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Dr. Jen Gunter@drjengunter.bsky.social |
So we just work around people with Covid then? Sharing the cafeteria and coming to work with runny noses and take the elevator with people who are immunocompromised? I guess we don’t do public health anymore, just popular health?
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Cynde
@cynde.bsky.social
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What’s a biohazard level 3 between coworkers? Let’s share food too! And coffee mugs!
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Alice Stevens®
@sickalice.bsky.social
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As some who is immunocompromised do you think people were actually minding anything the whole time? No and especially not for other people's welfare and they never have. I just avoid people whenever possible. I'm not trusting them to do their part.
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Ornery Fella
@orneryhypatiafella.bsky.social
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Exactly as we always have. Privledge means being able to afford keeping infections to yourself. Did you honestly think things would change just because the germ du jour can be permanently diabilitating or even lethal? This is America!
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His Royal Huwness
@litterygeniarse.bsky.social
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I shall be virtually shielding and getting very angry when I venture out and encounter people who give me crap for wearing a mask. Also tweeting our useless UK health officials, CMOs, and opposition health spokespeople and health correpondent all of whom are doing (excuse me) FUCK ALL.
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David Blanchflower BSc
@davidbflower.bsky.social
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Been like that in the UK for over 2 years, Jen. Hmm...
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Christopher Roberts
@ninjaswords.bsky.social
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They have lost way too many of the genes in their Y chromosome to even have the ability to understand healthcare ad “ignore” healthcare just like they ignore the frivolous loss of genes in their y chromosome.
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Veronica Tash
@veronicatash.bsky.social
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We let them sip from our drinks and put their finhers in our mouths because our national mantra is "Never dream of anything better, slave."
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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I was so proud of how many people on the left were defensive of the immunocompromised during 2020 - 2021. Now the left is still generally better, but it kind of feels like many were just using us as a political bludgeon that was easily discarded when they got tired of covid precautions.
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Meowlnir
@meowlnir.bsky.social
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We just got past the second highest spike too. This is based on nothing but care of capitalism
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ana is tired
@koutavi.bsky.social
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everybody else wanting to go back to "normal" so badly and me still masking around strangers like "i trust none of you and besides covid sucking it's been really nice not getting seasonal illnesses, actually?" we have never really done public health, we do capitalist health. this is return to form.
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Jim Vanderwal
@jimvanderwal.bsky.social
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Popular health mantras: “Be kind” “Sneeze into your elbow” “You do you” 🤡
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TBD
@wpv.bsky.social
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Yes, just like during the scamdemic
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Nancy Jane Moore
@nancyjane.bsky.social
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I still haven't figured out why having everyone get sick all the time is "popular" or, for that matter, seen as inevitable.
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Mort au Fascisme
@maf78.bsky.social
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It's a symptom of the Biden/mainstream Dem we-don't-wanna-be-too-different-from-Republicans-because-then-they'll-never-vote-for-us strategy. So sad.
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@ear-rational.bsky.social
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I’ll take comfort that the nurse or doctor taking care of my sick loved one in the ICU may have Covid, but at least they stayed home a day per the COD guidelines.
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Dan Shugar
@watershedlab.bsky.social
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Popular health. That's golden.
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Rachel Trousdale
@rvtrousdale.bsky.social
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Here I'd been kind of hoping Covid would mean we could normalize staying home when we're badly sick even with less-deadly diseases.
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Diana Martinez
@5footscientist.bsky.social
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It’s why I still mask. Four years covid free, I have a family member who is immunocompromised and have no interest in brining anything home.
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Grave Accent
@grvacc.bsky.social
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yeah we always come to work sick. I work with kids, we don't have a choice. we just stay sick. it fuckin rules. I've never been so powerful since I started this job. I'm sick 100% of the time and I don't even feel it anymore. I think I'm immortal. unaffected by hangovers. cough in my mouth.
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Jeb Boyt
@jeboyt.bsky.social
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Public vs popular, nice framing. I worked at a state health agency during the pandemic. I was repeatedly told to shut up and sit down while we did nothing as people died.
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Ghosty 👻
@ghostyspook.bsky.social
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I was very much hoping we would come Out of all this with, at a bare min, ‘wear a mask when sick’ but idek if that’s in the guidance let alone the public
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@oneofthesurvivors.bsky.social
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Trump and MAGA deemed science unnecessary
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c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
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I keep hoping they'll come out with a stronger argument than: "doing very little wasn't working to reduce the spread, so we want to try doing nothing for a while."
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🐝 Rappaccini
@rappaccini.bsky.social
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I’m reading a book published in the 2010s where the protagonist keeps going to work with ‘a nasty cold’ and I’m like No no please STOP THat 😬
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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This year is not 2020, or 2021 or 2022 or even 2023. There is a level of population-level immunity due to vaccines and previous infections that we simply did not have before.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️⚧
@charliejane.bsky.social
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If we just keep fucking around, maybe we'll never get to the "find out" stage
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Mike Wiser
@drmikewiser.bsky.social
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I hate that this appears to be our reality, but: teaching multi-hundred students college courses in person has absolutely felt like this since mask mandates were dropped. I'm not sure I've had a single lecture section without people coughing and sneezing.
