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b҉ » 🌐 2026-08-12
@b@convo.casa

https://defector.com/were-just-going-to-keep-doing-2020-again-until-all-the-wrong-stuff-is-true

This strange and vibrant misinformation economy exists not counter to some establishment narrative but parallel to it, and its relationship to the reality of the pandemic as it actually happened is similarly abstracted. That story is knowable and known, but it is finally and fundamentally the story of a terrible loss, and of a thing that happened to all of us more or less together; the people held up as its heroes when it was happening were heroic precisely because of how vulnerable they made themselves, and because of the sacrifices inherent in that choice.
The social movement that arose from this moment reflected that, too, in its insistence that, contra all the institutional brutality and neglect and incapacity, the most vulnerable and least valued lives mattered as much as every other. That, it seems to me, was the hardest lesson to learn, and ultimately the one that the culture resisted most strongly and ultimately rejected most vigorously—that how you looked or what you believed or how much stuff you had really didn't have much bearing on whether you got sick or not, and that medicines worked the same on every human body.

#covid19 #covid #UsPol #MAGA #maha #fascism #disinformation #misinformation #disinfo #propaganda #elonmusk #bariweiss #markZuckerberg #larryEllison #peterThiel #oligarchy #classwar

Bruce Mirken » 🌐 2026-08-12
@BruceMirken@mas.to

Paper cited by #Republicans seeking to blame #vaccination for #COVID deaths is retracted. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/122571?

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Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her) » 🌐 2026-08-11
@kimcrawley@zeroes.ca

Maskless #Defcon attendees are destroying their own and everyone else's health. #Covid

https://lnkd.in/p/gZAVP4eD

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4A, ark Ungrin @ - 2nd . ES Professor at the University of Calgary v 21h - 21h Turns out that letting COVID rip and stopping data collection to hide the consequences does not, in fact, work to end the pandemic. Who knew? Certainly not public health leaders. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine - 3rd+ ! Professional body for public health medicine, New Zealand 1d. ® We have issued a press release on why we believe that record-breaking demand for ambulances over the past week should spur a greater focus on prevention. Key public health measures such as expanding vaccination, strengthening surveillance, and improving outdoor and indoor air quality are important measures to reduce the winter burden of disease, and reduce demand on ambulance and acute services. Greater focus on prevention - 2 pages New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine Media Release Record demand for ambulance service should spur greater focus on prevention 10 August 2026 The New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine believes that record-breaking demand for ambulances over the past week should spur a greater focus on prevention and public health measures