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  1. #Throwback promo for the upcoming leaked episode we are about to unleash tomorrow onto the world from the archives... like we said, so much more to show!

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    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  2. #Throwback promo for the upcoming leaked episode we are about to unleash tomorrow onto the world from the archives... like we said, so much more to show!

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  3. #Throwback promo for the upcoming leaked episode we are about to unleash tomorrow onto the world from the archives... like we said, so much more to show!

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  4. #Throwback promo for the upcoming leaked episode we are about to unleash tomorrow onto the world from the archives... like we said, so much more to show!

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  5. One of the many public clashes between Michael and his stepson, lol.

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    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/JXka2

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  6. One of the many public clashes between Michael and his stepson, lol.

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/JXka2

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  7. One of the many public clashes between Michael and his stepson, lol.

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/JXka2

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  8. One of the many public clashes between Michael and his stepson, lol.

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/JXka2

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  9. The official press release for Toben Sander's joining YNTV! Looking back, do you think he regrets it?

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    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/4yBjy

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  10. The official press release for Toben Sander's joining YNTV! Looking back, do you think he regrets it?

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/4yBjy

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  11. The official press release for Toben Sander's joining YNTV! Looking back, do you think he regrets it?

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/4yBjy

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  12. The official press release for Toben Sander's joining YNTV! Looking back, do you think he regrets it?

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/4yBjy

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed

  13. Another moment in YNTV's history- their announcement of Toben Sanders joining the team!

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/2xxNB

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed #shorts #funny #skit

  14. Another moment in YNTV's history- their announcement of Toben Sanders joining the team!

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/2xxNB

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed #shorts #funny #skit

  15. Another moment in YNTV's history- their announcement of Toben Sanders joining the team!

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/2xxNB

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed #shorts #funny #skit

  16. Another moment in YNTV's history- their announcement of Toben Sanders joining the team!

    Subscribe to catch the leaked broadcast!

    There's so much more we can't wait to share! zurl.co/2xxNB

    #breakingnews #yntv #exposed #satire #office #pandemic #trending #comedy #yntvexposed #shorts #funny #skit

  17. RE: journa.host/@thexylom/11719672

    "Fruit bats face threats ranging from hunting for bushmeat and traditional medicine to habitat loss caused by deforestation, urban development and mining." But "Bats Traded for Traditional Medicine Put Nigeria at Risk of Zoonotic Disease Transmission".

    #bats #zoonotic #pandemic #endangeredSpecies #Nigeria #traditionalMedicine #batTrade #health

  18. The First Pandemic? Scientists Find 214 Ancient Pathogens In Prehistoric DNA

    Shutterstock Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ago, likely triggered by farming and animal domestication. These ancient infections may still influence us today, and help guide the vaccines of tomorrow…….Continue reading…. By: University of Copenhagen – The Faculty of Health and Medical […]

    onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026

  19. The disavowal of the Covid-19 pandemic

    I was struck by how the coda to On Wanting to Change by Adam Phillips, published in 2021, captured an issue which I have repeatedly returned to over the last few years. From pg 139 written, one assumes, the height of the pandemic:

    ‘Plagues’, Hugh Trevor-Roper remarks in passing in The Rise of Christian Europe, ‘can be of decisive importance in history.’ Whether or not the COVID virus is a plague, or like one, we are in the gradual process of discovering both what kind of decisive change it has brought to our lives, and what kind of decisions we want to make about our lives in the light of it. It is very difficult to know what kind of Europe – indeed, what kind of world – we will be left with in the aftermath of this devastation. But we can be sure that, despite people’s wish and capacity to return to so-called normal life, the shock waves, the after-effects of this virus, will be felt for generations to come. Those of us who lived through it will become, among other things, the ones who lived through it.

    There has been the managing of day-to-day survival, and then there is, and has been, the wholly unpredictable and deferred effect of the trauma.

    To say I shared this view would be an understatement. To what extent did we overestimate the “shock waves, the after-effects” and to what extent are they being disavowed? I think it’s a combination of the two. There was a snap back effect which I found sufficiently sociologically implausible that it led me to examine the relative weight I accorded to social order rather than social change. There’s just a deep psychosocial commitment to continuing as we have done before. But the comforts of inertia are much more pronounced when facing what is beyond that inertia would be slightly terrifying. Indeed he actually says that “we must resist the temptation to get back to normal, now we can see more clearly what normality has involved us in” (pg 140-141). In foregoing that temptation, the disavowal and the overestimate meet together because the shockwaves are evaded precisely by a determined insistence on returning to ‘normal’.

