Elizabeth J

Ex science teacher. indirect experience of chronic disease.

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@MrDavX 99

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@Drjimwood65 @DrSdeG @Mary_Tom11 And novel coronavirus killing millions worldwide over 6 years, still killing and causing long-term effects and ... Do not stay off work if infected and infectious.

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@1goodtern @LongCovidHell Add Lyme to the list of conditions where this approach is useful.

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

Imagine trying to understand why a house keeps filling with water whilst refusing to acknowledge the tap is still running. To the point where anyone suggesting the tap needs turning off is deemed an extremist.

That is roughly the level of analysis being applied to COVID in 2026.

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@Ravenismeee Yesterday. Haven't got going today.

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@DebsFrazer @NHS Is this new or something that's happened to you before? Are you aware of what the injury was? Much sympathy heading your way...

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@Sharpr1966 How my mother made it. I made it just a couple of weeks ago. My mother used to have it with oatmeal cakes in the war when there was not enough meat.

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

It is psychologically easier for society to believe children suddenly damaged themselves with iPads than to confront the possibility that adults collectively failed to protect developing brains during an ongoing airborne pandemic

This is all about shifting blame & responsibility

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@omgsidewalks Beryl

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet.

For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission.

Her health was treated as a background inconvenience.
When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her.

She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain.

It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops.

Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

[ThePOTSPostman @ThePOTSPostman]

Something a coworker said to me once still sticks with me.

“If you stopped focusing on your symptoms so much, they probably wouldn’t affect you as much.”

I don’t think healthy people realize how insulting it feels to have your illness reduced to a mindset problem.

People with chronic illness aren’t choosing this life.
Ignoring symptoms wont magically make us feel better.
This isn’t something a “mind over matter” attitude can fix.

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@NoFilterSkin Just normal...? Why wouldn't it be? I find it difficult to wear eye make-up with very dry eyes, and make-up looks odd imo with eyes bare. So normally no make-up, occasionally a sheer lipstick. What do you think it would be like for people to see you as you are?

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

Hmmm. Chronic illness and the way it is treated by others, has been a source of trauma for many decades. But I agree that most resources on trauma do not deal with an ongoing cause.

[🍉 Meredith Bear @WittyVitale]

as opposed to neverending trauma. I've learned how to adapt and be innovative with my techniques since I've been doing this exclusively for 3 years, but man I wish there were more resources. 2/2

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

Why do people go on cruises?
https://t.co/PNKU4JMebr

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

There are now more than half a million scientific publications related to COVID-19 and a rapidly growing body of evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 infection to immune dysregulation, microvascular injury, autonomic dysfunction, clotting abnormalities, viral persistence, and measurable cognitive changes.

And to the people constantly sick, exhausted, dizzy, forgetful, exercise intolerant, waking up to feeling like you got hit by a truck on the daily or suddenly developing strange inflammation, heart issues, GI problems, or “mystery” symptoms after repeated infections…

At some point you and society as a whole must confront the reality that repeated infection with a vascular and neurotropic virus was never as harmless as everyone wanted it to be.

I choose to live in reality.

That virus is still here. It is still spreading through the air. And it is still associated with long-term vascular, immune, and neurological consequences for many people.

Protecting yourself from that threat — through cleaner air, better ventilation, filtration, vaccination, and high-quality masks in high-risk settings — also reduces your risk from many of the other respiratory pathogens constantly circulating around us.

And if you are tired of watching people suffer while being told this is “normal,” then start demanding urgency.

Ask why Long Covid clinics are closing instead of expanding.
Ask why immunologists, virologists, neurologists, vascular scientists, and pathologists are not being funded at Manhattan Project scale to investigate viral persistence, immune dysfunction, clotting, mitochondrial damage, and cognitive impairment.
Ask why billions can appear overnight for almost anything else, but millions living with chronic illness are told to “pace themselves” and move on.

Support researchers (the ones who are still focused on Long Covid that don’t conflate the disease)
Support clean air initiatives (two strong efforts happening in Illinois right now! Help us!!).
Support disability advocacy.
Pressure institutions to improve indoor air quality.
Stop mocking people for protecting themselves.
And stop accepting “everyone is sick all the time now” as a normal feature of modern life.

[Catherine @CatieZee]

@mellziland @ocnj3 Risk comes with not following the precautionary principle. Go hard & go early will work for everything & is the least painful in the long run. Act as if everyone is infectious, & all forms of transmission applicable. When we see that's not happening, it's cause for concern.

[tern @1goodtern]

There is absolutely no chance of an Andes hantavirus pandemic happening in a society where people understand airborne transmission, pre-symptomatic transmission, ventilation, masks, incubation periods, and isolation.

Sadly, that's not us.

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@PrognosticChats My family had Novavax privately at a local chemist 2 weeks ago. I believe they were being used for NHS vaccinations too.

[Elizabeth J @Tabithaistrying]

@Kristinartz Of course...

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

The detailed investigation of a prior hantavirus human-human transmission event has evidence of airborne transmission of Andes strain:

Patient 1 --> Patient 4
"did not have any physical contact and simply said “hello” to each other as they crossed paths"

Patient 1 --> Patients 3 & 6
"seated at different tables and spatially separated by 1–2 m

Patient 2 --> Patient 11
"No direct or close contact between the two patients was reported."

Patient 8 --> Patient 28
"Patient 8 shared a room with Patient 28 and her relative. Patient 28 and Patient 8 did were not in close contact."