"The same way we can’t know which storms, hurricanes and heat waves might have 'happened anyway' were there no #ClimateChange, we can’t know which cardiac events might have occurred anyway. But we can know that these events are becoming more frequent and more severe, and occurring in younger people." #Covid19 https://thegauntlet.substack.com/p/covid-can-damage-your-heart-not-talking
Karen H
Educator, science believer, language nerd, and women's sports enthusiast.
Header photo: A grassy field with yellow flowers in front of a blue sky with white clouds.
Avatar: A selfie of me, a white woman with light brown hair in a blue shirt smiling at the camera, a grassy canyon and winding path in the background.
@erinlovesyoga I'm sorry for your loss. He sure sounds like a good one. And for the additional stress and gaslighting about the pandemic that you certainly don't need right now.
Karen H boosted:
Dear MSM: DeSantis’ actions to obliterate black history from Florida textbooks and curricula are not part of a “CULTURE WAR”.
It’s white supremacy.
It’s racism.
It’s bigotry.
It’s fascism.
It’s your job to use words correctly. Stop using benign euphemisms!
Karen H boosted:
Want to know why #BlackHistoryMonth is so critical?
In November, someone left brown dolls in nooses at California middle and high schools full of Asian immigrant kids.
Students got nervous. They knew what it meant.
Most of their parents ignored it. They didn't get the symbolism or implication.
For these Asian immigrant kids, learning Black history was a critical tool to navigate the world they live in:
(1/3; continued below)
https://indiacurrents.com/dolls-in-nooses-racism-jolts-saratoga-schools/
Karen H boosted:
Today was the funeral of #TyreNichols. His parents asked for the passing of the #GeorgeFloyd Justice in Policing Act. If #BlackAllies, feel helpless, you can write your representative and urge for its passing. Michiganders: there was a bundle of 12 bipartisan bill introduced in the state senate after #PatrickLyoya. https://bit.ly/3HnVNRv Our Black lawmakers are going to reintroduce those bills https://bit.ly/3DyqYsc. Let your state representative know you support their passage. #BlackMastodon
Karen H boosted:
Free e-books are not a substitute for school and public libraries; but there are several on this thread.
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RT @haymarketbooks
The racist governor of Florida has given us no choice.
FREE Ebook: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by @KeeangaYamahtta https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1646-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-expanded-second-edition
https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1618011565663596545
Karen H boosted:
Shameful to see the College Board cave to the demands of DeSantis and white supremacists, especially as we kick off Black History Month. Just shameful.
Karen H boosted:
The agents of #WhiteSupremacy who champion #FreeSpeech (for themselves) are perfectly fine with censoring #Black voices. In fact, they insist on it. And they're getting their way.
Karen H boosted:
Hey fellow #trans babes and allies! It's #BlackHistoryMonth - which is a great time to remind your friends & allies that the abbreviation for "non-binary" is NOT "NB"
"wait, huh?" you might be asking
it's easy, y'all - "NB" stands for "not black," a racist term that's been around for far too long.
When written out, the non-binary community's abbreviation is "enby" - the phonetic spelling of "NB," just without the racism!
Go! Share! Educate!
Karen H boosted:
"Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is trying to stomp out the protests by any means necessary, charging the demonstrators with terrorism and, on Thursday, calling up the National Guard to stand by to put down any further resistance. "
Karen H boosted:
"Parents and caregivers also saw the highest rates of childcare-related absences of the entire pandemic in October 2022 as illnesses surged amid relaxed precautions and lower vaccination rates among children."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/29/covid-absence-workforce-health-long-covid
Karen H boosted:
"This button gets people killed"
Sticker seen on a police emergency button in NYC
Karen H boosted:
71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders https://nyti.ms/3XXSGq6
Officers were not thinking straight. They acted like a mob. Doesn't appear that anyone tried to calm the situation down.
We must remember we aren't computers. We are humans - animals. Adrenaline was flowing. Adrenaline kills rational thought.
Very sad.
I was on sabbatical last semester and working from home. The new semester starts this week, and at our spring plenary this morning all the speakers kept talking about our school "post-Covid."
These are professors and classified staff. They don't actually think that Covid is over, do they?
Karen H boosted:
.@Walgreens@twitter.com 's #COVID19 #Index
Test positivity is > 33%
(treat this like an election exit poll - includes tests performed at Walgreens sites nationwide)
1) We are still riding the #UglyPeak
2) Potentially many missed and unreported cases
3) Pandemic is far from over!
Karen H boosted:
One thing to understand about police "reform" is that, if you have to teach someone that it's wrong to brutally beat an innocent person to death, you _can't_ actually teach them that it's wrong to brutally beat an innocent person to death.
Karen H boosted:
A vast majority of Americans are concerned people could face criminal penalties for #abortion - per The 19th #abortionrights #prochoice #reproductiverights #poll https://19thnews.org/2023/01/a-vast-majority-of-americans-are-concerned-people-could-face-criminal-penalties-for-abortion/
Karen H boosted:
You hate the government because your stove is illegal.
I hate the government because my existence is illegal.
We are not the same.
Karen H boosted:
For classrooms that were able to obtain ventilation rates greater than 10L per second per student, risk of infection decreased even further to at least 80% lower. 16/
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