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I just found out that COVID is rampant in the city I live in. Like, 18% infected, including my coworker who I saw Wednesday when he wasn't feeling great but had received a negative COVID result. That day. But today, positive. Hopefully I didn't get the bug. Going to stay home the next few days.

Mask up when you're sick and have to be around people. And normalize getting COVID tests if you feel poorly.

Le sigh.

@virtuous_sloth @mpjgregoire Interestingly this is totally ignored by clients.
Now that we have to pre-order routine booster shots--that we will also have to pay for--who is the lawyer taking up the case to challenge this contempt of Canada's public health system?
https://bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/preorder
"A POLITICO analysis of DOGE data reveals the organization saved less than 5 percent of its claimed savings from nearly 10,100 contract terminations":
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178
#Trump #dishonesty #mismanagement #politics copy: @renewedresistance
@eniko Yep. Ableism is part of the fascism. Deciding who is worthy of life based on (imagined) physical attributes is part of the fascism. Demanding uniformity (shunning or banning masks) is part of the fascism. Rejecting collective solutions (clean air for all, mandating ventilation/filtration) is part of the fascism.
That's potentially very misleading. Yes, the elderly are hit very hard by flu and it's a big year and the population is aging. But the young are also hit hard. Every year. .
It's wrong to say that in the young #flu is "not going to have major consequences"
ICYMI: Retired Military Leaders File Brief in Support of California’s Lawsuit Challenging Unlawful Federalization of State's National Guard https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-retired-military-leaders-file-brief-support-california%E2%80%99s-lawsuit
ICYMI: Retired Military Leaders File Brief in Support of California’s Lawsuit Challenging Unlawful Federalization of State's National Guard

OAKLAND – Yesterday, former secretaries of the Army and Navy and retired four-star admirals and generals filed an amicus brief in support of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s unlawful orders federalizing the California National Guard and deploying Marines to Los Angeles: “The United States military is not primarily a law enforcement organization and is prohibited by law from acting as a domestic police force unless doing so is ‘expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress’… “A bedrock principle of American democracy is that our

State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

From Julia Doubleday, The Gauntlet:

"Each time a new wave crops up, the media scrambles to let the public know that COVID is spreading “again” (although of course, a new wave has arrived because the virus has been spreading continuously since 2019). 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."

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsAsymptomatic

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-misconceptions-about-covid

Common Misconceptions about COVID Hold Strong as New Variant Spreads

Media has the public talking about the "razor blade" COVID variant, but years of inaccurate public health messaging have taken their toll

The Gauntlet