And influenza and polio pan/epidemics...

Pairing "fentanyl fraud" with "opioid epidemic"? Reminder: There is no "opioid epidemic" - that's deadly, ableist framing. Epidemics are, definitionally, of disease. Opioids are not a pathogen, they're a vital class of medication necessary for many chronically ill & disabled people to live

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Ahead of the VP debate here tonight, read @tusk81.bsky.social's Five Things to Know About J.D. Vance 1. Vance refuses to talk the details of his mass deportation agenda 2. He is a Big Lie 2.0 promoter 3. Vance knew his racist anti-Haitian attacks were lies 4. Vance is a fentanyl fraud 5. He’s weird

Five Things to Know About J.D. Vance

GOP Vice Presidential nominee J.D.

I reviewed Malcolm Gladwell's new semi-sequel to The Tipping Point for the Washington Post. Both books are unfortunately based on the flawed and outdated idea that social change should be understood as "epidemics." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

Review | Malcolm Gladwell’s new book rehashes ‘The Tipping Point’

In ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point,’ Gladwell offers plenty of cocktail party anecdotes — and even more dubious theories of society.

And to merely “be against the war”. How can any feeling decent human being not utterly deplore what Israel has done in Gaza. War crimes, crimes against humanity, deliberate starvation, deliberately causing conditions to provoke epidemics, destroying hospitals, schools , universities It’s horrific

I hope they reject anyone who says height is normally distributed or that epidemics grow exponentially.

The Century for October, 1896 NYPL digital collection Etc. Etc.

@anadoluagency: 🔴 Triad of death in Sudan: War, floods and disease ➡️ Along with devastating floods and epidemics like cholera, Sudan’s civil war that began in April 2023 is claiming more lives every day in the East African country https://t.co/P8sD1OZ5e8

Vaccine failure mode determines population-level impact of vaccination campaigns during epidemics. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.30.24314493v1

Vaccine failure mode determines population-level impact of vaccination campaigns during epidemics. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.30.24314493v1

Vaccines are a crucial tool for controlling infectious diseases, yet rarely offer perfect protection

New in #BirdStudydoi.org/10.1080/0006...#ornithology

Decided to rewatch the pilot of Downton Abbey, in memory of Maggie Smith, and then Gosford Park, the proto-Downton Abbey. Now starting epidemics four, do I guess Gosford Park must wait for another day.

a woman in a hat is standing in front of a statue of a man

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