Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

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Comment today from Dr Nigel Speight #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid #LongCovidKids #LCKids

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

They call us Violent Protesters, if we're so damn Violent, why are we the ones being Murdered?

I'm a simple person. I see SFW Sonic art, especially Tails, and I enjoy. 💛

"No one here has symptoms” isn't a reliable way to rule out COVID when around 40% of infections are asymptomatic. Please don't say this to dismiss others’ precautions

Alt: Split panel comic; left panel is angry MAGA wearing the red hat, with an angry face. Text says "2020: would not wear mask during COVID!" Right panel is the same angry face but with blue hat with ICE written on it; text "2020: wears a mask at work all day... and loves it!" Signed PINKJOE.COM

"I mask around immunocompromised people" - this is a great aim, but how do you know who is vulnerable? You can't tell just by looking at someone. Also everyone is susceptible to the longterm harms of Covid

If by bad cold and flu season you mean that lots of people have immune dysregulation from covid infections and viruses are hitting them harder now, then yes.

ableism supports fascism. calling bad awful people psychopaths, crazy, narcissists, etc is ableism. attributing fascism actions of oppression and violence to autism, PTSD, undiagnosed and assumed personality disorders, etc is ableism. Do not support fascism, do not support ableism and Othering.

Kudos to these experts urging the WHO to change their guidelines from surgical masks to respirators to prevent airborne viruses like Covid & the flu 👏🏼 But it really shouldn't take public pressure to align guidance with well-established aerosol science www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"Scientists believe long COVID is driven by several overlapping biological problems, including lingering virus, ongoing low-level inflammation (elevated IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α), and the formation of tiny blood clots formed by interactions between viral spike protein and fibrinogen."

The era of Covid aware stand up comedy is here and I am ready 😀

also, consider: your mask may not make a seal. surgical masks are near useless and anything that has air gaps isn't really doing much for you. Its worth it to find a mask that fits your face + makes a seal.

“I masked and still got sick!” Then imagine how much fucking shittier you would be feeling if you got the full-ass viral load of whatever disease soup you were breathing. Mask up. It really does make a difference.

It is not ableist to talk about how Covid infections in utero can cause neurodevelopmental disorders. This is a scientific fact. Amid RFK Jr. removing protective Covid vaccines for pregnant people, we're not helping by being quiet about this jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Wearing a mask is better than getting sick. Wearing a mask is better than becoming disabled. Wearing a mask is better than dying. Wearing a mask is better than being the reason someone else becomes sick, hospitalized or dies. Mask up & protect your health.

6 years, still no clean air in schools. There has been a huge increase in sickness absence since 2019 due to COVID. Policy isn’t keeping pace with the science. Ignoring #Longcovidkids is part of the problem. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2573814...

“These viruses are serious, dangerous, and life-threatening. We are seeing children who are seriously ill, families grieving devastating losses, and hospitals under capacity strain.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

The highest rate on record. It staggers me that no-one in public health seems to be acknowledging that immune dysregulation caused by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely a significant factor in this, and the implications of this concept going forward. abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...

COVID-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds. "Between 2022 and 2024, COVID-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows" gizmodo.com/covid-19-is-...

If you’re pregnant please wear a well fitted mask like an N95. Pregnancy makes you high risk for Covid complications. There’s no risk to masking and cleaning the air. More & more studies are showing that Covid during pregnancy harms a developing fetus. Mask up.

Peru has declared two years ago that Covid is an occupational health disease for ALL workers and silence from the UK government. A court would not rule on this unless they have plenty of serious evidence and there is a mountain of it. www.covid19litigation.org/news/2023/09...

Imagine the power Zohran Mamdani wearing a mask on the subway would have in encouraging people to do the same.

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

When we put our photos online we are not consenting to having them modified and turned into sexually explicit content. Asking AI to remove our clothing is sexual abuse. You are behaving like a predator. If your response is “just don’t post photos” you are part of the problem.

I know masks make people's tummies feel weird, but that is the reality of the situation. I'm sorry we were told vaccines would prevent Covid, and then told that if we 𝗱𝗶𝗱 get Covid, it wouldn't hurt us. Neither of these things are true, unfortunately. Please mask in 2026! 😷 @cleanairclub.bsky.social

Happy 2026! 🥳 The reason why you and/or everyone you know is "sick all the time now" is because Covid has caused long-term damage to most people's immune systems, making them much more susceptible to opportunistic infections. The 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 way to counterbalance this is by masking with N95s/KN95s. (1/2)

If you believe disabled and high-risk people deserve the right to access society safely, a great New Year’s resolution is to stop actively denying them that right. And bonus, you’ll get sick less.

It's so hard to really internalize good advice. Especially when it's advice I'd given someone else 🫠 Realizing that not everyone is as "earnest" in the relationship as me sucks hard.

If the 2004 song "1985" were written today, it would be about being preoccupied with the year 2007

Remember that it’s never too late to start taking Covid precautions. Every infection delayed or prevented is a win for your long term health. Get vaccinated. Clean and ventilate the air. Stay home when you’re sick. Wear a well fitted respirator like an N95. Masks save lives!

A very Happy New Year to you all. If you're still mitigating against infection from SARS-CoV-2 you have nothing but my respect and admiration. Wishing each and every one of you a wonderful 2026.

Wishing you all a very masked and mitigated new year. #OneOfTheTwo

—being told disabled people are “wrong”, fear us. Yes, even you, resist libs, even you, leftist bastions of liberation. Because you won’t stop to consider that what you were told is wrong. Because it’s icky. Because it reminds you of bad times. That’s at its core all this is.

Doesn't mask in public during an ongoing airborne pandemic. Believes long Covid is psychosomatic - those would be two of my 🚩🚩

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

This is a great article dispelling immunity debt. www.salon.com/2022/12/04/d...

Punching down': Comedian Jon Stewart under fire as mockery falls flat with progressives www.rawstory.com/jon-stewart-...

If @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social wants to make it up to the community he's offended, one way to do that would be to do an entire episode on long Covid. An estimated ~44-48 million in the U.S. have now experienced it pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39842946/

Australian researchers have made a trial COVID vaccine that stops COVID infection and transmission, rather than just reduce the damage done by an infection: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2025.1654126/full This could be life-changing for many - including me.

#OneOfTheTwo Jon Stewart mocked for masking. Because Covid destroyed my body & my life. There are ~half a billion people with #LongCovid around the world. Why would anyone assume they’re too special to become one of us?

Mother Jones: “Hey Jon Stewart, Jokes About Wearing Masks Aren’t Funny” “Barron acquired Long Covid in 2020, and her doctors believe that her 9/11-related conditions made her more susceptible to developing Long Covid” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The thing that’s particularly galling about this is that most disabled people I know have given up getting anyone outside of us to mask. We mask ourselves and try to get on with our lives, and y’all still can’t keep our fucking names out of your mouths. Just running through there rent fucking free

Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.

Family member: (summarized) "I feel like you are mean to me on purpose and you flaunt your money but please bring me on your next trip and also I think you were mean before but you got worse when you got disabled" I just feel like those are things you can't un-say, you know?

Not only is he confusing measles and chickenpox… he’s also pushing a eugenics agenda. He’s claiming if you die from measles it’s because you’re “already sick”. First, that’s not true. Many healthy children died from measles. Second, sick people deserve protection too.