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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 4h

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Reference: Salamon S, Kruger A, Lupton D, Pretorius E, Ewing AG, Bar-Yam Y. COVID-19 is "Airborne AIDS": provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? AJPH 2025

Full study: www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

https://www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S2773-0654(25)00146-4/fulltext

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 4h

"Both [the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the current covid] pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access."

American Journal of Preventative Medicine,
October 13, 2025

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COVID-19 is "Airborne AIDS": provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

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Two viruses, two pandemics
HIV: Sexually & blood transmitted; decades-long progression to AIDS
SARS-CoV-2: An airborne virus & highly contagious; result in Long COVID weeks to months after acute disease recovery

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Shared outcomes
Immune dysfunction & exhaustion
Viral persistence & vulnerability to (opportunistic) infections
Systemic inflammation & damage
Associated with neurological disorders

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Public Health & Call to Action
Both pandemics marked by stigma, inequities, delayed response
Lessons from HIV could inform Long COVID strategies; prevention, recognition, causal treatments

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Conclusion: Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 1d

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Casidesia @casidesia.bsky.social · 1d

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in the market for some high-quality KN95s, I recently became an affiliate with Kind Mask!

I’ve seen several mutuals rocking these respirators and I can’t wait to finally try em out once they arrive in the mail.

Use POTATUM25 for 25% off your entire order 🫡

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 1d

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in the market for some high-quality KN95s, I recently became an affiliate with Kind Mask!

I’ve seen several mutuals rocking these respirators and I can’t wait to finally try em out once they arrive in the mail.

Use POTATUM25 for 25% off your entire order 🫡

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 19

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Help support a queer content creator and disability advocate rebuilding my little family’s life in our new home 🤠 even sharing this helps!

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 17

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 17

Reminder!

Am cute and design cute shirts!

Support a disabled content creator, artist and disability advocate and find something you love in my shop! 🧵

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Text on top of shirt reads MIND: MELTED

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · Jul 16

I'm not sure there's anyone out there who deserves recognition and commendation more than Alice Wong. Her work is incredible and she has already changed the world

Bilal Mahmood @bilalmahmood.bsky.social · Jul 16

I had the profound privilege of commending Alice Wong, a visionary leader, cultural organizer, and one of the most powerful voices in the disability justice movement.

Through her leadership, writing, & activism she has empowered the voices of individuals with disabilities throughout the nation.

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Yvie Garcia @pazuza.bsky.social · Jul 16

Firing us from jobs for requesting disability accomodations lol 🫠

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 16

When I say the left has an ableism problem, it’s because it’s true.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 15

The left has an ableism problem.

The right obviously does too. They’re loudly bigoted & closed-minded.

My focus is on the people who claim to be inclusive, progressive and willing to learn, grow and adapt to new information.

Where are leftists when disabled people need them?

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 13

After a long time of struggling without my full dose of ADHD meds… I GOT THEM BACK TODAY 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

if you weren’t sick of me already,
get ready

today is a GOOD DAY

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 13

I lost access to my ADHD meds in 2023 after I left my provider for putting me at risk by showing up to my appt with covid

I’ve been on half my meds for about a year now…

AND I JUST GOT THE REST OF IT PRESCRIBED!

If I haven’t made it clear already, PREPARE TO BE SICK OF ME 🫵

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 8

Grok is poisoning the air in Memphis

ChatGPT relies on slave labor in the Global South to train and maintain its servers

Generative AI like ChatGPT is changing our climate and our brain chemistry

None of this shit is worth it

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 1

Doctors are not gods.

There are plenty of doctors without egos and scientists who have been studying covid for over half a decade. They’re doing the thankless work of recording the far-reaching effects and distributing the info.

In this individualistic hellscape, I’m listening to them.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jul 1

It’s Disability Pride Month!

Many of you have been disabled by one or multiple covid infections and don’t know it yet.

Many others are aware, though, and have been sounding the alarm for years.

Stop disabling your communities by breathing all over everyone.

WEAR A MASK!

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tens of millions of kids with long covid.

They didn’t ask for this shit.

We’re failing them every day.

Forcible infections are straight from the eugenicist’s playbook.

When they grow up, they’re gonna rightfully demand answers.

I’ll be firmly planted in their corner.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 30

Y’all are out here huffing covid like you have unlimited paid time off and hella benefits at your disposal lmao

The social cost of being the only masked person in a room is higher than the worth of your own health and wellbeing? And the health of those around you? Why?

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 30

History only rhymes because we refuse to learn from it.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 28

Covid ages the brain 10x faster than natural aging.

If you proclaim to be progressive and inclusive, you should be on the front lines of sharing info about an ongoing mass disabling event.

Here I cover some of covid’s effects, the Semmelweis Reflex, and how to start caring.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 28

If me sharing studies on the dangers of covid scares you bc you’ve been ignoring it for years… is that fearmongering?

Or are you just going thru a personal reckoning and trying to make it my problem?

I’m sharing info that our leaders should be sharing. Take it up with them.

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potatum @pot8um.bsky.social · Jun 27

Nature, 2022

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SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank - Nature

After infection with SARS-CoV-2, individuals show a greater reduction in grey matter thickness and tissue contrast in the orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus; greater changes in m...

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