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CB Beal

@arcbender.bsky.social

The people rolling back vaccine protections are the same people that told you it was safe to take off your masks.
😷 FOOL ME ONCE... 😷

PS They didn't actually fool me, but if their skilled disinformation fooled you, it's never too late to start masking again. Also ventilate and clean the air.
k, thx

this is an image with the first sentence of the main post, as well as two emojis of a yellow person's head with a face mask on it. The image is on a green background, the color of old green Tupperware.

December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM

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World Health Network

@thewhn.bsky.social

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

Same clean white poster with paper texture; ‘whn.global’ at top. Big statement line mid-page where ‘Long COVID’ appears in red and the rest in black; two short paragraphs below.
Text: ‘Paraphrased from David Brasure’s WHN blog post, “COVID Is Different.” Read the full article at whn.global/covid-is-different.
Long COVID is caused by SARS-CoV-2.
Persistent symptoms come from real, documented damage. Not anxiety, not imagination, not “just needing rest.” Hundreds of thousands of studies show SARS-CoV-2 affects the body in ways we’re still uncovering.
Just because you’ve had multiple infections and “felt fine” doesn’t mean it will stay that way.’
Footer line about the World Health Network.

Same minimalist white, paper-texture layout with ‘whn.global’ at top. A large heading ‘Here’s what you can do.’ sits above a simple bullet list; the final URL slug ‘covid-is-different’ is in red.
Text: ‘Paraphrased from David Brasure’s WHN blog post, “COVID Is Different.” Read the full article at whn.global/covid-is-different.
Here’s what you can do.
• Improve air quality (filters, ventilation)
• Wear a high-filtration mask in shared indoor air
• Test when exposed or symptomatic
• Stay home when sick
• Use layered protections with friends, family, and workplaces
Read more at whn.global/covid-is-different’
Footer line about the World Health Network.

December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Chronic Walnut

@chronicwalnut.bsky.social

I am mildly obsessed with how Covid shows up in pop culture. This single panel from a larger comic by @xkcd.com is so evocative!

Five stick figures with various hats and hairstyles stand and walk around. All are wearing varieties of face mask (surgical, KN94 and N95.) Most are looking at their phone screens — one is conversing with another who is telling him something from her phone. Square “thought bubbles” above the phone users indicate what’s on their phone screens: all have variations of charts with data rising exponentially.

November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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Dr. Susan Winters ☕️

@docwinter.bsky.social

Metformin started soon after #COVID19 infection linked to ~50% lower risk of long COVID or death at 6 months, echoing prior RCT signals.

Cheap, generic, worth a hard look.

#LongCOVID #EpiSky #MedSky #bsky

Metformin at the time of Covid-19 infection and risk of Long Covid: A Target Trial Emulation Study

Background: Our objective was to evaluate metformin prescribed at the time of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the risk of developing Long Covid (LC) in electronic health record data. Methods: We conducted a n...

www.authorea.com

November 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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ES/IODE

@esiode.bsky.social

📃Scientific paper: Impact of Preexisting Rare Diseases on COVID-19 Severity, Reinfection, and Long COVID, and the Modifying Effects of Vaccination and Antiviral Therapy: A Retrospective Study from the N3C Data Enclave

Ref.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025

➡️ Continued on ES/IODE

November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM

CB Beal

@arcbender.bsky.social

Capitulation is capitulation.
Giving in to bullies, whether in Middle School, 🧊-y streets, or Congress, NEVER gets people free.

Dems, if you haven't learned about fascism (which might could explain why you keep doing the same thing you always did), start now.
On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder.
🧵1/10

This is primarily a word-based image. It is written with the conceit of a To Do List.
It reads:
Fall chores from Nov 10 until completed

Swap bug light string for holiday cheer string
Refill sand and salt bins
Replace broken snow shovel
Get turkey, duck, and oil for the fryer
Replace politicians too chickenshit to fight
fascism.
Tim Kaine Angus King
Jeanne Shaheen Dick Durbin
Catherine Cortez Masto
John Fetterman
Maggie Hassan
Jacky Rosen
“Do not speak of “our
institutions unless you
make them yours by acting
on their behalf.”

There is a small meme with a misspelled STOP sign painted on a street. It is spelled STPO, and it reads, "you only had one job."
added to this meme is "hold the line against an authoritarian takeover."

There is also a snip of the first paragraph of Lesson 2, which is quoted completely in the OP.

November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM

CB Beal

@arcbender.bsky.social

You know what goes up when airplanes stay on the ground?

The amount of other people's exhaled air swirling
around your faceholes.

We protect people by protecting them.
COVID, 🧊, food insecurity; all of it.
We protect and help one another, or we don't.
Simple.

Full alt text in image.
😷🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿🗽

This is a word based image. In the background is a partially transparent photo image of abouu 100 people in a weaving line at an airport.
The words read, "What goes up when airplanes stay on the ground?

The amount of other people's exhaled air swirling
around your faceholes.

Even though we are in a relative "lull," it's estimated that there will be 2 million new effingvirus cases a week for the next couple of weeks.

But we're in month 2 of a CDC data blackout and thousands of people are piled on top of each other in airports and on airplanes for hours at a time.... it is bad.
Even if you don't usually, this is a situation where you should wear a good well fitted respirator.."

November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy

@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation.

"Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize"

Source: archive.li/0CwNs

October 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM

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Christophe Veltsos

@drinfosec.bsky.social

This 👇 is 🎯🎯🎯 - 4min video, but worth watching, bookmarking, and sharing!

youtu.be/Omc37TvHN74?...

