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Laine Adrienne

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Sometimes artist, surviving endometriosis, garden gnome, COVID competent

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Persistent attenuation of lymphocyte subsets after mass SARS-CoV-2 infection Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…

“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”

At this point, I genuinely have no ability to comprehend how is anyone not scared sh*t-less about the long-term consequences of infections, especially on kids?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

08.03.2026 21:23 👍 113 🔁 53 💬 3 📌 4
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January 2021 was the deadliest month of the pandemic. 3000 Americans died daily, 95,000 in total.

And Prasad was *mocking* people for avoiding COVID.

Shame on anyone who treated him as a good faith actor or serious thinker.

Let’s be honest about his record.

07.03.2026 03:39 👍 296 🔁 81 💬 10 📌 5

Testing and masking were big improvements to air travel. Instead of being dismantled, they should have been extended.

They would have significantly mitigated the impact of this irresponsible unvaccinated traveler, by preventing boarding and by lowering the level of virus exhaled & inhaled.

02.03.2026 23:05 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

My parents were the only people wearing masks in the cancer ward during my dad’s treatment last year. Lucked out and didn’t get sick during the procedures for which he had to be sedated.

My mom mentioned another patient who looked very frail, caught a cough, then suddenly wasn’t there anymore.

03.03.2026 02:21 👍 226 🔁 53 💬 8 📌 0

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

02.03.2026 03:03 👍 6302 🔁 1490 💬 104 📌 75
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

22.02.2026 19:21 👍 3577 🔁 2754 💬 125 📌 424
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Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

21.02.2026 22:36 👍 13559 🔁 4577 💬 135 📌 745
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Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment

Many disabled and chronically ill people are demonized for not working full-time jobs, when the truth is they can be forced out due to inaccessible policies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

22.02.2026 00:08 👍 826 🔁 331 💬 8 📌 59

I am a simple woman begging liberals to understand that death isn't the only bad outcome when ~48 million people in the U.S. have experienced long Covid, which has no cure

18.02.2026 05:16 👍 126 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 0
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 👍 21769 🔁 7743 💬 299 📌 637

a) not enough.
b) Did the hospital vow to change infection control practices to try and minimise cases of hospital acquired Covid 19?

17.02.2026 04:53 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Alt text: Screenshot of an Ici news article with the headline, “The family of a man who died from Covid-19 at La Rochelle hospital in 2021 is seeking compensation in court.” Below the headline is a photo showing rooftops and hospital buildings in La Rochelle, France. The caption notes the 85-year-old man was likely infected with COVID in his hospital room. The article is by François Petitdemange, published 11 February 2026.

Alt text: Screenshot of an Ici news article with the headline, “The family of a man who died from Covid-19 at La Rochelle hospital in 2021 is seeking compensation in court.” Below the headline is a photo showing rooftops and hospital buildings in La Rochelle, France. The caption notes the 85-year-old man was likely infected with COVID in his hospital room. The article is by François Petitdemange, published 11 February 2026.

France: First court case over death linked to hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection.

Awarded €8,000 for the harm suffered by the victim; €15,000 for the widow’s emotional distress, €4,000 for funeral costs, and €4,000 each for the 4 children’s emotional distress.

www.francebleu.fr/nouvelle-aqu...

17.02.2026 04:08 👍 209 🔁 69 💬 4 📌 14
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

14.02.2026 21:47 👍 11922 🔁 3593 💬 146 📌 469
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An mRNA Refusal to File

"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends"

Indeed.

www.science.org/content/blog...

13.02.2026 17:58 👍 137 🔁 80 💬 9 📌 5

Them: "Do you always wear a mask when you go out? Covid is everywhere. We just have to accept it."

Me: "Yes, I always wear a mask. Yes, it is everywhere. Yes, it is vital to accept that it is now part of our world."

"That is why I wear the mask."

Them: 🫤

12.02.2026 04:49 👍 103 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 2
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gold medal skippity paps

11.02.2026 15:20 👍 1671 🔁 498 💬 6 📌 16
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FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine, which could raise concerns about the agency’s posture toward vaccines and drug approvals more generally.

