Annie Dupuis @ADupuis@qoto.org

The ~20% increased incidence of Type 1 diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) during the Covid pandemic among children and teens
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02322-0

Nurses went on strike.

Then graduate students.

Then school teachers.

Now it’s hotel employees, writers, and actors.

UPS drivers and auto workers may be next.

Many strikes, similar story:

Workers are sick and tired of billionaires and corporations hoarding wealth and power.

A woman tweeted that she'd run 130+ marathons & hiked Mt Kilimanjaro, but since Covid, she’s had to be carried to the bathroom due to neurological issues. Chilling.

Honored to have spoken with expert Eric Topol who answers many of our Long Covid questions regarding new variants, brain fog, fertility, treatments, etc...

“People want to dismiss this. But this is an inconvenient truth, long Covid.”

https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/20/eric-topol-on-long-covid/ #COVID19 #covid #longCOVID #FORTUNE

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons why everyone should want more walkable streets & cities, in Fast Company:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets
#cities #walking #walkablecities #urbanism

My suggestion if you want the Fediverse to work, follow and favorite and boost the absolute hell out of people. It’s not about dopamine or clout chasing, it’s about letting people know they’re not just typing into a void.

It is time for our seasonal integral game: when medical politicians are selling you #hopium, go back to the data. See the (unitless) integral under the 'endemic' stage we're at; the data shows we have TONS of re-infections.

Trans people just want to fucking live. You know what I'm saying? We want to have a safe home, we want to eat in a restaurant on occasion, we want to hang out with friends, we want to fall in love and be loved back. We want to have fun and dress up sometimes and stay at home on our couches sometimes and have a life that is fulfilling and in which we aren't constantly in fear of murder or harassment. This is not new and it's not radical and it's not harming you or anyone else to ask for it.

So now our paediatric hospital (@CHEO@twitter.com) has called in the Red Cross to help with so many sick children. Ontario and leaders across Canada, at every level, could have been proactive. This is a crisis. Our youngest pay the price. Listen to healthcare experts. #onpoli #onhealth

Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

It’s #FollowFriday so boost this post and help God get more followers! The more people that follow Me here the more comedy people on Twitter will realize they should move to Mastodon!

Encouraging new data for @Novavax@twitter.com boosters (1st and 2nd) for inducing neutralizing antibody response vs BA.5
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.22282414v1