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Six years in, mental health care providers are still uninformed on Long COVID. And it’s making the crisis worse. - The Sick Times Six years into the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people living with Long COVID still aren’t getting the mental health support they need.

Today @thesicktimes.org: Elizabeth Yuko examines why people with Long COVID struggle to get appropriate mental health care. One big issue, she found, is that professional associations haven't offered guidance on the disease. thesicktimes.org/2026/02/24/s...

Part 2 - more logistic details for DC Masked Rave Thu 2/26 9pm-2am:

Tickets:
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ELEMENTAL Masked Rave (Thu 2/26 @ Transmission DC, 9pm-2am)

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Part 1

3 days away from our masked 😷 rave in DC, make sure to get your ticket or let friends in the DMV area know

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I'm almost 80 and I wear an N95 in public indoor spaces. I'm shunned by people regardless of their politics. I've sadly learned to trust no one (even people I know) to isolate when they're unwell. Covid is still here. Almost no one cares if they transmit disease and the elderly die.

I am a physician who will be wearing an N95 in all clinical encounters for the rest of my life because I don’t want to commit the harm of passing on a respiratory pathogen to a patient. This seems like a minimum duty, like handwashing, but I am unfortunately in a vanishingly small minority.

I’m going to say again, infecting your allies with a potentially debilitating and deadly illness is extremely foolish behavior in any kind of movement. You’re doing work for the other guys.

Solving Long COVID: How Decades of HIV Research Paved the Way Discover how UCSF is leading the charge in Long COVID research, uncovering key findings that advance our understanding of the condition. UCSF researchers have adapted innovative tools and methodologie...

“HIV taught us how chronic viral infections can affect the body long after initial illness, and how important it is to involve patients in that research,” said @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social. “Applying those lessons to #LongCovid has helped us accelerate discovery” www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...

I’ve had to fill out the same questionnaire twice a year since 2017 to get my six-month continuous birth control prescription filled. Sometime since July they’ve added POTS to the common patient diagnoses checklist. #LongCOVID

New research finds that COVID viruses continue to be dangerous after they’re destroyed by your immune system. Some spike proteins survive, turning into shrapnel, continuing to target our immune cells.

And if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed!

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Use of Rapid Antigen Tests during the Omicron Wave - Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table The emergence of the now provincially and globally dominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant demands a reassessment of the diagnostic performance of rapid antigen tests. Rapid antigen tests are less sensiti...

How sensitive are rapid tests for covid?

For the omicron variant: 37.1%

That's a significant drop from 81% sensitivity during delta.

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#CovidIsntOver #MedSky #IDSky

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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Another person I know caught Covid in the hospital.

They said they would have masked had they known it was a risk

They didn’t know because everyone is pretending things are “back to normal”

Meanwhile hospital acquired Covid disables & kills

Respirators & clean air save lives

Yes, but the post is about why it’s playing so badly

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

DJ Astronat, Goblin Princete, and Jaydo, all masked, stand behind DJ decks with lights behind them

Jaydo with a blue glowing PC Fan Air Filter

Blurry shot of crowd in Charm City Books all masked with silent disco headphones

DMV Masked Raves logo

Here’s what our first event in Baltimore in August 2025 looked like. It was a silent disco with attendance of about 50. Our Feb 2026 event will be about 150-200 (venue capacity is 500), no silent disco this time. We will have a chill hour from 9-10 though for anyone seeking low sensory time.

Event Flyer: DMV MASKED RAVES PRESENTS ELEMENTAL FEBRUARY 26TH MASK REQUIRED FEATURING DJ SETS, DRAG PERFORMANCES, VENDORS, AND MORE! TRANSMISSION DC 9-2AM

🪩 New masked rave 😷 in the DMV area just dropped:

Thu 2/26 9pm-2am at Transmission DC

ELEMENTAL: DJ sets, drag performances, vendors, and more

Tickets:
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Taekwondoin Tina Sugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID— why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica and @publichealthaction.bsky.social. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”

In 2026, let’s convince Mamdani to do like Sadiq Khan and invest in clean air for NYC schools!

NY is currently in an ALL-TIME HIGH flu season.

70% of households getting COVID start with kids, usually in school.

Air purifiers can drastically cut transmission!

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Because caregiving & sick leave disproportionately fall on mothers, especially single mothers, making schools & daycares safer through clean air & normalized masking is an essential part of any serious gender equity agenda

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Vaccine uptake in adults was 16.7% this year and 6.9% for children. The vaccines from years ago don’t provide much if any protection this much later. It’s more likely other factors I would guess.

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Heat map and PMC estimates, 1 in 55 infectious and 892,000 new daily infections for Jan 12. We expedited the report to release it two days early.

The size of the winter COVlD wave has been revised upward as post-holiday data come in.

We estimate 1 in 55 people in the U.S. are actively infectious.

🔥WV: 1 in 14
🔥IN: 1 in 15
🔥MI & OH: 1 in 21
🔥MO: 1 in 22
🔥CT: 1 in 24
🔥KS: 1 in 25
🔥MA & IL: 1 in 27

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This is a great ad displaying the importance of the right kind of mask. Cloth face coverings don’t protect you from shit.

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular.

From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

They don’t care, and it affects everyone beyond just them and their kids is the larger problem