Claire Levy

Chatted with a friend who's post-medical school in residency and the topic of the need to expose our immune systems to make it stronger came up. I really want people to remember (or learn for the first time) that 'bacteria' and 'viruses' are not synonyms. (1/7)

@kay_southpaw We've been left to make our own individual risk assessments and most people are making theirs without this basic information. People are equating Covid to regular cold coronaviruses or flu and confusing "probiotics" to include all microbes; there are no good viruses to catch.

@levylevilevoo Okay, but this is not something you can prevent by knowing about it, unlike making mustard gas. I wish masking when being ill was both common knowledge and practice 😞

@CIDRAP @mtosterholm Covid is a vascular disease that could disable you to the point you wish it killed you, but for some reason, you won't hear that here. Also, a fail to not prepare listeners for the foreseeable summer wave (there's been one every year, to not have one would be a surprise). (2/2)

@CIDRAP @mtosterholm This pod continues to treat Covid severity like our government treats the economy; focusing on hospitalizations and deaths like the stock market. Both miss the day-day struggle of the average citizen. (1/2)

New Osterholm Update podcast episode: Disease Waits for No One 🎧 Listen as @mtosterholm and co-host Chris Dall discuss: -A report calling for changes to how the government tracks COVID vaccine harms -A recent meningitis outbreak in the UK & more ow.ly/x1Na50YzoRN

@MungryMark @DoctorLemma My friend is doing this in the US. It is helpful for some people to have a body double to initiate uninteresting tasks. She has repeat clients.

@DoctorLemma You couldn't do this is in America or a country of heavy western influence. I tried doing work exchange in US after Europe, and it just becomes indentured servitude or slavery in pretty coating. Our culture is too sadistic and self serving to have this in a healthy & safe manner

In 2018, a man in Tokyo, Japan was fired from his office job for doing nothing. So he turned doing nothing into a career. His name is Shoji Morimoto. He posted a single message on social media offering to rent himself out to anyone who needed a person present but not involved. He would show up. He would not initiate conversation. He would not give opinions or advice. He would simply be there. The requests that came in revealed something quietly extraordinary about loneliness. People hired him to sit across from them while they ate alone in restaurants. To wave goodbye from the platform as their train departed. To stand at the finish line of a marathon. To sit in the corner of a cafe while a woman served divorce papers to her husband, just so she would not be completely alone when she did it. One person hired him to be video called while they cleaned their room. One person has hired him over two hundred and seventy times. He has handled over four thousand sessions. He charges whatever his clients feel is fair. Last year he earned around eighty thousand US dollars. His former boss told him he was useless. He said doing nothing was not a skill. Morimoto now has half a million followers, a television series based on his work, and four published books. "People do not have to be useful in any specific way," he said. What is something you would actually pay someone to simply show up for?

@KevOnStage A lot of these sound more like Long Covid. Shingles occurs when your immune system can no longer prevent the persistent herpesvirus that causes chickenpox from reactivating. Itchy ears was not a thing until 2022. Medical doctors are canonically 17 years behind the science.

Perimenopause has the WORST symptoms ever!!

@caitoz @ChrisAlvino Not defending the name or ignoring that organizing a general strike or strategic boycotts would be a better use of time/energy, but... "No Kings" is also a rebuke to Congress, the Supreme Court, the military, and all government institutions for giving up their own powers.

