Abolish Police Nussbaum

I had to say goodbye to my uncle today bc he’s dying due to complications from Long Covid that escalated to lung failure with the final stroke being pneumonia.

I do mobile COVID testing bc of the queens in ATX who had HIV testing trucks at their bars.

You always deserve to know your status.

Seconded, from someone still recovering 13 months later. Nothing guarantees you won't get it, but you *can* improve your odds #LongCOVID

Was volunteering at an event this weekend, not a lot of masks but more than I usually see when I'm out. Offered an upgrade to someone working security in a pleated mask on the way in, they were still wearing the N95 on my way out at the end of the day. #SmallWins 🙌🏻

I actually saw like 5 other people wearing KN95s in the grocery store today 👍 I don't really bother saying this anymore, but I guess I should: if you stopped masking in public and you want to for any reason/occasion/if you're sick, don't be embarrassed to start again. sometimes is better than never

I've never stopped wearing my Q100 & cleaning the indoor air around me.
COVID nearly killed me in January.
Its not a joke.
Prevent infection. Wear an N95 or better. Filter indoor air with #CRboxes & HEPA units.
Open windows/doors for better ventilation.
We know how to prevent infection.
#JustDoIt

How to Stay Covid Safe When in Hospital A guide to navigating the risk of hospital acquired Covid - as well as how to manage overall risk of nosocomial infections and hospital derived complications.

It’s almost six years since the start of the COVID pandemic & we still don’t have masks in healthcare or clean air standards

In fact, it can be harder to get healthcare workers to mask than almost any other profession

Hospital acquired Covid has a 10% fatality rate

Here’s how to protect yourself:

Saw a super cute probably queer woman looking all goth and amazing, but kept thinking "gosh I'm sad she's not in a mask, she looks like the kind of person who would give a fuck," and as I was quietly lusting and wishing these things, SHE REACHED INTO HER POCKET, PULLS OUT AN N95, AND PUT IT ON! 🥹😍😷😍

Study examines impact of long COVID on healthcare use US adults with long COVID had a nearly 3-fold increased risk of additional hospitalization compared with those who had SARS-CoV-2 infections but not long COVID.

What a disaster this is.
"US adults with long COVID had higher rates of additional hospitalization in the 6 months after acute infection compared with those who had SARS-CoV-2 infections but not long COVID, researchers reported last month in PLOS One"

When I worked in hospice during COVID, I had a patient (98) whose 30-yr-old granddaughter told me specifically not to wear a mask because "we have immune systems."

She died of COVID before the hospice patient with end stage pancreatic cancer.

I hate these people more than you'll ever understand.

#VirusFreeAirNow... because #LongCovidIsCumulative... and #CovidIsAirborne.

‼️😩

that they mentioned deaths and hospitalizations going down, but not long covid + covid-related chronic condition numbers going up is so disgustingly typical

#pwME a/o #LongCOVID suffering with #PEM I would like to know how many of you have trialed these 2 off-label medications IN COMBINATION: pyridostigmine + #LDN (low dose naltrexone) and have experienced any improvements in exertion tolerance & less pain?
#Mestinon #Pyridostigmine #LowDoseNaltrexone

Catching COVID even one time puts you at risk of severe long COVID
If you didn’t get long COVID on your first infection, that doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future
Mask up. Do it for your disabled family/friends/comrades, if you need more motivation.

Resistance means protecting yourself

📌 🧵 on how COVID's general presentation contributes to our continued disregard for its effects on public health. (I'll add that LongCOVID's main symptom being crippling fatigue also contributes to this--invisible disabilities trigger hostility more often than compassion) 👇🏽

And take smoke seriously! (shout out to the woman I saw cycling in a Flo mask this morning)

Parents should be less concerned with classroom décor and more bothered by their children being repeatedly hotboxed by COVID and other pathogens.

Advocate for clean air in schools (and mask up) instead of taking to TikTok to also cry about how your kids are sick all the time.

The “end” of the pandemic? More like the beginning of every covid infection wave. Mask up to stop the spread & maybe one day the pandemic will actually end. 😷

#COVID #Covid19 #Pandemic #SARS-CoV2 #WearAMask #MaskUp #N95 #Airborne #CleanAir #StillCoviding #PublicHealth #CovidAware #Ableism

New study where human muscle was exposed to sera (blood component) of patients with long covid and ME / CFS, and the tissue went into a hypermetabolic state then quickly atrophied and underwent mitochondrial deterioration.

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

I missed this thread of Kate’s on the 8th - too important not to share today. Grateful for the people like Kate with severe ME who made a point of using their tiny but crucial reserves to educate and organize the long COVID patients who they knew would follow in their footsteps.
🙏🏻💗

Financial burden of patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome - Journal of Public Health Aim The present study aimed to analyze the financial burden of German patients with Post‐acute COVID‐19 syndrome (PCS) and its predictors exploratively. Information regarding the financial burden of P...

Financial burden of patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"PCS patients in Germany suffer from a high financial double burden of loss of income and additional costs due to [out-of-pocket payments] diagnostics and therapies."

#LongCovid #PASC

‘Bark is the original dampproof membrane!’ Meet the radical designers who let nothing go to waste As their experimental structures made out of cactus plaster, tree resin and chopped straw appear in the real world, eco research studio Material Cultures explains why nature has all the best building ...

This feels really inspiring:

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#RegenerativeBuilding
#Architecture
#Design

My law firm is currently litigating 48 voting and election cases in 23 states including 7 redistricting cases in AL, GA, LA, NC TX, & WI.

My best friend and I were chatting about dudes who were so bad even the other people of their time were like “wtf, no.”

Jefferson in particular. While he was avoiding the Revolutionary War, French people were like “pardonne-moi, Monsieur— you wrote this whole Declaration and yet you keep slaves?”

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.

And then that guy was "silenced" forever.

And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

as the pieces detail, until recently, researchers have insisted it's a psychological/FND condition. i'm assuming you mean that when advocates have pushed back on that label and things like graded exercise therapy, which worsens ME/CFS, they're blamed for a lack of compliance.

please share details on patient advocates driving researchers away. i've read otherwise, in the guardian pieces i linked

i didn’t say you did. you claimed it had psychosomatic elements, yet every CBT intervention has failed to make a difference. people would rather not be trapped in bed watching their lives slip away. it's been difficult to diagnose because of the lack of research, leading to lack of tests.

An open letter to Prime Minister Carney: A healthy economy needs a healthy public - Canadian Covid Society “There is no path to a healthy economy without a healthy public and investment in science” To The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada and the new Liberal Government: A healthy econo...

A reminder that -

“There is no path to a healthy economy without a healthy public and investment in science”

@protectbc.bsky.social
@cancovsoc.bsky.social

covidsociety.ca/news/open-le...

it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving