Nature Photographer - Love to capture the beauty of our changing landscape, nature, and architecture. Fashion, poetry, literature, and films. Zero Covid+Masks
Charlotte, NC
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Another stunning image by @DMiller52325459
Beautiful views by @DMiller52325459
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Elle retweeted
My forecast is now up on the WHN webpage at: whn.global/estimation-of-inf… Below this 👇🏼graph is my forecast. I will have a new, fresh forecast through January up on Monday. You can hover over your location to see a plot of NDIs over the forecast period. You can animate the forecast.
Autumn Comes 🍂
"Autumn Comes, Autumn leaves
Reminiscing you and me being thick as thieves
Autumn comes for a time, but Autumn sways
So I doubt this devoutness will
guide me through the haze."
... by David Gramberg & Mary Lou
youtu.be/DWHio3qPWJo?si=wp1e…
QP Mountain Monday #MountainMonday
Beautiful image Perry!
"Blended Seasons"
Effervescent green spring bloom made for a color rich foreground to snow capped mountains in Taos, NM.
QP Mountain Monday #MountainMonday
Fog below, Peak above.
"Foggy Longs Peak"
Snow-covered Longs Peak emerging from a bank of fog over the Colorado foothills, a ranch and gold grass in the foreground. #LongsPeak #Mountains
Elle retweeted
PMC COVlD Update, Oct 26, 2026
🔥44 states with COVlD outbreaks (see Alt)
🔥Double wave peaks, both at an estimated 950,000 new daily infections
🔥6th week in a row of massive CDC upward retroactive corrections going back to early July
THREAD (1/4)
ALT The US has at least 44 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks, a figure identical to last week. The CDC continues to make large, upward retroactive corrections, and we are in a secondary wave peak. States with observed outbreaks include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Additional states with poor monitoring likely have outbreaks based on high levels in bordering counties in adjacent states.
Elle retweeted
Pathogen Update: 10-25-2026, A free newsletter by Dr. Joseph Eastman. Variant update, SW.2.1 tops, Measles doubles 2025, Ebola 48% CFR, and more josepheastman.substack.com/p…
Elle retweeted
Researchers built a mouse with a human immune system to finally watch how human defenses fight COVID. They expected the virus to get wiped out. Instead, the human immune cells helped it spread from the lungs into other organs and muffled the body's own early alarm system🧵
A NEW study may help explain one of the biggest mysteries of #LongCOVID: why symptoms can persist long after the acute infection.
➡️ Using a sophisticated humanized mouse model, researchers found that SARS-CoV-2 RNA persisted in multiple organs for at least 8 weeks, despite the development of virus-specific human T-cell responses.
➡️ The surprise?
Human T cells appeared to mount a response that was antigen-specific yet dysfunctional—while simultaneously suppressing the body’s innate interferon defenses.
➡️ The result was persistent immune activation, ongoing tissue inflammation, fibrosis, and prolonged viral persistence. 1/
Elle retweeted
Subtweet: Imagine you had a big heart and built a Discord/Reddit following trying to help people avoid COVID.
BUT you oversold certain tactics (e.g., nasal sprays, certain vaccine options), and people increasingly realize this.
Now, people are using AI more, and basic AI models are better incorporating medical evidence, in part because they draw upon critiques by myself and thousands of others and evaluate those critiques, and the critiques often (but not always!) win. It's nowhere near "there" yet. It still makes big mistakes by default on "statistical conclusion validity," stating what study authors claim, even when their own data do not support it. That overly perpetuates industry bias amid sketchy studies. But it's improving, and in a year will be much better. In 5 years, it might even recommend clinicians mask.
So, what do you do if you're the good-hearted person who got some things wrong and is losing clout?
In science, the goal is always to be up to date on the current evidence. For example, although past nasal spray studies are flawed, if a good one with a positive trial came on board, I would eat humble pie and encourage it. I was very hopeful of this when the JAMA-IM article came out; just more junk, unfortunately. If Long COVlD incidence declined, I would warn of that too. These would both be hugely positive developments. Stating one perspective and then admitting being wrong based on new data often gives one immense credibility and is extremely helpful. It's like when a politician votes against the rest of their party. It's just good science, and we're in a terrible public health place because so few people do this.
So, if one oversold nasal sprays and certain vaccine options based on good faith and a big heart, and people were increasingly realizing this, the simplest response would just be to acknowledge the cumulative body of evidence. Don't oversell. Don't attack scientists. Don't push a biased lit review. That will all fail. Just acknowledge what's evolved and move on.
