🚨Very interesting🧵by Michael Ryan (and referencing others) on how leftover fragments of SARS-CoV-2 could be behind LC... "In effect, the immune system keeps reacting to molecular 'ghosts' of the virus." 👀 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20032...

Great info out of @theresisters.bsky.social chat with @putrinolab.bsky.social Here’s the link to the first manual on treating Chronic Illnesses. Initially developed for HCW we felt was valuable for many, including lay people & those who are ill, seeking help. www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

covid is driving up rates of ME/CFS. i promise you, if masking is annoying, having an internal battery that never recharges past 25-50%, with no end in sight, is MUCH more annoying.

Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'? We are right.

To be blunt: if you are doing anything at all right now to reduce your risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2, you're being smart. As a result of the current high prevalence of flu, masking is back in the media. Ignore anything negative said about it. Political nonsense is irrelevant.

CIDRAP: 'Workplace exposures tied to higher risk of long COVID' 'The findings could be used to inform future policy and prevention strategies' www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/wor...

open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... I like Governor Newsom's initiative: Don't get mad and gnash your teeth and pull out your hair, do something about their insane policies. Cal. has the right idea, hopefully more states will follow. #HHSBrainWorm #MAGAMorons #TraitorTrump #BlueCrew #Resisters

Affordable Care Act subsidies are about to expire leaving millions unable to afford health insurance. This is an excellent time to start wearing a mask. Keeping yourself and your community healthy is an act of resistance. Millions of people literally can’t afford to get sick.

This is a great piece from Lucy at Pandemic Pages Podcast drawing comparisons between masking during the 1918 - 1920 influenza pandemic and today. Strongly recommend! pandemicpages.substack.com/p/the-case-for…

🚨 The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks Video (4mins, Aug 2021) 🚨 youtu.be/vBJpvdZXxcs?... H/t @picklemelissa.bsky.social aka @urbanmel on Twitter To bookmark, watch, and share widely 🎉

Why do I wear an N95 mask? Bc Covid will happily destroy your immune system, more each time you get it. It can give you a whole new syndrome and/or awaken & worsen dormant viruses+syndromes. You do not want a mystery disease like my loved one has now. Our system does not know what to do with you.

So many of us remember when we couldn't get Healthcare Insurance due to pre-existing conditions.. Now we have that fear again ... And THE SKYROCKETING COSTS will throw so many into having NO INSURANCE AT ALL !! Call Your Representatives 202 224-3121 Time is running out

1. As a result of the current high prevalence of influenza and the accompanying media coverage of the spread of the disease, I've been asked about mitigations by a number of friends who take *no precautions against SARS-CoV-2*. A few observations regarding these conversations:

🚨This is one of the BEST pages I've seen on masks vs respirators🚨 When and Why to Wear a Mask or Respirator - Cal. Dept. of Public Health (Oct 2025) www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...

Rutgers University: Could Hidden Infections Be Fueling Long COVID? A review published in eLife by 17 experts, including those from Rutgers Health, argues that co-infections..could cause symptoms to persist indefinitely.. '..most compelling evidence involves EBV..' www.rutgers.edu/news/could-h...

Viruses cause illness. Poor indoor air helps them spread. ✅ Rest at home when unwell ✅ Keep CO₂ under 800ppm ✅ Ventilate well ✅ Use HEPA air filters …and keep kids in school learning, even during peak infection months

Long Covid is the Gift that keeps on Taking. This holiday season, mask up and stay safe. Let’s not give the gift that nobody wants. #ConnectTheDots #christmas #christmastree #covid #longCovid #maskup #holidays #PSA

😷 Masks aren't traumatising. Abandonment is. Airborne denial is. Hospital-acquired infection is. Long Covid and severe ME is. The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14

The layered approach is the best way to reduce your chances of getting #COVID19. It's not just one mitigation. Layering multiple mitigations will help prevent you getting it or spreading it: masking, distancing, going virtual, air purifiers, ventilation, Far-UVC, and vaccines all add up.

This is heartbreaking. Long Covid is real, it is common, and more people are developing it every day because we aren’t doing *anything* to stop transmission.

Mask Mandate Returns At New Jersey Hospitals. Respiratory virus season has prompted mask mandates in New Jersey: Hackensack Meridian Health (17 hospitals) and RWJBarnabas Health (14 hospitals) now require masks for visitors as of Dec. 1. Source: archive.md/h4MBj

Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

'H5N1 is no longer the slow-moving outbreak of the past. It has become a fast-changing global pathogen, spreading through birds, repeatedly testing the biological boundaries of mammals and producing more genetic variation than at any time in its history' cambodianess.com/article/a-mu...

Gift 🎁 link. Research demonstrates that vaccines can reduce the risk of cancer, dementia & heart conditions, as well as risk of acute disease. Have you been vaccinated against HPV, shingles, hepatitis B, flu, covid, RSV, meningitis, & pneumonia? If you're eligible, get them now. wapo.st/4p7cDsj

New piece I wrote for @thesicktimes.org on the need to ask people with Long COVID what they are going through. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...

I'm excited to share the latest in the '12 Days of Covid Consciousmas' series... Join us 12/21 or 12/24 for 'A Covid Christmas Carol' - a 70 minute Readers' Theatre performance featuring a cast of folks from our CC community who are talented beyond belief! Details in flyer.

"In summary, our findings reveal persistent immune dysregulation lasting up to three years post-recovery, characterized by chronic inflammation and diminished naïve CD4+ T cell levels—features reminiscent of immunosenescence" -

@bmj.com & @bmjmedicine.bsky.social -

NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

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Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently: 18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.

1/5 My 2020 interview with Alice Wong is now out and ready to be shared! You can download it here: tinyurl.com/2wke8tk6 (Note that you may not be able to view it online if you’re not signed into Google, but anyone can download it.)

Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection. But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk. They are still worth getting. Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.

"Maybe they know that, despite the strong case for upgrading air filtration & establishing indoor air quality requirements, this has not been done, & masks are an easy-to-implement, effective layer of protection against pathogens": Via @bcschoolcovid.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/misfitme...

Looking for a black N95? Good news, Canada! 🇨🇦👇

I don't know if this message will reach anyone that doesn't already get it, but I feel moved to still say it:

Fifty years ago, Congress passed IDEA to end the exclusion of disabled children from public schools. Today, that promise is under threat from inadequate funding and policy rollbacks. IDEA is a civil rights law. Protect it. Fund it. Celebrate it. #IDEA50

Excellent public health messaging from New York City!! Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji. How can you do that? Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95. It’ll help keep you and your community safe.

This has been obvious for quite some time now: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Want to stick it to the corporations? Wear a mask. Americans are dying younger and saving the ruling class billions of dollars. You can help prevent that by masking up and refusing to normalize the spread of covid & other airborne diseases.

I know some peeps have big stockpiles, but if you’re buying new respirators, remember head strap N95+ is typically more effective than ear loops (& some KN95 are poor quality—I recently saw a photo of someone in a too big & clearly loose one complaining of a recent Covid infection despite using it).

Rest in peace, @leslieleeiii.bsky.social

Still am.

“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint' 'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.' www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...

Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID: Here's why medicaldialogues.in/pulmonology/...

Everything about SARS-CoV-2 weakens us as a species. Population-level immune dysregulation leading to both reactivation of latent pathogens and creating niches for new ones; the politicisation of our response regressing public health and massively amplifying anti-vax ideology.