Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

#SouthKorea's TV program exports hit a record high, surpassing $500 million in 2022, fueled by a 30% YoY increase, with global streaming platforms driving demand. Top buyers include #Japan, the #US and #China.

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20231225000165

Holy land in grief
Christmas night brings tragedy
War brings deep sorrow

#popefrancis #gaza #conflict #israel #haiku #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-airstrikes-kill-dozens-gaza-officials-say-christmas-bloodshed-2023-12-24/

What are farm animals thinking?

Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds/?src=longreads
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768262

⚠️🇺🇦More than 2,100 children study at school in subway station in Kharkiv (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3804844-more-than-2100-children-study-at-school-in-subway-station-in-kharkiv.html #Ukraine #SlavaUkraineSlavaEU #EuropeanUnion #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024

India's navy deploys three warships in the Arabian Sea, in an effort to "maintain a deterrent presence," after an Israel-affiliated merchant vessel with 21 Indian crew members was apparently attacked by a drone. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/indian-navy-merchant-ship-drone-attack-indians-mumbai-port-2480389-2023-12-25

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M3.9 strikes 66 km NW of #Vallenar (#Chile) 3 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1597451

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‼️🇺🇦General Staff denies more Russian fake disinformation about 108 defenders killed in Avdiivka direction | Not even close to factual (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3804845-general-staff-denies-information-about-108-soldiers-killed-in-avdiivka-direction.html #Ukraine #SlavaUkraineSlavaEU #EuropeanUnion #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024

#johnmastodonholidayfacts #HashtagGames

It wasn’t mommy who kissed santa claus but her brother John Mastodon.

"I’m going to spend an extra minute reiterating that immunity debt to S pneumonia was formally disproved in this study.

“This decrease was initially believed to be associated with the ability of nonpharmaceutical interventions to reduce transmission of S pneumoniae,
among other pathogens."

"But when RSV and influenza came back, so did invasive pneumococcal disease. So S. pneumoniae piggybacks on RSV/influenza to infect children.

So the cascading effect here is that covid increases susceptibility to RSV which increases susceptibility to this invasive infection."

"Now let’s talk about cascading effects. This is a really interesting study that highlights the role of RSV as a cofactor in invasive pneumococcal disease.
There is no pneumococcal immunity debt because people carry it around asymptomatically so it’s always around. And here they showed that while invasive disease dropped during the lockdowns, pneumococcal carriage rates were not significantly reduced."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793641

"the large buildup of COVID19-infected children and the potential long-term adverse effects of COVID-19 on the immune and respiratory systems may have contributed to the 2022 winter surge of severe RSV diseases that was not seen in 2021.

2021: immunity debt
2022: immunity theft"

"This study shows that the terrible 2022 RSV epidemic was not as simple as a 'catch up' year. RSV was already back in 2021. The 2022 surge was driven by *more severe cases*. What happened between 2021 and 2022? Mass infection of children with omicron. And subsequent immune damage."

@lisa_iannattone
11:08 PM · Dec 1, 2023

"It’s not the lockdowns, it’s the covid. Covid damages immune systems. Catching covid makes people more susceptible to catching other infections. Immunity theft, not immunity debt. A thread of evidence:

This study found that the risk of RSV infection needing medical attention was 40% higher in kids that had covid vs those that didn’t. Both in 2021 and 2022. Yes they checked twice."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37832975/

Seeing this come up again: "Immunity debt" is a myth.

*Getting Covid* damages the immune system (similar to measles virus and HIV virus.)

The more times you have Covid, the more damaged your immune system. We don't know yet how much it can be healed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v31vob82n7A&si=nZWGUsEOiOGRhD6s
🎄🇺🇦Faithful in village in western Ukraine celebrate Christmas on 25 December with Western World (AP News VIDEO) #Ukraine #SlavaUkraineSlavaEU #EuropeanUnion #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024

Gaza’s war through a child’s eye | Witness Documentary - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-XwPX0Uwnc

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ApartheidIsrael #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Liquidation

One of the eye-openers of 2023 was that my fall from professional class to working class was probably going to be permanent. Just as I thought my life in NYC would be on ever-constant upward trajectory, I thought that once I had worked/wormed my way into the professional class, I would be there forever.
Now I am coming to understand that I was lucky to have had any success ever, and this, the inverse, is a much more common state, and the baseline I am going to have to re-work my way up from… even at this old age.

Be especially alert for gift card scams in the post-holiday season.

#cybersecurity #fifonetworks