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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · Nov 20

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

aaaand part two 👇🏻

full video at normal speed:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMfy98PR/

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

made the quoted thread, a response to a few of @jamellebouie.net’s recent posts, into a video, because sometimes it’s nice to see people’s faces, hear people’s voices, on an ever colder internet. this is part one.

full video at normal speed:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMfy98PR/

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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 6h

Just to be absolutely clear, this verbatim quote by Dr. Henry, especially that the high rate of infection in children has not translated to long term consequences, was a willful lie.

As per all the known evidence in the below thread about long term #Covid19 harms in children.

Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · Apr 7

11/ As matter of fact, in BC, instead of presenting this in her PH briefing 2 mths later, Dr Henry said: "It shows us that children...have very high rate of infection, but what that has not translated to is hosp, severe illness or long-term consequences" (23min mark):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZiX...

British Columbia update on respiratory viruses – September 28, 2022

YouTube video by cpac

www.youtube.com

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 6h

Need your help on something, would you mind checking DMs?

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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Since July 2021, there’s indisputable proof 🇨🇦 PH & gov’t officials were receiving evidence that children were suffering from post Covid-19 conditions incl prolonged fatigue, headaches & joint pain to serious cardiac issues, cognitive impairment & potential liver damage. #LongCovid #CanadaSky

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 7h

www.bmj.com/content/387/...
"[...] after inducing PEM at VO2 max, [LC] patients develop a severe exercise-induced myopathy [...] Furthermore, post exercise, the muscle was infiltrated by lymphocytes and macrophages indicating an exaggerated inflammatory response to exercise induced muscle damage." 😳

Aerobic exercise is contraindicated in long covid with PEM

www.bmj.com

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 7h

www.bmj.com/content/387/...
"Baseline VO2 max was significantly reduced in [LC] patients compared to matched controls, signifying reduced exercise capacity but this reduction was [...] due to greater proportion of high-fatigable glycolytic muscle fibres and lower mitochondrial function in [LC]."

Aerobic exercise is contraindicated in long covid with PEM

www.bmj.com

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jul 3

might just keep adding relevant stuff to this thread bc i mean

also yea he IS wearing a mask in space what of it

patrick & man ray wallet meme:
man ray: so you don't want to think about covid anymore?
patrick: Yup.
and you're tired of you & others getting/being sick thus making it difficult to get things done? not to mention the cost of illness?
patrick: Yup.
man ray: so if those are all the things you want & we live in a reality where covid is still spreading & isn't prevented by vaccines & there are few treatments & no cures for disabling longcovid, you must be a clean air advocate.
patrick: That makes sense to me.
man ray: so lets rev up those clean air investments & get those masks on huh!!!!
patrick: It's not my
responsibility to contribute to the cleanliness of shared air

two astronauts looking at earth in space. One astronaut says, "wait, me taking off my mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces had greater sociopolitical impact than just a personal decision?" The other, pointing a gun at their fellow astronaut, says, "pathogens always have been a tool of the fascist"

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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · 11h

Not sure if anybody is doing it better than @juliadoubleday.bsky.social —Please read:

“when you shrug off the difficulty.. of practicing COVID safety.. you are casting that burden onto the shoulders of those who are already carrying more than you are. ”

Link: www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...?

Why not recognize: wow! What a difficult reality we’re creating for anyone who’s been harmed by the virus. That could be me next, since I’m getting reinfected in these bi-annual waves. Instead of complaining that disabled people are asking me to participate in normalizing COVID mitigations, why don’t I acknowledge the absurdity and severity and difficulty of this situation? Why don’t I participate in changing the culture before it’s my turn to suffer as others ignore me?

Yes, it is difficult. It is burdensome. You could call it unreasonable! But when you shrug off the difficulty and burden of practicing COVID safety in the current climate, you are casting that burden onto the shoulders of those who are already carrying more than you are. Who can afford infections less than you can. Who in many cases have fewer resources than you do and almost certainly have fewer safe social outlets than you will.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 8h

it’s so wild like folks he wrote down his promises !!!
and we can compare it with the political reality we all lived through !!!

Table 1
Timeline of End Dates for Key Health-Related Flexibilities Provided Through COVID-19 Emergency Declarations, Legislation, and Administrative Actions

Health-related flexibilities & end dates / Determination of end date

Mar 31, 2023
End to Medicaid continuous enrollment provision / CAA

May 11, 2023
End to Medicaid option to cover uninsured for COVID-19 vaccines, tests, treatments End to Medicaid Disaster-Relief State Plan Amendments
End to Medicaid Section 1135 Waivers
End to requirement that private insurers and Medicare provide 8 free at-home COVID-19 tests/month
End to requirement of no cost sharing for PCR/provider-ordered tests and testing visits for those with private insurance and Medicare Advantage
End to requirement of no cost sharing for testing-related visits for those with traditional Medicare
End to requirement that private plans/issuers cover out-of-network COVID-19 vaccines without cost sharing
End to 20% Medicare payment increase for COVID-19 hospitalizations
End to certain telehealth flexibilities (e.g., prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine)
End to HHS authority to require reporting of COVID-19 laboratory data
End to Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) food benefits for children under 6|
End to Child and Adult Care Food Program for young adults in shelters
End to Title 42 border restrictions / End of the PHE

End to FEMA Public Assistance Support / End of Stafford Act incident period

NOTE: CAA is Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. PHE is public health emergency. CMS is Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. PREP is the Public Readiness & Emergency Preparedness Act. ARPA is the American Rescue Plan Act. HHS is Department of Health & Human Services. FEMA is Federal Emergency Management Agency. SNAP is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. HCBS is home & community-based services.

