A little scribble. #longcovid
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A little scribble. #longcovid
A fascinating new preprint w/one very unexpected finding suggests, I believe, that a large proportion of Long Covid may be due to chronic infection in a particular bodily niche, which could be crucial for finding effective LC treatments. It requires some explaining. 🧵 1/33
I wonder how this applies to cancers in general outside of breast cancer. Asking because 3 of my youngest's coworkers (20's to 30s in age) are currently battling cancers. She believes all 3 have lung cancer.
It doesn't rain but it pours 🤷🏻♀️ #LongCovid
Facts. Accelerated manufacturing for obsolescence but we also must never forget the requirement for having to run 4 maintenance sheets per 1 completed print either. I once told one manufacturer to just send me a box & I'd send their printer back to them smashed to little bits. They did not like.
The new American dream is where a family can start a business that gets either bought up or crushed by a corporation.
The America the conservative movement built. Of course, the entrenchment of an aristocracy has always been the movement’s goal. But the people are getting wise to it.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Nate Silver profits from stupid people listening to him. @bsky.app has a majority of SMART people, which he can't bullshit. So he tried to crap on the platform. No only an idiot. Nate Silver is a self-interested fascist-regime suck up.
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Ha! Well, I guess it's fitting that even this is from them, too. The world is a strange place.
My brother-in-law showed up at my mom's house today after my sister tested positive for COVID. My sister said he's immune so he's lucky. Immune my ass, this is a repeat of 2 years ago but last time, it was my dad and not my mom. I'm so f'ing tired of this pod people 💩
East Germany for me. 1987. Traveled via bus through multiple checkpoints in E. Germany to get to Berlin. I remember being so grateful that we didn't live in a country where the slightest thing could cause severe trouble with a policing force. Heh.
2-2 Worse though I grew up in an environment of right wing religious hypocrisy, so I'm particularly sensitive when people like Puppy Shooter Barbie™ are now suddenly silent. x.com/KristiNoem/s...
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think about this a lot and how it may affect reporting. I definitely think about it every time I see obvious editing mistakes.
9/2/21, 'How journalists report through the fog of long COVID' '‘While the worst of the brain fog has passed, I am slowly accepting the idea that my brain is simply different now. I know I’m not alone in this.’ By: Molly McCluskey www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
You're very welcome. I wish I had run into you a lot earlier in this so you could have started sooner. I sincerely hope it helps you. ❤️ www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and...
Also, children repeatedly infected with COVID-19 have the same chance of experiencing permanent side effects as adults! "A new study (...) found common patterns of lasting symptoms in school-age children and adolescents who previously were infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19."
In many ways, children are at *higher* risk for Long Covid than adults, as we know the risk of permanent damage scales with number of infections and severity of infection! The younger you get infected, the more *often* you are infected, the greater the risk of lasting harm we cannot yet cure!
Brazil 60 young adults were studied and those who had COVID showed poorer memory and executive function plus higher inflammation. Carriers of the Val variant of the SOD2 gene had stronger inflammatory responses suggesting genetic risk in long COVID. www.ibroneuroscience.org/article/S030...
May the odds be ever in your favor but your odds would be a lot better if you wore a mask.
*has HAS continues to HAVE because the virus is STILL HERE MASK UP
Keeping the lift as small as possible for a quick sip should reduce the risk. Weird thought but I wonder if blowing out while lowering it back down would push any trapped "outside air" back out as one is putting it back on.
Me, too, my friend. Me, too. It's been like watching a slow motion train wreck this whole time.
And to clarify--this is Portland metro area. COVID. #PDX #PDXMetro
Neuro-PASC emerges from a multi-hit cascade: genetic and environmental vulnerabilities, acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, and maladaptive immune responses. Targeted therapies must address blood-brain barrier repair and chronic neuroinflammation. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-conver...
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STUDY finds "no association between mRNA or adenovirus COVID-19 vaccines and ischemic stroke." However, "Systematic reviews report over a 2-fold increased risk of ischemic stroke following infection with SARS-CoV-2." www.jns-journal.com/article/S002...
Have you tried smell retraining therapy? It's basically sniffing certain scents to try to retrain damaged nerves (taste/smell are related). Being on a fixed income, it might be cost prohibitive but you might try the cheaper scents first. Let me know if you want a link that explains how to do it.
It. is quietly. everywhere. London CRAWLS(!) with SARS COV 2
Relegating our youngest generations to chronic illness should be a priority metric that we all have. It's our job to protect them. And you bet, we're fucking failing that. Don't believe one article? Have another. www.cbsnews.com/news/million...
I am BEGGING people not to concede that "COVID wasn't bad for kids because they don't die of it." Death isn't the only metric!! 10-20% of kids who get COVID end up with long COVID. More children now have long COVID than have asthma. We have utterly failed our kids. www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-m...
Even if the sky is falling Even if the waters rise Even if the world is ending I will make it out alive I will be the one to survive. youtu.be/9UyPRFZpVyc?...
Some people just want to see the world burn. RFK Jr is one of them who had everything but didn't value a single iota of it including his own health which he threw in the shitter. But hey, he wants us to listen to him as he rasps away like he knows what's best for our health. Sociopath indeed.
Let this be a warning to off & on masking. She had started wearing a mask sometimes but not all of the time in stores. She was using the Navage (saline irrigation) every other day but stopped for the camping trip. Doing things half-assed gets you infected. Remember that.
She's been camping since Friday morning & didn't bring her Navage meaning she was likely infected Wed-Thursday & it took the weekend to proliferate. She did use it last night when her nose began to get stuffy. She's going to be using it 2x daily until she's clear. At least there's that.
Our dad changed cognitively after his 2nd infection. He also developed new onset autoimmunity. My sister has Primary Biliary Cholangitis so she's already at higher risk for that. My mom knows this & about the neuro risks of COVID. We're both scared what will happen w my sister.
My sister just tested positive for COVID again. This would be her 2nd infection w her first being in early August 2023. She actually used 2 tests this morning bc she couldn't believe it. She's fully vaccinated but probably followed the "wait 2 wks for the new one" poor advice.
Yep, there's plenty of mentally ill weirdos that aren't eugenicists and RFK Jr? Absolutely an eugenicist along with everyone else that the Trump administration has installed in our public health agencies. And others in that same admin? They're eugenicists, too. All of them.
Imagine saying "just eugenics". 👀 Does he even know what eugenics even means because I would never imagine anyone downplaying eugenics, especially as a currently active movement being led from the govt, itself, unless they either didn't know what it means or supported it. JFC.
Every single thing, EVERY SINGLE THING, that RFK has done was predictable and predicted. He is doing what every other fascist eugenicist has done before him. The disability community has been warning about this for YEARS. It is not in any way shape or form mysterious and unknowable.
YES it extends to your inborn rare diseases. YES it extends to racial differences. YES they will pin it to the gays as well. Then the "morally weak" and they decide who that is. And NO, they will not mask up even if you are immunocompromized.
COVID is not over. COVID will never be over!!
This is a segment of the graph showing COVID-19 concentrations in water samples from participating Indiana wastewater treatment plants. Note the sharp uptick on C-19 concentrations in wastewater showing now, all while RFK Jr severely limits who can be vaccinated. Link to IN gov't site in comment.
also you can have exactly zero high risk conditions and still get long covid from your next covid infection (ask me how i know)
Begging everyone at #Riptide to wear a mask (not just for COVID but also just the amount of people that'll be in that building) and that, if you're able, to bring some extra - people will surely end up forgetting / not being able to get decent masks beforehand
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I just bought a 50 pack of KN95 masks for $10. Imagine being able to say that 5 years ago.
