New Republic: “The Pandemic Never Ended”
“Five years later, there are still no approved treatments for long Covid”
“I am considered a mild case, yet my life is forever changed”
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
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Artist, art historian, long Covid survivor and steward of horses and pollinators on a small patch of land in the Middletown Valley in Maryland.
New Republic: “The Pandemic Never Ended”
“Five years later, there are still no approved treatments for long Covid”
“I am considered a mild case, yet my life is forever changed”
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Austin American-Statesman: 'Yes, Long COVID survivors are still out here. And we need your compassion'
'At age 22, my world came crashing down..a wave of crippling symptoms that took me from a healthy..young woman..extreme fatigue..brain fog..exercise intolerance'
www.statesman.com/story/opinio...
Disappointing.
14.03.2025 21:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘Like a cat in a washing machine’: rescued rower feared he would die in Cyclone Alfred’s monster waves
07.03.2025 03:51 — 👍 160 🔁 16 💬 7 📌 4The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.
07.03.2025 02:08 — 👍 15688 🔁 5269 💬 1696 📌 1863Today #LongCOVID patient advocates were removed from the AHRQ #LongCOVIDCareNetwork at the direction of @HHSGov due to a contract being terminated by #ExecutiveOrder.
The initiative remains, but the #patients do not. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
#LongCOVIDAwareness2025 IS A MUST!
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr ended a longstanding transparency rule on Friday, supercharging his authority to change policies in areas ranging from Medicaid to the National Institutes of Health without advance notice to the public.
The U.S. is cutting research funding, the weather service, park rangers, Social Security Admin staff, lifesaving foreign aid, plus billions in Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To potentially buy crypto with taxpayer dollars and to give more tax cuts to the rich.
04.03.2025 18:03 — 👍 32291 🔁 10362 💬 1021 📌 397Congratulations!!!!!!
05.03.2025 06:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Trump's comment during his address that DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk, who is in the gallery tonight" has already landed in federal court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump's "golden age of America" so far...
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
We’ll be seeing some grim years for #LongCovid research under Trump. As reported in The Sick Times, STAT News:
-Issued and executive order to terminate the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Long COVID
-Removed Long COVID info and data from federal websites
-Is attacking research at the NIH
It’s as much a problem with doctors. My wife has suffered with ME/CFS for 25+ years now. We’ve only met two doctors who took it seriously. Most tell her to take paracetamol and “get more exercise”.
Long COVID is just highlighting what ME/CFS sufferers have dealt with for decades.
After we published a public audit on Saturday, Elon Musk’s DOGE deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” wiping out an additional $4 billion in so-called savings that the group had claimed to secure for U.S. taxpayers.
03.03.2025 19:19 — 👍 12362 🔁 2424 💬 186 📌 80Made today’s phone calls to my senators and reps. Today’s topic was health care and concern about the cancelling of meetings regarding next year’s flu shot formulations. Essentially we won’t have a flu shot with FDA approval next year. Thanks RFK JR., 47, and Rump voters! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
03.03.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hope they receive better care than those of us with long Covid in the US ):
03.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for sharing! Long Covid is life changing ):
03.03.2025 04:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'The Unravelling - A Scientist. An Artist. A Father'
'Self-funded short documentary about the true nature of Covid / Sars-CoV-2, and the impact that Long Covid has had on one family'
vimeo.com/1017483971
Ukraine!
03.03.2025 04:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Musk plans to fire 7,000 Social Security Administration employees while calling Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” However, Americans have paid into the system their entire working lives!
02.03.2025 17:47 — 👍 9039 🔁 1883 💬 421 📌 147FYI - US (DOD) issued on February 26, 2025, “digital content refresh”. Words to be removed include multiculturalism/multicultural, opportunity, privilege, racial/racial equity/racism, representation, respect, sense of community, sexuality, social justice, tolerance, and unconscious bias.
03.03.2025 03:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0FYI - The US (DOD) February 26, 2025, “digital content refresh” removal of the words gender, gender identity, heritage month, history month, history or historic, inclusion/inclusionary/inclusive/inclusivity, just (as an adjective), justice, LGBT and related terms….
03.03.2025 03:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0FYI - (DOD) February 26, 2025, a “digital content refresh” includes eliminating the words discriminate, dignity, diversity, empowerment, environmental justice, equal/equal opportunity/equity/equality/equitable, EEO, first (as in first person from a specific group to achieve something)….
03.03.2025 03:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0FYI - The US Department of Defense (DOD) issued on February 26, 2025, a “digital content refresh”. 59 words are to be removed from social media posts including the words access, affirmative action, belonging, chief diversity officer, CRT, culture or cultural or culturalism, DEI, discrimination…..
03.03.2025 03:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0FYI - The US Department of Defense (DOD) issued on February 26, 2025, a “digital content refresh”. All content mentioning race and ethnicity, gender, affirmative action, people first initiatives, DEI, and Observance months must be removed from all social media.
03.03.2025 03:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh God - I wouldn’t be surprised if he did 🤣!
03.03.2025 02:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
03.03.2025 02:14 — 👍 23542 🔁 10062 💬 1279 📌 992This makes me so sad.
03.03.2025 02:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Leaders of the free world stand united in London
The United States is not among them