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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 11h

Also critical to note that these vaccines do not prevent infection- study here shows that “by approx weeks 9–12 post vaccination, the VE point estimates were close to zero” for XBB booster vs infection (still good to get to reduce risk of hospitalization/death)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding the effectiveness of the Comirnaty monovalent and bivalent vaccines during the Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study

Understanding the effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines over time is critical for informing booster strategies, vaccine types, and public health polici…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 11h

While complaining how impossible it would be to adopt only a partial - PARTIAL- version of the lifestyle we’re forced to live. I lost my career to COVID. I developed a severe untreatable (on like 7 meds) migraine disorder to covid. I’m homebound and can’t stand in the shower. I was 37.

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 11h

not only doubles the burden we labor under but makes every day more dangerous. For those of you for whom reinfection is not as fraught, introducing covid safety measures would serve as a shield to help protect those of us who can’t afford more infections. Instead you’re throwing us to the wolves

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 11h

You are essentially saying that masking/covid prevention is an unfair/difficult burden - so let us leave it to the sickest, most vulnerable and at risk among us to bear alone, making it therefore more difficult again. We don’t have a choice, we must engage w prevention. Your failure to do so ….(1/2)

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

If you’re a person who cares about not disabling and harming other human beings, including children, you must know that nearly half of COVID cases are asymptomatic, that Covid spreads before symptoms begin, and that you have a responsibility not to harm others. That is simply humanity.

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

The framing “it’s unreasonable to ask me to mask” reminds me of climate change discussions - “it’s unreasonable to ask for net zero” etc - bc ppl think of the politics as more “real” than the science. Sometimes things are hard or unfair but reality and science don’t care

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

We are not going to get clean air while ppl are continuing to act as if long covid is something that only happens to others - which is not true! A new study found that children were TWICE as likely to develop long covid on their second infection as first

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

www.thelancet.com

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

That is what happened in my friend group. As culture changes and masking and testing are normalized (1) long COVID patients can be integrated into society instead of choosing between isolation & risking their lives (2) AWARENESS of the need for clean air and URGENCY for clean air is built

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

Culture change could look like 3 major things- masking indoors , dining and drinking OUTDOORS, and TESTING whenever you plan to unmask. Introduce those 3 things to your social circle and always insist on them. “That’s how we ensure no one is left behind in this new era”

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

You’re right! It’s rly difficult! It’s made SO much more difficult trying to move through the world without catching covid- something I absolutely can’t catch given that I’m still sick from my infection 2 years ago- by the denialism and lack of solidarity of the majority

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

Instead of recognizing “what a difficult reality we’re creating for anyone that’s been harmed by the virus- which could be me next- I better recognize the severity of this situation & participate in changing the culture NOW before it’s my turn”, ppl BLAME us for the situation being difficult

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

I’m sorry that THE SITUATION feels unreasonable. It’s fair to say that the situation is unmanageable, a situation that all the ppl who already have contracted long covid and who can’t afford more infections have been thrust into. That is something to take up with the govt - a reason to be furious

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 12h

“Doing what you can to avoid spreading it to other people” is masking , until we have clean air - and in the meantime , you all need to be advocating for clean air, which none of you are showing the urgency around when you fail to mask.
40%+ of Covid cases are asymp and Covid disables people

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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 8d

“If thousands of studies are telling you to look for a certain kind of harm and then millions of people start wondering why they are experiencing exactly that type of harm, is it so hard to connect those two dots?”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 9d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 9d

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 9d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 8d

"If thousands of studies are telling you to look for a certain kind of harm and then millions of people start wondering why they are experiencing exactly that type of harm, is it so hard to connect those two dots?"

Or has #COVID has destroyed people's ability to reason...?

#disability #pandemic

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 9d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 8d

The term long covid was invented before the vaccine

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Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @katieklocksin.bsky.social · 8d

“I’d argue that you can’t see what you refuse to see.”
😭😭😭

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 9d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 8d

I literally NEVER had migraines before covid and now I’m on daily Qulipta, Topomax, I take beta blockers (also for POTS), for abortives I have Ubrelvy, naratriptan and a prescription strength NSAID which I take TOGETHER, I also do Botox and I’m about to try injectable Emgality. Nothing is working

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 8d

I doubt she makes a habit of diagnosing patients generally. She certainly didn’t say anything to me about my scan (all clear thankfully 😌). And she was a nice lady generally! It just felt like she seriously got anxiety from what I was telling her - that I had serious health problems following COVID

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 8d

I genuinely think she only stepped SO far out of her lane- I wasn’t even there for the heart scan for anything relating to my migraines, it just came up chatting!- bc of this reflex ppl have to dismiss long covid no matter what. She just couldn’t resist being like ummm but MAYBE ITS NOT THAT.

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ARRA - Association pour la Réduction des Risques Aéroportés @associationarra.bsky.social · 8d

Personne n'a de #COVIDLong mais par contre, tout le monde a un "brouillard mental", des problèmes de mémoire et oublie ses mots...

Pourquoi avec toutes les preuves scientifiques qu'on a sur le #SARS-CoV2 on continue de collectivement fermer les yeux ?

(article en anglais)

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 9d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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“Tomb” Swanson @swansontea.bsky.social · 8d

“Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging”.

I feel this. I’ve remarked that I felt like COVID aged me a decade

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 9d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 8d

"This is the narrative the left uses because it allows them to be 'sympathetic' to Long COVID patients while refusing to mask or take any sort of preventive action. This is the idea that Long COVID is real, it exists, but only a certain kind of person gets it, and it’s a small minority of people."

What interests me about the “the lion does not concern himself” meme is the cracks it puts in the central fiction of the lies being told about Long COVID since 2022. Since that time, we’ve had two main narratives about Long COVID. The first, usually spewed on the right but too often adopted by the left as well, is that Long COVID is not real. It’s made up, it’s something lazy people use to stay in bed and get out of work, and/or it’s hysteria and conversion disorder.

But the second, more often left-wing narrative, is the one which is really punctured here. This is the narrative the left uses because it allows them to be “sympathetic” to Long COVID patients while refusing to mask or take any sort of preventive action. This is the idea that Long COVID is real, it exists, but only a certain kind of person gets it, and it’s a small minority of people. There’s something special about them, it must be genetic or something, and it doesn’t really affect most people.

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