randomsalt is living with (long) COVID 😷

Peanut-gallery commentator. Beware #COVID19 and #LongCovid. #CovidIsNotOver and #COVIDIsAirborne, so #WearAMask. #MasksWork #COVIDCautious

[randomsalt is living with (long) COVID 😷 @randomsalt]

Amen 🙏

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I'm not a parody account. You're a parody species.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Researchers Find Long Covid More Common Than Willingness To Say Long Covid

[The Sick Times @thesicktimes]

Indie bookstores have often served as hubs of political action and community care. Read more about their masking policies and COVID-19 consciousness in 2026. https://t.co/StqkD3rH2J

[Lawrence Dunhill @LawrenceDunhill]

This week I start a major project to analyse Govt's response to the Covid Inquiry (the largest in UK history) - for @CovidJusticeUK

Looking back at 30 public inquires into health scandals & over last 3 decades - its alarming how few recommendations were ever implemented

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[randomsalt is living with (long) COVID 😷 @randomsalt]

“Some comrades started saying that they wanted to ‘go back to normal,’ and it absolutely crushed me. We poured so much of our lives into fighting ‘normal.’ ‘Normal’ was never okay before.” https://t.co/6jlMaLaph9

[Michael Moran | APC Injury @internetuserf12]

Psychologizing recovery from illnesses like Long Covid is one of the most common and covert forms of ableism, seething hatred disguised as concern. It blames the individual both for their disability as well as their inability to magically heal through things like religion or brain retraining. There is a big difference between hatred and concern, concern and acceptance.

[Gary Anderson @G_A_grandsong]

Thank you, Dr.@michael_hoerger for calling out the author @WIRED on this terribly incompetent and hurtful article. At a time when so many are very disabled with some committing suicide because of this BIOLOGICAL condition of unknown cellular dysfunction and finding it's next to impossible to get any real help from Healthcare, it's a little like being handed a shovel to dig one's own grave. 😡

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

If you talk to someone who doesn't understand that people are still dying of COVlD, here I explain excess deaths in a way a 5 year old can understand. The key is understanding mortality displacement.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This is what these social media ID verification/age verification laws are really about, and you’re an idiot if u think any of this is about “protecting children.”

[mark warling @markwarling3]

Long COVID Far More Common Than Records Show, and It's Getting Worse https://t.co/UlnFiW6xsK

[HealthAsia @farhadali]

The AC on my neighbour's house is blowing hot air into the street at day and nights.

42 degrees outside. Everyone's units running.

At what point does "personal cooling" become a shared public health problem?

Asking for every city in Asia right now.

#Heat_And_Cooling #PublicHealth

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

"Singapore saw the number of Covid-19 cases surge by 59% in just one week (May 10-16) with the total reaching 12,700..
This is a significant jump from the previous week’s total of 8,000 Covid cases..
The NB.1.8.1 variant, a descendant of the JN.1 variant, is the main Covid-19 variant circulating in Singapore, accounting for more than half of locally sequenced cases..
The surge could be due to several factors, including waning population immunity.."

Waning interest must be one of these factors.

'Singapore Covid cases soar 59% in one week'
https://t.co/wFkbahon1X

[CT @cdtwriter]

From this date six years ago. This many still die from covid per year in the US but I guess it isn't an incalculable loss now.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

Recent Celebrity Sepsis (not comprehensive)

There are entire articles about this. This is not normal.

Kyle Busch
Perez Hilton
Madonna
Billy Porter
Larry King
Whoopi Goldberg
John Daly
Erin Bates
Tyler James Williams
Stephen Colbert
Charlbi Dean
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Ashley Park

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

People who go on and on critiquing widespread short-term economic incentives, but then stop masking to go on a book tour...

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

From 2020 on, we watched in horror as young people acquired Covid & died of sepsis in absolutely unprecedented, eye-watering numbers. Adults & children were going from sniffles to dead in under 48 hours. Everyone was scared. Then we memory-holed it as it continued to occur.

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

What ties all the Polybio presentations together is a strong emphasis on the persistence of SARS2 - often in a replication-competent form.
This persistence is primarily located in tissues, especially in the gastrointestinal tract (ileum, lamina propria, sigmoid colon).

Nicolas Huot
Found replication-competent SARS2 in the ileum of primates, localized near lymphoid structures.
Marcus Buggert
Detected persistent viral RNA in the gut along with increased interferon signaling.
Tim Henrich
Showed persistence in the lamina propria and associated changes in immune cells.
Eduardo Reategui
Presented the BARA platform (using extracellular vesicles) with very strong detection accuracy.
Van Brocklin
PET scanning to identify areas of T cell activation across patient’s whole bodies

These studies strongly suggest functional parallels with HIV -
Viral reservoirs in immune cells and GALT
Chronic T-cell activation and exhaustion
Long term immune dysregulation driven by persistent viral antigens.

PolyBio is approaching Long COVID as a chronic infectious disease with a viral reservoir, rather than merely a post-viral syndrome.
The transfer of knowledge and experience from HIV research is one of the strongest accelerators of progress in this field!

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

The WHO forbids contact tracers from masking or gloving up.

"Do not conduct home visits wearing personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, or
gowns."

It gets worse.

[Cat (CovidSolidarity) @CovidSolidarit1]

Sure they did!

[JWeiland @JPWeiland]

Fully agree with @j_g_allen

Failing to investigate the impact of ventilation on the cruise ship is ignoring a major (or possibly the most important) factor of this hantavirus super spreader event.

[CityNews Toronto @CityNewsTO]

An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal on Wednesday afternoon due to concerns that one of the passengers on board may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. https://t.co/ifcOQ7cf0N