    #adamPhillips #Covid19 #inertia #pandemic #postpandemicCivics
  20. Hydroclimate Volatility On A Warming Earth
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    doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-006 <-- shared 2025 paper
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    newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/flo <-- shared UCLA article, “Floods, Droughts, Then Fires: Hydroclimate Whiplash Is Speeding Up Globally “
    --
    H/T @Daniel Swain
    “Hydroclimate volatility refers to sudden, large and/or frequent transitions between very dry and very wet conditions. In this Review, we examine how hydroclimate volatility is anticipated to evolve with anthropogenic warming. Using a metric of ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ based on the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, global-averaged subseasonal (3-month) and interannual (12-month) whiplash have increased by 31–66% and 8–31%, respectively, since the mid-twentieth century. Further increases are anticipated with ongoing warming, including subseasonal increases of 113% and interannual increases of 52% over land areas with 3 °C of warming; these changes are largest at high latitudes and from northern Africa eastward into South Asia. Extensive evidence links these increases primarily to thermodynamics, namely the rising water-vapour-holding capacity and potential evaporative demand of the atmosphere. Increases in hydroclimate volatility will amplify hazards associated with rapid swings between wet and dry states (including flash floods, wildfires, landslides and disease outbreaks), and could accelerate a water management shift towards co-management of drought and flood risks. A clearer understanding of plausible future trajectories of hydroclimate volatility requires expanded focus on the response of atmospheric circulation to regional and global forcings, as well as land–ocean–atmosphere feedbacks, using large ensemble climate model simulations, storm-resolving high-resolution models and emerging machine learning methods…
    #water #hydrology #hydroclimate #whiplash #global #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #weatherwhiplash #ecogeomorphology #sustainability #ecology# ###
    #water #hydrology #hydroclimate #volatility #dry #wet #drought #flood #flooding #wildfire #landslide #massmovement #whiplash #global #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #weatherwhiplash #ecogeomorphology #sustainability #ecology #hydrogeomorphology #climatechange #extremeweather #anthropogenicwarming #climate #weather #connection #StandardizedPrecipitationEvapotranspiration #precipitation #rainfall #research #evapotranspiration #risk #hazard #riskassessment #disease #pandemic #publichealth #publicsafety #waterquality #watersecurity #watermanagement #hydrography #atmospheric #regional #global #forcing #climatemodel #model #modeling #AI #machinelearning

  21. RETRO ROLLERS ROLLS INTO KITCHENER

    Waterloo Region’s first roller rink in over a decade celebrated its grand opening on Feb. 28, 2026. Retro Rollers, located at 563 Highland Rd. W. in Kitchener, offers roller skating, fitness classes, and party rooms for birthdays and company events.  

    Retro Rollers is the culmination of almost a decade of work for co-owners Elaine Beck and Phil Morris. The partners started the business in Wellesley in 2017, renting out the Wellesley Arena during the summer and hosting events. Shortly after, the City of London issued a request for proposals to take over management of its roller skate program.  

    “We got accepted and we’re still there today. We’ve done all kinds of pop-ups, private events, fundraisers and worked with roller derby teams like Tri City, Forest City and Royal City,” Beck said.  

    The original plan was to open a permanent roller rink, but that was delayed by the pandemic. Beck added that, while they would have liked to open sooner, the delay gave them time to build the right experience to open the Retro Rollers roller rink.  

    “When we look back at our original business plan, it was always to open a roller rink. Back then, the banks laughed, and they still do,” she laughed.  

    Saving the capital needed to open the roller rink was one thing, finding the space was another.  

    “We had to find a space that was big enough and the right price. We didn’t want to charge people $50 to come and roller skate,” Morris said.  

    The location first came up during an internet search in 2018. At first, Morris said Beck was not sold on the idea of a basement. When they restarted their search after the pandemic, the space was still available. Once she visited the space in person, Beck said she saw a vision for what it could be.  

    “As soon as we came down here, I saw a way to take advantage of a layout that would foster both beginner skaters that are just learning and those that are really experienced,” she said.  

    Beck and Morris added that the landlord was great to work with and the rent made it possible to offer pricing that is accessible to as many people as possible. Retro Rollers offers three-hour sessions for $15, with skate rentals for $5. The venue is alcohol-free, a choice Beck said is for liability and for the experience.  

    “Roller skating releases natural dopamine, and you can burn 400 to 600 calories every hour on roller skates,” she added.  

    The space is nostalgic, with pinball machines, a snack bar, a DJ booth and retro-inspired murals painted by Beck and her daughter.  

    “We see a lot of people that turn into a kid when they put their skates on. They’re screaming and laughing—it’s amazing,” Beck said.  

    Morris and Beck said seeing the impact Retro Rollers is already having in the community is validation for pursuing their dream.   

    “We saw what was going on around us with social media and the way it was sucking everybody in. We wanted to bring people out. We’re not here to make a lot of money, but for us, the biggest paycheck at the end of the day is seeing people smile, have a good time and enjoy their lives,” Morris said. 

    #563HighlandRoadWest #AlexKinsella #elaineBeck #fitnessClasses #forestCity #kitchener #localBusiness #localBusinessOwner #localSports #pandemic #partyRooms #philMorris #Pinball #pinballMachines #retroRollers #rollerRink #RollerSkates #rollerSkating #royalCity #snakcBar #socialMedia #sports #triCity
  22. QUEEN STREET COMMONS SET TO RE-OPEN

    The Working Centre’s Queen Street Commons Café in downtown Kitchener is set to reopen this spring after a six-year hiatus. The cafe closed its doors in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic and has remained shuttered as the non-profit organization focused on changing priorities for the communities it serves.  

    In 2024, The Working Centre began planning for the reopening, including upgrades and a layout change. Cassandra Polyzou, community tools and enterprise hub lead at The Working Centre, said that, as with any renovation, there were unexpected challenges that pushed the reopening into 2026. 

    “Anyone who is working on renovating a small business knows that we all face challenges. Everyone is trying to do their best. But it has meant that the process has been slow,” she said. 

    Queen Street Commons opened in 2006 as a third space for the community, regardless of income. Polyzou said the goal is to be that third space again and bring the community together. 

    “The space is going to look different…We’ll be able to do things like film screenings and concerts in the space,” she said. “It’s refreshed, but it certainly still is going to feel like the Queen Street Commons that we’ve all known and loved.” 

    There is no set opening date yet, but Polyzou said the cafe has two concerts scheduled in March to welcome people back to the space. 

     The Queen Street Commons is hosting The Boo Radley Project on Mar. 6, 2026 and I, the Mountain on Mar. 7, 2026. The cafe is hoping these big launch events show people the new space and what can be done with it. 

    Downtown Kitchener has changed in the six years since Queen Street Commons closed. Conestoga College’s two downtown campuses opened and closed, multiple new condominium and apartment buildings have opened, and many major employers have opted to continue with remote work instead of renewing their office leases.  

    There has also been a significant increase in the people experiencing homelessness across Waterloo Region, including the 100 Victoria St. encampment across from The Working Centre’s recently opened Making Home space at 97 Victoria St. Polyzou said the changes are a motivator to bring back the spirit of “radical hospitality” that Queen Street Commons was known for. 

    “Queen Street Commons was always a place for everyone. Things have changed, and the need is very much there. We hear it from people all the time who say they miss this kind of space that is really a bridge across communities that brings diverse people to sit at tables beside each other and share food and coffee,” she said. 

    When it opens, the cafe will continue to offer affordable and vegetarian menu items, including coffee, baked goods, and soups. Polyzou added that volunteering opportunities will also return to the cafe. 

    “We know that people have missed that opportunity. It’s such a gift. Or maybe they’ll just come for a bowl of veggie chilli and a cup of coffee, and that’s great,” she said. 

    #AlexKinsella #bakedGoods #cassandraPolyzou #Coffee #DowntownKitchener #Food #pandemic #QueenStreetCommons #queenStreetCommonsCafe #soups #veggieChili #volunteeringOpportunities #WorkingCentre
  23. Laat dat mogelijk maar weg. De vogelgriep versie H5N1 is allang een panzoötie (dat is een pandemie, maar dan voor niet menselijke dieren).
    En bij de zeezoogdieren kan het haast niet anders dat het virus daar geleerd heeft om van dier naar dier over te gaan.
    In de VS laait het ook weer op onder melkvee. En met de 🧠🪱 en 🟠💩 daar in charge die het CDC gedecimeerd hebben en antivax zijn zou het daar zomaar het startpunt voor de volgende pandemie kunnen zijn. En hier hebben we dat lichtgewicht op landbouw. En zijn ook de eerste honderdduizenden kippen alweer afgemaakt vanwege vogelgriep. 😖

    En ook daarom stem ik Partij voor de Dieren. Die al jaren waarschuwt voor het gevaar van zoönosen en hun pandemisch potentieel. We zijn op geen enkele manier voorbereid op een vogelgriep pandemie. Die vele malen heftiger zal zijn dan corona was.

    Wil jij ook een partij in het parlement die hier bovenop blijft zitten en die de gezondheid van mens en dier boven de belangen van Big Agro stelt? (Hallo Q-koorts).

    Stem dan 29 oktober Partij voor de Dieren. Natuurlijk.

    (En haal een griepprik). ☣️

    nos.nl/artikel/2587671-dode-ze

    #PvdD #TK2025 #Nlpol #Vogelgriep #H5N1 #TokkendeTijdbom #panzoötie #panzootic #pandemie #pandemic #birdflu

  24. People say I have #BodyDysmorphophobia and to be honest they're right. Though not in the way they believe. For me it's just that I've never been able to judge my size. Even when I was young, like preteen young, I was overly concerned about my #weight and I had a six pack. But I was sure I was heavier than everyone else.

    As I got older and bigger, I was always fighting that, but I was also trying to fight my nurturing. My mum was obsessed with #LosingWeight and as a result I tried to not be that. Throw that together with being a staunch #AntiMaterialist and all it meant was that there was a disconnect between how I looked and how I saw myself. And ultimately it didn't matter because I was determined to surround myself with people that loved me for me rather what I look like or what I owned.

    I mean I had trash #EatingHabits, but I was cognisant enough to try and strive for the best despite those trash eating habits and so I managed to maintain my weight just the wrong side of correctly. Throughout my adult years I tried everything and nothing and no matter what, I couldn't get where I wanted to be, but I found solace in not being terrible.

    Then came #COVID and everything changed. The balance broke and I started sliding in the wrong direction. Unaware BTW. After the #pandemic, I ended up in #IntensiveCare because the lack of balance broke me and I got a rare type of #diabetes that tried to reap my life. I was so confused by it all. I ate the same breakfast daily, designed to be nutritious and filling. I only ate lunch sometimes and dinner was a single takeaway serving. I believed I was doing everything right.

    In hospital they told me I needed to #LoseWeight and I thought, who? Me? I spoke to a #dietician in the #type1diabetes department and I just remember feeling attacked the whole time. Though I did learn how to count carbohydrates. I was trying and actually started losing weight. It wasn't until I was discharged and ended up being prescribed #semaglutide. They asked if I wanted oral or injections and I opted for oral. My system is sensitive and so it instantly changed my life. Not in the miracle drug way, but I was struggling with #nausea and #AcidReflux, so I had to figure out how to adapt and I did. The key was portion sizes. Too large and I felt sick, too small and I had acid reflux.

    I spoke to a different #dietician and her approach was different, it was a better fit for me. She suggested logging my meals in #MyFitnessPal and I was sceptical. But I recently got a new phone and Google were bundling Pixel Watches, so I looked into the #Fitbit app and saw it had meal logging. I began logging and then I began paying attention. The weight was dropping off of me aggressively. To the point that two different medical staff said they'd never seen such success before.

    The dietitian then suggested I started walking to try and maintain as much muscle mass as possible. As someone that hates walking for no reason, I had to do some mental gymnastics, but eventually, maintain muscle mass became a good enough reason, so I found a route near me with a steep hill and started walking it. Once a week at first and then twice, four times and then every weekday. The hill started as a struggle and then it wasn't enough so I started adding more routes.

