Which points out that life expectancy is the product of 1,000s of policy choices.
It isn't clear that any set of policy choices would have made the pandemic vanish.
But it *is* clear that the sum of US policy choices amount to mortality worse than a Covid-19 pandemic, ongoing, year after year.
What a remarkable statement. Both true and chilling.
"It is clear that the sum of US policy choices amount to mortality worse than a COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing, year after year" @gavinyamey.bsky.social
New Zealand is extremely fortunate to be less dependent on gas than many countries. Let's keep it that way.
This will get recounted and challenged for sure, and the lead could change, but as of right now two voters just decided the direction of the #ncga Senate. #ncpol
#NZpol This may become relevant again soon?
Simeon Brown has been asked to "lead the response" to the recommendations of the second COVID-19 inquiry.
His announcement of this (next post) could suggest he may play "concerns" that will, in part, have been beaten up by these troll farms.
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Gosh we've been waiting so long for some acknowledgement of this www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Also international law has ultimately been an attempt at restricting might makes right for the last 80 years. We are all better off for it. Sarah Paine calls it a Maritime or Trade Worldview.
Ultimate decision making:
Congress = democracy
President = Fascism
Totally not of this government's making... #nzpol
Trump has brought U.S. job growth to a halt. #EconSky
These negotiations are occurring with no public announcement, no parliamentary oversight, and no consultation.
The public is being kept in the dark while the Government negotiates the handover of our most sensitive personal data to the Trump administration.
Tax billionaires out of existence.
If you’re curious about why Trump lies about facts that are easily debunked, it because IT WORKS for his stupid base and low information voters.
There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Seymour’s state of the nation speech was actually quite impressive - because he managed to diagnose all the problems correctly, and then proposed policies that will make every single problem dramatically worse. That’s quite some skill
#nzpol
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Abolish and defund ICE, of course. Eliminate qualified immunity for all law enforcement, federal and local. Only institute "reforms" that include permanent removal of funding as consequences.
Take every Trump cabinet member and official to civil court for damages against the populace. Strip them of all their assets and nationalize their companies. Leave them with nothing but whatever UBI and public health benefits are passed for everyone.
Cancel all government contracts with Elon Musk and his companies. Shut 'em all down.
Remove all government accounts from X.
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
AI is bad, news at eleven.
One of the most concerning risks is that of neurological/mental health. bsky.app/profile/elho...
from long covid. m Moderna @moderna... •06/05/2024 Your risk of #LongCOVID rises with each additional infection. A recent study has shown that by their third COVID infection, patients have a 40% chance of developing Long COVID symptoms. Learn more about the threat of Long COVID: modernatx.com/en-US/media-ce... The risk of developing Long COVID goes up with each new COVID infection 50 45 40 35 15 10 - 5 I 1 infection ه 1 17 4 2 infections 3 or more infections
Many think I’ve had Covid so will be ok but risk increases with any infection.
Cøvid immune dysregulation is real am and LONG‼️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
No pre-existing conditions + → Pre-existing conditions Male → Female Affluent Deprived Initial illness paucisymptomatic + or asymptomatic → Initial illness multisymptomatic Less sick (or asymptomatic) in the initial COVID-19 illness → More sick (perhaps hospitalised) in the initial COVID-19 illness Fully vaccinated and boosted + Unvaccinated or under-vaccinated Was able to rest during + the initial illness Was unable to rest during the initial illness Antivirals given promptly during initial illness No antivirals given during initial illness No reinfection → Gets recurrent COVID-19 infections Less
They pushed attendance in schools, telling us children were building up their immune systems based on this unproven theory. When in fact failing to rest increases long covid risk.
We heard constantly about lockdown harms but never about the 10 million orphaned by opening up with unmitigated schools. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT PROTECT
So encouraging to see the sheer strength of feeling amongst so many highly-respected scientists & medical practitioners from across the world making representations to WHO
This letter from World Health Network is a must-read
tinyurl.com/WHN-Letter-t...
They told the public to wear gappy surgical masks which were not adequate protection for an airborne virus and they still have the wrong PPE in place.
bsky.app/profile/safe...
The pandemic's true death toll Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world Updated on November 18th < Share Estimated global excess deaths With 95% confidence interval 18.2m 27.4m 33.5m 2.6x Official global covid-19 deaths 7m 3.9x official deaths 4.8x roW MaNY people have died because H of the covid-19 pandemic? The
We were told that around 7 million people died. This also turned out to be a huge undercount.
Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵
