The epidemic of Black maternal and infant mortality is the urgent moral stain of our time. We MUST solve it.
October 31, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The epidemic of Black maternal and infant mortality is the urgent moral stain of our time. We MUST solve it.
All data and code are open: github.com/fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario (Zenodo archived). This specific study was unfunded but our group is supported by funds from CIHR for which we are very grateful.
GitHub - fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario: Ecological regression analysis of respiratory virus mortality in Ontario, 1993-2025
Ecological regression analysis of respiratory virus mortality in Ontario, 1993-2025 - fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario
github.com
October 31, 2026 at 7:26 PM
All data and code are open: github.com/fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario (Zenodo archived). This specific study was unfunded but our group is supported by funds from CIHR for which we are very grateful.
The viewers keep dying. They have a mortality problem.
November 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
The viewers keep dying. They have a mortality problem.
Arkansas was named the most "pro-life" state for the seventh year in a row.
Whenever they're awarded this dubious honor, I like to remind folks of the other titles Arkansas holds:
Second highest in the nation for infant mortality, and fourth for maternal mortality.
Congratulations?
Whenever they're awarded this dubious honor, I like to remind folks of the other titles Arkansas holds:
Second highest in the nation for infant mortality, and fourth for maternal mortality.
Congratulations?
October 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Arkansas was named the most "pro-life" state for the seventh year in a row.
Whenever they're awarded this dubious honor, I like to remind folks of the other titles Arkansas holds:
Second highest in the nation for infant mortality, and fourth for maternal mortality.
Congratulations?
Whenever they're awarded this dubious honor, I like to remind folks of the other titles Arkansas holds:
Second highest in the nation for infant mortality, and fourth for maternal mortality.
Congratulations?
It's also the highest in maternal mortality
November 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
It's also the highest in maternal mortality
#poorlydrawnoctober #mdzs
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
November 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
#poorlydrawnoctober #mdzs
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
If you don't have fresh mortality, frozen mortality will work in a pinch.
Don’t forget to use your mortality while it’s still fresh.
November 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM
If you don't have fresh mortality, frozen mortality will work in a pinch.
...pleasures in the face of human mortality.
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
October 31, 2026 at 8:54 AM
...pleasures in the face of human mortality.
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
Just thinking a lot about theatre & mortality & finitude. Go see plays as often as you can. Our little life is rounded with a sleep.
October 30, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Just thinking a lot about theatre & mortality & finitude. Go see plays as often as you can. Our little life is rounded with a sleep.
I love that Halloween is immediately followed by daylight saving time. First we confront our mortality, then we fiddle with the microwave.
October 31, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I love that Halloween is immediately followed by daylight saving time. First we confront our mortality, then we fiddle with the microwave.
They used to balance this out with a super high infant mortality rate.
November 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
They used to balance this out with a super high infant mortality rate.
And homicide rate, and infant mortality, and childbirth mortality...
October 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
And homicide rate, and infant mortality, and childbirth mortality...
Is there a nonfiction read you recommend?
October 31, 2026 at 11:14 PM
do you ever think about how graha and minfilia were both separated from their homeland for their own protection and that both sacrificed their bodies and mortality for a future they believed they would never see
November 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
do you ever think about how graha and minfilia were both separated from their homeland for their own protection and that both sacrificed their bodies and mortality for a future they believed they would never see
Wayne county’s infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the nation and for those that don’t understand in entirely what that tells us besides infants dying, is that it tells us the overall health of a community. The higher the infant mortality rate= the unhealthier that community is overall
October 31, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Wayne county’s infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the nation and for those that don’t understand in entirely what that tells us besides infants dying, is that it tells us the overall health of a community. The higher the infant mortality rate= the unhealthier that community is overall
nachhaltigen Prävention von Atemwegsviren unterstreicht.«
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Population attributable mortality associated with respiratory viruses in Ontario, Canada: a population-based ecological analysis
SARS-CoV-2 was associated with a 3–4-fold higher population mortality burden than
seasonal influenza A despite available countermeasures, and continued to contribute
beyond the formal emergency period...
www.thelancet.com
November 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
nachhaltigen Prävention von Atemwegsviren unterstreicht.«
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Some cultures openly acknowledge, even celebrate, mortality. American culture flees from it.
Holy shit the Mexico City Dia De Los Muertos parade this year is stunning stuff
www.instagram.com/popular/mexi...
www.instagram.com/popular/mexi...
October 31, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Some cultures openly acknowledge, even celebrate, mortality. American culture flees from it.
The maternal mortality and infant mortality rates across the US, across all ethnic groups and income groups, are hundreds of times higher the rates in any civilized country around the world. It's a complete failure of the government.
November 1, 2026 at 12:26 AM
The maternal mortality and infant mortality rates across the US, across all ethnic groups and income groups, are hundreds of times higher the rates in any civilized country around the world. It's a complete failure of the government.
Here is the above information in graphical form:
October 31, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Here is the above information in graphical form:
Maybe it's because we are in that time when the veil between the living and the dead is thin.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
November 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Maybe it's because we are in that time when the veil between the living and the dead is thin.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
I reiterate that mortality is shit. I will not be entertaining discussions of the merits of ephemerality at this time.
October 29, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I reiterate that mortality is shit. I will not be entertaining discussions of the merits of ephemerality at this time.
The process of "unloading" was common practice in the Soviet Gulag. To reduce official mortality rates in camps, administrators would release critically or terminally ill detainees then not count the deaths of those who perished soon afterward.
ICE/Border Patrol are using the same tactic.
October 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The process of "unloading" was common practice in the Soviet Gulag. To reduce official mortality rates in camps, administrators would release critically or terminally ill detainees then not count the deaths of those who perished soon afterward.
October 31, 2026 at 5:39 PM
This.
White supremacy rests on a delusional entitlement to immortality - it is only the “other” who should die.
Pull death denial out and the whole project collapses.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/mortality-wo...
White supremacy rests on a delusional entitlement to immortality - it is only the “other” who should die.
Pull death denial out and the whole project collapses.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/mortality-wo...
Mortality Workshop | Explore our Personal and Cultural Relationship to Death and Dying — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of mortality, explore our cultural death denial and develop healthier responses to life's existential realities.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This.
White supremacy rests on a delusional entitlement to immortality - it is only the “other” who should die.
Pull death denial out and the whole project collapses.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/mortality-wo...
White supremacy rests on a delusional entitlement to immortality - it is only the “other” who should die.
Pull death denial out and the whole project collapses.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com/mortality-wo...
Bottom line: COVID is not "just like flu." It has carried a population mortality burden several times larger than flu A, and that burden continued past the emergency phase. Sustained surveillance and prevention still matter.
October 31, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Bottom line: COVID is not "just like flu." It has carried a population mortality burden several times larger than flu A, and that burden continued past the emergency phase. Sustained surveillance and prevention still matter.