Doctorally trained herbalist and acupuncturist; Integrative oncology; Author; Researching APC dysfunction in chronic illness; Long Covid since 2020
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Lingering pathogens have been a big part of Chinese medicine, documented as early as 2,000 B.C. So much of the medicine operates around the interstices, ecapsulated spaces, and empirical evidence that lingering pathogens are not considered special or even rare.
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"There's a brain eating amoeba in the water supply; Do not use the water without thoroughly boiling it."
"I will not comply!"
That's how y'all sound.
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Daniel Penny’s murder of Jordan Neely was justified on the basis that Jordan Neely had a pre-existing health condition(sickle cell). Please take a moment to comprehend(and research) how the U.S. legal system codifies eugenics.
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Want to stick it to the man AND do something meaningful for the victims of private healthcare companies? Wear a mask.
ALT Excerpt from a Pfizer earnings call detailing their desire to fight masking in order to drum up business for Paxlovid.
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Biden kicked 23 million people off Medicaid, SNAP, and housing protections in the middle of a pandemic. Democrats are not going to stop Republicans from doing the same.
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We are almost certainly in a Swine Flu pandemic(a redux of the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic to be exact) that will almost certainly be what causes a Bird Flu pandemic(H1 is going to reassort with H5) and there are people who don't even know that we are still in a SARS-Cov-2 pandemic.
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I mean this genuinely - people with disabilities have been leading the revolution for quite some time. Take notes.
I mean this genuinely - what the fuck are these people who can't fight, can't lift, can't shop for groceries, can't walk anywhere, can't breathe inside, etc. going to DO FOR the "revolution?"
Appraise anime?
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I will not stop talking about the Super Bowl. It destroyed New Orleans and cost my partner and I everything we have. The sport, the NFL, the war on homeless and trafficking victims, the absurd white supremacist police presence are a stain that cannot be removed all for what?
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in a freezing warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the site.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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Where was the outrage when Biden actually cut Medicaid and SNAP for 23 million people?
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It’s hard to imagine anyone under 50 living to 78 years(life expectancy), let alone 67(retirement) after 22+ SARS2 infections.
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Speaking of “do not comply in advance,” it was Democrats who conceded that Public Health and vulnerable people were disposable.
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Anderson Cooper called mask wearers “freaks,” and still has a job in case you are wondering how far we have to go to address ableism in society.
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The CDC is disallowing wastewater testing for H5N1 because they know it’s a little bit everywhere and don’t want to scare anyone. Public health!
We developed an assay for testing for H5N1 from wastewater over a year ago. (I wasn't expecting it in milk, but I figured it was going to poke up somewhere.)
However, I was just on a call with the CDC and they are advising us NOT to use it.
I need a drink.
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Joe Biden kicked 23 million people off of medicaid and other increasingly necessary services as more of us became disabled due to SARS-Cov-2 because he didn't want to acknowledge the ongoing pandemic anymore.
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It is not lost on me that Forbes and Bloomberg are dragging public health’s shoddy business-first directives while other “serious” publications continue to platform eugenicists.
ALT Screenshot of a Forbes article headline: “Denial: The Hidden Link Connecting MPOX, COVID-19, HIV/AIDS”
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Imagine fighting cancer for 30 years to die of SARS2 because your oncologist and/or loved ones refused to mask.
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Everyone in my comments:
ALT Principal Skinner meme in which there are two frames, one above that reads, "Am I out of touch" and one below that reads, "No. It is half a million published papers on SARS2 that are wrong."
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Calling disabled folks “useless” is a really quick and easy way of identifying yourself as a fascist.
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SARS2 doesn’t vanish when symptoms stop. It’s been found in the brain, bone marrow, and gut in most people infected years after infection, even in those who “fully recover.” Long Covid is just one outcome. The rest face slower, more insidious damages.
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Some still think SARS-CoV-2 is just a respiratory virus. It’s not. It’s neurotropic, vascular-disruptive, immunomodulatory, and persistent. These compounding effects will undoubtedly reshape the biology and systems of dozens of species - including and especially us.
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The New York Times is calling scientists and researchers "alarmists" after ignoring half a million publications on the harms of SARS-Cov-2 and Long Covid.
