A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

Phthalate chemicals found in popular olive oils.

New testing finds traces of the toxics in all 13 olive oils tested. The results are concerning as phthalates are linked to hormone disruption, fertility impacts, low birth weights, obesity, diabetes, some cancers, brain and behavioral problems, and other health issues. #Healthcare

https://www.ehn.org/phthalates-olive-oil-2668246086.html

Lots of attention given to absenteeism, threats to fine parents, online dashboards for real-time student tracking and all the BS non-solutions.

Instead we could clean the air in schools, normalise masking in risky environments, regularise testing, support adequate isolation. But for that it would be necessary to break out of the collective delusion and admit that #CovidIsNotOver.

Relief teacher shortage, rising staff sickness sees schools struggling to stay open
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517006/relief-teacher-shortage-rising-staff-sickness-sees-schools-struggling-to-stay-open

Florida is uniquely vulnerable to the climate crisis, which makes Ron DeSantis' aggressively anti-climate law almost cartoonishly malevolent. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ron-desantis-anti-climate-plans-take-ludicrous-turn-florida-rcna152541

You think it makes me happy to have to tell you vaccines aren't enough? That air purifiers aren't enough? That there are situations where we have to filter each breath we take, because we let a stealth predator like SARSCoV2 loose? One that prefers to maim instead of kill, though kill it still does? I am not having fun, here. I derive no glee from this. This isn't my idea of a good time. This is 24/7 Cassandra syndrome -- truth exemplifying how much stranger it is than fiction

#covid

#IDMastodon #Immunology #ClimateChange can do more hamrs than good for our Immune system system . Heat seems to trigger a sweep of changes in #immunesystem molecules, although researchers disagree on what they might mean …

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-immune-system-may-struggle-to-handle-hotter-summer-temperatures/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social

Bei aller Solidarität mit allen #LongCovid- und #MECFS-Betroffenen frage ich mich, ob im Jahr 2024 viele verstreute Artikel über grausame Schicksale wirklich noch die angemessene Berichterstattung sind? Natürlich ist es wichtig, den Mitmenschen das Leid dieser Erkrankungen anhand von konkreten Fällen näherzubringen. Diese Artikel gab es aber auch schon 2020.

Wann wagen Medien denn mal den weiten Blick und problematisieren, dass wir weiterhin täglich neue Betroffene produzieren?

#CovidIsNotOver

Most people aren't on social media for information.

They are here to make a bubble of support for w/e they think, regardless if it's correct or not. This includes educated people who should clearly know better but choose to feign ignorance instead.

Our species is regressing.

Food supply disruptions from #ClimateChange are here and will only increase.

Brazilian oranges in their fourth straight year of declining harvests: https://www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/disease-and-climate-change-slash-brazils-orange-output/260342.article

The Japanese National Agriculture and Food Research Organization finds that climate change will reduce rice crop yields and quality: https://www.dailysabah.com/life/climate-change-threatens-rice-harvest-quality-study/news

Increased temperatures mess with winemakers' ability to control the fermentation process, especially if they're all artisanal and rely on wild fermentation: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/05/cellar-techniques-as-climate-change-impacts-yeast-behaviour/

#Climate #FoodWeb #FoodSupplyChain #ClimateCrisis #Agriculture

Legal expert: Judge may hold contempt "hearing" over Trump "surrogates" circumventing gag order - Trump was reportedly seen in court editing the statements that his surrogates would later make outside the court

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/15/legal-expert-may-hold-contempt-hearing-over-surrogates-circumventing-gag-order/

It's not about living in fear. It's about adapting to the actual reality. I experience *less* fear when I go out in a respirator because of what I understand about #covid. The pre-2019 world is not coming back, and we either process that, grieve it, and adapt, or slowly succumb to a virus far more dangerous than we have been led to believe. It doesn't matter what you think of me. It matters what you think of *that.* I am just a messenger (like messenger RNA, you know?)

#FunFact
The same N-95, KN-95, and equivalent respirators that protect you from airborne contagious disease also provide protection from wildfire smoke.
#MaskUp #AirQuality #CovidIsNotOver

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-virus-covid-penetrate-blood-retinal.html this confirms my suspicion hubby’s work colleague’s mysterious temporary blindness was probably caused by #covid. I really think every doctor should ask whenever someone walks in, did you ever catch #covid? How many times & last time you had it.

Thought experiment time:

Raw milk consumption seems to be widespread and this virus seems to be present in some form in ~20% of the commercial sampled pasteurized milk products in the country. 46 infected herds have been documents. At what point do we expect to see raw milk drinkers indisputably coming down with this? If, after a few months we don't see a wave of infections (possibly not transmitting onward) affecting raw milk drinkers, what can we conclude?

Is there a way to reverse the decision by five Republicans on the Supreme Court that it’s OK for billionaires and big corporations to bribe politicians?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/bribery-unleashed-the-supreme-courts-fe8