Underneath that post someone asked what it was like for Isla having the accusation of FII hanging over them. This is what her mom wrote. “It broke Isla emotionally. So damaging, she didn't trust anyone except family after that. Physically, it definitely caused a decline…”

If you are unfamiliar with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) aka #MECFS it is a serious complex multisystem disease. But for decades it’s been dismissed, psychologized and ignored. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social calls it “the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century.”

@meactionuk.bsky.social @meactnet.bsky.social please boost on other platforms. We are scrambling for lawyers to get the sister out as the top priority. I am speaking with national print media this morning.

Isla's mother has been arrested under suspicion of causing her death from ME last year (heart failure). There was no inquest. Isla's younger sister (15), who also has ME, has been removed from the only people who understand how the disease must be managed. Imagine her fear. #MEKills #HumanRights

This is Isla at age 8. She died at age 18 with severe ME/CFS. Isla’s mum, who took care of Isla and tried to protect her from abusive medical professionals has been arrested. The state and medical system are trying to blame her for a death resulting from neglect and harmful medical practice.

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi

This is a family I know and I’d be grateful for any leads or shares especially if you know people in the area.

My birthday is in 2 days. Help me celebrate by helping me do the work to advance research and care of MECFS and Long Covid at @renegaderesearch.bsky.social Donate to my birthday fundraiser if you are able. Any amount helps tinyurl.com/Renegage-Res...

There is no limit to my match this month!! So I've created fundraisers for: @openmedf.bsky.social: openmedicinefoundation.crowdchange.co/50084 @meactnet.bsky.social: meaction.funraise.org/fundraiser/e... But I will match any donations to ME-supporting 501c3s with a receipt.

This is Nevra. Campaigner for health equity in the global south. #DV survivor. Wildly generous with her many talents. Severe illness haver, without support in Pakistan as an unmarried disabled woman...

Unable to be here much lately, but I need you to know about this firecracker activist whose light may be snuffed out without more support. 🔥‼️ Passionate about women’s rights, health, and global equity? Please read on... 🧵

Still looking... 👁️🔍 DMs open, if you know of capable + conscientious + Covid-safe eye doctors in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. 🙏

My Canadian peoples. Looking for recommendations for a reputable online pharmacy. Finally breaking down and considering taking rx medication for my chronic pain and need to have it delivered. Sigh. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Still looking... 👁️🔍 DMs open, if you know of capable + conscientious + Covid-safe eye doctors in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. 🙏

Seeking #Covid -safe eye doctors (optometrist, & possibly ophthalmologist) in Kitchener-Waterloo. 👁️👁️ 🔸 I’m immune-deficient & chronically ill—can’t take risks. 🔸 Clean air is good, but doctor must be willing to 😷. Please comment or DM if you can recommend someone! 🙏 Reskeets appreciated. 💜

Canadian MCAS folks: Cromolyn eye drops have been recalled due to infection risk. Apparently the preservative isn't effective enough and there could be mold and bacteria growth. #MCAS #ChronicIllness 🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/health/eye-d...

It’s a terrifying time to be a patient. I have home nursing for BP checks & IV fluids…yet 3 times nurses have tried to administer insulin. I’m not diabetic. What if I were unconscious or unable to correct them? 2 out of 3 got mad at me for correcting them & tried to force the insulin on me /1

My Covid cautious people, I am trying to figure out how best to Covid proof the main level of a bungalow that has a separate basement unit. Any thoughts or resources? Thanks ##CovidIsAirborne

Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam  Israel damaged or destroyed five water and sanitation sites every three days since the start of this war www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

Hey All! Quick ask from the @cancovsoc.bsky.social. We've been gifted w/ amazing volunteers for many of our committees. But we do need some smart vols to help us with FUNDRAISING!If u care about our work, and have experience in non-profit Fundraising, plz reach out by DM!We'd love your help!

Jaskirat Singh Sirdu has served his sentence in the devastating Humboldt crash. Deporting him is cruel. Please consider signing this petition.

Worried or upset about the decision to cancel wastewater surveillance testing in Ontario? Contact the Premier’s Office at 416-325-1941. Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 So our feckless government has decided to defund Ontario's Wastewater Surveillance Program. I have no doubt they needed the funds for their other priorities like BEER. Time to get loud, people. Call Doug Ford and tell him hands off our data. 416-325-1941 #CovidIsNotOver #GetLoud

Speaking of fighting: #onpoli #healthcare

Those words above are from Leila Molana-Allen, PBS' special correspondent in the Middle East. This was an area designated as a 'safe area' by Israel. It forced the displacement of these poor people to this 'safe area' and then slaughtered them in tents. Mostly women & children. Barbarity. Evil.

