"Why are kids sick all the time now?" If people actually wanted to know, they'd listen to the answer. #ItsCovid

Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.

UPDATE Australia’s New South Wales Police Force say that 16 people have been killed in the Bondi Beach massacre and 40 people remain hospitalized.

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"We’re too #sick to participate, too sick to #protest, too sick to object, too sick to demand our seat at the table. Why demand a seat for someone too sick to sit up?" (My Year of Rest & Relaxation): buff.ly/BZ37S5K by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social #LongCOVID #disability #ChronicPain

Sounds like a cool course! My favorite would probably be anything written by Julia Doubleday. I really really appreciate her writing about living with long covid. She posted a great new essay just a couple days ago bsky.app/profile/juli...

A thoughtful post from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social about seizing the moment while living with serious #chronicillness. #disability #longCOVID

💕 Beautiful as always, @juliadoubleday.bsky.social "I can sit at my window, looking down at the streets I can’t even walk anymore, and my heart will be full just from watching the rain. I think back to 2019..."

2 years in to living with Long COVID, my life has changed drastically- and so have I. My latest personal essay talks about how a life steeped in crashes and pain lends itself to mindful gratitude in the interludes of quiet relief. www.thegauntlet.news/p/uneasy-peace

New piece I wrote for @thesicktimes.org on the need to ask people with Long COVID what they are going through. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...

a great listen once again from Public Health is Dead www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

if you’re proudly vaccinated against COVID but you don’t bother with other precautions like masking in indoor spaces, you’re actually *undermining the effectiveness of the vaccine* @juliadoubleday.bsky.social dropping truth on the “public heath is dead” podcast podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

@juliadoubleday.bsky.social on the “public health is dead” podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p... 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Love this latest Public Health is Dead episode from @DaniAtomicus with @juliadoubleday.bsky.social & @wanderingkayli.bsky.social A perfect breakdown of how media manufactured consent for mass disability, death & the "vax and relax" Covid narrative 🎯 www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

An excellent podcast combined with an excellent guest. Give it a listen! #PublicHealth #Media #LongCovid

I was delighted to join the great @DaniAtomicus on her stellar podcast Public Health is Dead. Kayli Jamison, a Long COVID activist in Canada who I much admire, was also featured. I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work. www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

Listen here or on your favourite podcast app (& heads-up: we’re working on taking the whole show off Spotify) www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

How has the media contributed to manufacturing consent for COVID to be “over” (and the decline of public health in general)? New episode ft. @juliadoubleday.bsky.social and @wanderingkayli.bsky.social as well as some comments from former COVID-19 Technical Lead at the WHO, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove

Such an honour to be a part of this episode in my favourite podcast with such an incredible production team! I shared a few findings from my Thesis research on news discourses on COVID. Amazing insights from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social & narration from host Daniella really tie it all together 🦠

R-E-S-P-E-C-T-: Alice Wong on why "You gotta give props to the microorganisms, because if anything it's shown us humans are as frail as any other organism...Like, if you don't respect it and understand how it functions, you're fucked...I respect the virus." (Full interview coming later today.)

Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

I can’t walk bc of the last (ongoing) pandemic. I’ve been homebound w long covid for over a year . But thanks!!!!!

dunno how she could’ve been more explicit. and yet …

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

For those of us who became disabled as a result of the pandemic, Alice was a bright light walking us through the experience. She did so much to show many of us what it meant to see disability as a beautiful part of who we are, not something to resent.

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

I couldn’t decide on a favorite part of this essay, because every single bit of it was spot on. A must-read, even if you’re not interested in Pluribus. Maybe even *especially* if you’re not interested.

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Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life: www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...

« People do not believe in our illness, and not only do they not care to help us avoid reinfection, they actively work to ensure that reinfection risk is as high as it can possibly be. »

“They said back to normal, and they meant back to normal. All of it….back to the Hive Mind. Hustle for your check. Buy yourself something nice. Immigrants are the problem. Disabled people are the problem. Trans people are the problem. Woke is dead. Now take that fucking mask off your face.

“….I feel like I’m waiting for some fever to break, but it never does. While I lost my ability to walk down the street as a 38-year-old, no one would acknowledge anything was wrong, nor acknowledge why I might want to avoid another infection. “We’re back to normal,” says the Blob, “this is normal.”

😳 Thank you so much, @anderbergskan.bsky.social. Solidarity! to all of us who #weararespirator to #ProtectChildrenFromCovid And immense gratitude to @juliadoubleday.bsky.social 😷

"It’s a vicious cycle; people attend unsafe #events. They become #disabled with #LongCOVID. They’re too sick to attend events. They’re too sick to demand safety and #accessibility.": buff.ly/7hZp4Un by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social #ChronicIllness

Devastating and poignant

"They said back to normal, and they meant back to normal. All of it. Capitalism, racism, sexism, environmental destruction, and disease."

Just a wonderful and thoughtful essay. I’m so tired of the “back to normal” crowd.

This is a hell of an essay and I am intrigued by this Vince Gilligan show. 🧪🩺 #MedSky #LongCovid #DisabilitySky #Spoonies

“If you’re COVID conscious, they want to psychologize you, stigmatize you, threaten you, until you “go back to normal.”

Nodding so damn hard at every paragraph

Whoa. This quote hit me hard: “At one point in Pluribus, Carol is speaking to the Hive Mind, in the body of an authority figure. He assures her they are going to “figure out what is wrong with you,” and when she asks what he means, he replies, “so you can join us.” “

Always read The Gauntlet, but especially this time: read The Gauntlet!! (And donate if you can!)

‘“Ya gotta break a few eggs!” she shouts sarcastically to a sullenly quiet room.’ If you are #CovidCautious & need a gaslight-free zone, you need Julia’s latest 👌 #DutyOfCare #CleanAir #LongCovid #LongCovidKids #MEcfs #pwME

🎯 “a partner who is not themselves COVID safe is an incredibly difficult dynamic to navigate and ultimately leads usually to either a break-up or the COVID-safe person pushing their boundaries in order to join the “back to normal” world.” #DutyOfCare #CleanAir #LongCovid #LongCovidKids

“In particular, parents of young children seem to avoid information about COVID-19…It’s more pleasant to be part of a group that says COVID is not dangerous - & psychologically more soothing-than it is to look more closely when people you love are on the line.” #DutyOfCare #LongCovid #LongCovidKids

🎯 “People who cannot seem to fathom any middle ground between “2020 lockdown” and “doing literally nothing at all ever to prevent COVID spread”.” #DutyOfCare #CleanAir #LongCovid #LongCovidKids

"Each day I feel like I’m waiting for some fever to break, but it never does. While I lost my ability to walk down the street ..., no one would acknowledge anything was wrong, nor acknowledge why I might want to avoid another infection. “We’re back to normal,” says the Blob, “this is normal.”"

"At one point in Pluribus, Carol is speaking to the Hive Mind, in the body of an authority figure. He assures her they are going to “figure out what is wrong with you,” and when she asks what he means, he replies, “so you can join us.”" This reminds me of various psychotherapy experiences.