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FDA significantly limits COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Well, #COVID19 IS gone! Isn't it??
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/fda-significantly-limits-covid-19-vaccine-recommendations

Gerade noch einen frischen #COVID Test geholt. Der wird schon positiv wenn ich ihn nur schief angucke. Also bin ich offenbar immer noch ansteckend. Renne also weiterhin mit Maske rum. (Auch drinnen um die Kids nicht anzustecken)

Noticing a lot more coughing people on trains in #Japan recently too. Bet it's surging here too #Covid #covid19

Biden's record on covid
Saw a comment along the lines of: "seems unfair to criticise Biden's record on covid, while the situation now under Trump is so much worse".
But I don't think of them as separate. Biden's government _contributed_ to how covid stands under Trump.
If Biden's lot had taken the opportunity to educate people (at least the ones open to considering science findings) that
- it's airborne like smoke
- an empty room can hold infectious virus
- air filters, UV and fresh air reduce the levels of it
- masks work better the better they fit
- you can be infectious without/before symptoms
- you're fairly likely still to be infectious for 10 days, a few people longer
- current vaccines don't stop you catching it or transmitting it
- it can mess with your immune system so you're more likely to catch other things
- vaccinated people can still get Long Covid
- it's not "mild", it's just that the damage is quiet
then even if they hadn't done anything more to address the problem, people would be in a far better position to deploy their own common sense.
And unlike funding or laws, that investment in _knowledge_ is something it would be difficult for Trump's lot to roll back.
But Biden & co chose instead to play down the risks, and explicitly or implicitly mislead people (e.g. the 5-day quarantine, which contradicts the real infectious period).
So, yes it's worse now, but they _contributed_ to how it is now. They chose to encourage misapprehensions and confusion, and the effects of that choice are still playing out now.
Not letting them off the hook on the grounds of being comparatively "less bad", when they themselves laid some of the foundations of the current state of play.
#covid #Biden #USPol #CovidIsntOver

Tanta gente com fortes sintomas gripais (e, obviamente, nenhuma #máscara) hoje aqui. E eu não tomei ainda a nova #vacina contra a #COVID. Além do mais a vacina contra a

Sitting at an historic London pub. I'm drinking a pint watching @… book our next COVID vaccinations.
#CovidIsNotOver

This framing of long COVID is uh chilling. Not masking in public sure seems dumb.
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/long-covid-mode-seeing-the-crisis-through-games/

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

#covid #gutachten wird veröffentlicht, aber wegen dem #datenschutz wird der #name

#covid #gutachten wird veröffentlicht, aber wegen dem #datenschutz wird der #name

Ist eigentlich schon absehbar, ob es diesen Herbst wieder eine neu angepasste #COVID-Impfung geben wird? Ich frage für meine persönliche Impf- und Urlaubsplanung.

Huh. In Philip P. Peterson's "Transport" SciFi series, the 5th book (currently only available in German), there was a "plague" in the 2020s that grounded all space missions for a long while. That book was published 15.05.2020, #COVID became "public" December 2019, only 6 months ago - kinda short publishing period. So either Peterson quickly rewrote that part and pu…

Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics

Auch eine Form der Vergangenheitsbewältigung: alle Fotos von negativen COVID-Tests aus der Mediathek löschen. Das waren echt viele 😲. #covidisnotover, aber die Doku meiner Testvergangenheit darf gehen.

Julia Doubleday on the gamble that covid would be harmless to children
"It’s worth noting that at the time Kulldorff and the rest of the GBD crew were proclaiming COVID’s harmlessness to kids, they couldn’t possibly have had enough information to determine the veracity of their own claims. Viruses like the chickenpox, EBV, HIV, HPV, and HSV often present with mild initial infections but may cause major damage years later. We now know COVID can as well.
"For so-called experts to run with an assumption that an initially mild-presenting acute infection would be long-term harmless was just that; an assumption. They were willing to gamble the health of a generation of children on a guess in order to go “back to normal” because that’s what the oligarchy clamored for. Because it costs money to shut the world economy down. Because people who mattered were angry. Because children aren’t people who matter."
(GBD = Great Barrington Declaration, a bit of 2020 propaganda including the unfounded supposition that everyone who caught covid would be immune forever after)
Overall another excellent pointy article!
#children #covid #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #misinformation

Auch eine Form der Vergangenheitsbewältigung: alle Fotos von negativen COVID-Tests aus der Mediathek löschen. Das waren echt viele 😲. #covidisnotover, aber die Doku meiner Testvergangenheit darf gehen.

Eine führende #CDC-Expertin für #COVID19-#Impfstoffe ist zurückgetreten, nachdem US-#Gesundheitsminister

Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access
The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.

Thread from @… on new covid variant Nimbus:
#covid #Nimbus #CovidIsntOver

excellent analysis of covid state of play
From Julia Doubleday.
"Each time a new wave crops up, the media scrambles to let the public know that COVID is spreading “again” ... But each time, it fails to inform the public that nearly half of COVID cases are asymptomatic, that COVID looks different in different patients, that vaccines do not prevent infections, that rapid tests have high false negative rates, and that COVID is fully airborne.
"Taken together, the virus I’m describing is much more difficult to control than the one the press presents. The press frames the virus as something that can be halted by familiarizing yourself with the symptoms, staying home once you feel sick and test positive, and avoided altogether by simply getting vaccinated or keeping ones’ distance from sick people. ...
"The misinformation that reigns in liberal spaces is not the result of accidental miscommunication. People don’t know that the virus is asymptomatic 40% of the time because there is simply no universe where that virus is controllable without an elimination strategy, or a day-to-day mitigation strategy."
#covid #misinformation #denial #CovidIsAirborne

masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver

masks at protests / demographics 2/n
I wonder about the influence of employment, as well. If you're at risk every work day, I could well imagine it seeming pointless to start being careful the rest of the time, and maybe just too cognitively dissonant to consider.
I remember in 2020, someone I knew was working at Waterstones, and they were forbidden to mask up at work - even though 2020 was before the whole "covid is over" thing.
I also remember reading about someone - maybe a nurse? that _kind_ of job, anyway - who'd started wearing a fitted mask while the default in their workplace was baggy blues, and iirc was formally rebuked. It wasn't allowed.
If for whatever reason you're unable to hold down a typical job, you might not have much cash for _getting_ things like masks, but you're also not under that same kind of economic pressure to put yourself at risk.
#masks #work #CovidIsntOver