SOURCE: KFF analysis of C19 emergency declarations, & and administrative actions.

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Most of those deaths, some 600,000, happened after Biden took office in January 2021 at the peak of a major wave of the disease.

graph:
One Million COVID-19 Deaths under Trump and Biden
THE U.S. HITS A GRIM MILESTONE

COVID-19 deaths peaked in the United States soon after the inauguration of Joe Biden, dropped significantly as millions were vaccinated and then climbed again thanks to new variants and politically motivated vaccine resistance.

399,200 COVID-19 deaths under President Trump

601,157 COVID-19 deaths| under President Biden

bar graphs showing deaths during date range:
March 1, 2000 - Jan 20, 2021 - May 11, 2022

Source: Reuters COVD-19 Tracker; State, county and territory government/public health department websites
John Emerson | Reuters, May 12, 2022

tweet from Joe Biden @JoeBiden
United States government official

“220,000 deaths.
If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this: Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain President of the United States.”

6:13 PM • 22 Oct 20 • TweetDeck

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June 9, 2023
End to College Student SNAP benefits / End of PHE

July 10, 2023
End date for Medicaid Section 1115 Emergency Waivers, if not already ended / End of PHE

August 9, 2023
End to FEMA Public Assistance for demobilization, disposition, disposal costs / end of Stafford Act incident period

September 30, 2023
End to Medicare New COVID-19 Treatments Add-on Payments
End to Pandemic EBT food benefits for school children

November 11, 2023
End date for Medicaid Section 1915c Appendix K Waivers for HCBS, if not already ended / End of PHE

December 31, 2023
End of enhanced federal matching payments tied to Medicaid continuous enrollment provision / CAA

April 30, 2024
End of hospital COVID-19 data reporting requirements / CMS regulations

September 30, 2024
End to requirement that at-home COVID-19 tests be provided for free to Medicaid enrollees
Frovided wire me cost sharing to Medicaid enile-ordered tests and treatments be End to 100% federal Medicaid matching payments for vaccine administration / End of PHE

December 31, 2024
End of expanded telehealth coverage under traditional Medicare / CAA
End to liability protections for pharmacists, pharmacy interns & techs to administer COVID-19 and flu vaccines to those ages 3 and older and to administer COVID-tests Egret nis or rely conduced by 1e storersenes provided through Federal / PREP act

September 30, 2025
End to FEMA COVID-19 funeral assistance / ARPA

NOTE: CAA is Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. PHE is public health emergency. CMS is Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. PREP is the Public Readiness & Emergency Preparedness Act. ARPA is the American Rescue Plan Act. HHS is Department of Health & Human Services. FEMA is Federal Emergency Management Agency. SNAP is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. HCBS is home & community-based services.

SOURCE: KFF analysis of C19 emergency declarations, & and administrative actions.

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 8h

Wanker.

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 19h

"They're doing eugenics! We must fight back!"
"Then you'll wear a respirator, right? Advocate for clean air? Keep abreast of any developments in the ongoing pandemic and vaccinate yourselves with every new iteration? Do your part not to worsen any disabled person's burden?"

"No not like that."

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals clutching their pearls on this site when told that not masking to protect others in essential public spaces is ableist. Instead of getting angry, they should reflect on how they can do better

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 1d

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

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

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 1d

#H5N1 confirmed
British Columbia
Abbotsford
Commercial Poultry

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 1d

Least unhinged coofmonger.

Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Jimmy Dore hates when his waiter at a restaurant wears a mask. He says he'll walk out of the restaurant next time it happens.

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 1d

You don't understand. When I recover from these 3rd degree burns, my fingers will be made of callouses. I will be able to touch the surface of the sun. My skin, like my immune system, needs to be barraged with insults. Wouldn't want my hands to develop burn debt, now would I?

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 1d

Speak for yourself, liberal, but I'm rawdogging that hot oven tray with my fing-- OW OW OW

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Michael Girard, CA, PAA-NCGR @michaelmgirard.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow would have been my mother's 74th birthday. She did not mask, and whoever gave COVID to her was likely unmasked, and may not have known that they had it.

She's dead, along with millions of others.

Don't rationalize preventable deaths.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

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

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 1d

Are you cumming uncontrollably 24/7? Just firehosing spooge into the world? Do you have no refractory period at all? If not, then why would you propose that people wear a condom 24/7?

People ARE, however, breathing out aerosols uncontrollably 24/7. Therefore, masking.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

perhaps you too will come to see a mask as an antidote, however small, to so many of the societal ills preventing us from movin the needle as we could; to mask, i'd argue, is directly counter to that cynicism. it is an action imbued with hope—backed up by real physical prevention—for a better world.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Feb 1

a mask is the thing you’re looking for. it is the visible reminder of how things have changed, that you acknowledge we are not coveted “normal” times—but unlike donation-earned tote bags or symbolic beaded bracelets, the mask is community care in both form & immediate function.

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 1d

Behaving a lot like the Hong Kong Police Force.

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 1d

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10... Oh cute, the Neoliberal Death Party really IS taking all of the shit we need to manage this ongoing pandemic behind the shed and shooting each of them like dogs. Free RAT kits -- who needs them? Funding for LC clinics? Fuck that! Thanks, BCNDP!

Long-Term Care Funding Cuts Will Hurt Seniors, Providers Warn | The Tyee

Operators say they rely on the pandemic supports the government is cutting.

thetyee.ca