It's 2025. People seem to agree that preventative health strategies will help with costs and convenience. However, people don't always see that public health support is the most important strategy for mass population quality of life. Supporting healthcare is still a priority for organizing in US.
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Doctors say 'we don't have a choice' as they prepare for three-day strike
By Brianna Parkins
The doctors' union is going ahead with it's planned action despite warnings from the Industrial Relations Commission and NSW Health.
ABC News · NSW government wage offer a 'pay cut' as doctors prepare for three-day strike
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Vancouver byelection left-leaning candidates win:Clear message to City Hall
https://www.straight.com/news/vancouver-byelection-wins-by-left-leaning-candidates-sends-a-message-to-sim-city
Far-right Lululemon billionaire Chip-Wilson-backed ABC Vancouver/Ken Sim
#TBA #conservatism #billionaires #populism #deception #rhetoric #capitalism #AaronGunn #copaganda #propaganda #VancouverIsDying
Vancouver votes in leftists Sean Orr/COPE, Lucy Maloney/OneCity
#COPE #DemocraticSocialism #SocialDemocracy #socialism #ecosocialism #solidarity #housing #food #environment #WealthTax #PublicHealth
The Georgia Straight · Vancouver byelection win by left-leaning candidates sends a clear message to Sim CityCOPE's Sean Orr and OneCity's Lucy Maloney trounce ABC candidates..
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Changing our diets and ways of producing food is crucial to combat climate change and increase human health. A key change is lessening the impact of meat and animal products like eggs and dairy. 
Smoke from US fires linked to 20,000 premature deaths and $200 billion in health damages in 2017 https://phys.org/news/2025-04-linked-premature-deaths-billion-health.html
Phys.org · Smoke from US fires linked to 20,000 premature deaths and $200 billion in health damages in 2017
"Microplastics don’t just shed off of plastic items from overuse, like when a water bottle breaks down over weeks or months of being washed and refilled. They also leach into our food and drinks with even the brief use of a product with plastic components, alarming scientists."
NBC News · It doesn't take much for microplastics to leach into food, researchers warn
It's time to start digging in to my mask project!
I need good, solid resources to back up a presentation I'll be giving to the local public. What are the most reliable and ethical doctors, journalists, advocates, research, statistics, or sites that you've seen?
I'll be talking about air quality, advocating environmental justice through citizen science and mutual aid, and my focus is going to be ventilation and masking.
The program is organized by a local group of folks that started putting up air sensors all over town because of toxic chemical leaks from nearby refineries. They got a grant through a university, and they may be able to help me out in getting an air quality sensor so I can test the CO2 in local buildings. I'd also like to be able to pass out some mask samples. I've been trying to find info on other things like sip valves, elastomeric respirator exhaust valve filter adapters, good sites to buy masks and so on.
Since these issues got politicized and the CDC and WHO are increasingly corrupt/hamstrung, finding good info is a fuckin MESS. I could really use some help!
What's been very interesting to me is, the folks who promote masking are usually ALSO right on other issues. Masks are required at the local anarchist book fairs, for example, which to me says a LOT. The people I follow here on Mastodon who are solidly against genocide, fascism, capitalism, and lesser evilism are the SAME people who are solidly for issues like universal healthcare, right to repair, accessibility, direct action, labor organizing, etc etc-- you have a moral consistency that inspires my respect and hope, and I want to learn more from you!
Next post below will be where I list the sources I've collected, updating as I go.
#masks
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#birdFlu
#H5N1
#measles
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#airQuality
#environmentalJustice
#mutualAid
#purpleAir
#citizenScience
"Just one of 13 Republicans on the Senate Medical Affairs Committee voted for Dr. Edward Simmer ‘s nomination to lead the new Department of Public Health — in contrast to the Republican-dominated Senate’s overwhelming endorsement of Simmer in 2021 as head of the state’s old public health and environmental agency."
A second #child with #measles has died in #Texas where hundreds of cases of the #disease have been recorded in recent weeks, prompting #Trump’s *#Health* #RFKJr to plan a trip to the state, local media reported early on Sunday.
#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Vaccines #GetVaccinated #VaccinesWork #USpol #ConspiracyTheories #AntiScience #AntiIntellectualism #eugenics
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kennedy-travel-texas-after-second-measles-related-death-axios-reports-2025-04-06/
The lab's efforts aren't duplicated anywhere, there's no $ to be made so the private sector won't step in, and this lab is key to fighting anti-microbial resistance.
“To me, this is like a blind man with a chainsaw has just gone through the system and arbitrarily cut things without any rationale.”
STAT · CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administrationThe Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.
"Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for “review” under the Trump administration’s direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down.
“The problem with archiving this data is that we can’t,” Lisa Chinn, Head of Research Data Services at the University of Chicago, told 404 Media. Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency, and those agreements are carefully administered through a disclosure risk review process.
A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”
Repositories with the message include archives of cancer imagery, Alzheimer’s disease research, sleep studies, HIV databases, and COVID-19 vaccination and mortality data."
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
404 Media · Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost ForeverDays before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
Council decision to close public spring upsets Colchester residents
The Municipality of the County of Colchester announced in a Facebook post last month that it would soon be decommissioning the Lower Truro spring "due to health, safety and liability concerns."
#politics #water #safety #publichealth #Colchester #Truro
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/council-decision-to-close-public-spring-upsets-colchester-residents-1.7502454?cmp=rss
#BIPOC #Canada #women #BlackHealth #PublicHealth
'An Edmonton-based foundation is launching a first-of-its-kind resource to connect new mothers with culturally-appropriate health professionals for the BIPOC community. The Mesh of Mothers Foundation has over 150 practitioners in their new database and is looking to expand across Canada.'
Staff working on childhood lead exposure and cancer clusters fired from CDC… #CDC #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #Cancer #RepublicansDidThis #AmericanCoup
"COVID-19 re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults, data reveal"
"These findings emphasize the ongoing risk of PASC with reinfection, regardless of severity."
www.cidrap.umn.eduCOVID-19 re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults, data revealThe second infection was also tied to a 50% or greater increase in several specific long-COVID conditions, including myocarditis and fatigue.
British physician Thomas Hodgkin, who died OTD in 1866, was one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine https://toilet-guru.com/cholera-pump.html?s=mb #medicine #PublicHealth
Toilets of the WorldCholera and John Snow's Pump — Victorian PlumbingDr John Snow discovered the source of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London. He disabled this pump and ended the outbreak, and is now a hero of public health. All this and more on the Toilets of the World.
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#MAGAnomics #USpol #PublicHealth #Vaccination
There already is a #MeaslesEpidemic in the #UnitedStatesOfAiling people... just saying...
s/: In a year or so, I'll ask #Kennedy, "How's that #GreatReplacementTheory thing going for ya?/s
MastodonNonilex (@Nonilex@masto.ai)Most #pharmaceuticals are made at least in part in foreign nations
#Trump has been saying for weeks that he plans to impose #tariffs specifically on pharmaceuticals….He has said those levies could be 25% or higher. Drugmakers still expect tariffs targeting them to be announced soon.
“The pharmaceutical companies are going to come roaring back, …to our country because if they don’t, they got a big tax to pay,” Trump said Wed.
#economy #medications #PersonalFinances
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/health/drug-tariffs-trump-manufacturing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=76886DC0-860E-43CB-8175-BD68E7FA7E3E
“They fired everybody, there’s nobody left to do anything,” said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, which works with states to secure funding from the program. “Either this was incredibly sloppy, or they intend to kill the program altogether.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/climate/trump-layoffs-energy-assistance-liheap.html
The New York Times · Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP