Manda Adams ♿️🌈 (she/her/élla)

UCC clergy, disabled. I love Jesus & my Muslim spouse. Mamá de una asilada. 1st wave #longcovid. #axSpA. I’m here; I’m queer; my pain is moderate to severe.

[Manda Adams ♿️🌈 (she/her/élla) @RevManda]

Those of us who are immune compromised are less likely to have protection from childhood MMR as we get older, and we CANNOT get a new vax bc it’s live. I got mumps 8 yrs ago, when my immune system was depressed but not like now with long covid.

[Nick #RespiratorsFilterAllPathogens😷 Anderegg @NickAnderegg]

If Florida drops vaccine mandates, society is probably officially over. I really, really, really don��t think most people get that herd immunity is the only thing keeping measles from ripping through the population, and a measles infection wipes out all pre-existing immunity

1/3

[Angela ⟢ @luxangelae]

Pope Leo: “I ask everyone to abandon the construction of yet another Tower of Babel and to join forces in building up the common good, so that humanity will never lose its beauty.”

Sam Altman:

[Angela ⟢ @luxangelae]

resurrecting this after Pope Leo’s encyclical 😂

[Coco @cocomarvgrows]

Just when you thought they couldn’t possibly still be blaming “lockdowns”… My friends, I despair.

[Pessimistic Persimmon @Kenneth33071904]

In hindsight, maybe spreading Covid to all the kids wasn't the best plan after all.

[Liesl McConchie @Liesl4CleanAir]

This! ⬇️

Both, And.

Clean surfaces.

Clean the air.

Thank you @cvspharmacy for understanding dominant forms of transmission.

💉

[Manda Adams ♿️🌈 (she/her/élla) @RevManda]

@PammckC I think it was in the beginning but not now.

[Hazie Thompson @haziethompson]

Please consider donating if you are financially secure & safe, if not to me then one of the many others who could use help. I am grateful to everyone who’s helped me make it this far.
Look out for each other & stay gold.
https://t.co/pNgU1dgaGx

[Ruth Ann Crystal, MD @CatchTheBaby]

COVID raises your shingles risk.

New data from 110,000+ patients out of Taiwan shows that post-COVID Shingles also raise risk of
➡️ Bell's palsy
➡️ Guillain Barré
➡️ Myasthenia Gravis

Worst of all? Neurological vulnerability lasts for at least 3 years. https://t.co/W2MDpgMdmx

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Scientists Baffled Why More Kids Are Off Sick During Pandemic That Makes Kids More Likely To Be Off Sick

[Manda Adams ♿️🌈 (she/her/élla) @RevManda]

6 years for me. I’m glad to be alive, but my daily life and world is considerably smaller than it was then. My lungs don’t work like they used to, I have severe fatigue and post-exertional symptom exacerbation, my BP & HR react to being upright, & my brain is slower. #longcovid

[Pam C @PammckC]

4 yrs ago, a tickle in my throat that I thought could be allergies. Next day, I tested + for Covid. 4 yrs of mourning the loss of a body that used to function well. I don’t expect to see a cure in my lifetime but how I wish. Do yourself a favor, avoid Covid to avoid #LongCovid ❤️‍🩹

[Dan Elton @moreisdifferent]

At the British Museum for 3 hours. I am the only one masking! This is wild! If you are traveling by yourself, why not mask? You have literally nothing to lose, only random strangers will judge you. The heath benefits of masking are enormous relative to cost. #COVIDisAirborne

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

Incredible speech delivered by Baroness Linforth in the House of Lords today calling for clean indoor air in schools.

“It would cost less than a tenner per child per year to provide pupils and staff with clean air - about the same cost as a coffee and a cake.”

☕️🧁

[The Only Marc Favell @marcfavell]

🚨🚨
The world needs to talk about what the NIH RECOVER data is Covid saying because people are missing the point. Long Covid isn't just "Feeling tired" after getting sick. It is a multi-system, full-body wrecking ball, That shreds the vascular system and even the brain, Every single time you get reinfected If you know it or not, the risk compounds. The virus hides in your gut, your heart and your brain. It creates viral reservoirs that just sit there and pump out chronic inflammation. It wrecks your T-cells, shreds your blood vessels, and forms microclots/DVT's. And the brain fog? It is literally microglial activation. Your brain cells are inflamed and accidentally pruning away healthy synapses. It causes POTS because your vagus nerve gets damaged. It kills your mitochondria so your body literally cannot make energy. It is actual organ damage.But the worst part is what we are doing to kids. Since 2020, children’s baseline health has completely shifted. Parents and doctors are looking at kids who suddenly have mood swings, memory drops or can't keep up in school, and they are blaming it on "screen time" or "pandemic anxiety". That is dangerous diagnostic gaslighting. It is the virus. It is neurological damage and pediatric multi system inflammation.We have to stop tracking just "acute cases" and start tracking total infection counts. Every infection matters.

P.S. It is now 2026 and not a single doctor, nurse practitioner, internist or specialist has ever asked me how many times I’ve had Covid. That question is a 💯 relevant foundational question. 🤯 Failing to track cumulative infections at this stage is a terrifying combination of medical malpractice and pure ignorance. It is impossible to take any of them seriously when they treat patients completely maskless without an N95. I have been following the research, they clearly haven't and frankly, I could school them on the data they are actively ignoring.

🚨 Stop ignoring the data.😡
#SARS2 #Covid #LongCovid
#Gaslighting #ABC #AnythingButCovid

https://t.co/rra0I4VAUw

[Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA @N95Anaesthetist]

Ebola is airborne. Secretions aerosolise.
Droplet dogma in medicine is harming and killing people.

[KLeighB @kleighb07]

Something very nefarious is happening with these data centers. No one needs a 62-square-mile surveillance center to spy on us and who knows what else. Billionaires, tech companies, and investment firms want to steal people's homes and farms, destroy wildlife and insects, overload power grids, and contaminate our water while causing shortages and restrictions. The sheer volume of purified water they use is unimaginable, and most people have no idea. There is zero reason for any state to have 200 centers. They are forcing our electric and water bills to astronomical levels. Shut them down! We want to protect our land, water, environment, people, and wildlife. Where are the studies on the long-term effects of the noise, water contamination, and harm to the public and wildlife?

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

Perhaps the most dangerous symptom is not the dysfunction itself.

It is the gradual normalisation of the dysfunction, until people can no longer distinguish between healthy cognition and a progressively lowered baseline.

Shifting baseline syndrome is very real.

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

More impulsivity, less empathy, poorer judgement, weaker long-term thinking, greater tribalism, more shameless prejudice & increasing susceptibility to simplistic narratives.

Sound familiar?

This is frontal lobe dysfunction in action.

And what damages the frontal lobes?

COVID

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.