David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

Fascinating thread showing articles from the 80s about HIV & AIDS. This one in particular is eerieky similar to the public health messaging now. Mild & then you recover. Until we know more about #sarscov2 long term we need to remember it’s a NOVEL virus, #MaskUp & protect others. Apply #PrecautionaryPrinciple https://twitter.com/amorvincitomnia/status/1597977126124539904?s=46&t=0JfjYp0uAPZaTiONhQaOOA #CovidIsNotOver #CovidisAirborne

Rolinha-picui/Picui Ground-Dove
Columbina picui
#animal #animais #animals #fotografias #photography #BirdsSeenIn2022 #photograph #photo #photos #birding #birdwatching #santamaria #santamariars #riograndedosul #bird #birds #Ave #aves #asavesqueeuencontro #patricianicoloso

I'd like to do an intro. I'm Edmon, and I decided to join this server, as I've been closely following the pandemic conversations on twitter. I am so deeply appreciative of the pandemic information from many of you that are on this server!

As a few other things about myself, I'm currently faculty at NC State. My research is at the intersection of nonlinear dynamics and information theory. I'm working on some new types of oscillator computers for edge devices, as well as some music research.

Saving lives of kids ages 3-17 with Covid vaccination during Omicron
A new, big matched pair analysis from Argentina https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-073070

I like these kinds of responses because I can say a thing from MLK about the value of legislative solutions:

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless, and this is what we often say we have to do in society through legislation."

https://mastodon.social/@johniac/109423635385621195

OK Doomer: You Don't Have Immunity Debt https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/it-was-never-mild-and-we-dont-have?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share

The great thing about Eloi Mumps is that he's inspiring a whole generation of kids to abandon the cliched, age-old ambition of accumulating vast wealth. If he typifies the empty outcome of such aspirations, why would anyone bother?
The cautionary tale of a billionaire's folly.

The thing that blows my mind, when talking with industry colleagues, is the default assumption that the pandemic will end. I have yet to talk to a colleague who considers the possibility that this level of transmission/severity could continue indefinitely or worsen. #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver #MaskUp

I told you all covid would prematurely age T cells and in 2020 said, "kiss much of your naive T cells goodbye"

This paper discusses the immunodeficiency that comes with age and how aged people have few naive T cells

The paper also notes Tn loss in HIV

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10779432/

God, I love a good @pluralistic turn of phrase. 😁
"the long-delayed MySpacing of Facebook and Beboizing of Twitter".

https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456

In case you’re interested in following the Star Tribune on here, they have an empty feed at https://newsie.social/@startribune

Interesting article, from China, showing transmission of Covid OUTSIDE, from a covid + man jogging. In all, with close contacts, he exposed 48 people who later tested positive, incl family, & 39 of those he exposed outside while jogging. This is China so there was contact tracing, genome testing, & isolation. Moral of the story, #wearyourdamnedmask inside AND outside as variants become even more contagious. #Covid #covid19 #COVIDisAirborne #WearAMask

https://covid.dropcite.com/articles/0bda88cc-8aaf-4de6-94f2-4bd23ee5c036

The longer I work as a historian the more I keep reconfirming that one of the top rules of history should be: "Always look up everybody's mom."

*So much* that doesn't quite make sense makes more sense when you look up mothers and sisters and the connections that get left out! #histodons #histodon #women #genderhistory

I wrote about how political parties are allowed to define journalistic ideas about balance and bias. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-rough-week-and-the-press-bias-avoidance-framework/sharetoken/SnYrinGh2jVE

I have never received something like this. We are experiencing a rise in hate, while many look the other way or seek to profit from it. I refuse to allow this to be the norm and a part of my child’s future. I will fight against hate and extremism and for decency and acceptance.

Role model. This is delightful, for all book people. https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-man-whos-read-every-book-ever-shortlisted-for-the-booker-prize

2005: Rupert Murdoch paid $580m for Myspace.
2009: he sold it in $35m.

2008: Bebo was sold for $850m, to AOL. The founders later bought it back for $1m. It was regarded as one of the worst deals ever made in the dot-com era.

2013: Yahoo paid $1.1bn for Tumblr. 2019: they sold it in $3m.

Elon Musk paid $44bn for Twitter. If history has taught us anything it's that this isn't going to end well… when there wasn't a viable business model in the first place.

#Mastodon #Twitter #TwitterMigration