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[yigashimei]

Alright here is another one, sorry for late posting but here it is Zoya x fem! reader

Zoya

It was supposed to be a one night stand only, but things took a different turn, maybe for the good or not you are just about to find out

Zoya who was only looking for someone to entertain her things turned out to be much more different that what she had anticipated

Meeting you was something people may call 'right person, wrong time' it could potentially change your life but you did not back down

So what happens when you meet your one night stand again in the right time and place

Warnings⚠️: A bit of Angst

It could be destiny trying to kill you or worst you thought it may be someone who just came here looking for fun but turned out to be someone very dangerous

But seeing her again felt amazing even if she was part of a dangerous group, your first instinct was to run and hide but seeing her with them you just went and froze in place

"Where is your boss?" the guy big and tall standing beside her said, his voice holds authority "Our boss wants to talk to him, get him here quick" he continued

"P-please wait a moment, I shall call t-the boss and inform him of y-your arrival and request" the man on the front desk said, you learned his name to be Gin when he approached you months ago

" For the time being, p-please make yourself at home, relax a-and just tell Jane here of what you want to eat and d-drink" his timid voice was even showing his fear in which, Zoya their boss gave him a side glance

Jane went and replaced Gin at the front desk while he went and told his boss of what happened and who has come "My name is Jane and this way to one of the holding room where you can wait for our boss, please follow me" she said while leading them to the room

They were about to pass you so with quick reflexes you turned to the door behind you and went inside before they could see you (more like before she could see you)

Before passing the door that separates you from the gang Zoya stops, looking at the door feeling a bit of hope that what she saw was you

Turns out she saw a glimpse of you before you run and hide, she wasn't sure it was you but she will find out

Continuing their walk Jane calls out to someone to get food and drinks while they wait "The boss will be a bit late due to a meeting he is having, due to this you are free to have fun with some of our clients best pick, I shall send them in and you may pick who you wish to have"

After saying those words, a line of beautiful and jaw dropping women walk in and start to look at the people inside, the men of the group who were either not married or have a girlfriend chose the women they wish to have for the night

But the leader of the group stood up and walked towards the person who led them here "I want someone else, someone who is not here, her name is Y/N" the girls eyes went wide, seeing that this person knows their best worker yet, but she knows that the girl is currently finishing up with someone else and cannot come here

"I am sorry for she is currently unavailable due to someone already booking up an appointment with her, she should be finished soon so if you wish I can go get her once her job is done" Jane explained after seeing the frown on the woman's face

"Good, get her here quickly, I want to talk with her" she said before returning to her seat and with a quick breath Jane excused herself to get you

The truth was you weren't in an appointment at the moment you just said that to her in hopes that if Zoya ever asked Jane could say that you were busy and would not be free in the next few hours, but due to Jane's fear of the woman she had no choice but to fetch you and drag you to the feared woman

"Y/N! Open up! I need you now!" Jane shouted while banging outside of a room where you were she presumed you would be and to her surprise you were there behind the door

"What is it Jane? Didn't I tell you I am busy? Or did you just not hear me?" you asked while pulling on the cloth that's barely covering your bare shoulder

"That woman downstairs is looking for you, the leader of the gang that came here" she said while putting her hands on her hips looking at the girl in front of her "Then tell her I am busy Jane, I thought you already knew that?" Jane frustrated took hold of your wrist and started to pull you towards the end of the hallway where the stairs are

"I did tell her, but she insisted that she needs to see you, so I am sorry if you don't like it,but our job is to listen to the boss and the boss said to treat them good especially their boss the woman who was looking for you" Jane said before stopping infront of the same door where Zoya and her gang was being entertained

"Look, I don't know what your problem is, but we need to listen or else we might end up like Haru and Rei last month for not listening" Jane took hold of your shoulders and started to fix the cloth that was covering you as best as she could to keep the cold air of the night away from your shivering form

"I will be there so don't worry ok? I won't leave you alone, so go inside and know what she wants then you can go back and relax for the rest of the night" she encouraged you before tugging your hand to go inside with her

"Let's go?" she asked turning around to look at you once more "Let's go" you replied more confident than before

Jane signals you to stay just beside the bar and will call you once she has told Zoya of your arrival, doing as you were told you then proceed to talk with someone you know who is working by the bar

"I knew I would find you here" a voice deep and rough sounded just beside your ear, turning around you are met with the person who you slept with a month before this happens "What's with the look dear? Did you not miss me one bit?" she asked looking as if you put a knife on her heart

"I am extremely hurt by your actions of avoiding me, I thought you would have been happy to see me again" her smile was beautiful, deadly but still beautiful to your eyes

"Come sit with me, I have something to tell you, and I know for a fact that you would like it as much as I would too" pulling you up from the stool she guided you toward where her gang was and made them move so that you could take a seat besides her

Her hand moved from your shoulders to your waist holding you in place beside her, it wasn't tight to hurt but still tight that you couldn't leave her side if you wanted to

"I did as I promised, I will be getting you out of here in no time, so just sit and make yourself look pretty for me while we wait for that so called boss of yours and I can take you back with me" her voice echoed through your ear causing you to shiver a little making her smirk

"What? Miss my voice that much?" Zoya asked her smirk turning to a grin "Don't worry bunny, your in safe hands" then she laughed while you turned beet red from her teasing

A few minutes later Gin returned with the man you called boss, you despised him to the core, he was the reason you were here afterall

"What are a bunch of people like you doing here?!" Your boss shouted "And with my best employee?! Get them out now!" Gin was shivering with the glare that Zoya sent their way while the boss was not paying attention and just kept shouting orders

"We made a deal three weeks ago that I pay you 10million dis coins and then I can get her out of here" your eyes widen that was too much and you know for a fact that this man will not let you go after all you are his top selling, letting you go will be bad for his business

"No way in hell! That bitch is my top selling, take her and my business falls, I don't care about you but I am not giving her to you!" he shouted, you wanted to end this get out of here and just be free, but no, your chained here to this damned place till you die

"Our signed papers said otherwise" he froze, he had forgotten he signed the deal cause he thought she wouldn't be able to do it "I got the money and the paperwork here, so you either cooperate with us properly or I can make you be a remaining tale to this place for all eternity" her voice grew dark along with her eyes

Boss afraid stepped down and left with the money, you were free now, no more of those routine that you have to do, tears stained your cheek taking Zoya by surprise

"Hey, why are you crying?" her voice now smooth and soft to your ears "Don't cry now, I made a promise to get you out of here no matter what, and I am doing that now" her hands wiped the tears flowing from your eyes

"You're staying with me and my gang, so stop crying already, you're free now no one can harm you ever again, not on my watch" she said helping you stand up to get out of the place "C'mon, my girl needs to smile cause that's what I need to brighten up my day" her words made you beet red and your heard pounding loud

"What are you talking about? I am not your girl" she merely laughed and kissed your cheek with a grin "That's not what you said to me a month ago" she retorted back making you smile some more

"Let's go and I promise you no one will lay a hand on you ever again, I swear on my name" her smile was contagious that it made you smile too "I will take good care of you don't worry, you are in safe hands"

Maybe meeting her can be considered as 'right person, right time' afterall she saved you from that hell hole

Well whatever happens now is just a fate guiding your way, and you are extremely grateful that fate guided you to your lover

#Mei Stories #PTN #Path To Nowhere #Zoya #Reader #Zoya x Reader

[fortheloveofscience]

A Tripledemic!

What’s in the news today?

News Headline

Has anyone seen the news lately? And even if you haven’t, chances are, you’ve heard about the triple threat that’s looming over the US this season. A quick google search on this topic lists similar reports from all the major news networks, CNN.com, New York Times, PBS News Hour, Today.com, just to mention a few.

CNN reports that doctors are seeing the warning of three public health threats converging this fall.

The Flu, RSV (Respiratory syncytial virus) and Covid are threatening to overwhelm the health care systems, states PBS news hour. Which reports that more than three-quarters of pediatric hospital beds nationwide are full due to the combine spread of these three viruses.

Young child hospitalized

It’s now being called the “Tripledemic”! Yeah, you heard that right! A Tripledemic!

The New York Times also stated that the Flu cases were higher than usual for this time of the year and were expected to soar in the coming weeks, but as the flu cases were increasing in number, Covid cases collided with the resurgent season, causing a “twindemic”! And as if that was not enough, RSV (Respiratory syncytial virus) have also been straining pediatric hospitals in some states, combining for the “tripledemic”.

From left: 1) Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a human cell infected with H3N2 flu virus (gold filamentous particles). 2) Scanning electron micrograph of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) virions (colorized blue) that are shedding from the surface of human lung epithelial cells. 3) Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron virus particles (gold).

As if Covid wasn’t bad enough all on its own. I mean, with putting the world on lock down for two whole years. Now to be hit with not just one threat, or a double threat, but a triple!

I know that this time of the year (with Thanksgiving Day and the Christmas season) is a time for “coming together” but this is not what I had in mind. I don’t think this is what anyone has in mind when they think of coming together- not three public health threats combined!

Is it just the US that’s affected?

No, the numbers are climbing across the border as well.  In Canada, according to a recent CBC News report, RSV infections jumped 800% in New Brunswick compared to last year.

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam stated that the triple threat of these three viruses is posing a challenge for the health system in several parts of the country.

What’s causing these Infections? Viruses!

Viruses causing the Triple Threat

The Flu - Influenza

The flu, I believe we are most familiar with, is caused by an influenza virus. There are four types of influenza viruses: A, B, C, D. The two main types of human flu viruses are Influenza A and Influenza B, and influenza A also has different subtypes. These are routinely spread over the course of the flu season each year and cause illness. Moreover, the influenza A virus not only infects humans but are also found in many different animals as well, and there has been transmission of influenza viruses between humans and animals. Influenza A viruses are the only influenza viruses that have caused flu pandemics. Influenza A viruses are spread mainly by tiny droplets of infected body fluid from coughing, sneezing or even talking. They can also be spread by toughing your mouth or nose after coming into contact with an object or surface  that has the virus on it. That is why we are encouraged to cover our sneeze or cough, to wash our hands often, clean commonly touched surfaces and to avoid touching our faces (mouth and nose) to prevent the spread of these viruses.

