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@exador23 Waste, fraud, abuse is what the #UnAmericanVoters wanted and that's what we'll have to suffer through... In the meantime they stop payments to NC hurricane victims - #LetItRip
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"The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say."
Unfortunately, this news isn't from the Onion. RFK Jr is anti: science & vaccine.
#GOPDeathCult #Health #PublicHealth #Science #PublicSafety #H5N1 #HHS #RFKJR #Trump #LetItRip #Resist #USPol
The New York Times · RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
And now you see why the Right (and Corporate Center) was so all hot and bothered for #LetItRip and ending the COVID emergency: the pandemic seems to have done a spendid job of preserving the Social Security Trust Fund for looting by Emperor PalpaMusKKK and Darth Trumpster.
h/t @jdm2
https://palcarajo.social/@jdm2/114032903483986280
https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/americans-died-covid-social-security/
(Warning: Fortune article may be paywalled; alt source here:
P’al Carajo Socialjdm2 for Zero-Covid 🦠 🇵🇷 (@jdm2@palcarajo.social)Content warning: USA: covid excess deaths, social security
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I searched the AFL website for mentions of "illness" by year, starting in 2016 (using the Tools / Custom Date Range feature).
The results were quite striking - after years of a fairly static level of 30-40 "illness" mentions, they have exploded since 2021 - when Australia #LetItRip.
I'm getting "we're eager to compromise" vibes brewing... Why else bring it up? Especially with the burgeoning prevalence of disability in the general population since the #letitrip strategy of public health was embarked on in 2022 
ThreadsPresident Joe Biden (@potus) on ThreadsFor more than 61 million Americans living with a disability, the ADA and laws like it are a source of opportunity, respect, dignity, and pride.
A bulwark against discrimination.
A path to personal independence.
And for our nation: a testament to our character.
It's a little over 2.5y out from #publichealth adopting a #letitrip approach to an airborne pandemic. My #Instagram feed is brimming with former healthcare, science, and education colleagues feasting inside restaurants, partying at packed concerts and bars. What almost never makes it into the socials are the texts about how they're almost too ill to show up to work, how half their vacation was spent with a bad cold, or how they can't do anything because their kids are sick again. #pandemicene
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Looks like there are many ways of measuring "population immunity".
Some folk see the current lower levels of deaths and intubations and interpret that as evidence of higher "population immunity".
Others see the repeating waves of high levels of infection resulting in medium term PCSequela, and unknown long term sequela, and see a lack of "population immunity".
First view fits well with #LetItRip.
The second is a view that prioritises physical health.
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An Understanding of Why Let it Rip is Happening.
tldr; it's business ( corporate profit seeking business ) as normal
Couldn't understand why #LetItRip has been the #CovidResponse of govs around the globe.
Then I read the article below about how 275 million deaths (EDIT 2.7 million only) a year in #Europe are facilitated by corporations actions so as to boost profits.
#Covid deaths of 2 million total just don't stack up against 2.7 million annual. (Edited)
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Canada HealthwatchThe WHO says corporate greed is causing millions of preventable deathsCanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁 The most important health news, in one place.
It's almost as if when you let a virus that can leave people disabled and unable to work for months, possibly years, run rampant throughout the population, you end up with more people unable to work.
Whoever could have seen that coming?
#EconomicInactivity #LongTermSickLeave #Covid19 #LongCovid #LetItRip
BBC NewsMore than a fifth of UK adults not looking for workThe UK's economic inactivity rate was 21.8% from November to January, official figures show.
I've been off of social media for almost a month recovering from a concussion.
I always talk about how important it is to care for community members in this #CapitalistHellscape. I've always been someone who loves caring for people. However, in practice, I struggled to ask for and accept help and care. Part of that is my socialization and lived experience as a cis woman. The other part is the #InternalizedAbelism we all deal with. I've done a lot of work dismantling this inside myself - but alas, it persists.
I often found myself feeling guilty and shameful for needing help. I tended towards not even asking and making assumptions about my loved ones' capacity and desire to help me. I've known this for a long time and been working on it, but it was so easy to fall back into old patterns.
While talking with a friend a few days ago, I mentioned I wanted to see my other close friend but didn't want to ask her to drive an hour to see me because I didn't want to stress her out. Rightfully, my friend called me out and told me it isn't fair to make assumptions about what my loved ones may or may not want to do, and I need to trust people to make those decisions for themselves.
That conversation and my recovery (still ongoing) have served as an important reminder that asking for help requires becoming comfortable with feeling vulnerable, and naturally, under #Capitalism , many of us have internalized the lie that vulnerability is weakness. Like any muscle you want to build, becoming comfortable with being vulnerable takes practice. It feels strange and somewhat painful at first, but when people show up for you, it's not as hard every time you practice it.
