“Mild” but hospitals overloaded.
“Mild” but healthcare workers burnt out.
“Mild” but thousands of flights cancelled.
“Mild” but no booster shots for kids in under-ventilated schools.
“Mild” brain damage.
“Mild” collapse of society.
3) I love how those who dismiss COVID as mild always eventually fall back to arguing what they really care about… the $$$… #DontLookUp is the most brilliant movie 🍿 of our times.
4) Whoever says “mild” is also arrogantly and idiotically throwing our children our future generation UNDER THE BUS! 1 year record high #COVID19 hospitalizations. 👇
5) The @CDCgov lost a lot of credibility this week with their isolation rule change—something that will take a long time to earn back. The “mild” narrative has even been used by CDC recently and extremely damage. They should know better and do know. We need better leadership.
6) If hospitalizations in England are running significantly ahead of projected forecasts (more people being hospitalized & sooner than expected)… does the “it’s mild” narrative even hold up anymore? Besides hospitalizations ignore #LongCovid
8) we are honestly sleepwalking into a disaster which we haven’t seen before in the coming weeks. It’s not just healthcare infrastructure grinding to a halt… I honestly think we should stock up on supplies for the next month….
9) We are STILL in deep denial how bad #Omicron will overload hospitals and trip up society in the coming weeks as more and more get sick. It’s a 2.0 virus in completely different league - it’s a 2.0 pandemic and we need to WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
10) if you ignore your mild case of Omicron - it could domino into a not-mild case of Omicron in a friend or family of neighbor who is vulnerable. Think of others!
11) Exactly what I said above… #Omicron “mild” talk is a critical Trojan horse for #LongCovid — Fauci says there’s no data to suggest Omicron is milder for Long COVID than Delta variant 👇
12) This looks like a completely “mild” crisis in hospitals. Totally normal. Nothing to write home about. But hey, “catastrophe is an understatement” = mild, right? No- don’t buy into the selfish “#Omicron is mild”
13) Everyone who had wildly proclaimed and touted that “Omicron is mild” to let the virus rip— now HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS… seriously people — how many people did we let die with that mild nonsense?!?!
⚠️BREAKING—ICU Hospitalized human bird flu case in Canada now officially confirmed as H5N1. Worse, it is the same 2.3.4.4b virus clade (variant group) as the one found in BC🇨🇦 poultry and in Washington state🇺🇸! The hospitalized teenager (with no pre existing conditions) had no animal contact, does not live on farm, had “deterioration quite rapid” and now critical in ICU with ARDS. Canada officials says infectious period is 2 days **prior to symptoms** (ie asymptomatic transmission) and infectious up to 10 days.
2) Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg confirmed that the individual has avian influenza H5N1 canada.ca/en/public-heal…
3) details…
⚠️BAD UPDATE—BIRD FLU HOSPITALIZATION IN CANADIAN TEEN
Summary 🧵 of the live press conference with Canada’s British Columbia health officer.
📌The teen is in intensive care.
📌Condition is ARDS
📌Teen was healthy prior; no underlying conditions
My god—Google Search for “what is a tariff” sudden spikes the DAY AFTER ELECTION DAY. 🤦🏻♂️
2) many folks simply don’t understand what a tariff is — unless you explain it several times to them with analogies. Even then, it’s hard for many to grasp. Eg 👇
📍HARRIS IS STILL AHEAD IN PA—in terms of votes yet to be counted. She’s still +2 of what is needed to win PA, given the outstanding votes still remaining in PA cities, according to @CBSNews @NorahODonnell
Plastic cookware should not be used. Period. Especially BLACK PLASTIC cookware, that often mixes in toxic recycled electronic waste materials. DISPOSE OF ALL PLASTIC COOKWARE, especially if black colored plastic ones. Pass it on to your family.
2) Because optical sensors in recycling facilities can’t detect them, black-colored plastics are largely rejected from domestic-waste streams, resulting in a shortage of black base material for recycled plastic. So the demand for black plastic appears to be met “in no insignificant part” via recycled e-waste, according to Turner’s research. TV and computer casings, like the majority of the world’s plastic waste, tend to be recycled in informal waste economies with few regulations and end up remolded into consumer products, including ones, such as spatulas and slotted spoons, that come into contact with food.
3) You simply do not want flame retardants anywhere near your stir-fry. Flame retardants are typically not bound to the polymers to which they are added, making them a particular flight risk: They dislodge easily and make their way into the surrounding environment. And, indeed, another paper from 2018 found that flame retardants in black kitchen utensils readily migrate into hot cooking oil. The health concerns associated with those chemicals are well established: Some flame retardants are endocrine disruptors, which can interfere with the body’s hormonal system, and scientific literature suggests that they may be associated with a range of ailments, including thyroid disease, diabetes, and cancer. People with the highest blood levels of PBDEs, a class of flame retardants found in black plastic, had about a 300 percent increase in their risk of dying from cancer compared with people who had the lowest levels, according to a study released this year. In a separate study, published in a peer-reviewed journal this month, researchers from the advocacy group Toxic-Free Future and from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found that, out of all of the consumer products they tested, kitchen utensils had some of the highest levels of flame retardants.
⚠️MASK MANDATE RETURNING TO ALL NIH PATIENT CLINICS—Effective November 4, 2024, masking will be required in all patient care & waiting rooms. Furthermore, testing for COVID, flu A, flu B, and RSV will be required for all inpatients & rooming-in visitors. cc.nih.gov/patient-servic…
2) This means wearing a mask will be REQUIRED in all patient care areas, including waiting rooms. ➡️This change is due to an anticipated increase in COVID-19 and other respiratory virus activity in the community. 😷
3) I think people should stock up on COVID tests again. The Cheapest COVID test on the U.S. market is now as low as $1.50 with special promo code “COV20”… expiring Jan or March 2025.