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Anita McP / miscelena 🌳🧬
@miscelena.bsky.social
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We always have been. In April of 2022, I got COVID indirectly (via my husband) from someone he worked with... He's in the construction trade, and most laborers only get paid for hours they work. They need to eat, so I don't blame them. This is a failure of gov't to mandate paid sick time.
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ENVY2024
@envy2024.bsky.social
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Get vaccinated. Come on, get real, Runny nose doesn’t mean COVID. People who are immunocompromised know to wear a mask.
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Christopher Granholm
@cdgranholmjr.bsky.social
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Even prior to COVID; people would go to work when ill unless they were physically unable. Most employers never cared about the well-being of their workers and the economic reality faced by employees made it that much acceptable to go to work when ill.
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voydella
@voydella.bsky.social
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they want to sacrifice people to the church of capitalism. people dying is preferable to the change of status quo in the eyes of these people. hundreds of people still die every day from covid. removal of guidelines is another way for the rich to be served by the poor, who they see as expendable.
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Ellearee
@ellearee.bsky.social
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I work in healthcare, in a safety net hospital serving an underserved patient population. I am also immunocompromised. And very, very weary. Too many colleagues care about fitting in and “getting back to normal” more than protecting patients. Not to mention hospital administration.
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Hittiebell
@mehitabel123.bsky.social
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There's some celebrating going on in some circles....
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emeritrix
@emeritrix.bsky.social
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Some of us memorialized the end of public health in Oregon back when hospital mask mandates were lifted. With lack of testing / false negatives / asymptomatic transmission, we've all been walking around in covid soup for months now already.
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Buck
@thegoodbuck.bsky.social
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Had that in the UK for a year or more. Go in to work with covid. People aren't even testing as it makes no difference if you have it or not.
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PeopleDied2Vote
@peopledied2vote.bsky.social
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Anymore? I worked at a hospital for 10 years. We were ALWAYS been pressured to show up as long as no fever over 100.4%. Common cold, flu, and covid. It's all just treated the same now. Places that are habitually understaffed have been ignoring communicable diseases for YEARS.
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Bebe's Birdhouse
@bebesbirdhouse.bsky.social
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And they say this like ppl actually isolate when sick with other viruses. It's basically throwing up their hands and saying, "you're on your own" but that's the way it's been for so long.😔
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CZieten
@czieten.bsky.social
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Just keep wearing a mask to at least protect yourself and let others think they are strong enough to fight the virus without protection.
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Not Just Phlogiston
@notphlogiston.bsky.social
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Welcome to the world of public school teachers.
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ItsMeMaven
@itsmemaven.bsky.social
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A good reminder here: One way masking with an N95 that fits well is only 83% effective at preventing covid. Wearing a mask, using Enovid, & a hepa/uv filter at my desk saved me for 4 years—then my boss insisted I attend a 4 hour meeting where I was the only one in a respirator. Guess what happened.
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Gregg Levine
@greggjlevine.bsky.social
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Science-shmience—it’s about vibes!
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Nymn
@nymnlilfaris.bsky.social
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It a speedrun to see how long it takes to give everyone long COVID, and they are aiming for a new personal best time
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Dr. Wombat
@aspyre.bsky.social
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5 days was arbitrary, too. CDC has been vibes based this whole pandemic.
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Kurt Risser
@kurtrisser.bsky.social
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Let's not forget the clerks that work in grocery stores, 7-Elevens, everyday folks who probably don't even get any paid time off, and would probably get fired if they called in sick.
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@jmsantiago.bsky.social
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I am breaking out my masks andnever going to a restaurant again.
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Ken Yee
@yuweiquan.bsky.social
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I was on Caltrain a few days ago - on Superb Owl Sunday - and I was one of very few people masked. Maybe it’s because I follow many disabled folks/activists on social media, but I still think about case rates, asymptomatic transmission, immunocompromised folks.
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Hunter Seabrook 🏳️🌈
@sfboi.bsky.social
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Luckily my agency requires people who test positive for COVID to work from home until they are no longer symptomatic
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Velvet Hydrangea
@velvethydrangea.bsky.social
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If that's what the money wants, I guess so. Ah, capitalism!
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Lauren
@laur705.bsky.social
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I don't understand why we are making policy around what *some* people are doing anyway. This is were guidance and education and supportive policies are most needed... but we're doing the opposite.
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@morganarae.bsky.social
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I still wear my mask everywhere. I back it up with Enovid and a portable air purifier in higher risk environments. Nurses are frequently hostile when I ask them to mask.
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Taterkaze Votes Blue
@taterkaze.bsky.social
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Vaccines are the antidote for popular health.
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It's ME(Jaime)
@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
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It's whatever the industry overlords want, Dr. Gunter.
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Mike Shonty
@mjshonty.bsky.social
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My employer abandoned any meaningful changes to protect the immunocompromised as soon as they thought they could get away with it. It's all in service to exerting control over people and making money. At least in the US we exist to make the rich more money, sorry if it's hazardous to your health.
