Call me Ishmael
@thewhitewhale.bsky.social
books, words, left politics, learning stuff, long covid (he/him). In Australia, but a citizen of the world.
Views expressed here are my own.
Views expressed here are my own.
The way we rushed back to the old normal was such a profound failure of imagination and solidarity. A better world was possible, and we scorned it for the sake of short-term profits.
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The way we rushed back to the old normal was such a profound failure of imagination and solidarity. A better world was possible, and we scorned it for the sake of short-term profits.
N=1, but in my experience full recovery from a crash can take a month. I'm PEM dead for about five days, then functional but diminished until I gradually get back to my baseline (so long as I don't overdo it again in the meantime). So, hopefully you should get it back.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
N=1, but in my experience full recovery from a crash can take a month. I'm PEM dead for about five days, then functional but diminished until I gradually get back to my baseline (so long as I don't overdo it again in the meantime). So, hopefully you should get it back.
*probably fairer to say interesting data rather than interesting research, given how the research paper fails to consider factors other than the public health measures.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
*probably fairer to say interesting data rather than interesting research, given how the research paper fails to consider factors other than the public health measures.
Paper in The Lancet Regional Health Europe: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
COVID-19 public health and social measures (PHSM) and early childhood developmental concerns in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis
COVID-19 PHSM were associated with increased developmental concerns among young children
in Scotland. While leveraging interrupted time-series analysis yields findings consistent
with a causal impact ...
www.thelancet.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Paper in The Lancet Regional Health Europe: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Figure 1 from the paper. If "lockdowns" were the problem, then kids who were born after "lockdowns" and were 13-15 months old in 2023 would be back at the original level. So this was caused by something else, something that was sustained for the whole time period. Like Covid.
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Figure 1 from the paper. If "lockdowns" were the problem, then kids who were born after "lockdowns" and were 13-15 months old in 2023 would be back at the original level. So this was caused by something else, something that was sustained for the whole time period. Like Covid.