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You see these start to pick up right as transmission is about to. The denial (psychologizing Long COVlD), the misdirected anger (anonymous attacks on scientists), and the pseudo-intellectual intellectualization (pretending away excess deaths).

Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger

2 years ago

As a clinical health psychologist, I notice that many people are using psychological defense mechanisms to downplay the risk of COVID. These are my Top 7 examples: 🧵

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Eastern Kentucky: 🔹Move events online / outdoors 🔹Stay home when sick + test daily 🔹Test before gatherings 🔹Mask up 🔹Open windows 🔹Turn the HVAC from auto to on 🔹Turn on air purifiers 🔹Get boosted to reduce your risk of infection in the coming weeks

Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger

5 days ago

PMC Update (Jun 1, 2026) COVlD levels are "very low" relative to other time periods. 1 in 277 US residents are estimated actively infectious. However, there active hot spots in the Central Appalachia Region, Guam, Franklin County (WA), & Morgan County (AL). 🧵1/5

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I’ve got men in my replies saying various disabilities are worse than rape. They’re downplaying sexual assault while propagating the notion that disabled people are “better off dead”. Men… rape is a very big deal. It changes your life forever. Stop minimizing it.

Articles like this always bring out the “not all men” brigade If your reaction to learning women are not safe around ANY men is to yell “not all men”… you’re part of the problem. We know it’s not all men, but we can’t tell the good ones from the bad ones until it’s too late.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid

a week ago

Yesterday I published this detailed article arguing that women are simply not safe around men. I cited history, data, legal analysis, and meaningful solutions to combat the systemic violence men commit against women. It is currently approaching 500,000 reads. Plenty of insecure

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It’s terrifying that boys this young are already raping little girls. It should be considered an emergency. It should anger everyone that rape culture is so pervasive and normalized that children are doing it. Sadly our society doesn’t care about women and girls.

ITV News @itvnews

a week ago

Boy, 15, charged with 22 sexual assaults including rape of girl under 13 itv.com/news/anglia/20…

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Search interest for brain fog on Google recently hit an all time high.

Good. I'm glad WHO has warned that Andes Hantavirus may be spread person to person by airborne particles. That's what they should have done with Covid in Feb 2020. Then in March 2020 they should have said "Yes. There's no maybe. Covid is spread by airborne particles".

@patmcfaddenmp Have you considered the staggering rise in ill-health in 16-24 year olds? 🔎 Disability prevalence has MORE THAN DOUBLED from 8% in 2012/13 to 18% in 2023/24. 🔎 % of NEET young people reporting work-limiting health conditions has increased from 26% in 2015 to 44% in 2025.

Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat

7 months ago

To those paying attention, none of this has come as a surprise. Experts predicted this would happen from early on. Scientific American (July 2021): “A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of Long COVID” scientificamerican.com/article/a-tsun… (Paywall free: archive.ph/OoLbd)

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There will be a period now when it seems like the Ebola outbreak is slowing. Reporting won't be able to keep up with cases and deaths for at least the next month. The true toll will shake out later.

That's why since January 2020 I haven't left the house without a respirator/mask. After six years and 486,000 scientific publications, it turned out to be the best decision of my life. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coron…

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Covid infection affects your T cell counts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

MAHA Action @MAHA_Action

a week ago

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong just revealed that 52 million Americans reportedly have low T cell counts. And he warns having low T cells can double your risk of early death. “52 million Americans have low T cells.” “If you have low T cells, they showed statistically that it's below

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Articles seem to be completely pointless on here, but I'm trying it again. No one sees them, no one reads them. What's the point?

tern @1goodtern

a week ago

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This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week. As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that. First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence. And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous. In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event. Here's the bottom line: Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news. The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world! But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it. That’s the opportunity this reporting missed. bbc.com/news/articles/…

In the last week of May in this pandemic’s first year the loss of lives was “incalculable” for nearly 100,000 had died. And here in the last week of May in this pandemic’s seventh year the loss of lives is “incalculable” for we have stopped counting.

L0NG C0VID IS QUIETLY WRECKING HEARTS. Maybe time for a recap based on 2026 science. Here’s the comparison for MACE, Stroke, Deadly Clots & overall CV risks: ➡️MACE (heart attack, stroke, heart failure) • Non-COVID: HR 1.0 • COVID-19: 1.8–3.9x • Long COVID: ~4.5x ➡️Stroke (ischemic): • Non-COVID: HR 1.0 • COVID-19: ~2–3x • Long COVID: ~3.5x ➡️Deadly clots (PE / VTE): • Non-COVID: HR 1.0 • COVID-19: ~2–4x • Long COVID: 3.2–4.4x ➡️Overall CV risks: • Non-COVID: baseline • COVID-19: ↑1.5–2.5x (arrhythmias, CAD, HF) • Long COVID: 2–4.5x higher Long COVID adds extra danger beyond regular post-COVID. Risks hit even non-hospitalized patients and last for years. Vax may reduce risks but certainly doesn’t erase it. Absolute risks lower in young/healthy, but serious if older/comorbid. ‼️Today’s evidence shows that while any COVID-19 infection elevates cardiovascular risks, long COVID dramatically amplifies them, making proactive heart monitoring essential for affected patients. Bottom line: Get your heart checked post-Covid19/ LongC0vid and #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections! 🚨C0VID-19/L0NG C0VID are serious CV RISK FACTORS!

And COVID? It's cool to keep needlessly reinfecting kids with a virus that can damage every organ, including the brain, because we can't be bothered to invest in clean air?

BBC News (UK) @BBCNews

2 weeks ago

Social media as bad for young people as smoking, top doctors say bbc.in/4nSKfun

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I try to stay as professional as possible on here, but the recent spate of tweets I've seen bemoaning that 'things just haven't been the same since 2020' or similar and then utterly ignoring the ongoing impact of SARS-CoV-2 infuriates me. Denial and ignorance in equal measure.

Thank you, Vertlartnic, in our hour of need.

Keith @keetmuise

2 weeks ago

Of course kids are missing more school it was and is inevitable. When you constantly infect kids with an immune damaging virus like Covid that can cause brain damage, cognitive impairment and has led to Long Covid being the number one chronic illness among children this was the

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About 28% of older people in England who died of COVID-19 in the first 2.5 years of the pandemic would likely, if uninfected, have lived at least another five years cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/many-…

COVID raises your shingles risk. New data from 110,000+ patients out of Taiwan shows that post-COVID Shingles also raise risk of ➡️ Bell's palsy ➡️ Guillain Barré ➡️ Myasthenia Gravis Worst of all? Neurological vulnerability lasts for at least 3 years. buff.ly/H1N73zd