Here's why you want a booster from Violet Blue®'s excellent round-up. New strains on the rise, Nature medicine on increased risks of cardiovasc issues, heart attacks and clots, never mind LongCo (which has taken down 3 people close to me in a bad way) patreon.com/posts/pandemic…

Cool, so they dumped my mattress at the door, didn't knock, and I have a flight of stairs to bring it up. Fucking amazing week.

Pandemic Roundup:

-New mutations taking over are as creepy as they are alarming

-NIH admits extended viral persistence, downplays question of self-reactivated covid

-WHO's Facebook-style rebrand of 'airborne' - semantics to avoid accountability

Link: patreon.com/posts/pandemic…

Pirola, you had a good run. Looks like there's a new Covid surge on the horizon, driven by a cluster of brand-new mutations. Gird your loins, and read Violet Blue® 's new Pandemic Roundup for all the latest news (please share, and consider supporting):
patreon.com/posts/102570372

Thanks for the shout-out, Violet Blue®! All modelers say US lull over, new surge oncoming; great turnout for Senior and Disability Action (SDA)'s Keep Masks in Healthcare protest at SF DPH; WHO renames airborne transmission; much more. Pandemic Roundup, free every Thursday. ⬇️⬇️
patreon.com/posts/pandemic…

And more fantastic photos and videos of Senior and Disability Action (SDA)'s action from BuddyL on Flickr! (Scroll through for more.)
flickr.com/photos/buddyl/…

Still looking for Black men with #LongCovid to be main cast members for #BlackandunBelievedFilm .

Please extend this to all your networks.

I can be reached at info@blackandunbelievedfilm.

Thank you. #longcovid #blackmen

Airborne:
Ahead of the WHO clarifying their terminology, a Vertlartnic Retrospective Thread
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New cybersecurity roundup, in which we have seen the future and it does not work: patreon.com/posts/cybersec…

Please share and subscribe, my giant feline furchildren depend on it!

In today's Cybersecurity Roundup Violet Blue® brings us:
•Heritage Fdn/Project 2025 hacked
•FCC on connected cars used to track, harm DV victims
•Change Healthcare, Sisense, Microsoft, LiveNation in the spotlight
•Save Lower Decks!
More (share/support):
patreon.com/posts/102445822

Violet Blue® has landed in Wellington. Her belongings, on a slow boat from HI for months, have cleared customs. Soon comes the reckoning: finding out what survived (much was trashed by transphobic movers). We know she needs a new bed & table. Please:
gofund.me/01ce3cce

who.int/news-room/even…

Registration page for the upcoming WHO webinar about their new report which will try to rename airborne transmission so that Great Barrington Declaration-adjacent airborne-deniers can save face and whitewash history.

Register to have your say in the chat

About 1-200 people total —great turnout Senior and Disability Action (SDA)

If you were unable to attend, you can tweet at SFDPH to #KeepMasksInHealthcare or call Dr Susan Philip, the bead of SFDPH at 415-802-5462

Always in awe of Alice Wong 王美華 and her tireless advocacy for all people with disabilities. When I look at this photo I see community care & love. Everyone around her wearing respirators because she can’t mask to protect herself. This is what we need in healthcare!

* and no, I still don't have internet

It's HERE!!!!

Still no internet; the ISP situation here is a matrioska doll of middlemen and one of them activated the wrong box. Please stand by until the cats and I resume signal.

Thanks for the shout-out, Violet Blue®!
Lancet paper shows 1 in 4 people infected have viral persistence up to 14 months later; how Covid vaccination during pregnancy protects infants; much more.
Pandemic Roundup, free every Thursday. ⬇️⬇️
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