#Virus

[QQT: COVID KILLER FOUND?]1/21Just received this as a forward. Breakthrough treatment for COVID-19, it announces. Very upbeat, very positive. Not sure if our media has picked up on it yet.
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That stupid Medium post is going mainstream. Okay, fine, let's go through some data. Why listen to me? Two weeks ago I was at Johns Hopkins for a deposition of
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87/ So what the 5 micron error really reveals is a key sociological aspect. Despite droplet infection being a hypothesis without much evidence, it was SO dominant that the experts
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Globally, the end of the pandemic isn't near.More than a million lives depend on improving our response quickly.Don’t be blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel. There
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1. Been thinking a lot about the argument that we should leave pandemic "planning" to medical professionals, epidemiologists & public health experts. Everyone else, all of us actually, should stay
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Okay but that doesn’t help the perception that going to hospital is a quick way to catch coronavirus. I know loads of people too scared to even call their GP
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Mini-thread:Had a chat with The Eldest Son yesterday, who mentioned it's been awhile since I've ranted (his word) on Twitter with a thread. He's right. I think the primary messages
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The nation’s largest reservation is being ravaged by Covid-19. Native people, like black people, suffer highest poverty rates, rates of diabetes and hypertension but are often ignored. 20 dead on
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I'm still a little shook up by something that happened to me yesterday I went to my local pet store, and after shopping for items, I realized there was
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Funding for research should just be based on checks to researchers based on (a) potential merit or (b) past performance, rather than long grants.This is an area where CZI and
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(1/3) @PHE_UK are urging anyone eligible for the free flu vaccine to get it done before flu season peaks.https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1209375/flu-jab-symptoms-vaccine-nasal-spray-when-to-get-it-peak-season (2/3) Flu can have a serious
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A no doubt ill-advised thread. Grab a brew...I have spent today feeling like an utter mug.1) My parents live 200 odd miles away from me and I’ve not seen them
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My favorite part is where she pretends there are a bunch of people offended by something he just said when she really is just referring to herself being offended. At
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fascism isn’t an ideology; it’s the actual phenomena that capitalist ruling classes resort to as capitalism decays & a counter socialist mvmt rises. fascism actually takes on a mixture of
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#THREAD TALK:"Everything you ever wanted to know about Lockdowns"by @DrDomPimenta for @MSiUK_ Part 1: What is a lockdown and do they work?Full article: https://modernsocietyinitiative.org/latest-research/f/rapid-response-part-1-wh
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getting rid of the narrative that summer walker is xenophobic, a thread : For starters let’s look at what it means to be xenophobic: Summer Walker has never been “abnormally
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