ALT Screenshot of New York Times headline: "The Covid Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else."
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New research shows SARS2 reinfection doesn’t “boost” your immunity - it narrows it. Each infection further imprints and restricts your T-cell diversity, making your immune response less adaptable over time.
frontiersin.org/journals/imm…
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ALT A quote from David Putrino stating that there is no such thing as “mild” SARS-Covid-2.
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The most ableist thing we’ve done since the pandemic began wasn’t ignoring disabled people-it was briefly including them, showing access was always possible, and then ripping it all away.
We didn’t just abandon them. We took what little they had and took it and more away.
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🚨🚨🚨This paper explicitly suggests that viral reservoirs in bone marrow must be to blame for mitochondrial dysfunction in lymphocytes, monocytes, NK cells, dendritic cells. This would be why the complement system is wacked. This is a big deal.🚨🚨🚨
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I went to a DSA healthcare working group meeting once in 2016 and a guest speaker rightfully called everyone and the DSA out for excluding people with disabilities. Looks like nothing has changed.
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These aren’t actual “costs” of masking. These are complaints, just like doctors used to complain about handwashing, sterile needles, and not being able to smoke in the office.
Financial costs. Face not visible. Ear pain. Breathing problems. Headache. Drinking/eating is shitty. Etc.
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"We... conclusively demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 is capable of infecting and replicating within [the heart, lymph nodes, small intestine, adrenal glands] and many other tissues, including brain... as late as 230 days following symptom onset..."
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Is it Menopause AND/OR Long Covid? This is a differential I have to work through with patients almost every day and it’s so important. I really ought to start a podcast. No one listens to me on this app lol
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A patient with decades of cancer under their belt and weeks left to live shared that the hardest part of dying was how willingly everyone exposed them to covid while fighting for their life.
no offense but why would you take precautions around someone who is going to die in a few months? have you ever taken care of someone terminally ill
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What despairs me most is how easily the world agreed that some lives simply matter less. The elderly, disabled, and chronically ill became acceptable losses. And those who still care enough to take precautions? Mocked—for refusing to quietly endorse modern eugenics.
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It makes me feel like I’ve let my guard down but I most certainly have not. I continue to assume everyone has covid at all times even if they “tested negative.” I wish I could heal the part of society that is still too proud to see what’s in front of them, to protect each other.
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I assume everyone knows they can get a free prescription online in the states for Truvada or Descovy if they haven't tried either for Long Covid and the like? It is a tremendous privilege that we owe to decades of HIV/AIDS activism.
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Metformin doesn’t just cut Long Covid risk - it blocks mTOR, rewires immunometabolism, and limits vascular and metabolic injury. These same pathways drive Long Covid. So why aren’t we seeing more trials for patients who already have Long Covid? 🤷
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Why does everyone live their life like there is a treatment for Long Covid, or a way to reverse the damage from SARS2?
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“SARS2 is nothing like HIV”
In some very particular ways, SARS2 is actually identical.
Sars2 and HIV1/2 engage in many of the same(identical) and similar Tat-dependent gene transactivation so I was hoping to kick up some latency(if any exists) even in immune privileged sites.
mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/6/3378
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Imagine fighting cancer for 20 years, being admitted to hospice d/t rapid metastasis, and dying of SARS2 because no one was wearing a mask. In-facility end of life care is SO dehumanizing these days. I hate it.
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The majority of the population will likely have persistent immune dysregulation by 2027-2030 due to:
– Frequent reinfections (immune system doesn't "reset")
– No sterilizing immunity
– Cumulative immune exhaustion
– Latent virus reactivation
– Rising autoimmunity & inflammation
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Since living alone(without roommates who refuse to take any precautions), I haven't been sick once. It's a tremendous privilege to have this much control over my health. N95s work fabulously.
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This was discovered two years before Ali Erturk’s team found superantigenic cranial reservoirs in 60% of SARS2 convalescents years after infection, post mortem. We are heading toward an astronomic surge in neurological illnesses over the next few years.
gizmodo.com/our-brains-are-i…
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Anyway, staying home until I test negative because omg duh why would we do it any differently?!
