Notices by Ron Chusid :verified: (rchusid@med-mastodon.com)

@Infoseepage
Trump was so terrible that almost anyone could have beaten Trump in a 2020 but Biden's awful record negated that advantage.

It's not enough to realize that running Biden due to dementia was a mistake. Democrats need to understand that Biden was unpopular due to his terrible record even before most people realized he was not mentally competent to run. Democrats also need to understand that it was wrong to rig previous nominations, especially for warmongers like Clinton and Biden.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/democrats-biden-2024.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H08.DCEz.4P5iCelvG8WD&smid=url-share

We know Donald Trump is far from the brightest president but a question as to whether he has to follow the Constitution should not have stumped him.

No, Trump cannot legally deport "homegrowns" and the courts have been quite clear on this.

https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/no-prisoners-in-the-united-states?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lsj6

Chaos and confusion at the NIH under Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/health/nih-doge-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.A6Ff.OGP1DhwdYdau&smid=tw-share

Chuck Schumer: “My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.”
Schumer must go. The left should oppose genocide.
It is not the job of a US party leader to support a foreign country, especially one engaging in genocide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/schumer-trump-antisemitism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E4.xcvc.vqKxUKcWYeac&smid=nytcore-android-share

It is Trump's genocide now. Will Democrats who were willing to normalize genocide from Biden and Harris finally oppose it when genocide is coming from Trump? Will Trumpers finally drop pretending that Trump is anti-war? https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/18/trump-gave-israel-the-green-light-to-restart-large-scale-bombing-in-gaza/

Today is Long Covid awareness day. An example of the lack of awareness: Last month one of my Long Covid patients died in the hospital. CT scan reported ground glass opacities in the lungs characteristic of Covid but it was ignored. None of the clinical notes made mention of this.
#COVID #LongCovid
https://www.longcovidawareness.life/

United States added to Human Rights Watchlist due to attacks on civil liberties under Biden and Trump. https://time.com/7266334/us-human-rights-watchlist-civil-liberties/

@bajax On the other hand, I know quite a bit about medicine and have opposed anti-vaxxers for years--long before RFK Jr was running for president or teamed up with Trump

@jeffcliff @gorskon I just skimmed this but as you asked my opinion:
Agree it would be much better to refer to the Israeli lobby or AIPAC as opposed to a Jewish Lobby. That said, I would not accuse someone of anti-semitism based on that alone as the main point (the extreme influence of AIPAC on US foreign policy) stands.

Republicans Love Trump’s Spending Cuts. Just Not in Their States as they seek exemptions https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/politics/trump-spending-republicans-agriculture-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU4.t0f2.AeRaCBHI4F-b

Trump administration censoring new info on H5N1: CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People
#h5n1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.XFcM.uNKKvpooWrcV

Having RFK Jr in charge of HHS would be catastrophic if we were faced with another pandemic. https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/rfk-jr-rfk-confirmation-bird-flu-pandemic-antivax/

Buttigieg talks well on television & is far better than any Trumper, but he is also a big defender of the security state & McKinsey corporatism. The real problem is that Democrats have closed the Overton Window so tight and moved so far right that they lack ideas to promote.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-news-government-funding-pause-democrats.html

Despite Trump's claims that he is deporting criminals, about half of those arrestrd by ICE do not have criminal records.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ice-trump-deportations-numbers-rcna188937

RSV vaccine about 78% effective against infection and severe disease in adults age 60 and over per study in Lancet.
#vaccines
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00796-5/abstract

There will be occasional differences on policy, bigger differences in rhetoric, but foreign policy will remain similar regardless of who is president.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/trump-biden-trump-foreign-policy

Anti-vaccine misinformation won't end with the Covid vaccine and will continue to do serious harm.
#antivaxxers
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0004020

Mechanisms of damage to the brain from Covid contributing to Long Covid.
#COVID #LongCovid https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-024-01487-4