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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So we look at something like this and have to assume you are in the good hands of a competent physician, which is the only medical advice we like to offer. bsky.app/profile/perm...

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is where we have learned that the initial intervention and then ongoing treatment is a cocktail of NSAIDs and ART while maintaining supplements (vitamins) but always in accordance to the serological reports.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To prevent the progression of AIDS, there's a requirement to administer an initial high dose of ART, where ART is itself toxic, so the initial treatment phase is extremely uncomfortable. How we avoid killing the HIV patient is using HIV viral load to guide treatment.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The real problem with #LongCOVID is trying to determine what is triggering the loop where the gut is sometimes a symptom. Antihistamines and NSAIDs would resolve HIV IBS symptoms just as much as horse-worm medication, but neither addresses the root cause. Do you follow?

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If the cameras aren't watching, is the orange shitgibbon still throwing shit tantrums in the forest? #OperationStarveAttentionWhore

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"getting correct diagnosis early" Thank you for understanding there's a cascade to irreversibility where health of liver, kidneys and pancreas are critical for recovery. Apologies if we don't often enough mention "return to baseline" is the objective we seek, rather than, preventing more damage.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The numbers are even lower if you consider the EU to be "one nation" where the type of travel we could be monitoring for disease is intercontinental travel. Even over the course of lifetimes, there's so few people who leave their continent. It really is a few elite people.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"This shit never gets boring" We should be doing more to improve our wastewater surveillance. Maybe the next administration gets why this shit matters. #MuzzledScientists #ThisShitNeverGetsBoring

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Mary was the victim. Typhoid Mary, died of typhoid. She wasn't immune to typhoid, she had a liver condition where typhoid simply didn't present as symptomatic. They didn't offer to care for her, she was instead blamed for harming others. Sad all around.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We were amused at the thought of average teachers having to cater to corporate donors for education funding, where teachers are hired or fired based on how much funding they can fetch, over other teachers, instead of teaching skills. (which is exactly why professors are horrible teachers).

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That's not how it works. Those "research scientists" receive a professor's salary, which could technically be considered part of their "overhead". We do find it amusing that you'd suggest average teachers should pay their salary and their assistant's salary.

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨 NEW: Understanding Emily Oster's Calmmongering Just why does the billionaire backed, self-described "CEO" of a blog want you to stop caring about outbreaks of disease caused by contaminated food? Let's find out. 👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/understand...

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Understanding Emily Oster's Calmmongering

The Perils of the Bloodless Quant

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

‘Children with post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) showed significant retinal microvascular abnormalities, including wider arterioles and venules, suggesting persistent endothelial dysfunction months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.’ #LongCOVID is #AirborneEndothelialShitshow so #WearN95

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thank you for the great chuckles. Very much looking forward to the results.

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Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab @mcgillperl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Canada has PPE in storage. Ebola responders in the DRC are running out. Dr. Joanne Liu says in the Montreal Gazette that the best way to keep Ebola out is to help contain it at the source. Read the article: montrealgazette.com/news/health/... @drejoanneliu.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

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Here's why Canadians shouldn't panic after Ebola-linked flight diversion to Montreal

Quebec's foremost expert on pandemics is assuring Quebecers that the chance of the deadly disease reaching the province is highly unlikely.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Were not certain you're using the right denominations to determine why there's so much cocaine in American wastewater if your research budget doesn't exceed 25 bucks. =)

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We All Laughed At The Idea That Covid Infections Harm Your Immune System. Most People Are Still Laughing.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The greatest danger of SARS was always every other pathogen we've declared endemic. We are rolling the lottery with billions of SARS infections per year. At some point, we're bound to hit the jackpot on that slim possibility that novel becomes the norm.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thank you for the vibrant discussion. SARS infection must occur first for SARS/ANDV co-infection. We agree with both of you that the probability and risk are extreme, where there's a significant amount of factors which must go wrong for recombination to occur. But it's not impossible.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Too funny! You don't like Galileo's middle finger or you don't like that it's perpetually pointed towards Rome, even today.

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Daniel Summers @danielrsummers.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excellent brief today from the WHO, particularly from Dr. Olivier le Polain, doesn't preclude the possibility of presymptomatic transmission, acknowledges imperfect understanding/limited prior study, emphasizes the importance of quarantine prior to symptom onset: www.youtube.com/live/G6Boffh...