Covid-19

COVID-19, I think, we are all too familiar with. COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) is a respiratory disease caused by a corona virus. Corona viruses are a large family of viruses that can cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses in humans but may also cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The 2019 outbreak was caused by a new corona virus, by SARS-CoV-2 that was discovered just then. Similar to influenza virus A, corona virus spreads mainly from person to person through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person talks, coughs, or sneezes. Symptoms can range from mild to severe, but some people may be infected with the corona virus and not have any symptoms. Similar precautions, as before stated for the flu virus, can help to reduce the spread of COVID as well.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Structure of RSV

Of the three viruses mentioned, RSV may be the least familiar to us even though it is a commonly spread virus. Respiratory Syncytial Virus, RSV as its name suggest, is a contagious virus that causes infections of the lungs and respiratory tract. It usually affects young children and elderly adults. Symptoms can be mild and typically mimics the common cold, but as with the flu and covid, RSV symptoms may be severe as well. Previously stated precautionary measures can also reduce spread of RSV.

So, what’s the reasons for this merger?

Based on the different news report, reasons for this triple threat includes a stronger season of respiratory viruses that started earlier than usual, along with the strain on the health system as a result of the shortage of health care staff, and other ongoing challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, it just seems to be the perfect storm.

Why are so many children affected by these viruses?

Think about how these viruses are spread. Now think about how young children play. Got your answer? A common belief is that children are mostly affected because at Daycare and school, young children may spread “germs” (viruses, etc.) more easily because they are less likely to cough or sneeze while covering their mouths, and they touch and share not just their toys in the process. Additionally, the upper airways of young children aren’t fully developed until school age, and that puts them at increased risk for more frequent viral infections. And not only that, Dr. Marcos Espinal, an epidemiologist and assistant director of PAHO, added that recent COVID-19 restrictions meant that pregnant women were not exposed to some of these viruses, and that prevented antibodies from being passed on to their babies in utero and that may also be a contributing factor to this “tripledemic”.

What symptoms to watch out for in young children?

According to the news reports symptoms to watch out for (other than sneezing, coughing, congestion, etc.) in young children includes, your child/ren: not making urine, not breathing properly, not eating or drinking; pretty much not acting like themselves. Seek medical attention!

What are governing public health organizations saying about this?

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC

The CDC has issued its highest-level  warning to public health officials regarding this surge of respiratory viruses, particularly among children, that are overwhelming health systems across the nation.

U.S. Health and Human Services, HHS

“With increased RSV infections, a rising number of flu cases and the ongoing burden of covid-19 in our communities, there’s no doubt we will face some challenges this winter,” stated Dawn O’Connell, assistant Health and Human Services secretary for preparedness and response.

Pan American Health Organization, PAHO

The international public health organization, PAHO director, Carissa F. Etienne, stated that “Countries must be vigilant of ‘triple threat of COVID-19, influenza and RSV as holidays approach. With an increase in COVID-19, influenza on the rise, and a spike in cases of RSV PAHO director is calling on countries to implement tools proven to keep communities safe, particularly in the run-up to the festive season. As she rightly stated, “the rise of a single respiratory infection is a cause for concern. When two or three start impacting a population concurrently, this should put us all on alert.

What can we do to help?

I will leave you with the words of Dr. Jose Romero, director of the CDC’s Immunization and Respiratory Diseases “People should practice everyday preventive measures such as cough hygiene etiquette (that is, covering your coughs and sneezes), staying away from individuals who are ill, and frequent hand washing or using alcohol gels. People may also choose to wear a well-fitting mask as an added precaution.”

So do exercise caution traveling this season to prevent the spread of viral infections as you have fun with family and loved ones.

Happy Holiday!

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[kittyshcherbatsky]

Hi dev, do you know why do ppl hate krp? Are we not supposed to use kpop/k-actors as fc?

nooo omg feel free to use if you like them. the thing w krp is that it's weird? bc its basically an rp place where you can only rp people who are involved in the k-industry (other ethnicities are allowed as long as they have been, at one point or another, been involved in the korean ent industry). and bc its a closed rp, you’re not allowed to rp with others too. but even indie krp typically don’t rp with non kfcs (at least to my knowledge).

it's weird and gross and adding in the fact that mostly its western ppl who plays them and don't even bother like properly researching the culture aside from what they've seen on entertainment shows or kdramas. it's uncomfy for a lot of ppl as it reads as fetishizing.

( and some didnt even bother....theyre just....slapping their muses in there STILL behaving as if theyre in america or some western culture countries like baby seniority is a thing in most asian countries including sk and they rly out there talking w an attitude to older characters 💀 like im sorry did ur parents not raise you well?? but ur bg says ur from a good family 💀 )

ofc that doesn't mean that it's not okay to use kfcs or even set an rp in sk but just like.....don't say that you can only use kfcs you know? be inclusive of all ppl. dont fetishize don't stereotype. just be normal.

p.s.: i was mainly in krp back in....2014-5? i was a young teen and didn't know any better. i just thought krp is where asian muns write together (nope lol) and young!me liked the feeling of familiarity culture wise (just the general western vs eastern culture). at that time a lot of asian rpers wrote for that specific rp comm too. i met a lot of rpers from SG and PH and ML and a lot of ABCs. but then it got weird fast lmao but yeah tl;dr it's just weird

#rpt #rpc #we all made mistakes lol ik all of my asian friends arent even in krp anymore #one krp admin actually have a successful rp rn but just closed recently #due to personal reasons i believe? #cov*d...... #like normal rp #not krp

[loveotomization]

*realizes the holidays are coming up*

Ah, autophobia time :)

#not just due to cov*d #I have very little living family and it feels bad man #it's just me and my mom out here #autophobia

[s-talking]

// update!

hi  everyone ~  !  a  big  sorry  for  having  disappeared  so  suddenly.  i  got  unfortunately  hit  by  cov*d   &   so  did  everyone  else  in  my  house,  but  thankfully  we’ve  all  managed  to  recover;   just  took  much  longer  on  my  part  due  to  already  pre-existing  chronic  health  issues  mixing  in.  still,  i’m  well   &   sound,   &   feel  SUPER  damn  thankful  to  everyone  who  left  me  private  messages  during  my  absence  !   it  means  a  lot  to  me  to  know  that  i  was  thought  of  despite  not  being  here.  you  guys  are  honestly  wonderful.  i  mean  it.  i  consider  myself  very  lucky  to  have  you  as  my  friends   &   writing  partners  ♥

now,  i’m  planning  to  reply  to  everyone  individually  tomorrow  since  i  need  to  take  things  easy,  but  rest  assured  that  i’m  finally  returning.  in  fact,  after  re-adjusting  my  queue  a  little  ( since  some  blogs  got  sadly  deleted ),  i  will  do  what  i  promised  to  do  back  in  february   &   post  them  owed  starters / replies.   thank  you  again  for  your  kind  patience.  it’s  always  wonderful  to  be  back.  

#* showers you all with ♥♥♥ * hehe #// tbd.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Wed[nesday] 28 March 1832

7 1/2

12 3/4

Vc

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ver[y] fine morn[in]g F[ahrenheit] 61° at 7 1/2 in my r[oo]m and 50° at 7 40/.. in the balc[on]y - at my desk at 8 3/4

wr[ote] 2 1/2 p[ages] 1/2 sh[ee]t no[te] pap[e]r to L[ad]y S- [Stuart] de R- [Rothesay]   in an hour then finished dressing and br[eak]f[a]st at

10 1/4 - a lit[tle] whi[le] read[in]g the newspap[e]r - then talking over Miss H-‘s [Hobart] letter from her brother Lord B- [Buckinghamshire] and helping

her with her answer - ca[me] upst[ai]rs at 12 20/.. just as we heard Mr. Duke’s rap - wrote a little more to

lady S- [Stuart] de R- [Rothesay] w[e]nt out w[i]th Miss H- [Hobart] for 1 1/2 h[ou]r just call[e]d at the door in pass[in]g to inq[uire] aft[e]r Mrs. Courtenay mov[in]g today to Gloucest[e]r build[in]gs Place - along our lane a lit[tle] and ov[e]r the hills int[o] George st[ree]t

ho[me] - at my desk at 3 - till four and a half writing letter for Miss H- [Hobart] to her solicitor Mr. Frampton

and downstairs with her about it near half hour then from five to six and a half Fill[e]d my 1st sh[ee]t

1/2 sh[ee]t no[te] pap[e]r and fill[e]d a 2[n]d to L[ad]y S- [Stuart] de R- [Rothesay] sh[oul]d ha[ve] writ[ten] soon[e]r b[u]t wait[e]d to say so[me]th[in]g

of my plans - h[a]d fix[e]d to leave here on the 23[r]d next m[on]th, gi[ve] a day to Tunbridge wells, and be in

Lond[o]n on the 25th and if n[o]t fright[ene]d by cholera fr[om] embark[in]g in Lond[on] on the 29th sh[oul]d be off fr[om]

Dov[e]r - 10 days quarant[ine] b[u]t hop[e]d to be in Paris by the 13th or 14th May exc[ept] mean[in]g to sp[en]d next wint[e]r in Italy - h[a]d plann[e]d noth[in]g

bey[on]d this - sh[oul]d as I h[a]d told L[ad]y S- [Stuart] sen[io]r my plans unfix[e]d till aft[e]r my arriv[a]l in Lond[on] - in fact, on acc[oun]t of Miss H- [Hobart]

wh[o]m I th[ou]ght no bet[ter] than when we ca[me] here - Mr. Duke h[a]d so strong[l]y express[e]d his opin[ion]

that she ought n[o]t to sp[e]nd next wint[e]r in Eng[lan]d, b[u]t get off early, and she hers[elf] w[a]s so

differ[en]t on this subj[ec]t fr[om] wh[a]t she w[a]s last autumn, that I knew n[o]t wh[a]t to th[in]k - L[ad]y

Skelsmerdale seem[e]d to ha[ve] s[ai]d a good deal on the subj[ec]t to L[ad]y S- [Stuart], and I h[a]d writ[ten] the lit[tle] that I c[oul]d

b[u]t my courage fail[e]d me when I th[ou]ght of L[ad]y S-‘s [Stuart] own state of health - yet aft[er]w[ar]ds

obs[erve]d in speak[in]g of Miss H- [Hobart] wh[a]t a pit[y] it w[oul]d be if for want of tak[in]g so decid[e]d step

now, she fell int[o] ‘a delicate take-care state of health w[hi]ch w[oul]d cheat her life of half

its pleas[u]res’ - s[ai]d she h[a]d r[ea]d law pap[e]rs and been mo[re] quick and clev[e]r ab[ou]t them than I c[oul]d count[e]d on -

h[a]d w[i]th the admirab[le] assist[an]ce of Mr. Frampt[o]n clear[e]d up all that was obscure bef[ore], and fr[om] the

ver[y] consid[era]ble arrears due fr[om] h[e]r broth[e]r, w[oul]d by and by ha[ve] a nice lit[tle] addit[io]n to h[e]r inco[me]

and as I laugh[e]d and told h[e]r be qui[te] a catch - s[ai]d L[ad]y G- [Gordon] wr[ote] in good sp[iri]ts - I hoped to see h[e]r in Paris

and that she w[a]s to be in Lond[on] by the end of the m[on]th to ma[ke] the necess[ar]y arrangem[en]ts - h[a]d settl[e]d h[e]r Span[ish]

affairs cert[ainl]y bet[ter] than she once expect[e]d - s[e]nt off at 6 40/: my 2 half sh[ee]ts to ‘The Lady St[uar]t de Rothesay’

und[er]cov[e]r to ‘Lord St[uar]t de Rothesay, Wimpole, Arrington’ dress[e]d - din[ner] at 7 10/.. in 40 min[ute]s - a lit[tle]

mus[i]c - coff[ee] at 8 3/4 - fr[om] 9 to 9 3/4 won 1 and lost 1 hit at b[a]ckgam[mo]n - in an h[ou]r till 10 55/.. r[ea]d al[ou]d fr[om] p[age] 140 to 181.

ch[apter]s 59 and 60 vol[ume] xi Gibb[o]n - ca[me] upst[ai]rs at 11 12/.. and to my r[oo]m at 11 1/4 - wr[ote] the last 23 lines till 11 40/.. - ver[y]

fine day b[u]t wind

east - F[ahrenheit] 62° now at 11 40/.. and 39° at 12 1/4 in the balc[on]y - good friends very cheerful but proper

[darkficsyouneveraskedfor]

Omertà👄6

Warnings: noncon sexual acts (sexual intercourse); tags to be added throughout series

This is dark!Bucky and dark! Loki and explicit. Your media consumption is your own responsibility. Warnings have been given. DO NOT PROCEED if these matters upset you.

Summary: Your father was a bookie and taught you everything you know about numbers. After his death, you were taken on as a bookkeeper for Loki Laufeyson, resident crime boss in Manhattan. But can you keep your place in the background when a man from Brooklyn threatens to drag you to the forefront?

Note: I finished this chapter yesterday which us about all I could do with the pinched nerve in my neck :D I am always so thankful for everything y’all do; reading, like, commenting, etc <3

Hope you enjoy it. Thank you. Love you guys!

As always, if you can, please leave some feedback, like and reblog <3

You couldn’t shake the weight that hung from your shoulders. The wire that dogged your every step and threatened to trip you up. The realisation that all that had transpired was nothing compared to what could; what would come. Deep down you knew none of it could end well. If anything, you were only delaying the inevitable. Your dissemblance, if not your death.

Lopez was just unlocking the door as you walked up to The Attic. He struggled to balance a coffee cup atop a white box of donuts. You grabbed the cup before it could tip and he let you in first. He offered you a jelly filled powdered creation but you passed. You weren’t very hungry. You had felt sick since the night before.

You left him to his sugary feast and let yourself into the back office. You took your time, retrieved the ledger from the safe, and paced the office for a while. Were you impatient for Loki’s arrival? Anxious?

You sat and let out a breath. Your phone vibrated and you squinted at it as the screen lit up. The private number wasn’t so private. Bucky’s message blared at you in the morning haze. ‘10pm.’ Simple enough but an order. You swiped it away and opened the thick book of numbers. It would be done soon and you’d have a new, fresh set of margins to fill.

The door finally flew open and Loki entered, muttering. He didn’t acknowledge you as he swept his jacket off and threw it over his desk. He reached in his pocket as he stomped back and forth and sighed as he stared at the screen. He answered with a growl.

“I told you-- Goddamn it,” He was snarling already. He always impressed you with how furious he could be so early in the day. “No, no, don’t! I’ll take care of it--” He checked his watched and reached for his jacket as quickly as he’d disposed of it. “I’m on my way. No, don’t let him do that. No!”

He sent you a glance as if only just noticing you. He gave a hopeless sneer and shook his head as he turned away. Confused and even a little amused, you watched him stroll right back out. The door slammed and made you flinch.

There was an initial gratitude for his absence followed by the fear of his eventual return. It was one thing to spend the day with him in that office, undisturbed, another to have him there irritated. If he did come back, you expected nothing but trouble.

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Loki did not return. You let out a breath of relief as you packed up but then recalled, tomorrow would be another. He would likely make up for the day he’d missed; hours stolen from him. Your torment would only get worse.

And the night that awaited you. You weren’t stupid. You knew what Bucky expected but it didn’t make it any easier. You always wondered how famous queens could march to their executions with their head high. You suspected you were coming to understand them. It wasn’t courage, it was that they had no other choice, so if one must do something they should do it in their own way.

You had some hours before you were due. You pondered staying in just to see what would happen but it wasn’t really a mystery. While you never shied away from adding to the kindling, you didn’t need to be engulfed by the flames.

You did nothing. Didn’t change, didn’t ‘freshen up’, you just waited. The time passed quickly but not easily. It felt like a noose tightening around your neck a little at a time.

The She-Wolf looked more sinister against the night sky. There weren’t many stars in the city and while the neon sign glowed, it wasn’t so serene as the moon. You gathered your wits and approached the door. The bouncers looked at you dully but said nothing. 

You entered and were met by thumping music and a haze of voices. The air was a swirl of perfume and alcohol and it got stronger as you followed the short corridor to the barroom. The stages were full and red, blue, and purple lights bathed twirling and twisting bodies in lurid shadows. Men flipped bills at the dancers and sipped from bottles and glasses.

You thought of turning back and marching out. You could call Loki and tell him everything. The devil you know… But would he believe you? Would he care? And what would he do but play his hand in turn? You went to the bar and ordered a gin. 

As you reached into your purse and awaited the bartender’s return, a large hand came down on the leather trim beside you.

“On the house, Lola,” Steve called over the bar as he leaned on it. “You’re late.”

“No, I’m not,” You insisted. “I was here exactly when I was told to be. You’re late.”

Your gin was placed before you and Lola sent a lingering peek at Steve who acknowledged her with a wink. He took the glass before you could and waved you away.

“He won’t wait any longer,” He leaned in. “So get that ass in motion.”

You huffed and bit back a sneer. He directed you across the room to a shadowed doorway just beyond the stages. He hung back to let you through first and followed closely. His hand slapped your ass as you started down the hallway and you stopped short. You spun and he evaded your slap by stepping back.

“Ah,” He barely kept the gin from spilling. “You wouldn’t want to waste this. You’ll need it.”

You lowered your chin angrily and glared up at him.

“Just tell me where to go and keep the drink.” You snapped.

“Very end, on your right.” He replied.

You turned and continued on, keeping far enough ahead of him that his hand didn’t stray again. You stopped at the door with the golden ‘6’ on its face and disclaimer which forbade recording beyond that point.

“Go on,” He got close. “I can help you inside if you really want me to.”

You rolled your eyes and turned the handle. You stepped through and he caught the door before you could shut it on him. You ignored him and looked around the room. There was a low stage at the centre, curved couches framed it, and lowlights lent a soft glow to the space. A private room reserved for bachelor parties and loners.

Bucky sat on the velvet sofa which faced you. His arm was stretched over the back as he watched you, his other hand around a short glass of dark liquor. He smiled as Steve closed the door and hovered behind you.

“You want the drink or--” Steve wondered.

“Only if I can throw it in your face,” You spat and slowly began forward.

“Sweetheart,” Bucky stood. “You look… well, as always, gorgeous.”

“I’m done with the games,” You stopped just between the sofas opposite him. “I just want this over with.”

“Don’t sound so excited,” He set his drink aside and rounded the lit stage. “And this isn’t just going to be over with. We’re gonna take our time.”

You inhaled and glanced over your shoulder at Steve’s silhouette. He sipped noisily from the gin. 

“You know, I spend so much time here but never really get to enjoy the show.” He purred. “So I thought you could indulge me.”

“Excuse me?” You recoiled as he touched your arm.

“Don’t worry, I’m a great tipper. Hell, you’d probably make more here than with that snake,” He smirked.

“I don’t--” You peeked at the stage. “I wouldn’t know-- No.”

“All the other girls start out there,” He pointed past you. “Strangers pushing ones into their panties, feeling them up, literally drooling on them. Which do you prefer?”

You bit your lip and swallowed. You hung your head, just for a second, and brushed past him. You set your purse down on a small round table and stepped up onto the stage. You turned back and looked at Steve again. Bucky chuckled.

“Sit,” He called to Steve. 

“What--” You blinked.

“He’s my talent manager. He’s a fan of the art.” Bucky resumed his spot on the other sofa as Steve found his own on the one across from him. 

You pushed your shoulders up uncomfortable and tried not to shudder. You gripped the pole then drew away. You tried not to look at Bucky or behind you at Steve. You weren’t sure what exactly he expected from you. You surely weren’t going to be doing acrobatics. The music pumped through the wall and further agitated you.

“I want to see how your little present,” Bucky urged. “Show me. Make it interesting.”

You stretched your fingers and tried to blur out the room around you. You weren’t a dancer, you weren’t flamboyant in any sense. You surely didn’t have rhythm. You grabbed the bottom of your shirt and lifted it. Bucky tisked.

“Slow down, sway your hips,” He said. “Shake your ass.”

“Mhmm,” Steve hummed from behind you.

You ignored him and shook off the disgust. You moved your hips just a little as you took your time raising your hem. You focused on breathing, on the distant beat of the club speakers. You let the shirt fall away and felt along the top of your skirt.

You felt the weight of their gazes and your fingers crawled over to your zipper. You took your time to unhook the small clasp, to push down the metal tag. The skirt slackened and you shimmied as you inched it down your legs. You bent as it was tight and did not slip upon its own. As you bared the panties you heard another purr from behind you.

You stood and kicked away the skirt, you caught the pole as you wobbled in your heels. You stared at Bucky. He tilted his head as he eyed your bra. He lifted a brow, a silent command. You reached back to unhook it and drew the cups away from your chest. You flung the bra away and resisted the urge to cover yourself.

Bucky leaned forward as he admired the gleaming panties and you stepped around the pole as if it could hide you from the man behind you.

“Go,” Bucky breathed. “Steve. Out.”

“Ah, come on,” Steve moaned.

“Don’t make me repeat myself,” He warned and you heard Steve move behind you.

The door opened and closed as you stood frozen on the stage. Bucky sat back and rubbed his thighs.

“Come here,” He cooed.

You hesitated. Your mouth was dry. You made the few steps across the stage. You climbed down before him as his hands continued to rub his legs. He pushed his knees apart and lifted his arms over the back of the couch.

“You look great,” He said. “They fit you perfectly.”

You stopped before him and he licked his lip.

“But I think I’d like them better… off.” He grinned.

You were dizzy. What were you doing? Your hands balled into a fist and his eyes caught the movement. He shook his head in warning.

“I can bring Steve back in.” He said. “You don’t want that because then he’ll expect me to share.”

You unclenched your fingers and hooked your thumbs under the panties. You dragged them down your thighs and let them slump around your feet. His eyes flicked up and down your body. He nodded to his lap.

You kicked off your heels and stepped closer. You grabbed his shoulders as you straddled him and he brought his hands around you. He brushed his palms down your back and ass. He squeezed and urged you closer. He lifted one hand to the back of your head and pulled you down until your lips met his.

You squirmed as he held you in place and his tongue poked past your lips. Your teeth grazed his tongue and he pulled away. He gripped your head with both hands and his eyes burned as he looked up at you.

“Sweetheart,” He said. “Play nice and I’ll do the same.”

You looked away and he forced your mouth back to his. He was forceful, hungry. His hands went to your neck and he squeezed just a little. You winced as you felt him growing hard beneath you. His hands continued down until they were on your ass once more. He rocked your hips so that your pelvis rubbed against his.

He turned you suddenly, almost lifting you entirely as he flipped you onto the couch beside him. He pinned you beneath him as he kept his lips to yours. He moaned and slowly drew his mouth from yours and left a trail of spit along your cheek.

He grabbed your leg and pulled it around him as he writhed against you. His hand slipped from your leg and up your thigh. He pushed it between your bodies and cupped your tit. He shivered and nibbled at your ear.

“I wanted you the moment I saw you,” He whispered. “Sitting there in that ridiculous get-up. I knew you needed this; needed me.”

You said nothing and turned your face away from him. He continued a trail along your neck as he held himself over you and his hand ventured further. He pressed two fingers along your stomach and wandered lower. He ticked your trimmed fuzz and slid his fingers over your folds.

“Do you always make them wait, huh?” He teased. “You like it, being chased?”

You shook your head and pressed against his chest. You suddenly felt as if you were being crushed; as if you couldn’t breathe. You grasped at his lapels as your lip trembled.

“Please…” You uttered. “Please…”

“Please what?” He purred.

“Off, get off,” You whined. “Stop.”

He stopped and inhaled your scent as his nose tickled your neck. He sat up suddenly, surprising you, and his dilated eyes bore into you. His hand shot to your throat again and his lip curled as his lust was cut with wrath.

“You are so fucking stubborn,” He hissed. “You still don’t realise you’re not the one in charge.”

He stood and took you with him. You latched onto his wrist as you stumbled on your feet. He spun you and shoved you so that you caught yourself on the sofa. He grabbed your hands and placed them on the back of it and held them there. He used his knee to push yours apart.

“Look at that ass,” He let go and smacked your ass with both hands. “I don’t know how any man could miss that.”

Your nails dug into the velvet as he lingered behind you. You didn’t dare look back. For the first time since you were a kid, you were terrified. His jacket hit the sofa next to you. The clink of his belt buckle sounded and he let out a heavy breath. He rubbed your ass with his rough hands and pinched your thigh.

“If you wanna be mine, you can be.” He moved closer and you went rigid as he poked you with his cock and slid it up and down your ass. “Just mine. You understand? It wouldn’t be so bad.”

You hung your head and shook it. Your shoulder dropped as you scoffed. He guided his cock down below your ass as he gripped your hip and tilted your pelvis. He rubbed himself against your folds and sighed. He leaned against your back and his hot breath whispered in your ear.

“You’ll change your mind,” He impaled you in a single motion and you grunted through your teeth as your hands almost slipped from the couch. “I know you will.”

He pulled back and slammed into you. You threw your head back in pain as your legs shook. He thrust again, harder. His pants chafed against your bare flesh with each buck of his hips. He grabbed your shoulders and jolted you violently, each time he groaned in delight.

You slapped at the couch with one hand. You let out a moan as your walls clenched around him. The noise seemed to enliven him. His hands dropped down your arms and grasped the velvet next to yours. He pushed you further onto the couch as he climbed up behind you and pounded into you.

He bent his head and dragged his teeth along your shoulder. His nose brushed your neck and he kissed there before he bit you. You whined and he sped up again. You cried out in shock as he sent ripples through your entire body. Your hands slipped over the edge and you hung over the back of the couch.

He snickered and righted himself, crashing into you over and over until your hips were against the couch and you were folded over the back, clawing at it. The wet sounds of your arousal made your stomach turn and yet fueled your reluctant pleasure. It hurt and yet it felt great.

Your legs quivered and pathetic mewls streamed from you as your fingertips dangled over the floor. You closed your eyes and pressed your face to the velvet. You couldn’t hide your orgasm from him as your cunt pulsed around him and fed his fervour. You went entirely limp as your nerves bounced beneath your flesh.

“That’s it, sweetheart.” He growled and rammed into you harder and harder.

He rubbed your back with one hand as his other clung to your hip. He grunted and his voice sputtered. He pulled out suddenly and warmth spilled down your leg. You cringed as his cum dripped down to your knee and he panted loudly behind you.

He got off the couch, one knee at a time. His hands hesitated as he withdrew them and sniffed. You heard a crack, the sounds of his neck or his knuckles as he stretched. You lifted yourself up shakily from over the back of the couch.

“Don’t make a mess,” He warned and you blindly stood up, careful not to spread his cum onto the velvet. 

You looked around the floor and avoided his gaze as you turned and headed for the stage. He stopped you, a hand on your arm.

“What are you doing?” He smirked.

“Getting my clothes.” You said stiffly.

“Why? I’m not done yet.” He drew you to him and leaned down to kiss you. “Sweetheart, this place is open all night.”

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3/15/20 corona extra: cracking open cold covid facts

Announcements & Thank Yous

“About This Newsletter” has been moved to the bottom so it’s easier to skip if you’ve seen the other ones.

Some institutions do not update on Sundays. I have included the date of everything that is in question. That is also why this update is early :)

Thank you to @hysterical-random-things for letting me know about the first death in NYC and where to find that news, to @nanook2000 for information and links about KY’s response, and to @akashicsage for all of the good deets on San Diego county. If you have reliable information from a good source that I don’t seem to have, please shoot me a message/ask/pigeon!

Places now included in the newsletter are: Utah, Oregon, Washington, the Netherlands, Minnesota, Kentucky, Georgia, Nebraska, the UK, and possibly some others I missed here but included in the newsletter. Please send an ask or a message if you would like a place included!

A word on mortality rates: they look very high in some places in the US right now because testing is limited to the sickest patients. People who have mild illness and are well enough to go or stay home may not have been tested until very recently when several states started mass testing/drive through testing. Testing is still limited in a lot of states, so this will be a rolling increase situation, I anticipate.

A word on case numbers: due to the aforementioned expansion of testing capacity in the US (thank fuck), case numbers are gonna grow in a really, really scary-looking way this week. This is not actually as scary as it seems, because it means we are catching more of the cases that would have gone unnoticed and have better information to help more people.

Just The Numbers

Case numbers

Total cases: 153,517 (10,982 new)

Total deaths: 5,735 (343 new)

China: 81,048 cases (27 new!!), 3204 deaths (10 new)

This gives us a mortality rate of ~3.95%

Excluding China: 72,469 cases (10,955 new), 2531 deaths (333 new)

143 countries/territories reporting cases, 9 are new today including:

Kazakhstan: 6 cases

Curacao: 2 cases

Namibia: 2 cases

Central African Republic: 1 case

Congo: 1 case

Equatorial Guinea: 1 case

Eswatini: 1 case

Mauritania: 1 case

Mayotte: 1 case

Italy is reporting over 20,000 cases with over 1400 deaths

Iran is reporting over 10,000 cases with over 700 deaths

South Korea, Spain, and Germany are reporting over 5,000 cases

SK reports 75 deaths

Spain reports 289 deaths

Germany reports 11 deaths

International/General News

Many places experiencing a worsening epidemic are following the lead of countries including South Korea and instituting drive-through testing and high-throughput testing. Some tests (like the ones being used in Vietnam) can have a result in as soon as an hour, enabling people to be quickly cleared or quarantined. (This is super cool science! Yay, science!)

