CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏

CarolAnn Barrows ~ Dedicated to protecting myself & others from pandemic pathogens in Kānaka ‘Ōiwi land
I need COVID Conscious/Airborne Aware friends on Maui!

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

Do you need someone to simply listen to you?
I Listen.
This is a gift I am giving to our COVID Conscious Community.
I am a musician/vocalist so deep listening comes with the territory. I've also known the value when someone is able to just listen to me without trying to "fix" me. This has helped me to hear myself so I can solve my own problems. So, I've studied listening and taken several courses in how to listen to others.
All that said, If/when you need a friend to just LISTEN to you, please feel free to DM me.
I'm all ears.

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

PEONIES by Mary Oliver
This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers and they open —
pools of lace,
white and pink —
and all day the black ants climb over them, boring their deep and mysterious holes
into the curls,
craving the sweet sap,
taking it away to their dark, underground cities —
and all day
under the shifty wind,
as in a dance to the great wedding,the flowers bend their bright bodies,
and tip their fragrance to the air,
and rise,
their red stems holding
all that dampness and recklessness
gladly and lightly,
and there it is again —
beauty the brave, the exemplary,
blazing open.
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,
with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

This would be me!

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

I said, "Yes", and then the physical therapist left the room and got an N95, not a baggie blue. So odd - that the clinic staff were well-informed enough to have effective masks, but not well-enough to understand that they and their clients should be wearing them all the time.

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

YES! Wear a mask ALL THE TIME!

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the recent Wired article was likely only the beginning of this summer propaganda wave.

Controversy & lies outperform truth every time. Struggling media outlets know exactly which buttons to push. There have been many such waves.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

The problem with articles like the Wired one is LongCovid patients aren’t the intended audience. These articles aren’t meant for us. They are for our families, our doctors, our employers, & our elected officials, & they are used to harm us.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Brain retraining does not fix blood vessels.

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

@OldYesButWise @envidreamz @Squijibo Or rather COV!

[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

@pandabearmom Yes, and then the physical therapist wore an N95, not a baggie blue.
So odd - that the clinic staff were well-informed enough to have effective masks, but not well-enough to understand that they and their clients should be wearing them all the time.

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

YES! Wear a mask ALL THE TIME!

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

Long COVID is not a binary condition - has it/does not have it.
It is more likely a spectrum of post-infectious injury and dysregulation.
Symptoms capture only part of the affected group. Many biological changes may be missed if we only rely on questionnaires or routine clinical exams.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

So let me get this straight…

They got mad at you for reacting to something they did. And now, instead of addressing what actually happened, the focus has shifted away from their actions and onto your reaction—as if the real issue isn’t the behavior that caused it, but the fact that you spoke up about it.

So suddenly, it’s not about what he did anymore… It’s about you “complaining.”

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

@karenmitchell__ Thank YOU, Dr. Mitchell, for helping is recognize accurate, research-based, information regarding narcissist/psychopaths, so that we can better protect ourselves from the human UnKind among us.

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

@karenmitchell__ Because of the work you're doing I now understand that many of the so-called "experts" on narcissism are actually narcissists/persistent predatory personalities themselves.
Thank you!

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

It seems as though everyone and their Uncle is now a "narcissist expert".
I am beyond grateful for the impeccable research you have done, published and are promoting so that finally we are able to recognize the predators among us and thus protect ourselves and others from the harm they always intentionally cause their targets/victims.
🙏🏼

[Dr Karen Mitchell PhD @karenmitchell__]

It’s time to start calling out “experts” who make inaccurate statements about narcissists & psychopaths (human predators).
Accuracy matters!! Predators are dangerous, harmful and hard to “see”.
We simply must educate accurately to give us the best chance of preventing harm and holding them to account.

I’ve done the deepest, most comprehensive study ever undertaken of our global knowledge on those who harm without remorse & I can see there are ALOT of “experts” on social media making ALOT of inaccurate comments.

This is not OK.
Time to start correcting the false narratives.

This woman has 332,000 followers on Instagram. Her comment here is of course inaccurate.
Many narcissists are in long-term jobs, & have successful careers. They are better placed to harm people & get away with it because they have such a convincing façade as a doctor or psychologist or lawyer or judge or manager…

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

@michael_hoerger This is also referred to as Toxic Positivity

[CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 @frogess33]

A friend recently noted that those who believe they suffer from ADD or ADHA may actually unable to concentrate as a defense against how wretchedly painful the world has become.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Reminder: Long COVID's disability & suffering will be the pandemic's most devastating long-term global legacy. Neither GBD supporters nor critics anticipated its scale or included it in their policy calculus -and “let er rip” strategies prioritizing widespread exposure clearly worsen the toll. Millions affected, with real costs in lives and productivity (on top of 20 million direct deaths globally, which we should never forget or minimize). https://t.co/I48h2XxxfS