Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

@walkerbragman Agree, but unfortunately also many of the voices I’ve listened to the most on #Covid and #LongCovid (Michael Osterholm, Abraar Karan, Putrino Lab, Ziyad Al-Aly, aerosol folks besides @kprather88) apparently have not made the migration, either. Wondering how much more they need to see to decide that having a Plan B is a good idea.

This place seems pretty much unpolluted by COVID conspiracy theories and minimization.

I love it.

GOOD MORNING, MASTODONIANS. Just a reminder that if you're looking for something to do today in the tri-state region of Pennsylvania, welp, I'll be at Doylestown Bookshop at 3PM for a WAYWARD pre-launch event. Come get the book early! Do it! Or be forever exiled from the village!

My alternate Twitter account is @_thefabfrog_@twitter.com. I wish there was an easy way to untag the person who has my alternate account name without the underscores.

Since the @CDCgov@twitter.com couldn't be asked to provide historical community transmission data, I am on http://twitch.tv/iowacovid19tracker building out that functionality.

Disabled activists shouldn't be needing to do the job of our federal government, but here I am anyway.

Can we please use Twitter Blue to tank the stocks of fossil fuel companies next?

#twitter #elonmusk

You get one body in this life. You get one brain—the source of everything you’ve ever thought, discovered, dreamt or built. Your brain lets you solve problems, evaluate solutions, learn, earn. Don’t ever let any amount of peer pressure dissuade you from protecting it.

Beware Dr. Vinay Prasad.

Prasad is part of the Urgency of Normal, a doctors’ group that was exposed for pushing false data to justify ending masking in schools.

Prasad identifies as a liberal, but cross-publishes a blog with the Brownstone Institute, a far-right dark money group dedicated to pandemic denial that was founded by neo-confederate child labor advocate Jeffrey Tucker.

Prasad has suggested young people shouldn’t get vaccinated and invoked Nazi Germany to attack mitigation measures.

A new large study out today in Nature confirms that repeat COVID infections increase your risk of serious health complications like kidney damage, diabetes, and death.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/repeat-covid-is-riskier-than-first-infection-study-finds-2022-11-10/

Wear a high-quality mask like an N95 when you're out in public.

COVID is preventable.

Of course, individual action alone is not enough. We need policy and public health leadership at the federal level.

The update

Musk: The bird is freed! Power to the people! Blue checks for all who can afford it!

Also Musk: We really need some easily identifiable way for certain accounts to let people know they are reliably who they say they are…

@walkerbragman Musk is right that the economic picture is "dire," a problem caused entirely by his absurdly over-leveraged debt buyout.

The company was on-and-off profitable before, now it's overwhelmed with debt. To get back to where they were before the LBO, if they keep up the same advertising revenue as before (doubtful), they still need an entire extra quarter of that revenue at no additional cost.

Andor is awesome and if you aren’t watching it, you should be.

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

I made an AI image of "Darth Vader as a construction worker" and I can't stop laughing how it made his helmet into a hard hat.

Elon Musk seems determined to destroy Twitter. Because this libertarian nonsense is doomed to fail.

The way western media has covered China’s zero COVID policy is embarrassing.

Nonstop disparagement & speculation about when China stop saving lives with a dose of junk science.

“As new COVID variants have proved milder” — Omicron killed 122K Americans in two months according to the NYT’s own numbers. Almost 50K have died since August. Even mild infections are linked to serious health conditions. Long COVID is impacting millions.

See how little the neoliberal west values labor...