There are two types of long Covid and me/CFS patients. Those that already know they have CCI and those that don’t.
Joints bad? Tinnitus? EDS? Lyme? Dropped maxillar with poor forward growth? Dysautonomia? Woke up sick after a virus? (Any combo)
Autonomic structures got bashed.
A vote for Reform is a vote for more of the same **** that has got this country into the mess it's in right now.
Nadine Dorries - Wrote the online safety act
Nadhim Zahawi - Said it's a good thing benefits paid for by British taxpayers are given to migrants to be sent to Africa
Robert Jenrick - Involved in the migrant hotel scheme and the Afghan settlement scheme
Laila Cunningham - Supported trans and building on more green land
Vanessa Frake - Believes men who claim to be trans should be in women's prisons
Danny Kruger - Says Afghan children born in the UK are just as British as your children
Richard Tice - Doesn't care about our people being replaced and wants nothing to do with 'that lot'
Zia Yusuf - Tried to have an MP arrested on false charges
Nigel Farage - Said mass deportations were an impossibility, Islam cannot be politically alienated, if you've lived in Wales for 5 years you're Welsh and being English is about how you feel
This country doesn't need the dial moving a dash to the right it needs a revolution and right now there is only one party willing to do what is even close to necessary and that is Restore Britain
@LozBucks@JohnCleese Yes there was one a while back now you mention it.
Maybe it’s one of those ‘even a broken clock is correct twice a day’ phenomena??
@JustinLesniews3@hannahspierMD Yes the psychosomatisation of diseases is quite the web of lies.
Unfortunately it’s something of a habit by Drs across the ages.
An ugly manifestation of their ego, psychopathy and ignorance.
Rwandan immigrant Emmanuel Abayaisenga was a failed asylum seeker in France
Priests entrusted him with the keys to the cathedral he set fire to it. Father Maire took him into his home,while he awaited trial
He then murdered Father Maire.
Europe in a nutshell: moral suicide
I actually agree with sanity checks here. These are limitations of all research into disease with unknown core pathology.
However, you make an illogical leap from “science is hard” to “it’s psychological bc we haven’t convincingly evidenced the core pathology”
This is not part of the scientific method. The null hypothesis isn’t “it’s psychological”, it’s actually “hypothesis x is not an effect”.
Your idea that LC is psychological is an ‘alternate’ hypothesis in itself; one that you need to test, evidence and then attempt to disprove. Same as hypotheses of autoimmunity, microclots or whatever.
If you test enough cytokines, metabolites, immune markers, brain regions, and microbiome patterns, something will eventually separate patients from healthy controls, especially when the patients are chronically unwell, inactive, sleep-deprived, medicated, anxious, or depressed. That is not the same as discovering a disease mechanism. Serious science begins with a hypothesis. You propose a mechanism, derive predictions from it, and then test whether reality behaves as your theory says it should. With these syndromes, the process seems reversed. The field accumulates abnormalities first and builds explanations around them later.
The plot thickens further when one notices that many of these biological findings are compared against healthy controls, not against the patients they most need to distinguish themselves from: people with depression, chronic anxiety, chronic stress, sleep disorders, pain syndromes, inactivity, or years of psychiatric medication exposure. Nor can these labels be cleanly distinguished from each other.
I actually agree with sanity checks here. These are limitations of all research into disease with unknown core pathology.
However, you make an illogical leap from “science is hard” to “it’s psychological bc we haven’t convincingly evidenced the core pathology”
This is not part of the scientific method. The null hypothesis isn’t “it’s psychological”, it’s actually “hypothesis x is not an effect”.
Your idea that LC is psychological is an ‘alternate’ hypothesis in itself; one that you need to test, evidence and then attempt to disprove. Same as hypotheses of autoimmunity, microclots or whatever.
@goingtogetugly@hannahspierMD Thanks for proving my point.
Ironic you did it whilst trying to criticise me for hypocrisy.
Don’t strain yourself genius.
This theory is not supported by the evidence at all.
I suspect this is just driven by resentment of your freedoms being impacted by pandemic restrictions.
So you are lashing out at the patients who, in your eyes, symbolise a perpetuation of the pandemic.
Disingenuously pretending it’s care and not insult, is just another layer of mockery that you likely get off on. It’s you who has a psychological disorder, not them.
Long COVID serves a psychological purpose.
To be clear, I am not talking about cases where a viral infection causes demonstrable medical sequelae in specific organs or physiological systems. Those are real medical questions that should be investigated on their own terms.
I am referring to the broader cluster of symptoms often grouped under "Long COVID" that are predominantly psychiatric - subjective and nonspecific: fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, low mood, difficulty concentrating, and related complaints.
It helped keep the emotional world of the pandemic alive after the emergency had ended.
During COVID, being cautious was seen as virtuous. Avoiding risk meant being responsible and paying close attention to symptoms showed you were taking things seriously.
Public life reorganized itself around protection, accommodation, and the assumption that anyone could be gravely harmed.
In that sense, COVID accelerated the feminization of social norms: safety, emotional validation, vulnerability, and infantilizing care became the organizing principles of public life. Not helpful for those tending naturally towards neuroticism that was not only left unchecked but actively encouraged for over 3 years.
For those people, the end of the pandemic meant the loss of belonging, the dissolution of a social environment in which their concerns, anxieties, and risk assessments were widely shared and affirmed.
Long COVID allowed the crisis to continue in another form. It confirmed that all the fear and excessive care at the expense of others were justified. It preserved the sense that the extraordinary measures had indeed been necessary. It kept alive the emotional framework of the COVID years.
