Bety Rodriguez-Milla
@brodriguezmilla.bsky.social
Software Engineer - Computational Scientist - Scientific Manager. Still coviding. Covid is airborne, wear an N95. We can’t have a healthy society if we take an individualistic approach to public health (and many other things).
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Please, my friend,
take note
that you have lived
through
six years
of Covid-19.
And
please, my friend,
take care
for you are living
through
year seven
of Covid-19.
*
A compendium of the 300th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/p...
take note
that you have lived
through
six years
of Covid-19.
And
please, my friend,
take care
for you are living
through
year seven
of Covid-19.
*
A compendium of the 300th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/p...
Plague Poems – The Three-Hundredth Week
When we saw each other in the elevator my work friend declared that she had survived Thanksgiving with her family, but her declaration came between coughs and in a hoarse voice, which made me wonde…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Please, my friend,
take note
that you have lived
through
six years
of Covid-19.
And
please, my friend,
take care
for you are living
through
year seven
of Covid-19.
*
A compendium of the 300th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/p...
take note
that you have lived
through
six years
of Covid-19.
And
please, my friend,
take care
for you are living
through
year seven
of Covid-19.
*
A compendium of the 300th week of plague poems…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/p...
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monkey see sensor go off, monkey open a window!! monkey knows to mask even before it lights up!!! if anyone in this admin or the last gave a singular crap about public health, air monitors and purifiers and upper room UVC light would be in every room talker.news/2023/07/10/a...
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
monkey see sensor go off, monkey open a window!! monkey knows to mask even before it lights up!!! if anyone in this admin or the last gave a singular crap about public health, air monitors and purifiers and upper room UVC light would be in every room talker.news/2023/07/10/a...
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Listen, let's not rule out that drawing Jamil Jivani's name in Secret Santa might have been what actually prompted the floor crossing.
Michael Ma collected his own conservative secret santa gift before crossing the floor BUT DID NOT DELIVER ANYTHING TO THE NAME HE DREW
HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN JAMIL JIVANI’S SECRET SANTA
LMFAO THIS DIVAAAAAA
HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN JAMIL JIVANI’S SECRET SANTA
LMFAO THIS DIVAAAAAA
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Listen, let's not rule out that drawing Jamil Jivani's name in Secret Santa might have been what actually prompted the floor crossing.
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The more my life has shrunk, the more I'm thankful for every moment I get to be alive. Still, I'm scared. So many of us w/ME are out here, invisible in our homes, trying to survive with no good treatment options. Please support ME & Covid causes, even if it's just raising awareness. We need allies.
Sadly, ME and Long Covid have taken another bright light.
Megan was creative, spunky, intelligent, kind, and beautiful. In the end, she was barely able to exist because of severe ME and Long Covid.
Please don’t let anyone convince you that viruses are harmless
#RIPMegan🕊️
Megan was creative, spunky, intelligent, kind, and beautiful. In the end, she was barely able to exist because of severe ME and Long Covid.
Please don’t let anyone convince you that viruses are harmless
#RIPMegan🕊️
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The more my life has shrunk, the more I'm thankful for every moment I get to be alive. Still, I'm scared. So many of us w/ME are out here, invisible in our homes, trying to survive with no good treatment options. Please support ME & Covid causes, even if it's just raising awareness. We need allies.
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Ah but chickens have a capitalistic value to capitalists.
Children don’t.
Children don’t.
So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Ah but chickens have a capitalistic value to capitalists.
Children don’t.
Children don’t.
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All whilst failing to mention hundreds of millions globally suffering long Covid, which there is currently no cure for. Also failing to inform on layered mitigations. This didn’t even enter the parliamentary debate. Long Covid sufferers in Canada, some I have chatted to in their twenties are
Labour MPs want the same approach for Assisted Dying bill going through Parliament now. Beware the long-term sick, disabled, elderly, & vulnerable!
@carladenyer.bsky.social
@carladenyer.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
All whilst failing to mention hundreds of millions globally suffering long Covid, which there is currently no cure for. Also failing to inform on layered mitigations. This didn’t even enter the parliamentary debate. Long Covid sufferers in Canada, some I have chatted to in their twenties are
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So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
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Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.
Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.
insidemedicine.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines.
Well worth reading.
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This research was carried out in 2021. We are living with unnecessary infections.
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff
Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This research was carried out in 2021. We are living with unnecessary infections.
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
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Nobel Disease: the tendency of many Nobel winners to embrace scientifically questionable ideas.
We should not confuse intelligence with rationality, nor confidence with correctness.
skepticalinquirer.org/2020/05/the-...
We should not confuse intelligence with rationality, nor confidence with correctness.
skepticalinquirer.org/2020/05/the-...
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Nobel Disease: the tendency of many Nobel winners to embrace scientifically questionable ideas.
We should not confuse intelligence with rationality, nor confidence with correctness.
skepticalinquirer.org/2020/05/the-...
We should not confuse intelligence with rationality, nor confidence with correctness.
skepticalinquirer.org/2020/05/the-...
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Sure, let’s just keep allowing ALL the viruses to run rampant infecting everyone all the time so we create even more new and improved SUPER viruses that will bring society back to the good old days of 30-year life expectancy. Great job Public Health! 👍
There's a new strain of mpox in the UK that's a combo of clade 1 & clade 2. It appears that specifics re: transmissibility & virulence are as yet unknown.
It's a pretty interesting recombination event, b/c it means someone was infected w/ both clades at the same time.
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
It's a pretty interesting recombination event, b/c it means someone was infected w/ both clades at the same time.
