The Lone Masker

Prediction1: the biggest medical lie we've been sold for decades is that the common cold virus is nbd, is actually "good to build immunity" and that viruses in general are not an issue unless they cause unusual acute symptoms or immediate death.

Ladies, you don't need to buy half and half. You always have milk on hand, right? So if you also keep heavy whipping cream in the fridge then you'll always have half and half. Literally half milk + half cream. Plus heavy whipping cream keeps fresh for *months* (usually weeks…

Add this to the pile. MASKS WORK

Right now, it's faster for a disabled person in Canada to get approved for MAID than it is to be approved for the federal Disability Tax Credit. The DTC is a pre-requisite for applying for the newly released federal Canada Disability Benefit.

This is the only way to talk to Republicans from now until 2029.

Maybe women just want to be treated like they’re more than a set of various body parts has anyone considered that

You mentioned endurance, but to expand on that: humans can walk all day. We can cover miles and miles of ground every day. Other animals simply can't do that. Horses get worn out way faster. We used to just follow animals until they collapsed from exhaustion.

once again, a post about masking with more than 100k likes. how many of you are protecting our most vulnerable by wearing a mask?

A new discovery finds that neuroinflammation doesn't kill neurons; it impairs them. Here is how...🧵

I wore an N95 to an appointment with a cardiologist. They refused to wear one themselves (cut off my request to say "I'm not wearing one of those things!") and later in the conversation said, "Since you're paranoid about covid ..."

A daily reminder that Medicare for All would save $650 billion and 68,000 lives each and every year, according to the Republican CBO Director and the Yale University School of Public Health.

⚠️DARK DARK DARK—RFK Jr. Plans To Remove Advisory Panel On Cancer Screening And HIV Prevention Drugs. ➡️This will make United Healthcare gleeful. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer…

We’re about to find out if conservatives actually have a problem with pedophilia and let me tell you right now: they don’t

Hot tip: If you're taking care of someone who is dying, you need to know about "UTI psychosis" if they have a catheter. The UTI can cause kidney failure + sepsis. Both can induce psychosis. And I mean real psychosis. Like attacking people, frothing at the mouth, going nuts.

So many people have been told to "work through the pain" and I am here to tell you that's bullshit advice and we all need more time for pleasure and rest. This system fucking sucks and we need a new one.

I have treated over 40,000 patients since the 1980s, and I have seen medicine change from a compassion-based profession into a corporate greed-driven business.

Well that explains some things actually.

Just learned there's evidence that feelings of exclusion and marginalization share the same neural pathways as physical pain. Oh.

We need more shows with poor people. I’ve seen enough extreme wealth it’s so boring. No one’s face moves.

This is the death of the US by the way, an isolationist US will eventually collapse in on itself leading to balkanization.