    The dietitian then suggested I go to the #gym and I was open to the idea. I actually just wanted to ride #LimeBikes around the city, but they weren't available and so the gym seemed the next best solution. However my blood pressure had other ideas and they didn't think it was safe. So while I asked my doctor to give me permission, and they dragged their heels, I ended up using #Gemini to design a Circuit for me to do at home. Sod's Law meant one week after starting, two months after asking my doctor, I got permission to go to the gym. I asked Gemini to help me with a workout routine based on what they had available and have been going, going for hypertrophy, going for an #RPE of 7, going for the #MAV, going all in.

    I've now lost an outrageous amount of weight and yet all I see is the imperfections because I could never judge size in the first place and I'm relatively okay with that. I'm never thinking about surgery, all I'm thinking about is #CaloriesInCaloriesOut, #Macronutrients and trying to improve my physique. I'm at a weight that I never thought possible and at a body fat percentage I never even dreamed of dreaming of. I can't judge me, because I'm incapable. That's my body dysmorphophobia; having no idea what I look like just believing I'm good enough looking to be desired and interesting enough to be loved.

    In terms of #WeightLoss, first and foremost you need a desire. Not via magic but with your life. Learn how to log calories and then learn how to live in a #CalorieDeficit and then learn how to enjoy your calorie deficit. Portion control truly is your friend. After that, start strength training so your skin tightens as much as possible and you're good to go.

  25. #RIA #Novosti is a state-run media outlet in #Russia. An editorial by Kirill Strelnikov openly calls for #genocide of #Ukrainians. “There is no other option: no one should be left alive in #Ukraine." Regurgitating #Kremlin #propaganda that #Russians have been fed their entire lives, he describes Ukrainians as "happy with their fate". kyivindependent.com/russian-st

    You are either in the #resistance to #fascism or you’re part of the global #pandemic of #greed and #hate.

    The #internet never forgets.

  26. After delay, #CDC releases data signaling #BirdFlu spread undetected in #cows and #people

    February 13, 20251:00 PM ET

    By Will Stone

    "The first study on the #H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the #Trump administration came out Thursday.

    "The journal released data suggesting some #spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone #undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive.

    "This comes after a #freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or #MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication. Publication on other topics resumed last week.

    "In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had #antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis. They also did not care for any cattle with known or suspected infections, although one did work with infected poultry.

    "The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

    "'If the circulating #H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often #subclinically,' says Gray.

    "Previous CDC research that surveyed dairy workers found 7% had evidence of past infections, although only half reported symptoms. Work from Gray and his colleagues in Texas also indicates some cases in the dairy industry workforce are going undetected.

    "'It means our surveillance is inadequate,' says Lauren Sauer, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. 'Any detection of #asymptomatic or mild cases in this study just tells me we're missing cases.'"

    Read more:
    npr.org/sections/shots-health-
    #HPAINews #Pandemic #HPAI #AvianInfluenza #USHealth #CDCCensorship #USPol #AuthoritarianRule #Censorship #USFail

  27. In his first run for office he was on about "…we'll be doing so much winning, you're gonna get sick of winning…" – I posted this in the following election cycle.

    No-one's talking about the circa half-a-million voters who won't be voting for Trump, or anyone for that matter, this cycle, or about his role in our nation reaching that shameful number.

    #pandemic #excessdeaths

  28. #Genetic #tracing of #market #wildlife and #viruses at #epicenter of #COVID19 #pandemic, Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8

    Common #ancestor of #SARS-CoV-2 linked to #Huanan market matches global common ancestor. Wildlife mitochondrial DNA identified in samples from stalls positive for SARS-CoV-2.
    DNA from raccoon dogs, civets, & other wildlife species detected in market samples. Genotypes of potential hosts were reconstructed for retracing animal geographic origins.

  29. Donald Trump unleashed so many #falsehoods during his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that 🔸it seemed to overwhelm CNN’s on-air fact checker. 🔸

    After Trump’s appearance Thursday night, CNN’s #Daniel #Dale ran through a lengthy list of Trump’s lies,
    having to brush past several on his list because he was running out of time to dispute each baseless claim. 

    During his speech, Trump had claimed that his opponents inherited a world “at #peace.”
    🔸“Trump did not achieve world peace when he was president; certainly wasn’t at peace when he left office,” Dale explained.

