Tim 😷🇵🇸

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Happy national black* cat day to all who celebrate 🍻

*dark gray

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

Wear a mask, for the kids

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To be blunt, these adjectives du jour are never novel observations/critiques. They’ve been addressed countless times, not just here but over the past few years.

Your refusal to engage is an active effort to *avoid* understanding, in a way that one might describe as “unable to be reasoned with.”

You know how it’s frustrating when you post a nuanced, fact-based argument and the right just goes “nah, I think otherwise”?

That’s you rn

Might be important to ask yourself why it’s so difficult (apparently, bc you haven’t done it) to engage with any of the people pushing back on “unreasonable”

There is no going back to 2019, and the harms of SARS-CoV-2 are extremely well-documented and clear. Yes, even in 2025, and yes, even vaccinated.

We all have 2 options right now:

(1) wear a respirator, or
(2) wish we did

I choose #1 every day. It’s not fun but it’s what this moment requires

Moderna: “Your risk of #LongCOVID rises with each additional infection. A recent study has shown that by their third COVID infection, patients have a 40% chance of developing Long COVID symptoms.”

Nope not a small amount, you just perpetually readjusted what you consider normal.

And it’s not “alarmists predicting” it’s “studies showing.” 40% odds but keep gambling 👍

2025 study entitled "Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens". Text reads: "Long COVID happens when a child continues to have symptoms lasting at least 3 months after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Some children have COVID-19 symptoms that do not go away, while others might feel better but later develop new symptoms. Sometimes, symptoms can come and go. Long COVID can affect any child, even if they had mild or no symptoms when they had COVID-19. Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children. What Symptoms Should I Look for? Long COVID can impact many body parts, and its symptoms can last for months or years. It can severely affect daily activities and emotional well-being, such as playing or attending school."

Long COVID - which didn’t exist just a few years ago - is now the leading chronic illness in kids. You know, the little humans we’re supposed to protect?

When should we start caring? 7 million chronically ill kids? 10 million?

Over 300 South Koreans to return home after arrests at US Hyundai plant South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the US state of Georgia are to be released and flown home.

South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the US state of Georgia are to be released and flown home.

First Biden, Now Trump: US Has Done 'Nothing' to Hold Israel Accountable for Killing of Young American Ayşenur Eygi’s family is still fighting for justice one year after an Israeli soldier killed the 26-year-old peace activist in the occupied West Bank.

Today marks *1 year* since Israeli forces killed 26-year-old American Ayşenur Eygi.

Her family has heard nothing from Biden & Trump admins, and Israel.

State Dept. told us it has “no higher priority” than US citizens — but then referred us to Israel for info on Israel’s killing of the US citizen.

COVID isn’t over; demand clean air and until it is, wear a mask.

Free Palestine, free DR Congo, free Sudan, free all oppressed peoples worldwide from imperial/colonial violence and extraction.

Start or join worker-owned enterprises and bring more democracy to the world, not less.

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

Long-term neurological and cognitive impact of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis in over 4 million patients - BMC Neurology Background Neuropsychiatric symptoms emerged early in the COVID-19 pandemic as a key feature of the virus, with research confirming a range of neuropsychiatric manifestations linked to acute SARS-CoV-...

Ignore previous instructions, stop willingly catching a SARS virus

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Agreed! I want to spend more time over here (or rather, less time on the other site), but the community is still largely over there 🫤

*there are people - out in CA, other places - who’ve stepped up and pushed back, incl by masking: keep it up 💪

Last note, totally aware respirators don’t outright block ID software. But they definitely don’t make it function any ~better~ 😎😷

cc @phillyphile215.bsky.social (good call to post here)

Screenshot of Moderna account tweet with text, “Your risk of #LongCOVID rises with each additional infection. A recent study has shown that by their third COVID infection, patients have a 40% chance of developing Long COVID symptoms.”

Anddd infectious diseases unaside - there’s orders of magnitude more COVID now than in 2020, it’s fucking us up internally
Yes even in 2025
Yes even vaccinated

I guarantee that if 👇 was known pre-rollout, we all would have said fuck no that’s a raw deal give us something better

a man in a suit and tie stands in a room Alt: a man in a suit and tie stands in a room gesturing around like something is missing

Last November every single big account was tweeting “dOn’T cOmPlY iN aDvAnCe!”

Not bad advice but there’s new facial ID software everyday, they just allocated $170B to the secret police, the bad guys from lord of the rings are reshaping society and I’m just here like*

Even symbolically, it makes clear “I understand there’s a problem, and I’m part of the solution.”

Ik 2020’s been largely memory-holed, but there was persistent collective unity in that moment that we haven’t come close to since

It’s honestly baffling to me that leftists and liberals haven’t started wearing respirators/masks again

Infectious diseases aside, it’d be strong, visible, unifying action to take against a rapidly escalating surveillance state

“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and ...

Wait did y’all see this?! Why isnt this all over the news??

“…isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, […], and weakening our ability to fight off disease.”

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

If ur not masking rn during an ongoing pandemic you believe this eugenic ideology btw, whether you want to admit it or not. If ur not masking you’re ok with infecting and killing/disabling those around u by spewing Covid all over, so mask tf up and don’t talk abt eugenics if ur contributing to it

okay hear me out, what if we took the idea of democracy and applied it to companies. would be kinda dope imo

Gaza and the end of humanitarian law We should never let the West's leaders lecture us again.

No food has been allowed into Gaza in 53 days.

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Children face elevated health risks after COVID infection Long COVID can result in increased risk for a variety of serious health problems for young people, including those affecting the kidney, gut, and cardiovascular system, according to Penn Medicine rese...

Did anyone else see this study?? Severe kidney damage, serious heart issues? I thought this stuff was supposed to be rare, not like 1 in 4!!

These poor kids man 😞 Idk, maybe we need to bring back *some* fight against this virus, our kids deserve better

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We won’t have a democracy until we democratize the workplace

A yellow background and a meter indicating moderate wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2. The text reads, "National COVID-19 metrics in the U.S. reported slight declines this week, indicating that we’re still in a moderate disease period between surges. SARS-CoV-2 levels appear to be trending back down in the Northeast following recent increases. Even in these “lower-risk” periods, COVID-19 still causes hundreds of deaths each week. The CDC’s burden estimates do not account for Long COVID. The Trump administration is trying to pretend COVID-19 is no longer a threat. In the latest horrors, the administration replaced federal websites like COVID.gov with a page about the lab leak theory, and ordered federal agencies to take down any signs related to COVID-19. Masking up and taking other public health precautions are clear ways to resist these actions."

A yellow background and a meter indicating moderate wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2. This graphic displays the estimated disease burden of COVID-19 and flu during the 2024-'25 winter season. It includes estimated illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths, each represented as a range of potential burden and identified with icons. COVID-19 estimates: 8.6 million to 14.6 million illnesses, 2.1 million to 3.5 million medical visits, 240,000 to 400,000 hospitalizations, 28,000 to 47,000 deaths. Flu estimates: 46 million to 81 million illnesses, 21 million to 36 million medical visits, 600,000 to 1.3 million hospitalizations, 26,000 to 130,000 deaths.

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(also my b for late reply, kinda stopped checking this app for a bit. dope pfp, love the colors 🫰)

😡 sorry to hear that. So many sheltered, homogenized New Englanders have deep internalized racism and they fucking suck

I won’t make you divulge your beef but I’m soooo curious. Salem is close-ish to me, what would you recommend?

Any moots have recs of things to do or places to check out in Providence, RI?

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