#LON

[lonionjon]

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Skrunkly (Cat!Jonathan) and Champion (Cat!Martin) design by @ultramarinaa 🎮

[usirome]

ろんさん

[captainmolasses]

Here's the lineup of the main characters for my comic, as well as a few pages of sketches of some of them!

I'm still working on getting my other accounts caught up to my Twitter, but I keep forgetting, so I keep falling back behind, haha!

[i-am-just-birdy0]

Lon & Zak

[terrazaurio]

Quick thing. The three belong together!!

Ignore Ona I did the best I could

[covid-safer-hotties]

Long COVID is a $1 trillion problem with no cure. Experts plead for governments to wake up - Published Aug 9, 2024

For months, governmental officials around the world have appeared to want to forgo discussing the specter of long COVID. As a new review makes clear, that is wishful thinking—and the latest COVID variants may well kick long COVID into overdrive, a scenario that researchers and experts have been warning about for some time.

“I think they (government agencies) are itching to pretend that COVID is over and that long COVID does not exist,” says Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System and lead author of the review. “It is much more pleasant to pretend as if emergency department visits and hospitalizations haven’t been rising sharply this summer.”

In a Nature Medicine review this week, Al-Aly and several other top researchers lay out a difficult truth: Long COVID has already affected an estimated 400 million people worldwide, a number the authors say is likely conservative, at an economic cost of about $1 trillion annually—equivalent to 1% of the global economy.

Moreover, the risk of a person being hit with long COVID rises with repeated infections of the virus itself, and recent COVID activity has experts watching closely. As review co-author Eric Topol noted in a recent blog post, the current COVID incursion is ramping up quickly, with one modeler estimating 900,000 new infections per day in the U.S. alone.

“The new significant wave,” Topol said via X. “It’s hard to believe the we are well into our fifth year of this virus and not taking the requisite steps to gain control.”

The virus is evolving incessantly. Multiple COVID subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are powerfully present in the U.S., and reports from California indicate that some patients are complaining of throat pain so strong it feels like they’re “swallowing razors or broken glass,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Topol, meanwhile, says the Sato Lab in Japan has characterized one of the newest COVID strains, KP.3.1.1, in a preprint as having “the most immune evasion and infectivity of any of the variants” derived from previous powerful iterations of the JN.1 strain, which was prominent last winter.

Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that severe outcomes and deaths from COVID have decreased substantially overall from the pandemic’s early days, wastewater data shows viral activity is “high’ nationally and COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 35 states. More COVID infections mean more cases of long COVID. And long COVID is already exacting an enormous toll on both the people and economies of the world.

Those are words you aren’t hearing from many government bodies. But, the researchers say, the evidence tells the story.

“Despite the dire impact of long COVID on individuals and society, I fear that many are still unaware of the danger,” says Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunology at Yale School of Medicine and co-lead investigator of the university’s COVID-19 Recovery Study. “There is an urgent need to provide proper diagnosis and treatment for people living with long COVID.”

Read the full report at either link! (covidsafehotties is always free of annoying in-line ads, jsyk!)

[glamboyl]

Starlight Safari photo manipulation by Alan Root

[midnight-arts-hunter]

heck it, we balling (little known spanish space football series getting a 3rd season 10+ years later)

Maybe if emo guy had TWO whole people to hug him it would've been enough to squeeze all the stupid outta him

(No sé si escribir la capción en inglés o en español jajaj, alguien se acuerda d sendokai)

[doccywhoramblings]

Some Lon Appreciation

Lon is this guy from snakedance:

His energy makes me unreasonably happy. I would hate him in real life but his entitled teenager attitude just gives me SO MUCH JOY.

[bitter-byte]

✨Throwback to some drawings I did in 2020! ✨ Part 2 of 4

These are from my first Slayers Artober.

I think the prompt for the first 2 images was "outfit redesign" or something similar.

[asoeateeputroephon]

Pencapaian terbesar dalam hidup ku utk saat ini adalah tidak bundir, aku harus bangga utk itu.

Yaa Allah hanya engkau Rabb ku yg mencintai ku dgn seluruh bekas luka ini, Yaa Allah hanya engkau Rabb ku yg mampu menolong ku. Maka cintailah hamba bantu lah hamba bertahan hidup dgn ridha Mu, dgn cinta Mu dan kasih sayang Mu yaa Rabb. Jadikanlah umur hamba di dunia hanya sekejap mata dan bermanfaat, jadikanlah akhirat hamba menjadi tempat pulang terbaik utk jiwa lelah hamba ini yaaAllah 🤲🏼. Tolong do'akan yg baik baik

[lonionjon]

Got the munchies.

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Skrunkly (Cat!Jonathan) & Champion (Cat!Martin) design by @ultramarinaa

[usirome]

ろんさん(@LOOON4)お誕生日絵2023

https://twitter.com/usirometai_

[captainmolasses]

More art of the ladies for my comic, Kili, Julibee, and Lon!

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Resting", painting by Léon Perrault

French vintage postcard

[terrazaurio]

THEY'RE COMING BACK!! I've no idea what they're gonna do with Lon and how the last season ended, but I hope it's not shit bc I love him sm 💚