Iris 🌈👁️🌸
@journeyon.bsky.social
Nurse • Chronic stomachaches • Escape room count: 158 • Autistic • Kdramas • Still masking
What is it like to work for a healthcare system that actually understands and tries to prevent airborne disease transmission?
This is in New Jersey, btw! Good for them.
I doubt FL would ever get here. Not in 10+ years, anyway.
Covid is NOW. Never went away.
This is in New Jersey, btw! Good for them.
I doubt FL would ever get here. Not in 10+ years, anyway.
Covid is NOW. Never went away.
RWJBarnabas hospitals in NJ Dec 1
Masks required for
• staff for patient care
• inpatients outside their rooms
• visitors, volunteers & vendors near patients
Patients may request clinicians to mask—and staff must comply
Ask your hospital to protect patients, staff & visitors.
Masks required for
• staff for patient care
• inpatients outside their rooms
• visitors, volunteers & vendors near patients
Patients may request clinicians to mask—and staff must comply
Ask your hospital to protect patients, staff & visitors.
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
What is it like to work for a healthcare system that actually understands and tries to prevent airborne disease transmission?
This is in New Jersey, btw! Good for them.
I doubt FL would ever get here. Not in 10+ years, anyway.
Covid is NOW. Never went away.
This is in New Jersey, btw! Good for them.
I doubt FL would ever get here. Not in 10+ years, anyway.
Covid is NOW. Never went away.
I need to encourage the Hep B vaccine more than ever now. :(
The federal vaccine committee has voted to end the recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic.
Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.
This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic.
Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I need to encourage the Hep B vaccine more than ever now. :(
UGH. The whole, "speaking as a father/mother/parent" line to justify what you're about to say is the worst.
And it wouldn't even be a good justification in this case, right?
And oh, being a parent means you care now? Before you didn't?
And it wouldn't even be a good justification in this case, right?
And oh, being a parent means you care now? Before you didn't?
Y’all want a fun ACIP-watching game?
Every time Retsef Levi drops the classic “speaking as a father” as his sole justification for changing a successful, lifesaving vaccine recommendation…take a shot! 🥃
(Doesn’t have to be alcohol...your liver has suffered enough.)
Happy Day 2, everyone. 🔥
Every time Retsef Levi drops the classic “speaking as a father” as his sole justification for changing a successful, lifesaving vaccine recommendation…take a shot! 🥃
(Doesn’t have to be alcohol...your liver has suffered enough.)
Happy Day 2, everyone. 🔥
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
UGH. The whole, "speaking as a father/mother/parent" line to justify what you're about to say is the worst.
And it wouldn't even be a good justification in this case, right?
And oh, being a parent means you care now? Before you didn't?
And it wouldn't even be a good justification in this case, right?
And oh, being a parent means you care now? Before you didn't?
Cannot wait for a day when we have a norovirus vaccine. 🙏 I google it annually to see if there's any progress.
We all know it's soup season, but did we also know it's 💩season? Norovirus causes 🤮 and 💩 and cases rise in the winter. It's transmitted the "fecal-oral" route -- that's what you think.
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
This highly contagious "winter vomiting disease" is surging across the country
Norovirus can cause extreme cases of vomiting and diarrhea.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Cannot wait for a day when we have a norovirus vaccine. 🙏 I google it annually to see if there's any progress.
Reposted by Iris 🌈👁️🌸
We all know it's soup season, but did we also know it's 💩season? Norovirus causes 🤮 and 💩 and cases rise in the winter. It's transmitted the "fecal-oral" route -- that's what you think.
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
This highly contagious "winter vomiting disease" is surging across the country
Norovirus can cause extreme cases of vomiting and diarrhea.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We all know it's soup season, but did we also know it's 💩season? Norovirus causes 🤮 and 💩 and cases rise in the winter. It's transmitted the "fecal-oral" route -- that's what you think.
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
Reposted by Iris 🌈👁️🌸
Some people speaking during the ACIP public comment section are showing their true colors by calling Hepatitis B infection "a disease of junkies, gays, and promiscuous heteros".
If you don't think all lives have equal value, you have no place in public health discussions.
If you don't think all lives have equal value, you have no place in public health discussions.
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Some people speaking during the ACIP public comment section are showing their true colors by calling Hepatitis B infection "a disease of junkies, gays, and promiscuous heteros".
If you don't think all lives have equal value, you have no place in public health discussions.
If you don't think all lives have equal value, you have no place in public health discussions.
6+ yrs ago, people weren't sick for a month at a time.
Someone on Twitter (I'm sorry, I don't remember who) said that if you're sick for weeks at a time and/or get sick all the time, then you're immunocompromised.
The more I think about it, it is true.
And we know covid hurts your immune system.
Someone on Twitter (I'm sorry, I don't remember who) said that if you're sick for weeks at a time and/or get sick all the time, then you're immunocompromised.
The more I think about it, it is true.
And we know covid hurts your immune system.
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
6+ yrs ago, people weren't sick for a month at a time.
Someone on Twitter (I'm sorry, I don't remember who) said that if you're sick for weeks at a time and/or get sick all the time, then you're immunocompromised.
The more I think about it, it is true.
And we know covid hurts your immune system.
Someone on Twitter (I'm sorry, I don't remember who) said that if you're sick for weeks at a time and/or get sick all the time, then you're immunocompromised.
The more I think about it, it is true.
And we know covid hurts your immune system.
I think a lot of people have no idea that GI symptoms are often a part of a covid infection.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I think a lot of people have no idea that GI symptoms are often a part of a covid infection.
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Five years ago, we all applauded nurses, public health, and health care workers every evening for saving lives.
Today, the federal government does not consider these workers professional.
This says everything about the state of US health care.
Today, the federal government does not consider these workers professional.
