#covid misinformation

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[odinsblog]

FLORIDA’S “HEALTH FREEDOM” ACTIVISTS - A Florida hospital has become the latest front for political activists eager to challenge protocols for treating COVID.

While most of the 6,000 hospitals in the United States are privately-run, about 200 are controlled by publicly-elected board members, according to Larry Gage, former president of the National Association of Public Hospitals. Typically, those elections usually have nothing to do with national politics or culture war issues.

But with seats opening on the Sarasota Memorial Hospital's board earlier this year, a group of political activists opposed to COVID protocols saw an opportunity. Now, the hospital has three new board members who question the effectiveness of vaccines and spread medical misinformation. While they're a minority on the nine-person board, their victory has thrown the hospital board's typically quiet meetings into chaos.

More than 200 people showed up to the new members' first meeting in late November, the largest turnout that chairman Tramm Hudson had ever seen in his eight years on the board.

Micheila Matthew and more than a dozen self-described "health freedom activists" demanded an investigation into the hospital's management during the worst of the pandemic. Some had lost loved ones during the peak of the pandemic and blamed the hospital. Others blasted the hospital's leadership for ignoring non-mainstream COVID treatments such as ivermectin, which studies have established do not effectively treat COVID.

"We want answers," Matthew said. "There will be no amnesty. You failed."

While similar public clashes have happened elsewhere, the "health freedom" movement is especially strong in Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis was one of first state leaders to roll back mask and social distancing guidelines in 2020. Lately, he's used rhetoric that's increasingly hostile to vaccines.

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[riverofrainbows]

It becomes clear that the last covid wave (brought on by spring festivals and carnevals and such where I live) has left people with both a stubborn cough (classical) and/or with thoroughly stubborn mucus in their sinuses. So stubborn that most medication that normally clears that up has not worked more than partially or temporarily.

So, if you had a ""cold"" and now have issues with mucus in your sinuses:

Consider wearing a mask in public. You probably had covid, and now have a compromised immune system for at least the next 6 months and probably longer. Consider avoiding super spreader events (EM, concerts, bars, conventions) or at least wear a mask so you're less likely to both get and spread covid at those events. Consider also getting the new covid vaccine come fall, or now if you hadn't before. It's not just a booster, it's based on the omicron variant instead. You should get it, because you now have a higher chance of getting disabled by long covid with your next covid infection, and any protection from getting infected helps lower that risk, as well as vaccination lowering the risk for developing long covid.

And if you're scared of social repercussions: At least wear it when you're sick or anyone close to you is sick. I'm begging actually.

I remember all the people during lockdown who said they would definitely wear a mask even for the regular cold after the pandemic has ended, because they now have the knowledge and means to not breath germs onto other people while actively infectious.

Where are y'all now? The pandemic hasn't even ended yet and almost no one is wearing a mask when sick.

Where is everyone who said that masks while sick should become the new normal?

Please don't even bother to feel guilty for not doing it so far, you fell for worldwide misinformation campaigns. Just start wearing a mask again and get all your covid vaccines.

Your actions are more important and way more impactful than your moral purity. Please just make wearing FFP2/N95 masks when sick and/or in high risk situations your new normal.

PS: (Edit to add my tags)

The worldwide misinformation campaigns are by capitalism. If anyone adds anything antisemitic on my post you're getting reported.

[uboat53]

First lawyers, now doctors. Is it just me or does it seem like professional licensing boards are doing a particularly poor job of actually holding people to the standards of their professions?

[dogstardigitalindex]

Podcast: The BS-Free Witchcraft Podcast Host: Trae Dorn (solitary eclectic Wiccan for 20+ years) Episode: 26. Witchcraft in the Time of Coronavirus Air date: 29 August 2020 Playtime: 29 minutes

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Opens with a then-recent clip of misinformation about curing coronavirus. Talks a bit about social distancing and Covened witches having to experience solitary witchcraft. Many witches are feeling burned out or isolated; it’s okay if you aren’t able to keep up witchy practices. Encourages smaller practices like nature walks. All witches go through phases like this.

[hillshollow]

This is COMPLETE bullshit.

It’s been proven the documentary is using PRE-COVID footage. It’s all misinformation that’s going to kill more people.

Get your booster.