Discusses the changes between pre-Omicron & Omicron variants on the CNS & blood brain barrier with different findings that had the OG virus & Omicron being more detrimental. Plus there's Omicron subvariants w differences. YEESH. jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
TY so much for replying to this as life got in the way again & I totally forgot. Looks like Omicron was eventually found to have ⬇️ neurotropism but some subvariants of Omicron have had ⬆️neurotropism so it's all over the map w one key takeaway. Omicron still has neurological manifestations. 😅
Indeed it is. I just lost my husband in May from the autoimmune disorder that ravaged his body for 3.5 years, which stemmed from Long Covid. I have a milder version, which resolved itself into RA, but his finally took out his immune system completely, and he succumbed to an infection in his toe.
Autoimmunity can be like that. It's such a rollercoaster of remission/hope to decline. That would be absolutely excruciating. 😢💔
Good luck, be safe, learn to mask appropriately, & stay healthy. ❤️
Now obviously, that's just a Hollywood movie but there's some truth to how an airborne virus will spread in that way but we don't need Hollywood. @ukhadds.bsky.social recently made this great video to help people understand airborne virus transmission. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?si=pRK...
A lot of people took what the CDC & other health institutions had to say about COVID being something that you could catch at only 3 ft or 6 ft bc it "spread by droplets". That was proven to be untrue. COVID is, in fact, airborne. Think "Outbreak" instead. youtu.be/Wy-w1-g7OvY?...
5. Removing their mask in a public restroom because "nobody else was in there". Bad news--airborne means that virus will linger in the air for a while & public restrooms often aren't well ventilated. They're small, cramped & damp--environments that allow an airborne virus to linger in the air.
4. Removing their mask in crowded public spaces to talk to someone or eat. Believe it or not, talking and eating do not offer any protective effect against getting infected by an airborne virus. Even removing it briefly can just capture virus w/in the mask when you put it back on. Leave it on.
3. Wearing cloth masks. I've seen this on occasion still & it's mind boggling. A cloth mask is not going to have the features or fit of a KN95 or N95 mask. It's not even equivalent. If you like your pretty cloth mask, wear it over a N95 or KN95. Don't use it solely.
2. Wearing it under their nose. I still see a young man masking w that mask inexplicably under his nose. Does he think that COVID just hurts the lungs? Maybe but leaving the nose open to infection means that you'll just be inhaling virus into your lungs internally. This doesn't protect you.
Correct. Things that I saw people doing that likely led to infection during my state's mandate: 1. Wearing an ill-fitting mask w loads of gaps. Some hung on the tips of their noses with wide gaps at the top. Others popping open on the side. Wearing something like that gets you infected.
Alberta's policy on COVID vaccines is flawed. Making people pay for vaccines and limiting access will ultimately cost more in hospital admissions, long COVID, and deaths. Vaccines should be accessible and free for all. #AxeTheVaxTax #ABleg #ABpoli #CdnPoli
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Good conclusions, pretty sure my government will do nothing with it whatsoever. (In my country, they don't even bother to count the number of people affected with #longcovid).
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
As one of Jonathan's ~250 subscribers, I can confirm that it was a tiny & unnoticed channel where he was simply preserving them speaking their own beliefs freely wo taint of opinion. It was a historical record without hype. All I can figure is that Prasad was searching for himself online again.
Please do. I haven't been able to read a book in ages due to my vision but you know what? I should order a copy, too, to fight this revisionism. The more of them that are out there, the more likely it will be remembered what actually happened.
The book written by @joho.bsky.social is verbatim documented evidence that can't be erased. I'll bury it in a time capsule if necessary.
Oof, that sounds exactly like how my brother in law's mother died. Infection in her toe that turned into sepsis that she could not defeat. I am so sorry, Cori.
apparently whiny bitch baby Vinay Prasad got a YouTube account deleted here are two of my Vinay Prasad favorites. Menace, clown
This is an interesting video (30min) if you are #covidcautious or even if you aren't. This poor girl has just found out that she has a long covid/sequelae relating to her neck/spinal cord. How's that for what is supposedly a 'mild' cold? #covid #longcovid www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aktd...
ok I watch a lot of horror movies and you gotta stay safe out there folks. keep unbroken salt lines around the bed and stay clear of empty vessels (dolls, corpses, Atlantic staff writers)
New Zealand: A new Covid-19 variant, XFG or “Stratus,” has been rising over the past 3 months. “The prevalence of the variant XFG has increased from around 5% in June to around 18% now.” Source: archive.md/27B4C
New episode with @wendyorent.bsky.social discussing the carnage at the CDC and the heroes who fought back. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
I swear Wen was definitely in the same group somehow. She was all over CNN all the time with her "mild" rhetoric. www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23...
Apparently, all of us. Enough so that he'd get upset over his own words being preserved by someone else...
What is Vinay Prasad afraid of? Coward.
Apparently, we're all lying pieces of shit that don't deserve forgiveness according to Vinay. I dunno. I personally thought we were all just medical professionals and disabled and/or immunocompromised patients just trying to survive in a post-COVID world.
Absolutely shocking that his acct was deleted given what was on there was literally their own words but also not given what Prasad is like.
I'm so glad to see this story picked up by the Guardian. Dr. Jonathan Howard is one of my mutuals here on bsky & was talking about it today. I was one of his subscribers. Most of his videos were literally 3rd party interviews w Bhattacharya, Prasad, & the rest. Clips w little or no commentary.
Joined this group as an escape. Didn't expect to be confronted with that. I feel so terrible for him. I don't know if he got sick & had this happen to him or if his mind broke from the strain of everything. I just don't know but it was honestly heartbreaking. 😭
As I explained it, he listened sincerely, nodding, and said, "maybe...maybe...", contemplating the possibility. He was calm the whole time, accepting of his new reality. In his mind, he was adjusting to the framework of being a quantum jumper. Instead, he was adjusting to probable psychosis.
I explained to him about how, for some people, their personalities might change after COVID infection. He asked me how often it happens & I told him that I didn't know but I'd seen it several times with people I knew. I offered that maybe some of the people who'd changed might just have gotten sick.
He told me that he had finally figured out what was happening to him. He was quantum jumping. Every time that steel truck appeared, he'd quantum jump into another universe where everyone would change. I explained to him that some of the people changing & disappearing might be more explainable. 🤞
He was totally calm the entire time even though he also seemed distressed & contemplative. I asked him when this started & he said 2 years ago. I said that he was taking all of it well & he said that last year, he was terrified & scared but now, he was dealing with it better. 😭
He told me that he'd been seeing that happen or people he had known for a long time just disappear as if they had never existed at all. He said that he'd finally figured out the pattern & it was when he saw a specific steel truck and a few specific cars, then the timeline would change. 😰
I told him about my rheumatologist as an example & he agreed that was weird. But, he said, he'd seen them change even bigger than that. Like physically change. One of his friends that he'd known since they were in the 1st grade had changed to now be 20 years old again, dropping away decades. 👀
I said I had been, too, but what I thought he was going to say was not even what I ever imagined. He told me how the people he knew were behaving differently now, like they had completely different personalities. Chagrined, I told him that I'd seen that happen, too.
Someone from the little medieval fight in the park gang was injured this weekend so I moved it to provide some first aid (knee injury). I ended up just kind of hanging out w him afterwards to make sure he was fine & after about 10 minutes, he told me that he'd been seeing strange things happening.
Man, that picture is anything BUT hot so I'm guessing that what he means is that we're in hell. He would be correct.
Brilliant
It's not just the Pulse memorial, DeSantis is ensuring any and all murals across the state that go against his bigotry must be painted over and ripped out. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
I think part of the issue is people go "but no-one would accuse my daughter of being trans!". You need to really hammer home - "Remember that creep teacher we had? Think what he would get away with if this passed and he has an excuse." Because everyone had a dodgy teacher at some point.
Right? This should be absolutely plain and obvious and anybody not arguing about this point, well, ya'll have some explaining to do why it's not unsettling af.
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
Fatality.