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Metformin disrupts one of the first things to go wrong in Long Covid: prolonged gluconeogenesis meant to sustain immune activity beyond its prime but creates a favorable environment for virus and microbes instead.
A clinical trial showed metformin reduced risk of #LongCovid by ~41% when taken during acute #covid! I took it too & prescribe it for my patients to have on hand if they get #SARSCoV2. Access #metformin (covid study dosing) easier here: direct.rthm.com/metformin @loscharlos
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'Don’t Look Up' premiered the same month the CDC shortened isolation guidelines, encouraged holiday travel, Omicron became dominant, and death and disability skyrocketed. Meant as an allegory for climate denial, it became a searing reflection of pandemic denial instead.
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You’re not an ally to disabled people if you have to complain about accommodating them.
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I was bartending at a wine garden when I and all of the outdoor staff(masked, no respirators) contracted covid in 2020. None of the indoor staff(BOH) was infected because service was limited to outside. Please, stop pretending that dining/drinking outside is covid-proof.
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Do normies know that SARS2 and subsequent reservoirs are slowly destroying their insides whether or not they have Long Covid?
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When someone says they have “Not-COVID,” let them know it’s NOT likely. 97% of all positive RSV/Flu/COVID tests this summer were positive for COVID. Either test again or assume it’s COVID. 👍
At the peak of the late-summer Covid wave, U.S. health systems were testing approximately evenly for COVID, flu, & RSV.
Yet, *nearly all* positive cases were Covid.
#PublicHealth guidance must disabuse the myth that Covid conforms to the flu/RSV seasonal pattern.
ALT Two pie graphs Testing RSV = 27% Flu = 33% Covid = 40% Cases RSV = 1% Flu = 2% COVID = 97% Raw data: COVID Flu RSV Tests 65557 53370 44855 Cases 10948 235 157
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A lot of you read theory but don’t wear a mask and it makes me wonder if you do the community thing out of love or for show.
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I think it's important to point out that Biden's White House did not just "repeatedly pressure" social media to censor "mis-information;" they also pushed for censorship of accurate COVID-19 information deemed "alarming."
ALT Screenshot of summary of trending headline: "Google Admits Biden Administration Pressured YouTube to Censor COVID and Election Content"
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I developed heart failure after an asymptomatic SARS2 infection. I developed epilepsy, orthostatic intolerance, and post-exertional malaise after an asymptomatic SARS2 infection. “Mild” doesn’t mean anything once you’re disabled.
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Do folks minimizing SARS2 know it's the most heavily researched concept in the history of medicine and that almost all of that research is publicly available within seconds?
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SARS2 damage is four things:
1. INEVITABLE - You will experience it.
2. INSIDIOUS - You may not notice.
3. SYSTEMIC - It damages the whole body.
4. CUMULATIVE - Each infection makes matters worse.
Some damage is even progressive. Continued…
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Being a "COVID skeptic" in 2025 is like being skeptical of gravity. It's embarrassing and doesn't make any sense.
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I did not have PEM, epilepsy, migraines, dysautonomia, or heart failure before Long Covid. I was in the best shape of my life. There is NO way of eating right and exercising your way around SARS2 and Long Covid let me tell you 😮💨.
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There is a very rich history of people making lists of disabled folks and it’s not usually for their protection.
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The pandemic unmitigated doesn't just make us sick - it makes us cruel. It operates like capitalism & colonialism, coercing us into harming one another until that harm becomes background noise. The pandemic reinforces and deepens coercive forms of harm.
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Some of you joke about SARS2 like it isn’t the most widespread, disabling infectious illness on Earth, like it hasn’t killed 7M+ people, like 400 million disabled and their loved ones can’t hear or see you being a soulless prick.
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Serial re-infection with a virus that evades the immune system isn't going to "strengthen" it. Said virus exhausts the immune system, embeds itself in reservoirs, and forces the immune system to attack the host. The effects are negative, cumulative, and progressive, not positive.
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People with disabilities warned you about the danger of tying healthcare, housing, food security, education, and the right to live to employment and now everyone is going to find out what that means when tr*mp and AI completely destroy the job market and social services.