Johns Hopkins University is putting on a webinar on Tuesday, 3/17. If you are interested, you can sign up/check it out here: https://www.jhsph.edu/events/2020/covid-19/

South Korea’s epidemic is currently being driven by a fringe religious group, which represents approximately 60% of all cases.

Italy’s health system is overwhelmed, which is likely why their case-fatality rate is so high. Doctors, nurses, respiratory techs, first responders, lab personnel, and everyone else involved in hospitals/health care are working their butts off and doing some frankly heroic shit to help people.

Singapore has instituted strict travel restrictions on visitors/transiting people from European countries, including Italy, France, Spain, and Germany; this is in addition to restrictions on visitors from Iran, China, and South Korea.

Some doctors from Washington state, USA (the ones seeing the most cases) are noticing that myocarditis (viral infection & inflammation of the heart) seems to be what kills patients, not the ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) that requires ventilation. This is obviously in early stages and more research is ongoing.

The World Health Organization is setting up three hospitals with advanced respiratory care capabilities in Erbil, Baghdad, and Basra, Iraq.

Virology Corner

Today’s topic: where did SARS-CoV-2 come from?

SARS-CoV-2 is what’s known as a zoonotic virus. This means that it spread from animals to humans, and then gained the ability (through mutations) to pass from human to human.

We think that SARS-CoV-2 came from bats (Rhinopholus) or pangolins- which doesn’t mean we need to blame bats or pangolins for this, they’re innocent bystanders in the game of cat-and-mouse viruses and animals are constantly playing over evolutionary timescales. Also they’re pretty ding dang cute.

(Not to get much more depressing, but here goes, as humans encroach on more and more land and as climate change progresses, more zoonoses will affect humans. Sorry to be a mega-bummer.)

Question Tuesday

Today’s question comes from @adventurecalls! They ask (paraphrased because the ask got eaten): “If I do get sick, how do I know when it’s ok to go back to doing stuff?”

This is a really good question, and one that’s rapidly being worked out by public health people as we speak (whoa)!

In general, the thought is that once you’re totally recovered you’re not able to spread the virus, but there’s not concrete data on this. The best we have is this recent study in the Lancet (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3/fulltext) which indicates that people who recover shed virus for 20 days from symptom onset, whereas those who die shed virus continuously until their death, a maximum course of 37 days.

I obviously can’t give individual medical advice, which this is not, but the guidance from the WHO is excellent in general, and I will keep readers posted when there’s more information.

If you have questions, ask them and they’ll appear here in the next issue of corona extra!

Regional News (if you want somewhere added just let me know. Don’t be shy!! I highly recommend you just skip to your area if you don’t wanna be overwhelmed.)

Canada: last updated 9:00 AM EST 3/15/20

Total cases: 249 confirmed (+5), 4 presumed (-1), 1 death (3/9/20, no change)

All current cases had symptoms starting between 1/17/20 and 3/9/20

One of these cases is the PM’s wife (mild case); the couple are in quarantine for 14 days now. This is not expected to affect Canada’s management, but is definitely a reminder that being a political leader does not grant one immunity to COVID-19.

12% of cases have required hospitalization

79% of cases are in travellers, and a further 8% in their close contacts

Affected provinces include (both confirmed and presumptive cases): BC (73, +0), Alberta (39, -2), Saskatchewan (2, +0), Manitoba (4, +0), Ontario (103, +2), Quebec (24, +3), Newfoundland and Labrador (1) New Brunswick (2, +0), and PEI (1).

Newly affected provinces include: Newfoundland and Labrador

4 cases in repatriated travellers

The Netherlands

I do not speak Dutch so please correct me if I’ve fucked something up royally

1135 confirmed cases, 20 deaths

176 new cases, 8 new deaths

Provinces (?) affected include: Drenthe (15), Flevoland (19), Friesland (10), Gelderland (100), Groningen (9), Limburg (129), North Brabant (446), North Holland (90), Overijssel (28), Utrecht (109), South Holland (110), and Zeeland (12).

I think this is all of them based on a quick Wikipedia investigation?

Interestingly they tested a bunch of people who work in a hospital and found a pretty high (4%) rate of asymptomatic infection. This seems like bad news (are these people spreading, etc) but it’s actually pretty good news because it means the mortality rate is lower than we think. I’ll update here as I find out more, which is hampered by my inability to speak Dutch.

New Zealand

8 confirmed cases, 2 probable cases

2 new cases, one of which was diagnosed in Australia

Both patients were on international flights and there is extensive contact tracing underway

2 patients have required hospitalization but both have been discharged

6700 people have completed self-isolation, 3015 people continue to be isolated

These people all deserve a medal, thank you for protecting your communities!

Golden Princess cruise berthed in Akaroa has one confirmed and two potential cases. The ship is quarantined now.

Norway 

1077 cases, 166 of which are new

I still don’t speak Norwegian so if I screwed up lemme know

Only 1 confirmed death, possibly one more to be confirmed 3/16 but only official numbers go here

Also possible that it’s been confirmed and I don’t know because I don’t speak Norwegian

287 cases are due to community transmission, 710 acquired outside of Norway, the rest are undetermined

Locations where people became infected include Austria (491), Italy (144), Switzerland (14), UK (12), Spain (9), France (8), USA (7), Iran (5), China (1), Hong Kong (1), other countries with more than 3 cases (80), and other countries with less than 3 cases (20).

Breakdown of cases by area: Agder (55, +3), Innlandet (72, +16), Møre og Romsdal (20, +4), Nordland (8, +0), Oslo (281, +59), Rogaland (127, +9), Troms og Finnmark (20, +4), Trøndelag (50, +4), Vestfold og Telemark (48, +9), Vestland (118, +9), and Viken (278, +47)

Good job Nordland! No new cases today! :D

United Kingdom in general: this is pretty rough because apparently the public health strategy coming from Boris is “herd immunity” aka let everyone get sick and then they’ll all be immune, since the only other way to get herd immunity is a vaccine that…..we don’t have yet. Boris does not understand how to medicine. 

Fuck you, Boris.

1372 total cases (+20%), 232 are new today

35 total deaths, 14 new today

England

1099 total cases

Affected NHS regions are as follows: London (407), South East (175), Midlands (94), North East and Yorkshire (91), North West (76), East of England (71), and South West (61).

Deaths are not being reported by the PHS but I will do my best to split these out in the next few editions using news reports etc

Scotland

153 cases total and 1 death

Affected health boards are as follows: Ayrshire and Arran (6), Borders (7), Fife (7), Forth Valley (10), Grampian (12), Greater Glasgow and Clyde (39), Highland (2), Lanarkshire (16), Lothian (28), Shetland (11), and Tayside (15).

I don’t know if this is all of the health  boards in Scotland but it sure is the ones that have confirmed covid19.

Wales

94 cases, 34 new

Welsh authorities are now recommending that anyone who develops a persistent cough and/or fever self-isolate, and only call 111 if they are unable to cope with their symptoms at home

Affected areas include: Blaenau Gwent County (3, +2), Bridgend County (1, +0), Caerphilly County (11, +4), Carmarthenshire County (7, +3), City & County of Swansea (18, +4), City of Cardiff (8, +3), Conwy County (1, +0), Flintshire County (1, +0), Isle of Anglesey (1, +0), Monmouthshire County (5, +1), Neath Port Talbot (11, +0), Newport City (5, +3), Pembrokeshire (2, +0), Powys County (5, +0), and Wrexham County (1, +0).

Newly affected areas include: Ceredigion County (1), Rhondda Cynon Taf County (2), Torfaen County (2), and Vale of Glamorgan (1).

Northern Ireland

45 cases, 11 new

This is all the data I have, sorry

This may actually be a thing that makes northern/southern Ireland cooperate, which is a small spark of hope in the raging dumpster fire that is this pandemic (I hyperbolize, but only slightly)

US in general: All this info is from the state & county health departments unless I say otherwise. The national response is a trash fire (but maybe hopefully improving this week??) CDC information is updated weekdays; total US cases are from 3/13 at 4 PM

1629 total cases, 41 deaths (2.5% mortality rate), with 46 states and DC reporting cases.

CDC is now recommending all in person gatherings with more than 50 people be canceled for the next 8 weeks. This sucks for me personally and probably a lot of you all too. Hang in there.

California: updated around 10 AM PST, 3/15/20

The state dept of health is not providing a ton of info right now, so all of this is coming from county health departments, which are doing really excellent work btw. Love local public health departments <3

My official take is that the higher level government orgs in the US are muzzled from above and therefore totally shitting the bed and the county-level public health officials are really stepping up to the plate

Total cases not including the ones at Miramar (discussed below): 363, with 4 total deaths

Affected counties include: Alameda (7), Calaveras (2), Contra Costa (29), Fresno (2), Humboldt (1 - recovered), Imperial (2), Los Angeles (53, +11), Madera (1), Marin (5), Orange (14), Placer (8), Riverside (10), Sacramento (29) San Benito (3 - 2 recovered), San Diego (8), San Francisco (28), San Joaquin (8), San Luis Obispo (1), San Mateo (32), Santa Clara (91), Santa Cruz (7), Shasta (1), Solano (6), Sonoma (4), Stanislaus (2), Tulare (2), Ventura (5), Yolo (2)

San Diego: My numbers are not gonna include the federal quarantine situations at Miramar (for repatriated people and the Diamond Princess passengers) because that’s what makes sense right now regarding community transmission. If this changes I will say so.

Unaffected counties include: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Plumas, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yuba

Counties with confirmed community transmission include: Los Angeles, Marin, Orange, Riverside, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Sonoma

Newly affected counties include San Luis Obispo (3/14)

Colorado - last updated 3/14 at 3 PM

Colorado Springs Bridge Center is under an advisory for possible exposure

Drive-up testing is available now, in Denver and Lowry and possibly other places

1 death, 3/13/20, in El Paso County, a female in her 80s

Community spread has been confirmed

101 confirmed cases, 1 death

Affected counties include: Adams (6), Arapahoe (10), Denver (20), Douglas (4), Eagle (18), El Paso (3), Gunnison (6), Jefferson (9), Larimer (1), Mesa (1), Pitkin (2), Pueblo (1), Summit (2), Weld (3)

Out of state visitors who have tested positive are tallied separately. They are located in the following counties: Pitkin (9), Eagle (2), Routt (1), Denver (1), unknown (2 - wtf??)

Florida - last updated 145 AM EST 3/15/20

115 (+45) cases and 4 deaths (+0)

Florida has not yet confirmed community transmission but it’s almost certainly happening. I’m no longer separating counties with and without confirmed community transmission because of that.

Also, the numbers by county do not add up to the same total because locations are updated less frequently by FLDPH than the total number of cases.

Affected counties  include: Alachua (1, +0), Broward (36, +16), Charlotte (1, +0), Clay (3, +2), Collier (5, +2), Duval (4, +3), Hillsborough (4, +2), Lee (5, +1), Manatee (4, +0), Miami-Dade (13, +5), Nassau (1, +0) Okaloosa (1, +0), Orange (2, +1), Osceola (1), Palm Beach (5, +0), Pasco (2, +1) Pinellas (2, +0), Santa Rosa (1, +0), Sarasota (1, +0) Seminole (1, +0), Volusia (5, +1)

Newly affected counties include: Citrus (1), St. John’s (1)

Port Everglades is under an advisory due to several cases connected to a cruise company based there.

Georgia: last updated 3/15 at 11:43 AM

Y’ALL THEY MADE A HASHTAG. I am NOT making this up. It’s #covid19ga if you want to use that, I guess???

99 cases, 1 death

Affected counties include: Bartow (9), Charlton (1), Cherokee (6), Clayton (2), Clarke (2), Cobb (19), Coweta (2), Dekalb (10), Dougherty (6), Fayette (5), Floyd (4), Fulton (20), Gordon (2), Gwinnett (4), Henry (1), Lowndes (2), Lee (2), Newton (1), and Polk (1).

Illinois: last updated 3/14/20

64 confirmed cases, 16 new, with confirmed community spread

New cases: Chicago (7), Cook not Chicago (4), Kane (1), Lake (1)

195 pending persons under investigation

Affected counties include Cook, Kane, McHenry

Newly affected counties include: Woodford (1), Cumberland (1), St. Clair (2), DuPage (1, first long-term care facility case)

Iowa: last updated 3/14/20

Total cases: 18, 1 new 3/14

Affected counties include: Carroll (1), Dallas (1), Harrison (1), Johnson (14), and Pottawattamie (1)

Community spread confirmed on 3/14/2020

Kansas: last updated 3/14/20

8 confirmed cases

Affected counties include: Johnson (5), Wyandotte (1), Butler (1), Franklin (1)

Kentucky: last updated 3/14 at 6 pm local time

18 confirmed cases

2 new cases, both in Fayette County

One patient in Nelson County tested positive but left the hospital and refused to quarantine himself. Don’t be like this guy. Please. I’m expecting a lot more cases to pop up in Nelson county over the next couple weeks all connected to this one patient.

Apparently there’s now a bunch of cops sitting outside his house to make sure he stays there. Ffs.

Affected counties include: Harrison (6), Fayette (7), Jefferson (3 or 4, possible repeat test), Bourbon (1), Nelson (1), and Montgomery (1)

Governor is recommending hospitals stop elective procedures and childcare centers plan for closure by 3/17/20. Also put in place a bunch of important protections for people who don’t have insurance and stuff. Good job, KY!

First patient has fully recovered! Yay!

Louisiana: last updated 9:30 am 3/15/20

91 cases reported, 14 new

2 deaths, 1 new

Parishes affected:  Jefferson (12, +1), Lafourche (1, +0), Orleans (65, +12), St. Charles (2, +0), St. John the Baptist (1, +0), St. Tammany (4, +2), and Terrebonne (2, +1)

New parishes affected: Bossier (1), Caddo (1), St. Bernard (1)

Massachusetts: last updated 4 pm 3/14/20

138 cases (19 lab confirmed, 119 presumptive positives)

1 new lab confirmed case, 14 new presumptive positives

1083 people in quarantine

Affected counties include: Berkshire (9, 0% change), Essex (5, +150%), Middlesex (65, +8%), Norfolk (28, +16%), Suffolk (27, +3%), and Worcester (2, 0% change)

Newly affected counties include: Barnstable (1) and Bristol (1)

5 cases travel related, 104 (+10%) in one community transmission cluster, others unknown

11 hospitalized, 105 not hospitalized, the rest pending (22)

1 new hospitalization

Michigan: last updated 3/14/20 in the evening

33 cases, 8 new, 0 deaths

Affected counties include: Bay (1), Charlevoix (1), Ingham (1), Kent (3), Macomb (2), Monroe (1), Montcalm (1), Oakland (9), St. Clair (1), Wayne (8), and Washtenaw (4)

Likely community transmission

Minnesota: last updated 3/15

35 cases, community transmission confirmed

Affected counties include: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Olmstead, Ramsey, Renville, Stearns, Waseca, Washington, and Wright

County numbers are not currently being provided by MN dept of health, just ranges. Hennepin and Ramsey counties have 6-20 cases each.

Hopefully they’ll pull an Ohio and help a girl out soon

Drive through testing available in Olivia

Nebraska: last updated 3/15

Community transmission confirmed: many locations in Douglas County are potential places where transmission has occurred; if you live or have traveled to Douglas County (Omaha), please check the Douglas County COVID-19 monitoring site.

There were also two exposures in Knox County on March 5, at basketball games at Lincoln Southwest HS and North Star HS.

17 cases, no deaths

Affected counties include: Cass (1), Douglas (15) and Knox (1)

New Jersey : last updated 3/14 at 2 pm

69 cases (+38%), 1 death (none new)

Affected counties include: Bergen (25, +47%), Burlington (3, no change), Camden (2, +1), Essex (7, +1), Hudson (5, +2), Middlesex (10, +6), Monmouth (8, +1), Morris (3, no change), Ocean (1, no change), Passaic (2, -1 apparently?), Somerset (1, no change), and Union (1, no change)

Newly affected counties include: Mercer (1)

I dread updating NJ just because the website sucks so bad

Thank you to the commenter who noted that the help line apparently rules and they’ve been advertising it heavily, that’s awesome public health work by NJ!

So that’s a bright spot, eh?

New York: last updated 3/14 at 8 PM

613 cases, 192 new, 1 new death

Affected counties include: Westchester (178, +12%), Nassau (79, +54%), Suffolk (41, +13), Rockland (12, +3), Ulster (5, +0), Dutchess (4, +1), Orange (6, +3), Saratoga (3), Albany (5, +3), Broom (1, +0), Delaware (1, +0), Herkimer (1, +0), Monroe (2, +1), and Schenectady (1, +0).

NYC has 269 cases (+75%) as of 3/15 at noon

Newly affected counties include: Erie (3), Tioga (1), and Tompkins (1)

Drive through testing in New Rochelle and Long Island

All public places are closed in New Rochelle through March 25.

Ohio: last updated 3/15 at 2 pm

36 confirmed cases, 10 new

350 people under investigation

Affected counties include: Belmont (2), Butler (6), Cuyahoga (14), Franklin (3), Lorain (2), Lucas (1), Medina (1), Stark (2), Summit (2), Trumbull (2), Tuscarawas (1)

THEY STARTED GIVING COUNTY BY COUNTY INFO, PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Oregon: last updated 3/14 at 11:00 AM

36 cases, 13 hospitalized at time of positive test, 1 death (3/14)

The following counties are affected: Clackamas (1), Deschutes (3), Douglas (1), Jackson (2), Klamath (1), Linn (9), Marion (2), Multnomah (1), Polk (1), Umatilla (2), and Washington (13).

Pennsylvania: last updated 3/15 at noon

Gritty is now loose and is singlehandedly responsible for all cases in Philadelphia, if you see the orange monster, RUN

63 total cases, 16 new today

No deaths, Gritty is thankfully failing in his mission to murder

Counties affected include: Allegheny (3, +1) Bucks (4, +1), Chester (2, +0), Cumberland (5, +2), Delaware (7, +1), Monroe (6, +3), Montgomery (24, +4), Northampton (1, +0), Philadelphia (6, +2), Pike (1, +0), Washington (1, +0), Wayne (1, +0)

Newly affected counties include: Lehigh (1) and Luzerne (1)

446 people under investigation pending test results

Rhode Island: last updated 3/13/20

~500 people in quarantine for close contact situations

57 pending people under investigation

20 confirmed cases, no deaths

Next expected update 3/16 in the AM

South Dakota: last updated 3/15

9 confirmed cases, no new cases since 3/14

6 pending cases under investigation

Affected counties include: Beadle (1), Bon Homme (1), Charles Mix (1), Davison (1), McCook (1), Minnehaha (3), and Pennington (1)

No community transmission

Texas: last updated 3/15

56 total cases, 5 new.

Highly likely that there has been community transmission, unconfirmed currently

Affected counties include: Bell (1, +0), Bexar (3, +2), Brazoria (2, +0), Collin (6, +1), Dallas (8, +0), El Paso (1, +0), Fort Bend (9, +0), Galveston (1, +0), Gregg (1, +0), Harris (10, +0), Hays (1, +0), Lavaca (1, +0), Montgomery (3, +0), Smith (4, +1), Tarrant (3, +0), and Travis (1, +0)

Newly affected counties include: Matagorda (1)

The Texas DPH has corrected a tabulation error that affected Gregg and Travis counties.

Utah: last updated 3/15

21 total cases, 14 cases in Utah residents

Affected health districts include: Davis County (3), Salt Lake county (14), Southwest Utah (1), Summit County (2), and Weber-Morgan (1)

The Utah Jazz managed to get more testing than the rest of the country for awhile there, so that’s great for them

Whoever does your graphic design, *greatjob* (the little virus instead of the UDPH logo is CHOICE)

Also, the website is super useful and readable, 10/10 good job Utah

First case of community spread identified on 3/14/20, in Summit County

Schools and universities are closed starting 3/16/20, Mormonism is closed until further notice, and skiing is canceled in Park City and Cottonwood Canyon for a minimum of a week. If you are interested in skiing in Utah, check Ski Utah for a list of closures.