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MassMaker 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸
@massmaker.bsky.social
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I’m immune compromised. The first time I had Covid, I landed in the hospital. This most recent bout was much milder, recovered in about a week. But I know enough not to go visit my 90 yo mom when I’m testing positive. Be smart, don’t be an ass.
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How do I change my display name?
@edhands.bsky.social
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Amen. Apparently proper science and medicine is subject to the whim of the masses now.
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Fat Kid Heavy Industries.
@hailthefatkid.bsky.social
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It's considered optional, like speed limits and firearms safety.
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K
@kkinsf.bsky.social
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You would not believe the deep productive chest cough I heard yesterday on MUNI. I always mask on the bus/train, but I was giving him some serious wtf side eye. He sounded very sick and contagious, whatever it was.
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Deniable Credibility
@dcred.bsky.social
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well obviously. covid's been around for like five years now, it's probably getting really tired by now, so we don't have to worry about it so much!
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Maisie Pubblechook
@maisiepubblechook.bsky.social
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I think the priority is shareholder health.
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David P.
@david-first-last.bsky.social
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We’ve been doing that with the flu for decades.
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Sarah Breau
@sarahbreau.bsky.social
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We're going to have to take down all the "Employees must wash hands before returning to work" signs too because not all employees have been washing their hands so why even have a policy
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Melissa E. Beckwith
@melissabeckwith.bsky.social
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The government is run by corporations, and corporations do not care about human health because there will always be fresh bodies to throw into the grinder. I guess once people *finally* tire of be ruled by corporate greed, maybe we'll start to change things. If there are any of us left.
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Adverbia
@adverbia.bsky.social
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Yup! 20% school absence for the month of January!
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Thomas Nguyen
@nuge.bsky.social
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There's 58 kids absent from preschool today. Also let's roll back our COVID guidelines.
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Periwinkle Pachyderm
@periwinklep.bsky.social
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Let's tell them not to do this wwwn.cdc.gov/dcs/ContactU...
(800)-232-4636
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@bleuchat.bsky.social
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I knew it’d go from limbo to purgatory to hell after Fauci left the scene
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PolyChrome
@jenstone.bsky.social
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🎯
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yaboi kusama
@lexaproletarian.bsky.social
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to be fair we're keeping shareholder value healthy!
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Robyn D
@koparafallskid.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, in Australia:
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Dana
@danadoll.bsky.social
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It’s appalling and embarrassing how non science based the CDC is. Disease control my ass
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Patrick Johanneson 🚀
@patrickjohanneson.com
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Old 'n' busted: public health New hotness: pay-for-health
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Legless Lion
@leglesslion.bsky.social
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Yeah, but unfortunately the world can't just stop because a handful of people have the sniffles. And people can't afford to be out of work. That's Capitalism for you
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drivelmeister
@drivelmeister.bsky.social
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You got it! When my coworker announced on Saturday she had COVID, I figured she would be out the next week. Nope. Saw her in the office on Tuesday. She was surprised at how surprised I was to see her.
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Sarah Tuttle
@niais.bsky.social
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Ayup. And definitely create a pretty large class of newly chronically ill people, don't forget, that we both don't know how to treat (and absolutely will only intermittently cover with health insurance).
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Weaver
@westcoastweaver.bsky.social
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They wanna make sure those who can't afford to take sick days, either because they aren't given or they are unpaid, get punished for keeping others safe.
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett
@markhb.bsky.social
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I'm for doing evidence-based medical best practices but it's against some people's politics. So we're doing preventable deaths instead.
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Arié (pronoun = name) - #FreeThemAll 🏳️🌈ⵣ🪬
@ariemoyal.com
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Yeah capitalism comes first - and public health measures have been getting pushback since the 1918 pandemic
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Teilzeitberliner
@reginak.bsky.social
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Popular health is dead on. (Dark pun intended)
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Inigo Montoya
@rvt338.bsky.social
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Precisely. Go to work. Unless you have something super scary. And why are the compromised out in public anyways? They know the risk of doing so.
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Eternal Cat War
@eternalcatwar.bsky.social
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And that’s why I keep an N95 on
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Caroline Angus
@writercaroline.bsky.social
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Yes, that is exactly what we do. Everyone has the plague as far as I'm concerned. And no one cares about transmission.
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Riggs
@riggsxt.bsky.social
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People don’t want to be bothered and they’ve decided they’ve had enough of being controlled. I don’t agree with that because people are still dying. I’m finding most people don’t care about infecting others but get really upset when they catch Covid. STOP KILLING OTHER PEOPLE I want to scream
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Sandy J-T
@racerxmachina.bsky.social
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*grumpy sigh, reorder another year's supply of masks*
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Pat Riot
@thepatriotghost.bsky.social
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6ft apart and you’re good.
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David Fisman. The other guy is a turnip.
@dfisman.bsky.social
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I want a mulligan on my career choice
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Two Turntables and a Nixraphone
@nixanadoo.com
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Shareholders over healthy humans
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Entery Potivon
@goodguyprime.bsky.social
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I think we are two weeks away from “drink water that has the memory of health.”
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prison4trump
@prison4trump.bsky.social
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Yes. Republican 'health'.
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