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Come find me at @WithoutaMap.bsky.social Navigating long-term illness Without a Map or compass and finding a cure...

[Covid Caution - BA.3.2, XFG, LF.7, LP.8.1 @CovidCaution]

Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82%

https://t.co/MUEvMVpTmE

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@BrandonLuuMD It's not just washing them out. The pH change helps to slow the virus ability to spread. There are some good studies on it on pubmed.

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@sbABetterLeader Yes it does. It works well. My whole family use it, it's good as a prophylactic and a treatment. The earlier and more regular the better.

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@InMrMac @sharrond62 @Noodle48892170 It's political ideology. Farmers don't vote Labour.

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Lost in an unfamiliar place , the start of the adventure in #LongCovid https://t.co/wbRhr7ZSZC

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@1goodtern Define clean.....

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@organichemusic Welcome back! Your work helped me recover from Long COVID! Not on its own but in concert with other things. Super grateful for your efforts.

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@DrNeilStone We are so good at inventing new dangers...... It might be good to reflect on what we did with mixomatosis to the rabbit population in Australia.

And for all those thinking, "but they recovered........" 🙄

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@1goodtern It has here. Plenty of chicks. Lots of activity. I was stood in a high meadow a few days ago with Martin's feeding all around me. Swooping, diving, flying close as if I was a statue. Many more than the past few years.

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@AlbaDocherty Time to hand back your medical license.

Learn to read the statistics.

And no, you are not fine by any objective measure. You just haven't been tested to see what is wrong....

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@1goodtern Probably worse, most people don't realise they'll do exactly the same again next time :-(

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Long Covid Physio had 25k followers on their old account, but they were locked out and have started a new one.
Follow them here and let's see if we can get their 25k back!
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[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Hey @BBCNews, next time, instead of speaking with a TV psychiatrist and motivational speaker (this is how
'Dr. T' defines himself), why don't you speak with the scientists actually investigating what Brain fog is?
#NeuroCovid #LongCovid

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@PrognosticChats @1goodtern Totally agree. Fog is not even accurate..... It's nothing like a fog

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@1goodtern There is research that says they continue to create proteins though, so not as dormant as thought and stimulating some response.

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@1goodtern All because we fail to address the primary infection adequately. Or the inflammation it causes

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@1goodtern And because the previous is now unsuppressed it's able to re-emerge.

The more old, uncleared infections we have, the less capacity our immune system has to respond to new infections.

It's a finite system with a finite amount of resource to fight infection.

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@1goodtern This is right.

And a bit wrong. I don't think they are reactivated. Because they are never dormant.

What they are is suppressed by our immune system. That takes a bit of capacity.

Then when we get a new infection our immune system responds but stops "suppressing" the previous.

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@SusanCowell @linds_longcovid You have no idea...... Because the research says different.

When I say research I mean well designed studies, run by actual scientists who are working tirelessly (still) to identify the pathology, the impact and the cure.

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@linds_longcovid Completely accurate.

My cousin got zero sympathy with unexplained exhaustion and weight loss.

Total switch to support and sympathy once diagnosed with cancer.

You are not alone!