Virginia: last updated 3/15

45 cases total, 4 new

Affected counties/cities include: Arlington (8, +1), Chesterfield (1, +0), Fairfax (10, +0) James City (8, +1), Loudoun (5, +0), Virginia Beach City (4, +1), Prince William (3, +1), Spotsylvania (1, +0), Prince Edward (1, +0), Hanover (1, +0), Harrisonburg City (1, +0), and Alexandria City (1, +0)

No newly affected areas today.

Washington: last updated 3/14 at 2:45 PM

Godspeed, y’all are having a real rough time right now. Yipes. Washington is really hard hit right now, especially King County. Look to Washington State and how they’re coping for a preview of how things are gonna go as the cases develop elsewhere.

642 total cases, 40 deaths (6.2% mortality)

Affected counties include: Clark (3), Columbia (1), Grant (2), Grays Harbor (1), Island (6), Jefferson (1), King (387), Kitsap (3), Kittitas (3), Pierce (26), Skagit (4), Snohomish (154), Spokane (3), Thurston (3), Whatcom (2), and Yakima (4).

39 cases are currently unassigned to a county. These are expected to resolve in the coming days, hopefully.

Deaths have occurred in the following counties: Grant (1), King (35), Snohomish (4),

Wisconsin: last updated 3/15 at 2 PM

33 total cases (6 new), 1 recovered, 0 deaths

Affected counties include: Dane (6, +0), Fond du Lac (11, +5), Milwaukee (7, +1), Pierce (1, +0), Racine (1, +0), Sheboygan (3, +0), Waukesha (3, +0), and Winnebago (1, +0)

Today’s Hot Tips

Make sure you have ibuprofen and tylenol/acetaminophen/APAP/paracetamol at home before you get sick. This isn’t just covid advice, this is life advice in general. (Obvs, ask your doctor about what’s safe to take if you have chronic health conditions etc but this is a general recommendation, not medical advice. As I said, life advice.)

As far as I know, ibuprofen and tylenol are ok, but research may change this. Current research indicates that steroids, which are used in other severe respiratory conditions, may make COVID-19 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) worse. More on this later.

It still can’t hurt to have some tylenol around, though, ya know?

Hand Washing Song of the Day

If you hate singing happy birthday while you wash your hands, I certainly do, try Good as Hell by Lizzo instead!

Sing from “I do my hair toss” to “If he don’t love you anymore” at minimum (if you’re like me and can’t leave a lyric unfinished, go ahead and dry your hands while making your brain happy.) to follow CDC handwashing guidelines! Use soap and water for maximum virus-murdering.

Chill Cat  Otter Corner

https://gfycat.com/pastjovialalligatorgar-otter

Please watch these otters sproing and chase!

About this newsletter

I’m Emily, I’m a 4th year med student w/ a degree in molecular biology. I wrote this because I’m an infectious disease and epidemiology nerd and also all my friends have questions & anxiety. Hi internet!

All this info is sourced from regional & national public health organizations, plus the WHO. It’s as up to date as humanly possible. I’ve been beaming information about this outbreak directly into my brain 24/7 but I still miss stuff. Please let me know if I miss something!

Most public health departments stop updating their information around 4-5 PM local time on weekdays. That means that the earliest this will come out is around 6 PM Pacific time on weekdays going forward. On weekends things update more sporadically and earlier, so who knows what I’ll do then, but I’ll do my best.

Thank you to @marywhal for the excellent title!

For More Information

JHU COVID-19 data center: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

List of peer-reviewed publications: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/publications.html

WHO daily sitrep: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200315-sitrep-55-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=33daa5cb_6

WHO FAQ: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

CDC cases in the US (take w/ a grain of salt due to Political Garbage, as detailed above): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html, this also has links to each state’s health dept which may or may not be more up to date than the CDC

#corona extra #covid corner #covid19 #coronavirus #pandemic #information without anxiety #my pledge is to only give you the straight dope #social distancing #coronavirus pandemic #long post

[freemaagyemans]

So some mutuals updated me on the good doctor (since I decided not to watch season 4) AND OH MY. From what I gathered: -They hyped up the COV*D Storyline even though it lasted 2 episodes. Guess somethings never change with the writers...still can’t hold a proper storyline or continuity to save a patient...or surgeon. -Melendez is getting the Jared Kalu treatment now. Which if I’m honest, I feel bad for his stans and the melendaire stans. Mainly due to the fact how dirty they not only did the ship/character...but the fans, almost mocking them for wanting a better send off. They seriously neglected Neil having a funeral and proper send off? Making him a ghost in Claire’s mind not even giving us the reactions or goodbyes from other characters is not a send off, writers. He was a main for THREE whole seasons and had relationships with other characters who we never got to see farewell from. Even the one time characters got better send offs than this. -Shaun and Lea are still together despite the fact Lea was really ableist to Shaun and along with Shaun threatening her and hoping she would d*e alone. I guess a kiss after a natural disaster coinciding with the disappearance of your ex girlfriend really can erase all the problematic stuff. -Carly Lever became season 6A (of Teen Wolf) Stiles Stilinski. Just erased...not like she had any impact at all or a presence prior to dating Shaun *side eyes TGD writers real hard* -They’re “attempting” to make Park and Morgan a thing? -And lastly new people...k. Not like the writers already have characters that they really need to work on after three seasons where there was opportunity and room to develop and add more depth (and not let them slip into the void).

#the good doctor #maybe it is good that I dropped this show #this season sounds like a mess #good luck to the ones still watching

[wasthereamassshootingtoday]

COVID-19

Hello everyone- it’s your local almost-graduate in public health here for another unasked for but perhaps necessary update on the novel coronavirus, which now has a name! 

COVID-19- the CO comes from the “co” in corona, the “vi” from virus and the “d” for disease. The 19 is because the disease emerged in 2019. This name, which avoids assigning blame to a particular location, seems to imply the expectation of more viruses of this nature due to the genericness of the name and its wide applicability to other emerging coronaviruses. (But the issue of new disease emergence is different discussion). The name of the virus itself is SARS-CoV-19.

Scientists are investigating the animal cause for the infection. But the leading theory is that the disease developed in bats, much like SARS and MERS, and then infected wither snakes or pangolins that then infected humans in one of China’s live-animal markets. We are still not sure of the exact animal reservoir, however.

The latest figures for the disease are staggering; more than 73,000 people have been infected globally. As of February 18 at 7:49am EST, there have been 72,436 cases in China and 1,868 deaths. There have been 610 cases in Japan, 542 of which are from the quarantined Japanese cruise ship, and one death. There have been 15 cases in the United States and zero deaths.

The Japanese cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, has been in quarantine for 14 days and there have been 542 cases out of 3,700 passengers. It is unsure exactly what happened on the cruise ship, but the quarantine failed and the ship became a source of infection rather than sectioning it off. Americans aboard the ship (approximately 380) have been taken flown off the cruise ship and will undergo a second quarantine on US soil. At least 40 Americans have tested positive for COVID-19 from the ship.

Overall, China reports that 80% of cases have been mild (think normal cold/flu symptoms), 14% of patients developed pneumonia, and 5% developed critical illness. The fatality rate of COVID-19 is currently reported at 2.3% (2.8% for males versus 1.7% for females). There has also been a decline in the number of reported cases but it is unsure if this decline with continue.

However, and this is my speculation here, I believe the true mortality rate to be lower. When calculating disease fatality you take the total number of cases (disease incidence) and divide it by deaths. I think that the disease incidence is underreported. Many diseases have subclinical cases; that is to say, people get the disease but their symptoms aren’t bad enough for them to go to the doctor and they never get diagnosed. This underreporting of cases can lead to an increased mortality rate when it is calculated. I find it likely that many people went undiagnosed at the beginning of the outbreak.

The question many of you are wondering is do I need to be worried?

The answer is a resounding no.

COVID-19 has not spread to the US. The American cases have been people who have been to China directly or who have had direct contact with those individuals. There have only been 15 positives, 393 negatives, and 60 pending cases. These cases have occurred in Arizona, California, Illinois, Massachussetts, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

The disease, while spreading in Asia, is under control when it comes to infections in the United States. There is still no reason to believe that COVID-19 will emerge, spread, or become an issue/outbreak in the United States.

Unless you have been directly exposed to someone infected with COVID-19, you are at no risk of developing the disease. This is also no excuse for anti-Chinese sentiments or discrimination. This virus is not the fault of China, Chinese people, and most definitely not the Chinese person you’re sitting next to on the bus. Fear is no excuse for bigotry. Instead of hatred, please try kindness and sympathy for what they are going through.

Nevertheless, what can you do to prevent infection?

Just practice normal disease prevention activities, such as washing your hands and avoiding direct contact with sick persons. BUT, you are not at risk for getting COVID-19. But you know what you are at risk for? The flu, which kills 640,000 people annually. You are far more at risk of getting and dying from the flu than the coronavirus so if you want to take direct action, get your flu shot!

Please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them.

#covid2019 #covid-19 #covid19 #coronavirus #novel coronavirus #2019-ncov #china outbreak #other #long post

[digital-medic]

How thorough is your pandemic vocab?

In the past 60 days, I’m sure most of us have consumed enough COVID-19 data and media to last a LIFETIME. However, there are still a few terms that deserve a thorough review, a few are listed below (compliments of the Summit Medical Group). 

Apex - The peak of infections.

When discussing COVID-19: Refers to the highest number of cases in a state or country, after which the rate of infection begins to slow. In our area, we have not yet reached apex.

Asymptomatic - Showing no evidence of disease/illness. When discussing COVID-19: Just because a person is asymptomatic doesn’t mean they aren’t infected with COVID-19.

Community Spread - Spread of a disease where the infection source is unknown. When discussing COVID-19: At this point there is community spread in NJ and NY, meaning there are people who have the infection without any typical risks of contracting the virus, such as travel or exposure to a known infected person.

