The Real McCoy
@rippermd41.bsky.social
My life runs by the Murphy’s Law of illness: If something can go wrong, it will go wrong. Latest one is #MECFS but the laundry list is long. Live in New England
No MCAS with a holiday meal is always a win 🙌
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
No MCAS with a holiday meal is always a win 🙌
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A recent study in case you or others want to learn more.
“Adults in the highest quartile of cumulative social disadvantage exhibited an increased odds of experiencing long COVID compared to those in the lowest quartile”—more than 250% higher, in fact.
Long Covid is a class issue.
“Adults in the highest quartile of cumulative social disadvantage exhibited an increased odds of experiencing long COVID compared to those in the lowest quartile”—more than 250% higher, in fact.
Long Covid is a class issue.
Cumulative social disadvantage and its impact on long COVID: insights from a U.S. national survey - BMC Medicine
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated health disparities, with long COVID emerging as a major global public health challenge. Although clinical risk factors for long COVID are well-document...
link.springer.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A recent study in case you or others want to learn more.
“Adults in the highest quartile of cumulative social disadvantage exhibited an increased odds of experiencing long COVID compared to those in the lowest quartile”—more than 250% higher, in fact.
Long Covid is a class issue.
“Adults in the highest quartile of cumulative social disadvantage exhibited an increased odds of experiencing long COVID compared to those in the lowest quartile”—more than 250% higher, in fact.
Long Covid is a class issue.
Reposted by The Real McCoy
Thanks for this. I hope you and yours have a good holiday.
Wanted to flag that some people you’re serving here are wearing masks. Poverty elevates risk for long-term disability from Covid while reducing resources needed to deal w/that outcome. Love for you to support better protection for NYC.
Wanted to flag that some people you’re serving here are wearing masks. Poverty elevates risk for long-term disability from Covid while reducing resources needed to deal w/that outcome. Love for you to support better protection for NYC.
NYC ACTION: Contact your NYC Council Member & urge them to co-sponsor Int 0332-2024!
This important bill would provide access to free masks, other PPE, & rapid tests through the mail to New Yorkers.
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Call them: council.nyc.gov/districts
This important bill would provide access to free masks, other PPE, & rapid tests through the mail to New Yorkers.
Email them: actionnetwork.org/letters/free...
Call them: council.nyc.gov/districts
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Thanks for this. I hope you and yours have a good holiday.
Wanted to flag that some people you’re serving here are wearing masks. Poverty elevates risk for long-term disability from Covid while reducing resources needed to deal w/that outcome. Love for you to support better protection for NYC.
Wanted to flag that some people you’re serving here are wearing masks. Poverty elevates risk for long-term disability from Covid while reducing resources needed to deal w/that outcome. Love for you to support better protection for NYC.
Recommend North of North. It’s a great comedy series set in the arctic.
Funny, authentic, beautiful: Why you want to watch CBC's new comedy series North of North | CBC Television
Single mom Siaja blows up her life and starts over in a small Arctic town where everybody knows her business
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Recommend North of North. It’s a great comedy series set in the arctic.
Thank you
It’s an eclectic mix of ornaments. Every year the 3 of us pick out a new ornament each. It’s makes for some odd combos. My teen has a Bubble Guppy ornament and Billy from Saw on there 😂
It’s an eclectic mix of ornaments. Every year the 3 of us pick out a new ornament each. It’s makes for some odd combos. My teen has a Bubble Guppy ornament and Billy from Saw on there 😂
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Thank you
It’s an eclectic mix of ornaments. Every year the 3 of us pick out a new ornament each. It’s makes for some odd combos. My teen has a Bubble Guppy ornament and Billy from Saw on there 😂
It’s an eclectic mix of ornaments. Every year the 3 of us pick out a new ornament each. It’s makes for some odd combos. My teen has a Bubble Guppy ornament and Billy from Saw on there 😂
I’m right there with you. It doesn’t make sense.
Normally poor sleep is one of my first indicators but not this PEM.
I need to use my wheelchair more too but lying in bed makes me so stiff and walking relieves the stiffness.
Normally poor sleep is one of my first indicators but not this PEM.
I need to use my wheelchair more too but lying in bed makes me so stiff and walking relieves the stiffness.
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I’m right there with you. It doesn’t make sense.
Normally poor sleep is one of my first indicators but not this PEM.
I need to use my wheelchair more too but lying in bed makes me so stiff and walking relieves the stiffness.
Normally poor sleep is one of my first indicators but not this PEM.
I need to use my wheelchair more too but lying in bed makes me so stiff and walking relieves the stiffness.
Those look SOOO good.
My teen used to be a GS. The years our house was the cookie warehouse for our troop were dangerous 😂
My teen used to be a GS. The years our house was the cookie warehouse for our troop were dangerous 😂
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Those look SOOO good.
