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mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells"

Jeimy says that many infants and toddlers admitted to hospital with rare infections since 20225 weren’t yet born when pandemic restrictions were in place, and they therefore couldn’t be experiencing immunity debt. They were, however, likely exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Wolfgang Leitner, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speculates that covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future pathogens. He wonders whether the virus leaves lasting scars on the immune system’s T cell defences. “But that’s just (my) hypothesis,” he emphasises in an email.

Immunity reset?

SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells...

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mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Kramer, a member of the Socialist German Workers Youth (SDAJ), said the movement had grown out of a collective feeling among pupils “that their self-determination was being diminished”. He said the creeping knowledge that they might be forced into war, was “part of a series of crises that young people have faced in recent years, starting before the pandemic, that have shown them they are being ignored by politicians.
“Schools are falling apart; even in this, one of the richest countries in the world, there is a shortage of teachers; the worsening housing situation means many are forced to live with their parents; and young people’s concerns about the climate have long been ignored.”

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mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Decades of systematic and targeted attacks on Gaza’s health and rehabilitative structures - coupled with almost two decades of blockade and now, mass bombardment and a total siege - have ensured that the newly injured, the chronically ill and the disabled are denied adequate healthcare and rehabilitation resources, such that they remain in a state of injury rather than transitioning into a state of what Jasbir Puar calls “functioning disability”.

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mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"...utilizing a private network of more than 200 facial recognition cameras to watch over the streets, constantly monitoring for wanted suspects and automatically pinging officers’ mobile phones through an app to convey the names and current locations of possible matches."

Police increasingly use facial recognition software to identify unknown culprits from still images, usually taken by surveillance cameras at or near the scene of a crime. New Orleans police took this technology a step further, utilizing a private network of more than 200 facial recognition cameras to watch over the streets, constantly monitoring for wanted suspects and automatically pinging officers’ mobile phones through an app to convey the names and current locations of possible matches.

This appears out of step with a 2022 city council ordinance, which limited police to using facial recognition only for searches of specific suspects in their investigations of violent crimes and never as a more generalized “surveillance tool” for tracking people in public places. Each time police want to scan a face, the ordinance requires them to send a still image to trained examiners at a state facility and later provide details about these scans in reports to the city council — guardrails meant to protect the public’s privacy and prevent software errors from leading to wrongful arrests.

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mcfonen @mcfonen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"These students, past and present, responded in a way that was so fierce, so principled, so passionate, and so righteous, that it humbled me. It also confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that I had done the right thing, and gave me a sense of hope..."