a person w/ Long Covid

#LongCovid from the first wave diagnosed with cancer 2 years later #FBLC

[a person w/ Long Covid @RandomNWild]

My version: You get Covid, it becomes #LongCovid and within 2 years you get diagnosed with cancer. The cancer is advanced, you get surgery, you get referred for chemo and radiation. You fail the intake b/c your Long COVID is too severe. The cancer spreads. It’s now stage 4

[Sarah Colero @Sarah_Colero]

When Mark Carney dissolved the disability ministry he brought in an AI Ministry.

That should have warned you how he feels about humans over computerized BS

👀

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

To make sure British citizens realise what's going on, Palantir can now:

• Build and run the National Firearms Registry, tracking the addresses and medical files of 500,000 gun and explosives holders across all 43 police forces.

• Map your digital footprint by trialling police systems (like Project Nectar) that pull your texts, call logs, emails, and social media data into a single profile.

• Track your physical movements by linking live number plate trackers, CCTV locations, and mobile phone tower pings.

• Process unverified intelligence by feeding anonymous tips and police notes about who you meet into automated linking models.

• Profile police officers using data-matching tools that actively scrape the device logs, vehicle uses, and system logins of a force's own employees.

• Access direct NHS data through a £330 million contract, using admin privileges that let engineers view patient environments before the files are scrambled (pseudonymised).

This is the same Palantir used to coordinate the largest simultaneous terrorist attack in history by the IOF in Lebanon.

This is the same Palantir used by the IOF since 2014 and actively being used in Gaza.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

It feels like an insurmountable obstacle.

But history suggests otherwise.

People once believed HIV/AIDS could be acquired through casual contact.

Then they learned it wasn’t limited to one group.

Then they learned it wasn’t spread by touch.

Then they learned the importance of blood, sexual fluids, and other transmission routes.

Public understanding changed because the model changed.

With COVID, many people are still operating with the wrong model.

First, they have to understand that it travels through the air and can accumulate indoors.

Then they have to understand that infection isn’t binary—survive or die—but can involve long-term health consequences.

Then they have to understand that those consequences can affect anyone.

Once the model changes, the conclusions become much harder to avoid.

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

We could invest $3B into EIP (Engineered Infection Prevention), free up thousands of hospital beds & save billions of dollars every year

Oh yeah, & save hundreds of thousands of infections & thousands of preventable deaths

EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.

Make Hospitals Safe Again

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[elle carnitine 🍉 @elle_carnitine]

Being a carer for a disabled person is incredibly hard, but there is a world of a difference between carers who think it’s hard because the disabled person is a burden and those who think it’s hard because the state has abandoned disabled people

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

We don’t talk enough about how exclusion is traumatic. Either by intentional exclusion or just from the fact that they don’t bother enough to even think about you. Disabled people are excluded by default and I can’t tell you how traumatizing it is to have that be the norm.

[Hazie Thompson @haziethompson]

The idea that I have scarring on my now misfiring heart, elevated protein in my cerebral spinal fluid, Graves’ disease, MCAS, etc. is all down to me having a poor attitude would be laughable if it weren’t so cruel.
Don’t listen to these cowards.
Protect yourself. Mask up.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The Liberal government might as well have called its AI strategy “All in for AI”.

This is a document that is heavy on hype, but light on the right guardrails that we need to protect people – and to ensure that the benefits of the technology don’t just flow to a handful of tech giants and investors.

It proposes a massive boost to business adoption of AI, with no concern for the consequences this will have for workers, especially young workers who are already watching careers vanish before their eyes.

This government is imposing a world-changing technology on all of us without any public debate. Instead of putting in place strong regulations to safeguard workers, youth, privacy, and our water and energy supply, they prefer to “move fast and break things” as the Silicon Valley motto goes.

That’s why before rushing ahead, with no brakes, we need a robust regulatory framework. Every other industry in this country, from forestry to banking, is regulated. Yet somehow, when it comes to generative AI that is controlled by MAGA-aligned billionaires, the usual rules don’t apply.

New Democrats support the development of cutting edge technology. For AI, that looks like responsible machine learning with small, contained datasets and targeted applications.

We’re calling for a humans-first AI strategy. One that protects Canadian jobs, data and natural resources. Not a strategy that mimics the worst tendencies of AI chatbots: hallucinating benefits and flattering big tech CEOs by telling them exactly what they want to hear.

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

I keep thinking about this photo taken yesterday.

Prime Minister of Canada, @MarkJCarney, stands in front of an Israeli flag speaking about how hate against any group of peoples is wrong. While, the International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid and illegal occupation in the West Bank and genocide in Gaza against Palestinians. This is hate and discrimination translated into systematic legal injustice and mass death and slaughter.

There is an obligation for Canada as a third party state to not be complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

Standing in front of a flag of a state committing apartheid and genocide, while still sending weapons to Israel to commit these crimes, should demonstrate to all humanity and peace loving people in Canada to seriously question our politicians and confront this current reality for what it truly is.

Canada is deeply committed and embedded in the structural oppression against Palestinians, entrenching the systematic colonial rule of Western settler colonial states in a world where the rich and powerful can choose to continue to break all the international laws and obligations because they know consequences are beneath them.

I know so many good and decent people who refuse such a world and reality where impunity is enjoyed by the war criminals. Rather we fight for a world where human rights for all is defended without exception. Where our obligations to international law and the global community actually means something.

[tern @1goodtern]

Covid infections affect your ability to fight other infections.

That's obvious to anyone who's actually looking.

[Cat (CovidSolidarity) @CovidSolidarit1]

As if Long Covid isn’t shit enough, we have to put up with people belittling us and minimising our suffering.

Our lives are destroyed, what more do you want?

[🌙biomimic🐾🍉 @iseeuliars]

But no one in my family has any ire for the hospital that infected my father, because if they admit Covid infections are doing this, and the institutions they trust are killing ppl, they might be confronted with the importance of changing their own behavior.

[Jenna @starshipTARDIS]

My dad had one known Covid infection.

Started forgetting words mid-sentence.

Had less control of his emotions, quickly became angry over minor things that previously didn't bother him.

Died of sudden cardiac arrest less than a year later.

Wear a mask.

[🇨🇦BC @Scoobie8657]

It is the same game they played with Aids. Villainize the afflicted and get everyone to turn on them to get out of confessing to what is actually going on.

[🌙biomimic🐾🍉 @iseeuliars]

My father was hospitalized when he fell down the stairs, got Covid in hospital, and his then-mild dementia accelerated with extreme rapidity, and he died within the year.

My story is not unique. How many millions of people is this happening to?

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Our national media is so deeply racist against Palestinians that they keep calling Israel a democracy when they've been running a brutal dictatorship in the occupied territories for the last 58 years. That invalidates the humanity of Palestinians, as if they don't count as human.

[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.

[Lara - Covid is Airborne @fillthewhole]

Living with Covid.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We’re in final stage of capitalism where global capital can’t expand or sustain past profits. It’s now consuming public institutions and key systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term gain.

[Hazie Thompson @haziethompson]

Ask me how many folks in my life that either did not know what Long Covid was or did not think it applied to them that are now dead.
“Lingering Symptoms”
soon became strokes, heart attacks, sepsis or suicide.
The chronic illness list is longer and just a fucking tragic.
#MaskUp