Eddie Mundo

Australia's 48 billionaires wealthier than bottom 40pc combined, Oxfam finds Oxfam Australia is calling on the federal government to tax the super rich to help tackle growing inequality, as billionaires grow their wealth by more than half a million a day on average.

It’s not just obscene, but I’d go as far as to say extreme inequity is our (and the developed world’s) most significant problem; the issue that must be addressed first if we are to be healthier, wealthier, more secure, and more sustainable.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Oxfam: Australian billionaires pocket $600,000 a day as inequality deepens A major report by Oxfam released today has found that the average Australian billionaire increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day over the past year, or more than $10.5 billion altogether.

thepoint.com.au/news/260120-...

@grogsgamut.bsky.social

Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff All three rising significantly from the point that covid infections started.

Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff

The three graphs that *every person* needs to see.

The question that every single person needs to ask their government:
What are you doing to protect me from Covid infection?

Despite the statistics, governments stupidly treat COVID as being no worse than flu. Thanks to COVID I am currently suffering from long COVID again after several years of gradual recovery from long COVID in 2021. 😡😡😡

“I even had a doctor ask me, ‘What do you need me to tell you to convince you there is nothing wrong with you?’”

When an MD specialist in public health is gaslit by her own doctor, what hope is there for anyone else with #longCOVID to get support?

#healthcare #disability #chronicillness #maskup

Medscape logo Medscape News Canada Features Healthcare Workers With Long COVID Struggle to Find Support and Care in an Environment of Denial Alison Palkhivala logo Medscape Canada January 09, 2026

New from Canada:

"Healthcare Workers With Long COVID Struggle to Find Support and Care in an Environment of Denial" by @alisonpalk.bsky.social

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

May require free registration

#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome

Also this, 100% in attendance is going to lead to a lot of long Covid in children.

That's why triathletes and marathoners got Long Covid. They didn't rest as a sport. Saw this years ago.

This 💯%. Not resting enough, or for long enough, during and after #COVID infection is likely why many academics like myself have developed #LongCOVID. Resting means from brain work as well as physical work! 😔

So many Athletes have had their whole careers derailed by long covid. Busting the narrative proving it can happen to anyone. COVID doesn’t care what our plans are sadly.

Oonagh Cousins: Great Britain rower forced to retire with long Covid, but at peace with decision Great Britain rower Oonagh Cousins has retired from the sport because of the lasting effects of long Covid, but she's at peace after the illness turned her life

I am thankful that Oonagh Cousins is sharing her story to try to help others recognize & learn from her Long COVID experience.
Moral: Prevent COVID infection
If COVID infected, vigorous exercise IS NOT part of effective rehab. Ever.
Neurovascular damage can last for years
www.bbc.com/sport/rowing...

“Finally we’re believed”. Medicine should not be like this! Believe Long Covid sufferers.

Association of Autonomic Dysfunction With Long COVID: Evaluation Using Quantitative Autonomic Testing

Association of Autonomic Dysfunction With #LongCOVID: Evaluation Using Quantitative Autonomic Testing

www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

"When adjusted for age & sex, patients with long COVID may demonstrate persistent autonomic dysfunction that is similar to patients with pure autonomic failure”

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The Lancet: Autoantibodies in long COVID - The ME Association On the 8th September 2025, The Lancet Infectious Diseases published […]

The Lancet: Autoantibodies in long COVID

Dr Charles Shepherd comments: "This is a useful new review in The Lancet of the evidence of autoimmunity in Long Covid..."

Read more: https://meassociation.org.uk/todz

#MECFS #LongCovid #PostCovid

More Than One-Third of Individuals With COVID-19 Experience Long COVID Long COVID remains globally prevalent following COVID-19 infection, with a significant burden of symptoms lasting 1 to 2 years postinfection.

“Risk for long COVID was associated with unvaccinated status, Alpha or Delta variants compared with Omicron variant, female sex, comorbidities, preexisting cardiovascular disease, intensive care unit admission, and preexisting hypertension” www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/news/more-th...

The evidence is beginning to mount against the mistaken (& fundamentally racist) narrative that #Africa has been relatively unscathed by the pandemic & #LongCOVID -

I single handedly blame the “not resting” over every other factor.
Being female is part of that.
We’ve been conditioned to “keep calm and carry on” despite adversity.
We don’t even notice we are still going when we think we have stopped.

Late evening, downtown, a massive lit billboard sits on a high rise building it reads: "Don't forget, you can: Start at 30. Fail at 33. Start over at 34. Struggle. Improve. Fail again. Make progress. Start again at 44. And still be a success." Added, in smaller font below: "Unless you have Long COVID. In which case all you can do is wait. And hope they find a cure."

Day 1101—Harder to pull off when any activity—be it mental or physical—causes severe post-exertional malaise.

Whereas burning energy makes healthy people stronger, it literally makes us weaker—a little more disabled—every time.

Keep getting COVID, you will end up with #LongCOVID. There is no cure.

Here's what people don't understand:

Long COVID isn't mild symptoms, lasting longer. It's COVID-induced dysregulation that prevents the mitochondria from doing their job. It's affecting millions, like me. Forcing former athletes to inactivity. The very definition of purgatory. Not dead, not living.

We hear you

Positivity and hope alert

"And now it's time for America's favorite game show--Is It Long Covid or Am I Just Out of Shape?!"

CSF hypocretin/orexin levels in narcolepsy and other neurological conditions - PubMed Undetectable CSF hypocretin-1 levels are highly specific to narcolepsy and rare cases of GBS. Measuring hypocretin-1 levels in the CSF of patients suspected of narcolepsy is a useful diagnostic proced...

45% of those with #LongCOVID suffer from a sleep disorder.

It's so prevalent it's dubbed 'coronasomnia'.

Overall, CSF orexin-A levels are crucial for diagnosing and understanding various sleep disorders and neurological conditions.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11756606/

Long Covid, long consequences: study highlights condition's devastating impact - TFN Study lays bare the financial, employment and social security impacts

Long Covid can push people into poverty

In a study of people with #LongCovid in Scotland, all
participants with LC "experienced a loss of household income since contracting the condition". Many were forced to use savings and were pushed into debt, and some lost their jobs

tfn.scot/news/long-co...

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

This is fabulous. I need to do one for myself.

Long covid sucks and the most vulnerable suffer the most, this is wrong

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure.

This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses.

We just don't want to do it.