Tarz (っ◕‿◕)っ

Futurist. Architect. @pubhealthaction. Clean air is a human right. (AI+CV+XR+Robots+Fintech). 3 ppl, 6 furry babies, 1 amazing wife. Dad jokes are on the house.

[Public Health Action Network @pubhealthaction]

PHAN and @AirSupportBox are pleased to announce that we'll co-host a live Zoom discussion on Sunday, June 28th about the precautionary principle: what it is, how it came into practice, and how it's been virtually abandoned by many in the healthcare and public health communities.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Person Asking For Source Clarifies A Source That Agrees With Them, Not All Those Other Sources

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Health Risk Low Except For Those At Risk From Health Risk

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

The PMC county-level COVlD map has been updated w/today's CDC data.

Very High🔥🔥
▪️Guam
▪️Southeast Idaho
▪️Southeast Alabama
▪️Lorain, Ohio
▪️Waldoboro, Maine

High🔥
▪️Waco, Texas
▪️Lexington, Kentucky
▪️Lancaster, Pennsylvania

We've posted Monday's report early.

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[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇦🇺Australia: Starting in mid-2026, a new national program will test wastewater across Australia to track diseases like COVID-19 and the flu. This will help health officials spot outbreaks early and stay ready for future threats.

Source: https://t.co/0WUKg7EiLs

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Long Covid Does Not Exist, Says 2006 Study

[Tarz (っ◕‿◕)っ @TheyCallMeTarz]

https://t.co/fEUf3tfpcw

[Tarz (っ◕‿◕)っ @TheyCallMeTarz]

@perrymetzger @IAmArcIvanov Codex has the same issues: "You're right. I'm sorry. I'm mixing up two separate facts and sending you in circles." If you're trying to do complicated architecture (or in the case of the above, troubleshoot NAT/WAN issues), it takes a huge amount of hand holding.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Are Long Coviders Just Trying To Keep The Pandemic Vibe Alive

[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

There are hundreds of thousands of publications on SARS-CoV-2 infection. They demonstrate multi-system pathology in acute and Long Covid through some of the most sophisticated scientific approaches in medical history.
These are irrefutable facts.

[Dara in Chains @DarainChains]

Reducing a multi-systemic vascular disaster to "identity formation" is an extraordinary act of clinical denial.

I am in my forties, navigating Long Covid and Vaccine Injury. I am an oncology RN. I have had to develop incredibly thick skin to survive the personal attacks on this platform, but let's bypass your behavioral theories and look at my actual medical file.

My "identity" consists of:

Neurological/Vascular:
2 strokes, frontal lobe atrophy, aphasia, facial nerve palsy, microvascular damage and 3 confirmed vascular compressions.

Immune/Hematology: Reactivated EBV, shingles, low B-cells, high platelets, and low MPV.

Systemic: Extreme dysautonomia, polyposis, blurry vision, many new allergies (confirmed), and the devastating loss of a baby.

I do not want a label. I do not want an identity. I want to not die.

While internet commentators try to rebrand organic tissue damage as a psychological crisis, a top vascular surgeon actually looked at my objective data and fast-tracked me for a surgical assessment this month.
The virus is quietly destroying the human vascular infrastructure while you argue about semantics. We don't need coping mechanisms; we need real medical care.

[Tarz (っ◕‿◕)っ @TheyCallMeTarz]

@tylerblack32 @LadyRimbaud That's only the argument you and he apparently want it to be, not the actual argument. Wild how both of you are doubling down on it.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

OK, You’ve Got Me. When I Said Long Covid Could Be Treated By Talking Therapy, I Actually Meant There’s No Such Thing As Long Covid

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I spent 24 years wearing this nations uniform.

Do you know what nobody ever told me?

That if I worked hard enough and sacrificed enough, someday my military career could be decided by the political opinion of a Fox News pundit playing Defense Secretary.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Let's Find A Kinder Way To Blame Long Covid Patients

[Tarz (っ◕‿◕)っ @TheyCallMeTarz]

@GaryGrumbach The 4th estate has clearly wholly embraced authoritarianism - normalizing rhetoric, compromising for "access", and worse - so I'm not sure he was correct. Institutional journalism seems to be ushering it in vs standing strong against it.

