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  • As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’

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  • As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’

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  • Requesting advice

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  • Wallpaper in paintings makes me happy. Can you reproduce a wallpaper pattern from someplace nostalgic and Christmassy for your mom, or connected to that ornament? Or the look of a particular tablecloth, drapes, distinctive woodwork, anything like that which might be in an old photo?

  • Infectious Diseases Expert Sounds Alarm On Disney Vacations Amid Florida Vaccine Move

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  • Leprosy was even creeping back to southern Florida a couple years ago.

  • Y'ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!!

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  • HIDE LCARS, ENGAGE AWAY TEAM BEAM-UP

  • Corona virus with bat wings

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  • It’s a cool piece. And I appreciate all shits given, then and now, about how COVID is both airborne and spooky.

  • YSK a slice of bologna can make the paint on a car peel off due to its high level of salt and lactic acids

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  • The boss is a bologna elemental meat golem.

  • They're literally conspiring against you

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  • If anyone is down for a fascinating video essay about this by a textile historian: Standardized Sizes Ruined our Clothing Quality

    Have you ever wondered how we let clothing quality get so bad? It wasn't just desperation for cheaper options- the 18th century consumer would never have been willing to pay so much for such poor quality cloth. And yet, they stayed clothed. Even their cheaper options lasting years of hard wear. But they knew what quality looked like and for the most part, we don't.

    When did we forget how to shop for good clothing rather than just trendy? What makes clothing "high quality" is so complex and nearly impossible to track with online shopping. Even in person, it's not a simple answer. But it used to be that more money meant more quality, plain and simple. Where did we mess up this system? Turns out, standardized sizing allowed (and even encouraged) far more than just issues with poor fit and body image.

  • What is a good reusable bottle that isn't a mould farm?

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  • I wish I knew. Scouring a metal bottle by using a bottle brush with a little water and rock salt or baking soda can help de-scum the films that lead to mold.

    Historically, these are the consensus fave in reusable bottles:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash

  • US offers military funeral honors to Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt

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  • Let history also remember that responders wheeled her inadequately covered gurney right by a live news reporter’s broadcast. This country can always eke out a little extra indignity in a death.

  • AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

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  • Thus, a world where we don’t protect each other is like an ouroboros of peeing Calvin stickers.

  • AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

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  • Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield

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  • LPT: Go get a shot, now.

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  • "Pestilence" is such an underused word. They're a lot like locusts.

  • LPT: Go get a shot, now.

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  • Prayers should be applied topically or to worn armor, written on parchment and attached to a stamped wax seal infused with holy oils.

    Thoughts are often immunosuppressive and should be guarded against with tinfoil headwear or nerve staples.

  • LPT: Go get a shot, now.

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  • Both, I suppose. They go in on both anti-virus action and opposing pro-infection actors.

    In their words, "The People’s CDC is a coalition of public health practitioners, scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates and people from all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19."

  • Elon Musk Appears to Be Completely Addicted to Anime Gooner AI Slop

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  • do you think Hughes Aircraft people ever referred to jorkin’ it as “sprucing the goose?”

  • LPT: Go get a shot, now.

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  • Trump’s health department is stacked with people hostile to the idea of public health. The People’s CDC, an anti-COVID advocacy organization, had this to say about NIH Director Bhattacharya in March prior to his confirmation:

    Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a health economist with a medical degree but no further medical training or practice. He endorsed and promoted mass COVID-19 infections to pursue an impossible to achieve infection-driven herd immunity. His policies such as mass infections relying on natural immunity would have led to even more illness, Long COVID, and deaths across the US. His extraordinarily wrong views on the pandemic include predicting, even late in 2020, that US COVID deaths would not reach 50,000, and assuring Floridians in mid-2021 that enough had been vaccinated – though far more have died since then. Videos from as recent as 2024 continue to show him advocating ineffective treatments for COVID-19 such as ivermectin, opposing layered protections against COVID-19, and belittling the value of important tools such as masking and vaccines.

    Instead of focusing on advancing the medical sciences, Bhattacharya wants to intertwine politics and policies at NIH and prioritize funding based on academic freedom instead of innovative and impactful medical and health sciences research. If confirmed as the director of NIH, he will continue to downplay the seriousness of COVID-19 and potentially other infectious diseases, and steer NIH towards investment in ineffective treatments for diseases such as focusing on seroprevalence studies. Ultimately, this will harm and reverse the already monumental discoveries at NIH. He will likely assist Secretary Kennedy’s current efforts to delay and even prevent the development of effective therapeutics for infectious diseases, including COVID-19 – and for Long COVID. Finally, there is no reason to think he will fight this administration’s attacks on NIH staffing and cuts in research funding.

  • Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’

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  • Johnson & Johnson’s non-mRNA one had some severe side effect incidents that got it pulled, and showed lower vaccine efficacy versus Pfizer and Moderna in trials before then. AstraZeneca’s vaccine was a somewhat similar story.

    A lot of vaccines off older tech had no such issues. Notably, Novavax delivered a well tolerated high efficacy shot with more limited post-shot hangovers. Some research indicated that this was particularly true for folks with autoimmune conditions, some cancers, or MECFS.