Yikes, a coworker told me that a family member woke up to find that he was paralyzed from the waist down. He was brought to the ICU and has been told that he will need to retrain his brain to rebuild his synaptic knowledge of basic movement, like how to walk.
This was the result of a Covid infection. Anyone who thinks Covid is no longer dangerous is very mistaken. Covid is still causing brain damage.
Link to Daily Mail News article: Scientists identify chilling pattern behind deadly lab leaks as new Covid claims emerge
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15818181/scientists-warn-virus-lab-leaks.html
"...three unusual features in Covid's genetic code: a mutation called the furin cleavage site that made the virus highly infectious, strange genetic 'cutting patterns' often associated with lab research and a short sequence she claimed matched material found in a 2016 Moderna patent involving the human gene MSH3."
Anybody got a favourite printable zine about making mask chains?
I saw people on my TL talking about the last time they cooked for someone else and in my case, that's easy to remember:
February 2020, just before I went into pandemic isolation.
Because February 2020 + the first week of March 2020 are the last times I did anything involving other people.
It can't be said better than this. 😂 😷 ✊🏼
Anywhere, but especially in the US, drive carefully and wear a mask FFS, these people are gonna kill us all if we let them. Stay alive out of spite!
@rdm
Yes, ‘Virus in the Vents! The movie they didn’t want you to see! See it now!!’ 🙀😱
I can hear the title song now too, also catchy…
Virus in the vents,
Oh the suspense!
Etc
😂 [black humour]
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #VirusInTheVents #theMovie #theSong #blackHumour
Infection status
Released May 15, 2026.
- As of period from May 4 - May 10, 2026 -
No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 0.34
Change from prev. week -0.25
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001700205.pdf
🔸14th wave
Saga at 0.08, Tokyo at 0.19, Akita at 1.04, Hokkaido at 0.28, Okinawa at 0.84
#Iwate at 1.21
#Influenza monitoring paused until Sept
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001697528.pdf
More good news about COVID vaccines!
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-vaccination-may-protect-household-members
"COVID-19 patients who were vaccinated against the virus were much less likely to infect household members than unvaccinated patients"
"…household contacts of patients vaccinated in the past six months were 43% less likely to test positive than household contacts of unvaccinated sick people, the study shows"
This effect was not found if the vaccine was more than 7 months ago.
If anyone is planning to get a spring Covid vax, I recommend to inquire with your pharmacy to find out what your options are, sooner than later. Mine has a dwindling supply of doses but many are expiring at the end of this month and they didn't know when more would be available (bc of course they don't). So I got #Novavax #Nuvaxovid
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