This says everything about the state of US health care.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Five years ago, we all applauded nurses, public health, and health care workers every evening for saving lives.
Today, the federal government does not consider these workers professional.
This says everything about the state of US health care.
Today, the federal government does not consider these workers professional.
This says everything about the state of US health care.
All those silly Threads posts about Floridians having to go out and buy winter pants......
......what.....did you all wear last winter?
......what.....did you all wear last winter?
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
All those silly Threads posts about Floridians having to go out and buy winter pants......
......what.....did you all wear last winter?
......what.....did you all wear last winter?
F us all.
1/3 John Knox, anti-vaccine activist, is now acting head of ASPR -- the agency that handles pandemic response.
He’s called COVID vaccine campaigns “nothing other than genocide.” 😶
Not exactly reassuring...
He’s called COVID vaccine campaigns “nothing other than genocide.” 😶
Not exactly reassuring...
Meet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemic
Former firefighter John Knox's ties to RFK Jr. have landed him atop the agency that helped bring Covid-19 under control. People in the know are worried.
www.msnbc.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
F us all.
"Long COVID is real. It’s wrecking lives. And it’s not going to stay hidden forever.
It just takes this species a while. We delay. We deny. We look away. But eventually, the truth gets loud enough."
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Long Covid & My Brother-in-Law
www.notesforfriends.com/p/long-covid...
It just takes this species a while. We delay. We deny. We look away. But eventually, the truth gets loud enough."
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Long Covid & My Brother-in-Law
www.notesforfriends.com/p/long-covid...
Long Covid & My Brother-in-Law
I was talking to my brother-in-law the other day about something completely unrelated.
www.notesforfriends.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Long COVID is real. It’s wrecking lives. And it’s not going to stay hidden forever.
It just takes this species a while. We delay. We deny. We look away. But eventually, the truth gets loud enough."
----------------------------
Long Covid & My Brother-in-Law
www.notesforfriends.com/p/long-covid...
It just takes this species a while. We delay. We deny. We look away. But eventually, the truth gets loud enough."
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Long Covid & My Brother-in-Law
www.notesforfriends.com/p/long-covid...
Found two KN95 mask-wearers in Epic today! 😃
October 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Found two KN95 mask-wearers in Epic today! 😃
Saw a commercial on tv that was recruiting people to work for ICE.
Ugh, turned that **** off (to a different channel).
Ugh, turned that **** off (to a different channel).
October 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Saw a commercial on tv that was recruiting people to work for ICE.
Ugh, turned that **** off (to a different channel).
Ugh, turned that **** off (to a different channel).
Really sick of these people on FB who laugh react at all the general posts about vaccines and anything mentioning covid yet no laugh emoji when it comes to kids dying from vaccine-preventable diseases. Hopefully they're bots, but the autistic in me is just mad at the dissonance of it all.
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Really sick of these people on FB who laugh react at all the general posts about vaccines and anything mentioning covid yet no laugh emoji when it comes to kids dying from vaccine-preventable diseases. Hopefully they're bots, but the autistic in me is just mad at the dissonance of it all.
I’m on day 10 of 10 in a row, and I’m like, never again.
Except for I think this may happen again because of how I schedule both jobs. 🙃
Except for I think this may happen again because of how I schedule both jobs. 🙃
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m on day 10 of 10 in a row, and I’m like, never again.
Except for I think this may happen again because of how I schedule both jobs. 🙃
Except for I think this may happen again because of how I schedule both jobs. 🙃
We really need to try and get rid of the “during covid” and “during the pandemic” word choices.
Covid is now. It never left. It continues to infect and DISABLE people, whether you see it or not.
Covid is now. It never left. It continues to infect and DISABLE people, whether you see it or not.
October 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We really need to try and get rid of the “during covid” and “during the pandemic” word choices.
Covid is now. It never left. It continues to infect and DISABLE people, whether you see it or not.
Covid is now. It never left. It continues to infect and DISABLE people, whether you see it or not.
Breathing in so much secondhand smoke it’s awful. Should I go back inside to eat? This sucks.
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Breathing in so much secondhand smoke it’s awful. Should I go back inside to eat? This sucks.
What do you think is worse - covid or secondhand smoke? Sigh. I just want to have clean air during my lunch break.
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What do you think is worse - covid or secondhand smoke? Sigh. I just want to have clean air during my lunch break.
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Oh look, vaccines work.
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Oh look, vaccines work.
Ugh. Was just informed that telehealth isn't covered by insurance anymore. So now I have to go in person to my GI. Sigh.
October 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ugh. Was just informed that telehealth isn't covered by insurance anymore. So now I have to go in person to my GI. Sigh.
Aranet reading: 393, baby.
September 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Aranet reading: 393, baby.
We decided to go ahead and schedule our covid vaccine and not wait for Novavax. :( It's hard waiting and waiting and not knowing when it will arrive in our area.
Mainly, I want to be immunized and have it take effect before I go back to work at the hospital due to lunch break conditions.
Mainly, I want to be immunized and have it take effect before I go back to work at the hospital due to lunch break conditions.
September 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We decided to go ahead and schedule our covid vaccine and not wait for Novavax. :( It's hard waiting and waiting and not knowing when it will arrive in our area.
Mainly, I want to be immunized and have it take effect before I go back to work at the hospital due to lunch break conditions.
Mainly, I want to be immunized and have it take effect before I go back to work at the hospital due to lunch break conditions.
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For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
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September 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I've bookmarked the Costco immunization page and am scrolling in all my covid groups for any news of Novavax. Sigh.
PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week.
Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition.
The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.
Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition.
The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.
RFK Jr.’s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids
A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've bookmarked the Costco immunization page and am scrolling in all my covid groups for any news of Novavax. Sigh.