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There's a new MAGA trend in social media: Eating raw chicken. I'd point out the obvious risks of doing so, but you know what, I love that for them. We'll add that to avoiding vaccines, doubting doctors and experts, owning guns, and having COVID and measles parties. If the right wishes to hasten their own demise, who am I to stand in the way?
For the rest of you, however. Avoid COVID, get vaccinated, eat properly cooked chicken, listen to your doctor, and be safer and healthier!
The lie of "safe" air on airplanes:
STUDY finds that airborne transmission of #COVID19 dominated, accounting for a median of 92.2%, whereas contact (7.8%) and direct deposition (droplets, 0.0%) played minimal roles.
Passengers seated within two rows of the index case had a 4.41-fold higher attack rate compared with those farther away, but 45% of observed infections occurred beyond this proximity.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360132326000296
“Are you a communist?”
“No, I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I'm feeling Dorothy Parker, who sent this telegram to her friend after a difficult year:
Vaccines alone are not enough.
Study of #COVID19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against hospitalization in adults over 60 in 2024/25:
“VE was 42% 14-59 days post-vaccination, 32% at 60-119 days, and 36% at 120-179 days, and no effect thereafter. “
Less than 50% effective in the first two months. No effect after 179 days. (I have seen studies suggesting vaccination may provide SOME protection against Long COVID.)
Tom Hanks was photographed wearing a mask on the NY subway this week. He was on the Late Show and was asked about it. He said he wasn't trying to go incognito. In fact, he's doing a play and cannot get sick, and he added, “I’ve had #COVID19 enough. I don’t want to do that again.”
At some point, before more of us have chronic impairments from repeated reinfections, I hope more of you will have had COVID enough and may wear a mask when you can, particularly during surges of infections.
#Twitter/#X is just a completely authentic place full of real lifelong Democrats who suddenly realized Charlie Kirk was right, decided to cross the aisle and register as Republicans, and posted so in identical tweets. These are absolutely not foreign bots trying to influence US politics or increase partisan divides in our nation.
This is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Just thought I'd post it here for no particular or current reason.