Anyway, this is your reminder that caring for others tends to be easier than asking for and accepting care ourselves. Practice being vulnerable with your loved ones. Ask people for help when you need it. People can't show up for you if you don't give them the chance.
In these days of #LetItRip , where #Covid is allowed to continue to spread unchecked, where #Palestinians are killed everyday in a livestreamed #Genocide ,we can't afford to allow the way things are to harden us.
Stay soft. Practice #RadicalCompassion and #Vulnerability. Remember that the internal work of dismantling all the bullshit capitalism ingrains within us is always ongoing.
♡
See yall soon. I'm still recovering, but making small progress every day thanks to my lovely partner and friends.
CDC's #LetItRip policy is Machiavellian, just bc #Covid numbers dropped a little, JN.1, now circulating, is still mutating.
US deaths: >1,500 a week & in the hospital >15,000.
The fed govt’s free at-home COVID test program will be suspended beginning on Fri in response to a drop in respiratory diseases(?).
The Biden admin brought back the free test program last year ahead of the respiratory viral season. By going to COVIDtests.gov, HHs could order a free pack 4 at-h-.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4507266-free-covid-19-test-program-to-be-suspended-for-now/
The Hill · Free COVID-19 test program to be suspended for now
The more you know… “Researchers looked at whether oxygen deficit plays a role in post-exertional malaise. They found that although oxygen was successfully transferred from the lungs to the bloodstream, the tissues of long COVID patients were unable to access and use it.” Use precautions, don’t #LetItRip. #Covid #LongCovid https://www.mdjonline.com/bonus/ask-the-doctors-strenuous-exercise-can-lead-to-flare-of-long-covid-symptoms/article_3f03235c-c1eb-11ee-bc15-ef80a3405ca7.html
NEW: Covid is not the flu. The pandemic's death toll continues to rise. Most of the world, including the US, just #LetItRip:
The estimated total mortality related to the #COVID19 #pandemic was just updated...the upper reckoning is around 35 million. Most countries stopped supplying mortality data (excess deaths + COVID-ascribed) to
the WHO in 2022.
-Laurie Garrett
Fatal car crashes in VT went up 75% between 2019 and 2022. In CT, 65%. NH, 64%. SD, 45%. AZ and WA, 44%. There isn't a single state in which they decreased.
Driving safely requires the ability to focus and process multiple inputs at the same time.
#COVID is destroying people's brains. They can't drive safely.
If you've noticed that there seem to be more bad drivers on the road, you're not imagining it. There are.
Yet another way #LetItRip is endangering everyone.
Ref: https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/auto-insurance/fatal-car-crash-statistics/
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Rant incoming:
During the last year or so amid so many people and groups just completely dropping precautions and going back to "normal" - the most upsetting instances have been watching fellow activists and leftists do this.
I expected the ruling class and government to push us all back to "normal" - but what I didn't expect was so many folks who I watched be the first to initiate precautions at their events and pass out masks, saying they were standing in solidarity with workers and those most at risk (which to be blunt is all of us) for covid complications to just take the Biden administration's word that covid was "over".
These are the same people who helped radicalize me, who challenged me to expand my knowledge - who helped me understand that the ruling class has never had the poor and working classes best interests in mind. Who taught me how none of us are free until we are all free.
I am baffled because they are now seemingly taking the governments word for it and dropping all their precautions - even though we've all discussed over and over how our government exists to maintain a patriarchal, white supremacist capitalist state that benefits the ruling class via oppression and exploitation.
How can they possibly justify their abandonment of their fellow community members?
The ruling class makes their events #DavosSafe , they can afford to miss work while they recover from COVID, they can access the best doctors and the best treatments. The ruling class directly benefits from pretending COVID is over.
It justifies taking away increased food stamps, rental assistance, paid leave for COVID, access to testing, and so many other pandemic safety nets that made organizing among the poor and working class even easier.
Even more members of the poor and working class, being chronically ill and disabled directly benefits the ruling class because it is a barrier to organizing. Obviously, the disabled community has BEEN organizing for decades. But it does make it more difficult to organize if you barely have the energy to get out of bed.
The ruling class is banking on a mass disabling event amid the rise of organization across race, class, gender, and labor.
So, like I said: it is baffling to me to watch fellow activists and leftists playing into the #letitrip approach with COVID.
Not only are they pushing away folks who would otherwise love to be involved in their work by dropping protections like masks at events/meetings - they're also making their work harder by risking repeat COVID infection. They're also perpetuating abelism by not making their events and meetings accessible while claiming to be dismantling their internalized abelism.
How are we supposed to build in the shell of the old if we aren't even willing to see that the ruling class is up to their same old ablelist, racist, and classist tricks? How are we supposed to fight together for a better world when you won't wear a mask to protect yourself and others?
