sitting between two people coughing on this flight. i am masked. they are not. i feel like it is reasonable to expect you to help contain your germs in close contact in this day and age. i certainly try to do so myself, even if i just have a cold.

RECOVER-TLC is hosting another webinar today, sharing updates on the Long COVID clinical trials program. I will do some live blogging here and might have further writing at @thesicktimes.org (if they share anything newsworthy).

if anyone wants to send me to Amsterdam for this I am available

I'm looking for excellent Svelte / SvelteKit contractors in the US with current availability. If that's you, slide into my DMs or email me at [email protected].

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

i need a new usb-c cable and i cannot believe how bad this is

19% more deaths from Covid in the US than counted thru 2021 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

but what about THE LEGS

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family: Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider? And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?  So we got to work …

hi Marc, i'd like to introduce you to The Buddha fka Siddhartha Gautama

homepage on @theverge.com today: using wearables to help people self manage their chronic illnesses. www.theverge.com/features/889...

As someone who has had long covid for 6 years now, I'm not worried about everyone moving on..

Six years ago, COVID-19 came to New York City. Six years later, countless New Yorkers are living with Long COVID. #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay reminds us public health is a collective effort, and that we have tools to help keep each other safe. A look-back:

For #LongCovidAwarenessDay — I know so many of us would love to see progressives start to be consistent in their progressive values: “Governments modelling abandonment.. in time of crisis signal support to fascist, eugenicist & Nazi logic.. pandemics can give rise to fascist political economies”

“I would have masked forever if I'd known it was to take away my favorite favorite all time love in life. It is down played so much and the numbers are suggesting ~30% of people get #LongCovid and that's just the ones who made the connection.” www.reddit.com/r/climbergir...

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay — I think the most important thing to understand is that it’s still happening: “I got COVID for a 3rd time in 2025 (I'm vaxed, boosted & took paxlovid)... Boom #LongCovid. Can't climb due to PEM. I haven't climbed in almost a year.” “COVID… is still causing disability.“

Long COVID leaves thousands of L.A. county residents sick, broke and ignored

guess bpc-157 wasn't enough actually

In 2022, I counted more than 400 healthcare centers in the U.S. offering Long COVID care. @delfimarchese.bsky.social followed up three years later, and found many of them have closed... or at least failed to respond to our inquiries. Her investigation for @thesicktimes.org: clinics.thesicktimes.org

Yes, it was a negative outcome. But I really encourage folks to read this paper. It's a really thoughtful contextualization of the results and provides endless lessons for others designing LC trials. (Disclosure: I collaborate with the UCSF team and have been in UCSF trials.)

hey friends, looking for a CA employment lawyer specializing in 1A issues! not looking for a friend lol, pls repost 🙏🏽

For a story in @thesicktimes.org, seeking organizers in any left movement work who’ve taken a break or fully stepped away from organizing sometime since 2020 due to Long COVID. They can be anonymous in the piece and may reach out directly at longdefeat.08 on Signal #LongCOVID #NEISvoid

Being an adult is lowkey goated when checking off a series of discrete but ultimately meaningless to-do list items on a Monday afternoon is the vibe

We live in stupid and horrible times unless you somehow only care about steam locomotive preservation in which case somehow we're in a golden age.

love too be lectured by people who aren't experts about something i have expertise in

from now on i'm referring to tabs as "today in tabs, award-nominated magazine"

i'm sorry i'm just really tired of leftists punching down on disabled and chronically ill people

re last post. Interestingly enough a lot of DME suppliers are...well exploitative to say the least.

completely inhumane. DME is vital

“But I got COVID and was fine!”

long covid basically ruined my life - LOL!

Imagine if people made impassioned pleas for everyone to be on YouTube Shorts the same way people argue we need to be on X. YouTube Shorts, meanwhile, has roughly a gazillion more active users

sure sounds like CBS threatened @elizaorlins.bsky.social for defending herself after trump-supporting stephenie lagrossa (a return survivor contestant on the upcoming 50th season) attacked orlins for being "fucking jewish." www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

I would love an app that looks something like this.

longshot but do I know anyone here with experience with either Fishbowl or Cin7 Core inventory management systems?

genuinely proud of living in the same town as alysa liu

If you don’t think you know anyone with long covid what you really mean is that people are uncomfortable sharing their health status with you or there are people who have dropped out of your life (due to illness) that you haven’t checked up on.

the only appropriate response

None them are talking about a simple hack that decreases your chances of both short & long term illness by 95% Wear an N95 mask!

what's cool is that these people will be written off as out of touch because they don't confirm the priors of the powers that be

Damn. Steve was a legend. And my high school friend's dad. archive.ph/t15HC

It’s really wild how many people took this as an obvious and dire need as it concerned their own experience of a few months of isolation, but when it comes to others’ experience of years of the same, the need for access to community gets blown off entirely.

sometimes i feel like the discourse is so bad that it could only be, like, a turing test for me only

working on a typology here

you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it

Ashish Jha is a “say anything to stay in the good graces of power” kind of guy. He played the same game under Biden and it’s why that administration brought him in to greenlight their push for COVID normalcy.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes. In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠 thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...