Family Practice doc, public health advocate, and occasional maker of liquid nitrogen ice cream. Rides a bike to work some days. Formerly on med-mastodon.
Posts are not medical advice, and I'm not speaking for my employer.
| pronouns | she/her |
| courtesy title | Dr |
| surrounded by | cats |
| sustained by | caffeine and spite |
@Andii @oscarjiminy so here's another gem:
researchers interpreted autistic moral consistency as "undue concern" about ethics. Because of the enduring assumption “autism=bad,” they pathologized conscience and treated principled behavior as a symptom rather than a strength.
I wish healthcare workers (HCWs) were listening. #COVID19 remains a risk, and masks protect HCWs and their patients!
STUDY: "Vaccines are more effective in preventing severe COVID-19, while non-pharmaceutical risk reduction measures (like PPE) are the most effective tools to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare settings."
Covid memories and updated insights from "Your Local Epidemiologist"
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-six-years-later
Plan A is whatever your original plan for not being pregnant was.
Plan B is post-coital contraception, also known as a morning-after pill ("Plan B" is also a brand name. There are now prescription medications that work better, longer.)
And then there's Plan C: abortion pills by mail
DON'T BUY BICYCLE HELMETS ON AMAZON (especially from random-characters-strung-together stores)
CPSC: Aisstxoer Adult Bicycle Helmets Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Head Injury; Violates Mandatory Standard for Bicycle Helmets; Sold on Amazon by YXTDZ Store
Consumers should stop using the recalled adult helmets immediately and contact YXTDZ Store for a full refund. Consumers will be asked to destroy the recalled helmet by cutting the straps and email a photo of the destroyed helmet to [email protected].
In Kurt Vonnegut's story "Cat's Cradle" there was something called ice-9. Ice-9 was regular water, our friend H2O, but the way the atoms were arranged made it a solid at room temperature. And if it touched normal water, that turned into ice-9.
Today I found out that ritonavir, the antiviral medication, had its own ice-9 moment: after being made for years and saving the lives of thousands, one batch went wrong -- and then batches all over the world got the same problem.
Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.
Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.
Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about
Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.
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