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This strain causes intense fatigue and that’s coming from someone with CFS/ME who now has Long Covid PEM. I was so tired that what I thought was dizziness was just me falling asleep while standing, every time I blinked, like I hadn’t slept in years.
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Has anyone written about the Covid Denial cult? Just trying to gauge how many people refuse to acknowledge the ongoing pandemic and/or those it disproportionately affects.
Has anyone written about the Covid Zero cult? Just trying to gauge how many people refuse to go to bars and restaurants and/or heavily mask everywhere in 2025. Lots of responses to this thread but it may be a small dedicated online thing.
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15% of children under 6 is unconscionable. These kids have only ever known covid. Why are we doing this?
A new NIH RECOVER study followed hundreds of children under 6 and found that up to 15% met criteria for probable Long COVID—many with symptoms lasting over a year.
Distinct symptom patterns were seen by age group. Poor appetite, chronic cough, sleep issues, and fatigue were strongly linked to prior COVID-19 infection.
The authors estimate nearly 6 million U.S. children may be affected by Long COVID — surpassing Asthma as the most common chronic condition in kids today.
If you think your child may be showing signs of Long COVID, @JAMANetwork Pediatrics created a resource to help you prepare: 🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Want research updates like this in your inbox? Sign up at rthm.com
🔗 DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.1066
@RachelGrossMD @tthaweethai @DrLarryK
#LongCOVID #PediatricLongCOVID #LongCOVIDKids #MEcfs #Pediatrics #ChronicIllnessAwareness #COVID19 #RTHM #MedicalResearch #MCAS #POTS #PEM #PESE
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It feels insensitive to talk about my remission but I can't stop crying. Every little thing feels like a fucking miracle.
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The gen pop doesn't know what Long Covid is. Long Covid is what happens when the immune system continually misfires after COVID-19, causing progressive compounding damage and dysfunction of every system in the body, ranking among the worst quality of life illnesses next to ME.
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I am Zero Covid because we still don't have mandatory paid sick leave, a neutralizing vaccine, Long Covid treatments, or clean air. I am Zero Covid because 400 million and counting are disabled and thousands are dying each week. I can't believe there are people who are not.
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Ah yes, “covidtelpro,” a decentralized network of anarchist mask blocs and resource sharing communities slowing down the eugenic fallout of an ongoing pandemic and rising fascism while every level of government tries to ban masks. Must be the feds.
/s
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COVID survivors have a 41% increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia vs uninfected controls.
A new UK Biobank study found COVID survivors aged 50+ had a higher risk of new-onset dementia vs uninfected controls. Among 54,757 participants followed for 24.1 months, prior infection was linked to a 41% increased risk.
cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covi…
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Covid denialism isn't always overt and cold blooded; it can also come from a place of shame. In an ableist, eugenic society that favors productivity over health, illness is a powerful trigger. We feel high and mighty when we share these posts but everyone is vulnerable to shame.
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It’s true and I have receipts. The CDC now says “respiratory secretions,” but they use to say, “spread from person to person is principally respiratory.”
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowb…
ALT Screenshot from CDC website in 2022 that says, MPOX, “spread from person to person is principally respiratory.”
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Purposefully coughing on someone is assault and during a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic specifically(which is now) is still considered attempted murder in almost every state. Willful exposure laws are no joke.
One of my dirty little secrets. When I’m in a supermarket & someone is wearing a mask I intentionally cough when I get near them to see the panic in their eyes.
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"I had it and I'm fine."
Actually, you most likely have billions of insidious, superantigenic, oncogenic, HHV reactivating, HERV-W activating, CD8+/ACE2/macrophage/neutrophil/megakaryocyte infecting/depleting/dysregulating SARS2(/particle) reservoirs throughout your body.
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We are at a point in the pandemic where doctors can and should consider SARS2 as a probable cause and/or complicating factor in most internal illnesses. A patient’s recent SARS2 history should be part of every intake.
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“Not again!” is such a funny thing to say-when denial is the reason we’re in another COVID surge in the first place.
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"I can't get Long Covid because I take vitamins and work out," is one way of saying you don't know much about Long Covid.
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Flowflex sent me a positive control swab even though I don’t work in a BSL3 so I thought I’d share what four dips looks like before I go to jail.
