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A thread of SARS2 prevention tools, since I find myself digging up the same links time after time when people ask what to do
Just wild that this week of agony could have been short-circuited with what looks like one dose of Flexeril
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Reporter: “Pete Hegseth says you want to see him in prison.”
Rep. Thomas Massie: “ There’s no way that I would go to visit him”
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Russell Brand won’t see your tweets supporting him
But everyone else can see you supporting a rapist
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I'm writing about death and education because nobody involved in the curriculum review is.
And somebody needs to.
I teach Science, but I suspect that we will probably want to use Arts subjects when we finally decide to teach children about the pandemic.
ALT Man wearing black respirator mask in The National Gallery in London.
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I don't know which lessons you would use to teach children about the pandemic. Would it be Science? History?
Does “During Covid” count as history, contemporary history, or current affairs?
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The 401(k) is a gambling vehicle for the stock market. It was introduced as a replacement for pensions in the 1980s. It shifted the risk of retirement from the employer to the worker.
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13 /n So we’re asking people to sacrifice 5–6 years of earnings, savings, and financial stability for a credential that may not even improve their long-term earning potential. And then we’re surprised that academia increasingly selects for those who can afford that sacrifice.
People who say things like "what's wrong with being broke for a few years" didn't come from poverty and they know they're not going back into it after their little foray into not having enough money for fun for a few years
It's a completely different ballgame
11/n To those who say, “What’s wrong with being broke for a few years while doing your PhD?”: being able to afford being broke is itself an enormous privilege.
It assumes you have a safety net, family resources, or ways to recover financially. Not everyone does.
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9/n So when someone adds tuition waivers to our stipends and declares a six-figure “compensation package,” it misses the point. Tuition waivers don’t pay rent, buy groceries. And graduate students are expected to produce excellent research under these conditions.
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8/n If I had to name one factor contributing to my underperformance as a PhD student, it would be financial anxiety. My mental health has been getting progressively worse with each passing year, sometimes at what feels like an exponential rate.
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7/n None of this is just about consumption or lifestyle. Financial insecurity creates a constant background of anxiety: whether you can afford healthcare, an unexpected expense, or simply seeing your family. It takes up mental bandwidth that could otherwise go into research.
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As a Covid-informed teacher and parent, I can't emphasise enough the role of the forced sharing of air in schools.
It is worse than you imagine, however this means that there are LOTS of easy wins here.
I emphasise masks, but there are so many other ways to cut the R value.
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There’s a critical aspect of SARS-CoV-2 infection that many still don't grasp. This virus has a way of affecting us all differently, but one thing is increasingly clear: children are alarmingly MORE susceptible to airborne pathogens like TB, RSV, and pneumonia. The reason? Their school environment encapsulates and forces sharing of air filled with biologically hazardous pathogens, and their immune systems are still developing, making them more vulnerable to such infections.
Moreover, there's growing evidence of cognitive impairment in children post-COVID. This is deeply concerning, yet it's been completely overshadowed by nostalgia for normalcy and the dangerous idea that ‘learning loss’ from lost proximity to human bodies is more of a priority than ‘brain cells lost’ to infection. The assumption that a temporary switch to remote education was more harmful than exposing children to a virus that can impair their cognitive abilities was a tragic miscalculation.
Adults, on the other hand, while they may be more reluctant to admit it, are experiencing cognitive declines too. And they're facing different battles – vascular issues, endocrine irregularities, digestive problems, and potentially an increased susceptibility to fungal infections. These are not just abstract risks; they are the direct consequences of repeated COVID-19 infections.
What's frustrating is that these outcomes are preventable. Yet, there seems to be a lack of will to initiate change. The former Surgeon General @JeromeAdamsMD’s words resonate deeply here: We are indeed facing an 'immune deficit', not from a lack of exposure to various pathogens, but from an overwhelming exposure to one particular virus.
This virus is not just a fleeting illness; it has long-term implications that are now unfolding before us. The choices made, driven by certain groups and the desire for normalcy, have led us to this point. It's vital we understand this, not to dwell on the past, but to make informed choices for our future.
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ableism is so common by leftists when it comes to certain disorders and no one treats it seriously because those disorders are "funny" or "weird". yes i'm talking about schizophrenia. we shouldn't be calling people schizophrenic over stuff we dislike.
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Look, either PhDs should be expected to take much longer so grad students can do more work on the side to support themselves, or universities have to swallow the bitter pill that if a person is expected to spend all their time on something they should be able to live off it
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Many men telling I'm projecting and this is what women & feminists do like there aren't studies showing when men see a gender ratio of 50/50 they perceive men are outnumbered and in order to see equality men have to outnumber women at least 4 to 1.
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Indeed. In “Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing” Jared Sexton (2017) states that what y’all actually need to be concerned about is the pushing of Black men as police in the film industry.
ALT Cover of Jared Sexton’s (2017) book, “Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing”.
ALT Page 7 of Jared Sexton’s (2017) book, “Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing”.
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Maturing is learning that, in virtually every way imaginable, the US hasn't just been developing slowly or even poorly...but that the US has made endless series of intentional decisions, regressing and staying behind on purpose to benefit a relative handful of greedy sociopaths