New roundup: Facebook caught impersonating Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube to illegally spy on users; how Trekkies broke an encryption system, Magic Security Dust, Flo Mask enters the EU market, a narco crime boss caught via restaurant reviews, and more!

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-2-101552652

Just launched, please let this be the last one ever: https://www.gofundme.com/f/moving-expenses-for-me-and-the-cats

Updated with two hot items: WHO released a (useful!) model for covid airborne transmission risk assessment by experts in the field, and launched "CoViNet: a global network for coronaviruses"

Links at the top here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-101221362

New roundup! Old-school ASCII art takes a page from Star Trek: TNG and breaks chatbots to make them provide harmful information, a yogurt cyber-heist, Aotearoa's incredible #LongCovid report, and more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-26-101088576

Reminder that there's a new mental health section in the covid safety resource guide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/huge-free-covid-86871700

The Pandemic Roundup is here! Includes scenes from #LongCovid Awareness Day around the world, regional wastewater and case modeling, "living with it" updates, a dire warning for the UK economy, and more.

Get caught up and please share: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-100819438

Patreon readers: Patreon is having a problem and I'm unable to publish posts (or schedule posts). The new Pandemic Roundup is ready and waiting! I've submitted a ticket and will publish our regular post as soon as their bug is fixed. I'm sorry about any delays!

My most recent book A Fish Has No Word For Water is a Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize Nonfiction Semifinalist!!!

The winner will be announced April 13, wow this could be a huge win for homeless kids (and me!): https://booklife.com/authors/03/13/2024/announcing-the-2023-booklife-prize-nonfiction-semifinalists.html

From this week: CDC ends covid isolation, US stops free test program, NIH to cease and delete covid guidance; human-cat transmission “substantial,” German man got 217 covid shots, NEJM study shows mild covid can cost you IQ points, and much more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-99907491

Decided that any news items included in the Pandemic Roundup reporting from the counter-factual position that "covid is over" or the pandemic has ended get a CW for false framing.

Updates added and links re-checked -- plus a whole new section on covid and mental health!

Check it out, please share: https://www.patreon.com/posts/huge-free-covid-86871700

New this week:

–Study: handwashing “ineffective” covid measure
–Prior infection only 1.8% immunity against current variant
–Study: 1 in 3 infections last 30+ days
–Study: vaccines protect against long covid
–Taylor Swift and Adele’s #Covid prevention
–Covid can leave "significant" drops in IQ
–What therapists should know about #longcovid

More: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-99442377

ICYMI:

-David Tennant got a long covid pin!
-Covid Safety For Schools guide
-Reinfections and long covid
-Biobot: US rising again
-Biden fundraiser hosts positive, dropped
-Study: US deaths "at least" 16% higher than official tally

More: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-98981451

#Covid #MaskUp #longcovid

I didn't gel with Red Dead but I just laughed so hard I'm still crying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL579bHM-II&t=88s

#Caturday updates on Jim the kitten (and *lots* of new photos, plus Max and Sam's reactions to Jim so far): https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rescue-jim-the-kitten

New:

-CDC to end 5-day isolation
-6th week of 2000+ US deaths, 1.2M infections/day
-Best of #CDCsays
-Covid pregnant: 1 in 10 get long covid in 6 months
-Mr and Mrs Smith: Turturro infected Donald Glover
-Nicotine patches and #longcovid
-#MaskBloc Directory

More: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-98518046

"The CDC does not serve us, and other countries who follow its guidance and advice about Covid-19 will only destabilize, become divided, slip rapidly into recession, and enter an era of disease and disability."

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-98518046

HAPPY KIWI #KITTEN UPDATES! Jim's story continues (and yes there are photos)...

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rescue-jim-the-kitten

This is a reminder that most people are not getting accurate covid information or access to free prevention and survival resources.

We're headed into a very rough pandemic year where LOT of people will learn extremely hard lessons.

Please share to raise awareness: https://www.patreon.com/posts/huge-free-covid-86871700

New:

–Covid sends Germany into recession
–US:1.2 million infections/day
–1 in 5 infected have “severe cognitive slowing”
–Amantadine helps #longcovid fatigue
–#Covid protections at Davos
–The real winner of 2022 World Cup was covid
–Japan rises 9th week, in 10th wave

More: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-97625418