[accidental-memory]

This is Vandana Shiva. What she is saying in this video is generally correct. Also? She is a liar, a monster, a grifter, a woman responsible for awful famine and science denial. A modern day Lysenko.

He didn’t invent anything

[wowbright]

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines (reuters.com)

"The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk."

The program started under the Trump administration and was shut down by the Biden administration.

[grrlscientist]

RFK Jr. Is Even Crazier Than You Might Think

The full depth of his battiness is getting lost in the political coverage of his presidential bid

[rickmctumbleface]

If you live in FL, your state is lying to you. This is what happens when politics meddles in healthcare. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-new-covid-booster-guidance-misinformation-ladapo/

[variouslengthsofwire]

It’s such a waste of their own time. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Otherwise, no one will believe you. A better use of their time would be to find a mouse and try to teach it long division. No one would learn anything, but at least they’d have a mouse.

If you live in the US your household can order more free covid tests. Starting in late september, 2024, you will be able to order more tests at https://covidtests.gov . No shipping handling or any other charges, just feeling your address and have four nasal swab tests sent to your home for free.

There is also a new covid booster coming out after labor day. If you are doing any kind of significant traveling, or you will be spending a lot of time around big groups of people like at college or school, please plan on getting this year's flu shot as well as your covid booster. We had a winter level surge over the summer, I am very worried that we are going to have an even more significant surge this fall and winter.

[zmyaro]

This is so fucking bleak. At 1/10 infections causing long term consequences, the mass disabling event we’re in is so massive I was wondering how it was going to be handled, because surely it would need to be addressed eventually… it appears that “addressing” has begun, and instead of prevention or support it’s just wholesale dismissal. If you haven’t yet stepped up yet for the disabled (and not yet disabled) people around you, now is the time to start, because if this is the direction they’re going then truly no one is coming to save us.

[uboat53]

Well, FEMA was forced to curtail rescue and recovery efforts in Rutherford County, North Carolina after militia threats. They still have aid locations where you can come in and get help, but they're not going door to door anymore which means that they won't be able to reach the most vulnerable people.

When one of those people is harmed because FEMA couldn't reach them, you know exactly what's going to happen: the militia and conspiracy theory people who caused this in the first place with their lies and threats will declare that that person's suffering was caused by FEMA rather than their own actions. And they won't be acting alone. One of the reasons they feel so strong in the nonsense they're doing is that one of the two major-party candidates for president agrees with them, amplifies their paranoid conspiracies, and celebrates their acts of terror and violence.

Honestly, more than any policy or official act, the greatest damage that Donald Trump has done to the United States of America is that he has encouraged the worst, most paranoid and violent people in our society to act on their basest impulses. He has emboldened white supremacist militias to attack minorities and public events, he has incited the worst attack on our democratic institutions since the Civil War, and he has consistently spread misinformation that urges his followers to attack and disrupt the efforts of real heroes to help fellow Americans; most memorably during the Covid pandemic and even now as the southeast struggles to recover from back-to-back hurricanes.

If you're willing to accept this behavior in return for vague promises that "Republicans are good for the economy" or even a more explicit promise of a tax cut, I think it's valid that reasonable people begin to question your humanity. Nine years ago when Trump first entered the national stage, there was reason to wonder whether his public persona was an act or whether he truly was this kind of terrible person. It's been nine years now, and he was president for four of them; there's no longer any doubt that this is who he is and will continue to be.

Kamala Harris, the only other viable candidate, may not be to your taste on any number of policy issues, but if you value first responders and all of the lives that they save, vote accordingly.

[dogstardigitalindex]

Podcast: The BS-Free Witchcraft Podcast Host: Trae Dorn (solitary eclectic Wiccan for 20+ years) Episode: 22. Witches 4 Hire Air date: 25 April 2020 Playtime: 35 minutes

Website | Apple Podcasts | Spotify

Opens with anti-Covid misinformation from Leah Steele as a way to talk about charging for magical services. This episode has to do with people charging money, usually large amounts, for a person to cast a spell on/for you, and the things they claim to offer are insane - cure cancer. Fake identities running sites (not witch names, but legitimately fake). Spell to protect against coronavirus. Witchcraft services you can’t see aren’t happening.

[leche-flandom]

Tired tired tired of the US deeming brown people expendable for their political agenda