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No particular political affiliation; I hate what’s happening in our country and would like to see a more transparent, truthful system of politics.

[S @SBoona]

@Anarcho_Cyclist @DrJMatthewRhett @JeromeAdamsMD Many people are now very sick with all sorts of infections because Covid damages the body’s ability to fight infection in general, depletes T-cells, causes cognitive decline and vascular/endothelial damage. That’s why society is still in disarray. And every infection worsens this

[Becky Ancira Robertson @AnciraBecky]

This is an awful time for an insulin shortage. We are changing the trajectory of healthcare by letting this continue unmitigated.
#LoveCovidAwareness

[The fed up Chef @TheChefsGardens]

The super-common Post COVID infection that keeps killing your favorite stars — as Buffy’s Anthony Head dies at 72
https://t.co/FN8qDJdOlU

[S @SBoona]

@holo_cene Why is Novavax, the most effective vaccine we have, so unavailable in so many countries..does anyone know? Is it being deliberately withheld?

[CoronaHeadsUp @CoronaHeadsUp]

Warwick University: Potential tuberculosis case affecting a student

"We have been informed of a potential case of tuberculosis affecting a student. We understand the student involved is no longer attending campus and is being medically assessed."

"The main symptoms of TB are:

Persistent and gradually worsening cough that lasts longer than three weeks and has not improved despite antibiotics

Weight loss for no obvious reason

Sweating attacks - especially at night

Feeling unusually ill or tired for a prolonged period of time

Loss of appetite for no obvious reason

Coughing up blood"

https://t.co/5VSMiMh4kU

[Envidreamz @envidreamz]

A 15 y/o daughter gets dizzy when bending over and standing up.

A toddler’s legs suddenly give out and he feels like he’s dizzy and falling.

A fit 40 year old is lightheaded and dizzy like vertigo during exercise.

Another adult gets weird dizziness and weakness after every new “sinus infection” and a comment in the replies says,”yes happens after every cold or sickness I get!”

This is classic Covid symptoms and also Long Covid hitting all ages.
Found in various, random groups on all corners of the internet of people not having a single clue what is going on and why they are so dizzy.

Covid never left and it’s stealing our balance one infection at a time.

[andrew @teachrprecarity]

If I'm reading this correctly, in the past 16 months, 3 actors from Buffy the Vampire Slayer have died: 1. Diabetes complications, age 39, 2. Natural causes in sleep, age 54, 3. Pneumonia, age 72. I'm not a stats expert, but in a world w/ no Covid, is this all still happening?

[sophia•of•the•Crows🐦‍⬛ @DSEDunn]

You know, I’ve begun to wonder how many of us LC folk have *big* heart problems.

My OH thought he had long covid fatigue. He was running on empty al the time, brain fog, couldn’t keep his head up, could barely move some days.

It certainly sounded like long covid fatigue.

It wasn’t until a routine GP check of his BP revealed skyrocketing BP, that attn turned to his heart.

After a year of investigation, he has serious afib, & it turns out his heart is running on less than 30% capacity.

No wonder he’s fatigued‼️

He now needs 3 heart operations.

If you have debilitating fatigue with your LC, don’t assume it’s the inflammation/ME/CFS variety. Get your heart checked!

Covid often causes serious heart damage & cardiac complications.

If your heart function is impaired, you will be very, very fatigued.

Or as Jizō says, “Daddy’s very, VERY tired!”

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

A person I know's husband just died. He was in his 40s, caught some illness (not sure if COVID - didn't ask), went to the hospital, and within a day, he was dead. I just can't recall ever hearing any stories like this before the last few years

[BirdieBittern @BirdieBittern]

Holy Shit!👀

"the equivalent of more than 300 every week"

16,000 NHS patients in England died after long waits in A&E

The number of patients dying after enduring long waits in A&E departments has risen almost tenfold in a decade

https://t.co/hIb9EzPrQi via @DailyMail

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

So many of us have similar stories…

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

Simone Biles skipped Tokyo 2020 (2021) due to “the twisties”—a condition in gymnasts where brain & body are disconnected. The US women’s gymnastics team did not bunk in Olympic Village due to COVID.

During her comeback in Paris 2024, a bunch of Olympians tested positive for Covid. We have seen so many Business As Usual headlines over the years, but when it all comes crashing down in a near-death “health scare,” this is always an unrelated mystery. No one considers the myriad Covid infections everyone minimized for years. No one gets treated appropriately. And then premature death is practically guaranteed, while absolutely no one asks questions. It’s perfect.

[𝐄.🚩 @Wyd_eshuu]

why do "balls" imply toughness and "pussy" imply weakness when the slightest flick to the nuts sends a guy to his knees, yet a vagina can push out an entire being.?????

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Karen Newton, 65, from Hertfordshire in England, left home in late July 2025 for the road trip of a lifetime through the United States with her husband Bill. Valid passports. Valid visas. Weeks on the road through California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Then they tried to cross into Canada and things fell apart. Canadian officials said Bill didn’t have the right paperwork to bring the car across the border. When the couple turned back to the American side, U.S. border agents found that Bill’s visa had expired. 

Karen’s tourist visa was valid. Her British passport was valid. She has no criminal record. None of it mattered. She was handcuffed, shackled, and spent the night sleeping on the floor of a locked cell before being driven 12 hours through the night to an ICE detention centre. She and her husband spent the next six weeks there. 

She is now warning anyone planning to visit the United States that the situation is “totally out of control” and advises people not to go while Donald Trump is in office. 

A British grandmother. A valid visa. Six weeks in chains.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Our support for Ukraine is ironclad.

We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes. Ukraine’s security is Europe’s security.

Slava Ukraini.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is very very bad.

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

Lawyer Peter Stefanovic - whose political films have been watched over a billion times - breaks down Reform's Great Repeal Act line by line: strip day one sick pay, legalise fire and rehire, lift zero-hours protections, repeal the Renters' Rights Act, abolish the Equality Act, and leave the ECHR.

He also notes that almost half of Britons believe net migration has increased when it's fallen 48% to 171,000.

His conclusion: if the media explained Reform's policies, nobody would support them.

Full story at the link below 👇

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Fab five

[✨🎶Kristennnn🍉✨ @singingsox]

I don't like speculating on celebrity athletes' health, but you'd think all these reports of tachycardia/POTS symptoms would be enough to break the myth that it's psychosomatic or "deconditioning". World class athletes don't stop for anything, unless their bodies force them to.

[Ginger Cake @gingercake31]

@TedUrchin @UKLabour @AndyBurnhamGM @Keir_Starmer Since Streeting’s resignation, Starmer’s handling of all issues has been exemplary: his magnanimous reply; campaigning for Burnham; riposte to Blair’s essay; a sure grasp of the challenging international problems; & improving 🇬🇧 economy & living standards. He must remain PM.