    “There were active wars or armed conflicts in dozens of nations in 2020: 51 by one research institution’s count, and then 51 again in 2021.”

    “Trump handed President Biden ongoing civil #wars in Yemen and Syria, of course, an unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli-Iranian conflict, a war in Ethiopia,” Dale explained.

    There were also the U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a civil war in Somalia, insurgents fighting Africa’s Sahel region, violent clashes between drug cartels in Mexico, to name a few others, according to CNN.  

    ⭐️“I could go on for a while, but I don’t have time because there were so many other false claims. So let’s address some of those, not even all of them,” said Dale.

    He later noted that Trump falsely claimed to have defeated “100 percent of #ISIS.” 
    🔸“In fact, the ISIS caliphate was declared fully liberated more than two years into his presidency,” Dale said. 

    Trump “repeated his usual lie about Democrats having #cheated in the 2020 election. 🔸It’s nonsense,” Dale said.
    During his speech, Trump offhandedly claimedthat Democrats had somehow managed to use the Covid-19 #pandemic to cheat in the 2020 election. 
    “He said #crime is going up. The opposite is true. It’s gone sharply down in 2023 and early 2024.
    🔸It’s now lower than it was under Trump in 2020,” Dale said.

    Trump has repeatedly made claims about an increase in violent crime and tried to blame it on undocumented #immigrants
    Not only has Trump’s campaign failed to provide any evidence of a surge in crime committed by migrants,
    🔸there has been no increase in violent crime to speak of.
    More importantly, U.S. citizens are proven to commit crimes at a higher rate than undocumented immigrants.

    Still, Trump falsely claimed that other countries were releasing people from #prisons and #mental #institutions into the United States. 

    Trump also “said we have the worst #inflation we’ve ever had.
    🔸Again, not even close. It is 3 percent right now.
    The U.S. record is 23.7 percent.
    He said there was no inflation under him. It was low, of course, but not nonexistent
    —it was 8 percent total for his presidency, 1.4 percent year over year in the month he left office,” Dale said.

    Trump also lied about the price of #groceries, according to Dale: “He said the price of groceries is up 57 percent under Biden.
    🔸It’s actually 21 percent.”
    Apparently, plenty of Trump’s numbers were all over the place.

    The former president “said Democrats are proposing to quadruple people’s #taxes.
    🔸That is imaginary.

    He said his tax #cut was the largest in American history,
    not even close again,” Dale explained.
    🔸A report from the Congressional Budget Office found that Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama had each facilitated larger tax cuts than Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. 

    Much like Trump’s speech, which seemed to go on and on into eternity (it was a whopping 92 minutes), his lies continued to stack up. 

    Trump claimed that the government had recently hired 88,000 #IRS agents,
    🔸but that number appears to be from a projection from a 2021 Treasury Department report, which predicted the agency could bring in roughly 87,000 new hires in the next decade, thanks to $80 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act. 

    Trump “said the Biden administration does nothing to stop #migrants.
    Well, 🔸the administration tried to get Congress to pass a bill to tighten the border, and after Trump himself helped to kill that bill, Biden took executive action to tighten the border.” Dale said.

    “Trump said he stopped human #trafficking. 🔸Again, not true.”

    Trump made plenty of false claims about his business dealings with #China, claiming that the country had “stopped buying oil from Iran under him,” Dale said.
    🔸“Also did not happen.”

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  30. #Anticipating the Next #Pandemic {Perspective}, N Engl J Med.: nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM

    The length of the current #interpandemic period cannot be known, but recent experience suggests that this time shouldn’t be wasted. This period offers an opportunity to expand understanding of #vaccine #immunology and to reestablish #trust and #confidence in vaccines among as many people as possible.

  31. #Zoonotic #infections by avian #influenza virus: changing global #epidemiology, #investigation, and #control, Lancet Infect Dis.: thelancet.com/journals/laninf/

    Avian influenza virus continues to pose zoonotic, #epizootic, and #pandemic #threats worldwide, as exemplified by the 2020–23 epizootics of re-emerging #H5 #genotype avian influenza viruses among #birds and #mammals and the fatal jump to humans of emerging A(#H3N8) in early 2023.