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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You did not "list[ed] a bunch of profitable nuclear power plants," you listen power plants that have yet to make any profit at all. Subsidies by tax payers to construct every one of them negated any profitability, as did tax payers funding the insurance premiums to insure every nuclear pile so far.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I don't have an argument, you are merely mistaken, no argument ensues.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Smoking tobacco might not be a choice so much as it is a learned behavior passed down through generations, and one can not blame people entirely for smoking tobacco. It is what they learned from their parents as something normal, expected, and not dangerous despite the science based research.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The CDC has suffered serious damage to its reputation which has made some of our best research scientists and coordinators leave the Centers, many going to early retirement, many going to private research, leaving the Centers unfunded in some areas and badly under-staffed in others. It's a problem.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Pew Research Center recent reports on energy track why citizens support nuclear expansion. In recent surveys, roughly 13% of pro-nuclear citizens explicitly cite "economic benefits" as their primary reason for supporting the energy source -- which is a more accurate percentage of believers.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

True, 68% of U.S. populace support keeping nuclear power plants running as long as they are cost-effective in the long term with something around half of them believing that nuclear power has been profitable in the past or currently. Its a very common mistaken belief, yes.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Ever wonder why hydrogen peroxide bubbles in wounds? The bubbling behavior is entirely driven by proteins, specifically, it is caused by catalase, an antioxidant protein / enzyme found in most living cells (including your own blood, damaged tissue, and certain bacteria.) Ear infection? Bubbles!

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The USAMRIID is willing and ready to replicate this scientific study! And we will do it without funding. We plunety of volunteers standing by!

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

:) All he did was name some reactors. :) I expect ASPM gene involvement, "trinakw" lacks the gene which is used in IQ zones of the human brain to encode intelligence. No, @trinakw.bsky.social, Fred asked for the names of power plants that made a profit, not for a list of power plants.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Her Aunt attempting to stop her from doing science in her head was good.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Fred is correct, no nuclear power plant has ever been economically viable, nuclear power remains the most expensive means of power production, globally, world wide. Solar power is the least expensive -- and getting more so.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Um... Avian influenza is a real thing. It was not a conspiracy.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I once posted a MAD Magazine covers at our Fort Detrick, Maryland facility and was told -- politely but on orders -- to take them down. I was told "We do serious research here!" and I informed the offending MAD Magazine hater that "so does MAD Magazine." Secretly she agreed but officially, nope!

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Considerable irony in this supposition, isn't there? GAI is poised to make half a billion Chinese unemployed and no longer needed for the manufacture of cheap, virtual slave-labor / child labor-made goods that China ships to Western countries. Why would "Communists" destroy half their economy?

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Scream and run away! 😆 Mycobacterium ulcerans! But not too great a threat for humans.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Reading is how human brains install new software. Clinical research psychologists do observe a moderate to strong correlation between cognitive ability and literacy, people who read novels versus people who do not. The "Matthew Effect" is very well established. Reading makes people better people.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Big Brother? The United States has a robust and highly capable national wastewater monitoring system that serves as a rapid early-warning network for infectious diseases. It is frequently used to track COVID-19, influenza, RSV, mpox, and poliovirus by testing municipal sewage for viral fragments!

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Yep! Adverse reactions to influenza vaccinations is _extremely_ rare, occurring at a rate of ~1 to 1.5 cases per million doses administered. Because severe reactions are so isolated, global mortality data does not constitute a statistically measurable percentage of total. This was likely murder yes.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

State-run chains like Rosneft and commercial stations like Lukoil limit civilian purchases, and the crisis has caused immense logistical challenges for private vehicle owners. However, the fuel rationing policies specifically exempt emergency vehicles to prevent disruption to public services.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Horribly in Moscow thanks in part to the fuel shortages, several hundred cases of norovirus were linked to a municipal water leak in the Vladimir region and Mpox outbreaks from tourists ho visited Thailand. Moscow city authorities have been lying about infection counts from infectious diseases again

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Was it Luna who accidentally fell and made it to another "safe" tree? 😁Poor kid!

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The World Health Organization reported at least 1,300 excess deaths linked to the severe June heatwave. The hardest-hit country, France, recorded 2,025 excess deaths (a 29% surge) during the peak of the heatwave. Anthropogenic climate warming is happening _now_, it's real with real adverse impact.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is the fatality rate that we expect from this strain and the medical capabilities on the ground, not approaching Zaire or Congo fatality rates of around 50 percent yet highly troublesome. The ease of infection here has us worried.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Who does your approval process? Federal? State? County? City? How do you handle potentially infectious carcasses? I know the Federal rules for @usfs.bsky.social USDA in the agri arena yet I never did find out what rules your groups are oversighted for infectious organisms in the San Gabriels.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The same demographic believes that SARS2 / COVID-19 was genetically engineered for "reasons" which involve a specific targeted demographic of voter, "forgetting" that SARS2 came from Wuhan, China despite the United States being among the lower per capita fatality counts.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Mammalian cooling at low relative humidity works! 😊It's disgusting, sure, but it works.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It notes viral pathogenic mutations evolving in fauna more than flora yet the research my group has done years ago could easily dispute that, floral viral zoonotic diseases arguably exceed fauna in frequency of exposure in part because most animal flesh is cooked theecologist.org/2025/apr/08/...

theecologist.org

Factory farming and the next global pandemic

Industrial animal agriculture poses a real threat to global health, so why are governments turning a blind eye?

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Biodiversity -- you remind me of virophages, Nucleocytoviricota indirectly infecting our factory farmed animals yet currently being worked with to _improve_ the health of factory farms -- which is entirely dangerous and driven by economics rather than safety adverse zoonotic spillovers are common!

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Congrats to the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District for helping to educate children about infectious diseases.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The funeral services for Alex Jones will be closed casket but also wrapped in biohazard level 3 containment for obvious reasons.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Humans eating other animals is an excellent way to ingest prions and other highly unhealthy long chain proteins that are cancerous or otherwise deadly. Vegetarians live longer than omnivores for specific, science based reasons.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@bencollins.bsky.social also notes that Hazmat bio hazard level 3 had to be deployed to clean up the remains of Alex Jones' head exploding in his car. Highly infectious materials were sprayed hundreds of meters in all directions, and the clean up has been serious and very expensive.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It is shocking to hear that Alex Jones died in a car explosion, and I hope that Federal law enforcement are looking in to what is obviously a murder. The explosion sent bacterial infestation agents hundreds of meters around, splattering citizens with infectious material, @theonion.com has reported.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yes. The future what we have already been seeing only more of it. Viral and bacterial epidemics are gaining the upper hand and we can expect more of it as "factory farming" and rejection of basic science become more prevalent among the ill-educated and politically indoctrinated.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"$18 hot dogs" -- Is that a type-o ? Seriously? Yet that price may reflect the real costs of concocting the hot dog, it may be reasonable.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

U.S. Forest Service fire fighter hot shot crews are leaving Twitter and have been since it was purchased by nefarious individual, while asking their USDA, USFS, et al. higher layers to also leave and go to Blue Sky with them. Reputational harm ensues just being on Twitter.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The San Gabriel Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District (SGV Mosquito/District) has confirmed the first detection of West Nile virus (WNV) activity in its service area. The virus was detected in a mosquito sample collected from a surveillance trap in the city of Alhambra. This is a bit worrisome

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Province Haut-Uélé's Ebola strain is resulting in a 25 percent fatality rate after infection and amplification. The other two common strains Zaire and Congo have typically 50 percent fatality. Access to medical care on the onset and medical resources available after onset matter to fatality rates

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

What do bats and children have in common? They carry infectious diseases! Ha ha ha!

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

$1200 for a watch? I have a Casio F91W-1 that cost me $20 and is accurate to 30 seconds a year and puts up with repeated dunkings in water and solvents. Why would anyone spend $1200 on a watch when they don't need to?

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

25 percent fatality rate, we caught a break there, the common variant Zaire and Congo have 50 percent fatality given the medical response and resources available. Ebola continues to be a major concern, spot fatalities and recoveries in Southern Mongolia which is very troublesome.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In the influenza season the United States has had 32 million illnesses, 380,000 hospitalizations, and 24,000 deaths which is an increase over the previous year largely due to extremist political and religious rejection of science and the dismantling of medical norms. Playing catch-up does help some.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It is worse than that, Ian. When soil dries out and dust blows, infectious agents such as fungal spores and bacteria are aerosolized and transported through the air. The primary mode of transmission is the inhalation of this fine, contaminated particulate matter in to mammalian respiratory tracts.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Look at the silliness from the beneficial, positive perspective: The failure for anyone beyond a few dozen people attending means infectious diseases usually harbored by the demographic were unable to spread easily. The target demographic is no stranger to harboring super spreader events.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Case fatality rate of 25 percent which is high due to lack of initial care, but less than the typical 50 percent from Zaire or Sudan, so we caught a break there in some ways.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Adverse consequences from policies adopted by the United States routinely spread globally is a very good reason why non-U.S. citizens might comment on such polices. Witness the consequences of the Trump administration gutting the Centers for Disease Control and eliminating USAID and such.

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Give me a hug, Kit! Our positive pressurized isolation chambers loves everybody regardless of who we are :)

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Oh: And physicians are supposed to be trained to recognize necrosis in extremity as possible plague, yet if the physician is able to acquire a history and, in your case, relates that they work with forestry or have traveled abroad, plague or some other infectious pathogen can be suspected "early"

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USAMRIID @usamriid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is supposed to be standardized behavior for hospitals in the U.S. yet general physicians only know that a patient has a viral or bacterial infection and will try a suit of medications over days or weeks, all while their patient is infectious. They do not usually assume highly infectious pthgens

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