A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

May 16, 2024- Large California Study: “.. SARS-CoV-2 infection is tied to increased preterm birth (PTB), high blood pressure during pregnancy, and severe maternal morbidity. Infection tied to high blood pressure, severe outcomes” ” “Birth outcomes noted included preterm birth (PTB), high blood during pregnancy, gestational diabetes, and severe maternal morbidity.” - https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-19-linked-increased-preterm-birth-other-problems-pregnancy

"... how many people know COVID-19 infection can cause headaches and migraines weeks or months later? Or that it can cause fainting? Nausea? Heart attacks? Cardiac complications in adults and children? Embolisms? ADHD-like symptoms? Neurological issues? How many people are suffering the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 infection but not drawing the causal link and instead ascribing their new conditions to bad luck or aging?"

https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/honesty-about-covid-is-essential-for-progress/

#covid #LongCovid #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

After 2020 presidential election as some #Trump supporters falsely claimed that #PresidentBiden had stolen the office many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down #Americanflag. 1 of homes flying an inverted flag during that time was residence of #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS Justice #Alito - Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va., according to photos & interviews with neighbors in Alexandria VA https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.0yWX.zzuHOt566eaH&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb #ImpeachAlito

"But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find."

"The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

#school #indoctrination #gop #education #USpol #FLpol #politics

Biden, CDC silent as North Carolina lawmakers vote to ban masks

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina?r=8hs6m

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.