WhiteCollar

In my quest to find out why #WhiteCollar & #tech workers are being #sacked, I’m watching “Future of Work” Pt2. What an eye opener.

<https://youtube.com/watch?v=d7QAVccsLUA>

Set in ‘21 in the post Covid era, “Future Of Work” shows how the onset of the #pandemic and #AI explosion via #ChatGPT is going to play out for white collar workers as it did for #gig economy workers.

Do take a peep through the #WhiteCollar tag to get an idea of how it’s playing out.

European Vaccine Hub, funded by EU, brings together research institutions and manufacturers.

The purpose is to get from gene sequencing to vaccine within months, when the next pandemic arrives.

https://www.dzif.de/en/launch-european-vaccines-hub-pandemic-readiness-new-european-public-private-partnership-public

I've been #baking by hand for months and it is so easy and so good. A lot of people gave up on it after the #pandemic but why? You can basically 3D print #food with this. There is no downside to baking your own food. Just go and do it. #bakingmastodon #bread #breadmaking

World agrees #pandemic accord for tackling outbreaks of disease - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/20/world-agrees-pandemic-accord-for-tackling-outbreaks-of-disease-who-covid "Hailed as ‘a victory for public health,’ the agreement aims to build on the lessons of Covid-19 and protect the globe from pathogenic threats" bit of good news

Raina McIntyre:
Unicef estimates that in the absence of a vaccine, the world would have seen 5 million deaths due to smallpox every year in the mid-1990s. I am sure anti-vaccine groups would be raging against the statistic that smallpox vaccines, by achieving eradication, has prevented over 190 million deaths since 1980.

Without vaccines, we would see a rise in vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, polio, meningitis and so on, and a rise in infant mortality as a result. Until about 20 years ago, infectious diseases were among the leading causes of death in the world. We may see previously rare infectious diseases climb again to become a top cause of death in the world. Covid and lower respiratory infections are already in the top 10.

#health #healthcare #Australia #covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #GetBoosted #vaccines #disabled #disability #LongCovid #H5N1 #pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/19/junk-science-vaccine-refusers-and-the-return-of-smallpox-what-worries-one-of-australias-top-epidemiologists

In 1962, Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia died of measles.
In twelve hours.

Now, children are dying again for the same reason — they weren’t vaccinated.

It doesn't have to be this way.

https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/05/12/measles-doesnt-care-about-your-politics

"A Leaked Memo Reveals Details About Trump’s War on Science at the NIH."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/nih-hhs-leaked-memo-funding-cuts-trump-war-on-science-vaccines-rfk-climate-change-covid-china/

"The National Institutes of Health (#NIH) plans to end future funding for research projects focused on #vaccine hesitancy and the #Covid #pandemic, as well as #gender-affirming care, #climate change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion [#DEI], among other areas, according to a new draft guidance memo reviewed by Mother Jones."

#Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of #Coronaviruses in #Bats
As #China and the #UnitedStates trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the #Covid #pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/science/covid-coronavirus-bats-genetics.html
https://archive.ph/BP1OJ

Oh that's just what the Department of Health and Human Services needed: another crank winger quack with a literal body count working to "protect" the health of Americans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/covid-hydroxychloroquine-steve-hatfill

US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role

"A proponent of using the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 despite scant evidence of its efficacy has been named to a top pandemic prevention role at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Washington Post reports.

Steven J Hatfill is a virologist who served in Donald Trump’s first administration, during which he promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus in the early months of the pandemic, when vaccines and treatments were not yet available. He recently started as a special adviser in the office of the director of the administration for strategic preparedness and response, which prepares the country to respond to pandemics, as well as chemical and biological attacks.

The Trump administration embraced using the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, along with other drugs such as ivermectin and chloroquine, as treatments against Covid-19, despite concerns over both their efficacy and potentially serious side-effects. In June 2020, just months after the pandemic started, the Food and Drug Administration warned against using hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat Covid-19 over “reports of serious heart rhythm problems and other safety issues”, even after Trump approved ordering millions of doses of the drug for US patients from Brazil."

For those of you who don't remember the pandemic response during Trump's first term, the hydroxychoroquine scandal hit national headlines when after the Kelpto Kaiser promoted a version of the drug as a preventative medicine that could stop the spread of Covid, an Arizona couple in their 60's drank some fish tank cleaner that had similar chemicals in it and one of them literally died. Trump skated by because he was president and he didn't actually tell anyone to drink fish tank cleaner, but his promotion of the drug was criticized by the FDA at the time and there's no question that Trump's factually unsupported recommendation got someone killed. Now the quack scientist who told Trump hydroxychoroquine could safely treat Covid, is back in a special advisor's role to the government's response team for pandemics, as well as chemical and biological attacks.

It's objectively hard to tell if Hatfill's appointment is more about Trump's attempts to force his critics to say he was always right about everything even when his nonsense got someone killed, RFK Jr's quest to transform HHS into a haven for grifter Covid quacks who support alternatives to vaccines, or a general class war effort by the regime to neglect anything that helps poor people survive disasters; frankly, it might be all three. Regardless of the motivations here however, the objective truth is that appointing a guy like Hatfill to the pandemic response team represents a clear and obvious danger to the health of Americans.

2025-May-02 Friday

492 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19

1,227,441 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

Preparing for the Next Pandemic - While the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t an experience anyone wants to repeat, infection... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/02/preparing-for-the-next-pandemic/ #infectiousdiseases #contacttracing #medicalhacks #epidemiology #medicine #pandemic #birdflu #disease #flu

Quick-thinking South Korean police officer rescues woman after silent 112 call for help https://www.byteseu.com/968422/ #112 #Abuse #DomesticViolence #EmergencyCall #EmergencyDispatch #EmergencyHotline #helpline #IntimatePartners #JejuProvincialPoliceAgency #KnockKnock #Pandemic #PhysicalViolence #police #report #SexualViolence #SouthKorea #victims

OK so I have a series about how anarchic organization likely would have enabled much faster vaccine development and roll out because of the lack of need for permission or secrecy at so many steps... But let's talk about how I spent 2020 and 2021... My friend Hadi and i had a small grant and were able to test the effectiveness of pooling samples in PCR testing, proving that we had no problem detecting 1 person infected in a pool of 40 people. #anarchy #pandemic #capitalism

This #ArborDay, a reminder that trees aren't just important for the environment.

Tree loss can create the conditions for humans and virus-infected animals to collide — meaning the next deadly pandemic is just a forest clearing away.

https://www.propublica.org/article/pandemic-spillover-outbreak-guinea-forest-clearing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Three events make me notice ways a society's establishment deflects criticism: Veterans Day, masking attitudes, and mass shootings.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2022/11/establishment-deflects-criticism

You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death

Recent research suggests that rats may not have played a critical role in the spread of plague. What can that tell us about outbreak narratives and their importance?

By David Popa

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-history/youve-been-lied-about-rats-and-black-death

The Plague at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=plague&submit_search=Search

Telemedicine could have a positive effect on climate change, study finds https://www.byteseu.com/946984/ #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #HealthCare #ManagedCare #Medicine #Pandemic #Research #telemedicine