Puzzling and mysterious
3/ Cognitive Disabilities Skyrocket
“To put this in context: from 2014 to 2019, the average annual growth in cognitive disabilities was about 28k. Since 2019, that number has skyrocketed by more than one million. This is a huge increase and deserves attention.”
Viruses are Real, No Matter What Joe Rogan and RFK Jr. Say
“Viruses are Real, No Matter What Joe Rogan and RFK Jr. Say Germ theory denialism has been around since the 1800s, but it's promoted today by pseudoscience conspiracy theorists”
Viruses are Real, No Matter What Joe Rogan and RFK Jr. SayGerm theory denialism has been around since the 1800s, but it's promoted today by pseudoscience conspiracy theorists
This is not a parody,
excellent thread on hand hygiene preoccupation by CDC and refusal to acknowledge Covid (and flu) as airborne viruses largely transmitted by aerosols, with fomites responsible for much fewer transmissions.
The Democrats were desperate to confine covid in space and time when they could have made it the key element in a politics of care, an ecological economics of build back better, a new kind of language to go with it all. The crisis was a huge opportunity. They blew it
“The Democrats were desperate to confine covid in space and time when they could have made it the key element in a politics of care, an ecological economics of build back better, a new kind of language to go with it all. The crisis was a huge opportunity. They blew it”
Right now we’re in it but if you were to look back at this era w the benefit of a century it would be CLEAR that the pandemic, just like in 1918, accelerated fascism as it brought eugenicist ideas into the mainstream
“Right now we’re in it but if you were to look back at this era w the benefit of a century it would be CLEAR that the pandemic, just like in 1918, accelerated fascism as it brought eugenicist ideas into the mainstream”
Right.
“Right. This is going to be an extremely long thread, because the number of ways that Covid can make you more vulnerable to other infections is loooong.
But here's Ten Ways That Covid Infection Can Open The Door To Other Infections Today:”
Beyond "immunity debt".
“In what ways could SARS-CoV-2 be involved in surges of other infectious diseases like RSV, tuberculosis, fungal infections, Mycoplasma, etc.?
Here is a list of additional hypotheses, all increasingly supported in the scientific literature.
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airborne update.
EBVis airborne update.
EBV found in air sampling directly from the lungs.
A thread:
I was an ableist asshole when I first became a teacher. Because that’s what I was taught! In my defense, academic institutions told me a strict attendance policy was required. What changed my perspective & my assessment criteria? Disabled students 🧵
“I was an ableist asshole when I first became a teacher. Because that’s what I was taught! In my defense, academic institutions told me a strict attendance policy was required. What changed my perspective & my assessment criteria? Disabled students 🧵”