#illness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #illness, aggregated by home.social.
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Angels of Death
The United States is currently experiencing a historic resurgence of measles, reaching a 35-year high in 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that measles cases have surpassed the record-breaking numbers of 2025, fueled by a multi-year decline in childhood vaccination rates and growing vaccine skepticism. Because measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases on Earth, it acts as a “canary in the coal mine” for public health, rapidly finding and spreading through pockets of under-vaccinated communities.
What are our leaders doing about it? Donald Trump is spreading vaccine skepticism. He overruled his qualified medical advisers in issuing an executive order urging Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to cut the number of childhood immunizations. His plan includes 11 immunizations, down from a recommended 17. Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), tetanus, pertussis and polio would still be universal. But those for hepatitis A and B, dengue, flu, Covid and rotavirus would be advised only for “high-risk” children, or else would to be left to “shared clinical decision-making” between doctors and parents.
It also orders the government to recommend that the combination MMR vaccination, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella, “should be administered in three separate singe-disease shots.”
Simply put, it means three trips to the doctor and three jabs of a needle for children. That means extra pain and cost. And that’s if the three separate vaccines are made available. Right now, only the combination shot is produced. It could take years to produce the three separate vaccines. The combination shot has been used in the United States for more than 50 years.
The effect will be to discourage parents from administering the vaccines to their children. That will lead to an increase in disease and death.
Trump calls his order the “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.” It largely follows a much-disputed HHS report in January that advised fewer vaccines on the childhood schedule. Trump’s order isn’t based on rigorous science, or really any science at all. It is based only on his uninformed position, supported by the anti-vaxer with no medical training who he put in charge of the nation’s health, RFK, Jr. His statement announcing the new order was loaded with misleading claims and out and out lies.
The day after Trump’s announcement the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted the new policy. “As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today’s executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,” Dr. Andrew Racine said in a release.
The President’s executive order doesn’t compel states or schools to follow his pared regimen, but he threatens legal action against those that don’t adopt it. He directs Attorney General Todd Blanche to challenge state laws that conflict with “parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law.”
Under Trump’s order, the Justice Department could sue states for infringing on parental authority if they require vaccines for school attendance that differ from his recommendations. State police powers to protect public health can sometimes be in tension with parental rights, and some states overstepped during the pandemic, though none mandated Covid shots for school-age children. Multiple studies have shown that the United States suffered twice the number of deaths and incurred twice the cost of comparable countries as a result of Covid. Trump consistently opposed medical advice on combatting that pandemic.
Trump’s order could inflame what has become a culture war over immunizations. That war was enflamed by the broad Covid vaccine mandates during the Biden administration. The mandates were vigorously opposed by conservatives and vaccine skeptics. But Trump is making the same mistake in trying to coerce states into following his line on vaccines. Kennedy and his plaintiff lawyer friends benefit from spreading vaccine skepticism. But Trump’s jab at children’s vaccines could alienate voters, especially parents of young children, as measles spreads.
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#CDC #Death #Epidemic #Health #Healthcare #HHS #Illness #Measles #Medicine #news #politics #RFKJr #science #Trump #Vaccination #vaccines -
The tops of #clouds out the window #sky #photography #chronic #illness maintenance views
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MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working;
The "customer experience" may become "sickness"
https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/moms-organic-market-face-mask-ban-TQ44G3IUCFEN5DSC22KPDE3H5U/
#news #health #ToneDeaf #MOM #MomsOrganicMarket #COVID #flu #virus #disease #contagious #illness #prevention #masking #choice #airborne -
Ein Text über Beharrlichkeit / Hartnäckigkeit und ihr emanzipatorisches (& seine reaktionären) Potenziale.
Ich glaube, dass ist der Einstieg zu Rebecca Comays gleichnamigen Groß-Essay, der gerade bei Seagull Books rausgekommen ist. Den will ich unbedingt lesen, auch weil das #Benjamin #Barocktheorie benachbart ist.
#disability #Gaza #sumud #philosophy #nonfiction #reading #longcovid #illness -
I'm starting to be traumatized again, we'd been making progress in the last 11 months, various pills, SSRI and sleep aids. I had been able to talk about the origin of my PTSD but as we reach the anniversary, pills are not working, I'm having troubled sleep, throwing up when I wake, and generally sliding back into a bad place. (I'm OK, BTW)
It's going to be fine in a month but I think the next 30 days could be rough.
Going to speak to my head doctor next week about upping my dose. Originally he wanted me to double the dose, but I reminded him, we are seniors in an isolated location. Not the time for one of us to be unconscious if something requires my attention.My *meds* include my Vape, and I misplaced it. Switched to pipe, and broke it. I'm living on capsules until the vape is found. I really need to get back to sleeping all night
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#Trump #DonaldTrump #USA #UK #Vaccines #America #News #Medicine #Health #Kennedy #RobertKennedy #HepatitisC #Virus #England #Illness One for Trump and Kennedy. Somehow I can’t imagine this happening in America…
England set to eliminate hepatitis C https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
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Hey, guess what? If someone posts about their illness or disability, that still doesn't give you the right to know what meds they're taking.
