Tavo @tavoglc@qoto.org

A lot of the research and publicity claiming that pets make people healthier was funded by ... Big Pet https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-pets-really-good-for-health/

Fresh air once again! Yesterday the peak CO2 was 550ppm on the stage sensor when somebody was setting up their laptop. Excluding that, we never crossed 500!

We continue gathering data to better understand the venue, inform attendees, and continue dialing in our approach to indoor air quality: today we've moved a sensor from the green room to audience right, which we suspect might be a relative hotspot.

#NBPy #HealthAndSafety #IAQ

Parthenogenesis includes respiratory for all the pox viruses.

"Poxvirus infections evolve either as a localized, fairly benign skin infection or as a systemic infection.

Systemic infection results in viral dissemina- tion, with the formation of generalized skin lesions, and usually involves some degree of morbidity and mortality. The pathogenesis of human systemic orthopoxvirus infections is largely extrapolated and modeled from studies of the ...

"... pathogenesis of the related orthopoxvirus infections in animals: mousepox (ectromelia) in mice, rabbitpox in rabbits, and monkeypox in nonhuman primates and prairie dogs.18–23

In addition, extensive literature exists on animal models used to examine the role of virally encoded proteins predicted to be involved in viral pathogenesis or used to examine the effect of therapeutic methods or both.24–27
... "

...The general paradigm for systemic orthopoxvirus pathogenesis is that the virus enters the host through a respiratory route, a mucosal surface, or a break in the skin and replicates locally. The virus then spreads through local lymphatics, causing a primary viremia, and subsequently spreads to the reticuloendothelial system. Replication in these organs results in the secondary viremia, usually associated with fever. The virus then ultimately seeds skin, causing a characteristic pock rash."

#IDMastodon #Publichealth Finally someone waking up !
As a summer wave of #COVID infections rolls across the country, 🇺🇸 . health officials have recommended that all Americans over the age of 6 months get one of the updated #COVIDvaccines when they become available this fall.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-06-28/cdc-advises-updated-covid-vaccine-for-everyone-over-6-months-of-age?src=usn_tw

AI is a toxic industry created by toxic people with toxic ideals

Unpopular opinion:

The term “prompt engineering” is both nonsense and misleading. You send your prompt to the chatbot which then calls an LLM with a version of your filtered and processed prompt. So *you* do never prompt the LLM, but you try “optimizing” how to talk to a chatbot. Current chatbot interfaces to LLM (and image generators, etc.) do *not* allow you to configure how to access the LLM in any sense the term “engineering” suggests

#ProveMeWrong

Our ✨ new ✨ mobile app is open source and AGPL licensed!

This is a big step up from our previous non-open-source apps.

We’re doing it right this time! 😎

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-rn

#pixelfed #openSource #mobileApp

A friend of mine managed to avoid COVID until this winter - when she was infected in a healthcare setting. She’s not recovered. She’s showing signs of Long Covid & POTS.

Spent last 3 weeks being worked up for cardiac issues - no one masked for her. Then she landed in ER

She had been dealing with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea for 4 days and had become tachycardic with a heart rate of 140. She was unable to keep fluids or electrolytes down & running a fever. But the way she had been recently treated was dissuading her from getting care

Prior to the ER visit she spent three weeks in hospitals & clinics. She had a ton of cardiac testing, lab work and procedures to determine if she has Long Covid. Despite the assumption being she’s chronically ill due to Covid - not ONE healthcare worker masked for her

She had to do a stress echo in her respirator while having breathing difficulties - and rather than offering to mask up she was repeatedly encouraged to take her mask off. They rolled their eyes at her for wanting to keep it on & marked her treadmill test “non compliant”

She’s had to repeatedly chase down results, beg for follow up appointments and even had a significant error go unnoticed & unaddressed over a weekend until she could connect with her GP. That error resulted in an infection which only worsened her baseline

At this point it’s becoming clear her care is being negatively impacted due to her need to avoid another Covid infection. She feels increasingly judged at each interaction & has to quietly endure the pain of being treated like a nuisance whose issues are all in her head.

By the time she needs the ER - she doesn’t even have the strength to ask them to mask. She’s vomiting and having a difficult time keeping her mask on - so she tries to go outside to vomit. No one offers her any help. She isn’t even surprised

She finally sees the doctor who says he will not consider giving her an IV until she removes her mask so he can assess how dry her mouth is. Her lab work was already back showing dehydration & electrolyte abnormalities. Why does she need to remove her mask?

She’s out of energy to argue - so she removes it & he proceeds to examine her from across the room. He was observing social distancing (which we know doesn’t work for airborne viruses) even though it meant he couldn’t SEE in her mouth. Yet he STILL made her remove her mask

Now that she’s been a good & compliant patient and removed her mask… they finally order IV fluids which bring her heart rate down (as we would expect if she’s developed POTS). Once her blood pressure is above 90/60 she’s discharged with no follow up care in place.

No explanation of what’s wrong with her, of why the fluids worked or how to take care of herself at home. I had to provide that information to her. She was genuinely shocked when they told her she was being sent home because NOTHING was resolved.

This is when I had to explain to her the realities of being chronically ill and needing the ER. You can’t expect them to manage the chronic condition. In their eyes the only thing that absolutely needed treatment was the dehydration because it created hypotension.

As soon as the hypotension was resolved - she was out the door. Nevermind the fact that she will probably be hypotensive again within 12 hours since her GI issues weren’t addressed and she wasn’t advised to consume electrolytes, salt pills or extra fluids.

Thankfully she has a good family doctor who was able to provide additional guidance - but MANY people do not. She could have just as easily bounced right back into the ER with the exact same problem. And our healthcare system is beyond overwhelmed. 1/2

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #MaskBan #BoycottNC #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas