Notices by Violet Blue (violetblue@mastodon.social), page 2

New: #Measles spreads and kills in Texas, New Mexico, New Jersey, Kentucky. RFK cancels C19 oral vaccine development. US #Covid levels expected to peak around May 16, UK still rising. Vaccinated kids have 57-73% lower risk of #LongCovid. SNL50 cases: Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Chloe Fineman; more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-february-123210711

If you like stories about homeless punk kids punching nazi skinheads, have I got a book for you: https://linktr.ee/nowordforwater

Sounding the alarm to call attention to the unreal US bird flu/illness situation, since we can't depend on the federal government to do so. Healthcare workers are comparing it to March 2020 and I think it's a Yankee Candle moment :(

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alert-h5n1-and-u-121989095

#covid #health

Timeline break: Max is here to check on you #CatsOfMastodon

Good news: The #Covid Safety Handbook is now at more retailers including Bookshop (indie, direct)! Our project is going places!

https://linktr.ee/covidbook

* Covid, TB, influenza, and bird flu are spread through inhalation. Our book is a one-stop prevention, relationship, and health boundary tool for all.

New Threat Model on reporting and sharing info in a fast-changing information landscape, what FB/Meta's free pass means for our privacy and speech, heads-up that WordPress is "ready to serve" Trump, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-28-120947028

Share and support indie journalism now more than ever.

#cybersecurity #privacy #resist

Antivaxer and "let it rip" / "herd immunity" advocate:

"Veteran researcher who was critical of U.S. response to Covid named acting NIH head"

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/24/trump-nih-acting-director-matthew-memoli-infectious-disease-researcher-fauci-critic/

This is your reminder that "herd immunity" re: #Covid is widely-debunked and now widely-disproven, with data this week regarding its particular failure in Sweden: https://kevinmd.com/2025/01/swedens-controversial-covid-19-strategy-lessons-from-higher-mortality-rates.html

Great news! The #Covid Safety Handbook audiobook is now available at:

NOOK: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-covid-safety-handbook-violet-blue/1146567364
Kobo/Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/covid-safety-handbook-the
Storytel: https://www.storytel.com/se/sv/books/the-covid-safety-handbook-staying-safe-in-an-unsafe-world-9828005
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Violet_Blue_The_Covid_Safety_Handbook?id=AQAAAEAKUmgScM
Audiobooks[dot]com: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/covid-safety-handbook-staying-safe-in-an-unsafe-world/848072

Find indie options and more here: https://linktr.ee/covidbook

#LongCovid #audio #indieauthor #writing

Trust me when I say this book will come in handy. Chapter 1 is titled "Resist."

Options:

- https://www.adafruit.com/product/3532
- https://www.digitapub.com/products/how-to-be-a-digital-revolutionary
- https://www.amazon.com/How-Digital-Revolutionary-Violet-Blue/dp/1521338280

Heads-up: new CDC data baseline change alters Covid wastewater reporting to artificially reduce community transmission levels. Going forward wastewater will look like the US has "no Covid" per its official (CDC) data.

#Covid #LongCovid

Heads-up: Guardian is looking for firsthand #LongCovid stories: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/15/share-your-experience-of-long-covid

There's a new episode of Raised By Horror and it might be my favorite episode so far! Praise for the meat in Poltergeist! Trouble on the set of The Thing! Confessions about The Substance!

Richard Kadrey and I final girl our way through January's #horror on Shudder, Screambox, Paramount, Netflix, Hulu, and what's coming to theaters (plus some hot horror books).

Find the episode distributed through your app of preference here: https://linktr.ee/raisedbyhorror

"For those of us observing this spectacle in a sort-of state of self-aware, displaced horror reserved for those moments when life and sci-fi dystopia cross shadows, it has never been more clear that Facebook's ideas about organizing society are wholly broken." Me, 2014: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-unethical-untrustworthy-and-now-downright-harmful/

New roundup! A chilling look at what #Covid is doing in US red states, unreal details about Canada's bird flu hospitalization, #LongCovid "treatments" to avoid, Masking Through Blackness now in print and digital, and much more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-119131960

Masks on the set of #Nosferatu.

Makes me so happy when I find out a project I love took care to make sure everyone was safe. Bravo. Sources: Nosferatu: A Look Inside (Australia Featurette; Universal and IMDB versions). #MaskUp #StillCoviding

I'm so proud to have a byline in The Spinoff that I put it in my author bio -- and all bios moving forward.

There's nothing like it on the planet, they're needed more than ever, and now they need our support (also, they have gift memberships, hint hint):

https://thespinoff.co.nz/open-letter-2024

It's out! It's out! I'm hyperventilating, it just went on sale: https://www.amazon.com/Covid-Safety-Handbook-Staying-Unsafe-ebook/dp/B0DNFSXBBZ

Also here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-covid-safety-handbook-violet-blue/1146567364

And here! https://www.digitapub.com/

New Goodreads pre-review for #Covid Safety Handbook, available this week: "The antidote to Covid-19 misinformation and the prescription for being as safe as possible from the virus and the havoc it brings." https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7028578668

Humbled 🙏 We're so proud, and hope you check it out.

Exciting update! It's almost pre-order time.... !

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/the-covid-sanity-handbook/posts/4253909

#covid #longcovid

New: the week's #Covid news and new resources in one easy, free digest. US faces "quindemic," babies under 6 have highest hospitalizations, David Tennant's Macbeth cancellations, new black masks, and more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-115966923

#publichealth #LongCovid #journalism #prevention