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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We finally made it thru @ $750 for round-trip refundable btw. For a Thursday PM departure and a Sunday PM return 🫠

Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Virulent Y. pestis? In sub-BSL-3 conditions? No immunization, no immediate treatment? How the hell does a case like this happen?

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

onset -> suspicion of plague = 4 days. onset -> definitive identification of Y. pestis = 8 days. onset -> death of index patient = 2 days

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh it’s about to get bad bad ain’t it

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have a pre-op appointment for ankle surgery in Seattle in late October and I haven’t bought the tickets yet because I have logistics to wrangle but the tickets I was eyeing have gone up over $100 in 2 days lmfao

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At some point it becomes cheaper to buy the refundable fares than to wait to clarify travel plans and risk fares going up but man do I not want to pull that band-aid off right now

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Et pourtant ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*slaps the back of that CRT monitor* this bad boy can fit so many childhood traumas and joys in equal measure in it

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Side open because we lost the cover, monitor image bowing inward (would sometimes fix itself with a good slap; dreadful on 800x600), 256MB of RAM (at least originally) glory. Ran horrifically adware-infested Windows XP that I spent years taming til I finally installed Linux

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There is a book kicking around somewhere in my heart about my family history w/ congenital rubella. My mother was one of the babies of the ‘64-‘65 epidemic in the US; that shaped 3+ generations of our family. One little virus has such an outsized impact. Every infection prevented is a victory.

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Saving children’s hearts, sight, and hearing.

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is like. almost literally a line from condoleezza check my posse

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But we grow complacent, and we forget those who continue to suffer, and we forget even our own risk. And we get caught sleeping at the wheel, and we deal with the consequences. Unless we are all protected, none of us are. Eradication must be the goal.

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Reintroduction is a constant threat, and the demands are high to protect against it. Surveillance, high vaccination rates, maintenance of the system that allowed for elimination in the first place. Disease anywhere is a threat everywhere. A pathogen is always a plane ride away.

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That apathy can actually render the true goal, eradication, more difficult. Eradication protects all people, throughout the world, for all time. Elimination protects a particular community for a time. But others remain at risk, which is unacceptable. We also remain at risk.

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The reason I insist on the distinction is twofold: equity & future risk. An eliminated disease remains a threat to a child, somewhere in the world, right now, where the disease remains endemic. But we are often unconscious of or apathetic towards that threat because it is Elsewhere.

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This will perhaps sound like pedantry and I apologize. I truly don’t mean it as such. To eradicate is to uproot (e-radica): to disrupt all chains of transmission everywhere in the world. What we’ve done with polio is elimination, banishing (e-limina, outside the borders): ended transmission here

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2021: RFK Jr. claims "the cure for measles is chicken soup" to a crowd in Lancaster, PA 2026: The first 2 Pennsylvania measles deaths in 35 years are reported in Lancaster, PA

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

we have a whole word for sproutbreaks for a reason

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

so long as you were wearing their uniform then sure!

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

think my new Discord pfp just dropped

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

thing is that the writers at the bee are the ones that desperately need to internalize this and yet,

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

new pilgrimage to make next time i'm visiting Seattle

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm also curious if there are just more people out there logging what they eat now. Certainly when I logged all of my meals when I was tracking nutrition hard, tracing would've been easier

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The incubation period for cyclosporiasis definitely contributes, too - I certainly don't remember what I was eating 2wks ago. One thing that could be leveraged for more intel there is bank statements for restaurants and grocery loyalty/discount cards since those track products bought

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Longer time to identify & link cases means contaminated food remains available to sicken more people for longer. The lack of effective genomic epi tools for cyclospora has come up a few times & probably contributes (and that's a consequence of the nature of the pathogen)

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

One of the things I took away from this exercise wayyy back when was that cyclospora causes relatively few outbreaks but the outbreaks that it does cause are quite large, with multiple outbreaks >500 cases. As best as I can tell this is because we have such difficulty tracing it

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

But all the same, this outbreak, right now, is an order of magnitude larger in scale than any of the ones in my spreadsheet (could be due to better case-finding, could be the sheer lag time)

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have my suspicions about those ones, obviously. I was trying to find any info I could to link them together and possibly to link them to one of the other outbreaks with a known supplier, but I ultimately was unable to do so

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The other outbreaks were the Del Monte vegetable tray outbreak (250 sickened, 2018) and annual summer outbreaks associated with cilantro from Mexico that were never linked to a specific farm (813 total cases)

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Another outbreak in 2018 was linked to salad mix used by McDonalds that sickened 511; also supplied by Taylor Farms

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I noted the products & suppliers for these. An outbreak in 2013 sickened 631 and was linked to salad mix obtained from Darden restaurants supplied by Taylor Farms

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

fun fact: back in 2018 I went through FDA's website to catalogue every foodborne illness outbreak investigation from 2013-2018 (everything on the website at the time). i saw 6 cyclosporiasis outbreaks linked to a total of 2,205 cases

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

gearing up for another Peanut Corporation of America style smackdown

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Latitude, too. When I last visited Seattle at the winter solstice they had a full hour less daylight than we did in DC at the time; in summer, a full hour more (very disorienting in the evening with DST). Hence why I lost it seeing Patty Murray excited about perma-DST!! Daylight from 9-5 in Dec!!

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I tend to lean towards permanent standard time for this reason but as someone who lived in Seattle for 10y perma-DST just makes me seethe. I‘d just take the dang time changes over that.

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

my entire profile today has been nothing but posting about light. late sunrises messing with me. flickering fluorescent lights being hell. accurately surmising that we had more wildfire smoke from the color of the light reflecting off the pavement as i walked home. man

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

just. screaming in northern latitudes

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

sleep/awake isn't a binary, that morning light does increase your wakefulness, and having it later in your day will make you worse

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

yeah you might rise before dawn but the # of us who have to go multiple hours at work/school before dawn is small and we already know that those who do have to do that trade their health for it. now we're just gonna make everybody trade their health for it

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

b/c you cannot escape x hundred thousand yrs / million yrs of evolution shaping your circadian rhythm around light signals with an alarm clock

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Knew the sun looked wrong this afternoon

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This post brought to u by WMATA

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Katrina Guerrier @guerrier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I should be legally allowed to destroy fluorescent lights if they are flickering

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