MessengerFlats @MessengerFlats@qoto.org

"Guidelines that adhere to the highest standards of infection control might please purists in public health who don’t have to make policies for the real world. However, guidelines that seem to acknowledge that workers often don’t have paid sick leave and emergency child care, and that social interactions are important to folks, are more likely not only to be followed but to engender trust in public health authorities."

https://www.vox.com/2024/2/14/24073306/isolation-covid-guidelines-cdc-change

#publichealth #covid #isolation #ventilation #masks

This is a relief: researchers who test the tests confirm that COVID rapid home tests are sensitive to new variants. Please test whenever you feel even slightly sick or have been exposed to COVID. You can have it and transmit it without symptoms https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-rapid-tests-reliably-detect-new-variants/

It has always been about the details.
#marchintosh 2024

#apple #retrocomputing #macintosh

"An LGBTQ advocacy group is suing the Texas attorney general after his agency requested information that the group said would reveal the identities of its members, including those who sought to stay anonymous in recent suits.

The suit, filed Wednesday by PFLAG, argued that the requests violate its members’ right to free speech, to petition and to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures."

🎁: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/pflag-paxton-transgender-lawsuit-18696254.php?_hsmi=296389003&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-86y-65Z0hmiwwPBb_BUWbWuhxtWCzxW46954VTbdrjORZ4mMNMeWjn71nm_wTlEIAWYbppy_CxDs-MNHUx2q8cP2WViQ&utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvdGV4YXMvYXJ0aWNsZS9wZmxhZy1wYXh0b24tdHJhbnNnZW5kZXItbGF3c3VpdC0xODY5NjI1NC5waHA%3D&time=MTcwOTMwMTM1MDcxNw%3D%3D&rid=MDcyMjg5MTAtNzRlYS00OGUyLTlmODQtNjI5ZTE0Zjg0MzRi&sharecount=Ng%3D%3D

#healthcare #lgbtq #transgender #privacy #texas

My spreadsheet of #COVID19 studies that reveal how infections damage brains, hearts, immune systems, reproductive systems and other organs now exceeds 480 studies. If you are interested in what science and research tells us about COVID infections and reinfections, here you go:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit?usp=sharing