Day 1110. On how resting is no longer restful. #MECFS #LongCOVID

This is from JUST THIS WEEK #TylenolCausesAutismNow #CageMatchComingToTheWH #FreedomOfSpeechIsIllegalNow #300millionDrugDeadAmericans #AntiFascismIsTerrorismNow #WTAFamerica Hey, how about we go for a weekend stroll to protest the end of civilization? You know, as long as it's sunny out. #AAUGH

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It's Monday everyone: Groundhog day. #LongCOVID

Plastic has seeped into everything. We know it's poisoning us, was never meant to be recycled—we know Big Oil lied. Yet nothing's being done—social media manipulation has corrupted democracy. What can we do? Shift the paradigm—make sure the right people get in. Don't just vote. Help make it happen

“Beyond scientific dispute” is the polite way of saying “No 💩, Sherlock”

It's not as bad as all that. For me, at least, it's worse. #Paxlovid #LongCOVID #TryingThis

Day 1107 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋-𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 Day 16 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘹+𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘹 Day 2 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘹𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥 What's Paxlovid Mouth? Sun-baked trash-bag liquid, a mouthful of dirty pennies & rotten soy milk—all. the time. Here's hoping it helps even half as much as it did Putrino's case series patients. #LongCOVID #MedSky

I WILL NOT REST! [ 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭. ] 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 1107

This is the way. The only way. Time to step up, everyone. To be more like Jon Green, of IOWA of all places. Not because it's easy, but because it matters. Even more so when your job literally holds the lives of millions in the balance. Science matters. FIGHT. BACK.

Science is broken & peer review is doing a shit job at quality control. You can't have one study saying one thing and anther saying the opposite. And yet this is FAR too common. Inflated by sensationalistic (scientifically illiterate) journalism. #Paxlovid #LongCOVID #MedSky

I think about the New Deal a lot, esp. the compromises that moved it forward. The exclusion of Black, Indigenous, and Latiné people was the “acceptable tradeoff” for “progress”. I think what I’ve seen in the last week is the deep hurt a lot of us carry that the same compromises would be made again.

Someday, soon (not soon enough), indoor air will be regarded the same way potable water is: not a luxury, a necessity.

We measured the CO2 level in a Parisian theater during a performance: the mechanical ventilation, clearly audible elsewhere, maintained 1,300 ppm, which was the regulatory requirement before COVID. The recommendation is now 800 ppm, which will require significant investment.

Day 1104—Being told that "the concept of 'long COVID' isn't 100% accepted either—it may be real, but it's not clear yet", on Bluesky, in 2025, is wild. If you want to know the state of Québec's public health, look no further—people literally have no idea. #PolQc #CanPoli

"Just a cold", they said. "COVID is over", they said. "Get over it", they still say. Wish we could. God do I wish we could. Every time you get COVID, you can get Long COVID. There is no cure. 𝘜𝘒 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘦. #MedSky

"Just a cold", they said. "COVID is over", they said. "Get over it", they still say. Wish we could. God do I wish we could. Every time you get COVID, you can get Long COVID. There is no cure.

Current science reporting: "Bronze Mirrors Would Boost Economy: Study" (Is how 90% of headlines about Long COVID read to anyone who bothers to dig into the methodology/actual conclusions that can be drawn)

Most interesting thread I’ve read in a while. #LongCOVID #EBV #HIV

From your lips to grant providers’ ears. #CdnPoli #LongCOVID

7/24: “The lingering toll the SARS-CoV-2 virus exacts on the immune system is widespread and hiding in plain sight… When 24 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had their whole bodies scanned by a PET (positron emission tomography) imaging test, their insides lit up like Christmas trees.”

So... even those that recovered fully didn't recover fully. Recovered fully would mean something different than this.

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: The lie is that our current expansion of “cursed bike lanes” is “killing Montreal” when the opposite is true And while cities like Paris are transitioning toward less congestion & pollution, here's what Martinez Ferrada proposes: Going backwards, together. No thanks. #PolMtl #Urbanism

Day 1101—Harder to pull off when any activity—be it mental or physical—causes severe post-exertional malaise. Whereas burning energy makes healthy people stronger, it literally makes us weaker—a little more disabled—every time. Keep getting COVID, you will end up with #LongCOVID. There is no cure.

Bigotry is not free speech. It's weaponized ignorance; coordinated societal sabotage. Not only morally repugnant; effectively destructive of the common good. Also: Get. my. face. off. that. rag-of-a-racist dog-whistle. You dim-witted sock puppets.

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

Should, could... will? Big if true. Here's hoping for my sake, and yours. #LongCOVID

Nature: 'COVID-19 accelerates vascular aging' '“Back in 2020, we already knew that inflammatory diseases may lead to vascular aging and we suspected that this phenomenon could be amplified with COVID-19' www.nature.com/articles/s43...

