Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

@juddlegum party of fiscal responsibility

Over on the birdsite, Dr. Claire Taylor posted a thread (https://twitter.com/drclairetaylor/status/1610747156779962372 ) referencing this article from Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3 which shows that the more times you get covid the higher your risk of serious consequences. She arranged the data into this helpful chart, comparing the risks of various complications among VA patients with those who had not been infected. Risks of complications remained steady regardless of vaccination status.

#covid #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

Vaccines work. They're important. They can protect you from being infected, and from being seriously ill when you are infected. But this study shows that if you do get a breakthrough infection, your risk of long covid is just as high, and that risk grows every time you're reinfected. So please be careful and #WearAMask #MaskUp

I hope Republicans don’t beat any cops with the American flag tomorrow.

It's a treat to watch Secretary Pete shove slimy, sleazy Bret Baier's coy attempt to imply that there was something untoward about Buttigieg bringing his husband on a presidential delegation to the Invictus Games so far down Baier's throat that it pops out his ass. #LGBTQ+ #US pol https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1611151176447164418?s=20&t=zKDNGVeyzXDIxeFhr42zKg

“A staffer for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign has alleged to The Daily Beast that longtime Republican activist Matt Schlapp made ‘sustained and unwanted and unsolicited’ sexual contact with him while the staffer was driving Schlapp back from an Atlanta bar this October”: https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-staffer-matt-schlapp-groped-my-crotch?ref=wrap

@ErinInTheMorn But yet at 18 you're mature enough to buy guns, serve in the military, and vote.

At ANY age, a woman (or child) is 'mature enough' to become a parent -- but also not mature enough to freely choose their own reproductive healthcare, no matter 8, 18, or 80.

Age and maturity are transparent excuses. They are simply testing the waters for criminalizing transgender people entirely.

This is Buffalo #Bills assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington. He is the reason #DamarHamlin is still alive.

He performed #CPR on Hamlin on the field Monday night, and doctors today said his speed and skill were "absolutely vital."

You never know when you will find yourself in a situation where you have the ability to save someone’s life.

Get certified. https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class

My mom on her 88th birthday attempting to make friends with the newly adopted feral rescue cat. My entire life this woman has professed, nonsensically, to dislike cats, but suddenly she has made it her mission to win this guy over.

What's missing is any explanation of how the deals being made on Capitol Hill benefit any non-members of Congress (constituents).

@msnbc @CNNNetwork As the House adjourns after day 3 of the #speakerofthehouse sh*tshow, please spare the American people a pointless interview with any of these 20+ members of the #gop because you are only incentivizing them. Instead, you should ask Don Bacon (R-NE) and the #gop ”moderates” why they are letting their 20+ colleagues hold the chamber hostage and why they haven’t approached the #Democrats about a deal. Ask them why they won’t create their own leverage.

EXCLUSIVE: When the Jan 6. committee wanted to test how easy it was for TikTok users to wander down a far-right rabbit hole, they tried an experiment. They created Alice, a fictional 41-year-old, gave her a TikTok account, and tracked what the social media app showed her.

To their surprise, it only took 75 minutes of scrolling — with no interaction or cues about her interests — for the platform to serve Alice videos featuring Nazi content.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tiktok-served-nazi-propaganda-jan-6-committee-found-1234656268/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/long-covid-stemmed-from-mild-cases-of-covid-19-in-most-people/

90 freakin percent of #LongCOVID cases observed to stem from mild initial cases of #COVID.

For all you "meh, I had it, wasn't so bad, now back to this bar/restaurant/arena/party" types.

As the saying goes: If someone tells you they don't want you to be Speaker of the House, believe them the ninth time

Perhaps it is just me
but every time
I see the footage
whether as clips or live
of the chaos in the House
I find myself thinking:
how sad it is
for our country
that none of these people
are wearing masks.

Workers have every right to strike for better wages and benefits. Productivity grew 3.5x as much as pay between 1979-2020.

It’s time for those profits to trickle down to the workers who help generate them, don’t you think?

On their best day, Republicans are drunk braggadocios college freshman, proud of their ignorance and posturing for their god of machismo.

This image right here is Putin’s dream.

A traitor who was honored by Mike Flynn at a CNP function in 2018, who worked closely with Ali Alexander to literally plan the insurrection, is out here nominating “he ain’t no prop” Byron Donalds again.
#ArrestMikeFlynn

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