queermint🦓 | long covid sucks | they/them

Cat appreciator, very tired and in lots of pain. hEDS, autistic, ADHD, #LongCovid. They/Them.

[queermint🦓 | long covid sucks | they/them @queermint_]

Those aranet CO2 monitors everyone seems to have are $350?! 😵I know they're important but I think I'm gonna try and find a cheaper one. Anyone in aus have recs for good ones?

[Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz @GosiaGasperoPhD]

How to mislead without telling a nominal lie 101:

“Ebola doesn’t spread through the air like COVID” is nominally true,
like in: “Bats don’t bite like tigers”

[Umber @umberghauri]

Mate I get burnt out not only from being disabled but from being my own caregiver

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

There's a really weird MD named Steven Phillips (not the Lyme guy on here; a different Dr Phillips) who is a part of something called the "COVID Collaborative" - an NGO that's backed by Rockefeller, Bill Gates, and Allstate insurance (not joking - go look it up). It was setup in 2020 to "reopen the country" - that was its actual mission statement.

Every few years he puts out a think-piece to try to squash Long COVID research. Back in 2023, he published an essay in Time about how Long COVID was just ME/CFS, and since we've never found a cure for ME/CFS, we shouldn't waste any time or money looking for a Long COVID cure either.

Recently, he published a new essay in Stat, in which he very bizarrely laments the budget cuts to Long COVID research. He tries blame Trump, but his prior piece argued for these exact budget cuts - not sure if he's suffering from amnesia, or what.

He once again conflates Long COVID with ME/CFS, but then also brings in Chronic Lyme and Gulf War Illness, and while he admits the biology is real, he concludes that even looking for biomarkers or mechanisms in a waste of time and is somehow harmful? He doesn't really explain how; he just seems to assert it on the basis of recent budget cuts (budget cuts he argued for - a very circular explanation; insert guy in hotdog costume here).

It's an extremely weird take. Never before in the history of medicine have we been able to cure or treat a disease without searching. Nobody has ever cured anything by abandoning the search.

I've said for a long time that I thought Long COVID research was being actively sabotaged, because truly understanding Long COVID would shatter society's collective denial about the ongoing pandemic. It's generally more obvious on the right, but it also comes from the left, from NGOs and people like this.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Rich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection of their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection of the fact that a human that doesn't have to worry about money will often choose art. everyone is an artist until rent is due. i wish we all had that right

[Sass @sasswashere]

“panic has not been a hallmark of average person’s reaction to COVID. If anything, public has been almost bizarrely sanguine about prospect of being infected 1 or 2 a year with a virus capable of persisting within the body, causing long-term health issues, in young, old alike.

[Ror Preston @RorPreston]

The *extent* to which ME/CFS is under-researched compared to other diseases

The relative knowledge gap has accumulated over decades of under-funding (/just not funding at all)

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

again, not all covid conscious folks are in alignment! zionists of any variety can fuck off forever!

[🌸🦋ØⱤȻĦłƉ🦋🌸 @Art_by_Orchid_]

Hey so actually almost every single trans person transitions after puberty, many don't even realize they are trans until well into adulthood. Transition whenever you want and let's not spread weird misinformation during pride month maybe 💞

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“no person who works a full-time job should live in poverty”

nobody actually deserves to live in poverty. let go of the idea that we work in exchange for our worth. people are innately worthy and deserving of the basics.

[Nerd.cake @Nerdcake78]

A coworker just casually announced they're going to a funeral for a neighbor of theirs that suddenly died at 41. Then, in a conversational tone, they said that's the 6th neighbor of theirs that's died in a year.

No worry, no concern, no connection.

Please wear a N95 respirator.

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

i.e. “during covid,” “during the pandemic”

[Cleaner Air Collective @CleanerAirAU]

I wear a mask...

because I work in healthcare & I see the consequences of viral illnesses everyday with the people I look after.

Why do you mask?

[Keith @keetmuise]

Is social media damaging to some kids, yup! But covid is damaging to every kid, and it’s far more rampant than social media. Facebook accounts aren’t contagious.

No kids are getting instant brain damage from one post on Instagram. If we care about kids we will worry about airborne threats to their health with as much publicity as we are worrying about cell phones and Snapchat.

Ban Covid in kids of all ages, then I’ll take the claim of caring about them more seriously.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.”

Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Violence is NOT the answer. The answer is *opens history book*

uh oh

*frantically starts flipping through pages*

uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

[Gemini Princesss @MaskedHottiee]

I thought about this and realized I believe people who care about you can mistreat you. For me I want to normalize saying "this treatment is unacceptable regardless of how someone feels about me" and move on from there

[Umber @umberghauri]

In a study of 7 children with ‘Covid toe’ they found that the tiny blood vessels in their toes tested positive for Covid but they all tested negative in PCR nasal swab tests.

https://t.co/q5jTMeGfX7

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

abandoning ableist/sanist language is very much a part of disability justice, damn it!

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

If you care about kids being on the internet but not about them being repeated infected with Covid, then you’re a stooge who only gets worked up about things because you are told to.
Time to actually be a parent, talk to your kid about the internet and put a fucking mask on.

[Sassyhomo @clcisme]

Cautionary tale.