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Five Years On: A Covid Retrospective
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As we approach the five year mark of the first known case of covid-19, as we contemplate a half decade of watching a novel virus rip through our communities, our countries, our world, I wanted to do a retrospective on the pandemic.
on Fri, 2AM
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Do Max Harm: The Grave Ethics Problem In Healthcare
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There have been a million and one US election hot takes so I’m not going to do that, at least not yet.
on Nov 9
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The Defeat of Nazism Was A Fairy Tale
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This week Britain’s Labour Party announced plans to inject unemployed overweight people with slimming drugs to get them into work.
on Oct 17
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War, Covid And Narratives Of Control
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I feel like reality is coming undone.
on Sep 24
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It's Too Hot Everyone's Got Covid Cheney Loves Kamala It's Normal
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I’ve had family visiting hence the two week break between pieces and even this is a bit of a filler, some collected thoughts and ramblings just spilling out (I’m working on a meatier science thing which I should have up later this week).
on Sep 9
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The Summer Liberalism Ate Itself
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Western liberalism is devouring itself in a frenzy of arrogance, self-righteousness and terrible choices.
on Aug 27
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The US Government Is Shutting Down A Key Covid Website
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Tomorrow the US government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research, The National Institutes of Health, will shut down its Covid-19 ‘special populations’ website.
on Aug 15
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You’ve probably seen by now that one of the stars of the Olympics collapsed in Paris last night with covid.
on Aug 9
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Is The Collapse Of Civilization Boring To You?
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We should probably talk more (again?) about the fact that a child born today may live to see the collapse of global civilization.
on Aug 6
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Biden Resigns While Sick With Covid, Says We Overcame Covid
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Joe Biden just quit the presidential campaign. In his withdrawal letter touting his achievements, he says we ‘overcame the pandemic.’ A letter he wrote while literally sick with the pandemic virus. For a third time. Does this mean we overcame the pandemic?
on Jul 22
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The 'This Is Not What We Were Promised' Stage Of Covid
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We can never let physical reality do the hard work of advocacy. But sometimes, the physical reality helps push the advocacy along. I’ve seen this up close on the climate crisis, with people being moved towards activism by personal experience with extreme weather.
on Jul 13
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Vaxxing And Relaxing To Fascism
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The Democrats have really messed up by vaxxing and relaxing Joe Biden. I didn’t watch the presidential debate. I’m not a masochist. But catching up today, it’s obvious that it went badly for Joe Biden. Very badly. Worse-case-scenario bad. Panic in the streets bad (well panic in the blue corners...
on Jun 28
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The US Government Anti-Vax Campaign Confirms Them As Enemies of Humanity
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It was revealed this week that in 2020 and 2021 the Pentagon ran an anti-vax disinformation campaign to undermine Asia’s efforts to vaccinate its population with China’s covid vaccine. The campaign used fake social media accounts on numerous platforms to lie about the safety and effectiveness of...
on Jun 26
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Last week, Argentina’s president Javier Milei was the star turn at a global rally of the far-right in Madrid organized by Spain’s neo-fascist Vox party. At the rally, participants professed love for Trump, Israel and unregulated capitalism, and hatred for leftists, Marxists and Islamism.
on Jun 4
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The Dairy-Political Complex Is Birthing A Flu Pandemic
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The United States has a 1.4 billion pound national stockpile of cheese. Yes, cheese. In refrigerated warehouses and even caves across the country you can find cheese. The stockpile is so large it would fill up the Capitol building, top to bottom. This might seem a strange but essentially...
on May 18
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Scientists Just Made A Stunning Biological Discovery
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Sometimes something happens that takes your breath away, in a good way. Those who read my stuff know I’m not someone who gets carried away by optimism, to say the least. But a new paper by scientists at Columbia has blown me away. Researchers have made a discovery, which, if it holds up, has the...
on May 18
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The End Of The World Began A Long Time Ago
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What is the plan? What is the project? There is nothing but greed. Nothing but accumulation. There is nothing but death. Capitalism is not a singular thing but a process. A process of greed refinement. A process borne out of, at least initially, the ruling class’s desire and lust to own everything.
on Apr 13
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Long Covid Forces The UN's Humanitarian Chief To Quit
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Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, is quitting because of long covid. Although if you only glanced at the headlines about this news, you wouldn’t know it. Almost all of them told us that his decision was due to ‘health reasons.’
on Mar 28
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Covid Just Killed The Last Man Living In An Iron Lung
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Paul Alexander, the last man on Earth living in an iron lung after surviving polio as a child, was just killed by covid. The shame of it. Nothing quite sums up the hegemonic project of covid normalization, and the total disregard for the lives of the vulnerable, like a polio survivor being...
on Mar 13
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Covid Just Killed The Last Person Living In An Iron Lung
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Paul Alexander, the last person on Earth living in an iron lung after surviving polio as a child, was just killed by covid. The shame of it. Nothing quite sums up the hegemonic project of covid normalization, and the total disregard for the lives of the vulnerable, like a polio survivor being...
on Mar 13
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Liberation Won't Come From Single Issue Politics
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In January there was a long covid hearing in the US Senate. There were brilliant and passionate testimonies. It renewed hope for treatments and cures. But something needs raising. The praise some advocates heaped on Robert Marshall, a senator from Kansas who spoke at the hearing.
on Mar 7
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A Killer Disease Is Rampant In Hospitals Around The World
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In the US more people died of covid in January this year than died of the flu in the whole of 2023. It’s the same story in the UK, where covid in January was a bigger killer in one month (more than 1,300 deaths) than flu is in many full years (there were
on Feb 19
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The US Just Scrapped Its Final Covid Protection Measure
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The CDC is about to scrap the five day isolation period for covid. By doing this the US is getting rid of the final public health measure in place to control Sarscov2 transmission. The justifications would be laughable if they weren’t so deadly. The story in the Washington Post tells us that the...
on Feb 13
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The Billionaire Who Wants To Live Forever Has Long Covid
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The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs. If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.
on Feb 10
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The Forgotten Lessons Of Infectious Disease Control
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Remembering the 19th and 20th centuries
on Feb 1