#HEALTH

I'm tired of having the same convos about police violence. We spend way too much time refuting arguments made by conservatives that are not even done in good faith. I
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This is a Sandinista activist in Nicaragua talking about how his mother had cancer and got radiation therapy.Each session would have cost $900 (over 3 months on minimum wage), and
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So Canada cases/population is on its way up and has passed the US for the first time. We’re in a similar race to Germany and Switzerland to vaccinate ...and resist
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1 : A young Dalit girl Jyoti Kumari had to travel for more than thousand of kilometer carrying her injured father in cycle from Gurgaon to Bihar amidst lock down.
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BREAKING: New #coronavirus death figures reveal 962 people have died in Scotland between 16 March + 12 April. But how do these compare to the daily figures, how many died
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Am taking a webinar (recorded) about advocating for libraries by @pcsweeney . First big takeaway: use of the library isn't correlated with support for the library. This means libraries need
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So, some of those following me may wonder why I’m so concerned about British politics and in particular the way the UK govt is handling #COVID19 I’ve been a frequent
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For the first time in my adult life at age 29, I'm officially debt free of everything after paying off my last school loan this week: School loan, car, credit,
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So, we revealed today that the school tiers are going down the drain. And not a soul made it beyond Tier 1 (of 4). How did this happen? If you
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My wife constructed a greenhouse out back to recreate the conditions of tropical climate for the purpose of growing strawberries. She brings them in and blends them up into a
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Some people think now that we've 'flattened the curve', it's time to open.  If COVID-19 is bad for health, and lockdown is bad for the economy, shouldn't we open as
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In the last 12 hrs I have seen 2 examples of "experts" spouting complete misinformation. An MD/MPH ER doc on CNN claiming 18-54 acct for 50% of recent COV deaths
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1/ Today is #WorldMalariaDay. Every year, 400k children die from a preventable disease. Right now malaria-endemic countries are rightly focused on the threat from #COVID19. But it is important that
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Someone at a college, a college professor, complained to the administration about my suggestion at the blasphemous idea that being #plantbased #vegan may help immunity and that in a vegan
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Folks need to understand:It's not that religious men are predators, it's that all predators are attracted to positions of power. And if religion procures status, they will flock to those
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This is a thread about self care for health service staff, specifically now during the COVID pandemic. With so much disruption to the everyday running of our health service, and
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