Fuck - and I cannot emphasize this enough - these fucking people. #AIDS #HIV #PublicHealth #globalhealth #Abortion #HumanRights #politics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/29/pepfar-aids-hiv-abortion-congress/

I'm really pleased my latest blog post, focused on summarizing COVID risks and practical measures we can take. as individuals, has introduced many people to the concept of "normalcy bias."

Normalcy bias paired with survivorship bias is a seductive cocktail that leads many of us astray.

I hope people also take note of "compound risk." 👀 https://blog.josh.tel/2023/01/17/theres-no-going-back-lets-adapt-to-our-pandemic-present-and-future/

#Covid #Covid19 #PublicHealth

We need to stop clinging to a normal that is never coming back.

If your behavior looks like it did in 2019, I ask: do you feel lucky?

My blog post rolling up the latest research and practical guidance on adapting to our pandemic present and future: https://blog.josh.tel/2023/01/17/theres-no-going-back-lets-adapt-to-our-pandemic-present-and-future/

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #PublicHealth #PHPledge

“Close to a half a million who would have been working ... died from COVID," Powell said while talking about the U.S. labor shortage.” #labor #Covid #PublicHealth

Personally, I can’t understand why COVID is still such a problem. We’ve tried everything from ignoring it to saying it’s over. 🙄🤒💀

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/the-missing-workers-who-are-never-coming-back

@flipkoin Responding here so I can add text description before boosting:

Image above shows an inhaler displayed on a Christmas tree. Text reads:

"Hi there,
Please find my holiday photo submission attached. It's a photo of one of the two inhalers my child has to now take daily thanks to complications from the Covid she caught at school in November. She won't be spending Christmas sledding or running about outside because she is too winded to do so. Doesn't it look pretty against the Christmas tree? I look forward to seeing it on our district FB page.

Sincerely,
Krista Li"

@novid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #COVID #PublicHealth @edutooters #parenting #SchoolsAreSuperspreaders

Apparently I’m getting an epi themed gift this Christmas. Hopefully it’s not cholera. #epimastadon #epitoots #publichealth

If you're in an uproar about Elon Musk, but not about children dying because the adults pretend the pandemic is over, then I recommend you widen your horizons a bit.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #WearAMask #PublicHealth #Twitter

If you're a parent and you don't wear a mask, I dare you to read this:

https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/i-dont-want-my-little-girl-to-die-on-the-floor-of-a-hospital-4f05fea35ce8

"Everyone talks about how cute my daughter is. They won’t do anything to protect her from these threats. If she dies, they might donate to her funeral. I don’t recognize what I’m seeing. It’s not a community. It’s a parody. My communities have failed me. I don’t belong anywhere anymore."

#CovidIsNotOver @novid #MaskUp #WearAMask #Parenting #Parent #Parenthood #Children #Kids #PublicHealth #Solidarity #Equity

Once again a shoutout to @PeoplesCDC for their work to imagine #PublicHealth otherwise in time of #Covid. Get on their mailing list for weekly newsletter!

Once again a shoutout to @PeoplesCDC for their work to imagine #PublicHealth otherwise. Get on their mailing list for weekly newsletter!

"Sadly, while human lives are cast aside by right and left-wingers alike, the only part of the political spectrum concerned about disabling the public are employers realizing they’re losing human capital."

"Solidarity forever, not solidarity for-as-long-as-its-convenient."

Quotes from the piece linked at the top of this excellent thread.

I don't have the spoons to contribute to this thread's conversation right now, but it's a good one I wanted to share.

#Left #Leftist #CommunityCare #PublicHealth #COVID #Capitalism #CovidIsNotOver #Labor #Union
@AnthonyJK

A new friend of mine has #LongCOVID. She caught it masked, outdoors, in warm weather.

This is an insidious virus.

Remember, many infected people are asymptomatic.

That may include the person you're with: Wear a mask to protect yourself.

And that may include you: Wear a mask to protect your friends and neighbors.

#COVID #MaskUp #PublicHealth #WearAMask #Holiday #Christmas #Community #CommunityCare #CovidIsNotOver

If you're in the US, please make the time to watch this video from @PeoplesCDC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeSt7hjshsg

It's an #epidemiology #science lesson with a dash of #geopolitics and #economics. If you haven't been following these #COVID discussions, now is the time to start.

#COVID19 #SARS2 #SarsCOV2 #Leftist #USA #China #Pandemic #Epidemic #epiverse #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #BringBackMasks #PublicHealth #Health #HealthEquity #HealthPolicy #DisabilityJustice

When good intentions go awry… or maybe not! 😂

“One field study of a tax on soda found that you can drop soft drink purchases, but households may just end up buying more beer.”

