I like this latest comic from @jensorensen (I like her work so much I support her on Patreon)
https://www.patreon.com/jensorensen/posts

We need to talk about #Covid & #LongCovid . As this comic points out, many people got the wrong message from the pandemic & this wasn't an accident. There was an organized effort to spread disinformation. It was profitable for individuals & social media companies.
Health #disinformation on #socialmedia needs to be fixed, because it's killing people.

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"Oof, it's so painful!"

"Do you mean pain from Long Covid symptoms? Or painful grief from losing family and friends to Covid?"

"No, I mean attacks from folks who say I'm contributing to disability and death by doing nothing to stop the spread of Covid!"

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Disability

when folks learn to wrong lesson from history we must all work to ensure they never get power again or history will repeat itself.

#democracy is more than how we vote.

Some "both-sides" troll has been trying to convince me this afternoon that "#Biden has been as bad as T**** re: Covid" b/c "they both gave up fighting it too soon" (as if T**** ever fought it at all.)

When I asked him how Biden was supposed to convince people to protect themselves from NON-lethal Covid when they wouldn't even protect themselves from LETHAL Covid, he had no answer except to lob juvenile attacks on my character. 🤦‍♂️

There's an old saying, think it's from Philosopher George Santayana, about how those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it ...

Thing is, there's always been 'two schools of thought' ... once upon a time people with contagious diseases like TB were isolated until cured ... and dumb people thought it was ok to expose their children to measles, mumps etc ... then along came vaccines and everybody relaxed ...

But ... the US held Event 201 just before Covid hit ... and seems none of the reps learned anything from history or even from the 'pandemic exercise' they participated in ... so I doubt they've learned anything since simply because "The Economy" matters most.

https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise

Event 201 | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.

^{Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security}

Americans in this thread may find this feed useful or interesting.

Each Friday the total number of Americans killed by Covid 19 is updated.

Each Friday the number of Americans killed in the last week by Covid 19 is posted.

https://mastodon.social/@WeeklyAmericanPandemicDeaths

Most office work can be done from home. It's better done from home - less vehicles on the roads. The infrastructure is already here for it to work.

The shocking takeaway for me from Covid was how many really stupid people existed. The science was there but people did not protect themselves and those around them against the new disease. The 5 million US dead are largely not "accidental" but more manslaughter due to unmasked idiots pretending Covid didn't exist.