And in that framework, demonstrating concern for suffering becomes more important than asking the question: What actually helps people recover?
Islam is a terrible influence and unsurprisingly appallingly bad at the group level too. If it was a political party, of white people, it would be further right than the Nazis and banned. Muhammad was an awful man.
1. 46% of British Muslims sympathize with or support Hamas (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024, https://t.co/HcsDrFhbBo…). 0
2. Only 24% believe Hamas committed murder and rape on October 7, 2023 (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
3. 39% reject that Hamas committed murder and rape on October 7 (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
4. 32% want Sharia law implemented in the UK (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
5. 32% want Islam to become the UK’s national religion (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
6. 52% support banning depictions of the Prophet Muhammad (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
7. 52% believe homosexuality should be illegal (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016, https://t.co/siCDiElFTM…). 10
8. 23% support introducing Sharia law in parts of the UK (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016). 10
9. 39% believe wives should always obey their husbands (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016). 10
10. 100% of convicted perpetrators in Telford’s Operation Chalice child rape gangs were Muslim men (Telford child sexual exploitation scandal, Wikipedia, 2024, https://t.co/TrLEHIiGDd…).
11. 4% sympathize with stoning adulterers (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016). 10
12. 23-32% support Sharia law in some form (Policy Exchange Poll, 2016, https://t.co/E1I2da16K2…). 20
13. Around 1.2 million British Muslims want Sharia law (Extrapolation from Policy Exchange Poll, 2016; based on ~4 million UK Muslim population). 20
14. 39,000 Muslims on MI5’s terror watch list (Henry Jackson Society report, Modern-Day Britain’s Terror Threat, 2021, https://t.co/2nGGSQNxCK…).
15. In certain UK areas, Muslims are 40% of population but 80% of council (Local examples cited in reports, e.g., Tower Hamlets; Policy Exchange Poll context, 2016). 20
16. 20% of Muslim men in Telford identified as involved in grooming gangs (Tommy Robinson statement, 2018, https://t.co/eIT8ZF6KgQ…). 6
17. 50% of Muslim households in poverty/on benefits; 41.9% economically inactive; 26.6% in social housing (MCB report, 2015, https://t.co/OI23B0OWfQ…; Census 2021, https://t.co/DM1BBixvW1…). 20 10
Yes clearly you can follow an awful religion or political party and still be a good, functional member of society.
However the constant refrain of “the majority of Muslims are x, y , z” is a very low bar. >50% is hardly comforting and the moderates do nothing.
Islam is a terrible influence and unsurprisingly appallingly bad at the group level too. If it was a political party, of white people, it would be further right than the Nazis and banned. Muhammad was an awful man.
1. 46% of British Muslims sympathize with or support Hamas (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024, https://t.co/HcsDrFhbBo…). 0
2. Only 24% believe Hamas committed murder and rape on October 7, 2023 (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
3. 39% reject that Hamas committed murder and rape on October 7 (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
4. 32% want Sharia law implemented in the UK (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
5. 32% want Islam to become the UK’s national religion (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
6. 52% support banning depictions of the Prophet Muhammad (Henry Jackson Society Poll, 2024). 0
7. 52% believe homosexuality should be illegal (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016, https://t.co/siCDiElFTM…). 10
8. 23% support introducing Sharia law in parts of the UK (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016). 10
9. 39% believe wives should always obey their husbands (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016). 10
10. 100% of convicted perpetrators in Telford’s Operation Chalice child rape gangs were Muslim men (Telford child sexual exploitation scandal, Wikipedia, 2024, https://t.co/TrLEHIiGDd…).
11. 4% sympathize with stoning adulterers (ICM Poll for Channel 4, 2016). 10
12. 23-32% support Sharia law in some form (Policy Exchange Poll, 2016, https://t.co/E1I2da16K2…). 20
13. Around 1.2 million British Muslims want Sharia law (Extrapolation from Policy Exchange Poll, 2016; based on ~4 million UK Muslim population). 20
14. 39,000 Muslims on MI5’s terror watch list (Henry Jackson Society report, Modern-Day Britain’s Terror Threat, 2021, https://t.co/2nGGSQNxCK…).
15. In certain UK areas, Muslims are 40% of population but 80% of council (Local examples cited in reports, e.g., Tower Hamlets; Policy Exchange Poll context, 2016). 20
16. 20% of Muslim men in Telford identified as involved in grooming gangs (Tommy Robinson statement, 2018, https://t.co/eIT8ZF6KgQ…). 6
17. 50% of Muslim households in poverty/on benefits; 41.9% economically inactive; 26.6% in social housing (MCB report, 2015, https://t.co/OI23B0OWfQ…; Census 2021, https://t.co/DM1BBixvW1…). 20 10
@HasAhmed_ Yes but the moderates become irrelevant because they are unwilling to stop the extremists.
Which tbh, aren’t even that extreme relative to Islam, they just follow it more faithfully.
The prevalence of ‘extremist’ views in UK Muslims is very high, bring sub 50% is no brag.
@joakial_ You are describing leftism lmao.
Your allergic reaction to free speech is a good indicator and something you share with the Islamists.
In the UK you are hand in hand politically already via the Green Party, Your Party and the Labour Party.
Same as always, useful idiots.
@DavidDeutschOxf@grok@grok what percentage of the UK population is white British and what is their prison proportion? Find the same for Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus and compare. Yes we are conflating race and religion but in this case they are largely still distinct groups.