I would say that I have no idea why people continue to go out of their way to make it harder to exist as long covid patients, harder for us to be taken seriously, and continue to work to increase stigma against us, but I guess ultimately ppl are afraid of the reality of LC
You can choose not to mask but you can’t choose not to mask and also not inflict what happened to me onto other ppl. You have to be an adult and face the reality of the disease and its impacts. You can be helpful and do your part and mitigate or you can harmful. No neutral.
1/ What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Our peer-reviewed open-access paper is now published:
https://t.co/2SuvreBOxK
You cannot afford rent. You cannot afford groceries. You cannot afford to get sick. They found a billion dollars a day for what is going on right now. The money exists. They just decided you don't deserve it.
“You’re not just becoming disabled,” said Elle Seibert, 31, who has dealt with debilitating fatigue and cardiac symptoms since 2020. “You’re realizing how easily society at large and people in your life will abandon you when you cannot offer them things.” https://t.co/jVI9ruk1Re
i keep thinking about the line “discernment can make you the villain in a room where denial is the culture.” whoever said it really knew what they were on about.
Airborne transmission.
Vascular destruction.
Sars2 doesn't care how deep in denial you are. It's not over, it's still maiming & killing.
If you have access, just put a fucking mask on, stop fucking around.
You're "back-to-normal" fantasy comes with a massive price.
Faye Greenwood, a 24-year-old English influencer, experienced a heart attack in July
Children growing up today will think that it normal for 24- year-olds to have heart attacks and heart transplants
https://t.co/oHouiiDaby
Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
https://t.co/4uSseVV9fw
They lied when they said it would get milder for kids.
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Three times as likely to get myocarditis after the second covid infection than the first...
Twice as likely to get *acute kidney injury*...
Twice as likely to get *heart disease*...
https://t.co/K162aMr4Dh
Last week I saw someone write about how 6 year olds have never heard of Covid even though they've had it at least five times here.
So this week I asked school children of all ages about Covid.
Some of what they said blew me away, especially the older teenagers.
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My hair
My skin
My teeth
My lungs
My heart
My kidneys
My brain
My immune system
My thyroid
My nails
My energy
My vision
My nervous system
My hearing
All things damaged by a ‘mild’ covid infection.
Mask up.
Look out for each other.