“Australian COVID-19 cases update:
Reported Cases have continued to rise sharply at the national level and in most states & territories.
As always, it is hard to be certain with this series; the data quality is very shoddy & the raw data is spiky.”
“For me, Joe Biden's legacy will forever be his capitulation to corporate interests on COVID-19, and the dismantling of protections and precautions against it.
His admin did everything in its power to feign normalcy, which cost hundreds of thousands of lives (and counting)”
“Let’s make something painfully clear: Infighting is not activism. Gatekeeping is not advocacy. And perfection is not the price of entry into this community.”
COVID19 update for May 16, 2025 *
“Earlier this month the XFL variant was defined, setting a new benchmark in SARS-CoV-2 evolution: a "quadruple-recombinant", meaning it’s evolution includes 3 recombinant ancestors.
It’s a stark example of how we are giving this virus every opportunity to evolve.
🧵”
“How SARS-COV-2 spreads (Re) and why there are differences between countries ?
An explanation for kids based on the astonishing new study of @firefoxx66 @richardneher and colleagues”
“Everyone is freaking out about measles because it's "the most contagious virus"... and measles is very dangerous. This concern is warranted, but our vaccines against it are extremely successful.
It has an RO of between 12 and 18.
That's how many people a single infected person can infect (and tbh this is a terrible system because it doesn't include modern rooms packed with people.)
When we were still tracking RO of COVID, it was sitting AROUND 12, and that was in 2022. This was at a point when it was steadily increasing.
So, we can assume it has increased since then.
COVID is just as infectious as Measles, but we vaccinate against Measles extremely well. Measles is also a more visible disease, which makes it easier to identify.
But in the end...
COVID causes much more death.
COVID causes blindness, hearing loss, and developmental delays just like Measles.
And we don't successfully vaccinate for COVID on a wide scale like we can for Measles.
There is no real difference between the folks saying getting Measles is normal and those saying getting COVID is normal.
The main difference though is that we have two millennia of tiny graves from Measles, and we've only just started the grave sites for dead kids from COVID.
Please vaccinate your children, and we need to push for Novavax access for kids... because every child under 12 is not properly vaccinated for COVID...
And this carries many of the same risks as a measles infection...
Kids don't even have access to the better vaccine.
So, for every bit of concern for kids unvaccinated for measles, there should be equal concern for every kid not properly vaccinated for COVID.
The mRNA vaccine simply does not create the safety the measles vaccine does for a virus that can cause almost equal but less visible damage.
Every kid under 12 and most kids in general are just as unvaccinated for COVID as these kids catching measles are, except the concern should be much larger because the outcomes are just as bad or worse, and it's far more children at risk.
Currently, all of our children are at risk.
And people clearly care about that level of risk, but they simply don't know it is present.”
“We're a sick nation."
@amolrajan & @bbcnickrobinson ask Labour MP Nadia Whittome why so many young people are out of work.
Listen to The Today Podcast on @BBCSounds 👇
“If people really understood the science behind all this, they would have a very different attitude”
Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
“Evidence so far suggests that UVC disinfection technology kills up to 99% of pathogens in the air and on surfaces without harming people and animals present” ‘The mood at the meeting is really upbeat, with everyone looking forward to a new era of clean safe indoor air!’”
“As a clinical health psychologist, I notice that many people are using psychological defense mechanisms to downplay the risk of COVID.
These are my Top 7 examples:”
“‘It is literally, actively killing me that people don’t mask. No one cares.’
Tinu died less than two months later. She spent her final days sounding the alarm, pleading for healthcare staff to take her safety seriously.
I fight for you, Tinu. I miss you.”
“It doesn't get much more macho or conservative than the Marines. Nice of them to demonstrate even cotton masks reduce disease transmission in November 2024.
They require masks in Phase 1, because they have new recruits gathered together.”
