anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 24/08/2026WASH and the hard grunt work of community health workers don’t appeal to many. 010
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Treating Canada like a conquered country doesn’t seem an effective way to make friends and win deals. 080
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 21/08/2026And measles cases cost a lot more too, but who in politics cares when the people who can’t afford the care are getting disenfranchised. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/each... “The average cost per case was an estimated $43,204, and the average cost per contact was $443.”cidrap.umn.eduEach measles case in 2025 US outbreak cost almost $60,000, study estimates, or $134 million total 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Cape Town is a great city to live in if you can afford it. Then the DA will make the city work for you. 011
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It’s a public health fail: leprosy is treatable and preventable - if people have timely access to medication. Endemic status is an indictment. 040
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 31/03/2026While Vance ignores the person he should view as his ultimate faith leader on earth, the pope. 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 17/03/2026These are definitely consequences worth living with. 050
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Then of course there is this news article from today: www.africanews.com/2026/03/12/t...africanews.comThousands of white South Africans repatriate as US safety fears grow | AfricanewsThousands of white South Africans are returning home after years abroad, reversing a long-standing trend of emigration. Many are reclaiming citizenship through a government portal launched after the r... 010
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 03/03/2026No mention of generics and the pharma companies’ stranglehold on ADAPs. Many ARVs used now made back their R&D costs decades ago. (And that’s not even going into the question of NIH grants etc etc.) 010
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It’s about denigrating others and getting what she sees as the last word (doesn’t matter about sense or logic or the constitution or or or…). 000
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Though a ham-fisted reign of terror that discredits or prevents the midterms doesn’t require sophistication and may thrive on political blowback. 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 23/01/2026The questions Freedom House asks to score each country make for very uneasy reading after the last 12 months - see the end of their methodology page: freedomhouse.org/reports/free...freedomhouse.orgFreedom in the World Research MethodologyFreedom in the World is an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories. 000
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The entire point of vaccination is to avoid hospitalisation and death. 0101
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The complacency of those who never expect to personally be affected. 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 16/01/2026The role of respect for the law in maintaining the rule of law is far too often overlooked. 140
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Don’t think I’ve ever heard Jon Stewart nearly incandescent with rage throughout. It summarises how this is the year of the mad king without his clothes on. 060
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Trump is acting as the world’s Brownshirt, not its policeman. 000
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 27/12/2025There’s a great South African ad from a decade ago that shows up the “who belongs?” point - love to see the same for the US youtu.be/cBIDkW2_FnQ?...youtu.beNando's Diversity AdYouTube video by GourmetGuys 010
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The schlep of prevention when people either do not see the risk as real or see the threat of being ill as minimal, and the ‘cost” of action seems too high. It’s the “all kids get ill but get better” mentality taking us down the dangerous RFKJnr-lit pathways to no more vaccines etc. 1120
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 15/11/2025An update from Al Jazeera - youtu.be/5O83Xf9lg8E?...youtu.beGaza warned over ‘displacement agents’ as Palestinians taken abroad through unofficial routesYouTube video by Al Jazeera English 071
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 15/11/2025South African news reports that all passengers were from Gaza and somehow allowed to leave from Israel’s Ramon airport without their passports being stamped. How this was done without at a minimum Israeli collusion is the question, as is who would want to put the SA government in a sticky spot… 1102
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I am honestly confused why the airlines are being asked to choose what flights to reduce when the issue is ATC staffing at airports. Is there something else happening first, like the FAA working with airports to compile a real time staffing forecast provided daily to airlines? Naive question… 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Though it doesn’t seem like many “White Afrikaners” are jumping at the chance - www.news24.com/citypress/ne...news24.comUS books dozens of seats for Afrikaner ‘refugees’, but only three pitch up | News24Far fewer ‘refugees’ arrived for their flights than were catered for. Despite this, the US government has targeted resettlement of 6 000 people by the end of November. 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Thank you for doing good journalism - bringing people’s voices to the fore when political expediency seeks to bury them. (The thread and article are both worthwhile and fascinating reads.) 110
