As of March, 18.6 million Americans were estimated to be living with long COVID. I am one of them. I would consider it a personal favor if you contact your reps and request support for this bill. We need help.
i love that i only know i can order more free covid tests when someone i follow on social media is like "heads up! go to the usps website today!" a robust public health infrastructure modelled on "McRib Is Back"
If you had told me Meta stored passwords unencrypted in plain text, Iād never have believed you. That there was no way a company that large, with that much data, would do something so monumentally stupid. #infosec#privacy
This is what I do as well, so hard to remember otherwise.
My daughter's optician recommended Systane eye drops for dry eyes and they worked great. I believe I've seen Dr. Glaucomflecken recommend them as well, when he cautioned about other ones.
The statistics are absolutely clear and unquestionable, and it has completely shut me up about the problems with automated enforcement. Because automated enforcement systems aren't executing random Black drivers. bsky.app/profile/davi...
āā¦when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.ā
āDriving while Blackā: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
I do not like traffic enforcement cameras from a privacy standpoint and I have problems with them from a scientific/validation standpoint, but those considerations pale in the face of how they lay absolutely bare the level of bias in police enforcement and how dangerous it is to marginalized people.
Know what had an effect on my conversation span? Long Covid. Iāve been doomscrolling for decades.
I've noticed that people have shorter attention spans when it comes to reading š¢. I noticed it in myself during pandemic, realized that doom-scrolling had its effect. I started purposely retraining my brain after hearing this interview w/Maryanne Wolf. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/o...
The literacy scholar Maryanne Wolf maps out the ways ādeep readingā nourishes our capacity for attention, empathy and insight.
This year two tornadoes landed on my rural road, one west of my house, and one just east of it, so close that I can see the tree that the tornado sheared half off of from my mailbox. Don't pretend that anywhere is safe from the world we've made and are still making.
šļøArticle in The Canary from one of our volunteers. Explores: š¹Medical gaslighting š¹Toxic Empathy š¹#MaeveInquiry š¹#ThereForME campaign #longcovid#mecfswww.thecanary.co/long-read/20...
What causes this fog? And why are people with chronic illnesses like ME/CFS and long Covid medically abandoned and silenced?