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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 6h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
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Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

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Patti LuPain @pattilupain.bsky.social · 3h

A lot of us also want you to mask because we have read the studies and we care about you and we don’t want you to get sick! Reddit is full of people who thought they would be fine getting this over and over and now they’re disabled, maybe permanently. We don’t want that for you!

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 1h

You sound incredibly ignorant and incapable of having an adult conversation about this.

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 4h

During Will Stancil's failed run for political office, he had his own tweets downplaying attacks on abortion printed out and mailed to voters. He has never learned an ounce of humility since and is a fundamentally unserious, immature brat. Stop taking him seriously!

"Will Stancil Facts" mailer featuring two of his own tweets: "After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, instead of standing up to defend abortion access, Wil Stancil downplayed the impact on reproductive care across the US."

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 1h

You sound like Candace Owens.

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Blake Murdoch @blakemurdoch.bsky.social · 1h

Heads up, this guy has done the risk assessment and he’s positive that kids can be serially reinfected with COVID forever with no serious consequences!

To suggest otherwise is fear, just ignore that JAMA Pediatrics has declared long COVID more common than asthma in kids 5 years into its existence.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 5h

"It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it is reasonable to pile everything the majority won’t do on the thin slice of disabled people who are carrying their own weight and attempting to carry everyone else’s as they drown."

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 6h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 5h

So you believe the Internet causes brain damage, but you don't believe that about COVID the virus shown to cause brain damage.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

This place is a completely deranged social environment that’s flash-frying the brains of people who want to be popular here, and is only defensible in comparison to its much-larger competitor, which is doing exactly the same thing but with considerably more Hitler

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone who can needs to wear one buddy. It would help if you researched this before commenting.

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 6h

"It is not reasonable or in line with how we deal with other comparable risks."

You don't know enough about COVID to compare it to other risks.

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 6h

"The marginal benefit of having all asymptomatic people mask indoors"

N95s are near perfect at stopping the virus.

"absent extremely high prevalence and no vaccine"

Prevelance is extremely high. Most people aren't vaccinated. Vaccinations do not stop spread or chronic symptoms.

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 7h

"COVID causes organ damage."

"You say that, but all I see in my research is that COVID causes organ damage."

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ALT: a man with a beard and a ring on his finger looks at the camera

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 22h

I hesitate to elevate this comment—IME people aware of how uninformed it is are in the majority on Bsky—but worth observing that this coming from eg the NYT opinion page is part of why RFK has an opening to pretend to be better on Long Covid than liberals. They’ve made the bar that low.

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(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

October 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 9h

Probably COVID related and, yes, system is awful. Look into Long Covid.

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 9h

Yes! There's a pandemic where a deadly airborne virus is spreading. If you don't mask you are killing people including the only person you care about, yourself.

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want everyone in the US to wear a mask when in public for the foreseeable future?

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 9h

"Long COVID" is contagious. There's evidence it can or passed through blood or like an STD.

But also, it's caused by COVID which is airborne. Wear a mask and stop the spread.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 10h

Universal masking, which we tried for two hot seconds in America before people started throwing tantrums & posting up with their guns, is about the same kind of understanding ourselves as a collective we would actually need to counter fascism. You care about the community so you set a group norm.

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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 10h

Bad news: there is no such thing as Long COVID. If you have ever had COVID you still have COVID. You may be asymptomatic at the moment, but chronic symptoms will appear in time.