ICYMI: #FDA has refused to review #Moderna's mRNA #flu vaccine licensure application, suggesting the company should have used a different comparator vaccine in its Phase 3 clinical trial. Moderna suggests the regulatory agency moved the goalpost. www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/f...

11.02.2026 14:56 👍 58 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 5
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Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.

apnews.com/article/mode...

11.02.2026 00:13 👍 1441 🔁 693 💬 34 📌 58

These numbers speak for themselves.

Over a three-year span, a surgical device (without AI) was reported to the FDA seven times for malfunctioning and once for causing injury (unconfirmed).

Since AI was added in 2021 there have been at least 100 reports of malfunctions and adverse patient events.

10.02.2026 06:14 👍 74 🔁 54 💬 2 📌 2

And regardless, you’re missing my point. Masks, respirators, hand washing, quarantining… all are different disease control tools we as a modern society can choose to use in various situations based on different variables. None of which should be labelled as “extreme” by an informed media.

10.02.2026 13:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Technically the last two surgeries I had in Canada the entire surgical team wore duckbill style N95 respirators.

10.02.2026 13:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyway. If you are a survivor of CSA (or any time of sexual violence honestly):

I’m sorry. You deserve better. This world should be [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] because of what happened to you. And I hope all abusers (including yours) [redacted].

10.02.2026 04:11 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Is it “extreme” to wash your hands after going to the bathroom? Is the surgeon donning a mask before cutting you open “extreme”? These athletes are just using basic tools and practices a bailable to them in a modern society. You should try it. Not getting sick all the time is awesome.

09.02.2026 13:24 👍 423 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

07.02.2026 13:19 👍 7412 🔁 1438 💬 116 📌 68

Loot that drops from me after you defeat me:
- two pairs of scissors
- an empty packet of seeds
- lip balm
- handkerchief
- loose bank card/credit card

07.02.2026 05:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of the things that keeps me going in the ongoing fight against COVID and for Long COVID treatments is how far we’ve gotten with HIV. If you organize with us we can do this too

07.02.2026 02:41 👍 303 🔁 84 💬 3 📌 1
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Long COVID is here to stay—even in children Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“Since reinfections can trigger long COVID at any age, one obvious strategy would be prevention (ie, limiting the number of reinfections).”

30.01.2026 06:41 👍 68 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 6

Here is podcast Jays coauthor on that article admitting it was totally wrong.

youtu.be/-QibLarUULU

29.01.2026 17:16 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Which of the following people can develop Long COVID? A. People who are old or have other health conditions. B. People who are young and  have no other health conditions. C. People whose COVID-19 was mild or had no symptoms. D. People who had severe COVID-19 and were hospitalized . E. All of the above . Anyone can develop Long COVID. Avoid Long COVID by avoiding COVID-19, and talk to your doctor if you have new or long-term symptoms after having COVID-19.

Which of the following people can develop Long COVID? A. People who are old or have other health conditions. B. People who are young and have no other health conditions. C. People whose COVID-19 was mild or had no symptoms. D. People who had severe COVID-19 and were hospitalized . E. All of the above . Anyone can develop Long COVID. Avoid Long COVID by avoiding COVID-19, and talk to your doctor if you have new or long-term symptoms after having COVID-19.

Did you know? Anyone can develop Long COVID, and your risk increases each time you have COVID-19. Protect yourself from Long COVID by avoiding COVID-19, and talk to your doctor if you have new or long-term symptoms after having COVID-19. Learn more about Long COVID:
www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...

28.01.2026 23:53 👍 60 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 5

“We can’t eliminate SARS.”

We can, and we did.

“Well poor countries can’t do it.”

Poor countries eliminate bad diseases all the time, with some outside help in the past. Yeah. Even airborne ones.

The only reason we have COVID-19 circulating is because rich countries said so.

27.01.2026 07:52 👍 536 🔁 178 💬 11 📌 7