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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 13h

This is one major reason why nothing meaningful is being done about the mass of chronic illness from Long Covid.

Doing something requires acknowledging there is a problem, and the strategy is that there is no problem, stop worrying and consume.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 13h

Which makes the fact that all governments ended up adopting this strategy so much worse.

They adopted it with a slight delay, but all the same ideas and language have become mainstream.

Zero accountability for this. A crime in plain sight.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.

CDC chart of weekly COVID deaths, with the Great Barrington Declaration noted. It was before the majority of deaths, and right before the largest spikes in deaths.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 13h

It's really notable that it isn't just the politicians lying about this, although the lies are roughly the same.

When the experts who hold positions of authority are also lying, things have gone completely wrong.

And they sure have. What a bunch of cheap lies.

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The 'Skeets' @continuitytweets.bsky.social · 14h

Medicine continues to do **** all about post/persistent infection illness, leaving the patients on their own yet again.

Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 14h

She then asks if there should be a public statement made?

Whitty *confidently* asserts that most parents already know about Long Covid so there's no need.

#UKCovidInquiry

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The 'Skeets' @continuitytweets.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody took post/persistent infection illness seriously. You now have 2 to 3 million affected. Why did the medical profession not take this seriously? Questions have to be asked.

Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 14h

Whitty says that he didn't mention LC in kids because it was already being discussed in other forums and didn't feel he needed to. 🙄

He also didn't want to say anything until there was "scientific consensus" from the scientific community.

#UKCovidInquiry

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 4d

No one is responsible for this. Nothing is being done about it with the scale and urgency that is needed.

No one is responsible for the fact that no one is responsible and nothing is being done about it.

No leadership to be found anywhere. Just pure failure all-around.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 4d

In part because there is a decades-long record of this being neglected to disastrous outcomes and mass misery.

Thousands of people loudly warned in early 2020 that this would be significant. Millions more have since.

Still nothing at all. Zero progress made because of systemic negligence.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 4d

The mass of data showing how significant the problem of Long Covid, itself on top of decades of negligence and dereliction of duty with similar illnesses, is indisputable.

Medical authorities and experts know more than enough, they just choose to do nothing.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes the obvious has to be said, but: one of the reasons why chronic illnesses like Long Covid are so ruinous is precisely because medicine denies and dismisses them.

Illness is terrible in itself. Illness with zero meaningful support is just cruelty and ruin.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 5d

Hear me out on this one, but maybe this really means that we're not "post-pandemic"

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

Well after the United States government declared the pandemic emergency over, COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences

ysph.yale.edu

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder: The DecodeME team want to do a related genetic study with the samples they have collected already but unfortunately don’t have the funding yet:
megenetics.org.uk/our-projects...
#MEcfs #PwME #CFS

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · 7d

1) We’ve just published our second instalment on the DecodeME results, this timing zooming in on the genes associated with ME/CFS.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 12d

But quacks like Wessely only do what's good for quacks like Wessely. No different than Musk in this regard. Just a fool elevated far above his meagre talent.

It explains a lot that he is celebrated by his peers, when you consider medicine's massive failure in dealing with ME/CFS and Long Covid.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 12d

The appearance of saving money, anyway.

It would have actually saved money to solve the problem. The costs incurred would have been turned into income years ago. In addition to the misery toll.

Quacks like Wessely save governments money the same way Musk's DOGE does: not at all.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 13d

Yup. None of that "history will judge them" crap.

When history "judges" people, it's because no justice was done.

Judge them, with actual judges, for all the harm they committed. We can end this cycle of nightmarish misery, even if they insist on continuing.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 13d

Book smart people can be dumb as hell. This guy is a hubristic fool, and he has always been happy making life worse for as many people as possible.

It's amazing how even in medicine awful people get promoted ass-backward, not in spite of their incompetence, but because of it.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 13d

But a lot of what there is to complain about here, especially "psychosomatic mental illness" that does not improve with any treatment, because the idea & treatments are wrong, has been the natural outcome of his awful work.

Same thing as Trump voters who got what they voted for and hate it.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 13d

This asshole has been happily misdiagnosing people with chronic illnesses as mentally ill for decades. He bears huge responsibility for this.

Real mental illness is not over-diagnosed, if anything it's significantly under-diagnosed.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 14d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 14d

"The evidence has been building for years and has been consistent; COVID causes brain damage.

Despite the clear evidence, we’ve continued to infect the population, not once, but repeatedly, with no plan to end the onslaught of reinfections."

#LongCovid

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 15d

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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ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · 16d

1) We’ve written an article about the DecodeME results: what the study measured, what the results show, and why its findings are important.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 16d

It has been disastrous from the start.

It has been disastrous for decades.

It's not 9 months of a failed government that recently did that.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 16d

Basically: the medical profession has performed equally poorly on an open book exam with unlimited time and interim gradings as they are doing under a demolished medical research and health care infrastructure.

Frankly, I find that nothing but a cheap excuse.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 16d

That point would be much more convincing if anything good was being done about Long Covid elsewhere, or in the 4 years of normal operations under the Biden administration.

Instead there is literally no difference: Long Covid is ignored same as it was, same as chronic illness for decades before.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 16d

48 Hills: “RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine madness will make America sick again”

“Long COVID isn’t an abstract data point—it’s millions of people trying, and often failing, to get their lives back” - infectious disease epidemiologist Beth Linas

48hills.org/2025/10/rfk-...

RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine madness will make America sick again - 48 hills

The Health and Human Services Secretary's rampage at the CDC this summer exposed the dangers of his ignorance.

48hills.org

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 19d

Disinformation straight from experts and authorities themselves.

Disinformation barely any different than what the conspiracy fantasy communities have been saying.

Failure by design, their refusal to do anything amply recorded. Those systems deserve to be smashed into the ground.

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