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Jon Bon Jovi abruptly cuts Madison Square Garden show short https://www.allforgardening.com/1894397/jon-bon-jovi-abruptly-cuts-madison-square-garden-show-short/ #entertainment #garden #Illness #music
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Taylor Farms Bought Deregulation, Then People Got Parasites:
Taylor Fresh Foods donated $1 million to the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. super PAC on March 26, 2025 - just 6 days after the FDA delayed enforcement of the Food Traceability Rule until 2028
#Cyclospora #Outbreak #Cyclosporiasis #FoodSafety #Regulations #Foodborne #Illness #Parasite #TaylorFarms #Trump #MAGA #Donation #Bribe #USDA #Deregulation #Rules #HealthDepartment #Enforcement #CoverUp #USFoods #CDC #RFK #FDA
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#Cyclosporiasis cases continue to climb in northeast #Indiana
https://www.wane.com/top-stories/cyclosporiasis-cases-continue-to-climb-in-northeast-indiana/ (Wayne15)
Allen County Indiana - Indiana Department of Health continues to monitor the rising cases of Cyclosporiasis in the state, counties in northeast Indiana have seen the largest number of spikes
#Cyclospora #Outbreak #Feces #Parasite #FoodContamination #TaylorFarms #Lettuce #Mexico #TacoBell #Illness #Diarrhea #Health #HealthDepartment #AllenCounty #FortWayne
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Two Safe Vegetarian Recipes to Eat as Cyclospora Outbreak Continues to Spread
As health officials continue investigating a multistate cyclospora outbreak, many consumers are looking for practical ways to reduce their risk while still enjoying fresh summer foods. Although recalled lettuce …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #Illness #Outbreak #parasite #recipe #Recipes
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2738214/two-safe-vegetarian-recipes-to-eat-as-cyclospora-outbreak-continues-to-spread/ -
Two Safe Vegetarian Recipes to Eat as Cyclospora Outbreak Continues to Spread https://www.diningandcooking.com/2738214/two-safe-vegetarian-recipes-to-eat-as-cyclospora-outbreak-continues-to-spread/ #food #Illness #Outbreak #parasite #recipe #RecipeTopics #Recipes
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ENDING FAT INSTABILITY
For the first time in a long, long life, I feel stable.
It is boring sometimes.
There is less drama, less urgency, less emotional weather pretending to be meaning.
But in a million years, I would not go back.
I would not go back to the fat instability of mind and body.
Six years of fasting have made the body lighter.
A year and a half of breathwork has made the mind quiet.
Routine has made the days trustworthy.
There is coffee in hand, a warm fire, Pete nearby, the dogs moving through the morning, and a body that no longer feels like an emergency waiting to happen.
None of this is glamorous.
It is simply a life that no longer needs to keep exploding into illness, falls, and confusion to prove that I am alive.
Sometimes peace is boring.
Good.
Boring is underrated.
#long #INSTABILITY #FAT #stable #less #boring #drama #meaning #million #Routine #illness #falls #confusion #glamorous #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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What happened to #empathy?
There was a time when empathy was an ordinary expectation of civilised #life
Not a grand #ideology or fashionable slogan
It's simply the ability to imagine what life looked like from another person’s point of view
Dealing with #neighbour who had fallen on hard times, #stranger facing #discrimination, colleague struggling with #illness, empathy was regarded as a basic #social virtue
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/whatever-happened-to-empathy/?fsp_sid=5569
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
EPIDEMIC, n. A disease having a sociable turn and few prejudices.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Epidemic,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1883-04-28)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/84987…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #contagion #disease #epidemic #illness #plague #sickness
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“Thirty-one states are now reporting cases of a parasitic intestinal disease that is making life miserable for those who contract it. While the U.S. has seen outbreaks of #cyclosporiasis in the past, the cases this summer are much higher than normal and are raising real concerns about the #illness. William Brangham discussed more with Dr. Omer Awan of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-we-know-about-the-cyclosporiasis-outbreak-linked-to-produce
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THE MAN WHO SHOWED UP
For 65 years, I thought I had #failed at everything.
Then #COVID arrived, and I started fasting. I did not have much #faith in myself, so I took it one day at a time.
The fear of #illness drove me.
So did the huge #belly.
So did the almost complete absence of #selfEsteem.
None of this was noble at all.
I was #frightened, #uncomfortable, and tired of feeling #trapped in a body I could not trust.
But I kept going.
Day after day.
The results began to show, little by little.
The body became lighter.
Walking became easier.
I began to feel less helpless.
Eventually, I was walking up to ten kilometres a day.
Then, about eighteen months ago, I was scrolling #YouTube, and who should appear but #KevinConnolly.
I started training in his hypoxic breathwork.
I already knew #ChatGPT, and it encouraged me as I tried to #understand what I was doing and what was happening in my #body.
I loved the breathwork.
Absolutely loved it.
So I went at it like a professional.
I never skipped a #session.
Not because I had suddenly become #disciplined and #impressive.
Because something had changed.
Fasting has shown me that I can keep a promise to myself.
Walking has shown me that the body can change.
Breathwork has shown me that the mind can actually become #quiet.
I had spent years believing I was #unreliable, #damaged, and #incapable of changing anything.
But the evidence was now sitting right in front of me.
I had not #failed at everything.
I had simply never #learned to trust myself.
Now I do.
Not through #positive thinking.
Through repetition.
Through breath.
By #showing up again the next day.
I did not become another #person.
I became someone I could rely on.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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Doing an advanced care plan / advanced care directive?
What's your thinking around resuscitation / major surgery after you're treated as incompetent / in a locked environment without free exit?
#OldAge #EndOfLife #DoNotResuscitate #DNR #Wills #Competency #Disability #Illness #Dementia #TBI #Stroke
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#Medicine #Medical #Treatment #UK #NonInvasive #Twins #Britain #Science #News #BBC #BBCNews #Illness #Pregnancy #Hospital Stories like this tend to creep under the radar without being acknowledged, but this is so clever and definitely worth a post…
Pioneering treatment saves identical twins from rare pregnancy condition https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2eyl3zkpwko
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MARCUS: But there are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.
[At et morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis; hi enim ipsi odiosi sunt.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) / sec. 5 (3.5) (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #tusculandisputations #disease #disorder #illness #mentalillness #psychiatry #sickness
