St Barnabas rest home in Saint Clair is in lockdown as the eighth Covid wave spreads through NZ.

Recently two residents of another Dunedin home contracted Covid-19 — one was the result of an infected family member coming to visit, with symptoms that they didn’t take seriously enough at the time.

Complacency can kill.

And here's a shocking stat. Prof Michael Baker says "10%-15% of our cases in New Zealand were acquired in hospitals.

Our Health service used to be more professional than this.

I miss Jacinda.

https://archive.ph/gkSlX

#NZ#Covid#Dunedin

> Living with #Covid is a political lie that worked because it cynically tapped into some basics of human behaviour.

https://xcancel.com/RageSheen/status/1943718115038089337

Interesting explanation of the psychology of the fear & denial around #SarsCoV2 and how #PublicHealth was killed.

What does that mean for #CovidCautious folks? What's right with us? Didn't the lies work? Do we not care about what others think of us?

Get caught up: NZ’s Royal Inquiry excludes #LongCovid, Dear Jacinda (remix), US hits record measles tally since elimination, Masknerd responds to NYT’s clean air disinfo, 1 in 6 toddlers get LC, LA protestor indicted for masks, sharp #Covid rise in California, more

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-july-10-133804773

More evidence of brain damage from mild COVID-19. Previous studies tested metabolic or electrical activity separately; this one tested both together.

They found both lower metabolism and slower neuron firing in the same brain areas of people with Long COVID.

significant hypometabolism in the bilateral frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, as well as in the left occipital lobe, along with predominantly frontal EEG slowing in post-COVID-19 patients compared to healthy controls

the functional impact on memory was very strong:

a high incidence of subjective memory decline: 52.9% of post-COVID-19 patients scored more than 1.5 standard deviations [worse than] the normative sample on both the prospective and retrospective memory scales.

1.5 standard deviations is HUGE. That means that in a room of 101 people, lined up from best to worst memory, if person 51 in the middle gets Long COVID, they would expect to end up with the 7th worst memory in the room. From literally average to under the bottom 10%!

Both hypometabolism and changes in spectral power are indicators of underlying neuronal stress or damage

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04815-6

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#COVID19#COVID#SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver#brain

I used to jump through these hoops, but I just jump to level 5 these days because I'm legitimately so tired of this bullshit and I don't feel I need to sugar coat my words to make someone feel better when their abject disregard for their fellow humans disgusts me. These people include my family members who know that I am at risk and ignore it completely. And no, i'm not CWing it because enough with people burying their heads over it. I often wonder if the biggest symptom of covid brain damage is the loss of empathy and how our actions affect others, but sadly it's probably just the reality of selfish humanity.

If you don't mask, you need to accept that you are an ableist who doesn't give a fuck about anyone, including yourself, but you especially give the finger to any disabled person you know.

#covid #ableism #disability

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 89F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

The #Skating Club of Boston will rename their rink to honor members who died in a plane crash earlier this year.

Doctors and public health organizations are suing over the Trump administration's decision to stop recommending #COVID vaccines for most children and pregnant women.

Trump says he will levy 25% #tariffs against Japan and Korea beginning August 1.

So let me get this straight…

Under #PeteHegseth’s leadership, the Army is rolling out a policy that could kick out Black men for razor bumps—a medical condition that disproportionately affects us.

Meanwhile, white troops who refused the #COVID vaccine? They got waivers. Sympathy. Career protection.

This isn’t about grooming. It’s about who gets to be seen as worth accommodating.

The #politicalassassinations in Minnesota are his.
The plane crashes.
The random tourists dying in ICE detainment facilities.

#trumptragedy is wracking up the numbers.

A big first for next generation Covid vax! A manufacturer is accelerating a "universal coronavirus vaccine." It's set to be the first pancoronavirus vax going into phase 2 trial – & a mucosal form might be developed, too.

More in my latest Covid vax update @PLOS
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/06/30/a-universal-coronavirus-vaccine-pushing-forward-nextgen-covid-vax-update-30/

#Vaccines#Covid #Covid1

News from Barcelona: “Everyone at school has #COVID”

News from Portland: Kid has a broken arm

😐

Boston MA area: free N95 masks, 19 of each kind pictured. Drager X-plore 1950 N95 (small!) and BYD N95 Particulate Respirator. These are too small for me. I hate the idea of throwing them away but so far have found nowhere I can donate them (waiting to see if freecycle moderator will let me post them.

Yes the boxes are opened but each mask is still sealed.

In Newton MA (near Watertown/Waltham). DM me for address, I will leave them on the porch for a while.

#masks #boston #covid #CovidIsNotOver

Only 4 masked people, including myself, on my flights from #LAX to #SFO.

Of note, 100% of maskers were people of color. A common trend I've noticed in #America, POCs wear mask at a higher rate.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #travel