It's disgusting that this is the closest thing to a mass-scale antiwar protest in the United States right now. The problem with these "No Kings" protests is right there in the title. They're saying "We don't want a king, we want a president!" But Donald Trump is not a king. He is a president. And that's the real problem: US presidents are extremely evil men who do extremely evil things. Donald Trump is a US president who is doing US president things. US presidents consistently murder people with unforgivable acts of mass military violence, mistreat immigrants and marginalized communities, and promote tyranny for the benefit of corrupting special interests in defense of the US empire and the capitalist status quo. That's what their job is. If they weren't willing to do these things, they wouldn't get the job. Trump is not some freakish aberration; he is the product of the same American political status quo as his predecessors. He became president the same way they did, and the powers he now wields were given to his office via mundane executive, legislative and judicial decisions and precedents before he was ever elected. But because the "No Kings" protests are organized by liberal defenders of that same political status quo, the demonstrations cannot address any of this. The whole thing is designed to be as large and inclusive as possible while also ensuring that it doesn't disrupt the established order in any meaningful way. They make no real demands. They coordinate the demonstrations with police and government officials. Protesters show up for a few hours with their brunch signs and their orange guy shirts, and then they go home without inconveniencing anybody. They are not protesting against the US empire. They just want a more polite, photogenic empire. They are not protesting the corrupt oligarchic political system which gave rise to Donald Trump. They just want the corrupt oligarchic political system to give rise to presidents who make them feel less uncomfortable. The problem is US presidents, not kings. The problem is the US empire, not Trump. The United States needs drastic, revolutionary change, not daytime protests designed to be as inoffensive as possible. As long as Americans are protesting against fictional monarchies and easily replaceable oligarchic puppets instead of resisting the actual imperial machine, the abuses are going to continue. The war in Iran is the most obviously evil American war in generations. People should be flooding the streets in every major US city. Washington DC should be on fire. Soldiers should be deserting en masse. Instead we're seeing these stupid fluffy lib theater conventions where people get together to do nothing. Americans of conscience should be feeling deeply embarrassed right now.

@hashjenni Why would people care about that when they've decided they don't care about killing or disabling themselves or their own children with Covid for the last 6 years as long as the schools and restaurants stay open?

The fact that the Epstein class was revealed to have killed, raped, and eaten children and babies and it DIDN’T stop the world dead in it’s tracks and create a sense of urgency to remove the current administration is beyond me.

@nbcbayarea They should consider improving their ventilation so that they're not the cause of losing more potential customers to Covid-induced alcohol intolerance. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38288178/

The growing number of Americans choosing to abstain from alcohol has bars and restaurants scrambling to rethink their menus and other offerings. nbcbay.com/utUiyl4

@M8Void @TMaritanoAquino Dr Mizono in Albany. I just got them interested in CO2 monitors to check ventilation. Dr Mizono's suite has double doors that can open onto a backyard for more fresh air; could be worth requesting appointments in that space specifically.

Dear Covid Conscious Community, may I ask of you know of any relatively covid conscious dentists in the Bay Area? Bonus points if they are in Alameda or anywhere east bay. My old dentist 2 hours away used to have medical grade HEPA filters by each of the dental chairs

@GrahamGiles7 @MadelaineLucyH I think it's important for boys/men to remember/consider that girls/women have historically been given less freedom by parents/teachers/society and their easiest/only outlet for rebellion has been partnering with a guy. The guy is not important, the escape and loudest fuck you is

@MadelaineLucyH There isn't the same body of evidence that would support men rejecting "nice" girls in favour of bad ones - most of the time we're so bereft of attention from women that we're happy if any woman shows an interest in us at all.

Ok let’s explore the “She Rejected Me Because I’m Nice” myth. This is Janine, you work with her. She’s fine: a solid fine. Not unbelievably pretty, not hideous, just fine. Could easily work at any Walmart. Janine is nice to you. You’re nice to Janine, because you have no reason not to be. Why would you be horrible? You joke around, make small talk at the office printer. You don’t fancy her and it never crossed your mind. One day, Janine asks if you want to get coffee at lunch. You say yes, because she’s never shown any romantic interest in you and it’s not that kind of bond. At the cafe, Janine looks at you and strokes your hand and goes “I really see this going somewhere, like forever.” You aren’t feeling it. She gets upset and accuses you of only liking bad girls. Have you rejected Janine because she’s “too nice?”

@NewsHour Running the World by Jarvis Cocker youtu.be/irFJ1oI8vYE?si…

If America had a playlist, what would be the first track? How would you answer this question? We want to hear from you for an upcoming story: bit.ly/47atDHs

@NewsHour Empire by Dar Williams youtu.be/EvoVI8r8hZw?si…

Some viruses can compromise our immune systems for months-years-forever without treatment, leaving us vulnerable to other illnesses that it normally would have been able to vanquish easily. (7/7)

Any infection is a battle leaving behind a damaged and tired immune system that needs time to recover and rebuild up reserves. (6/7)

Chatted with a friend who's post-medical school in residency and the topic of the need to expose our immune systems to make it stronger came up. I really want people to remember (or learn for the first time) that 'bacteria' and 'viruses' are not synonyms. (1/7)