Ethics of Risk Taking
If you were having a lot of sex with various people -- or even if you just had a quickie with one person without any protection, then having unprotected sex…
covid-19
Y’all Masking: The Solidarity in Safety
It's taken off so much, it's making Twitter almost unusable for anything else. Picture after picture after picture of people wearing masks in their daily life. At first it was…
CDC Protecting Interests Instead of People
The CDC finally acknowledged that Covid is still here, which is amazing, but they still can't nail the comms:Dr. Lucky Tran added the corrections on this one to obliterate the…
Plant Based Diet Connected to Lower COVID-19 Rates
It’s been years that we’ve been living with COVID-19 and it looks like we missed the window to fully eradicate it, which means we need to adapt our lifestyles to…
Masking Like a Movie Star
Lots of people are still wearing masks. It can feel a bit like we're the only ones at the store, getting pointed at or coughed on despite intentionally and conscientiously…
Movie Stars Wear Masks
Lots of people are still wearing masks. It can feel a bit like we're the only ones at the store, getting pointed at or coughed on despite intentionally and conscientiously…
Hope for Long Covid in IgG Study
Professor Akiko Iwasaki and team just put out a pivotal paper showing that "passive transfer of IgG from patients with Long Covid into mice recapitulates increased pain and other symptoms."…
Hope for Long Covid in IgG Study
Professor Akiko Iwasaki and team just put out a pivotal paper showing that "passive transfer of IgG from patients with Long Covid into mice recapitulates increased pain and other symptoms."…
Avoid the Best to Avoid the Rest
Covid is amazing for harming the immune system, right up there with HIV. Even mild and asymptomatic cases of Covid harm the body's ability to fight off infections, and makes…
Avoid the Best to Avoid the Rest
Covid is amazing for harming the immune system, right up there with HIV. Even mild and asymptomatic cases of Covid harm the body's ability to fight off infections, and makes…
Ignorace and Apathy and Unwillingness to Act
Three articles came out in the past few days that should remind us that Covid is really here, and maybe we should act on it. But all the facts in…
Ignorance and Apathy and Unwillingness to Act
Three articles came out in the past few days that should remind us that Covid is really here, and maybe we should act on it. But all the facts in…
Good News: You CAN Be Saved!
The CDC put out some crappy comms with an image with a mask photoshopped upside down, with “N95” shopped onto a KN95, and only on the patient, not the doctor,…
Good News: You CAN Be Saved!
The CDC put out some crappy comms with an image with a mask photoshopped upside down, with "N95" shopped onto a KN95, and only on the patient, not the doctor,…
Living in a False Reality
Without testing or wastewater data warning us of rising cases of viruses in our regions ahead of time, we can only look to excess deaths after the fact. Bleak times.…
Living in a False Reality
Without testing or wastewater data warning us of rising cases of viruses in our regions ahead of time, we can only look to excess deaths after the fact. Bleak times.This…
We Can’t Unknow What We Know
I occasionally get anon comments telling me, in one way or another, to stop writing about Covid and/or climate change. It’s really bizarre to me. I mean, I get that…
We Can’t Unknow What We Know
I occasionally get anon comments telling me, in one way or another, to stop writing about Covid and/or climate change. It's really bizarre to me. I mean, I get that…
We Can Get Used to Anything
Would you rather get used to wearing an N95 or get used to needing help to eat or sit up? It’s a choice. Covid is still here, still deadly and…
We Can Get Used to Anything
Would you rather get used to wearing an N95 or get used to needing help to eat or sit up? It's a choice. Covid is still here, still deadly and…