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LIVE update on #hantavirus

YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Is Hantavirus the next pandemic? No. Is there another pandemic coming? Yes. We are unlikely to see the next pandemic coming due to the political decimation of Global Public Health. US has created a new breed of pandemic risks, both for new pathogens to emerge and for known pathogens to re-emerge.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Blaming voters means the Democratic Party can avoid the accountability of Biden stepping aside too late for Harris/Walz to make an impact on voters. Biden can be directly blamed for refusing to release the Epstein Files.

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 doi.org/10.1186/s128...

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"As far as I have seen" Apologies if we had our hopes, dreams and anecdotal wishes surgically removed when we became Public Health experts. We don't subscribe to the "H3 is not that different from H1" fantasy when we have been screaming "H1 is VERY different from H3" for decades before 2009.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US & 22 other countries. BA.3.2 represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the US since January 2024. Read more: ow.ly/Q50350YxOSv Photo Credit: NIAID

Image of rendering of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"A new variant, H3N2 subclade K, is driving a surge in cases" Back in the good old days of Public Health we used to refer to "new" influenza strains as "novel". Now we blame parents for dead kids when the vaccine formulation can't keep up with what's in circulation. #H3N2 #BirdFlu

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

There's novel influenza racing across the US with zero mitigations. Expect record numbers of dead American kids this year.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Helen does a disservice to Public Health by blaming parents when this age group (0-4 years) is often ineligible for influenza vaccination and certainly not attending school.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

If POTUS47 wanted a CDC Director, there would have been one named by POTUS47 15 months ago. Watch this position eventually get mothballed completely. Public Health is dead. Long live the King... #TobaccoPlaybook

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Whitewashing history is apparently going to include how SARS-2019 was a "new virus". This SARS was NOT novel. Omikron was more genetically divergent from SARS-2019 than SARS-2019 was to SARS-2004. We failed to implement the lessons of 20 years ago.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Whitewashing history is apparently going to include that SARS-2019 was a "new virus". This SARS was NOT novel. Omikron was more genetically divergent from SARS-2019 than SARS-2019 was to SARS-2004. We failed to implement the lessons of 20 years ago.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Ukraine is actively protecting our troops and Russia is actively helping Iran target them. But every single time he's tested, Trump sides with Putin. It's the most consistent he is on any topic. No matter what they do, Trump is on Team-Russia. At this point it really doesn't matter why.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 10/03/2026

Study links working while sick to higher risk of future absence www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/st… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

a woman sitting in front of a laptop appears tired and uncomfortable

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

21,000 dead Americans from 340K hospitalizations. All completely avoidable. If you ever wanted evidence of the death of PH in America, this is "just the flu" flying under the media radar. #WearN95

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We often disagree over the fundamentals of who controls Public Health, and this is a situation where you are right because you're starting to understand the WHO doesn't control its own finances.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

How much more relevant is the discussion of #LongCOVID disease equated to #AirborneAIDS - only one year after this article dismissed both diseases' resulting immune dysfunction as a "misnomer"? #WearN95 is not fearmongering. www.poz.com/article/immu...

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Immune System Damage From COVID-19 Is Different From HIV/AIDS — But the Advocacy Has Parallels

Some advocates have called COVID-19 “airborne AIDS,” but this is a misnomer.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Apologies if there's confusion in the translation.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

China never ended testing. They still have the infamous APP which allows them to trace, for assist with the notification to the user to do testing. They prescribe Azvudine (a failed HIV drug), which seems to act as a post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). (things everyone else should have done).

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We typically don't recommend comparisons between #HIV & #SARS since they're different viruses. Rather, we recommend looking at the knowledge we have gained from #AIDS (disease) to understand #LongCOVID (disease). We also recommend #WearN95 with eye protection to prevent #AirborneAIDS.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"persistent neuroinflammation highlights diagnostic complexity and therapeutic gaps" That's a polite way of saying, "we somehow still don't have a #LongCOVID test or treatment" - but it's obvious even without these that there's neurological damage after SARS infection. #NeuroCOVID 1/2

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This study included NZ data, but not for the reasons anyone here understands. Eventually, this data will be set in front of Chairman Xi and he'll be informed, China's efforts since 2024 to maintain some SARS pandemic measures are why China cannot end them now.

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Reality Check Marker @realitycheckmarker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"December 2019 serving as the prepandemic baseline for country-specific, age-adjusted linear projections of expected mortality" Good on this study to use the proper baseline. We can't count the number of epidemiological reseach which don't understand the current data for Excess Mortality is skewed.

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