Barbarity. Evil. "I’m receiving videos far too graphic to publish of the horrors in Rafah tonight. A body burned black, dragged from destroyed make-shift tents, a young child in pieces. One toddler has been completely beheaded in the attack. Parents are clutching their dead children, screaming."

"There is no conflict that should be excluded from the reach of the law; no child’s life valued less than another’s. The law we apply is humanity’s law, not the law of any given side. It must protect all the victims of this conflict; and all civilians in conflicts to come."

🚨 Anna has #SevereME, declining while dependent on her abuser. She must escape to survive. 🙏 Please share this post, in hopes of reaching (especially) Melbourne-area #CovidCautious folk willing to befriend Anna. 🧵: other ways to help 🌍 ⤵️ 1/ #DV #LongCovid #MECFS #NEISVoid #pwME #pwLC

🚨 Anna has #SevereME, declining while dependent on her abuser. She must escape to survive. 🙏 Please share this post, in hopes of reaching (especially) Melbourne-area #CovidCautious folk willing to befriend Anna. 🧵: other ways to help 🌍 ⤵️ 1/ #DV #LongCovid #MECFS #NEISVoid #pwME #pwLC

Stop the Gaza genocide immediately From Dr. Abu Salmiya, Al-Shifa Hospital Director — 'This brief Correspondence is a plea to every human being to help stop this genocide right now—we cannot live like this; the world should not be silent about the killing of civilians in the thousands.

⚠️ Ontarians Against Infection Spread in Healthcare ⚠️ Opportunity to provide feedback to the CPSO. If you can, please do so 🙏 and share 🔁 Link to survey below 👇 Deadline: Monday, May 6. Kathryn explains in brief 🧵: x.com/kadamssl/sta...

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

@davetuller1.bsky.social interviews @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. A 40 min summary of the astonishing history & politics of #MECFS and #LongCovid. If you're a pt or loved one & wondered why there are no treatments & research has been so limited for 30 years👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC5i...

Anyone who claims to know exactly what’s going on right now and what exactly is about to happen is full of shit. This is one of those moments when we all need to slow down and be skeptical of most “information” out there. The best weapons of propagandists are fear and confusion.

This story is devastating. See these children. Speak of these children. “I saw a boy die from pain,” he had told me earlier. “He was 10 years old, & they were amputating, cutting thru his leg with no anesthesia. He just died. That was in Nasir hospital. He was actually the son of another doctor.”

Pleased to accept delivery today from a Canada Post worker who wore a KN95 mask. Thank you for helping reduce the spread of airborne pathogens, and for setting a good example! 👍

Excellent presentation from Prof David Putrino @putrinolab.bsky.social to (Australian) Federal Parliament yesterday on #LongCOVID, #MEcfs, and PEM. PEM is ‘behaviourally distinct’ from fatigue, exercise intolerance, effort preference, and deconditioning.

"Among the group of children who developed long COVID, all remained asymptomatic during the 14 days following acute infection.. "The fact that approximately 1 in 13 asymptomatically infected children developed PCC [post-COVID condition, or long COVID] is concerning & requires further investigation"

My fellow #Covid conscious people, you are not wrong, you are just early. Keep going. “The oncoming burden of long COVID faced by patients, health-care providers, governments and economies is so large as to be unfathomable." #LongCovid www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very good anonymous survey from @physiosforme.bsky.social that will inform a larger study. Please share. #pwME / #pwLC (with PEM) who’ve tried vagus nerve stimulation via the ear*: Please consider spending spoons on this. Took me 20min. Well-informed questions. I believe it’ll provide helpful data.

What I miss most about the time before the pandemic was not knowing how many people how many people I trusted would abandon me in the event of a pandemic.

We can actually organize towards a society that works for the good of all and meets everyone's needs. We can. We have to listen to what everyone needs to build it, though.

'We cannot lift our heads, we cannot speak loudly, we can hardly breathe. I'm whispering as I speak to you so the [Israeli soldiers] do not notice that we are here' www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaz...

Gazans aren't starving, they're being starved. "The extent of Israel’s continued restrictions on entry of aid into Gaza, together with the manner in which it continues to conduct hostilities, may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime.” - Volker Turk, UNCHR

New Oxfam report shows Israel continues to block aid in #Gaza despite ICJ #genocide court ruling. Rejected aid, including Oxfam water and sanitation gear, is now stockpiling in a warehouse at Al Arish. www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...