I wrote about @NPR 's decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective. https://t.co/pxrG5QKARk

Comrade Okey Vitalis has finally been freed, wishing him a safe and peaceful return to his homeland.

NYT subhead writer must have remembered it had to make China sound bad at the end

Rarely have so few people caused such enormous economic damage as those who have been steering the public health response to COVID-19.

It’s almost absurd how public health keeps juggling flu statistics while ignoring the far more profound social impacts of SARS-CoV-2 - which has, in the meantime, fundamentally reshaped how often people get sick and how societies function. @JakubHlavka

Dennett at al., Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market.

Sum: Even after the pandemic officially ended, health-related absences and labor force exits in the US remain significantly elevated and closely tied to ongoing SARS-CoV-2 circulation. COVID-19 has effectively reset the baseline of population health, leaving enduring economic and

Lasting exits from the labor force - workers are 13.1% more likely to leave the workforce after a health-related absence than before the pandemic.

These absences closely track SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater, not influenza or RSV - showing that illness now stays high throughout the year, similar to pre-pandemic flu season levels!

Sick leave remains 12.9% higher than before the pandemic - about 1.29 million absences per month vs 1.15 million prepandemic (+140,000 monthly).

This new health environment means lower productivity and a greater need for worker protections such as paid sick leave, improved ventilation, and infection prevention at workplaces.

COVID-19 has created a new year-round baseline of illness - its effects persist even without major waves or restrictions, pointing to chronic impacts from ongoing infection or post-infectious conditions, including long COVID.

COVID didn’t end - it changed the baseline of how often people fall ill, miss work, and drop out of the labor force. A new JAMA study shows the US now lives in a permanent flu-season mode, all year round🧵

The extraordinary ongoing burden of COVID is so easy to see if you look, and - apparently - so easy to not see if you don’t look. If we want to all live longer and better we probably need to start looking more!

You may not like it but this is what peak conservation looks like

sex evolved in eukaryotic organisms living in the proterozoic eon around 2 billion years ago

NEW: I wrote about the predictable collapse of Javier Milei's so-called "economic miracle," and the spectacle of a free-market libertarian accepting a bailout from the U.S. government. 🔗

it’s funny that the main argument for AI is usually not that it’s good or useful, just that it’s inevitable so we might as well learn to live with it. even its advocates talk about it like it’s a plague

The new limited-edition KN95 mask ONE filter cartridge, launched in partnership with @BerlinBuyers, is now available online. Initially available in sizes M and L.

So excited about this!! Thank you for the cooperation. They look reeaaalllly cuuute! #masktfup

she runs an extremely regimented program informed by some of our best revolutionaries of the past iktr.