Let’s talk about class dynamics of COVID surges during peak travel periods. Grateful to @megkrausch.bsky.social@truthout.bsky.social article. COVID surges aren’t purely seasonal but driven by economic priorities & mass movement of people!
I wrote about the difficulty of finding trustworthy information about #COVID in the midst of the Biden admin victory lap, and shared some good tips and sources I got from some incredible #covidsafey advocates. As @reallandsend.bsky.social said, keep on that repetition! truthout.org/articles/the...
The pandemic isn’t over. Why is it so hard to find accurate information about it?
"What explains this growing student movement? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you. The students want an end to a war that has been executed with breathtaking violence and killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, most of them women & children." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...
What explains the student movement against the war in Gaza? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you.
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch “Once you get troops on the streets, it’s only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there’s houses on fire and people getting killed.”
"Archival silence" is shorthand for impt perspectives on bias & erasure in archival collections, and the implications for historical analysis & narratives. I wrote an brief intro. to the inverse, archival shouting & the outsized attention to some materials. 🗃️ www.historians.org/research-and...
Some collections of historical sources have been given a microphone, with profound consequences for the practices of history.
“People who are still taking COVID precautions seriously have every right to be angry about being abandoned by public-health officials and experts. The very real pain that many people are experiencing has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” -me to @time.com
There's a growing rift forming between COVID-19 experts and the COVID-cautious public.
I've heard lots of people bemoaning the memory-holing of COVID. I'm pleased to report that I've now listened to three books that don't do that: The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh, Just a Regular Boy by Catherine Ryan Hyde, and The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson.
Bad things come in threes? There have already been two this week. Would love to dodge the third!
Clean indoor air through improved filtration and ventilation is the only viable way forward. Flu, covid, RSV, wildfire smoke – we must take a systemic approach to cleaning our indoor air through upgraded ventilation and filtration.
Absolutely, and I just found out CA went all vote by mail recently-ish? First meeting that when I moved to OR in 2008 was amazing, and I hope it continues to spread. Being able to sit down whenever and go race by race able to do research? holy shit everyone should have this Alas, voter suppression
