Notices by CurrentBias (currentbias@open-source-eschaton.net)

"'... evading responsibility for the 'blowback' that America's imperial projects have generated.

'Blowback' is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently [2001] declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran. It is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of the US government’s international activities that have been kept secret from the American people."

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blowback/

Waiting for other people to get sick before you mask up in public is playing chicken with an invisible pathogen and assuming you won't be one of a new variant's first victims

#covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

"And then I just never got better. It took a couple of months for me to realize that. I developed crushing chest pain and a heart rate that would rival a hummingbird's. I couldn't walk around my block without stopping to catch my breath. I was often dizzy, and my arms and legs felt like leaden sausages that had grown too big for their casings."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/18/long-covid-infectious-disease-expert-personal-story-life-with-no-cure/

#LongCovid #covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

If the goal of the vaccine program is to teach your immune system how to fight a virus without freaking out enough to kill itself in the process -- but the virus is still smarter than the host's capability to fight it, finding tissues to persist indefinitely within anyway -- you are not doing disease prevention. That kind of damage isn't the kind you see right away, but it is the kind you see, and the US' provisional leading causes of death for 2023 are full of diseases #covid directly enables

* WHO confirms a fatal case of H5N2 in Mexico
* the 59-year-old "died on April 24 after developing a fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea, nausea and general discomfort"
* "no history of exposure to poultry or other animals," though H5N2 has been reported in Mexican poultry

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/who-confirms-first-human-case-avian-influenza-ah5n2-mexico-2024-06-05/

#BirdFlu #AvianFlu #H5N2

"... nearly all information posted on Chinese news portals, blogs, forums, social media sites between 1995 and 2005 was no longer available."

Isn't this true of our internet as well? How many blogs or forums from 1995 are still around? I bet "nearly all" of them aren't

"... how many people know COVID-19 infection can cause headaches and migraines weeks or months later? Or that it can cause fainting? Nausea? Heart attacks? Cardiac complications in adults and children? Embolisms? ADHD-like symptoms? Neurological issues? How many people are suffering the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 infection but not drawing the causal link and instead ascribing their new conditions to bad luck or aging?"

https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/honesty-about-covid-is-essential-for-progress/

#covid #LongCovid #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

The sheer amount of people who stopped wearing masks as soon as they were optional demonstrates how many people never understood why they were wearing them in the first place, which is a tremendous and ongoing failure of institutional public health

#CovidIsAirborne #FluIsAirborne

H1N1 was eugenics long before covid

https://www.healthline.com/health/flu-complications

#FluIsAirborne

Sometimes people talk like it's obvious to everyone that the #flu is airborne, but I have never seen -- in a pretty liberal area of the US -- a doctor in a respirator mask during flu season in my life (and I'm 32)

A 2013 study using non-respirator surgical masks -- so this is likely an underestimate -- still found that half out of 782 #influenza A transmissions in Hong Kong and Bangkok households happened this way:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2922

#FluIsAirborne

@JamesGleick @molly0xfff @pluralistic

Shouting out @aral and the Small Web as well: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

3 things to remember:

1. it only takes 5 amino acid substitutions to produce an H5N1 that is mammal-to-mammal airborne

2. it took the WHO 2 years to admit SARSCoV2 was airborne, and 4 years to integrate that admission into public guidance

3. influenza viruses evolved to spread through the air, and airborne pathogens make the best superspreaders, no matter how much RNA they find in milk

#FluIsAirborne #CovidIsAirborne

"Black Americans Are Going Vegan At A Higher Rate Than Anyone Else"

https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/black-americans-vegan/

"Black and vegan: Why so many Black Americans are embracing the plant-based life"

https://www.today.com/food/black-vegan-why-so-many-black-americans-are-embracing-plant-t209743

"For $5m, Louisiana's flagship university will let an oil company weigh in on faculty research activities. Or, for $100,000, a corporation can participate in a research study, with 'robust' reviewing powers and access to all resulting intellectual property."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/louisiana-state-university-oil-firms-influence

#academia #climate #environment

Losing my mind that this is in a 2013 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene:

"The growing threat of an influenza pandemic presents a unique challenge to healthcare workers, emergency responders, and the civilian population. [OSHA] recommends [NIOSH]-approved respirators to provide protection against infectious airborne viruses in various workplace settings."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15459624.2013.818228

#covid #covid19 #pandemic #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #PublicHealth

Postviral illness is a longstanding tragedy that covid is accelerating. Calling long covid nothing new is not the argument people think it is, and reveals the kind of society they are willing to tolerate: one where we don't think about the air we share, or the airborne viruses with it, and respiratory hygiene doesn't exist

This is an excerpt from Stanford Medicine Magazine in 2014

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/immune-system-disruption/

#PostViral #MECFS #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #airborne #pandemic #PublicHealth

"Citing the work of feminist and gender-studies scholars from Argentina, Nigeria, and South Africa, Butler observes that many non-Western languages have long had a vocabulary for forms of gendered existence outside the male/female binary."

https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/judith-butler-afraid-gender-book-explained.html

#gender #nonbinary #JudithButler

"What if people are just terminally exhausted from the culmination of post-industrial exploitation and alienation? Not everything is related to covid."

Or, and hear me out, the terminal exhaustion from post-industrial exploitation and alienation is being accelerated by the highly contagious vaccine-evasive airborne immunodysregulator. I would love for you to explain how introducing that dramatic of a variable does not drastically alter every aspect of this equation

#covid #covid19 #SARSCoV2

@freemo @ABScientist I've gotten us lost down a useless semantic rabbit hole. The reply of yours I originally replied to was perfectly accurate upon second reading

@freemo @ABScientist I should have been more accurate. "Colds" don't exist. Infections that seem to confine themselves to the respiratory system do, and covid isn't one of them