Anyway , this is my rant about covid and my frustrations around folks abandoning protocols that save lives and make events accessible to everyone.
I am deeply encouraged and excited by so many folks on here talking about this and working with others to help change things - even when my experiences since mask mandates started being dropped have been very isolating. As always, there is much work to do. ♡
Beim Lesen dieses Beitrags musste ich feststellen, dass es hier in Deutschland leider nicht viel besser ausschaut.
"Österreich: Pandemie im postfaktischen Zeitalter"
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19 #Pandemie #SARSCoV2 #Corona #vaccinesPLUS!
Don't #LetItRip! #DurchseuchungStoppen! #MaskUp #MaskeAuf
https://coronawissen.com/2023/05/24/osterreich-pandemie-im-postfaktischen-zeitalter/
Corona-WissenÖsterreich: Pandemie im postfaktischen Zeitalter
Verhinderung von Hospitalisierung und Tod bei Menschen 75+ (Schätzungen)
Durch bivalenten Booster: H 7,8% und T 16,2%
Durch Paxlovid: H 11,2% und T 25,2%
Perfekt ist etwas anderes: #vaccinesPLUS!
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #SARSCoV2 #Corona #Paxlovid #Booster Don't #LetItRip #Durchseuchung stoppen!
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.18.23289533v1
medRxivPredicting the public health impact of bivalent vaccines and nirmatrelvir-ritonavir against COVID-19Background: Uptake of COVID-19 bivalent vaccines and oral medication nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) has remained low across the United States. Assessing the public health impact of increasing uptake of these interventions in key risk groups can guide further public health resources and policy. Methods: This modeling study used person-level data from the California Department of Public Health on COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and vaccine administration from July 23, 2022 to January 23, 2023. We modeled the impact of additional uptake of bivalent COVID-19 vaccines and nirmatrelvir-ritonavir during acute illness in different risk groups defined by age (50+, 65+, 75+ years) and vaccination status (everyone, primary series only, previously vaccinated). We predicted the number of averted COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths and number needed to treat (NNT). Results: For both bivalent vaccines and nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, the most efficient strategy (based on NNT) for averting severe COVID-19 was targeting the 75+ years group. We predicted that perfect coverage of bivalent boosters in the 75+ years group would avert 3,920 hospitalizations (95%UI: 2,491-4,882; 7.8% total averted; NNT 387) and 1,074 deaths (95%UI: 774-1,355; 16.2% total averted; NNT 1,410). Perfect uptake of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir in the 75+ years group would avert 5,644 hospitalizations (95%UI: 3,947-6,826; 11.2% total averted; NNT 11) and 1,669 deaths (95%UI: 1,053-2,038; 25.2% total averted; NNT 35). Conclusions: These findings suggest prioritizing uptake of bivalent boosters and nirmatrelvir-ritonavir among the oldest age groups would be efficient and have substantial public health impact in reducing the burden of severe COVID-19, but would not address the entire burden of severe COVID-19.
### Competing Interest Statement
Drs. Leon, Jain, and Schechter are employees of CDPH and were involved in the analysis and interpretation of the data and the review and approval of the manuscript.
### Funding Statement
This study is supported by funding from the California Department of Public Health. NCL is supported by the National Institutes of Health, NIAID New Innovator Award (DP2 AI170485).
### Author Declarations
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The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below:
This study was approved by the institutional review board at the University of California, San Francisco. The requirement for informed consent was waived given the analysis used anonymized secondary datasets that were collected as part of public health surveillance and deemed minimal risk.
I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals.
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All data produced in the present study are available upon reasonable request to the authors
<https://github.com/hailey-park/bivalent-vaccines-paxlovid-impacts>
Having a go at an #intro #introduction... (I'm really bad at hashtags, so bear with me)...
I've joined the #twittermigration and just want to say thank you to the Mastodon 'oldies' for being patient and welcoming. It must feel like an invasion. I'm going to spend a bit of time sitting back and learning how to do it right!
Anyway, for now, I'm Tracey. Just turned 60 a couple of months ago, gah, how did that happen? I don't *feel* that old! 
I've mainly used the bird site for following progressive politics #auspol, but also keeping up (and learning to be a better ally) with everything from #lgbtqia, #indigenousrights #trans #disability etc. I don't always get it right, but I'm always trying to learn and be better.
I'm distressed about how #Covid is being handled, really cheesed off with #letitrip. Wear a #mask! Beside myself about #climatechange and wanton destruction of the #environment
Personally, my main recreational interest is #cycling - mainly #cycletouring with my husband on our tandem.
Earlier this year we did a crazy thing and rode across Australia in #Indipac #IPWR
We have a blog: http://tandemtours.blog I'm in the process of writing up that trip, day by day.
That'll do for now...
Tandem ToursTandem Tours... the one on the back IS pedalling.