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glnews_mirror
Global News @glnews_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Aug 06, 2026
Fauci faces possible contempt charge after U.S. Senate committee vote A Senate committee on Thursday voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions on the COVID-19 pandemic. #USNews #AnthonyFauci #COVID19 https://globalnews.ca/news/12011537/fauci-contempt-senate-vote/
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somecanuckchick
somecanuckchick @somecanuckchick@mastodon.world · Aug 06, 2026
I wonder how much money the company got from the federal government, in addition to the $10M+ Québec investment? According to the creditor filing, Goodfood sold its investments in an "exchange-traded fund indexed to the performance of #Bitcoin..." 🤦‍♀️ How #Goodfood went from a $1B #pandemic darling to a three-cent stock... https://montrealgazette.com/news/how-goodfood-went-from-a-1-billion-pandemic-darling-to-a-three-cent-stock/ #cdnpoli #cdnecon #polQC #QCpoli
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Left_Indy
The Left Independent 🇵🇸 @Left_Indy@ieji.de · Aug 06, 2026
Full Steam Ahead As Covid And Other Virus Activity Explodes #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #H5N1 #Measles #WhoopingCough #RSV #Norovirus #Tuberculosis #Polio #Mpox #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDXX-FZVvYE
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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Aug 02, 2026
Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai
…As #HHS secretary, Kennedy’s skepticism of mainstream #science is no longer just outsider rhetoric; it now shapes official federal #policy. His efforts to reframe the #pandemic’s legacy come as the #US battles its worst #measles resurgence in more than three decades — a crisis experts warn is fueled directly by the type of #vaccine #misinformation & institutional distrust #RFKJr amplified during the broadcast. #Trump #PublicHealth #medicine #eugenics #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #USpol
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npr_news
NPR Topics: News @npr_news@robot.villas · Jul 29, 2026
Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/g-s1-136142/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-lab-leak-spillover-pandemic-origin #Science #Health #Pandemic
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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 29, 2026
Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai
#RandPaul has been taunting Dr. #Fauci on Twitter all week, & Fauci’s conservative critics have been ridiculing him over diary entries that focus on his own fame & relationships with celebrities. Peter Staley, a longtime AIDS activist & close friend of Dr. Fauci’s, said he kept the diary to help write a memoir, which he was already drafting when the #pandemic hit. It was published in 2024. Staley said the personal observations reflect Fauci being “astonished at what was happening in his life.”
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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 29, 2026
Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai
Senator #RandPaul accuses Dr. #Fauci of funding research in China that sparked the #pandemic, & then lying about it to #Congress — outrageous accusations Dr. Fauci vehemently denies. In a brief opening statement, Dr. Fauci noted that he had testified before Congress more than 200 times during the 38 years he ran the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [ #NIAID ], including during the #Covid pandemic. #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #PublicHealth #science #medicine #USpol #law
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killbait
KillBait @killbait@mastodon.social · Jul 28, 2026
Anthony Fauci's Diaries Reveal Trump's Erratic Behavior During the Pandemic 📰 Original title: Trump's erratic behavior detailed in Anthony Fauci diaries 🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅ 👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅ View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/anthony-fauci-s-diaries-reveal-trump-s-erratic-behavior-during-the-pandemic.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social #politics #anthonyfauci #trumpbehavior #pandemic
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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 28, 2026
#GiftArticle #Fauci’s diary reveals his thoughts on a ‘rambling’ #Trump, the absurdity of his own fame, the #FarRight’s politicization of the #COVID #pandemic & more 
 Released by #GOP Sen. #RandPaul, diary entries from the federal scientist who helped lead the covid response spotlight the internal battle over how to handle the outbreak. #PublicHealth #USpol https://wapo.st/44O4jFB
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estelle
Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social · Nov 30, 2023
How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/ #midwives #monks #medieval #healthcare #Janega @DrEleanorJanega@mastodon.world #history #sociology @ethics@a.gup.pe @sociology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe #medicine #physicians #pandemic #ModernTimes #modernity #modern #MiddleAges #Europe
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estelle
Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social · Feb 01, 2024
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"Skip the Last Two Paragraphs—and Other Time-Saving Tips for Healthcare News Consumers" https://fair.org/home/skip-the-last-two-paragraphs-and-other-time-saving-tips-for-healthcare-news-consumers/ @media@a.gup.pe via @FAIR@mastodon.world #health #healthCare #USPol #medicine #physicians #pandemic #USA #news #safety
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estelle
Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social · Feb 06, 2024
Replying to @estelle@techhub.social
"Healthy life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita" Interactive chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita #health #healthCare #healthEquity #healthExpectancy #healthLife #medicine #physicians #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety #publicSpending #India #Australia
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estelle
Estelle Platini @estelle@techhub.social · Jul 21, 2024
Replying to @estelle@techhub.social
@black_intellect@mstdn.social Michael Jackson wrote about #care and loved ones: "One of the most difficult aspects of caregiving, often made worse by the economic challenges, is its emotional toll. I remember the often paralyzing sense of powerlessness and frustration, and even anger as my mom’s MS and my late wife’s cancer rendered them increasingly dependent on me. Financial pressures exacerbate stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health effects that are common among family members who care for relatives or friends. Recent estimates are that between 40 to 70% of caregivers have clinically significant symptoms of depression." https://blackintellect.substack.com/p/taking-care-of-the-caregivers #mentalHealth #publicHealth #health #blackMastodon #healthCare #healthLife #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety
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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 24, 2026
Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai
In Nov, a panel of international experts will meet to determine whether the #US has lost its elimination status, which has long been viewed as one of the country’s crowning #PublicHealth achievements. …The string of outbreaks is no surprise to experts, who have watched #vaccination rates tick down in recent years. Nationally, the #measles vaccination rate fell during the #Covid-19 #pandemic & has not rebounded to the 95% required to stem the spread of the measles virus in a community. #Trump
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webhat
webhat @webhat@infosec.exchange · May 15, 2023

