February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is โa vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory oneโ
Some of us have been screaming this for years
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
The slipping of U.S. universities in their global ranking is entirely self-inflicted, to use language of the upcoming soccer #WorldCup, an own goal of gigantic size. When universities are demonized as โthe enemyโ and defunded, a multi-billion economy ecosystem dependent on their success breaks down.
โโThe bad news is youโre falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, thereโs no ground.โโ
โ Chรถgyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Good Morning!
Love this so much.
I have a deep respect for elephants. When a new baby is born, the herd surrounds the mother of little one and celebrates the new life.
@the_knowledge_factory on IG
Poetry is personal and it takes time, trial and error to find what resonates with you. Try Rumi, Rilke, Mary Oliver, and it may change your life.๐๐๐๐
The U.S. and Canada are about to lose their โmeasles-freeโ WHO status, with thousands of cases and, sadly, increasing numbers of deaths. False beliefs about vaccines are leading to deadly consequences.๐ฅ
โAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.โ
โ Mark Twain
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โIf everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.โ
โWhen you see love with all your heart you shall find its echoes in the universe.โ
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Yes, a gentle hug and a hi five for making it through another year in a world full of ableism and other types of discrimination! Keep up the great work๐๐๐ , you are positively affecting more people than you can imagine.๐๐๐ซถ๐ซถ๐๐ And a Happy New Year to you and your loved ones! ๐๐ฅณ๐ฅ๐พ๐๐๐
๐ Youโve had this for quite a while, making a bacterial cause more likely, so itโs time to ramp up. A prescription of antibiotics would be one way to go, or you can try alternative antibiotics from plants.
Stephen Harrod Buhner:,Herbal Antibiotics
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery!๐
Masalai chai contains spices with anti-bacterial and -viral compounds, while the cloves in it are anestethetic suppressing the urge to cough, especially helpful at night. May you have a speedy recovery!๐ค๐ค๐๐
www.webmd.com/diet/health-...
COVID-19 is not โa fluโ nor a โhoax.โ
Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Zhengqi Jiang, et al., Int J I D,
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
โข lasting immune dysregulation for > 20 months.
โข especially severe in CVD patients.
โข related to long COVID pathogenesis.
๐ฏ% on point! ๐ ๐ All 8+ billion members of the Homo sapiens family come from Africa and shine in different hues of melanin. Anyone not seeing this lives in an antiquated belief and thought system and needs an upgrade. Hereโs a good place to start:
pbs.org/video/human-...
www.bbcearth.com/shows/human
Iโm very sorry to hear of your housing troubles. GFM is widely used. An alternative many writers and other artists receive donation support with is buymeacoffee.com. Lots of coffee-size donations add up.
All the best and much good medicine to you!๐โฎ๏ธ๐ฆ
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesnโt need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
Graphic from nyc public health that says โwear a mask this fallโ It shows two yellow emoji people. One on the left is wearing a white mask and making a peace sign. The one on the right is wearing a scarf and blowing its nose.
Excellent public health messaging from New York City!!
Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji.
How can you do that?
Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95.
Itโll help keep you and your community safe.
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
Donate today! Spread the word! Money goes the furthest for food banks bc they can purchase food much more cheaply than us.
Please share.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Gender equality in the U.S. and around the world is not a pipe dream. Fifty years ago women in Iceland showed the way.
Science isnโt static. Our last Ode to #NationalFoodDay is a great example of this. We used to tell parents to avoid peanuts. Then new research showed early exposure prevents allergy, which has likely saved thousands of kids from developing peanut allergies. ๐ฅ๐ก
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
On World Polio Day we commemorate and bow in gratitude to all who worked tremendously hard to eradicate this debilitating, sometimes deadly virus. Nostalgia for the good olโ days when poliovirus maimed and killed is misplaced and misguided. We still have work to do the eliminate its last vestiges.
Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.
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No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the countryโฉMaegan Vazquez, Katie Tarrant and Kim Bellware, Oct 18, 2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
๐๐ข Every human getting killed is an entire universe being lost. May she have a safe journey beyond this world and find a place of peace, love, and joy!
And may you yourself be safe, stay strong, and be able to bear witness and keep the stories coming.๐ค๐ค๐๐๐
They have fired the staff of the CDCโs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
What could possibly go wrong if the US public health infrastructure is dismantled? Measles virus is already having a heyday, SARS-CoV-2 is killing >1,300 Americans per week (per @michael_hoerger), H5N1 influenza and Ebola are looming threats. No ostrich puts its head into the sand when in danger.
๐ฏ% agreed. For those who like to play partisan politics with public health, viruses, bacteria and parasites are not partisan and will infect and affect you +/- your loved ones as equal opportunity invaders, no matter what your political leanings are, when there arenโt enough to form herd immunity.
Nรผrnberg (English: Nuremberg)
It again depends what stories and narratives we listen to and reflect on - or unthinkingly absorb - and then take action on. Before that, we do well if we are following Einsteinโs dictum, โThe important thing is to not stop questioning.โ๐
