#pandemic isnt over

[sloanevictor]

[sloanevictor]

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NPR tacitly endorses the removal of Long COVID sufferers from public life

Julia Doubleday - March 11, 2024

Let’s start with the title.

“Wrestling with my husband’s fear of getting Long COVID again” at NPR today right away frames the author’s problem as her “husband’s fear.”

Not the unchecked, year-round spread of COVID-19.

Not the national and international abandonment of disabled people and hundreds of millions of people with Long COVID symptoms.

Not her social milieu, which refuses to understand or acknowledge that vulnerable people are at significant risk of harm from COVID infection.

Not the press, which has spent several years manufacturing consent for recurrent, endless COVID infections.

Not the rampant ADA violations of a society that has knowingly stripped millions of their ability to safely enter public spaces.

Not the wholesale destruction of public health at the hands of a politically captured CDC.

No, the problem she is struggling with is that her husband, who developed Long COVID symptoms after a 2022 infection, keeps asking her to take COVID precautions so he does not get reinfected and potentially become sicker and long-term disabled.

Long COVID is a serious disease. Some of the biomarkers (objective measurements in the blood that differ from a “healthy” person) that researchers have identified include:

Viral persistence (the body is not fully clearing the SARS-COV-2 virus)

Microclots in the blood and endothelial dysfunction (leading to vascular problems, organ failure, cardiac events)

Immune system dysregulation

Mitochondrial damage

Blood-brain barrier disruption

[i-amusemyself]

ofc im celebrating that the Tories are out but seeing just how much some people are specifically celebrating a labour government is a bit of a red flag. Like. Are yall ready to hold these people to account??

They're not addressing the ongoing, mass disabling pandemic; they don't support palestine; they're coming for trans rights and they're in favour of NHS privatisation.

Yall have got to be ready to criticise, protest and push, not just be placated by them not being Tories by name.

[i-am-al-capone]

as someone whose been infected with covid multiple times im fucking running out of patience with being surrounded by people who refuse to mask, test themselves, or even stay home when showing symptoms treat me like my cautiousness is annoying to THEM.

sick of hearing “oh well if anyone was feeling sick i’m sure they won’t come” ITS FUCKING AIRBORNE

sick of being patronized for not wanting covid a fifth time.

even by people close to me, who care about me, who know the way covid has ravaged my body and brain. as if it’s not fact that people with No Symptoms At All are capable of spread. that’s pre symptomatic and asymptomatic. (If you think you haven’t been infected and you haven’t been testing yourself it’s entirely likely you’ve had an asymptomatic infection) That you’re most contagious 2-3 days before and after your symptoms begin. That it can take up to 14 days for symptoms to appear, and in that period you can pass on covid.

absolutely sick of peoples selfishness and unwillingness to even CONSIDER doing the bare minimum to even slow the spread? to even test before large gatherings? to give a shit at all?

while the rest of us are suffering through long covid or extreme isolation because leaving their home may kill them? anyways i don’t expect anyone to really read this i’m just feeling so tired and scared and left behind… i’m going to go broke because a decent set of masks is only found online for upwards of 50-60$ in my area.

fuck.

[blindedbythedarkness]

I turn 25 tomorrow. I wonder how many more birthdays until life feels survivable again. Will I even make it until that time? Or will Covid kill me first? Will /I/ kill me first if this pain and harm doesn't stop? If I do live, will I be too old to have a family by the time they're safe to exist?

My third pandemic birthday. I've lost all of my early 20s. They're not lost from wearing a mask, avoiding crowds or being safe. They're lost from being forced to grow up too damn fast. From being forced to choose between my health and my social life. From being excluded and ostracised from society and the communities where I thought I'd finally found a home. From having my basic humans rights- my rights to participate in society, to life, to safety, to healthcare- systematically stripped from me piece by piece whilst being told its not happening at all.

I'm slowly making peace with getting older. As much as I grieve the years I've lost, I'm equally grateful I've survived another one. It's a privilege to get older and I'm more grateful of that than ever. But the pain I'm enduring every single day from the hidden pandemic and gaslighting from everyone I ever trusted makes it hard to appreciate.

[khizuo]

thinking about how my dad became more abusive to me when I began taking stronger COVID protections. thinking about how abuse often serves as a means of enforcing ableist normativity on its victims. thinking about how widespread COVID minimization plays into the abuse culture we live in.

[strangeauthor]

oh dragoncon starts tomorrow. im not going lol

[hiisikoloart]

This includes taking the ongoing pandemic seriously (ak.a wearing a good mask, isolating when sick, not going to mass events, vaccinating, supporting mask mandates and other mitigations etc.) and not leaving the disabeld people to fend against the waves of sickness alone.

Accepting and supporting disabled/neurodivergent people means all the time, not just when it's convenient for you. If you have to pick and choose when to be an ally, then you might as well not be an ally.

[sloanevictor]

[medsocionwheels]

#IMaskBecause I have the tools to prevent microclots but they only work if I use them.

Latest from the #IMaskBecause series directly related to the second week of increased Google search traffic for microclots.

Here's me in an elastomeric P100 (dentec comfort air) giving a very bendy thumbs up sign 👆🏻

I've been tracking the increase in searches for miroclots since the last week of April for anyone interested 👇🏻

[spooniestrong]

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[ipoddymouth]

its kinda crazy to me that sabrina isn't bigger than she is she has all the makings of a main pop girl + a taylor swift cosign but for some reason she just won't stick to the gp yet?

i think its just an oversaturated market right now tbh. it seems like some studios are focusin more on tiktok trending sounds instead of like....training their artists to be good performers gjraligjjhi bc the pandemic killed the concert biz for a hot sec and they still needed a way to make money.

lucky for us tho sabrina IS actually v talented and once they move on from making her sing every possible variant of nonsense for tiktok backgrounds her label will give her more shit to do

[playingplayer2]

Yo. How TF do I gently yet firmly tell my (haven't listened to me on this yet) friends (who fucking hell I haven't hung out with them in person for 2 years FOR A REASON?) that for me to go out with them it can't just be me who masks? Like. For their safety, for mine, for other people's????????????

Like I want to hang out, I want to be supportive and be there for my friends but they make it real fucking hard when they don't do the fucking same??

Like I'm fucking terrified for them. I'm terrified for them, I'm terrified for me, and I'm terrified that if I push masking, or better masking, that I'm going to lose them. And in that case have I already lost them?

[i-amusemyself]

[weather-phenomenon]

it ever just hits you that there was like a whole pandemic that we lived thru a whole pandemic that's crazy yo

[blindedbythedarkness]

Am I sad I never knew how good and simple and safe life was back before 2020? Yes.

Am I mad that I took it for granted? No, because someone with hope could never imagine a world like this.