Counterpoint:

I may not know why me and not you I may not know what else I can do But there is one thing I know for sure For having read it in all the literature: "More research is needed." #LongCOVID #MECFS #PwME

Day 1375 BRT: "Don't listen to your body. Talk over it. It's stuck in fight-or-flight. So just tell it to calm the fuck down." Couples therapists, hostage negotiators, diplomats: Cause that always works. BRT: "This is different. When it fails, we get to blame the victim." #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

Perhaps People With Long Covid Should Talk About Something Else For A While

"Oh, I can run. I just won’t get up the next day" …or the day after that. I guess the better sentence would have been: "…who no longer can 'afford' to" But then people would be like: "Why? They broke?" Yup. We definitely broke. In 'all' the wrong places. #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

Day 1369 — Spotted in the wild at a Triathlon/Duathlon this weekend. 💜❤️‍🩹❤️ Next time that little voice tells you nobody cares, remember that the best of us do, deeply. And that they, too, are out there. #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

"Whoever is in your life, those who harm you, those who help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know — let them off the hook, help them off the hook." Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/03/l...

Ladies, LADIES. The only reason there aren't studies on this actionable, 100% legitimate, undervalued cure is because of PEOPLE LIKE YOU. Scientists are AFRAID. Look at what happened to Semmelweis! tHiS iS nO diFfeReNt BRT isn't a racket, it's nothing like prayer healing. REPENT! #MECFS #Wired

🧵OF KEY CONCERNS We've now read Alan Levinovitz's WIRED piece on Long Covid. Our concern isn't that it discusses psychological theories. Our concern is that it repeatedly conflates criticism of evidence with creating a "climate of fear". Those are not the same thing. /1

After the awfully unscientific WIRED article on Long COVID feed your head with a great article on the late Barbara Ehrenreich who exposed the ‘Positive Thinking’ Industry

Long Covid Estimate Revised Up After Researchers Include People With Long Covid

Fck Data Centers!!

Oh they are doing their job: maximize earnings.
 The farcical fallacy underpinning this piece serves one purpose:

"Engagement" "The job" is what needs redefining (in politics, journalism, business). Someday, soon, society is going to realize that profit as the only driver is driving us off a cliff

WIRED has decided to hide comments pointing out that the author of the “It’s your fault for having Long COVID, you have it because you’re thinking and talking about having it instead of ignoring it” article has no qualifications to be talking about disease management.

here's a WAY better Long COVID article. after you've read this evidence based one, the Wired article will seem very silly

Disagree that the evidence is mixed. I looked closely at the evidence in 2025 before shelling out the thousands it would cost for a full protocol. Trials designed, funded and performed by HBOT clinics showed improvements. Trials designed, funded and performed by third parties did not.

@wired.com's premise is: BRT: "This cures Long COVID" Science: "Prove it" BRT: "Can't. Researchers are too afraid of the backlash" So… you're saying you've cured cancer, but because scientists are skeptical you're NOT going to organized a bullet-proof double-blind randomized control trial? 🤔🙄

The upshot to BRT going mainstream (and I can't believe how absolutely everywhere it is now): We get to recycle the same posts. My only consolation is a slim one: The Wired piece on Long COVID will age about as well as climate skepticism. "Told you so" isn't the flex I thought it would be.

1) Mention hard science only to dismiss it 2) Give the grift equal—nay, more—time & narrative approval 3) Watch engagement soar Climate obstructionism, anti-sanitary, anti-trans, anti-immigrant dog whistling all follow this lucrative recipe NYTimes, Atlantic do it Now @wired.com does too

That @wired.com hit piece on Long COVID was actually a masterclass in gaslighting. Name-drop the hard science, only to dismiss it. Make it sound like all sides of this "debate" have legitimate arguments. It's the Climate Hoax all over again. "Climate skeptics are afraid of activist backlash".

