Will Carowinds (the amusement park) let us in if we’re wearing medical masks? It’s in NC 🙄
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Will Carowinds (the amusement park) let us in if we’re wearing medical masks? It’s in NC 🙄
CDC Wonder is down. I’ve been trying to use it since last night…
Tell me again how we can expect US military officers to refuse to carry out illegal orders by the President when it comes to nuclear weapons. B2 pilots just carried out an illegal military strike on Iran. We are not at war with Iran. And no Iranian attack on the US was imminent.
Yessss!
Having read the full MAHA report, what stands out the most to me, as an epidemiologist, is how inexplicably sloppy it is. The US government collects data on every health condition you can think of, and the report doesn’t use any of it.
LinkedIn is a strange place.
Guess who just finished their MPH program (after taking a risk and quitting their former career to do so) and is now looking for entry-level epi jobs during what is probably the worst time for public health ever 🫠
Is your website down?
So we like this pope, then?
I miss seeing Heath play, has she retired?
Mommy rocket didn’t even go full out 🔥
The only way to prevent long COVID is to avoid getting COVID. This is the message public health should be delivering to the masses. It’s dreadfully unfair that they’ve allowed a novel virus to go unmitigated, creating a mass disabling event where each infection is a dice roll with disability
Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither do random “toxic chemicals” that RFK Jr, David Geier, and others claim. The biggest predictor of autism? GENETICS. We have millions of data points across decades that show this. 1/
Rough start for Gotham, last game was awesome. Keep it up batties!
Know what actually destroys families? Children dying of vaccine preventable diseases.
“When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning! I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And — given the right circumstances — being different is a superpower.” — Greta Thunberg #autism
Right, but I was using Google Maps once and it alerted to a speed trap. So I think if something is reported in Waze it will also alert on Google Maps, so it reaches more people that way (good) www.techradar.com/computing/so...
And Waze is connected with Google now, right? So anyone using that would also hear the alert I assume.
If you witness any icy weather… or like to be informed about such hazards 😉
I love horseshoe crabs
THIS
Here’s the thing: the virus didn’t go away. The messaging did. We're not post-pandemic. We're post-accountability. The public’s been gaslit into thinking caution is “paranoia” and illness is “normal.”
Explain to me why encroaching on the second amendment is not allowed even when children’s lives are at stake but the first amendment is easily eroded when someone simply disagrees with our President.
Long COVID is real. It’s common. It’s disabling millions. And no one talks about it—because if we looked too closely, we’d have to change So instead, we decided: Let people get sick. Let kids struggle. Let the vulnerable disappear. Let the numbers stop counting.
Greaaaat…
Some of those deaths were infants. Pertussis is a horrible way to die at that age. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whoo...
Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.
Just a reminder
Universities that rolled over need to take note
Nothing honorable about Boe Boe
There we go. Support this man.
Yes!!! This is exactly what reps need to be doing since the regime is useless 👏👏👏
I suspect it's because they are busy carefully crafting a thoughtful and powerful response, but it sure is notable how our great champions against the scourge of antisemitism have had so little to say about the attempted murder of Gov. Shapiro.
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
The wellness industry isn’t just harming people. It’s killing animals, spreading disease, and fueling the next pandemic. And RFK Jr’s gutting of the Centers for Veterinary Medicine is accelerating it. My latest for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/r...
154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines www.nature.com/articles/d41... @heidiledford.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
"I put the ‘R’ in the MMR vaccine, and I’m scared that, like measles, rubella could make a comeback under RFK Jr." - Dr. Stanley Plotkin speaks up about the serious harms rubella caused, and the risks Kennedy is bringing back. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... via @inquirer.com
Did you know that almost 40% of 12-21 yo females are iron deficient, it’s easily treatable, and yet there’s no universal screening so most of them don’t even know it?!
years ago (switched to a new pcp). It is explains a lot about some things.
I worry about this for my daughter. I only learned of this recently (maybe one of your posts??) and pushed my pcp to pursue further. Got in to see hematologist and they scheduled me for 1000mg Infed right away! I think I’ve had this problem for a long time but only had it tested starting a couple
Every time he says anything mildly pro-vaccine he is "bread crumbing" us. At the core he is anti-vaccine and is pursuing an agenda to undermine confidence in vaccines which will cause irreparable harm. www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/r...
The black vultures are very curious today
Gotham's changes don't seem to be working out so well 👀
Is it midterms yet? Will there be midterms? Will we make it until then? 🤔
There are likely effective vaccines for major health concerns like Bird Flu, Lyme Disease, and even multiple forms of cancer - just to name a few - but we just lost funding for further study, our entire vaccine advisory group, most drug approval personnel at FDA, and HHS is overseen by antivaxxers…
RFK Jr. is an active danger to America's children. Fuck everyone who allowed this man to come to power.
I really wish I could hop over onto that timeline. Anyone know the Flash?
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
These were in a family photo album (husband’s side). I don’t know how common it was to have a camera in the late 1920s but they took plenty of pictures, including of this cat (these cats?). Must have been pretty special! 🐈
if you're upset about tariffs, call your congressperson and senator. it takes literally 30 seconds to say "i'm pissed about this, please fight back." if you need help, the app 5Calls gives you their phone number and a script to read.
Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.
Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there
functional political systems that can respond to an existential threat do exist we just don’t have one
Yeah I was noticing that, too. I looked up some accounts that I realized I hadn’t seen in a while and they were blocked by sometimes multiple lists! I stopped followed those lists.
Beautiful day to watch the Red Sox win at Fenway South! (Aka Camden Yards) ⚾️
Time to stop the doom scroll and tune out. Fingers crossed I don’t end up with “iron flu” from the Infed infusion today. Signing off with a quote from Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett as I continue my first journey through #DiscWorld
"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."
If you have prescriptions that refill before you’ve even finished your current fill, get them right away. I usually wait until I need more but drug shortages are clearly on the table with this insanity…
Please retaliate. Signed, an American
Whoa crazy these Nobel winning economists warned us that “…a second Trump term would have a negative impact on the U.S.'s economic standing in the world, and a destabilizing effect on the U.S.'s domestic economy” months before the election 😱 (please note my sarcasm) www.reuters.com/world/us/16-...
IMO I don’t see America pulling through this one if we continue “business as usual.” These guys need to go ASAP.
Foreign enemy powers have their fingers in it and shape the narrative. Americans are actively harmed by the gutting of our educational and scientific institutions, not to mention assistance programs. None of us win. The fallout will have consequences for decades.
This is a war the founding fathers never could have predicted. Our representatives ignore us and are controlled by money. Corporations are people. Votes are bought. A faux news propaganda machine has been in place for decades, reaching the worst in people and bringing it out with no shame.
Like hey, you work for us. If you’re a shit show even before the first 100 days are up then you failed the probationary period and we’re kicking you out 🙅♀️
I really wish We the People™️ could initiate a recall vote when congress fails to act in response to a lunatic occupying the WH and destroying everything exactly as they said they would in 900 pages…
1. Call your House Representatives to do the same 5calls.org/issue/trump-... 2. Should be all tariffs, not just Canada
He’s a chonkin’ hunk
Before you say this doesn’t affect you because you don’t use Twitter, understand that its CEO and his DOGE lackeys have access to the personal data of every American. At the very least you should freeze your credit.
Hi I’d like to pitch a story to any news organization called “The Nevermaskers” about the bizarre and strange habits of this weird segment of society that can’t absorb basic facts about airborne transmission or cumulative damage and continues to insist that eating restaurant nachos is more vital.
EVERYONE wants safe & healthy foods & ingredients. That’s why scientists do extensive research & development in food production & safety: farming, preservation, formulation. It ISN’T done by wellness influencers & anti-science groups like Moms Across America & the Environmental Working Group. 1/
"The COVID-conscious people have not abandoned science, It’s the opposite: They’ve come to think that science has abandoned them." People who are taking precautions, some of whom are immunocompromised, should not be mocked or discriminated against www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Here's the full 🧵 (from Twitter) which is quite interesting: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19071...
Gang members should not be disappeared to an unaccountable torture prison either.
In my 3M Aura N95, sitting in a waiting room of an infusion center (I’m fine, my body just hates holding onto iron) and there’s not a mask in sight. In a freaking cancer center. 🫠
Gun violence is the NUMBER ONE cause of death for children today. But guess what? The CDC Department that funds and researches methods to prevent this, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control? Gone as of today. Are kids going to be healthier and safer now?
Great effort by an MPH student to connect people to jobs in #publichealth publichealthhiringhelp.substack.com
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To answer the question everyone has been asking all day: On Strom Thurmond's grave.
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
Will this change anything? I hope so, but I am quite jaded at this point.
JUST IN: 470 Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico. We’re not dealing with isolated events anymore. This is regional surge. A vaccine-preventable disease is exploding across two states while public health agencies offer press quotes instead of emergency declarations.
I wrote about this with @drkatiesuleta.bsky.social months ago. The plan, all along, has been to undermine and erode our Federal infrastructure from the inside out. That’s why RFK Jr, Marty Makary, Calley Means, Mehmet Oz, and others are being installed. 3/
The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/
...hey, y'all, would Kamala Harris be gutting the FDA and CDC, right now? I really don't think so. Imagine being so fucking dumb as to think "BOTH CANDIDATES ARE THE SAME, THINGS CAN'T POSSIBLY GET WORSE". Well. I don't blame Kamala Harris. I blame the people who didn't vote for her.
💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility
I don’t answer my phone but I sure will text you “what’s up” right after you call me
Trans rights are human rights. No exceptions.
I love when my cat snores ☺️
Enjoy this cat closeup #TimelineCleanse
All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
@michael-hoerger.bsky.social
“they won’t actually try to revoke vaccine approvals, not even RFK would go that far, he’s got some good ideas” fuck every single person who downplayed the danger of this man
So this week: - Peter Marks, head of CBER (the division of the FDA that deals with vaccines) and architect of Operation Warp Speed resigned - The CDC suppressed a report on measles which included a strong recommendation for measles vaccination www.propublica.org/article/meas...
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The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
Does this impact the $11 billion cuts to health departments?
People have been deported for much less