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
A new mpox variant has been identified in the UK. Should we be worried?
The new strain combines both currently recognised strains of the virus – clade I and clade II. Scientists are watching closely.
www.gavi.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Sure, let’s just keep allowing ALL the viruses to run rampant infecting everyone all the time so we create even more new and improved SUPER viruses that will bring society back to the good old days of 30-year life expectancy. Great job Public Health! 👍
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😷 Masks aren't traumatising.
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
😷 Masks aren't traumatising.
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
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😷The real scandal isn’t masks - it’s how many people need them and are denied cultural permission to use them without ridicule.
It shows a culture deeply rooted in ableism. Disabled people had reinforced (again) that adaptions are not normalised, they are stigmatised. /13
It shows a culture deeply rooted in ableism. Disabled people had reinforced (again) that adaptions are not normalised, they are stigmatised. /13
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
😷The real scandal isn’t masks - it’s how many people need them and are denied cultural permission to use them without ridicule.
It shows a culture deeply rooted in ableism. Disabled people had reinforced (again) that adaptions are not normalised, they are stigmatised. /13
It shows a culture deeply rooted in ableism. Disabled people had reinforced (again) that adaptions are not normalised, they are stigmatised. /13
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🧵PUBLIC HEALTH SHOULD NOT BE A CULTURE WAR
😷 It’s bizarre watching politicians, like Kemi Badenoch perform trauma around masks while millions live with the reality of not masking; death, disability, ME, Long Covid.
The Guardian are asking for opinions on masking 🖇️👇 /1
😷 It’s bizarre watching politicians, like Kemi Badenoch perform trauma around masks while millions live with the reality of not masking; death, disability, ME, Long Covid.
The Guardian are asking for opinions on masking 🖇️👇 /1
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🧵PUBLIC HEALTH SHOULD NOT BE A CULTURE WAR
😷 It’s bizarre watching politicians, like Kemi Badenoch perform trauma around masks while millions live with the reality of not masking; death, disability, ME, Long Covid.
The Guardian are asking for opinions on masking 🖇️👇 /1
😷 It’s bizarre watching politicians, like Kemi Badenoch perform trauma around masks while millions live with the reality of not masking; death, disability, ME, Long Covid.
The Guardian are asking for opinions on masking 🖇️👇 /1
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It’s so interesting that people who did a whole MD and fellowship or whatever in infectious diseases are still talking about immunity debt like it’s a real concept based in science and not something McKinsey made up in 2022 to convince everyone to start spending money again.
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
It’s so interesting that people who did a whole MD and fellowship or whatever in infectious diseases are still talking about immunity debt like it’s a real concept based in science and not something McKinsey made up in 2022 to convince everyone to start spending money again.
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We’ve created the perfect sickness storm because whether you have covid or not right now, whatever sickness you have is probably worse because Covid damaged your immune system or other organs. But still we do almost nothing to prevent or reduce multiple Covid infections.
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We’ve created the perfect sickness storm because whether you have covid or not right now, whatever sickness you have is probably worse because Covid damaged your immune system or other organs. But still we do almost nothing to prevent or reduce multiple Covid infections.
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It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.
In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
www.avclub.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.
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A SUBWAY STATION IN LONDON, 1941
"Remember how, back when the war was on-"
[droning sirens, approaching aircraft]
"Sorry, what?"
"I was saying, during the war-"
[exploding ordinance, screaming children]
"Pardon?"
"I SAID, DURING THE WA-"
"Sorry mate; can't hear you. Wait for the Luftwaffe to pass."
"Remember how, back when the war was on-"
[droning sirens, approaching aircraft]
"Sorry, what?"
"I was saying, during the war-"
[exploding ordinance, screaming children]
"Pardon?"
"I SAID, DURING THE WA-"
"Sorry mate; can't hear you. Wait for the Luftwaffe to pass."
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A SUBWAY STATION IN LONDON, 1941
"Remember how, back when the war was on-"
[droning sirens, approaching aircraft]
"Sorry, what?"
"I was saying, during the war-"
[exploding ordinance, screaming children]
"Pardon?"
"I SAID, DURING THE WA-"
"Sorry mate; can't hear you. Wait for the Luftwaffe to pass."
"Remember how, back when the war was on-"
[droning sirens, approaching aircraft]
"Sorry, what?"
"I was saying, during the war-"
[exploding ordinance, screaming children]
"Pardon?"
"I SAID, DURING THE WA-"
"Sorry mate; can't hear you. Wait for the Luftwaffe to pass."
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NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
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Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/
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Remember how "following the science" was all the rage?
.....Until it meant continuing to wear a mask?
.....Until it meant continuing to wear a mask?
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Remember how "following the science" was all the rage?
.....Until it meant continuing to wear a mask?
.....Until it meant continuing to wear a mask?
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Long COVID isn’t a fringe issue, it’s one of the most common chronic conditions in the U.S., yet treated like an afterthought. Symptoms vary, onset is delayed, and stigma keeps people quiet. The result? Millions suffering with little recognition or support.
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Long COVID isn’t a fringe issue, it’s one of the most common chronic conditions in the U.S., yet treated like an afterthought. Symptoms vary, onset is delayed, and stigma keeps people quiet. The result? Millions suffering with little recognition or support.
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Kieran Moore saw his shadow, and now we’re in for six more weeks of illness.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Kieran Moore saw his shadow, and now we’re in for six more weeks of illness.
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The timeline today is just full of gold-standard weird dudes with good takes.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The timeline today is just full of gold-standard weird dudes with good takes.