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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children.”

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Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens

This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 1h

Feeding into the binary fallacy that death is the only bad outcome from COVID-19 does nothing except normalize & forward the agenda of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 2d

Dear liberals,

If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

And these ppl also want to pretend like there are no comfortable, stylish mask options available when there are tons to choose from.

It’s just selfishness.

And these ppl do this every single time transmission levels rise.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

And I really think ppl pretending like they can’t possibly understand why ppl would ask them not to kill them with their breath is reasonable is simply ppl just showing that it’s more important to follow the herd than put any actual values in action.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

Well you would have to care about disabled ppl as valued members of society in order to get it.

Not getting it is a tell.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 20h

Really curious how ignoring thousands of studies is "denying science" - feel free to share the science that says it's OK to keep getting this virus.

Or stay in your lane?

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 21h

Covid Forever deadenders are an ignorable little sect. In their own way, they deny science just as much as the right does.

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

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

You can declare yourself against “universal public masking”, but that means I can declare you a dick.

Long COVID absolutely wrecked my shit because people just couldn’t see themselves considering the health of others. Knowing you’re comfortable with that tells me everything I need to know.

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 12h

No.

Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".

It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.

And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine being all mad at people asking for more airborne virus precautions?

Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 20h

Measles cases hit their highest level in 30 years.

⭐️150+ unvaccinated kids in SC quarantined for 3 wks
⭐️118 students quarantined in Minneapolis
⭐️100+ cases along the Utah–AZ border
⭐️1,500+ U.S. cases so far this year

💉 Experts warn it’s only going to get worse #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky

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J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 3h

Masking is the least invasive ask I've ever seen made of the American public in my lifetime and it came about because of a newly discovered novel virus that is still killing and disabling people today.

You're not interested in a better society if it means any inconvenience to you personally.

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

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Dorian @flvillager.bsky.social · 6h

Just a daily reminder that the Dept. of Education was created bc states refused to fund poor schools, protect kids with disabilities, or follow civil rights law - especially in the South.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 13h

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 21h

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

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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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 1d

You are essentially saying that masking/covid prevention is an unfair/difficult burden - so let us leave it to the sickest, most vulnerable and at risk among us to bear alone, making it therefore more difficult again. We don’t have a choice, we must engage w prevention. Your failure to do so ….(1/2)

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 15h

I assure you, if you have multiple opportunities to showcase your values that cost you very little, other than a bit of inconvenience that still comes with net benefits for yourself and choose not to, you don’t have any values, and you don’t have any principles.

You use them or lose them.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 15h

This is the crux of it.
Ppl in general in society not willing to do the least, across countless issues, to help others.

And pearl-clutching like victims when asked to.

This is little bitch behavior & it’s unbecoming of anyone alleging they have values and principles.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 15h

If you want to know why society is so bad, it’s bc most human beings aren’t willing to do a very easy, very simple, very appropriate thing to help other ppl.

And themselves.

These are the same ppl who whine about being sick again.

And whine about vulnerable ppl losing respect for them.

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face .

Alt: Dan Levy from Schitt’s Creek in a black shirt is making a smug “mmmmhmmmm” face with “mmmmhmmm” in caption.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 15h

trying to find an available vaccine for their kids under 5.

And then some ppl have the absolute gall to come on the internet to complain about being asked to wear a mask.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 15h

Nearly everyday I talk to someone who is trying to find adequate healthcare for their child with Long Covid. Or it’s someone struggling to find a healthcare provider who will mask for them without insulting them. Or someone trying to cope with their Long Covid symptoms.

Or someone…

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 21h

There are thousands of studies showing the long term health risks to people posed by COVID-19.

Any rational person would look at this data and pause for thought.

I think we aren’t doing that because we aren’t very rational at the moment.

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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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16h

The last time I checked the definition of solidarity in terms of justice was listening to a marginalized group and doing what they say they need of you, not finding a way to keep doing what you’re already doing and still getting a gold star.

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Ckan @ckanned.bsky.social · 15h

Carving out the people who are taking seriously the measurable and well-documented half-decade-old ongoing threat to your health as “Covid forever dead enders” is just your own way of being “antivax”.

Same assed mindset because you don’t wanna, don’t care, and *need* to poop in the public well.😤💪

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 16h

*don’t be mad.

Stop whining.

You are doing next to nothing. It’s your choice to do next to nothing and we are remarking on how you are all doing next to nothing.

Accept it or change your own behavior.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 16h

If you all are only going to do the bare minimum, most individualistic choice don’t be made when we speak to you all like you are only doing the bare minimum.

Bc that’s what it is.

& we will still have 20+ w/ LC w/ current vaccines.

Is that an acceptable outcome for you?
6 million kids disabled?

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