My teen used to be a GS. The years our house was the cookie warehouse for our troop were dangerous 😂
My teen used to be a GS. The years our house was the cookie warehouse for our troop were dangerous 😂
It’s so weird. I only recently noticed this pattern.
The first couple days of PEM I normally feel a lot of adrenaline and I suspect this is driving it.
The first couple days of PEM I normally feel a lot of adrenaline and I suspect this is driving it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
It’s so weird. I only recently noticed this pattern.
The first couple days of PEM I normally feel a lot of adrenaline and I suspect this is driving it.
The first couple days of PEM I normally feel a lot of adrenaline and I suspect this is driving it.
Forgot to add.
If you want the specifics on when and when your state transplanted turkeys in New England this article breaks it down.
In NH the last wild turkey was spotted in Weare in 1854.
In 1975 we reintroduced them and the population took off. Hunting season started in 1985.
If you want the specifics on when and when your state transplanted turkeys in New England this article breaks it down.
In NH the last wild turkey was spotted in Weare in 1854.
In 1975 we reintroduced them and the population took off. Hunting season started in 1985.
How the Wild Turkey Vanished, Then Returned, to New England - New England Historical Society
The wild turkey disappeared from New England a long, long time ago. Since World War II, it has made a comeback. Maybe too much of a comeback.
newenglandhistoricalsociety.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Forgot to add.
If you want the specifics on when and when your state transplanted turkeys in New England this article breaks it down.
In NH the last wild turkey was spotted in Weare in 1854.
In 1975 we reintroduced them and the population took off. Hunting season started in 1985.
If you want the specifics on when and when your state transplanted turkeys in New England this article breaks it down.
In NH the last wild turkey was spotted in Weare in 1854.
In 1975 we reintroduced them and the population took off. Hunting season started in 1985.
The next time you see turkeys in New England know it’s all thanks to a couple hundred birds from NY.
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How Wild Turkeys Took Over New England
You'd be hard-pressed to find a turkey in the Northeast 50 years ago. Now hundreds of thousands roam suburbs where they thrill and bully residents.
www.audubon.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The next time you see turkeys in New England know it’s all thanks to a couple hundred birds from NY.
🦃 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃
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www.audubon.org/news/how-wil...
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I have a family member that collects old photo postcards of their small NH town.
The landscape is unrecognizable in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Not a tree in sight.
Now the town is covered in forests.
That change in our behavior meant by the 70s the turkeys could thrive.
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The landscape is unrecognizable in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Not a tree in sight.
Now the town is covered in forests.
That change in our behavior meant by the 70s the turkeys could thrive.
4/
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I have a family member that collects old photo postcards of their small NH town.
The landscape is unrecognizable in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Not a tree in sight.
Now the town is covered in forests.
That change in our behavior meant by the 70s the turkeys could thrive.
4/
The landscape is unrecognizable in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Not a tree in sight.
Now the town is covered in forests.
That change in our behavior meant by the 70s the turkeys could thrive.
4/
In the 20th century conservationists tried to reintroduce them, multiple times.
Unfortunately each attempt failed until the 1960s-70s.
VT released 31 NY turkeys in the ‘60s.
MA released 37 NY turkeys in the
Berkshires.
All the New England states followed suit.
3/
Unfortunately each attempt failed until the 1960s-70s.
VT released 31 NY turkeys in the ‘60s.
MA released 37 NY turkeys in the
Berkshires.
All the New England states followed suit.
3/
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
In the 20th century conservationists tried to reintroduce them, multiple times.
Unfortunately each attempt failed until the 1960s-70s.
VT released 31 NY turkeys in the ‘60s.
MA released 37 NY turkeys in the
Berkshires.
All the New England states followed suit.
3/
Unfortunately each attempt failed until the 1960s-70s.
VT released 31 NY turkeys in the ‘60s.
MA released 37 NY turkeys in the
Berkshires.
All the New England states followed suit.
3/
Why’d they go extinct?
We destroyed their habitat. Ground cover was cleared. Trees were felled.
Unfortunately the acorns and chestnuts were a major food source.
Then we hunted them to extinction.
2/
We destroyed their habitat. Ground cover was cleared. Trees were felled.
Unfortunately the acorns and chestnuts were a major food source.
Then we hunted them to extinction.
2/
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Why’d they go extinct?
We destroyed their habitat. Ground cover was cleared. Trees were felled.
Unfortunately the acorns and chestnuts were a major food source.
Then we hunted them to extinction.
2/
We destroyed their habitat. Ground cover was cleared. Trees were felled.
Unfortunately the acorns and chestnuts were a major food source.
Then we hunted them to extinction.
2/