A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

'Covid mitigation did *not* cause the mental health crisis we face today. Here are some facts that may surprise…'
👏Many thanks Jeremy Faust, (ER physician), @jeremyfaust, @TEDTalks, for setting the record straight.

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/covid-did-not-cause-our-mental-health

"Many Nazis consider themselves Christian, which means that the bigotry in their hearts and the violence that they intend is the thing they worship as their God, which whatever you might think about Christian tenets isn't a Christian tenet."

~ A.R. Moxon

#Nazis #fascists #Christians #violence #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

#DrSarahBenn has now been deemed unfit to practice due to her #JustStopOil protesting.

The #GeneralMedicalCouncil counsel said Dr Benn's conduct had brought the profession into disrepute because she had broken the law by failing to comply with the injunction against protests at the Kingsbury oil terminal on multiple occasions & her fitness to practise was impaired as her conduct failed to justify patients' trust in the profession.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1vw4k9qn29o

#RightToProtest #ClimateEmergency

I'll say it again: I used to think that the King Midas story was about greed, but now I think of it as a warning against plastics. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x

"UniteToFight 2024"

"The biggest community-driven ME/CFS and Long COVID conference ever"

Wed 15 & Thur 16 May 2024

Seeing some cool people on the speaker list for this. Might tune in.

https://unitetofight2024.world/

#MECFS #LongCovid

Avian flu in cattle is spreading; scientists want more data on H5N1 - STAT https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/18/h5n1-bird-flu-scientists-want-usda-genetic-data-faster/

Some friendly reminders:
1) Water under pressure boils at a higher temperature. This is how pressure cookers and Instant Pots work.
2) The coolant system in a car works under pressure.
3) So when there's steam coming from under your car's hood, pull over, stop the engine, and WAIT. Don't just open the radiator cap right away.

Someone in my neighborhood got a geyser of hotter-than-boiling water over their hand and arm today.

#UsedToBeCommonKnowledge
#IPlayed8TracksUnironically

Article posted April 10 2024 on MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/new-study-reveals-surprising-impact-of-hvac-units-on-indoor-air-quality-in-canada-homes/ar-BB1lLyCu) regarding a new study of #IAQ Indoor Air Quality in Canadian homes sounds interesting!
Except: The institute, the quoted scientists, and the study don't exist. It's completely fabricated by generative AI, with poor sentence structure.

True. I see it in some family members. Its no big deal, they say as they cough up a lung.

April 28, 2024- “Nearly one in four adults who contracted COVID-19 have developed long COVID symptoms, according to the latest Census report.” - https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/2024-04-18/we-need-a-moonshot-for-long-covid-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-illness

Just some examples of airborne transmission, as I write this up.

Today in Labor History April 20, 1914: the National Guard and private cops opened fire on a mining camp during a strike in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 21 people, including women, and at least twelve children. By the end of the strike, they had killed over 200 people. Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I), owner of the mine, had recently testified before Congress for its role in strike-breaking. The investigations that followed placed the blame for the massacre on CF&I, which was run by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the richest man in U.S. history, (worth $410 billion in 2022 dollars.)

Colorado miners were dying on the job at a rate of more than 7 deaths per 1,000 employees. Workers were paid by the ton for coal that they extracted, but weren’t paid for so-called “dead work” like shoring up unstable roofs and tunnels. This system encouraged miners to risk their lives by ignoring safety precautions and preparations so that they would have more time to extract and deliver coal. Miners also lived in “company towns” where the boss not only owned their housing, and the stores that supplied their food and clothing, but charged inflated prices for these services. Furthermore, the workers were paid in “scrip,” a currency that was valid only in the company towns. So, even if workers had a way to get to another store, they had no money to purchase anything. Therefore, much of what the miners earned went back into the pockets of their bosses.

During the assault on the Ludlow camp, they opened fire on strikers and their families with machine guns, and set fire to the camp. Many of the “National Guards” were actually goons and vigilantes hired by Rockefeller to intimidate the miners. And the private cops were from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, the same company that later participated in the Matewan Massacre, and the Battle of Blair Mountain, in West Virginia.

In the wake of the Ludlow Massacre, Alexander Berkman (a former lover, and friend, of Emma Goldman) helped plan the assassination of Rockefeller at the New York Ferrer Center, home to the anarchist Modern School. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, killing three anarchists. (Berkman had previously served 14 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick because of his responsibility for the massacre of seven striking steelworkers during the Homestead Strike, in 1892.)

You can read my complete article on the Ludlow Massacre here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/

You can read my article on Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/

And my article on the anarchist Modern School movement here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ludlow #massacre #colorado #union #strike #rockefeller #anarchism #modernschool #alexanderberkman #EmmaGoldman #police

👀 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2426572-extreme-heat-in-2023-linked-to-drastic-slump-in-growth-of-marine-life/ #climate #oceans

Want a free banana plant? Or several? @curatedjenny has potted them up and they're on our lawn in #Johnstown (in #Carmarthen). DM me for the address!

#Gardening

Dear Fedifolk,

Please recommend some literary science fiction or authors thereof. By which I mean sci-fi that is well written in the literary sense. Stuff like Ray Bradbury, Vonnegut, PKD. Please don't make me go ask ChatGPT!

Thanks!

April 19, 2024- “Three months after COVID-19, many patients perceive smell recovery, but objective tests reveal shockingly high rates of persistent dysfunction.” - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00405-024-08646-5

“A clever and unique study documents that much Covid transmission occurred via shopping in retail stores”

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317589121

Via @erictopol (https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1781697968183411079)

"Our estimates imply that transmissions between retail shoppers made a substantial contribution to the Covid-19 pandemic.”

I wonder what the multiplier is for pharmacies…?

#COVID
#COVID19
#COVIDTransmission
#COVIDIsNotOver
#WearAMask

I gotta say, it's been 3mos since the active covid infection and my cognition is still bricked.

I have straight up seen concussions heal faster than this.

So if you are the kind of person who wears a helmet, maybe reconsider using a mask.

It may turn out to be the more vital piece of protective gear.

#covidIsNotOver #loveYourBrain #wearAMask #brainInjuryAwareness

Luther Campbell, the civic and political activist who jolted the establishment status quo decades ago with his raunchy lyrics, has a new way to shake things up: challenging U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick in a Democratic primary.
Publicly, Uncle Luke hasn’t decided. But he’s been promoting a run.
#politics #florida
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/20/uncle-luke-for-congress-luther-campbell-rapper-turned-civic-activist-preparing-to-challenge-congresswoman/