Coronavirus - A family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.

When discussing COVID-19: The novel (new) coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 has been named SARS-CoV-2 and causes the disease known as COVID-19.

COVID-19 - Name of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

COVID-19 is short for COronaVIrus Disease-2019.

Flatten the curve - The curve represents the number of cases over time. Flattening that curve means preventing a surge of new cases in a very short period.

When discussing COVID-19: By flattening the curve of the COVID-19 spread, we reduce the number of patients who are ill from the disease at any one time so that we do not overwhelm the health care system.

Immunocompromised - Having an impaired or compromised immune response.

When discussing COVID-19: People may be immunocompromised due to an underlying condition or due to a medication they are taking for a condition. Being immunocompromised may put a person at higher risk for COVID-19.

Pandemic - A disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world. A pandemic is an epidemic that has spread over a large area.

When discussing COVID-19: The World Health Organization (WHO) uses pandemic to refer to new diseases people do not have immunity for that have spread worldwide. The WHO has declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.

Self-quarantine - Choosing or volunteering to isolate out of caution.

When discussing COVID-19: Individuals who have been exposed to the new coronavirus and who are at risk for contracting COVID-19 might practice self-quarantine. Health experts recommend that self-quarantine lasts 14 days.

Social/Physical Distancing - Measures that reduce contact between large groups of people. 

When discussing COVID-19: Given the community spread of disease, this means minimizing contact with any people that you don’t need to be in contact with. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) specifically recommends maintaining six feet between people.

Quarantine - Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.

When discussing COVID-19: To help stop the spread, people have been placed into quarantine when they are not currently sick but have been or may have been exposed to the virus.

Virus - An infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts.

When discussing COVID-19: A virus that spreads through droplets expelled after coughing, sneezing, exhaling, or talking from the mouth and/or nose of a person who has the virus.

#Telemedicine #medicine #nurse #nurses #COVID19 #Infectious disease #virus #Coronavirus #coronavirus vaccine #vaccination #vaccines #EMT #paramedics #public health #global public health #community health

[alovelyday]

it’s sometimes hard to believe that we are far more exposed to this virus due to being in the hospital but our father, may Allah have mercy on him, had an encounter that resulted in his passing. but by His mercy we get up and see cov*d patients, come home and we’re fine. it really just reaffirms that if it isn’t your time than it isn’t your time.

#sigh

[tinyshe]

Why I’m Removing All Articles Related to Vitamins D, C, Zinc and COVID-19

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Over the past year, I’ve been researching and  writing as much as I can to help you take control of your health, as  fearmongering media and corrupt politicians have destroyed lives and  livelihoods to establish global control of the world’s population, using the  COVID-19 pandemic as their justification.

I’ve also kept you informed about billionaire-backed  front groups like the Center for Science  in the Public Interest (CSPI), a partner of  Bill Gates’ Alliance for Science, both of whom have led campaigns aimed at  destroying my reputation and censoring the information I share.

Other attackers include HealthGuard, which ranks  health sites based on a certain set of “credibility criteria.” It has sought to  discredit my website by ensuring warnings appear whenever you search for my   articles or enter my website in an internet browser.

Well-Organized  Attack Partnerships Have Formed

HealthGuard, a niche service of NewsGuard, is funded  by the pharma-funded public relations company Publicis  Groupe. Publicis,  in turn, is a partner of the World Economic Forum, which is leading the call  for a “Great Reset” of the global economy and a complete overhaul of our way of  life.

HealthGuard is also partnered with Gates’ Microsoft company, and drug advertising  websites like WebMD and Medscape, as well as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) — the  progressive cancel-culture leader with extensive ties to government and  global think tanks that recently labeled people questioning the COVID-19 vaccine  as a national security threat.

The CCDH has published a hit list naming me as one  of the top 12 individuals responsible for 65% of vaccine “disinformation” on social  media, and who therefore must be deplatformed and silenced for the public good.  In a March 24, 2021, letter1 to the CEO’s of Twitter and Facebook, 12 state  attorneys general called for the removal of our accounts from these platforms,  based on the CCDH’s report.

Two of those state attorneys  general also published an  April 8, 2021, op-ed2 in The Washington Post, calling on Facebook and Twitter to ban  the “anti-vaxxers” identified by the CCDH. The  lack of acceptance of novel gene therapy technology, they claim, is all because  a small group of individuals with a social media presence — myself included —  are successfully misleading the public with lies about nonexistent vaccine  risks.

“The solution is not complicated. It’s time  for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to turn off this  toxic tap and completely remove the small handful of individuals spreading this   fraudulent misinformation,” they wrote.3

Pharma-funded politicians and pharma-captured  health agencies have also relentlessly attacked me and pressured tech monopolies to censor and deplatform me,  removing my ability to express my opinions and speak freely over the past year.

The CCDH also somehow has been allowed to  publish4 in the journal Nature Medicine, calling for the “dismantling” of the “anti-vaccine”  industry. In the article, CCDH founder Imran Ahmed repeats the lie that he “attended and recorded a private, three-day   meeting of the world’s most prominent anti-vaxxers,” when, in fact, what he’s  referring to was a public online conference open to an international audience,  all of whom had access to the recordings as part of their attendance fee.  

The CCDH is also  partnered with another obscure group called Anti-Vax Watch. The picture below  is from an Anti-Vax Watch demonstration outside the halls of Congress.  Ironically, while the CCDH claims to be anti-extremism, you’d be hard-pressed  to find a clearer example of actual extremism than this bizarre duo.5

Gates-Funded  Doctor Demands Terrorist Experts to Attack Me

Most recently, Dr. Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin  Vaccine Institute,6 which  has received tens of millions of dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates  Foundation,7,8,9 — with funds from the foundation most recently being used to create a report  called “Meeting the Challenge of Vaccine Hesitancy,”10,11 — also cited the CCDH in a Nature article in which he calls for cyberwarfare  experts to be enlisted in the war against vaccine safety advocates and people  who are “vaccine hesitant.” He writes:12

“Accurate, targeted counter-messaging from the  global health community is important but insufficient, as is public pressure on   social-media companies. The United Nations and the highest levels of government  must take direct, even confrontational, approaches with Russia, and move to  dismantle anti-vaccine groups in the United States.

Efforts must expand into the realm of cyber  security, law enforcement, public education and international relations. A  high-level inter-agency task force reporting to the UN secretary-general could   assess the full impact of anti-vaccine aggression, and propose tough, balanced  measures.

The task force should include experts who have  tackled complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear  armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of peril. It  is becoming increasingly clear that advancing immunization requires a   counteroffensive.”

Why is Hotez calling for the use of warfare  tactics on American citizens that have done nothing illegal? In my case, could  it be because I’ve written about the theory that SARS-CoV-2 is an engineered   virus, created through gain-of-function research, and that its release was anticipated  by global elites, as evidenced in Event 201?

It may be. At least those are some of my  alleged “sins,” detailed on page 10 of the CCDH report, “Disinformation Dozen:  The Sequel.”13 Coincidentally enough, the Nature journal has helped cover up gain-of-function  research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, publishing a shoddy zoonotic origins study relied upon my  mainstream media and others, which was riddled with problems.14,15

So, it’s not misinformation  they are afraid of. They’re afraid of the truth getting out. They’re all trying  to cover for the Chinese military and the dangerous mad scientists conducting  gain-of-function work.

You may have noticed our  website was recently unavailable; this was due to direct cyber-attacks launched  against us. We have several layers of protective mechanisms to secure the  website as we’ve anticipated such attacks from malevolent organizations.

What This Means for  You

Through these progressively increasing  stringent measures, I have refused to succumb to these governmental and pharmaceutical  thugs and their relentless attacks. I have been confident and willing to  defend myself in the court of law, as I’ve had everything reviewed by some of   the best attorneys in the country.

Unfortunately, threats have now become very  personal and have intensified to the point I can no longer preserve much of the   information and research I’ve provided to you thus far. These threats are not  legal in nature, and I have limited ability to defend myself against them. If  you can imagine what billionaires and their front groups are capable of, I can  assure you they have been creative in deploying their assets to have this  content removed.

Sadly, I must also  remove my peer reviewed published study16 on the “Evidence Regarding Vitamin D and Risk of COVID-19 and  Its Severity.” It will, however, remain in the highly-respected journal   Nutrients’ website, where you can still access it for free.

The MATH+ hospital treatment protocol for  COVID-19 and the iMASK+ prevention and early outpatient COVID-19 protocol —  both of which are based on the use of vitamins C, D, quercetin, zinc and  melatonin — are available on the Front  Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance’s website. I suggest you bookmark these resources for future reference.

It is with a  heavy heart that I purge my website of valuable information. As noted by Dr.  Peter McCullough during a recent Texas state Senate Health and Human Services  Committee hearing, data shows early treatment could have prevented up to 85% (425,000)  of COVID-19 deaths.17 Yet early treatments were all heavily censored and suppressed.

McCullough, in  addition to being a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the Texas A&M  University Health Sciences Center, also has the distinction of having published  the most papers of any person in the history of his field, and being an editor  of two major medical journals. Despite that, his video, in which he went  through a paper he’d published detailing effective early treatments, was  summarily banned by YouTube in 2020.

“No wonder  we have had 45,000 deaths in Texas. The average person in Texas thinks there’s  no treatment!” McCullough told the senate panel.18 Indeed, people are in dire  need of more information detailing how they can protect their health, not less.  But there’s only so much I  can do to protect myself against current attack strategies.

They’ve moved past censorship. Just what do you  call people who advocate counteroffensive attacks by terrorism and cyberwarfare   experts? You’d think we could have a debate and be protected under free speech  but, no, we’re not allowed. These lunatics are dangerously unhinged.

The U.S. federal government is going along with  the global Great Reset plan (promoted as “building back better”), but this plan  won’t build anything but a technological prison. What we need is a massive   campaign to preserve civil rights, and vote out the pawns who are destroying  our freedom while concentrating wealth and power.