Oh, hey. Yesterday was the 1-year birthday of my piece The King In Black. It holds a lot of meaning and significance for me. A return to artistic and technical form, and a representation of living with Long Covid. Added bonus is a lot of you really like it too, which I sincerely appreciate.

At 3 Air Changes per Hour the probability of inhaling the Omicron strain through mouth breathing is 96%. At 10 ACH? 94%. HOWEVER: nasal breathing is found to be safer than mouth breathing. When ACH = 30, THE PROBABILITY OF INFECTION THROUGH NASAL BREATHING IS LESS THAN 5% (!!!) #COVID #CleanAir

Elevator, 2 mins, no masks. Some interesting insights: • Top-to-bottom airflow is best • Breathing through the nose reduces virus intake • 30 ACH significantly reduces the cumulative dose • Sneezing by infected host results in 99% infection probability; speaking loudly? Below 20% #COVID #CleanAir

Don't look up: "what does SARS CoV-2 do to you" "is there a cure for Long COVID?" "why do some people get disabled after a mild infection whereas others don't?" Don't look any of it up and you'll be fine. Or irreversibly crippled. Either way, have a wonderful day. 😑

Remember when the WHO & CDC refused to call COVID airborne? It wasn't because they didn't know, but rather because society didn't 'want' to know. That political pressure made public health (and continues to make most people) ignore the clear and damning evidence. Long COVID is no different: 🧵(1/4)

Brian Sutterer MD calling out the Golden State Warriors and Kristaps Porzingis for not being upfront about his "mysterious illness" made my year. Cause ALL of us who've been kneecapped by Long COVID know it when we see it. Society pretending this ain't a thing doesn't make it so. #NBA #POTS #Medsky

In case it wasn't clear enough. #LongCOVID isn't going away. It isn't getting better. And yes, the 2026 numbers just keep going up (see ALT). We need #CleanAir and for #PublicHealth to do its damn job. Wearing a mask shouldn't be taboo. Condemning people to #MECFS hell should not be okay. #CdnPoli

"All these doomers and forever maskers saying that COVID somehow disrupts immune function. There is no evidence of that" Isn't there, though? ISN'T THERE? "Circumstantial. Correlation is not causation". Correct. Just as wilful ignorance is not the same as skepticism. #LongCOVID #MedSky #Scisky

Please share this around #MedSky. Far too many clinicians are still practicing like it's 2019. #SciSky #StandUpForScience

"…adequate[?] air changes in the hospital ventilation system alone may not be enough to protect staff and patients" 1st thought: Uh oh. But then: "…portable air purifiers could further reduce the risk of transmission" So COVID remains a problem because ventilation is NOT yet adequate 🙄 #MedSky

From the Ontario Human Rights Commission's web site. This is directly relevant to #longCOVID and the poor-quality ventilation in many schools. The building code is a minimum, but only a subset of the obligation to provide students with a safe learning environment: www3.ohrc.on.ca/en/opportuni...

Ontario engineers: "Treating airborne transmission seriously, setting measurable operational targets (including CO2), and deploying layered controls—ventilation, filtration, & UV Germicidal Irradiation—where appropriate" #IAQ #CleanAir #COVID #CdnPoli #PublicHealth It's a good start. However: (1/2)

If you need a reason to do whatever you can to avoid COVID, here’s about a half million of them…take your pick. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

This is what it really comes down to. Masks are a reminder the pandemic isn’t over. 🔹COVID is airborne 🔹Each infection carries cumulative risk 🔹Long COVID has no cure 🔹The pandemic isn’t over 🔹Wearing a mask is still one of the best ways to protect yourself and others Stay informed. Stay safe.

On cherche des témoignages. Date limite, 1er mars. @cancovsoc.bsky.social

I FEEL GREAT RIGHT NOW 😞* "Tell me you have ME without telling me you have ME" #TellMeYouHaveME #pwme *Explainer for ppl w/out ME: It won't last and if I do anything, I'll suffer a PEM crash. So 'feeling great' for an hour is little more than a reminder of the life #LongCOVID took from me. Hence 😞

"The research found that traces of the virus remained in immune cells after treatment had ended and the cats appeared to have made a full recovery. Because some immune cell types live for years, this could explain why some clinical signs persist or relapse." #LongCOVID

"Pharma groups have come to us and said, 'We're not interested in COVID. We're not interested in any anti-infective,' (…) If a long COVID trial were to fail, that could leave a negative perception of their drug’s usefulness in acute COVID-19." Evil. Incarnate. #Medsky #LongCOVID

"…pharmaceutical firms want to await a concrete biomarker that could serve as a clinical trial end point before putting any resources toward long COVID studies, but it’s not possible to find such a metric without more studies." They need proof. We need hope. #Medsky #LongCOVID

#pwME Try to explain two totally different ME symptoms: 1) Put your foot flat on accelerator & car won't do more than 5mph ➡️ Absence of power. 2) Put foot down, car drives at good speed, but only get 5 miles to a gallon & engine won't start for next 3 days. ➡️ Fuel inefficiency, plus intermittent.

Had to shovel some snow off the roof yesterday. Only took me 15 minutes. My heart-rate barely climbed. I'm in danger. "Tell me you have ME without telling me you have ME" #LongCOVID #MECFS

Wild that an immunologist would still hesitate: Like thinking—as many Koreans still do—that having a fan on while you sleep can kill you: - Just to be safe, let's turn off the fan. - But it's 42 degrees! - Still. Just in case. - ??!! Fine. The broader point is an important one, however: 🧵(1/6)

What's the opposite of tall? "Short" And what's the opposite of long? "…short" Do you see the problem? #LongCOVID cuts life short

Hey, could someone do me a solid and ask @elhopkins.bsky.social why she blocked me for pointing out that a "song" about Long COVID by Mack Barnhardt was exploitative, disingenuous, A.I. generated slop? I didn't get a response. No discussion. Just an immediate block. 🤨 I have some questions: (1/2)

A cure. (This hits different when you're on your 1262nd day of COVID-induced disability. Can't work, can't play, can't plan; only wait, and hope that science will find a way. I know you have it bad. But trust me. This is worse.) #LongCOVID #MECFS

Getting long covid will make it much harder to do organizing or mutual aid work. If you want to preserve your ability to help, wear an n95 when you share air.