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If you’re a Leftist who treats the pandemic as over, your analyses of politics, capitalism, racism, and imperialism are shallow at best.
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"It's a cold for the vast majority of people!"
"Cold" viruses don't persist in the vast majority of the population, engage in Tat-dependent gene transactivation, MHC-1 downregulation, infect T cells, monocytes and ACE2.
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The cartoonishly ableist Left treats disabled people as an obstacle to liberation, ignoring that we fought for remote work, flexible hours, anti-discrimination laws, and the very concept of workplace accommodation. We didn’t slow down the labor movement. We literally shaped it.
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It’s a big red flag when someone claims they don’t have covid as though there is some full proof way of knowing, as though I have any reason to trust them after documenting their track record. It’s always “something else.”
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ALT A Jackson Hickle tweet in which the “climate crisis” has been crossed out and replaced with “pandemic” that reads, “The pandemic reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not.”
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My patients are great at masking because they know I operate one of the only covid safer spaces in town. #evermasking
ALT Michael wearing an Aura and smiling, sitting in the office in a green shirt with floral print.
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No one truly recovers from SARS-CoV-2. What looks like recovery is the insidious nature of long-term damage combined with a failure to keep looking. Most people now carry viral reservoirs, smoldering beneath the surface - waiting to be perturbed.
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SARS2 is different from other respiratory viruses.
Neurotropic
Immune evasive
Vascular invasive
Infects T & B cells
Disrupts ion channels
Persists in tissue reservoirs
Viroproteins act as a superantigens
Hijacks host transcription (HIV-like Tat activity)
so many other examples
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Banning masks and all medical exceptions during a pandemic, ahead of an H5N1 syndemic is de facto attempted mass homicide.
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If doxycycline is the only antibiotic that touches this mycoplasma pneumonia, we will see an uptick in fungal parasitism, all the result of SARS2. Mark my words.
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If you want to estimate how many will side with, enable, or ignore the rise of fascism, look at how many refuse to take basic steps to protect each other during an ongoing pandemic.
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Pandemic oncogenic virus that seeds in the gut bacteria and lining for months after infection alongside rise in G/I cancers escapes culpability once again.
Gastrointestinal cancers, which include colorectal, stomach and pancreatic cancer, are rising dramatically in younger adults, though doctors aren’t fully sure why. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
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There are facts about COVID that should have brought the world to a screeching halt, but instead we allow ABLEIST/CAPITALIST campaigns of neglect to overshadow:
1.)SARS2 -> disability
2.)SARS2 in the brain/marrow
3.)SARS2 -> risk of CVD/Dementia/Cancer
4.)SARS2 -> AIDS
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The pandemic is like a gas leak - instead of fixing it, the government removed the sulfur smell.
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I mask for myself, my loved ones, and the millions of others who will likely never recover from Long Covid.
#yallmasking
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I don’t think folks understand that “let it rip” is only possible because people with disabilities are not a fully protected class in the constitution, the Civil Rights Act, or the ADA. SARS2 has exacerbated a civil rights crisis.
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At least we have the ACLU to fight mask bans?
ALT A person poking the CDC with a stick, captioned “C’mon do public health.”
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Metformin may help in ME/CFS and Long COVID by calming overactive immunity, improving mitochondrial function, and protecting vessels. The paper argues it could be repurposed as a safe, affordable treatment worth clinical trials. I agree.
A new review from Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration, in collaboration with Collaborative Center at Montreal, highlights the potential of metformin, an antidiabetic agent, as a treatment for #MECFS and #LongCOVID.
👉 Read the full publication: ow.ly/uXQJ50WVZax
ALT Cover of a review article titled “A Perspective on the Role of Metformin in Treating ME/CFS and Long COVID,” with author names, the OMF logo, and a 3D illustration of a mitochondrion.
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Do people who think they’ve recovered from SARS2 know that most of the known progressive sequelae are insidious, untestable, or undiagnosable for years after infection? You could be on your way to being very sick and not know it. A thread…
“CD8 T cell expression of exhaustion markers increased in nonhospitalized individuals over time….” The authors’ finding of damage to the immune system “akin” to HIV is very concerning”
infectioncontroltoday.com/vi…
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