[Dara in Chains @DarainChains]

🧠 The Breakdown: Dethroning the "Expert" Critique

1. The "Outsider Expert" Fallacy

The writer proudly admits to taking highly specialized, frontier LC studies to "pre-eminent experts who weren't deeply embedded in the LC world."

The Flaw:
In modern medicine, this is a glaring conflict of domain expertise. LC intersects the absolute cutting edges of virology, neuro-immunology, and autonomic medicine. If an expert is "not deeply embedded" in this specific, rapidly evolving literature, they are no longer an expert on this pathology.

The Reality:
Bringing a study on tissue-specific viral RNA replication or complex microvascular endothelial damage to a traditional, general immunologist or cardiologist who hasn't tracked the last several years of multi-systemic post-viral data means you are asking an outsider to evaluate a frontier they aren't actively studying. They will naturally default to outdated, 20-year-old textbooks and generalized paradigms.

2. Weaponizing "Hypothesis Generation" to Dismiss Hard Data

Calling groundbreaking pilot data "at best a hypothesis generation" is a classic gaslighting tactic used to move the goalposts.

The Flaw:
Every single major medical breakthrough in human history, from the discovery of H. pylori causing ulcers to the realization that MS was an viral antibody immune complex demyelinating disease, started as "hypothesis-generating" pilot data that challenged the existing medical status quo. Now we know EBV is responsible.

The Reality:
The writer uses this phrase to imply the science is fake. In reality, when institutions publish data showing double-stranded viral RNA in gut tissue biopsies or active T-cell proliferation in the brain stem, it isn’t a vague guess. It is a physical, observable finding. Labeling it "hypothesis generation" is just a journalistic shield used to ignore the fact that the old "post-viral fatigue is psychological" paradigm is actively burning to the ground while chronic virus is moving into visible reality. Facts over beliefs is what is needed here.

3. The "Garbage Science" Insult to Elite Institutions

Dismissing this body of work as "garbage science" is a direct insult to some of the most rigorous, heavily scrutinized research teams in the world. Jeez even the LC Community scrutinizes them with a magnifying glass!

The Flaw:
The studies being cited by the patient community aren't coming from fringe, unverified blogs. They are being conducted and peer-reviewed by world-class teams at Cochin Institute, UC San Francisco, Harvard, Yale, and UC Davis, and funded by massive initiatives.

The Reality:
To imply that researchers like Dr. Morgane Bomsel with microscopy of our infected platelets or the teams running whole-body PET imaging to track viral reservoirs are producing "garbage science" because a non-embedded traditionalist doesn't like the implications is defensive, status-quo journalism at its worst. It protects a broken medical system by attacking the scientists actually trying to fix it.

Nursing Note:
Writers can sit behind keyboards and play semantics with the medical establishment all day long, but they don't have to live in the body that is experiencing the physical infrastructure failure. Please take care out there LC justice seekers. And Alan, you are just part of the problem preventing us from getting serious prevention tests and treatments so we stop dropping dead from cardiovascular events. Be a helper not a hindrance.
From DiC (a broken Oncology RN with LC)
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[Reality Check Marker @RealCheckMarker]

"a pre-eminent expert in the field who wasn't deeply embedded in the LC world"
A statistical geneticist.
We're not bewildered to the absence of any medical expertise because this is exactly how Big Tobacco used #TobaccoPlaybook to seed doubts of smoking causing cancer.

[Tarz (っ◕‿◕)っ @TheyCallMeTarz]

Next we have one of the oldest rhetorical techniques:

"There might be a way forward...if only they would let us investigate it."

Implying that opposition itself validates the idea.

This is heavily used in:

conspiracy theories, alternative medicine, political extremism, scams

[Tarz (っ◕‿◕)っ @TheyCallMeTarz]

The most memorable parts of the article aren't studies.

They're people.

Andrew Larson.
Giorgia Lupi.
Recovered patients.

Humans remember stories far better than statistics.

That's why anecdotes are such powerful persuasive tools.