Notices by Augie Ray (augieray@mastodon.social), page 3

I keep telling people we're seeing more car accidents and dangerous driving due to COVID brain damage. This STUDY found acute COVID is associated with more car accidents:

"Findings indicate an association between acute #COVID19 rates and increased car crashes with an OR of 1.5 (1.23-1.26 95%CI). The OR of car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder."

https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/01.wnl.0001051276.37012.c2

I'd like to see this everywhere across the world. With another dangerous respiratory season ahead, Bay Area hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other healthcare facilities must require masks between November 1 and March or April.

Nosocomial infections are both disappointingly common and harm patients who are already struggling with health issues. It is common sense that healthcare workers and others should protect the health of patients in healthcare facilities.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/mask-mandates-return-bay-area

I've posted how the media "sanewashes" Trump by taking his incoherent, racist lies and giving them headlines that sound lucid. This NY Times headline suggests Donald Trump has an active interest in the science of genetics. He doesn't. He is espousing racist, discredited, eugenic BS that says immigrants and people of color are naturally inferior because of their genetics. To take outright racism and make it sound like intellectual and scientific curiosity is an affront to journalism. #VoteBlue

It's amazing to me that a 150-mile stretch of Florida's Gulf coast is expecting a surge of more than 8 feet from #Hurricane Milton.

It's really unfair of people to ignore evacuation warnings, putting rescuers in harm's way.

But then, I think it's unjust for a climate change-denying state to ignore signs of global warming and expect the rest of the nation to help them after suffering the inevitable increased storms.

We are a better nation when we take responsibility and think of others.

"America first" is a racist, nationalist slogan. But, if Trump is going to claim this crap, then shouldn't he put Americans before Putin? He secretly sent #COVID19 tests to Putin at a time when America didn't have any to spare.

This is the man who criticized Twitter's leaders as being too politically biased.

#ElonMusk

Republicans say immigrants are eating dogs, cats, and geese in Springfield. It's a lie. There are no reports, although someone has pled guilty for killing geese in the city--a white man illegally hunting. https://www.whio.com/news/local/man-admits-killing-geese-golf-course-near-springfield/VBDTVVO4INBIDOF55IVNE3RGJA/

Do not listen to the lies. Correct the lies when they are repeated. And vote for the people telling you the truth and helping you, not the ones lying and voting against the interests of Americans. #VoteBlue (3/3)

Republicans say inflation is rampant. It's a lie. Inflation has fallen from 9.1% to 2.5% and is now in the range it was in the decade before 2020. In fact, Republicans voted against Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/biden-inflation-reduction-act-signing/index.html

Republicans say crime is out of control. It's a lie. Violent crime rates have fallen. https://apnews.com/article/fbi-crime-statistics-trump-harris-election-5bff94ec67f509740bbb53fb99576d5a
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Republicans say the Biden administration isn't helping Hurricane Helene victims. It's a lie. In fact, many Republicans in these states voted against extending funding for FEMA as Helene was approaching their states. https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-voted-against-fema-funding-1963980

Republicans say the Biden administration has not secured the border. It's a lie. In fact, Republicans voted against the toughest, bipartisan bill to strengthen the border because Trump wanted a campaign issue and not a solution. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal/index.html (1/3)

Favorite analysis of last night's VP debate: "Lies do not suddenly become truths because, instead of shouting them out with orange makeup and a wig, you serve them up with a smile, eyeliner, and a hipster beard."

On a call today, a client said she was sick, and a peer responded, "Well, it is that time of year."

No! Not it is not. People didn't get sick a lot in late summer and early fall. It isn't considered respiratory virus season. That doesn't start for another month or longer.

We've normalized constant illness. Right now, COVID viral activity is medium to high, while RSV and influenza are low. Sure, you can get sick with other things, but it is PROBABLY #COVID19!

One of the annoying things about the “just the flu” crowd is that, even if #COVID19 were just the flu (and it is not), IT WOULD STILL BE A SERIOUS CONCERN since we get COVID 12-18x more often than the flu. And influenza is also a very real cause for worry.

More evidence links flu infection to heart attack risk

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/more-evidence-links-flu-infection-to-heart-attack-risk

DeSantis has spent years telling Floridians the biggest issues were drag queens, library books, Disney, CRT and woke culture. Turns out it was guns, climate change, and anti-science ignorance.

Every election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue

I found a convention of COVID-deniers and anti-maskers! 😂

"Why would you care if somebody’s happy? Why is that threatening to you? If the #trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself.”

- Will Ferrell

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ferrell-trans-community-threat-then-213243587.html

STUDY finds those with multiple #COVID19 infections are much more likely (84%) to experience Long COVID:

"Participants reporting multiple COVID-19 infections have a significantly higher prevalence of long COVID with the highest prevalence of severe long COVID (PR: 1.84, 95 % CI: 1.21, 2.80) compared with people that reported only one COVID-19 infection."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24010405

Can't stop laughing at how ridiculous this is:

"In a survey of public support, U.S. adult residents (74.6%) strongly or somewhat support wastewater monitoring, with nearly all (95.3%) stating they would take steps to protect themselves if wastewater monitoring data indicated disease transmission in their area."

So, #COVID19 risks are high. How many are "protecting themselves"?

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https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7337a2.htm

STUDY finds #COVID19 vaccines do not reduce the risk of Long COVID. (But they do reduce the risk of infection and severe disease.)

"We found no association between vaccination status at the time of infection and development of medically diagnosed PASC. Vaccine remains an important measure to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity."

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/11/9/ofae495/7742944?login=false

If Republicans treated an attempt on Donald Trump's life at a golf course like they do mass murders in schools:

"We have to live with it. It's a fact of life."
"Golf courses need fewer exits."
"Was the shooter bullied?"
"We need to arm caddies."
"Golfers need bullet-proof golf bags."
"Cops patrolling every golf course!"
"Maybe more shooter drills on golf courses would help?"
"Were the 10 commandments displayed at the course?"

#VoteBlue for sensible solutions to gun violence.

#ElonMusk deserves to have his federal contracts canceled and to get a visit from the Secret Service.

#VoteBlue