I talked to Chris Begley and Amy Edelman about their book, The Emergency Playbook: A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation. I believe disaster preparedness can help our movements become larger, stronger & more capable of facing not only climate disasters, but fascist threats as well. Here’s how.
Pleasure to talk to @sarialtschuler.bsky.social about her new book, which traces how disability shaped citizenship, including efforts by white people to portray Black and Indigenous people as inherently disabled to deprive them of rights. New at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"A group of literally hundreds of people has sprung into action, coordinating, donating, providing lifts for families to get somewhere safe for the night, bringing food to those who don’t want to leave the house, offering shelter, car seats, toys..."
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While extremists grabbed headlines, hundreds of ordinary people mobilised to protect our neighbours
"To the researchers’ surprise, Covid vaccination was also tied to a nearly 24% reduction in all-cause cardiac events — not just those with a documented Covid diagnosis"
Julia Métraux
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Puff the Magic Hater
Pandemics that weren’t: How to nip an outbreak in the bud.
Doctors, epidemiologists and surveillance systems have managed to contain flares of cholera, mpox and Marburg virus before they became international crises, by @patriciarblanco.bsky.social english.elpais.com/health/2026-... via @elpais.com
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Early research into the AIDS epidemic focused largely on gay men. But the virus was devastating other vulnerable communities, including women and people of color.
This week, we team up with the History Channel and @wnyc.org to bring you The Plague in the Shadows.
Doctors, epidemiologists and surveillance systems have managed to contain flares of cholera, mpox and Marburg virus before they become international crises
"We think that these virus infections can be almost like fuel for the fire"
If viral infections can help reactivate dormant cancer cells like some data suggests, shouldn't we have respirator masks in oncology?
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I don’t think this article aged all that well. https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/14/setting-the-record-straight-there-is-no-covid-heart/
In a world where success is measured by clicks, the idea that even mild cases of Covid-19 could pose a new and unprecedented threat to the heart took off, even though it was largely unsubstantiated.
So sad. This isn’t what he looks like in his natural environment, in the deep ocean trenches. What you’re seeing is depressurization. But it’s not too late to return him 🙏
I don’t think this article aged all that well. https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/14/setting-the-record-straight-there-is-no-covid-heart/
Great article about the difficulties to write a novel about COVID-19: "Because we’re not living in a post-pandemic society: we’re living in a society that is constantly being shaped by a pandemic that never really ended. Art should try to tell that story"
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In a world where success is measured by clicks, the idea that even mild cases of Covid-19 could pose a new and unprecedented threat to the heart took off, even though it was largely unsubstantiated.
Novels set during the height of COVID-19 fail to tell the full story of that era of mass death and despair.
The pandemic has left some evidence that viral infection may play a role in reawakening dormant cancer cells already present in a patient’s body before infection.