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

At a time when both independent journalism and science are under attack, this is a no brainer. And this is made in Canada journalism for Canadians. #Canada

Day 1096—Today marks 3 years exactly since a mild COVID infection put an end to my career, to my social life, to my ability to run, play, work, hope. 26 304 hours—and counting—lost to a virus that society insists is harmless. Every time you get COVID, you can get #LongCOVID. There is no cure.

Stranger: Why you wearing a mask Me: To avoid Covid Stranger: You’re not contributing to herd immunity, that’s some serious entitlement Me: There’s no herd immunity for Covid & you don’t know entitlement means Stranger: What Me: Living like it’s 2019 knowing it’s gonna kill folks, that’s entitlement

Slowly but surely, public health bodies are catching up to the science and trickling out the advice to avoid respiratory illnesses by masking. @santepublique-udem.bsky.social @santepub-mtl.bsky.social @assnatqc.bsky.social À quand au Québec? Faudra pas attendre après Caroline "Rien à voir" Quach.

It’s not about convincing folks that they can survive without Amazon/Meta/X: They need to understand that we won’t survive unless we stop feeding ourselves misinformation, thinking we’re above invisible influence—unless we stop trading justice, truth & a safe future for a bit of convenience.

If you care about COVID's impact on our future health; about the speed at which the climate crisis is barreling down on us; if you care about anything that depends on government policy, you need to start pressuring people to start using Bluesky to gather their facts, rather than Meta/X. Urgently.

Pourquoi on s'obstine à ne pas porter de masque (N95) lorsque malade en public me dépasse. Oubliez COVID-19, puisque c'est à la mode de le faire, ça vous tente vraiment de morver du nez pendant une semaine parce qu'un imbécile vous a toussé dessus? Aidez-moi à comprendre quelqu'un. #Qc #Mtl #PolQc

Résultat de l'école de pensée des Quach de ce monde: Septembre 2022, trois ans demain, mon fils rentre de l'école infecté de COVID-19, qu'il me refile. Il s'en remet après 5 jours—j'en ai encore les jambes sciées. Hyperactivation autoimmune qui gommerait la mitochondrie. Mais c'est rien. 😑

Quach minimise le SRAS CoV-2 depuis le début—regardant que le # d'hospitalisations/décès alors que des milliers d'études documentent le carnage que continue de livrer ce virus. Au lieu de pousser une culture de masques-lorsque-malades, de meilleure ventilation, elle prônait le retour-à-la-normale.

"Durant la pandémie": Hier, aujourd'hui, demain. À chaque fois qu'on subit une réinfection au SRAS CoV-2, on ne renforce pas notre immunité; on accumule des blessures. Chez certains, suffisamment graves pour les rendre invalides ("COVID Longue"), mais personne n'est à l'abri #PolCan #AssNat #PolQc

"You're not building immunity. You're accumulating injury" Most succinct brief I've heard in a while. Well done, @david.notesforfriends.com. For those who want a well-written breakdown of what SARS CoV-2 is (and isn't), read up: www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...

Mme Martínez Ferrada, @ensemblemontreal.bsky.social votre discours anti-vélo, anti-transport actif, anti-ville piétonne, anti-air pur, anti-commerce local, pro-char, pro-banlieues, pro-congestion, pro-microparticules, pro-smog, je l’emmerde. Viscéralement. #MtlPoli #ProjetMontreal #VeloMtl #PolMtl

"You’re not building immunity. You’re accumulating injury."

Those who deny COVID's harm are no different than those who deny the urgency of the climate crisis: they simply can't handle the truth bc of its implications—yes, you're putting your odds of a healthy life at risk by burying your head in the sand. Cowards. And they call the COVID conscious scared.

Remember "quiet quitting"? Yeah, something else was going on. And still is. Every time you get COVID, you can get Long COVID. And it's not those mild symptoms, only longer: it's multi-systemic dysregulation caused by an immune-evasive-and-corrupting SARS virus. There is no cure for #LongCOVID

Day 1093—I sent @putrinolab.bsky.social's preprint to my Internist late Thursday night and asked if he'd be willing to try it. Next morning, 7:40am, I got this. Fucking Legend.

Why are Amy Proal @polybiorf.bsky.social David Putrino @putrinolab.bsky.social & so many others more active on X than here? Why are we still legitimizing malignant platforms? Knowing what we know about the societal damage they're causing (see: how MAGA won; misinformation, apathy). Esp given that:

Putting aside the continued excess mortality, spike in Invasive Strep A & disability claims—to say nothing of the lived experience of millions of previously healthy people—there's a glut of multi-disciplinary evidence as to the carnage SARS CoV-2 inflicts. This ain't no flu. Receipts, w/citations:

Encouraging results! Terrible visuals. So I pimped their graph. 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘳-𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘣-𝘗𝘢𝘹𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋 — 𝘗𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘣 doi.org/10.21203/rs....

📣 Over 60 leading ME & Long COVID researchers are calling for research and drug development. "The burden of inaction will continue to bring great suffering to many people and place a heavy burden on societies, economies and healthcare systems." declaration.mecfs-research.org/en/declaration