A fourteen-year-old’s parents didn’t allow them to mask because it “made [them] look sick.” Now they have Long COVID. www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidC...

The most progressive fanbase in wrestling is at it again

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

🚨 NEW! Podcast Jay‘s Parasocial Assault It’s become clear that the NIH Director has confused himself with Paul Leavesque, exploiting a beloved American institution to promote himself to dangerous degrees. This is inexcusable. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: www.panaccindex.info/p/podcast-ja...

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“I would have masked forever if I'd known [COVID] 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 long COVID and that's just the ones who made the connection.” www.reddit.com/r/climbergir...

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Depressing how quickly another “photo w/predator & AEW star” happened, esp since said predator co-produced an all women’s show Morally + politically pedestaling ppl causes harm. I’ve seen doing so play out very similarly in another space to this^ situation, & was awful. I wish I was more surprised…

I usually order an unflavored latte mostly because I prefer it simple, but also because it's funny when the barista yells "plain white Derek."

v grateful someone else took the time & effort to articulate this this was all true long before the photo w/Scurrl came out (which I feel pr confident the author would agree w/based on what they wrote), but god forbid you said so around AEW fans before it did

What’s so obviously absurd to me about calling the *fact* that current COVID vaccines are not highly effective at preventing transmission “anti-vax” is the sheer number of people who have gotten COVID after getting vaccinated. I’m one of them!!

That’s not what she said tho. It doesn’t entirely prevent transmission. U can see this by the covid in the wastewater & the numerous studies on reinfections in vaccinated pops. U can also see it in the moving goal posts of blue team, from “breakthrus are rare” to “you will get it 1x/yr like flu”

It’s also bizarre that he continually attacks actual public health advocates and disabled people who don’t have the luxury of buying into his vax and relax style of liberal denialism (which again, is the number 1 on-ramp to actual anti vaxx beliefs). This piece outlines his brand of denialism v well

It’s good to see people fact checking his BS below that thread, but it’s frustrating that a podcaster who allegedly built a brand off science continues to spout Covid denialist slop after admitting he doesn’t even keep up with the research on Covid (which continues to show how dangerous it is)

Personally if I had a massive platform that I built in part by branding myself as someone who picks apart scientific methodology I would not use it to undermine the work of disabled folks fighting for their lives + ignoring/misrepresenting the sources they cite. But then again, I'm not a grifter so

Michael can check the Covid vaccine CDC guidance page any time since 2024 to find exactly what Julie said, it’s not hard, he doesn’t need expertise to get she’s right www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Calling this anti-vax is such wild misinformation it raises some real questions about your intentions.

Overstating the efficacy of our current vaccines and lying to people about the limitations, as Michael and many in the COVID denialist movement do, is actually the number 1 driver of anti vaxx sentiment. People are told they can’t get covid if they get a shot, they get it and immediately lose trust

I don’t know why Michael fell into Covid denialism years ago and hasn’t found his way out but this is false. Our current vaccines do not meaningfully reduce transmission, and they certainly do not meaningfully prevent long covid. This is what any long covid treatment center will tell u day 1

Calling a very well known vaccine advocate “anti vaxx” because she VERY correctly calls for people to take supportive measures like masking since our current vaccines do not stop transmission is wild. As someone who actually does vax outreach in LA the lines Michael is pushing feed anti vax ideology

Hey, it's disproportionately women who have been disabled by COVID-19; and that's a worthy price to pay for liberal white male political pundits' personal comfort!

Especially when that impulse is paired, as it often is, with calling reliable information “false” because you’re not as familiar w/certain terms as the people you’re shitting on (this is supposed to be a reply to a previous post, replies aren’t working for some reason)

Targeting people who are protecting themselves from and battling systemic mis- and disinformation about COVID—people who are already shat on and ostracized as a matter of course—and be like “yes I do mask and want clean air, but these freaks are CRAZY and UNWELL” is such a vile impulse

…so punching down on the (largely medically vulnerable) people who are actually working for clean air and disingenuously calling them “anti-vax” is a good use of your time?

High risk and disabled people who mask are doing it because infections can make them very sick, can kill them, can ruin their careers. They have had to adapt to an illness landscape that changed significantly and are trying to live their lives around a society ignoring the problem.

I know the majority of my followers don’t mask, but I want you to imagine you have a disability - any kind. You need a wheelchair, a hearing aid - to safely access the world. Now imagine someone a liberal with a massive platform says you’re unneighborly and untrustworthy for using it.

If you need another reason to start masking again, you could do worse than "because it's one of Will Stancil's turnoffs."

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️💛💜 In a restaurant with 20 other people, there's a 1-in-4 chance of a COVlD exposure today, if nobody is testing/isolating. Risk is higher in the Northeast and especially the Midwest, lower elsewhere.

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I'm late on posting this, but: I wrote a few words about Sabu, his legacy, and honoring the people who have had outside influences on our lives. And then I wrote many more words about Sabu's children's book.

Been a really good Dynamite so far. Kenny + Swerve segment pulled storytelling weight I wasn’t expecting after last week. Trios match was great. Tomaso & Kyle’s back-to back pinfalls felt real and fought, and they worked well w/the time limit draw tease.

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If you call me a scold I will eradicate your family line

God fucking dammit would you please just goddamn fucking use ALT TEXT so I can goddamn fucking interact with your goddamn fucking post goddammit, fuck

Stat looking like a Baldur’s Gate character woke me up, Jesus Christ

looking forward to the Kenny Omega v Andrade el Idolo sexy off

wrote a few things about Jon Moxley, Chihiro Hashimoto, and (gulp) Blake Monroe open.substack.com/pub/livelaug...

Are folks not allowed to say COVID now? Feels like certain people are going out of their way to not say the word. Not just rfkjrs of the world

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

If you would like to be in the slightest bit an ally, at the very least, when you see someone else masking, in a store, at the doctors, put one on yourself. Let that person know by your action that you have not abandoned them and they are not alone. Because they could be living on rice and yeast.

Next time you are tempted to say “back during covid” please understand that I didn’t get sick until after Biden declared the pandemic over, and there are millions struggling to get safe access to care because of this idea. It’s not over. People are getting sick today who will get as sick as I am.

Part of the continued problem with denialism is it makes people who are already suffering the effects suffer even more. I should not have to beg to be protected from infection in a health care facility, especially during flu season!

Which is why I’m really writing this. I am malnourished and running out of food because of this stupid illness, and the covid is over delusions are so strong, my DOCTOR can’t understand why I’d want to avoid infection. Why should this even be a question? Why don’t they have protocols in place?

It presents another complication in that I have to have my mask off indoors during this, and the doctor’s office, who knows I have this because of long covid, was baffled when I asked for additional precautions. They’ve reluctantly agreed to mask and let me bring in a portable HEPA, but still.

The foods I have left are minimally nutritious- rice, lettuce, tomatoes, eggs, olive oil, nutritional yeast, and sweet potatoes - and it’s starting to show. In the last month, it’s accelerated rapidly, taking corn, beans, chocolate, and cauliflower/broccoli. I’m getting weaker and exhausted.