podcaster-philosopher Sam Harris, finally reveals how the wager led to them dramatically falling out.
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Musk bet donating $1 million to charity against a $1,000 bottle of tequila that COVID cases in the US would not exceed 35,000.

Just a few weeks later, the CDC reported 35,000 deaths — and 600,000 cases. A triumphant Harris texted Musk, "Is (35,000 deaths + 600,000 cases) > 35,000 cases?"

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Elon Musk took his endorsement of Germany's far-right party to the next level. He started with a blatant untruth: "Alice Weidel is the leading candidate to lead Germany," he announced. Some 210,000 people listened to a chaotic conversation about energy, migration, crime, war, and life on Mars.
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Musk and AfD leader Weidel distort historical facts in conversation on X: 'Nazis were actually socialists'

Untruths and distortions of facts dominated the conversation with AfD leader Weidel. "Finally, a normal conversation without being interrupted or framed."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7errxp5jmo
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Musk was surprised that the AfD was associated with the far right and neo-Nazis in the German media because the party does not strike him as 'extremist'.

Weidel: "The Nazis were actually socialists. Hitler was a communist, but he presented himself as a socialist."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68931170
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The same PCR test?

PCR, Polymerase Chain Reaction, yes. The technology is the same. But you can only post this if you are clueless about what makes a PCR test specific and different.
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2025, delete the X app.

It is used for manipulation, not just another cryptocoin today, not just the image of Pepe the frog and support of extreme right, it manipulates you, your opinion and society. It empowers one rich quy and his (political) cronies.

Get your news from different sources!

The image comes from this webpage https://www.bebe-pt.com/blog/musings-about-milestones

The explanation? Milestones have not been updated since the 1960s! many aspects of child-rearing have changed since then, most notably the very important Back to Sleep Campaign initiated in the 90’s to combat SIDS.

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Uproar in ZeroCovid land. "Sars-CoV-2 has devastating effects on children". It is so bad that the CDC quietly changed the milestones for child development monitoring.....

Did they? #medsky
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I encourage everyone to learn the facts and context.

Too many have opinions without sufficient understanding of the historical context and the facts. Too many shout and chant, insult and attack, without even a willingness to try and understand the facts and the context.
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Every day, so many people are led astray, lied to, and gaslit, and many don´t even realise it. Amplified and boosted by "social" media. From vaccines to abortion to hating groups of humans and being tricked into supporting fascism.

Choose humanity.
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