It’s been over 6 years. Taking the temporal aspect into consideration, COVID-19 is the most researched disease in the history of medicine.
The excuse that it’s a new disease and we don’t know much yet might’ve been acceptable in 2020.
It doesn’t hold anymore.
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There is a small group of people scattered around the world who in spite of vicious social pressure refused to participate in the causing of massive harm to those around them while everyone else folded almost immediately. And we’ve held out for years. We own the future, join us
COVID killed Anthony Head.
COVID killed Anthony Head 6 months after his partner died suddenly.
COVID killed Anthony Head 2 months after Nicholas Brendon died age 54 of ‘natural causes’
COVID killed Anthony Head 1 year after Michelle Trachtenberg died age 39 of ‘natural causes’
Denying that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to a broad range of sequelae across organs and body systems is pseudoscience. Denying that we need a case definition for Long Covid which accounts for such a broad range of sequelae is harmful for our advocacy. People must do better
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
Hey @WIRED
Want to try real journalism? I'll talk on the record, and give access to my medical records. Hell its all been posted here anyway. Persistent CD4 lymphopenia that was not present before SARS-CoV-2 infection and does respond to antivirals.
I dare you to cover it.
@tylerblack32@MeganTStevenson gaslighting people for generations as they suffer & die from medical neglect & then demonizing them b/c *respectability politics* is truly one of the most consistent forms of daily social violence the privileged, professional-class enacts on disabled people, women & POC.
Hey @WIRED,
I know a guy who is convinced he cured his Athlete's foot by balancing a sponge on his head whilst humming Bohemian Rhapsody.
I could write an article for you about it if you're interested.
I don't actually know anything about but I assume that won't matter to you.
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.
...with a history of traumatic events (including emotional trauma).
This shows that—even for psychological disorders that are known to directly result from psychological trauma—the etiology of the disorder is PHYSIOLOGICAL, not "mental."
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@CraigMurrayOrg The SARS lobotomy, made of multiple complicated attacks for each infection, cannot be perceived by those who have had the SARS lobotomy.
They could be right, it could have a low incidence of airborne transmission.
The problem is that if the evidence they cite for it not being airborne is of the same quality as the evidence used in the past to deny airborne transmission, which proved disastrously wrong, it's reasonable not to accept it.
The threshold of proof and the type of evidence required to establish that pathogens are *not* airborne have to be far higher than they were in the past. We can't wait until highly infectious, deadly pathogens are proven airborne before using respiratory protection; that's too late. The burden of proof goes the other way now.
We need to wait until there is substantial, high-quality evidence that a given pathogen is *not* subject to airborne transmission before we reduce high-level respiratory protections to baseline.
I just think you should have to pick one. You want to do like “back to normal” is worth it and long covid doesn’t exist that’s FINE, go DO THAT, but then stop complaining about how bad life has been since 2020. Like just shut the fuck up & go enjoy getting exactly what you wanted
folks really gotta start questioning how radical they really are because not being covid cautious during this mass disabling event is at odds with being inclusive, accessible, intentional, community oriented, creating safe space, practicing consent, siding with the marginalized.