"The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say."

Unfortunately, this news isn't from the Onion. RFK Jr is anti: science & vaccine.

#GOPDeathCult #Health #PublicHealth #Science #PublicSafety #H5N1 #HHS #RFKJR #Trump #LetItRip #Resist #USPol

Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.zYYP.HXW7t7VL8EuF&smid=url-share

And now you see why the Right (and Corporate Center) was so all hot and bothered for #LetItRip and ending the COVID emergency: the pandemic seems to have done a spendid job of preserving the Social Security Trust Fund for looting by Emperor PalpaMusKKK and Darth Trumpster.

h/t @jdm2

https://palcarajo.social/@jdm2/114032903483986280

https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/americans-died-covid-social-security/

(Warning: Fortune article may be paywalled; alt source here:

https://archive.md/GVwox )

It would've been so easy to take precautions: masking, testing... but most of the countries that participated in the #Olympics, #LetItRip. Sad, #PublicHealth is important.

The disappointment soon gave way to a frightful scene as Lyles was wheeled away from the track by medics. Lyles' mother Keisha C Bishop has since revealed that her son is battling #COVID.

After previously winning the 100m final, Lyles was plagued by a slow start Thurs. L Tebogo, of Botswana, won.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13725013/Noah-Lyles-Letsile-Tebogo-Olympics-sprint-200.html

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An Understanding of Why Let it Rip is Happening.

tldr; it's business ( corporate profit seeking business ) as normal

Couldn't understand why #LetItRip has been the #CovidResponse of govs around the globe.

Then I read the article below about how 275 million deaths (EDIT 2.7 million only) a year in #Europe are facilitated by corporations actions so as to boost profits.

#Covid deaths of 2 million total just don't stack up against 2.7 million annual. (Edited)
...

https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/06/20/the-who-says-corporate-greed-is-causing-millions-of-preventable-deaths

We've been duped *rules for us & rules for them.

"At the time when WHO
was assuring the world: “COVID ISN'T airborne”…

…a ‘return to office’-document for WHO staff in Geneva stated:

Ventilation system has been modified
• increased volume of external air
• no recycling of air
• filters rated as high as we can go…"
-M de Cook

COVID IS AIRBORNE. Feb 22, 2022: CDC downplayed #Covid again, said masking indoors -not necessary. WHO/CDC: essentially #LetItRip for years bc the bus lobby dictates PH:

Here are some #chatgpt visualizations I prompted, in the very highly case, we let the #avianflu rip.

Since the stupidity of #letitrip is contagious, feel free to share these memes

It's almost as if when you let a virus that can leave people disabled and unable to work for months, possibly years, run rampant throughout the population, you end up with more people unable to work.

Whoever could have seen that coming?

#EconomicInactivity #LongTermSickLeave #Covid19 #LongCovid #LetItRip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534537

I've been off of social media for almost a month recovering from a concussion.

I always talk about how important it is to care for community members in this #CapitalistHellscape. I've always been someone who loves caring for people. However, in practice, I struggled to ask for and accept help and care. Part of that is my socialization and lived experience as a cis woman. The other part is the #InternalizedAbelism we all deal with. I've done a lot of work dismantling this inside myself - but alas, it persists.

I often found myself feeling guilty and shameful for needing help. I tended towards not even asking and making assumptions about my loved ones' capacity and desire to help me. I've known this for a long time and been working on it, but it was so easy to fall back into old patterns.

While talking with a friend a few days ago, I mentioned I wanted to see my other close friend but didn't want to ask her to drive an hour to see me because I didn't want to stress her out. Rightfully, my friend called me out and told me it isn't fair to make assumptions about what my loved ones may or may not want to do, and I need to trust people to make those decisions for themselves.

That conversation and my recovery (still ongoing) have served as an important reminder that asking for help requires becoming comfortable with feeling vulnerable, and naturally, under #Capitalism , many of us have internalized the lie that vulnerability is weakness. Like any muscle you want to build, becoming comfortable with being vulnerable takes practice. It feels strange and somewhat painful at first, but when people show up for you, it's not as hard every time you practice it.

Anyway, this is your reminder that caring for others tends to be easier than asking for and accepting care ourselves. Practice being vulnerable with your loved ones. Ask people for help when you need it. People can't show up for you if you don't give them the chance.

In these days of #LetItRip , where #Covid is allowed to continue to spread unchecked, where #Palestinians are killed everyday in a livestreamed #Genocide ,we can't afford to allow the way things are to harden us.

Stay soft. Practice #RadicalCompassion and #Vulnerability. Remember that the internal work of dismantling all the bullshit capitalism ingrains within us is always ongoing.

♡

See yall soon. I'm still recovering, but making small progress every day thanks to my lovely partner and friends.

CDC's #LetItRip policy is Machiavellian, just bc #Covid numbers dropped a little, JN.1, now circulating, is still mutating. US deaths: >1,500 a week & in the hospital >15,000.

The fed govt’s free at-home COVID test program will be suspended beginning on Fri in response to a drop in respiratory diseases(?).

The Biden admin brought back the free test program last year ahead of the respiratory viral season. By going to COVIDtests.gov, HHs could order a free pack 4 at-h-.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4507266-free-covid-19-test-program-to-be-suspended-for-now/

Sad, the CDC’s new policy is #LetItRip for #Covid. Business interests, which are short-sighted & will likely backfire, are prioritized above public health. We’re on our own. This wave may be peaking, but new variants are always on the horizon, & there is still a lot of JN.1 circulating. A form of eugenics? https://newrepublic.com/article/179304/covid-cdc-guidelines-isolation-symptoms

Why does #DeathSantis hire loyalists who harm Floridians? How could spreading deadly viruses...? His SG is anti-vax with a #LetItRip policy for Measles, Covid...

"FL SG says unvaccinated kids can continue to go to school. Unprecedented -kids need to stay home for 21 days during an outbreak -chance of infection, hospitalization, death or serious damage to the immune system -kids can get a vaccine if exposed within the past 72 hrs & if they get vaccinated -can return to-."
-Dr K Jetelina
#Measles

The more you know… “Researchers looked at whether oxygen deficit plays a role in post-exertional malaise. They found that although oxygen was successfully transferred from the lungs to the bloodstream, the tissues of long COVID patients were unable to access and use it.” Use precautions, don’t #LetItRip. #Covid #LongCovid https://www.mdjonline.com/bonus/ask-the-doctors-strenuous-exercise-can-lead-to-flare-of-long-covid-symptoms/article_3f03235c-c1eb-11ee-bc15-ef80a3405ca7.html

NEW: Covid is not the flu. The pandemic's death toll continues to rise. Most of the world, including the US, just #LetItRip:

The estimated total mortality related to the #COVID19 #pandemic was just updated...the upper reckoning is around 35 million. Most countries stopped supplying mortality data (excess deaths + COVID-ascribed) to
the WHO in 2022.
-Laurie Garrett

#Covid #PublicHeath

Article: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid