#covid can and will disable a perfectly healthy person

[silhouette-cosplay]

Thank you thank you thank you for cosplaying with a mask on, caring is a beautiful look 🥹

As an immunocompromised person it means the world for me to see you and I would feel less self-conscious going out there in a costume and a face mask if I weren't the only one in the room wearing one!

Éowyn with a mask on is my very definition of a hero 🤩😷

I feel like masking is the lowest bar rn and yet 😅

I’m glad my doing it can make a small impact though. I was disappointed (though not surprised) to see that my group at the con was one of only a handful of folks masking, but I can’t control everyone else, only look out for myself and those closest to me. I just can’t imagine going to a crowded convention where con crud was ALREADY a thing, and now we’re in another huge covid wave, and so few people seem to care.

I’ve seen firsthand how covid can wreck your life. You do not want long covid, no matter how much it may seem like just a bad cold.

Anyway, getting off my soap box now! I will continue to mask and encourage folks to do the same.

[sheathandshear]

I guess what bothers me about a lot of disability justice approaches to healthcare -- the "doctors must trust that patients are the experts of own bodies" approach -- is that this is the perspective of people with high health literacy written for audiences of people who also have high health literacy, most of whom I think truly do not grasp just how many people have extremely poor health literacy, especially those from groups who for reasons of race, class, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and/or often a combination of these factors are less likely to have access to accurate health information and culturally competent, trustworthy healthcare providers. When it comes to health and wellness, quite a number of people in our society don't know jack about shit! Even more hold a number of factually inaccurate folk beliefs that range from unhelpful to dangerous. (Hell, even if you have a high degree of health literacy, you probably hold some unexamined false beliefs too, because that's how culture works!) It's true that people are the experts on symptoms as they feel them, but most people are not experts on what those symptoms mean in a medical sense or what can be done about them.

It's a massive blind spot and a symptom of the larger problem of Disability So Educated -- that the vast majority of disability/chronic illness advocates/activists are heard ARE experts on their bodies, because they've had to become experts, but they were able to do so because they are a) literate in English, b) medically literate, c) information literate, and d) have access to and understanding of how to navigate the internet, whereas your average person, particularly your average disabled person, is not. And if you want to create a radical healthcare system that is truly equitable and just -- as opposed to an oligarchy of the educated, i.e. what we have now -- that proposed system has to account for both EDS/MCAS/POTS patients who come in with a 4" three-ring binder of medical literature AND patients who firmly believe that ivermectin cures COVID, vaccines cause autism, co-sleeping with infants is safe, there's no difference between a rescue inhaler and preventative medication, and having an average blood sugar of 600 is perfectly healthy as long as you feel fine.

[anyroads]

Preamble: I've had long covid since 2020, which became severe after a reinfection in 2022. I'm still recovering, still disabled, have read countless articles from reliable sources and peer reviewed studies, and attended UCLH's lecture series on long covid run by their post-covid team.

I need to talk about OP saying this:

"if covid doesn't kill you it will permanently disable you."

Please be careful with the language you use because this is alarmist. Covid may disable you, and there's no evidence to show that the damage will be permanent. I've had one of the worst cases in every long covid support group, workshop, and group therapy I've been in, and even I've had a steady recovery and significant improvements, they've just been slow (and that's likely because I had pre-existing PoTS and thus was already primed for the autonomic dysfunctions long covid causes). I take issue with the alarmism here because it will actually make people more skeptical of the information you're sharing, instead of listen to it - and because I believe in the importance of giving accurate and vetted information. And it's important that people understand that covid can severely affect people's health long after their infection, but there are some easily found statistics on how, and who is more likely to suffer.

About 25% of people who get covid experience post-viral malaise, which can include fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness, and high blood pressure and/or heart rate. Pre-vaccine about 10% of those people would continue having symptoms past 12 weeks, which is considered Long Covid. Post-vaccine that rate appears to have dropped to 3%, but since confirmed data is only available from 2022, it's only considered likely based on emerging data that this rate has stayed consistent since then. There's more information in the British Medical Journal's 2023 article on the subject. This article also says that "31% of people who had symptoms after 12 weeks recovered within a year of their infection." If you have certain disabilities or chronic conditions, you're more likely to develop either post-viral malaise or full on Long Covid, but it can also affect perfectly healthy people and it's still unknown why or how this works, just that it seems to be due to a response in the immune system that affects autonomic functions.

While I agree that anyone who can get vaccinated and mask should do so, the UK is actively hostile to protecting people from covid and to people with Long Covid. Even though studies show that people will Long Covid have a 70% likelihood of their symptoms worsening on reinfection, and that covid vaccines significantly reduce the risk of Long Covid, Long Covid patients aren't entitled to covid vaccines and boosters in the UK since the government restricted them to only people classified as vulnerable or immunocompromised. Antivirals are also almost completely unavailable (although it's still worth asking your GP if you test positive for a covid infection, because you never know, and also because the higher the demand the more likely it will be made available - antivirals can also significantly lower the risk of developing Long Covid).

Last year, boosters were available to carers and partners living with immunocompromised people, but by the spring booster this year they weren't. Obviously these are important, because a vulnerable person sharing a household with someone unvaccinated is more at risk. If you have Long Covid, a simple cold can also cause a setback (I got a cold in May and it took four months for my average resting heart rate to return to what it was before). Barely anyone masks in the UK, and like I said, there's no access to boosters. Our own practice is to ask people to test before coming into contact indoors (as in, if we meet up with friends, obviously I'm not asking entire restaurants to test before I walk in), and this is unusual. No one keeps covid tests at home anymore. The NHS is underfunded and it's become general practice for doctors to conflate a resource being limited with it being unnecessary, further compounding the complications and barriers to safe practices in hospitals and GP offices. My Long Covid physios and consultants have almost all expressed frustration at their limited ability to keep their patients safe, and those who haven't done so openly implied strongly that they feel this way but are restricted from saying so due to the fact that the NHS is overseen by the UK government (this was especially bad during Boris Johnson's term as PM).

@ruffboijuliaburnsides if your symptoms have lasted more than 12 weeks, you can ask your GP to refer you to a long covid clinic if you're in the UK. They can monitor your symptoms, refer you to a local physio to support them, and give you medications that can help. If you're not in the UK, you can look up local resources but most countries have Long Covid specialists. Also, if your wife is immunocompromised, then anything you might pick up while you're unmasked in public is something you can pass on to her. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but you can use basic logic. If you get the flu while unmasked at Tesco, you will almost certainly expose your wife to it. If you get covid while unmasked at Boots, same. And this goes for anyone: you might not have symptoms, but you can still be contagious.

If you're able to mask, please do. Covid has an incredibly low rate of spreading outdoors and in fully ventilated spaces, but the rates get suddenly very high in indoor spaces with little to no ventilation. Masking is a very easy way of limiting the spread, and it makes public spaces like grocery stores and public transit safer for the vulnerable people who have no choice but to frequent them.

Finally, some resources for those interested:

it's still jarring to see people not get like, genuinely scared for someones wellbeing when they say they have covid. one of my classmates has covid and i am so worried about them and everyone else is just like get better soon and i get that most people don't get it but GOD.