I've told this story in the other place. A few months before the #pandemic, I applied to work in a senior tech role at an AI startup. At the time it would have been a learning opportunity for me to understand AI better. They asked me to create a Roman numeral calculator in #golang. I asked if it was ok to use libraries, they said it was fine.

I, obviously, looked who had implemented this in Go before, and whether they had implemented it as a library that I could import in my project. What the library author hadn't done is implemented factors, which was a requirement for the take-home project.

It was about 60 line of code to write my take-home project, including the library which implemented most of the calculator backend functionality.

As the library didn't implement factors, I forked, added functionality—about 20-30 LoC—wrote unit tests, submitted a PR to to original repo, the original library author merge the PR upstream, got the PR merged and submitted the take-home project and the record of the PR to the start-up.

They rejected it, as I didn't write enough code. Their answer: "Would you mind to implement from scratch the Roman numeral calculator?"

My first reply was: "Yes, I would mind. Would you mind paying me my regular rate of €xxx/h for the time I spent on this task? I'm not going to work all weekend and take time away from my family without something to show for it."

I wrote it in the shortest time possible—the work took about an hour or two. As expected from a senior, I reused existing components and didn't try to reinvent the wheel. I modified existing code, wrote unit tests for someone else's code, and submitted a PR, which was merged upstream. (I didn't expect that it would be merged in such a short time, this was just bonus.)

Obviously, the startup pivoted at some point because the business model didn't work as well as they'd hoped, and they seem to be coders for hire now.

  • To be clear, I have Roman numeral calculators written in a number of languages on my GitHub inspired by Sandi Metz, just not one in #golang

https://github.com/webhat/fantastic-lamp

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dbattistella
DB 🌱💦 @dbattistella@mstdn.ca · Jul 08, 2026
From the new OECD report: The projected GDP loss from the condition places Long Covid among the most economically significant chronic conditions in OECD and EU member countries. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/addressing-the-costs-and-care-for-long-covid_87a0c171-en/full-report.html #Covid #LongCovid #Economy #health #medicine #pandemic
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prismnpen
Prism & Pen @prismnpen@stranger.social · Jun 28, 2026
This is a #gay story. Gay men were allowed to die because the government had decided that gay men did not count. That is the specific, documented, unambiguous truth of what happened. https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-aids-crisis-wasnt-a-failure-of-government-or-media-it-was-a-decision-b4cb38124608?sk=c6bb107dc3992df695e80c9fb445164c #LGBTQ #USPolitics #AIDS #Bigotry #Pandemic
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openrisk
Open Risk @openrisk@mastodon.social · Jun 27, 2026
People who think/wish that worsening climate fundamentals leading to #heatwave events will suddenly sensitize society to environmental #sustainability are probably counting themselves prematurely rich. Just a few years ago we had a planetary scale biological #pandemic risk event which is now almost forgotten. As soon as stress subsides prevalent cultures and mental models reassert themselves, like an elastic band that returns to its base state Real change does happen but is infuriatingly slow
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mongabay
Mongabay @mongabay@mastodon.green · Jun 15, 2026
Boosted by Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social
[Commentary] Recent disease outbreaks are predictable consequences of ecological, economic, and political systems, WCS's Chris Walzer argues in a new op-ed. Preventing the next pandemic requires global investments in local, frontline monitoring rather than high-tech laboratories and top-down response frameworks. *The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of #Mongabay. https://mongabay.cc/kGzhUI #Pandemic
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