What's worse, it will only reinforce the author's false premise that Long COVID "advocates" are the reason this "cure" isn't being explored. Oh, but it is. In piece after piece after piece of unsubstantiated pop-sci drivel. Dear @wired.com Cherry-picked anecdotes do not science make. #pwME

Pity the author didn't review the negative studies in PAIS. Brain Retraining doesn't work. New preliminary data from the AIR trial is a good example. The effect is similar to natural recovery & fluctuations of the disease. Gupta scored even a bit worse than TAU. www.linkedin.com/posts/me-cfs... 🧠

COVID Chronicles, day 1355 A cousin I haven't seen in years was in town for her son's tryouts. She had two hours to kill, sitting in the warm sun, 30 minutes away. And here I was, forced to write, once again, "Sorry, can't make it out today". Long COVID is harder than it sounds. #pwME #MECFS #PEM

News Release 26-May-2026: "Mayo Clinic study details set of options family medicine physicians may consider to treat ME/CFS and long covid" www.eurekalert.org/news-release... Paper: www.annfammed.org/content/anna... #MEcfs #LongCovid

Day 1355—You get to (are forced to) chill, 24/7, but with an itch you can't scratch. #MECFS #LongCOVID #pwME

Day 1354—What's worse than being disabled? Being disabled while not looking the part. You'll only see me out and about on a good day. People with #MECFS look fine in public, then crash for days (or weeks) in private. We look fine. To you. Were it only true. #LongCOVID #pwME

“When I was a boy and saw scary things in the news, my mother would say, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” Fred Rogers

Day 1353 — It’s okay to look back, just don’t stare. #WhatWasVsWhatIs #LongCOVID #MECFS

Complex Reality Voted Less Popular Than Easily Memorised Nonsense In Poll

Day 1350—Yesterday, I felt lighter & sharper than I have in months. It really bummed me out. I want my life back. "Maybe you're recovering?" Countless studies and my own 32,406 hours of pacing, nursing, hoping and relapsing suggest otherwise. #LongCOVID and #MECFS have a cause. They need a cure.

And long overdue.

ASHRAE has a new infection control resources page, provided as a service to the public. A large library on engineering controls for a healthy indoor environment. www.ashrae.org/technical-re...

Can you solve this math problem? COVID 3.2 + TB + Measles + Flu + Andes26 = Answer: Clean the fucking air already and wear an N95!

The hantavirus outbreak is reviving questions about airborne transmission from the early days of COVID. Hantavirus is not COVID, but we shouldn't rule out the possibility that it can spread through the air. My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

2007: "...There is insufficient data to specify and quantify the minimum ventilation requirements in hospitals, schools, offices, homes and isolation rooms in relation to spread of infectious diseases via the airborne route." 2020: "...but it's a helluvalot more than we have in place"

What if I told you I'd found a cure for #LongCOVID & #MECFS? But it only works if you believe in it Sound sensible to you? Cause that's Brain Retraining Therapy CBT can help you cope But the mind-body grift is trafficking in false hope Like every other unproven, unethical, highly lucrative scam

Your passive disapproval is no different than the "Good Germans" during WWII. Your complacency is condemning humanity to irreversible hardship. "But I marched! Made a sign!" History will NOT be kind to you. "Just wait 'til the midterms"? WHAT midterms?! DO YOU NOT SEE WHAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU?

After Ultrasound, I give you: MegaUltrasound, destroyer of plagues. "Scientists use ultrasound to destroy influenza A and COVID-19 viruses without damaging human cells, paving the way for new treatments against other viral infections such as dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya." #Medsky #Virology

You don't realize how badly brain damaged you are until you have to complete a cognitive task with someone else, right now. Not later. Not once you're clear of the brain fog. Not at your own pace. But rather, how you always did it. Only now you can't. #LongCOVID #MECFS

We haven’t learned too much about clean indoor air, masks, and dangerous pathogens—but now our ability to engage in collective denial is unparalleled. #COVID

So grateful to see #PediatricLongCOVID on the front page of The Boston Globe. Thank you to 16-year-old Kaylee for her courage in sharing her story, and to reporter Aayushi Datta for telling it well. We were grateful to contribute to the piece.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/23/m...

Day 1330 - On this, my yearly occasion to diss May. #LongCOVID #MECFS #Medsky

Studies based on patient self-reporting are not useless. But as a patient, I promise you, surveys are not entirely reliable. There are SO many moving parts. So long as it's all we have to work with, I'll take it. But I'd rather have objective measurements. Would shut up the grifters, too #MECFS

Exactly. Here, microbiome is conflated with airborne viruses—which offer no benefit, only harm. Clean air in no way asepticizes a space. It's not like disinfecting every surface; we still get enough microbial exposure from door handles. This is referencing the debunked "immunity debt". It's wrong.