Burn test is a quick, easy to tell if you have a 100% natural fiber or synthetic. Silk and wool, lit on fire, self-extinguish and smell like burnt hair. Cotton, linen, and rayon will go up quick and smell like burnt paper. Polyester, nylon, acrylic melt into a little black bead.

New group alert! If you’re in CA, identify as neurodivergent and are looking for a space to process the ongoing pandemic, we’ve got you covered! Tinyurl.com/NDpandemicgroup

Covid transmission is so high in New Mexico that about 13% of the population was actively infectious on Dec 14 (latest CDC data), per PMC Case Estimation models. State estimates come with many caveats. However, look at the graph. You can't even see the low category labels.

Covid DOUBLES risk of heart attack and stroke long-term. In severe Covid, it's 4-7 times the risk. (Details in comments.)

Boulder Weekly: 'Staying alive: Meet Colorado’s COVID-cautious community' “Masking is a workers rights issue,” Dreamer said. “So many workers are getting long COVID — they lose basically everything.” boulderweekly.com/news/covid-saf…

Once again, the people who study risk for insurance companies (whose bottom lines depend on accurate understandings of pandemic-related excess mortality) are pointing out that we're looking at 10 more years of covid and covid-related deaths. swissre.com/institute/rese…

SARS-CoV-2 is now acknowledged as an endotheliotrophic virus, akin to cytomegalovirus and certain herpes viruses [62,63,64]. These viruses establish latent infections with periodic reactivation, leading to long-term endothelial dysfunction. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Weekly U.S. COVID update: - New cases: 260,314 est. - Admissions: 18,222 (+32%) - In hospital: 12,061 (+37%) - In ICU: 1,634 (+36%) - New deaths: 883 - Average: 590 (+16%)

A group of us organized a private all-😷 pilates class. We have the time slot booked weekly for 4 months. It is FULL. Businesses take note: there are MANY looking for safe experiences. Dentists, physio, exercise, hair, museums etc. This is a NEW class at the studio. 🧵1/

"It is very common for people with Long COVID and those taking COVID-19 precautions to experience grief over lost intimacy with friends... Since ableism is so embedded in our society, friends who are just doing what everyone else does are moving in accordance with that ableism."

and this is literally how everyone sounds right now with Covid

The CDC updated their Covid wastewater transmission data again this week. I was hoping we'd head into a downturn, but the PMC model was correct in forecasting a small uptick. Transmission remains high. cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID1…

As for that 2nd peak in the Northeast, an estimated 1 in 33 people in Connecticut are actively infectious with COVlD. "Very high" CDC levels.

oh my god, it should not need to be said, but IT IS A HIPAA VIOLATION FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS TO USE CHAT GPT TO WRITE THEIR NOTES. DO NOT ENTER PHI IN CHAT GPT.

Ok.... story by authorities is that they're locking down in anticipation that the Times Square Mahmoud rally might "spread" to Grand Central. The main lobby of GC is locked down, but the side corridors open for traffic. So, subway working.

Everyone's talking about Autism right now. Unfortunately, not everyone understands enough about it to opine. Don't be that person. Listen to autistic people. Read this very well-reviewed essay that I wrote for journalists and educators, it'll help. coda.io/@mykola-biloko…

Jail support info for those arrested at CUNY’s Brooklyn College today. Free Palestine.