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 04/09/2025At this rate in a decade there’ll be public health protocols for all flights from the U.S. to manage the spread of vaccine preventable diseases. (Assuming sanity isn’t allowed to prevail.) There are so many reasons governments usually buy or subsidise vaccines. 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 25/08/2025It was a double tap strike - a deliberate targeting of the emergency workers and journalists who rushed to rescue and record the first massacre. This is a(nother) war crime. 0237
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 20/06/2025My bad for not reading the Wired article to the end - was peeved after reading the NYT version which does not mention the possible generic price tag at all. Many more kudos to Wired. 000
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 20/06/2025There’s a new Lancet preprint from Wednesday that points out the actual cost could be as low as $25 instead of +$24k (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... ). Ending the global HIV epidemic could be in our reach, if it wasn’t about company profits.papers.ssrn.comLenacapavir to Prevent HIV Infection: Updated Estimated Costs of Production for Generic TreatmentsBackground: Lenacapavir/Sunlenca™ administered every 26 weeks as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces HIV transmission to nearly zero. Affordable lenacapavir 111
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Apartheid South Africa also saw rock throwing as terrorist violence. 111
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 22/05/2025And of course Crosby’s original “The Columbian Exchange” from 1972. A revelation in environmental history. 010
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Plagues and Peoples by McNeill - the book that made epi history popular. Though out dated in many ways, it still challenges the reader to consider the critical drivers of history. 110
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 20/05/2025There’s a lot to be said about the benefits of ethical and regulated clinical trials pre market release. 030
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 12/05/2025She live(d) in a major tourist hotspot which is part of greater Cape Town and priced out of the reach of almost all South Africans, a lasting legacy of South Africa’s apartheid structures. She is only a refugee from her inability to be racist without blowback in South Africa. 010
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 03/05/2025King Henry VIII vibes (just needs three more wives). 000
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 02/05/2025So the president decides if the country is at war, can use all government resources to act at will during this state of war, and when “combatants” are forcibly sent elsewhere then their hands are cleaned because they are no longer in the country. Lovely. 0120
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 02/05/2025International waters begin at 12 NM off Malta. The ship was at 14 NM. The drone/s were either flown there or launched nearby. Either way this is a blatant threat to the region as well an attack on the idea of humanity. 0132
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Thank you - critical points for anyone who wants to actually build government capacity for using software etc. 010
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 25/04/2025The EU should stand up and say human rights are not negotiable, but its financial support to Tunisia for “migrant control” suggests this is unlikely. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...aljazeera.com‘I don’t know where I will go’: Refugees run out of options in TunisiaBlocked from staying and barred from moving to other camps, refugees in Tunisia weigh a bleak future. 011
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 22/04/2025The 21st century global economy of forced migration continues its growth. This expands the EU paying Libya etc to keep migrants away from its shores, Mexico’s payments from the U.S., and of course El Salvador’s fear-focused prisons. 030
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Creating a culture of fear. (Curtailing the willingness to express political opinion that the article mentions was a freedom the U.S. was known for.) 000
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Last night the IDF destroyed the barely-working Baptist Hospital in northern Gaza, again. Targeting healthcare workers and infrastructure is systematic, not a series of mistakes. Killing the paramedics and civil defense crews was never a mistake. 0157
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025(This is stating the bleeding obvious. Took the rhetorical question a bit too literally.) 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025You end up with people considered “alive” if they have the money and resources to chase through what is sure to be a labyrinth of catch 22’s if someone decides they are dead to all official systems. Otherwise it’s part of underclass reliant on under the table wages and no legal healthcare. 130
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Rather there may not be much infrastructure to collect taxes at this rate. We do need even our limited social security safety nets, plus roads maintained etc. I’m a big fan of food safety too. 020
anspara.bsky.social @anspara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025It’s hard not to see the end goal as no taxes, no government (except that of the president-king, paid for in tribute), and therefore no social services. Then the economy runs on the blood, sweat and copious tears of “real” Americans in a society controlled by oligarchs. 261
