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The headline 'Long Covid is real' five years after it was first described should really make people think about why so much effort has been expended to convince you otherwise.
One of the most straightforward, radical, life affirming actions you can take right now is wearing a K/N95 mask. Community care & self care rolled into one easy act. Show up for yourself and your neighbors.
The Big Death Bill passed. The GOP chose to kick millions off health insurance, close hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, & reproductive health clinics, leave millions of families without enough food, & kill thousands. This is the biggest assault on health in recent history.
@broadwaybabyto I'm so sorry this happened. If you need further assistance filing the compliant or following up on it, etc, I would be more than happy to help you. I know it isn't a solution, but I am also chronically ill and I know how much energy the admin/clerical stuff can rob a person of.
@michael_hoerger do you have any insight into what this means? It sounds...not great? Like another way they're attempting to obscure data? Or is that misreading it?
Maybe health insurance CEOs should just stay in their homes forever.
It's what everyone keeps telling me to do as a disabled person when people make it unsafe for me to be part of public life:
Stay home if you're afraid.
I am seeing more and more opinions bubbling up about how throwing trans people to the wolves would be a winning strategy for Democrats, and I just want to quickly say: Fuck off with that absolute dog shit.
@Jul101Vie @loscharlos was just going to say, I have chronic inflammatory issues and had a ton of problems with persistent false positives on flowflex tests, and then negative on other RAT brands and lab PCR tests.
@amhcrane87 If you're talking about the linkage of two events via timeline proximity, I had a prof who called these temporal sentences--people like Aimee Bender and Edward P Jones do it best.
Nothing worse than when the questions you're asking about a story while revising it turn out to be the exact same questions the characters themselves are asking that actually make the story a story and not just a moment in time.
thinking about the incarcerated people who were left behind during the hurricane, who weathered the storm in cages, who may not have power or water or any way of contacting their loved ones outside the walls. prison abolition is a climate issue