How to Avoid the Boomerang Effect of Remedy Messaging

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-avoid-the-boomerang-effect-of-remedy-messaging/

#food #advertising #nutrition #PublicHealth

"For me, this created a new ‘us’ and you’ve excluded yourself.

This new ‘us’ is engaged with reality at a ‘not just reading the headlines’ level. This new ‘us’ heard experts telling us to keep masking for the sake of the vulnerable, and took that advice, because only a monster wouldn’t, right?"

https://isolatinginparadise.substack.com/p/this-isnt-specifically-about-you

#Solidarity #Accessibility #DisabilityJustice #ChronicIllness #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #MutualAid #Community #Health #Equality #MaskUp

" Regardless of your politics, your - our leaders are absolutely willing to sacrifice us for profits and divide us so we fight each other instead of their greed. Friends, this is about our very survival."
(link upthread)

#PublicHealth #BringBackMasks #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #DisabilityJustice @catladyactivist

"Most people would probably agree that consequences like heart attacks, strokes, blood clotting disorders, new or significantly worsened autoimmune diseases, life-altering damage to the nervous system, diabetes, organ failure, endothelial damage, and brain damage still being on the table after being fully-vaccinated does not equate to safe by any stretch. Yet these are all potential consequences of even a mild infection with Covid-19 in a fully-vaccinated person." (link upthread)

#PublicHealth #BringBackMasks #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #DisabilityJustice

@catladyactivist

So much I relate to in this thread.

It helps to remember that "we have to get on with our lives" (which I'm sure we've all heard plenty of times) is an incredibly privileged take.

It comes from someone who doesn't (or thinks they don't) have risk factors that will make them the 1 in 5 who will develop #LongCOVID. Someone who's confident they won't be among the thousands of people in my country (USA) who die from COVID every week. Someone who's confident they can take the time to recover from an illness which will "surely" be mild, and not have their job, housing, and livelihood threatened by that.

But some of us aren't "getting on with our lives," because we simply can't afford not to consider these things. Life has already taught us that we are not invincible, something I'm worried that a lot of unmasked people are going to learn the hard way.

I don't want to become more disabled than I already am. I don't want my children to join the hundreds of thousands of COVID orphans in the US. I want my spouse to be healthy.

And, even setting all that aside, I never lost sight of "your mask protects me, and my mask protects you." #CommunityCare, people. I'm a Fred-Rogers #Christian -- by which I mean that I prioritize being a #Neighbor to others. How can we claim to #LoveOneAnother if we're willing to spread death and disability in our community in order to avoid the slight inconvenience of a mask?

I'm convinced taking #COVID precautions is the right thing. For me, for my family, and for my community. I hope the consequences won't have to get too dire for others to agree, but I'm finding optimism a struggle these days.

#MaskUp #accessibility #Disability #ChronicIllness #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #PublicHealth #Equity #HealthEquity
@BlackAzizAnansi

Thoughts for fellow #clergy and other #church leaders:

#Advent and #Christmas are times for some of the coziest and most joyful gatherings. But, speaking as a colleague who can no longer work due to #disability, I invite you to consider ways to make these gatherings more inclusive to the #disabled and medically vulnerable.

A friend is exhausted from the need for accommodation of their family's disabilities being entirely on their shoulders, while their church continues to plan events that are inaccessible to them.

I am isolated from the organized church because #COVID is too risky for me and others in my household.

Many in the #disabled and #ChronicallyIll community are incredibly hurt by a society that has collectively decided to move on without us, to be unconcerned about spreading a virus which could kill us. Don't let the church be a part of this default eugenics.

Reach out to your disabled and chronically ill members and local community. Ask them what would enable them to participate with minimal risk.

Be willing to consider holding some events that are masked or outdoors (or both!) Know that that indoor potluck you're planning will likely cause someone to have to make a decision between keeping themselves and loved ones safe, and the mental and spiritual benefit of engaging with the congregation.

You may need to take the initiative on this, because most of us have already been crushed into silence by society's disregard of our lives. I know, you have so many things to do right now, so much planning and juggling, and congregational personalities to manage. But please, take a moment to reach out to someone like me, like my friend. You may be the star of hope they need to see.

Thanks for listening.

PS: If you would like more information, try this link from @PeoplesCDC -- https://peoplescdc.org/2022/11/17/safer-in-person-gatherings/

#Pastor #accessibility #Christian #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth #WearAMask #priest #rector #vicar

"No, COVID is not “airborne AIDS." But what it does to your immune system is still scary"

https://www.salon.com/2022/12/02/no-is-not-airborne-aids-but-what-it-does-to-your-immune-system-is-still-scary/

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth #MaskUp #LongCOVID