[revginapond]

When a post where you give your expertise goes viral, you get a lot of interesting responses...

For example:

People suggesting that the mRNA tech *hasn't* been around for 20 years and that it's never been tested, yadda yadda yadda, even when you provide written proof from Nature magazine, a well known and respected scientific source.

"Oh, but people still get sick even if they get vaccinated." Yeah, no kidding. I actually said that. The vaccine keeps you from dying and most likely keeps you from being hospitalized. Flu vaccine works similarly.

"But I'm perfectly healthy, not fat, and it was only like a bad cold, so I don't need a COVID vaccine." Well, aren't you special! But, surprise, you still need a vaccine because there are others in the community who aren't perfectly healthy. Are you saying that the immunocompromised, the disabled, fat people, diabetics, the elderly, your grandmother, your friend with cancer, the guy who picks up your trash, etc., should just die from COVID because getting a vaccine is a such a chore for you to do? Oh, you didn't mean it like that? Then what do you mean? Because when you put it that way it sounds like you're all ok with people dying. Or do you blame people for their disabilities and diseases and think they deserve to die? Yeah, I went there, and no, your "healthy" ass isn't any more important than mine, TYVM.

"Oh, but it's still transmissible, even if you get the vaccine!" Yes, that's true. But you should still get the vaccine. Know why? Because viruses mutate, friend. Less likely to do so if people are vaccinated against it. If you don't get a vaccine, YOU could possibly be where the next mutation happens! And really, it could go either way (omicron or delta) and you would have no say in what it mutates into! Do you really want to be THAT person? I don't. (Also, look up Typhoid Mary. You don't want to be her.)

"My body, my choice!" You're not wrong. And I can choose to not associate with you because of your choices. Businesses can choose not to serve you because of your choices. The Government can choose to impose consequences for your choices. Everyone gets freedoms, not just you personally.

Variations on "Oh, but the flu has killed more people!" Bitch, please. COVID has killed 5.5 MILLION PEOPLE worldwide in 2 years. There hasn't been that many people dead in the world in such a short time since probably WWII (I could be wrong about this, but from what I could find quickly, this is the biggest.) You realize that's a lot of people to take out of the world in 2 years, right? There's a reason why there's global shortages right now.

Variations on "But my brother's cousin's friend and this other person I know go blood clots and DIED from the mRNA vaccine!" Dude, I'm sorry for your friend, but you're more likely to be hit by a car than get that reaction from the vaccine. Like I said, getting reactions from vaccines are normal. Severe reactions like that are NOT common.

Several: "UR an idiot! You have no idea what you're talking about! Fuck you! U R a moron! BITCH DIE!" lolz... (These asks just get blocked, so...) So many people get so bent out of shape when you ask them to do their civic duty in regards to public health!

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[ravensim]

thank you! people are careless with other’s lives. I’ve heard people say, “well those numbers are mostly disabled and elderly people,” it is so incredibly hurtful to hear such rhetoric as a disabled person myself. I know of so many immune compromised people who have been housebound since the early days of the pandemic and still are. As well as the fact that covid is a virus that could very well disable people who once were perfectly healthy, ie through long covid, and they will become one of the lives that don’t matter.

And regardless of those who are especially at risk, it can still be a horrible virus to go through, and needing to quarantine does throw a wrench in schedules. No-one wants to be sick! God forbid people are careful with their health and compassionate about other’s.

Sorry for the rant, I just really appreciate what you said!

Agree 100%. Stay safe, & I hope you have an amazing weekend ahead of you 💐

[aqueeraphale]

Honestly one of the best but most emotionally taxing experiences I had in academia was when my history of comics and my pandemics course lined up perfectly.

Because like. It was incredibly psychologically validating for me, a person who already had no social outlets before COVID, to see that I'm not completely fucking alone in what I consider rational approaches to several discourse topics.

Like. Will Eisner's Spirit would get cancelled on the spot here because of the noxious racist caricatures in it, and don't get me wrong, I do in fact condemn that shit wholeheartedly (as did the creator later in his life, but I digress). But it's also a landmark work in the history of both noir and comics as a medium (both Jewish art forms contributed to here by a Jewish man, if anyone wants to count their diversity points).

Like. I get it. I really do. Chronic trauma fucks with your ability to integrate things, especially when it's your parents, because parental abuse asks a small child to integrate two things that are fundamentally exclusive ("my parent loves me"/"my parent hurts me"). That usually leads to splitting, the phenomenon of only viewing things as "all good" or "all bad" and nothing in between. (No, you don't have to have BPD to experience it, it's just more common in people with BPD. See that misconception on here a lot, but it appears in completely neurotypical people sometimes too.)

And the queer history we treaded in my pandemics course while we were talking about the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Feeling the chronic illness solidarity with people trying to get their fucking illnesses identified, discussing the whole 'innocent victim' phenomenon that happens as per American cultural Christianity, watching queer leftists get up in arms with each other over minutiae. I spent so much time in that class (the only semi-openly queer person there) talking about how I've seen all this before.

Like. Even when I was first introduced to discourse culture, young and ready to be traumatized by it, I was vaguely aware that I'd seen this before and it didn't work. I went along with it anyways, and pretended to go along for years after I broke formal alignment with the whole anti movement. I'm not proud of pretending to go along, but honestly, I had bigger shit to deal with, so I could table confronting my delusions of persecution for a bit.

The point I'm trying to make here is that we, as leftists and artists and traumatized people and punks and disabled folks, have done this before. We've done every fucking bit of this before, and it only ends up reinforcing the cycle of center-right and far-right tug of war on the fucked-up American political stage.

Please, activists everywhere. Read the Hays Code and the Comics Code. Experience underground art that flipped off the censors and contemporary pieces that skirted around it. Noir, Fritz the Cat, what-fucking-ever, just find art that was transgressive in its time and try to understand why. Watch How To Survive A Plague, if you can mind the trigger warnings, read And The Band Played On and pick apart the sensationalism that was necessary to get it published from the truth.

We've done this before. Do some digging, and learn from the mistakes of the activists who came before.

At some point, if I have the spoons to transcribe, I might find some Eerily Similar Passages from the Hays and Comic codes (conservative nonsense unsupported by science even in its heyday) and from arguments I've seen by purity culture activists here (ostensibly leftist, liberated, and working towards things that are demonstrably healthy for psychological health). Because I read the Comics Code and spent the whole time going "motherfucker, it's this shit again."

Oh, and to fit the fact that we're on Tumblr:

[Image ID: a lavender banner. On either side are exhausted-looking hand-drawn emojis staring despairingly at their phones. The text in between them reads: "I don't have the spoons for discourse, so I probably won't respond. Behave or I'll block you. Thanks." End ID]

[softness-and-shattering]

Imho it would be a lot better for all of us if more people identified as disabled.

I was just talking to friends the other day about how many people consider themselves safe from eg covid or the flu because "only sick people die from that", meanwhile their own disabilities are "the weird thing with my elbow" or "oh everyone in family is like that" or "its just asthma" or "hey look my fingers are double jointed".

Because we all and societally have this cutout idea of a Normal person who's white, perfectly healthy and neurotypical, conventionally attractive height and weight and size. The person your dr thinks of when they say "dont worry that disease is rare you dont have it" or "you're too young to be sick", the person car safety is crash-tested for, a person Im pretty sure doesnt exist.

Bodies are complicated and no one is running at that ideal. But even if we say the majority of people are abled and do, theres still so many people who "just need glasses" but if they did consider themselves disabled, know to demand disability aids and accommodations, know to include themselves as someone in danger from eg global health pandemics, thats more person power for protests, its more demand to increase supply of the things we all need, its more accurate data about how common conditions are, more people to care about disability rights, more research more societal support.

I fully understand the desire to gatekeep based on trauma. Youre not in community with me because you can just pop put and go to a party and Ive been left behind by all my friends, you can go on an impulsive holiday while im dreadfully aquainted with the minutiae of hospitals. I get it.

Your community, your fellow disabled people, do not need to be people you automatically have in your emotional support circle. Its ok if theres gaps of understanding. Disability Rights is a movement for everyone who needs it, which is way more people than are willing to accept that they are so far out of the "norm" because in capitalism that makes them a danger, a liability. And yes some of us dont get that choice at all. But a rights movement isnt a support group. What's that union adage, no permanent friends no permanent enemies?

Becoming a society that better supports everyone in our imperfect human health and accepts and works with our inability to be productive machines, imho, is worth including everyone. It doesnt mean you have to confide in everyone it doesnt mean you share experiences with everyone, but I think of we're admitting our frailties as normal and not as weaknesses, you'll find we all have things in common and we're all being screwed over by capitalism colonialism the devaluing of human life for profits that will never leave a secret bank account.

And yes being talked over is a fear we all have because we've all experienced something of that rejection. The point though, is changing peoples minds about whats 'normal' health, and working to accommodate everyone. Rising tides lifting all boats. A change in ideology that more centers us instead of pushing us aside as expendable, saying no ones life and no ones health is expendable.

And maybe Im just naive or whatever but I believe in hope. I dont think gatekeeping does anything for us. We'll remain whatever tiny percentage of the population we're seen as. The bigger of a demographic identifying as disabled, the more we'll be seen as a significant segment of society who needs support, not just an odd handful of outliers.

I Get the gatekeepy impulse towards the definition of disability and who fits under it especially when we expand it to people who more or less function as abled people quite easily (i.e, the average glasses wearer). Like when you’re capital D Disabled and you are already so forgotten and walked over and struggling to keep your head above water it DOES feel like a threat to be drowned out in the conversation. but I also Do think these definitions are worth examining and hostility helps no one, even if it feels like its protecting you.

[kabutone]

i feel like a lot of people consider me irrational or overly anxious for still isolating, social distancing, and most importantly masking (PROPERLY). like some people will outright say it, and say “people who still mask are living in fear” or, for people that were previously responsible and decided to stop prematurely, “the pandemic is over.” cause here’s the thing, right. covid is still spreading, in large numbers, and while it may not be killing as many people the same way that it used to, it’s still just as dangerous but in a different form. maybe you wont die, but you could develop long covid, it’s a nearly 1 in 5 chance. and with how much anti-maskers seem to hate disabled people, you’d think they wouldnt want to become disabled themselves?

there’s also a lot of people who used to mask, and don’t anymore. however they claim that they’ll put on a mask if asked. sometimes someone will say “hey, i’ve got a disability and if i get covid i WILL for sure 100% will die. can you put a mask on?” and they go “oh, of course!” and they do it. but here’s the thing, you usually cannot tell from looking at someone whether they’re disabled or not. so does every disabled person have to explain their life threatening illness to you? do you expect that you can only mask “when needed” because every disabled person will announce it to you? maybe every time a cancer patient enters a store, they should get on the loud speaker and tell everyone they’ve got cancer so that you’ll put your mask on. surely, it’s easier for someone to talk about a sensitive personal topic with a stranger than it is for the stranger to just wear a fucking mask? it is literally impossible for you to know the health status of everyone in a public space with you. might i also add, young 20-somethings can also be disabled. just because the person next to you is obviously a young adult doesn’t mean they’re not disabled or at risk.

so then the usual response is “well just stay home then” oh thats right! if nowhere is safe to go, high risk people simply will not go anywhere. they can starve to death at home, or they can risk their lives at the grocery store, since nobody wants to make the grocery store a safe place to be. how silly of me to forget that disabled people are inherently lesser, and therefore hold no value in our society and wont be missed if they just never re-enter again! so yea, high risk people ARE waiting until it’s safe again. also, its not even safe for perfectly healthy people either. you can take a few hits of covid before you die or become disabled, but many high risk people will likely die after ONE infection. so when you’ve got one infection left in you before you die, PLEASE no complaining when your life is put at risk! after all, you expect everyone else to just shut up about it and not complain about like, dying or whatever.

now what about those high value abled people?? so WHAT if you have an elderly or disabled relative, who cares if they die? basically everyone else is perfectly fine with saying goodbye to their family, so, what, you still give a shit about your parents and grandparents? how irrational and neurotic, why value the lives of your loved ones when you can … go to a concert or something. anyway, come on out and get infected. your high risk relatives will stay home, and if you bring back covid and infect them and they die, well, your fault for being sad about it i guess?

anyway, maybe YOU don’t care if the high risk people in your life die. and also, im sure all your high risk friends and family see you saying you don’t value their lives and im sure that makes them feel really good. but personally, i really don’t want my friends or family to die, and i know thats super controversial and nobody has ever felt that way before. but people like me still exist, people that love their friends and family, and value their lives, and want them to be alive, and its not your choice to decide that you want MY loved ones to die just because you want YOUR loved ones to die

[thehouseoflamentation]

*sighs again*

So..... it’s been another Sunday and the CDC has recently accounted that only 6% of people who died with covid actually died from the disease while the other 94% had underlying causes. And of course the pastor at the church my parents dragged me to has come to the immediate conclusion that there really is no pandemic and it’s all just been an attack to single out the church and stop them from meeting in person....

Now there is a lot I can say about this but I would first and foremost like to say that this in no way means the pandemic is over unless you’re completely fine with throwing disabled, elderly, or immunocomprimsed people under the bus to fit your perspective. As someone who was fortunate to have access to medical care I can safely say that my experience has been a struggle on its own and I cannot imagine what would happen if I did not have the privilege of receiving the care that I had or if I had other conditions like asthma that could have make my symptoms worse.

In all truth I am a bit skeptical when people say that the majority of patients “died of underlying causes.” You may not know this without actually researching it but covid19 has the ability to cause complications. When I got infected I didn’t just get covid I also got pneumonia BECAUSE of covid. It was a common complication that comes with being infected with the virus and if I died I would probably also be labeled as a patient who “died of other complications” despite being perfectly healthy prior to infection.

I’m just.... so TIRED of people trying to down play the pandemic because they want things to be normal again. I’m TIRED of people not taking this seriously. And while I hope no one ever has to suffer the same thing I went through a part of me wants them to know the struggle of not being able to breath for weeks, the reality of how fast your health can go down hill in a matter of days, the inability to even enjoy the smallest comforts like food, and the fear of not knowing what will happen next or if you will even survive this new disease. Maybe then people could learn to have the smallest amount of compassion and humanity for others.

[awkward-teabag]

It's absolutely eugenics at this point and they can't hide it anymore. Even if they're trying to make it look like covid isn't dangerous "as long as you don't have comorbidities" the result is still eugenics because you know what groups of people are more likely to have comorbidities? People of colour and poor people because they're less likely to get preventative care while also living in areas with higher pollution (if not known carcinogens).

People assume 'had comorbidities' means that someone had something like leukemia or ALS when in actuality, being a living person is a comorbidity. The ONLY way you don't have something that could be considered a comorbidity is if you're dead (though being dead kind of excludes you from a lot in and of itself).

Eugenics is also alive and well. My knowledge is mostly centred around Western Canada but eugenics weren't officially outlawed in BC and Alberta until the 70s but by all accounts it continued (and still continues) just without a formal government branch. There's even the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada because there's still first generation survivors of it and the people in charge were either taught by people who were pro "population control" or are old enough they were in government office when it was state-sanctioned.

This isn't even going into the forced sterilization that First Nations women have to deal with.

People assume that they'd notice if there was a pro-eugenics movement and policies were happening, but that's not the case because it's been going on for years and covid allowed such policies to ramp up without causing alarm. To Godwin's Law myself, the Holocaust didn't come out of the blue—it started over a decade earlier easing into the idea so the public would not complain.

It didn't start at genocide, it started with "Hey, don't you agree that disabled people, queer people, and this race of people would be better off not reproducing?"

The people who will be most negatively impacted by covid are the poor, the racialized, and the disabled. Saying people "Had X comorbidities" or "Died due to complications from Y" is to ease you into the idea that these people didn't deserve to live and/or their deaths will benefit you. But really damn near everyone on this site has at least one comorbidity. What headline you'd get (if you get one at all) depends purely on the whiteness of your skin and how wealthy/powerful you or your family is.

see if you can get a bingo for the cdc saying it’s Really Encouraging News if you die

[kendrene]

I think so many abled bodied people make fun of/are rude to disabled people because we are a constant reminder of what could happen to them. Being born healthy and staying that way through life is like winning a lottery ticket. And even people with perfect/perfectly working bodies and minds can have accidents or fall prone to chronic illnesses.

And, besides, what people try their hardest to forget is that the majority of the population will become disabled with old age. In part it's society's fault, because of the emphasis on productivity as value, but ablebodied people actually buy into this shitty rethoric until it happens to them.

We're seeing it clearly with the pandemic. Covid can leave people with severe (possibly chronic) issues months after infection. And all of a sudden, you see all these posts creep up on social media going, "oh, gosh it's so hard being sick and tired all the time! and the healthcare system sucks! Ugh!" Like, yes, we've been telling you but you didn't want to listen to us until it happened to you and affected you personally.

Sucks, uh?

(and yeah, people get to this epiphany through other things too - but it's happening on such a wide scale now it's way more noticeable)

[didanawisgi]

Note that views expressed in this opinion article are the writer’s personal views and not necessarily those of TrialSite

I always get vaccinated. I have been fully vaccinated with the Moderna COVID vaccine. My three daughters have all been vaccinated.

I recently learned that these vaccines have likely killed over 25,800 Americans (which I confirmed 3 different ways) and disabled at least 1,000,000 more. And we’re only halfway to the finish line. We need to PAUSE these vaccines NOW before more people are killed.

The CDC, FDA, and NIH aren’t disclosing how many people have been killed or disabled from the COVID vaccines. The mainstream media isn’t asking any questions; they are playing along. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and others are all censoring content that goes against the “perfectly safe” narrative so nobody is the wiser. Tony Fauci, the “father of COVID,” is still in his job even though all of this is his fault. Cliff Lane, who reports to Tony, is still sandbagging early treatments so that people will falsely believe that the vaccine is the only option. The Democrats are still asleep at the wheel by refusing to request Fauci’s unredacted emails from the NIH which will prove he covered up the fact he created the virus in the first place. Biden is clueless urging Americans to vaccinate their kids with a deadly vaccine that has likely killed more than 25,000 Americans so far. Academics in the medical community are nearly all clueless, urging people to get the safe and effective vaccine. When I tried to bring this to the attention of leading academics they told me I was wrong and not to contact them ever again. Sound too hard to believe? I don’t blame you. But there is a reason that this article is the most popular article that has ever been on TrialSiteNews with over 1M views so far. It’s because everything I’ve said is true. And nobody will debate me live about it. They all refuse.

Based on what I now know about the miniscule vaccine benefits (less than a .5% reduction in absolute risk), side effects (including death), current COVID rates, and the success rate of early treatment protocols, the answer I would give today to anyone asking me for advice as to whether to take any of the current vaccines would be, “Just say NO.”Waiting for Novavax (and other traditional vaccines) is a much safer option. If you get COVID in the meantime, treating with early treatment protocols that incorporate fluvoxamine and ivermectin is vastly superior to getting the most dangerous vaccine in the last 30 years.

Vaccines are particularly contraindicated if you have already been infected with COVID or are under age 20. For these people, I would say “NO! NO! NO!”

In this article, I will explain what I have learned since I was vaccinated that totally changed my mind. You will learn how these vaccines work and the shortcuts that led to the mistakes that were made. You will understand why there are so many side effects and why these are so varied and why they usually happen within 30 days of vaccination. You will understand why kids are having heart issues (for which there is no treatment), and temporarily losing their sight, and ability to talk. You will understand why as many as 3% may be severely disabled by the vaccine. You will understand why doctors aren’t reporting these as vaccine-related.

What I find deeply disturbing is the lack of transparency on how dangerous the current COVID vaccines are. Healthy people could end up dead or permanently disabled at a rate that is “off the charts” compared with any other vaccine in our history. Look at the death report in our government’s official Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) summarized in the tweet below. This is the most deadly vaccine we’ve ever made by a long shot. That’s why they have to give you incentives to get vaccinated. They need to vaccinate everyone BEFORE people read this article or watch this video of Dr. Peter McCullough explaining clearly why the current COVID vaccines are unsafe and completely unnecessary for our children.

The stopping condition of a typical vaccine is 25-50 deaths. But there isn’t a stopping condition for this vaccine! It appears we’ve killed over 25,800 people (based on CDC “unexplained deaths”) and nobody is batting an eye. The CDC is focused on how to vaccinate more people. Clinics today report as high as a 10:1 ratio of vaccine-related cases to COVID cases. So now we have a new health emergency: deaths and disability from the vaccines.

But this is just the beginning of our story. We have a lot of ground to cover. I’ll talk about Fauci, NIAID, CDC, Congress, academia, Cliff Lane, and more. I will close with action items you can take and how to treat vaccine victims.

Before we jump into the details, here are some key points:

At least 25,000 deaths from the vaccine. The OpenVAERS team think it is over 20,000 due to under reporting. But we looked at the CMS database and it appears VAERS is under-reporting by 5X. And the CDC excess unexplained deaths are 25,000 as well. It matches up.

NOBODY will debate me. People resort to personal attacks because they can’t attack the facts. But nobody who counts (e.g., over 10K Twitter followers) will debate me. I’ve tried everything. People are too afraid I’ll win. If you have at least 10K Twitter followers and agree to a recorded live Zoom debate, just say so in the comments below.

Biodistribution data shows massive accumulation in ovaries of the LNP (which instructs cells in ovaries to sprout toxic spike protein). Whoops. That was never supposed to be leaked out. We obtained it via FOIA request. The CDC never told you about that one, did they? Of course not!

82% miscarriage rate in first 20 weeks (10% is the normal rate). It is baffling that the CDC says the vaccine is safe for pregnant women when it is so clear that this is not the case. For example, one of our family friends is a victim of this. She miscarried at 25 weeks and is having a D&C on 6/9/21. She had her first shot 7 weeks ago, and her second shot 4 weeks ago. The baby had severe bleeding of the brain and other disfigurements. Her gynecologist had never seen anything like that before in her life. They called in a specialist who said it was probably a genetic defect (because everyone buys into the narrative that the vaccine is safe it is always ruled out as a possible cause). No VAERS report. No CDC report. Yet the doctors I’ve talked to say that it is over 99% certain it was the vaccine. The family doesn’t want an autopsy for fear that their daughter will find out it was the vaccine. This is a perfect example of how these horrible side effects just never get reported anywhere.

25X the possibility of myocarditis for teen boys (can lead to heart failure and death)

Kids already have natural immunity (Science Magazine article), so there is no benefit to vaccination, only risk. Have you ever seen the risk / benefit analysis by the CDC?? Ask for it before you consent.

No point vaccinating those who’ve had COVID-19: Findings of Cleveland Clinic study. No benefit, only risk.

Doctors who attribute adverse events to the vaccine are punished (such as Dr. Hoffe). So under reporting is incentivized.

The CDC refuses to say how many people have died and is “still investigating” heart damage in kids even though it is obvious why (free spike protein causing clotting and inflammation). A 25X increase when the only “new” thing is the vaccine isn’t hard to figure out. Ask the CDC for their current top 5 hypotheses for the cause. It will be more than amusing to see what they say. If it isn’t the vaccine, heads should roll.

The CDC is deliberately misleading the American people. Check out the side effects page. Death, disability, excessive miscarriage rates, heart attacks, stroke, inability to walk, talk, or see, Bell’s Palsy, persistent pain, Parkinson’s like symptoms, re-activation of shingles, blood clots, etc. are all missing.

>500X more deadly than the flu vaccine

COVID vaccines have generated more adverse reports in the last 6 months than all 70 vaccines over the past 30 years combined. They missed that one.

Defective virus design (s1 was never supposed to be free, inclusion of PEG was unnecessary and allows LNP to be widely distributed)

Strong opposition to vaccination by extremely credible voices like Malone, Geert Vanden Bossche, others

NIAID (Cliff Lane) is improperly manipulating the COVID Treatment Guidelines to make it appear these drugs do not work, thus giving the world the false impression that the vaccine, even if imperfect, is the only way out. Ivermectin and fluvoxamine have been confirmed in Phase 3 trials. Ivermectin has a very high quality systematic review, the highest possible level in Evidence Based Medicine. Repurposed drugs are safer and more effective than the current vaccines. In general, early treatment with an effective protocols reduce your risk of dying by more than 100X so instead of 600,000 deaths, we’d have fewer than 6,000 deaths. NOTE: The vaccine has already killed over 6,000 people and that’s from the vaccine alone (and doesn’t count any breakthrough deaths).

Vaccines skipped proper toxicology studies in order to bring to market faster. We don’t know what we don’t know.

The unpredictable and horrifying side effects of this vaccine on heathy kids, such as the 16 year old girl who was unable to speak and see just 48 hours after being vaccinated

Debilitating side effects can happen at any time because vaccine victims are very similar to COVID long haulers (Dr. Bruce Patterson has discovered this) and we all know that long haul can start at any time (even when the disease is asymptomatic) and could be incurable.

Because the vaccine is not perfectly safe, the government is required by law to warn people of the death and disability risks caused by the vaccine and to obtain informed consent. Always be sure to ask for the 50 most serious side effects and how often they happen. And find out whether they will compensate you if you are disabled for life from the vaccine. This is important because the blood clots can form anywhere with this very unsafe vaccine....

[mxenigmatic]

2020’s Self Care Books for Trying Times

With Covid-19 a global pandemic that is still lingering in the air, and keeping our connections at a social distance, added how here at NYPL our librarians miss the frequent interactions with our patrons, I was contemplating on ways to keep our reading connected, our souls warm, and our health having its self care. Before google, I’d rely on the plethora of information our branches hold on any challenge in life I’d be facing. Now with a myriad of problems we can tackle, and resources we can all use to improve our lives, I wanted to tackle grounding and elevating ourselves to cope with our surroundings, than advice I can provide on financial, relationship, life goals, etc.

In this blog “2020’s Self Care Books 4 Trying Times” I’ve comprised my 20 favorite titles for the year 2020 on wellness, people’s journeys, and how health experts can help guide us to a calm and vibrant place for our wellbeing. From parenting tips, to self acceptance, coping with a mental health disorder, or even self care rituals, the need for healthy habits is a topic we all can relate and rely on to keep us striving through this winter, and being united through our current unstable climate. We should never be ashamed of our experiences, asking for help, and addressing challenges in our lives to be at peace with our pasts, content with our present, and hopeful about our futures.

What is Self-care, according to very well mind, describes a conscious act one takes in order to promote their own physical, mental, and emotional health. There are many forms self-care may take. It could be ensuring you get enough sleep every night or stepping outside for a few minutes for some fresh air.

What is mindfulness? Mindfulness refers to being in the moment. This means feeling what our bodies feel, letting ourselves think without judging our thoughts, and being aware of our environment. It is about paying attention on purpose to both what is happening inside and outside of you.

ADULT

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey

Topics: Professional Development, Success, Psych Evaluation

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 habits with modern additions from Sean Covey. The 7 habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work!With Sean Covey's added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders.

Stay Positive: Encouraging Quotes and Messages to Fuel Your Life With Positive Energy by Jon Gordon

Topics: Self Help, Affirmations, Optimism

Stay Positive is more than a phrase. It's an approach to life that says when you get knocked down, you'll get back up and find a way forward one faithful step and optimistic day at a time. Start your day with a message from the book, or pick it up anytime you need a mental boost. You can start from the beginning, or open the book to any page and find a message that speaks to you. The book is a go-to resource for anyone wanting to inject a healthy dose of positivity into their life

$9 Therapy: Semi-Capitalist Solutions to Your Emotional Problems by Megan Reid and Nick Greene

Topics: Life Skills/Hacks, Self Care Rituals, Budgeting

A collection of the authors' favorite life hacks and mini-upgrades, such as craft cocktails on the cheap or tips for a perfectly planned staycation. Sometimes it takes as little as nine dollars to turn your life around. How to find simple pleasures in a pricey, wellness-obsessed world.

You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas

Topics: Astrology, Self Acceptance

A revolutionary empowerment book that uses astrology as a tool for self-discovery, success, and self-care from the beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas, a media darling with a loyal following of one million monthly readers.

TEEN

Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents by Matthew Brensilver

Topics: Mindfulness, Educational Guides, Learning Disabilities, Reflections

Effectively sharing mindfulness with teenagers depends on distinct skill sets . . . done well, it is incredibly joyous." Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and adolescents. Incorporating anecdotes from actual teaching, they blend the latest scientific research with innovative, original techniques for making the practices accessible and interesting to this age group. This text is an indispensable handbook for mindfulness instruction in its own right, and a robust companion volume for teachers using The Mindful Schools Curriculum for Adolescents

The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color by Virgie Tovar

Topics: Self Esteem, Plus Size Positivity, Hygiene

Every day we see body ideals depicted in movies, magazines, and social media. And, all too often, these outdated standards make us feel like we need to change how we look and who we are. The truth is that many teens feel self-conscious about their bodies and being a teen girl of color is hard in unique ways. So, how can you start feeling good about yourself when you're surrounded by these unrealistic, and problematic images of what bodies are "supposed" to look like? This book is an unapologetic guide to help you embrace radical body positivity. You'll identify and challenge mainstream beliefs about beauty and bodies; celebrate what makes you unique and powerful; and build real, lasting body empowerment. You'll also learn how to spot diet culture and smash your noisy inner critic so you can start loving your body. It's time to create your own definition of beautiful and recognize that your body is amazing. It's time for a self-love revolution!

Out!: How To Be Your Authentic Self by Miles McKenna

Topics: Coming Out, Self Acceptance, Family Dynamics

Activist Miles McKenna came out on his YouTube channel in 2017, documenting his transition to help other teens navigate their identities and take charge of their own coming out stories. From that wisdom comes Out!, the ultimate YA guide to the queer lifestyle. Find validation, inspiration, and support for your questions big and small--whether you're exploring your identity or seeking to understand the experience of an awesome queer person in your life."

Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder

Topics: Grief Counseling, Coping with terminal illness, Bereavement. Family Estrangement

Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir.

Superpowered: Transform Anxiety Into Courage, Confidence, and Resilience by Renee Jain and Dr. Shefali Tsabary

Topics: Health, Fitness, Selt Esteem.

The perfect tool for children facing new social and emotional challenges in an increasingly disconnected world! This how-to book from two psychology experts—packed with fun graphics and quizzes—will help kids transform stress, worry, and anxiety

Teen Guide to Mental Health by Don Nardo

Topics: Teens, Mental Health, Body Image, Puberty

Todays teens face and are expected to deal with a wide array of personal, social, and other issues involving home-life, school, dating, body image, sexual orientation, major life transitions, and in some cases physical and mental problems, including eating disorders and depression. This volume examines how many teens have learned to cope with and survive these often stressful trials and tribulations of modern youth.

KIDS

Turtle Boy by Evan Wolkenstein

Topics: Social Life, Friends, Relationships, School Stress

Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny-looking chin. His science teacher finds out about the turtles he spent his summer collecting from the marsh behind school an orders him to release them back into the wild. And for his Bar Mitzvah community service project, he has to go to the hospital to visit RJ, an older boy struggling with an incurable disease. Unfortunately, Will hates hospitals. At first, the boys don't get along, but then RJ shares his bucket list with Will. Among the things he wants to do: ride a roller coaster, go to a concert and a school dance, swim in the ocean. To Will, happiness is hanging out in his room, alone, preferably with his turtles. But as RJ's disease worsens, Will realizes he needs to tackle the bucket list on his new friend's behalf before it's too late. It seems like an impossible mission, way outside Will's comfort zone. But as he completes each task with RJ's guidance, Will learns that life is too short to live in a shell.

How To Make A Better World: For Every Kid Who Wants To Make A Difference by Keilly Swift

Topics: Activism, Human Rights, Organizing

If you are a kid with big dreams and a passion for what is right, you're a world-changer in the making. There's a lot that can be changed by just one person, if you know what to do. Start by making yourself into the awesome person you want to be by learning all about self-care and kindness. Using those skills, work your way up to creating activist campaigns to tackle climate change or social injustice. This fun and inspiring guide to making the world a better place and becoming a good citizen is packed with ideas and tips for kids who want to know how to make a difference. From ideas as small as creating a neighborhood lending library to important ideas such as public speaking and how to talk about politics, How to Make a Better World is a practical guide to activism for awesome kids.

All About Anxiety by Carrie Lewis

Anxiety. It's an emotion that rears its head almost every day, from the normal worries and concerns that most of us experience, to outright fear when something scary happens, to the anxiety disorders, that many kids live with daily. But what causes anxiety? And what can we do about it? All About Anxiety tackles these questions from every possible angle. Readers will learn what's going on in their brain and central nervous system when they feel anxious. They'll learn about the evolutionary reasons for fear and anxiety and that anxiety isn't always a bad thing--except for when it is! Most importantly, kids will discover new strategies to manage their anxiety so they can live and thrive with anxiety

Dictionary for a better world: poems, quotes, and anecdotes from A to Z by Irene Latham

Topics: Inspiration, Self Help, Advice

Organized as a dictionary, entries in this book for middle-grade readers present words related to creating a better, more inclusive world. Each word is explored via a poem, a quote from an inspiring person, and a short personal anecdote from one of the co-authors, a prompt for how to translate the word into action, and an illustration".

I feel... meh by DJ Corchin

(E-book)Topics: Health, Fitness, Management

This series helps kids recognize, express, and deal with the roller coaster of emotions they feel every day. It has been celebrated by therapists, psychologists, teachers, and parents as wonderful tools to help children develop self-awareness for their feelings and those of their friends. Sometimes I feel meh and I don't want to play. I don't want to read and I have nothing to say. Sometimes you just feel...meh. You don't really feel like doing anything or talking to anyone. You're not even sure how you're feeling inside. Is that bad? With fun, witty illustrations and simple, straightforward text, I Feel...Meh tackles apathy—recognizing it as a valid emotion, while also offering practical steps to get you out of your emotional slump. It's the perfect way for kids—and adults—who are feeling gray to find some joy again!

Violet Shrink by Christine Baldacchino

Topics: Phobias, Relationships, Social Skills

Violet Shrink doesn't like parties. Or bashes, or gatherings. Lots of people and lots of noise make Violet's tummy ache and her hands sweat. She would much rather spend time on her own, watching the birds in her backyard, reading comics, or listening to music through her purple headphones. The problem is that the whole Shrink family loves parties with loud music and games and dancing. At cousin Char's birthday party, Violet hides under a table and imagines she is a shark gliding effortlessly through the water, looking for food. And at Auntie Marlene and Uncle Leli's anniversary bash, Violet sits alone at the top of the stairs, imagining she is a slithering snake way up in the branches. When Violet learns that the Shrink family reunion is fast approaching, she musters up the courage to have a talk with her dad. In this thoughtful story about understanding and acceptance, Violet's natural introversion and feelings of social anxiety are normalized when she and her father reach a solution together. Christine Baldacchino's warm text demonstrates the role imagination often plays for children dealing with anxiety, and the power of a child expressing their feelings to a parent who is there to listen. Carmen Mok's charming illustrations perfectly capture Violet's emotions and the vibrancy of her imagination. A valuable contribution to books addressing mental health."-- Provided by publisher.

Check out this link to a presentation by NYPL’s Children’s Librarians, Sarah West and Justine Toussaint on Mindfulness/Social-Emotional Self-Esteem Picture Book Spotlight. Featuring popular book titles in our database of the past few years promoting kids well beings!

Pre-2020 Books

Aphorism by Franz Kafka

Topics: Life Quotes, Recovery, Future Planning

For the first time, a single volume that collects all of the aphorisms penned by this universally acclaimed twentieth-century literary figure. Kafka twice wrote aphorisms in his lifetime. The first effort was a series of 109, known as the Zurau Aphorisms, which were written between September 1917 and April 1918, and originally published posthumously by his friend, Max Brod, in 1931. These aphorisms reflect on metaphysical and theological issues--as well as the occasional dog. The second sequence of aphorisms, numbering 41, appears in Kafka's 1920 diary dating from January 6 to February 29. It is in these aphorisms, whose subject is "He," where Kafka distills the unexpected nature of experience as one shaped by exigency and possibility."

This Book Loves You by PewDiePie

Topics: Life Skills, Inspiration, Food 4 Thought

A popular blogger shares humorous pieces of advice and positivity, including "Never forget you are beautiful compared to a fish" and "Every day is a new fresh start to stay in bed."

The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach To Living A Good Life by Mark Manson

Topic: Self Help, Happiness, Motivation

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger shows us that the key to being happier is to stop trying to be 'positive' all the time and instead become better at handling adversity. For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. But those days are over. 'Fuck positivity, ' Mark Manson says. 'Let's be honest; sometimes things are fucked up and we have to live with it.' For the past few years, Manson--via his wildly popular blog--has been working on correcting our delusional expectations for ourselves and for the world. He now brings his hard-fought wisdom to this groundbreaking book. Manson makes the argument--backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes--that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to better stomach lemons. Human beings are flawed and limited--as he writes, 'Not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault.' Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. This, he says, is the real source of empowerment. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties--once we stop running from and avoiding, and start confronting painful truths--we can begin to find the courage and confidence we desperately seek. 'In life, we have a limited amount of fucks to give. So you must choose your fucks wisely.' Manson brings a much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor. This manifesto is a refreshing slap in the face for all of us so we can start to lead more contented, grounded lives."

Zen Pencils: Cartoon Quotes From Inspirational Folks by Gavin Aung Than

Topics: Writing Development, Expression, Quotes

Gavin Aung Than, an Australian graphic designer turned cartoonist, started the weekly Zen Pencils blog in February 2012. He describes his motivation for launching Zen Pencils: I was working in the boring corporate graphic design industry for eight years before finally quitting at the end of 2011 to pursue my passion for illustration and cartooning. At my old job, when my boss wasn't looking, I would waste time reading Wikipedia pages, main biographies about people whose lives were a lot more interesting than mine. Their stories and quotes eventually inspired me to leave my job to focus on what I really wanted to do. The idea of taking these inspiring quotes, combining them with my love of drawing, and sharing them with others led to the creation of Zen Pencils.

By: @Mx.Enigma

She/They/Queen

[nickylovesrefugees]

Coronavirus myths and facts

I am writing this as a doctor with an interest in infectious diseases who is currently studying a masters of international public health. Myths and facts about COVID-19. Please share if you think this is worthwhile. References in link at the end.

MYTHS

Myth: “COVID-19 is just like getting the flu”

COVID-19 is not just like the flu! The symptoms are often similar, that’s true. But there are key differences:

Influenza

Mortality: 0.1%

Vaccine availability: Vaccine updated yearly

Scientific understanding: Excellent

R0: 1.2

COVID-19

Mortality: ~3%

Vaccine availability: Does not exist

Scientific understanding: Limited, highly unpredictable

R0:2-4

Note: R0 is the number of people that the average infected person then goes on to infect

So essentially - coronavirus is much more contagious, is many times more deadly, there’s no vaccine and it’s highly unpredictable.

Myth: “Coronavirus is killed by warm weather”

I saw this floating around in a chain email purportedly from “Stanford University”, which claimed that a temperature of 26 degrees would kill the virus. There is no evidence to suggest this. If this were the case, the virus would die inside our bodies (~36 degrees) and nobody would get sick… It is important to note also that the WHO points out that cold weather similarly does not kill the virus.

Myth: “Drinking warm water kills viruses”

Nope. Water doesn’t have any toxic effects, and warming it slightly doesn’t change that. Even if it did, the virus is in your airways, not your stomach.

Myth: “If you have a runny nose, you cannot have COVID-19”

Another ridiculous claim. In general, in medicine, never/always statements are rarely correct, especially when looking at symptoms. There are always variations in symptoms between different people in the real world.

Myth: “Hand sanitiser is better than soap and water”

False. It’s the other way around. Soap breaks down the fatty bilayer which forms the “envelope” or wall of the viral particle. It does this in a similar way to ethanol-based handwashes, but most commercial hand sanitisers have a lower ethanol content and are not as effective. To be effective against coronavirus, your hand sanitiser should have at least a 60% ethanol content.

Myth: “I’m young and healthy, if I get coronavirus I’ll be fine”

Many young people who get COVID-19 will suffer a flu-like illness and not need hospitalisation but there’s also strong evidence that young healthy people can also get very sick with COVID-19. For example, more than 50% of patients admitted to ICU in France were under 60.

Myth: “If you can hold your breath for ten seconds without coughing, you cannot have COVID-19”

If it were that easy to diagnose coronavirus, the hospital and GP system would be under a whole lot less pressure. Once again, these simple, “too good to be true” claims are exactly that.

Myth: “Antibiotics can treat COVID-19”

Antibiotics have no activity against viruses - they are used exclusively for bacteria. Occasionally, very unwell people with COVID-19 may develop superimposed bacterial infections in hospital, and is this setting antibiotics will be used. But this is to treat the bacterial pneumonia, not the COVID-19 infection. Currently, there are no WHO-recommended medications to treat COVID-19, although reports are coming out of some countries that some antivirals usually used in treatment of hepatitis or HIV may be beneficial.

FACTS

Fact: Ibuprofen should be avoided in patients with COVID-19.

Ibuprofen, sold under brand names such as nurofen or advil, is an NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug). It’s used for a variety of inflammatory conditions, and is also sometimes used for fever that is not responding to paracetamol. However, a paper was published on March 11 in the Lancet linking increased ACE2 levels (an enzyme that coronaviruses use to bind to target cells) with COVID-19 infection. This is relevant because ibuprofen can increase levels of ACE2, at least in rats. More research is needed in this area, but for now the WHO has recommended avoiding ibuprofenin COVID-19, and instead using paracetamol. This also implies that theremay be an argument for withholding ACE-Inhibitors (a common blood pressure medication) but the European Society of Cardiology recommends that they are continued.

Fact: Healthcare workers on the front line are doing their absolute best in a very difficult time.