CANADIAN LONG COVID COMMUNITY Please join us by participating and sharing your story as patient and/or caregiver. All hearts will be displayed at our in-person events on March 15. Help us share far and wide! We all deserve to be seen. #LongCovid #LongCovidHeartbeats #LongCovidAwarenessDay

This Valentine’s Day, let’s talk about the hearts Long Covid affects. Not just romantic hearts. Human hearts. Cardiovascular health. Family life. Mental wellbeing. And so much more. Long Covid can break your heart - in more ways than you realise #longcovidsos #valentinesday #longcovidawareness

If only their (reasonable) preventative measures were as enlightened as the COVID conscious community would like to believe… Until we know why a mild infection permanently disabled me & not everyone else, 99.9% of the world will keep bathing in ignorant bliss. As per public health’s instructions.

Unfortunately, they’re only doing it to avoid acute infections during the competition. 100% guarantee they’ll drop all precautions as soon as their events end. Post-acute illness is what sidelined me. And they have no clue that yeah—it could happen to you. I ran marathons before Long COVID.

TIME100 Health 2026 — The blind spot in regards to post-viral illness—including the increased risk of cancers, infections MIs, dementia—is troubling. Even its public health experts are mum about #LongCOVID & #MECFS We don't exist. None of this is happening to any of us. And yet... 🧵1/7 #MedSky

"Most AI-enabled devices coming to market aren’t required to be tested on patients, according to FDA rules. Instead, makers satisfy FDA rules by citing previously authorized devices that had no AI-related capabilities." JFC AI IS NOT RELIABLE. HALLUCINATIONS ARE A FEATURE—NOT A BUG!!! #Medsky

Day 1247 of COVID-induced disability—Today I learned my metabolism is really, really (really-really) really late. If "60 days to fully recover from moderate to severe COVID" is the average... how do those of us with Long COVID impact the numbers, I wonder? Also… my causal infection? Was mild 🤔

McKinsey helped kill human beings & create new #LongCovid disabled humans in service to #EndStageCapitalism earlier in the shitty "Roaring" 2020s. 🤬 Please dig into Duck Duck Go research on this issue whenever you have time!

1/ “Each infection leaves a trace in the immune system": www.fau.eu/2026/01/news...

Why are certain immune cells affected in COVID and Long COVID? Viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 called xenoAMPs target specific immune cells based on the cell’s geometry. buff.ly/iWpGOPB ✴️Spiky dendritic cells and T cells are destroyed. 🟠Round monocytes and neutrophils are not.

Every complaint I had against Chomsky concerned the same problem: the way he excused or dismissed atrocities committed by his team: ie regimes and forces opposed to Western hegemonic power. As his friend, Epstein was given the same pass. In other words, it's not an anomaly. It's the same story.

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Day 1243—Petition to introduce this as a mandatory disclaimer under every hyped-up Long COVID & ME/CFS treatment: "The Better the Study, the Less It Finds"

no new pictures, where are you at mentally?

Canadians, Please consider signing this petition asking for renewable energy to be funded equally well as fossil fuels via subsidies. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I should apologize for this one. I won't, but I definitely should. Stay warm out there. #LongCOVID #SickJokes

"Can you still get hurt if you already fell off a cliff?" What confuses people is that cursed name: 'Long' COVID is not "COVID, but lasting longer". It's metabolic injury—multi-systemic dysfunction. It's the virus triggering broad neurological, immunological dysregulation. So yeah—you can.

Millions of children have #LongCOVID. At #MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series II, Sinéad O'Brien, @cleanairie.bsky.social cofounder, discussed the need for #CleanAir and better sick policy in schools to reduce transmission of pathogens. Watch forum: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/long-co...

While Emily Mendenhall's response to the ME/CFS community's criticism is refreshing in its good faith, @longcovidadvoc.com's comment below it (which I've reformated for Bluesky here) is a masterpiece in concise, cogent and respectful dissent. Worth a read. #LongCOVID (Full text and links in ALT)

“Wessely read a version of the writing & threatened to sue me if it didn’t include the other side.” - Mendenhall This raises serious questions about academic pressure, power, and whose voices shape the narrative around ME and Long Covid.

Before the advent of penicillin, syphilis could be a dreaded multisystem disease that slowly killed you. People tried all sorts of toxic and not particularly effective treatments including arsenic and mercury compounds. It seems that is where we are with long covid.

To your point: I just revisited your [excellent] "Long COVID Defense Series II" on YouTube… and the comments—my God. I hate to call it a 'good' sign, but you're clearly reaching outside the COVID Conscious bubble, because the trolls are out in force. (What I don't get is why they bother?!)

Pretty alarming stuff from this study by Griffith University’s National Centre for Neuroimmunology & Emerging Disease (NCNED). #covi̇d19 #longcovid #braindamage #coronavirus #publichealth #wekeepussafe

My 1227 days of COVID-induced purgatory strongly disagree. There is no cure for Long COVID. Vaccines don't prevent it nearly as much as repeat infections increase its likelihood. We don't know why it maims some people, only that it does. Yes, even now. #MaskUp #Ventilate #Don'tCatchCOVID