watching the Olympics, the announcers casually mention that a gold medalist had to take a year off from skiing because of "covid complications." there are so many of us affected. it's a global problem no one wants to address. she was lucky to bounce back.

Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.

Like so many said from the start, because this is not new, but the defining feature of this era is to never listen to people who predict things accurately, and instead promote the people who got it completely wrong, and health care is no different at that.

Oh look, Podcast Jay lied to Senate. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Shared this on insta & will share here too. If you’re not in the ME or Long Covid communities you’re likely unaware of just how often we have to watch young people die.

TIL that Jay Bhattacharya - prominent COVID skeptic (co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration) and newly appointed director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - is "a good friend" of Peter Thiel from back in his Stanford University days. Thiel's tendrils are everywhere!

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

“The new evidence that reinfections can trigger or worsen this chronic condition [in children] suggests that the societal burden is set to grow. With no therapy currently available, the number of children living with a chronic and often debilitating illness will continue to rise.”

long covid has left me bedridden/housebound for 5 years. some of us did not come out of it and are living a posthumous existence.

To be fair, public health policy everywhere is at odds with our understanding of COVID's long-term harm. www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-l...

Un-fucking-believable

Parents — you need to organize against the conspiratorial health populist movement that thinks it’s fine to give your kids polio. MAHA came to power screaming unapologetically ab protecting kids. You have both the right & the obligation to do that too. You don’t have to be polite. Fk these people.

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

you ever think about how many of the people promising to build chips to integrate AI with human biology are also covid deniers and anti-vaxxers? these people do not know medicine and they won't listen to patients. when your AI implant starts causing brain fog expect to be gaslighted.

Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...

suggesting that pwLC and pwME go without healthcare for our conditions forever is no less barbaric than suggesting the same for people with cancer (and some people such as RFK are working to normalize the latter). the fact that the medicine we need hasn't been invented yet doesn't change this.

Important to remember: The reason why RFK Jr will not feel even slightly bad about these 10,000 low-income people losing access to life-saving antiviral medicines is that he is an AIDS denialist He does not think HIV is the cause of AIDS His conspiracy theories are killing people

“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!

For those lucky enough to live outside the nightmare world of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, the man discussed here (Simon Wessely) leads a powerful psych lobby w/ a long history of gaslighting sick people—from Gulf War vets to 9/11 first responders to poisoned Iranian school girls to ME & Long Covid

Doctors: your story is not enough to diagnose your condition. you need biomarkers. Also doctors: i have invented the concept of "body-mind" to explain your symptoms. my story is enough to to diagnose your condition. i don't need biomarkers.

COVID pandemic enters 7th year with no end in sight. "It's strange to think that the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the world into lockdown 7 years ago never ended. It continues to kill and cripple us, to this day. We simply stopped talking about it." boingboing.net/2026/01/16/c...

i don't know how long covid patients haven't been driven mad by the constant lies told about their lived experience. the belief that covid is just a cold is so pervasive that my existence as a sick person feels heretical

The German ME/CFS and LC research community is stepping up its game. With funding granted and studies planned, Germany is a sign of hope as the US research outlook remains uncertain.

the people who dismiss immune damage after covid seem to think that long covid patients are a group of people preordained to be wrecked by a virus. the assumption is always that the virus is mild and people with long covid are abnormal. the virus that is the thing that's abnormal, not the patients.

Health Rising: 'An Enigma No More? Is ME/CFS an Acquired Muscle Myopathy Disease?' 'The authors believe all the different types of ME/CFS probably converge on the same central problem: poor blood flows which trigger mitochondrial damage in the muscles...' www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/01...

Happy new year, triple the NIH budget.

I'm still baffled how the medical profession can see so many young people have their vitality and futures destroyed by disease and simply say "I don't treat that, tough shit"

There’s a difficult irony that many people would really rather not have to think about this (ie what started in 2020 that’s clearly still happening)… but willingness to confront it is also the best way to reduce your odds of ending up on this chart + having to think about it all the fucking time.

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

It's pretty obvious why to any of us disabled people who have been screaming about COVID 19 being a ongoing pandemic and mass disabling event for the last six years. Governments have made millions of people permanently disabled and don't want to pay to support their continued living. It's eugenics.

The FDA has just greenlit a small study on Checkpoint Inhibitors in #LongCOVID patients. "...I'm very excited about that possibility because if that works, we can actually reverse the entire process of Long COVID" -

😷 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

These people are incapable of actually doing their jobs because they are absurdly unqualified. They’re only capable of grievance politics on Twitter.

1/ #LongCOVID keeps almost 90,000 people bedridden, but pot of research [funding] is almost over: 'Hopeless situation' @longcovidnederland.bsky.social #TranslateLongCOVID

Appalling. Martin Kulldorff, who was a lead author of the Great Barrington declaration which promoted mass infection with COVID and spread disinformation about vaccines, has been appointed HHS Chief science officer.

In 2021 Dhruv Khullar wrote a long covid skeptic article, saying the illness was possibly “somatic hypervigilance”, claimed sick people had "disregard for expertise", and quoted Vinay Prasad, the man who is destroying access to vaccines. He contributed to the anti-science rhetoric he complains about

"Even when tests look normal" is the bane of our existence. Tests available to most doctors look normal. The doctors can see nothing wrong and Dx something nonsensical. Yet we are very ill. Some of us have been sick for more than half a decade. More people get long COVID every year. We need help.

How can you claim to treat long covid if you have not read anything about long covid? Not the CDC website, not a medical journal, not a news article, not Wikipedia: NOTHING. "Sorry, there's no neurologist on staff, but perhaps you'd like to see a nurse who's really into conspiracy theories?"

in western medicine the burden of proof for calling an illness "psychosomatic" is so low that it's basically free. as long as you don't literally see someone bleeding out the ears you can just say "you're making it up" and it's considered a legitimate explanation with 0 repercussions if you're wrong

Nature: 'Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts' '..current knowledge on its economic impacts, including macroeconomic, cost-of-illness..are estimated at an average annual burden of $1 trillion globally... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Germany set to allocate 500 millions euros in 10 years for the study of post-infectious diseases such as Long Covid and ME/CFS www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/K...

Epstein-Barr virus has now been linked with lupus and multiple sclerosis. It's frequently reactivated in ME and long covid. An extremely common virus that people assumed was "normal" has been causing untold misery. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Unbelievable waste of resources.

Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region. Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...

"The reduction in naive CD4+ and CD8+ T cells further supports the notion of persistent immune activation in these patients, potentially due to chronic persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antigens in tissues or hyperimmune activation and autoimmunity."

we're going to be subjected to years and years of this, aren't we? covid's effects were accurately and widely predicted in 2020 by doctors, researchers, and patients, and it seems no one in media bothered to read any of it

Gosh, if only there was a scientific explanation for why so many working age people got terribly sick and developed long term chronic health problems between 2019 and 2024... Truly a mystery we will never solve /snark