Supergravity @Supergravity

The problem with articles like the Wired one is LongCovid patients aren’t the intended audience. These articles aren’t meant for us. They are for our families, our doctors, our employers, & our elected officials, & they are used to harm us.

The problem isn’t that people can’t understand the evidence. The problem is that the evidence comes with consequences. If they’re right, nothing changes. If we’re right, they have to rethink years of decisions, behaviors, and beliefs. That’s why denial remains the most popular intervention.

Doctor: you’re not capable of working Politicians: yes you are Virologist: you really don’t want to be infected with SARS2 repeatedly Politicians: it’s fine don’t concern yourself Climatologists: we need to stop burning fossil fuels or billions will die Politicians: drill away

I had asked about Israel using drones to broadcast recordings of crying children so they could shoot Palestinians who were lured out, targeting civilians in a horrific manner. Video by @decensorednews

RT @RT_com

2 days ago

Israel's ambassador brings DRONE to UN to complain about Hezbollah's FPVs: 'By the time you hear it above your head, it's too late Cheap. Precise. Deadly'

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The men claiming rape is “no big deal” and something you can just “get over” would change their tune really quickly if another man raped them. They believe it’s no big deal because they don’t think women should have bodily autonomy. They see us as property.

b @wwxwashere

2 days ago

a lot of incels posting “rape isn’t violent, i’d just get over it” and all i can think of is the journalist who thought waterboarding “wasn’t torture” only to volunteer to go through it and last less than 20 seconds before tapping out to admit he was completely wrong.

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apparently everyones PVE account just got wiped or reset to their PVP account? @bstategames @nikgeneburn #escapefromtarkov

Ngl when I was young I thought things were bad because solutions were complicated, and now I’m older and realize things are bad because the solutions are often simple, but they would inconvenience affluent people, or those who aspire to be, and religious fanatics.

Man, it's 2026 and people are still saying this nonsense. Please, go full COVID denial. If not, at least read the literature. Acute COVID isn't the problem. It really hasn't been the problem in years. The problem is Long COVID, the risk of which increases cumulatively over time as you rack up reinfections. Vaccines do not prevent it; antivirals do not prevent it. Depending on the study, they reduce the risk modestly or not at all. The vaccines themselves only reduce infection risk for a short period of time, making the phrase "breakthrough infection" silly - it's the default. There are no cures for Long COVID; there are no proven treatments. The reason why this post sounds logical, but is really a form of rhetorical sleight of hand is in the last sentence: the post defines "over" with two specific metrics (death, beds) and then the conclusion that it's "over" follows tautologically. The "to the extent it needs to define everyday decisions" stipulates that everyday decisions should be governed only by acute mortality risk, not anything chronic. Once you grant that premise, you've already conceded the conclusion.

Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan

5 days ago

The excess death rate has gone back to the level it was in 2018. So has hospital bed capacity. We have vaccines that protect from COVID, and antivirals for breakthrough cases. So yes, to the extent it needs to define people's everyday decisions, COVID is in fact "over".

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🦊 🦊🦊🦊 Sake!!! Apparently suggesting aerosol scientists, engineers, industrial hygienists, and ventilation experts should help shape infectious disease policy is controversial now. You know… the same types of people responsible for: clean water systems sewage infrastructure filtration occupational safety hospital ventilation indoor air standards Instead we’re told to “trust the experts” after years of public health agencies fumbling airborne transmission guidance, removing aerosol language from websites during outbreaks, and acting like respirators are exotic technology from the future. Meanwhile the “random guy on the internet” they’re dismissing: has a PhD works in a College of Applied Health Sciences teaches Tech-Driven Health Interventions studies behavior, cognition, health technology, and intervention design and understands the physics behind why respirators, ventilation, filtration, and germicidal UV work But sure. Better to keep pretending infection control begins and ends with hand sanitizer and vibes.

The American education system does not teach empire. This is not an accident. It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning. It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler. It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of. It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations. It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil. It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present. It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention. The ignorance is load-bearing. Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable. They know this. The curriculum is not an oversight. The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it. The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier. It is the history class.

Because looking at it objectively, racism is fucking stupid and nobody wants to admit they're fucking stupid.

Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay

3 weeks ago

Why don’t racists just admit they’re racist?

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1) Something very clear from this Hantavirus outbreak is that @WHO is still quite confused about airborne transmission Still confuse "close contact" (a setting) with a mechanism of transmission Do not understand that ease of transmission in close proximity ==> likely airborne

Past Andes virus outbreaks show that virions can be aerosolized by speech. Saying “hello” within 1–2 meters without physical contact was enough for human-to-human spread. For human-transmissible viruses, speech-range aerosol spread should be seen as the norm, not the exception.

Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat

4 weeks ago

Importantly, detailed investigations into this Andes Virus outbreak in Argentina in 2018 clearly revealed that multiple transmissions had taken place WITHOUT CLOSE CONTACT. The table below summarises the circumstances of these transmissions ⬇️

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Hey I'm off private for the first time in ages, retweet this if you want to help me get back to my friends feeds OR if you want to make anti-maskers and homophobes really mad 🤷‍♀️🙏🌈

People going to learn in real time what they missed with SARS2, how the government and healthcare lie to the public and minimize risk when the truth and risk is revealed later when it’s too little too late

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3 weeks ago

mais ce virus je pensais qu’il était pas aussi contagieux que ça, les passagers de ce bateau ont fait quoi pour que autant l’aient comme ça

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I hate how ADHD has been sensationalized as the fun mental illness but having it literally feels like walking around with some very specific kind of dementia that is actively ruining your life at every step and the culprit is always you.

Why is everybody suddenly acting so shocked that respiratory illnesses are in fact airborne like it's kind of their thing

Leading Report @LeadingReport

4 weeks ago

BREAKING: Bird flu found to be airborne in shocking new study, raising concerns over the risk of wider outbreaks, per Daily Mail.

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The hardest thing in the world (apparently) is getting people to understand that a mask is a tool designed to filter air when worn and not a magical warding spell.

Canarias7 @canarias7

4 weeks ago

🗣 Un miembro del equipo de apoyo sanitario quitándose la mascarilla y otro evacuado, igual: las imágenes de la polémica

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someday soon itll be studied how everyone willfully ignored all the covid studies and pretended to be baffled

NBC News @NBCNews

a month ago

Deaths from rectal cancer are rising rapidly among younger adults, an alarming trend that is confounding scientists trying to understand why millennials are so hard-hit. nbcnews.com/health/health-…

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Read this screenshot Then read below again The natural rate of SARS Cov 2 clearance is 0 nature.com/articles/s4146…

AJ Leonardi, MBBS, MPH, PhD @fitterhappierAJ

2 years ago

Following the publication of the articles of adenolymphatic persistence of sars cov 2 in healthy, asymptomatic children, I am comfortable claiming the natural rate of Sars cov 2 clearance is 0 thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

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