thinking about how there’s a clear opportunity for the clean indoor air people to link up with climate justice people in support of upgraded hvac systems in buildings. clean indoor air isn’t currently my focus (tbh I get more emotional about air conditioning) but I hope people are considering this.

Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg)

Adding to this thread: it’s a common mistake (I’ve made it myself, many times) to think of the motivations of the capitalist elites as essentially mercantilist: that is, that they are largely still motivated *entirely* by profit and loss, selling product, etc. This has not been true for a while.

I know this is not a unique experience, sadly. It’s entirely unacceptable and frightening.

One of my parents came to visit me yesterday — unmasked, exposed to COVID only days prior, and symptomatic. All without letting me know until almost an hour into said visit.

I wish we had more data on long COVID in ppl who were pregnant at the time of infection. Postpartum changes in the brain + infection left many battling cognition challenges immediately after expanding their families.

I wonder what could have happened to the immune systems of young people since 2020 that would affect how quickly meningitis has spread? Hint: you won't find the answer on the BBC website.

I would describe the situation on COVID as the Emperors new clothes. They took down all the trappings of Covid, testing, vaccines, masks but it’s still airborne and vascular and causing disability and no one in government wants to point out that the whole thing is so far from over and pretending is

Strange when politicians who've said nothing about Long COVID, not even on #LongCovidAwarenessDay, are congratulating themselves on their public health leadership

The Lancet telling us to prepare for radiological incidents and nuclear explosions isn’t making the rounds like it should be.

SUOR OMICIDI (Killer Nun, 1979) dir: Giulio Berruti

For #LongCovidAwarenessDay — I know so many of us would love to see progressives start to be consistent in their progressive values: “Governments modelling abandonment.. in time of crisis signal support to fascist, eugenicist & Nazi logic.. pandemics can give rise to fascist political economies”

There’s an idea when you’re healthy that if you get a serious illness people will rally around you, donate to medical research, educate themselves, that surely if they love you that is how they will respond. It is not. And so we do it for ourselves. #LongCovid #LongCovidAwarenessDay #MECFS #POTS

Today is Long Covid Awareness Day. Long Covid a cluster of notable and debilitating early onset of symptoms that arise from immune systems mounting an effort to deal with the fact that the SARS2 virus doesn’t leave the body after a Covid infection. Here’s what everyone should be aware of 🧵

Emanuele Taglietti 🧟

Polish poster for KLUTE (1971), directed by Alan J. Pakula - BOTD in 1928

Women's day being in Pisces season (exaltation of venus) is on point

I’ve got a “women’s problems” scandal for you: #ME/CFS. #greatestmedicalscandal A government inquiry in 2020 said an arrogant culture in which serious medical complications were dismissed as "women's problems" had contributed to a string of healthcare scandals over several decades.”

Images from Baba Yaga by Guido Crepax from Fantagraphics The Complete Crepax 🖤

For every woman in the #ME & #LC community on #InternationalWomensDay Endless gratitude to every one of you for your courage, strength, compassion & resilience We're suffering due to widespread medical misogyny & our resistance will change how medicine treats women everywhere💙

Germany 5 patients with severe lupus received a single CAR T cell infusion and entered drug free remission. Scientists reprogrammed their immune cells to remove harmful B cells. The living therapy may offer hope for lupus and multiple sclerosis. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

If only we could micro-dose empathy…

LLMs may the greatest Trojan Horse in history. After a thirty-year siege on the middle class and labor, Capital has offered a 'free' gift to the weary

"Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal." • Hospitalised children under 2 with COVID-19 had higher severe illness risk than RSV • Ventilators: 39% of COVID ICU babies vs 16% with RSV • Deaths: 2.9% COVID vs 0.4% RSV among hospitalised infants

All the Colors of the Dark (1972, Sergio Martino)

Happy first #LetterboxdFriday of the month! 🎞️ (sorry Wes Anderson fans, it wasn’t my cup of tea)

Happy #FrancoFriday Lina Romay in Female Vampire (1973, Jess Franco)

Pier Paolo Pasolini #BOTD punched a fascist at a cinema in Rome in 1962.

Your ‘mild’ infection can cause vascular damage. We need to stop seeing COVID as mild. Notice how much of the media don’t refer often to post infection risks and when they do, they talk about the fatigue, not heart damage or blood clots. They reserve those comments for alarmist vaccine posts.

LUCIFER RISING (1972) Dir. Kenneth Anger

Population level public health policy should be based on evidence-based decision making, not "vibes" or popularity polls

Do you ever think that rare diseases or conditions maybe aren’t so rare, people just… don’t know? Either they don’t know stuff exists to match what’s wrong with them or they aren’t in tune with their bodies or just figure whatever it is normal?

Covid is oncogenic, increases your chance of heart disease & stroke, seriously weakens your immune system, can bring on POTS, MCAS, ME, diabetes & myriad other disabling chronic illnesses but folks trying to protect themselves are ‘overreacting’ Cool, cool, cool.

So bizarre that we aren’t doing this:

the body keeps the score ass president

IL DECAMERON (1971) dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Although I understand that the term “invisible illness(es)” gestures at a profound lack of literacy and awareness amongst medical professionals, it sort of insinuates a lack of measurability — a small, malignant tumor in the thymus is technically “invisible”, isn’t it? #invisibleillness

“There can’t be that many people with Long Covid, I never see them” as though we don’t know post-infectious syndromes cause many patients to become housebound and bedbound, (the worst of whom can rarely or never post online) the same with previous post-infectious syndromes for millennia

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Rates of death and disability from any virus are irrelevant if they are preventable. Any debate about percentages that does not first accept the need to prevent are just debates about how many people to allow to die and suffer so existing societal norms can remain mostly undisturbed.

Bahia Youth Orchestra Rehearsal Hall - Salvador, Brazil by Leopoldo Banchini (2023) r/brutalism

Tale as old as time:

Intro to a 1993 documentary on #MECFS When medicine doesn’t understand an illness, patients are often mistreated. New discoveries challenge existing beliefs, but in the meantime, for those suffering, life can be a living hell.

As much as I appreciate connecting with brilliant minds & staying informed on here, there’s certainly a lack of arts & culture. It’s strange, almost nihilistic. Maintaining levity and noticing beauty is by no means apolitical, tone deaf, or indulgent.

Rétro cars voitures 🚘 Les Renault 1971

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

this isn't a distraction from epstein class pedophilia it's an expression of the epstein class worldview

So like you know how you can get micro scratched by a rabid bat and it could be up to 2 years before you die of the rabies itself? Or that after some flu like symptoms you’re perfectly fine for 12 years before the HIV takes you out? Or that EBV is implicated in MS showing up 30 years later? 1.

We’ve known this since 2020. “Covid was indeed behaving like a virus capable of reaching the brain. He’d seen the pattern before, with HIV, Ebola and SARS-CoV-1—infections that first appeared to target one organ system before revealing quieter, more lasting damage in the brain and elsewhere.”

EDP Headquarters, Lisbon r/brutalism