Many of my best friends are working on the front lines as junior doctors, GPs, emergency or medical registrars, nurses, pharmacists and other allied health professions. They are doing their best, but the situation is constantly evolving, and guidelines continue to do change. As such, they may not test you for COVID-19 when you are expecting a test, or otherwise treat you in some way that differs from your expectations. Rest assured that they are working very hard to keep up to date, and to behave in a manner that prioritises not only your health, but also public health and the best possible allocation of resources. Please be patient and honest with, and kind to, them in these challenging times. Speaking as one of them, we really do care about you.

Fact: Panic buying deprives vulnerable people of vital necessities, and is completely unnecessary.

I’ve touched on this earlier, but please do not hoard groceries. Many elderly or people with disabilities do not have the luxury or option of visiting multiple stores, so if they go to a supermarket that has had its shelves cleared out, they have no backup option and may be forced to go without. If everyone were to return to how they shopped a month ago, everyone would have enough food!! The supermarkets never run out of pasta or toilet paper normally, and they will stop running out if people just shop normally. The supermarkets are not going to close, there is no need to hoard food.

Fact: We still have a lot of control over what happens over the next few weeks.

Here, we must learn from the examples of other countries. If we continue to treat COVID-19 with the same cavalier attitude, continuing to attend large events, public places like gyms, churches etc, we will follow in the footsteps of Italy, which now has over 30,000 cases and over 2,500 dead. The death toll there is now climbing by hundreds per day. On the other hand, a combination of widespread closures and shutdown measures, combined with individuals taking responsibility to do their absolute best, will see us closer to countries like Singapore or South Korea, which have dramatically curbed their cases.

Fact: Social distancing will save lives.

Social distancing will dramatically reduce coronavirus spread. This works both because undiagnosed cases of COVID-19 have less opportunity to spread, and because uninfected people have less opportunity to encounter coronavirus as you go about your life. So please take it seriously, even if you are feeling perfectly well. Stay home unless it is absolutely essential that you leave the house. Wash your hands often, with soap and water. Avoid touching your face.

In summary, we need to make informed, evidence-based decisions to combat this pandemic. It poses grave public health risks if not taken seriously, but we can do a lot to mitigate these risks. This needs to be led by Government, but in the absence of decisive leadership there, we must take the lead ourselves. But our response needs to be one that continues to look after the needs of our most vulnerable members of the community.

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

woke up angry at my ex again & kinda wishing I'd been as abusive and violent and anger-management-issues as they said I was lol,

(they said this about me pulling them by the wrist for 0.5 seconds 1 time, and also yelling at them when i lost my cool maybe two or three times, )

when really what i should have done was push him down the stairs and destroy his fucking phone, and THEN he would've had something to cry about

Idk I raised my voice at a guy I'd never met before yesterday cus I was NOT just gonna stand there and let a Ukip voter lecture me about racism 🤡 (ik he's a ukip voter cus my client told me, this was at work, my client is a poc and very much enjoyed the show when i schooled this guy, anyway there should be background checks on carers to make sure no disabled poc has to deal with racist carers but that's another matter entirely) Anyway it turns out that even old white men know how to shut up if you yell/growl NNNOOOOOO at them loudly enough, and I swear I wouldn't have had the backbone to stand up to this guy just a few months ago, and I definitely didn't when I was with my ex cus he deliberately kept me small and meek and compliant as much as he possibly could,

and maybe now that my anger and aggression are actually, finally manifesting in ways that are useful and can be productive,

I mean I wouldn't really go within 10ft (or 10 miles) of my ex these days cus I'd clock him as a toxic and probably narcy person, and someone I do Not want to be in a relationship with, but anyway he really thinks I was angry back then 😂, sweet summer child

I wasn't angry really, not the way I am now. I was just trapped and cornered and desperate, I was having all of my boundaries trampled every single day and he still wanted to tell me what I could or couldn't do with my new partner, a year+ after we broke up.

I was just in fight or flight mode. And my reactions were freeze or fawn more than anything and very, very occasionally he drew out the fight and then used that to claim I was abusing him. Lol

Ok yeah Covid meant we had to stay living together for much longer than was healthy but also I was perfectly ready to be civil and just not let it descend into the absolute shit show it became. it's not my fault that he had no interest whatsoever in being civil. it's not my fault he made me feel dread and anxiety 24/7 in his last 6 months here. it's not my fault he literally set things up for me to HAVE TO overhear him chatting shit about me and my friends on the phone to his new partner - which he was doing, also, like 24/7, and especially if I wanted to go to sleep and did not want vitriol from the room next door to permeate my dreams. I told him many times that this wasn't ok. He did it to our flatmates too. After being told it was a dick move and really upsetting, he doubled down and did it even more, now in flavours of Extra Loud and Extra Obnoxious. he was literally rapping (B A D L Y) about me being abusive outside of my room in the middle of the night on more than one occasion. which of these people sound more abusive to you? the one in their room, minding their business, escaping to their flatmates room for safety, escaping to work, escaping to the park to hang out with their new partner for the first time in 3 weeks at the start of the pandemic,

or the one outside the room at any and all hours of the day, on the phone constantly, Loudly speaking and singing and rapping about how the other one is abusive?

even if the one who's being sung about has lost their temper with the singing one in the past? on less than a handful of occasions?

Anyway I doubt my ex realises I'm back on tumblr otherwise I'd be fending off anons about how I'm "using my public platform to smear him" like when i vented on twitter to my 60 followers, never mentioning him by name lol. totally different from the callout post he put on his Facebook to his 3000+ friends of which we had more than 100 in common 🙃

anyway it's angry hours and if given the chance, I would definitely push him down a flight of stairs, so it's probably best for him to stay away from me forever.

[shu-maii]

Someone in my building is an anti-vaxxer and just says everyone should get corona and the pandemic will be over. One mentor/counselor person actually agreed and said "we'll only have to wipe up the 90 year olds that'd die from a cold anyway". They think wearing masks outside of stores is bullshit and the guy claims the government wants to control him. They said we should just open everything back up and let everyone get corona.

I got so mad. Like to add on to the disrespect to those old people, what about chronically ill people. immunocompromised people. disabled people. just unlucky people who got their entire life flipped upside down, who were perfectly healthy until they got covid. the we'll be immune part is BS too, there's plenty of people who got unlucky enough to get covid like 5 times.

Like I flipped! I thought about my grandparents, about some of my friends with health problems, but mostly my sister. She was ill for 5 months, and spent 2 of those months in the hospital with cat-scratch-disease or whatever the English call it, something that healthy people only have to worry about for like a week. If she gets covid I can just go grab a fucking shovel and dig her grave already. The fucking. gall. The fucking. disrespect. How fucking selfish can you be, can't they see the hundreds of thousands of people dying of this fucking disease? Who cares that you can't go out and drink until you drop or go to your stupid fucking house parties. People are dying. Wear your fucking mask when you're supposed to and get fucking vaccinated you piece of dogshit under the shoe of society.

I'm kinda mad here. If you think that "corona is basically just a flu, everyone should just get it, we'll be immune and it'll stop" is the biggest load of BS, please reblog this.