Public health measures like "isolate when contagious", "wear a mask when risk of transmission is higher", and "adequate indoor air quality regulations" haven't been imposed for over 50 years and vaccination is the sole protective measure promoted while top scientists have pushed "let it rip", "masks don't work" and "It's not airborne".
And the list of consequences grows.
#PublicHealthFailure #CorporateCapture
🕯️ On This Day in LGBTQ+ History: January 31 ⚠️ January 31, 1985: Discriminatory blood donation bans were firmly in place during the AIDS crisis By January 31, 1985, the US Food and Drug Administration’s lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men was fully operational, reflecting fear driven policy rather than medical evidence. The ban had been instituted as the AIDS crisis escalated and was widely criticized for reinforcing stigma instead of addressing public health through science. At this moment in history: 🕯️Gay and bisexual men were officially labeled a public health risk by federal policy 🕯️Fear and misinformation fueled discrimination against the broader LGBTQ+ community 🕯️The policy deepened social isolation during a deadly public health emergency 🕯️Advocates warned that stigma was costing lives and delaying effective responses January 31 serves as a context date marking a period when institutional discrimination was being normalized at the federal level. The blood ban became a long lasting symbol of how LGBTQ+ people were treated as threats rather than citizens deserving care and dignity during a national crisis. #LGBTQHistory #AIDSCrisis #PublicHealthFailure
'Struth, how to really make a negative impression.
Visited a relative in a WA Health Department hospital.
COVID-19 infections in the ward according to staff.
Sign at entrance reads only, "Masking recommended".
Next to sign is a box of surgical masks and hand disinfectant.
2025 and this is what public health is delivering?
And I'm meant to have confidence in the care decisions this system makes?
#Perth #COVID #PublicHealthFailure #ItsAirborne #MiasmaPhobia #WA #WesternAustralia
The continuation of the increase through to June 2024 .... this is after "let it rip" policies were in place, after COVID was being effectively trivialised by governments.
@3TomatoesShort
That's good to see.
And so much not done.
1. Got a respiratory infection? Try and stay at home and mask when you need to go out. And mask when with others at home.
2. Indoor air quality measures at childcare, schools, shops, offices, mass transport, especially airplanes.
3. Mask on airplanes. Have a mask with you and slip it on if you're sharing air with coughing people.
They're not really trying are they?
#PublicHealth #PublicHealthFailure #CorporateCapture
Another story about catching Covid on during airtravel.
A couple took care from 2020 to 2025 and had no Covid infections.
Caught a plane.
Two days later they were sick with Covid.
#PublicHealthFailure #ProfitsBeforePeople
#Covid
At least #MaskUp on mass transport.
Indoor Air Quality and it's regulation, and creating social norms of masking when ill and isolating when dangerously infectious are now looking even more essential.
Seems a far wider range of common respiratory infections than just COVID have severe, long term, multi-organ consequences.
#IAQ #MaskUp #RespiratoryInfections #COVID #PublicHealth #PublicHealthFailure #CommercialisedScience @jmcrookston
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s15010-025-02519-7
Background While numerous studies have documented severe and long-term health impacts of COVID-19 infections on various organs, the prolonged multisystemic implications of other acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are poorly understood. This review therefore analyzed currently available studies about these sequelae of ARIs excluding COVID-19. Main body Multiple pathogens causing ARIs are associated with significant long-lasting impairments across various organ systems. Cardiovascular events occur in 10–35% of patients following ARIs, with an elevated risk persisting for 10 years. The stroke incidence ratio increases significantly after ARIs up to 12.3. Pulmonary sequelae are common, including abnormal lung function in 54%, parenchymal opacification in 51%, lung fibrosis in 33–62%, asthma in 30%, and bronchiectasis in 24% of patients. The risk of developing dementia is increased 2.2-fold. Posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and chronic fatigue occur in 15–43%, 15–36%, 14–62%, and 27–75% of patients, respectively. 28-day mortality from CAP with (versus no) additional cardiovascular event is increased to 36% (versus 10%). Long-term mortality from CAP (versus no CAP) remains elevated for years post-infection, with a 1-year, 5-year, and 7-year mortality rate of 17% (versus 4%), 43% (versus 19%), and 53% (versus 24%), respectively. Patients´ quality of life is significantly reduced, with 17% receiving invalidity pensions and 22% retiring within 4 years of severe ARIs. Conclusion Non-COVID-19 ARIs are associated with clinically relevant, frequent, and long-term sequelae involving multiple organ systems. Further prospective studies are needed.
"The turning point was 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Alabama had 57,643 births, but 64,779 deaths. The following year saw the trend continue, when the state saw almost 11,000 more people die than were born. The trend has continued every year since."
#demography #publichealthfailure #gop
https://www.al.com/news/2025/01/alabama-faces-a-demographic-cliff-as-deaths-surpass-births.html
And where is the statements about when the benefits of the ban will show up in the metrics?
And what metrics is the gov going to use?
The ones that it didn't collect from schools for ? 20 years?
#Perth #WesternAustralia #Australia #Covid #CovidChristmas
Of an extended family of around 20 folk, we have 2 newly symptomatic, 3 recovering, 1 tested negative and 14 untested.
The infected caught it from different places.
I am not socialising indoors or with the untested.
Looking at #PublicHealthFailure and #RespiratoryMedicine failure around the ongoing absence of #IndoorAirQuality regulations.
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