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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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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · Apr 7

13/ And all these PCC reports were just portion of what was revealed in PopNB's RTI work. Just imagine learning all this & being in a position of power to protect/inform & doing nothing instead. While watching countless lives- incl kids- forever altered, disabled & lost.
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Chris @hallwayorchard.bsky.social · Aug 18

In Nov 2022 we exposed the fact that public health officials in *all* provinces and territories had been receiving a staggering quantity of high quality information on the prevalence and severity of Long Covid since as early as July 2020...

...and didn't tell us.

#cdnnews #cdnpoli #longcovid

Omission is Negligence

New Brunswick Public Health knew early on that Covid-19 infection causes long term illness, but decided not to tell anyone.

popnb.substack.com

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile this administration pushed and passed legislation to try many more Black children in DC as adults.

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 4h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · 1d

“Our primary message is that reinfections still matter, and you should do what you can to avoid reinfection..” — Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania

OCT 1, 2025 10:06 AM PT
Repeat COVID-19 Infections Could Double Your Risk of Long COVID

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2h

Chat, is it good when a sitting president a) authorizes covert action against a non-aggressive regional neighbour, and also b) vocally and in real time confirms said ongoing covert operations to the press?

Like… is that "good" tradecraft, orrrr…?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump confirms he authorized CIA action in Venezuela

Trump's comments were an extraordinary acknowledgement from a president, and they step up the administration's pressure campaign against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

www.nbcnews.com

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 9h

“According to the masses: It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it *is* … 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 · 10h

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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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 8h

"Is it “reasonable” to...mask all the time?...Of course, it is not reasonable, nor fair. That is why COVID-aware people continue to advocate for change...none of what we’re being asked to do is reasonable nor fair."

Must-read from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social—"living proof. COVID can&will harm you."

Do abled people understand, when they say it’s “unrealistic” to expect people to mask everywhere, that they are describing the only guidance disabled people have received re: how to get through another day alive? Like, very literally the guidance from the CDC as to how to survive the ongoing pandemic - by constantly masking, by testing every person around us, by avoiding the COVID that those around us are doing absolutely nothing to stop spreading?

Sounds simple, until you consider trying to adopt some of those measures yourself, does it?

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?

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The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent piece.

Every time this discourse rolls around they treat those of us that mask like we’re hypochondriacs.

No we’re the ghosts of infections past.

We plead with you so that you can avoid our fate. In return you mock us.

#MECFS #LongCovid

Screenshot from Beyond All Reason by Julia Doubleday reads: But Long COVID can happen to anyone. We keep saying it. Nobody listens. For convenience I continue to separate "those with Long COVID" who must avoid another infection from those
without- who can afford some mystery number of infections. But it's possible your next infection may disable you too. It is for yourself, as much as for others, that COVID is worth avoiding. The
"unreasonable" of wearing a mask indoors does not compare to the "unreasonable" of Long
COVID plus the "unreasonable" of scrambling to avoid another infection while the still-well-enough people sniff that doing anything to mitigate the virus is simply asking too much of them.

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 10h

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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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 6h

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 5h

News outlets mistakenly think that accommodating white supremacy will help them rebuild the public's shaken trust in journalism.

They are mistaken because they are fixated on right-wing criticisms and cannot see how moves like this will only further diminish most people's trust in news.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 21h

To say people make a rational assessment of the threat environment around Covid… is just not true.

Most people refuse to talk about or read anything about Covid.

Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common childhood illness, and it’s rarely spoken of.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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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🗣Lena @lenaisok.bsky.social · 22h

luv 2 increase my risk of a cancer recurrence because i can’t make a “rational assessment of the threat environment”

Respiratory viruses, such as the flu and COVID-19, may be able to “wake up” dormant cancer cells in patients who have a history of cancer, according to a new study.

Researchers tested this hypothesis in mice that contained disseminated cancer cells, which are cells that have broken away from the primary tumor and spread to other organs, where they remain dormant.

They exposed the mice to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, or the influenza viruses. In both cases, the infections triggered inflammation that awakened the dormant cells located in the lungs, according to the study published July 30 in Nature.

“Dormant cancer cells are like the embers left in an abandoned campfire, and respiratory viruses are like a strong wind that reignites the flames,” said James DeGregori, study senior author and deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center.

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 5h

I mask bc I have lyme disease that predates the covid pandemic, and even before I finally got a diagnosis in 2023, I was obviously sick enough that I didn't need to add anything else to my immune system's tab

Even if I make a full recovery someday, I would *never* risk having such an illness again

Frank Elavsky ⌁ @frank.computer · 1d

Masking also isn't a categorical kind of rationality either. People have different reasons.

I mask because, as someone immuno-compromised, the risks are significantly higher. There is no simple way to handwave masking as irrational and fear-based unless you unpack how each person makes decisions.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15h

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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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15h

And you can't make COVID go away by pretending you don't need to protect from it, & one of these days Americans are going to get it in their heads it's important to protect others.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15h

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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Andrew Sparling @awsparling.bsky.social · 1d

propose between "rational" and "fear-based" is unsound. The issue is, rather, whether you choose to use fear as a tool, which makes rational choice possible, or whether you are cognitively dysfunctional, in that you run from confronting unpleasant truths and let fear short-circuit thought.

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Andrew Sparling @awsparling.bsky.social · 1d

That said, there is a role for fear. In fact we know from case histories of people with damage to the amygdala, the seat of the fear response in the brain, that it is impossible to act rationally without the capacity for fear. People step into traffic or gamble away their house. So the dichotomy you

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Andrew Sparling @awsparling.bsky.social · 1d

For instance, the typical response I get when I start to recount the gist of the latest study showing how COVID causes "brain fog," which is a category mistake, b/c it's properly mind fog, caused by *brain damage,* is a skittish "Now you're starting to scare me," followed by a hasty change of subj.

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Andrew Sparling @awsparling.bsky.social · 1d

The fear I see is among those who are afraid to examine the scientific evidence, which shows overwhelmingly that the only way to mitigate long-term harms from repeated COVID infection, including much higher risks of early-onset dementia and elevated cardiovascular risk, is to *avoid catching COVID.*

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Brocky Horror Picture Show 🧟⚗️🪩 @queeralchemy.com · 1d

Americans could do something about their international reputation of ecstatic love for hyperindividualism, so much so they embrace fascism over community, logic, or reason. Y'all are so messed up mentally you think up is down.

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 5h

Do not fucking talk to me about fear driving my assessment when y'all are the ones ignoring the fucking data because you want brunch

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 5h

My MPH got defunded (in Biden and Trudeau's time) because of shit like this

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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