@markhburton@mstdn.socialA customs union is a sensible, pragmatic measure, not because of "going for growth", which is a) unattainable anyway and b) ecocidal, but to make life easier for small businesses who send goods to our neighbours.
Davey claims ‘historic victory’ for Lib Dems after tokenistic vote in favour of customs union with EU – UK politics live | Politics | The Guardian
@crell@phpc.socialThis is a tricky balance. Some level of skepticism and counter-culture is good and healthy, both for people and society. But when it goes too far, it always seems to end up in the same place.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/reconstruction-after-covid-votes-for-children-age-six-david-runciman
@cdarwin@c.imThe leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…
@hynek@mastodon.socialIn 2020, after it became clear I’m unlikely to die of COVID, I’ve switched my perspective from fear to fascination.
I looked around & ~enjoyed~ experiencing unprecedented times. Couldn’t change them, so I channeled my inner Jocko Willink & made the best out of it.
Today, I feel similarly about AI. 1/3
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI have my vaccine scheduled for next week. Will be annoying if I come back from UK with COVID (pretty sure it will be high in DK too).
https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/115352700047851601
DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social - 🇬🇧 UK: England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
"I’m sure most people now know someone in bed with Covid. If someone says they are in bed with flu, it’s almost certainly Covid, given that the number of people admitted to hospital for Covid last week was 50 times higher than the number admitted for flu!"
Source: https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is-now-experiencing-a-significant
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, Ruaa is currently suffering from COVID and her family’s tent was buried under sand after a tent just 100m away from theirs was destroyed in Israel’s ongoing genocide.
Despite all that she spoke with us briefly today for Gaza Verified.
Please help her and her family if you can and please share this so others might also.
• Her fundraiser:
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI’ve been sick in some way for nearly a month now just due to a bunch of unrelated things (got a cold, then got COVID, then got bad side effects from medication for COVID…) and I am just thinking how in the world do people with chronic illnesses survive.
I am going a little insane from my body not working properly the last 3.5 weeks - I don’t know how one has the mental resilience to live on day after day for years with a broken body.
@floheinstein@chaos.socialOTD 5 years ago, I posted this:
So, in the last 24 hours we had
- Zombie minks in Denmark
- almost 400 km/h wind,
- thunderstorms and lightning in Iceland
Either someone is playing an updated version of Jumanji, or some Nordic director is shooting a video clip for a "Thriller"/"Bohemian Rhapsody" remix.
@jby@ecoevo.socialDark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…
@cdarwin@c.imSix days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,”
Twelve former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public h…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caI have to admit that I stopped watching in the 6th inning. I was tired after my flu and COVID shots earlier in the day and succumbed to fatigue. My wife stayed up and watched to the end and has been commenting on my fickle fandom all morning.
#BandwagonFan
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzNHS in trouble this winter.
I keep thinking what a stonker of a false economy it is for the NHS to go "la la la, doesn't matter" about everyday covid infections.
Like has it not occurred to you that you're making more people ill? some of whom you then have to look after, some of whom are your staff who will then be unavailable?
How about some air filters in waiting rooms at least?
#NHS #covid #denial #CovidIsntOver
@cdarwin@c.imHealth Secretary Kennedy said
“In fact this is exactly how herd immunity works.”
A truckload of rhesus monkeys from Tulane university escaped after a crash.
The university warned they’re highly aggressive toward humans and infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.
https://bsky.app/profil…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioMy husband and I have been sick with the flu and completely out of anything going on with society for the past week.
This time of illness has been worse than COVID - I showed up to urgent care last week with a 104.2 F (40.1 C) fever after sleeping for 22 hours straight.
I am still delirious and unable to keep track of meetings or emails, so trying to get caught up on work will be a struggle.
Don’t be like me, get your flu shots if y’all can 😭
@cdarwin@c.imFor years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.
He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19
and claimed, without evidence, that athletes are “dropping dead on the field” after getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
Now the Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments:
chlorine dioxide, a chem…
