Phases of Covid Infection - Part 1 youtu.be/rLOJm8dNbvU

Haven’t gotten to watch fully yet but looks like a great series from @patbiosteamist.bsky.social on Phases of Covid infection:

Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on? Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

NEW from the PolyBio Symposium: UCSF is launching a combination trial for Long COVID, called COMBAT-LC. It will include Paxlovid (antiviral) and Pemgarda (monoclonal antibody). thesicktimes.org/2025/11/14/l...

This person was infected with COVID twice and recovered. A 3rd infection brought manageable long COVID symptoms, but they were still able to work. After a 4th infection a few months ago, they haven’t recovered at all — showing how repeated infections can cause severe, lasting damage.

So I try not to give too many gory details about life with long covid, but I also think it’s important to give a clear picture of what can happen to anyone. Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.

After a few different prototypes, the Guardian, our most affordable air purifier, is finally ready. #IndoorAirQuality #CovidIsAirborne #AirPurifier 1/2

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk. And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.

If you are in a medical setting, where vulnerable people HAVE TO BE, you need to wear a mask- whether or not it is mandated, whether or not you are sick. More than half of Covid cases are spread ASYMPTOMATICALLY. Protect the most vulnerable, it’s everyone’s duty. Any medical appointment anywhere.

Meadowbridge Community Market is a free grocery store that provides food and health supplies to 200-300 families per week, and they continue to mitigate the spread of Covid as part of their holistic approach to community care. Join me in helping them buy their building! givebutter.com/buymcm

If you count yourself in the massive majority of people who pretty much don't want to hear about COVID anymore...please read this thread. I'm sorry. Please. I write this from my father's house, where I am watching Long COVID completely destroy the mind and body of a person I love beyond telling.

@jaydocovid.bsky.social as always brings incredible points up and always has the receipts - please check his 🧵 out about masking and the social stigma around Covid. People are so afraid to admit that they, like everyone else, are susceptible to severe #covid and #longcovid that they refuse to mask.

A heck of a good thread:

Dear liberals, If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

To say people make a rational assessment of the threat environment around Covid… is just not true. Most people refuse to talk about or read anything about Covid. Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common childhood illness, and it’s rarely spoken of. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Medscape: 'ESC Aims to Tackle Cardiac Risks Associated With Long COVID' 'Researchers estimate up to 5% of all individuals infected with COVID, or approximately 5 million people globally, develop cardiac long COVID' www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

NEW: At a UN event today, advocate Violet Affleck gave a short speech on pediatric #LongCOVID. She also talked about how clean air and masking could help address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and protect children from the disabling disease. thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/v...

People don't disagree with me about Covid, they just refuse to talk about it. If Covid is no longer a problem why does it make everyone uncomfortable? It’s trauma and refusing to face that something that’s pervasive is also dangerous.

Migrants missing court due to COVID-19 outbreak at California detention center www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/border-...

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.

Univ. of Buffalo: “Chronic pain surged in U.S. adults after pandemic, UB study finds” “This is the highest prevalence of chronic pain ever recorded in the U.S” “We examined the role of long COVID and found that it explained about 13% of the increase” www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/storie...

This is a fascinating preprint which simultaneously (re)demonstrates that the immune system is a better detector of non-self than our current analytical techniques, while providing further support for the idea that long covid is due to persistence www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Analyses of cancer survivors databases reveal that SARS-CoV-2 infection substantially increases the risk of cancer-related mortality and lung metastasis compared with uninfected cancer survivors." Mice data show #COVID drives the proliferation of previously dormant cancer cells.

Giving a damn is optional in this medical building, and I choose to OPT IN

Ableism teaches us to abandon each other. Racism will disable you. Transphobia will disable you. Long COVID will disable you. Genocide will disable you. Climate change will disable you. Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable. Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.

@wired.com this excellent article by @mmolteni.bsky.social is now over four years old but still super relevant. Can you make it open-access now for anyone who isn’t a subscriber? Pretty please? (I tried to gift-share it, but that’s not an option in my subscription.) www.wired.com/story/the-te...

They still talk about coming back to normal. No, there is no coming back to normal, because sars2 and the syndemic it has triggered, climate chaos and crops failure, and an economy about to crash. The burden of disease will only go up.

yes. that's why i try to avoid phrases like "sending innocent people" to the camps, because innocence isn't actually relevant here. they're being denied human rights regardless of their behavior.

People are getting Covid repeatedly. They know it’s not good for them, which is why they don’t want anyone to mention this obvious fact. They also know there is little support, and trying to do public health alone is daunting. But facing the truth and teaming up is the only path to protect health

We have the tools to prevent this, and zero will to do it from way too many ppl. And it’s currently #PediatricLongCOVIDAwareness week. I don’t think ppl care to understand the utter heartbreak experienced by Long Covid advocates watching this go on year after year after year.

Incorrect! The pandemic is being *treated* as if it’s over, and a lot of people don’t know what the word means.

This is my most confrontational post of the day: please watch Armond’s video & think on it. It isn’t at all progressive or leftist to spread disabling disease in an ongoing pandemic. There are more Armonds than you know, & folks who don’t mask are making more each day bc most spread is asymptomatic

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.

i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up. preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.

i just don't believe you when you say you can't require masks at an event because if they can why can't you?

Long Covid has many repercussions on the body, from endothelial/vascular/heart to kidneys, lungs, nervous central system and brain damage, to mitochondrial dysfunction, to immunity depletion, endocrine issues, DNA methylation, protein misfolding, and its oncogenic. Sars2 is a biohazard.

"Evidence that there is a large number of replicated and diverse blood biomarkers that differentiate between ME/CFS cases and controls should now dispel any lingering perception that ME/CFS is caused by deconditioning and exercise intolerance" #MECFS #LongCovid www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

📣 People with Long COVID face an increased risk of housing insecurity. Research shows this trend, which people with the disease have warned for years. Freelance reporter @jloeppky.com reports for @thesicktimes.bsky.social. thesicktimes.org/2025/06/17/l...

It’s never too late to start masking again to protect yourself and others from infectious diseases, especially at crowded events.