Tash

I wear my hands stained and my heart & opinions stapled to my forehead.

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

All I ever actually wanted to be was enough.

Now I just want to be left alone.

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

I have been asked/expected/seen to be many things in my life. Be good. Be nice. Be: kind, safe, quiet, clever, appropriate, ambitious, empathetic, patient, generous, organised, consistent, resilient, smarter, stronger, smaller, less, useful, better, more...

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

People say they love their kids but are exposing them to SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly with no precautions.

As a lifelong immunocompromised person who developed asthma last year, my risk has never been higher, but I’m an adult with agency over my life.

What about the kids developing dementia from repeat infections? Kids in the ICU? Kids who had to quit their favorite sport due to chronic illness? Kids with newly developed disabilities?

Protect your kids because I promise you, the government isn’t.

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

them healthy?.. I can't ignore this, and I can't prevent it. We keep hens for eggs, and we grow our produce. We don't know how to best prepare ourselves for a healthy future that includes us producing our own food, and that's stressful.

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

The unknown extent of everything, through lack of surveillance or at least transparency of knowledge of spread H5N1, has us thinking of mitigations for our backyard hens. Already have enclosed coop & fenced run but birds fly overhead, drop feathers, defecate and it's airborne..?

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

If only public health officials did their job. You know? Instead of following some political agenda.

Like warning people about the on-going human-to-human transmission of SARS-Cov-2, which causes immune dysfunction, vascular damage (including brain damage), which accelerates aging and opens one up to higher likelihood of bacterial, fungal and other viral infections...

Three SARS2 infections means the chance of realizing Long Covid is 40%.

That and H5N1 which is spreading like wild fire, found in milk, eggs, other animal protein. Meanwhile, the CDC doesn’t want our wastewater analysts to test wastewater “because it’ll confuse people” (note: case fatality rates for bird flu range from 10-60% in humans) while mammal to human transmission is already occurring… and interestingly the CDC is already down with PPE (it has been recommended to farmers).

😠

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

So.. unless we keep them indoors, with hepa filtered air circulating their enclosure, they'll be at risk (and for obvs reasons, this is impractical and cruel) so we just have to be diligent at keeping their spaces clean, wear PPE when cleaning their spaces and do our best to keep

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

I am signalled by my pinging ph in the early hrs of the morning that yet another hurdle is on the way..

[tern @1goodtern]

The last few weeks, I was getting kicked about by a few of the usual suspects, and I saw the same being done to a few other big anti-infection accounts... and I thought to myself... 'what news is about to break'.

[Em @embournemouth]

@Saffiya_Khan1 I think some people have blocked COVID out. Old school friend posted that her son has been ill and coughing for 10 weeks and is now a ghost of himself, lots of comments on post from other mums saying similar about their kids - most mentioning "some virus" but never saying Covid.

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

@Adelaide0024 @GayFabFourFan My 14yr old son dx T1DM 2yrs ago (suspect covid triggered) and 2nd covid infection a yr later wound up in ED. Has had low WBC and haemoglobin and Vit D - even after treatment remains borderline = regular bloods and urine tests to keep eye out for answers..

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

@DaniBeckman The real issue I have is that advertising with clip-art magical (Amanita muscaria)-ish pics that are nothing like Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) in appearance, taste, effects etc can mislead people in so many ways.

[Jane Doe @replyperson]

Unmasked people in a cancer hospital are a certain kind of selfish.

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD, MPH @fitterhappierAJ]

1) Covid is chronic and reinfects
2) It decreases IQ on initial infection and reinfection
3) Kids keep catching it
4) Airline staff keep catching it

Noone sees a problem here? Am I talking to a wall?

[Alan Baxter ♛ @AlanBixter]

@LongCovidHell When parents stopped caring if their child's life expectancy exceeded their own.

[Dame Sa 🐝 3.5% @LongCovidHell]

Took my kids to the park yesterday. A kid, about 8, coughing SO much. Looks sick. Eventually comes up to the group of mums, says they can’t breathe and chest hurts. Mum says sit down, have a rest, you’ll be ok. Carries on chatting.

When did this become normal? 🤯

#LongCovidKids

[Tash @howdoyoutakeit]

@notcryin @Daniel_E_Park I hope you never have to experience the pain and loneliness of becoming so compromised by an easily preventable infection that you consider taking your own life. Why anyone plays health roulette is insane - and with your children's lives? It's cruel.

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

If your nervous system is constantly deregulated, that’s pretty normal right now. We’re going through a pandemic that’s lasted four years so far, witnessing active genocide, living paycheck to paycheck, and can’t get our basic needs met. It’s okay if you don’t have it together.

[Keith @keetmuise]

If your kids..
are less energetic,
are sick more often,
are sick more severely,
are missing more school,
are struggling with their school work,
are dealing with ongoing symptoms,
are the most important thing in the world to you,
please start asking why this is happening.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Maybe I’m naive but I thought that as people got sick more often & watched people become disabled they would take covid & public health seriously. I didn’t think that 4 years in we would be halting testing & seeing avian flu spread. We’re going backwards & no one seems to care.