"The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say."
Unfortunately, this news isn't from the Onion. RFK Jr is anti: science & vaccine.
#GOPDeathCult #Health #PublicHealth #Science #PublicSafety #H5N1 #HHS #RFKJR #Trump #LetItRip #Resist #USPol
And now you see why the Right (and Corporate Center) was so all hot and bothered for #LetItRip and ending the COVID emergency: the pandemic seems to have done a spendid job of preserving the Social Security Trust Fund for looting by Emperor PalpaMusKKK and Darth Trumpster.
h/t @jdm2
https://palcarajo.social/@jdm2/114032903483986280
https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/americans-died-covid-social-security/
(Warning: Fortune article may be paywalled; alt source here:
Tired: healthy teeth and strong bones.
Wired: bleeding eyeballs.
Y'all, the H5 map this week is starting to look interesting. Give me a sec, I am working on the alt text. Let me get another cup of coffee with non-dairy creamer.
"Wait, viruses mutate?!"
"Wait, contagious diseases spread?!"
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy meanwhile in #canada, new vaccines aren’t available yet and the last one, in the n hemisphere winter, was off limits to everyone under 60 who was neither pregnant nor Indigenous; Indigenous folk needed to be over 50. (Glad to see the extension of Indigenous near-elders, of course!) There is a downside to #singlepayer where #letitrip ideology rules.
I searched the AFL website for mentions of "illness" by year, starting in 2016 (using the Tools / Custom Date Range feature).
The results were quite striking - after years of a fairly static level of 30-40 "illness" mentions, they have exploded since 2021 - when Australia #LetItRip.
I'm getting "we're eager to compromise" vibes brewing... Why else bring it up? Especially with the burgeoning prevalence of disability in the general population since the #letitrip strategy of public health was embarked on in 2022 
It's a little over 2.5y out from #publichealth adopting a #letitrip approach to an airborne pandemic. My #Instagram feed is brimming with former healthcare, science, and education colleagues feasting inside restaurants, partying at packed concerts and bars. What almost never makes it into the socials are the texts about how they're almost too ill to show up to work, how half their vacation was spent with a bad cold, or how they can't do anything because their kids are sick again. #pandemicene
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @DALupton
Looks like there are many ways of measuring "population immunity".
Some folk see the current lower levels of deaths and intubations and interpret that as evidence of higher "population immunity".
Others see the repeating waves of high levels of infection resulting in medium term PCSequela, and unknown long term sequela, and see a lack of "population immunity".
First view fits well with #LetItRip.
The second is a view that prioritises physical health.
It would've been so easy to take precautions: masking, testing... but most of the countries that participated in the #Olympics, #LetItRip. Sad, #PublicHealth is important.
The disappointment soon gave way to a frightful scene as Lyles was wheeled away from the track by medics. Lyles' mother Keisha C Bishop has since revealed that her son is battling #COVID.
After previously winning the 100m final, Lyles was plagued by a slow start Thurs. L Tebogo, of Botswana, won.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13725013/Noah-Lyles-Letsile-Tebogo-Olympics-sprint-200.html
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An Understanding of Why Let it Rip is Happening.
tldr; it's business ( corporate profit seeking business ) as normal
Couldn't understand why #LetItRip has been the #CovidResponse of govs around the globe.
Then I read the article below about how 275 million deaths (EDIT 2.7 million only) a year in #Europe are facilitated by corporations actions so as to boost profits.
#Covid deaths of 2 million total just don't stack up against 2.7 million annual. (Edited)
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It's not mentioned often enough how much #healthinsurance premiums have increased since the #COVID19 emergency was declared over in 2023, a year after the #LetItRip policy of eugenics as #publichealth became normalized. Or that #lifeinsurance companies may refuse to issue a policy to recent infectees.
We've been duped *rules for us & rules for them.
"At the time when WHO
was assuring the world: “COVID ISN'T airborne”…
…a ‘return to office’-document for WHO staff in Geneva stated:
Ventilation system has been modified
• increased volume of external air
• no recycling of air
• filters rated as high as we can go…"
-M de Cook
COVID IS AIRBORNE. Feb 22, 2022: CDC downplayed #Covid again, said masking indoors -not necessary. WHO/CDC: essentially #LetItRip for years bc the bus lobby dictates PH:
“What do you do when the #Biden administration continues the #Trump administration’s “let it spread” #COVID policy and blocks #publichealth information to the point that we have to get it from analyzing #wastewater? Our public #health guidance is, literally, #shit.”
It's almost as if when you let a virus that can leave people disabled and unable to work for months, possibly years, run rampant throughout the population, you end up with more people unable to work.
Whoever could have seen that coming?
#EconomicInactivity #LongTermSickLeave #Covid19 #LongCovid #LetItRip
I've been off of social media for almost a month recovering from a concussion.
I always talk about how important it is to care for community members in this #CapitalistHellscape. I've always been someone who loves caring for people. However, in practice, I struggled to ask for and accept help and care. Part of that is my socialization and lived experience as a cis woman. The other part is the #InternalizedAbelism we all deal with. I've done a lot of work dismantling this inside myself - but alas, it persists.
I often found myself feeling guilty and shameful for needing help. I tended towards not even asking and making assumptions about my loved ones' capacity and desire to help me. I've known this for a long time and been working on it, but it was so easy to fall back into old patterns.
While talking with a friend a few days ago, I mentioned I wanted to see my other close friend but didn't want to ask her to drive an hour to see me because I didn't want to stress her out. Rightfully, my friend called me out and told me it isn't fair to make assumptions about what my loved ones may or may not want to do, and I need to trust people to make those decisions for themselves.
That conversation and my recovery (still ongoing) have served as an important reminder that asking for help requires becoming comfortable with feeling vulnerable, and naturally, under #Capitalism , many of us have internalized the lie that vulnerability is weakness. Like any muscle you want to build, becoming comfortable with being vulnerable takes practice. It feels strange and somewhat painful at first, but when people show up for you, it's not as hard every time you practice it.
Anyway, this is your reminder that caring for others tends to be easier than asking for and accepting care ourselves. Practice being vulnerable with your loved ones. Ask people for help when you need it. People can't show up for you if you don't give them the chance.
In these days of #LetItRip , where #Covid is allowed to continue to spread unchecked, where #Palestinians are killed everyday in a livestreamed #Genocide ,we can't afford to allow the way things are to harden us.
Stay soft. Practice #RadicalCompassion and #Vulnerability. Remember that the internal work of dismantling all the bullshit capitalism ingrains within us is always ongoing.
♡
See yall soon. I'm still recovering, but making small progress every day thanks to my lovely partner and friends.
CDC's #LetItRip policy is Machiavellian, just bc #Covid numbers dropped a little, JN.1, now circulating, is still mutating.
US deaths: >1,500 a week & in the hospital >15,000.
The fed govt’s free at-home COVID test program will be suspended beginning on Fri in response to a drop in respiratory diseases(?).
The Biden admin brought back the free test program last year ahead of the respiratory viral season. By going to COVIDtests.gov, HHs could order a free pack 4 at-h-.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4507266-free-covid-19-test-program-to-be-suspended-for-now/
I don’t see how #LetItRip is going well. I ordered some dishes and one came broken. I went through the chat feature on the website and requested a reship of my one dish that broke. Got an email saying they were crediting my card for two dishes. I mean, I’ll take it but that’s gonna cost the company. How many times is this happening where people aren’t paying attention to the words you type?