H/t @isucceed.bsky.social

why facts dont change minds (goose explains)

YouTube video by Honkology

youtu.be

September 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM

CB Beal

@arcbender.bsky.social

dear my white people.
this thread, and reflect.
k thx.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 13

An interesting note in the midst of all of this "resistance" and "oh no, there's more white supremacy" is the number of popular white commentators on "how bad things are" have posted something racist or sexist and how badly they've taken it when I said something, no matter how civil I was

September 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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The Boston Globe

@bostonglobe.com

Josh Kraft, the nonprofit leader who sought to unseat Mayor Michelle Wu, said he was ending his bid for Boston mayor.

Josh Kraft drops out of race for Boston mayor - The Boston Globe

“When I kept looking at the next eight weeks, the negativity, and all that it was going to be about. I realized, wow, I can do more," Kraft said.

trib.al

September 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Angie Rasmussen

@angierasmussen.bsky.social

Charlie Kirk’s death is awful and abhorrent but it’s appalling that the President is calling for national mourning for a right wing propagandist and hasn’t said a word about Officer David Rose or the brave employees at the CDC

September 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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The Unitarian Universalist Association

@uua.org

As the weight of violence presses more heavily on our world, many of us carry grief and weariness. ✨ Our faith does not retreat. It rises. ✨

Grounded in love, we show up for one another and for our neighbors with courage and compassion.

https://sidewithlove.org/actioncenter

#UU #LoveAtTheCenter

September 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Will Carless, USA TODAY

@willcarless.bsky.social

In 20 years of journalism on several continents I’ve never seen authorities leave an active crime scene open like this.

Wild

Especially since there are hundreds of cops nearby

Will Carless, USA TODAY @willcarless.bsky.social · Sep 11

#BREAKING: I spoke w construction workers whose colleague says he spoke w the suspected #CharlieKirk shooter yesterday.

I also watched FBI agents collecting evidence and viewed a track the gunman appears to have taken through some trees:

www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

FBI recovers rifle used in Charlie Kirk shooting, traces path through woods

FBI investigators released limited details about the bolt-action rifle recovered in Utah. They're tracing a path the alleged shooter fled on.

www.usatoday.com

September 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

September 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM

CB Beal

@arcbender.bsky.social

Aaaannnnnnd, someone let him tweet himself again.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Sep 10

The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.

September 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM

CB Beal

@arcbender.bsky.social

SinceTrump/RFK Jr/Doge fired most of the staff, it seems the CDC asked Harold to update the charts

The image is a criticism of the CDC and its handling of COVID-19 data.

Top: Text reads "Trump/RFK Jr/Doge fired most of the staff, so the CDC asked Harold to update the charts."
next to this is an image of Harold and the Purple Crayon

Left Side: A line graph titled "Percentage of Emergency Department Visits with Diagnosed COVID-19 in United States, All Ages." The graph shows a wavy blue line representing the percentage over time, from November 2024 to August 2025. A red line overlays a portion of the blue line, circling it in the May 2025 data.
Bottom Left: Text reads "May 28 = .04" beneath the left graph.
Right Side: An image of the book cover "Harold and the Purple Crayon", next to a second graph.
Right Side Graph: An image of a graph displaying "% ED visits diagnosed as COVID-19". The value '1.6%' is displayed with smaller text indicating the week ending 2025-08-30 and a previous week of 1.5%.
Bottom Right: Text
, "The same May 28 is now made to look like it is zero". There is a graph next to it with a smaller percent value indicated at the matching time on the horizontal axis

these indicate that the graph is now made to appear to "bottom out" at zero, but really they have simply moved it off the graph entirely

September 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM

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MaskTogetherAmerica

@togetherwemask.bsky.social

🚨Eight U.S. states (MA, ME, VT, CT, RI, NY, NJ & PA) are considering a collaboration in creating science-based 💉immunization policy and guidance, @nbcboston.com reports. bit.ly/NBC_Boston_8...

🔥But let's be clear, under the new CDC guidance, most Americans are still eligible for COVID Vaccines. 🧵

NBC Boston article:
Northeastern states consider regional approach to vaccine guidance after CDC changes
By Malcolm Johnson • Published August 22, 2025 • Updated on August 22, 2025 at 7:44 pm
https://bit.ly/NBC_Boston_8StatesGuidance

September 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM

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Angie Rasmussen

@angierasmussen.bsky.social

This Labor Day, I’m thinking about all my colleagues in the US federal government who lost their jobs due to the Trump administration’s cruel and unconstitutional dismantling of our democracy. Solidarity and gratitude for your service to our country.

September 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM

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Raywat Deonandan

@deonandan.bsky.social

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:

-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040

How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.

You will note USA is not on this list.

September 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM

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Angie Rasmussen

@angierasmussen.bsky.social

Not to belabor the point but RFK Jr is going to implement policies that will kill thousands or even millions of people if he is not removed.

Thanks to @thewarningses.bsky.social @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for the frank discussion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxc...

Why the CDC Matters More Than Ever | A Conversation with Dr. Angela Rasmussen

YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt

www.youtube.com

August 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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Bonky

@shesbonky.bsky.social

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

August 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness

@crankyqueer.bsky.social

So proud to be a part of this project! Thank you to @thesicktimes.bsky.social and @longcovidjustice.bsky.social and to all the fantastic writers, translator @lygianavarro.com, medical reviewers and patient reviewers!