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Revealed: inside the US military’s plan to tap huge sums from the NIH

Scientists work in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which could lose research…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/719270/

#blood #cancer that became solvable #Multiplemyeloma is brutal. We may finally have #cure, but American inertia meant that it was discovered in #China. #trump #maga #science #healthcare #medicine #research Multiple myeloma among most painful of all cancers. Disease originates in bone marrow where a single abnormal #plasma cell, 1 of #blood cells that normally fights against #infection, begins to proliferate uncontrollably, crowding out healthy blood-forming cells https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/cured-in-china #science

For anyone nervious or with health anxiety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSv3zTFF1Y. It's Rebecca Watson's video, "No, Hantavirus is Not the Next Pandemic".

Advocate & vote for better conditions for working, parenting & disability.

Join or start a union at your work. You need no-fault sick leave, esp when local infections break out.

Do managers want:

Only ONE person this week out sick?
Or else a half-dozen in coming weeks?

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Also wear masks or respirators. (Except the snood type ones. The rest are all better than nothing or *way* better than nothing.) Don't travel or commute to work when ill.
Advocate and vote for better conditions when working, parenting, and disabled. Join a union or start one at your workplace. Push for no-fault sick leave, especially when local infectious outbreaks flare up.
Check what air filtration systems are installed where people gather, mainly indoor spaces. Consider public transport, at work, schools, public buildings, and manufacturing. Ask some organisations what their air quality data and upgrade plans are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncfH7nKX74

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