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I wish there were a way to scientifically document this observation, but young people will have to take my word for it: In the past, it was not normal to be in a group of people in June and constantly hear hard, wet, hacking coughing.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Here’s why I post so much about Covid: after your 3rd infection the risk of developing Long Covid is 37% and keeps increasing each round, this is published science. So I’d rather nag at people going to cons to mask now, than say I told you so when you are too disabled to travel to any in the future.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

If 4.9 million kids with asthma is a national health priority, what does it mean when 5.8 million have Long Covid? Why is the #1 chronic condition in children being ignored?

submitted 8 hours ago • 39 comments

The Times: 'Simple blood test could provide first reliable diagnosis for ME' 'Discovery of signature patterns of molecules in the blood of ME patients may signify a turning point in diagnosis, typically made by ruling out other illnesses' www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New piece on why it’s unhelpful to characterise COVID debate as ‘lockdowns are bad’ vs ‘lockdowns are good’ when it was really about people who claimed that COVID was 100x less fatal than it was + optimal to have a massive epidemic immediately before vaccine… vs those who sense checked these claims.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

They found "significant productivity loss caused by missed workdays due to long #COVID, providing an economic justification for policymakers & employers to provide support systems for #longCOVID patients to return to work" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Image from Science for ME update #PASC

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I want to discuss nuance. Because while we have masked kidnappers running rampant across the country and this is obviously fucked up and unacceptable; A lot of the pushback I'm hearing is "nobody should cover their face." Uhm. No. Religion, Cold Weather, and Germs still exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

submitted 1 day ago • 270 comments

This hasn’t been discussed either, so many deaths and ongoing from Covid and relevant to the assisted dying bill because we still haven’t discussed this and deaths are ongoing. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I don’t know if anyone has noticed but there are two types of minimisers: those who think vaccines are enough and rarely get vaccinated and those who think vaccines caused the problem. Neither are correct.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I'm old enough to remember when summers weren't filled with smoke-filled skies & razor blade throats

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

If you’re taking Covid precautions and got sick, please don’t feel guilty You made the effort. That’s more than most are doing. It’s harder to protect yourself when everyone else is practicing “you do you” eugenics. Masking means transmission stopped with you. You protected others. That’s a win.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

"The Times article reinforced a popular belief that disability is a fate worse than death. Disable author Imani Barbarin sums it up in the title of her forthcoming book: If I Were You, I’d Kill Myself" Excellent rebuttal of the New York Times Magazine MAiD piece which followed a woman to her death

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

"Feel free to join us if your need for connection outweighs your low risk tolerance" is an ableist thing to say to someone For people with long Covid or trying to prevent illness, it sounds like: "You don’t belong here unless you’re willing to risk your health"

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

A man with chronic back pain & mental illness died via MAiD (medical assistance in dying) while on a day pass from a psychiatric facility. This is why disability advocates are speaking out. If you’re not competent to be released from a psych hold, how can you consent to death?

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Love that 95% of images & gifs in my timeline include Alt text. I must be following the best, most caring, inclusive folks who truly get what it means to be in solidarity, ready & willing to resist authoritarianism, fascism & the breakdown of society thru community care💖 I want y’all in my IRL hood!

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

🤣🤣🦆🦆🪿

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Now number one chronic illness in children" 🤒😢 I wonder if there were tools to prevent this kind of worldwide tragedy? 🤔😷

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Why do we even need vaccines, people don’t even get some of those diseases any more.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Covid is a social justice issue. Respirators cost money. HEPA filters cost money. Tests cost money. Vaccines cost money. Paid time off is rare. Affordable child care is non existent Covid disproportionately impacts those who are already the most marginalized Mask up & protect your community

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Reasons to wear a mask at your "outdoor activities" today: 1. Surveillance state!! Protect your identity. 2. Don't accidentally spread any kind of anything to your comrades! 3. Viral spread is a tool of the oppressor (e.g., small pox blankets) 4. COVID is spiking again w horrible symptoms!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know how many people aren’t protesting today because you’ve disabled or killed them with covid? Real uncomfortable question, I know. What would you do if you knew your personal number (of people you’ve disabled or worse)? Would it matter?

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.” In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.

submitted 7 days ago • 349 comments

Very upsetting to see her not mask around vulnerable kids in a hospital. Acute Covid can be fatal for them & long Covid is now the leading chronic health condition in U.S. kids. Not to mention the Measles outbreaks Imagine how impactful it would be with her reach if she wore a respirator?

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Genuinely, we may be headed toward - let’s say a lot of collective action. Giving your allies covid or becoming disabled by long covid is about the worst own-goal you can imagine. Please mask today.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

From @massmecfs.bsky.social e-newsletter Spotlight on Kim Moy who has cared for her husband with ME/CFS for many years. She runs Caregiver Wisdom & monthly MEAction partner caregiver support group. Links: massmecfs.org/members/memb... massmecfs.org/members/memb... #MEcfs #PwME #CFS

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This isn't the first area to surge with Nimbus. It's already a pattern. Ruh-Roh!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

For me the worst part was seeing the world catch/develop what I'd suffered from 8 years prior, and knowing what that means for humanity within the next decades to come. It isn't pretty & it's already coming to pass. Heart attacks and strokes, but most insidious: brain fog. I tried to warn ppl 😔

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

submitted 11 days ago • 355 comments

This was a hate crime in a series of hate crimes Jonathan and his husband Tristan dealt with. Neighbors said he was behaving "erratically" but who wouldn't react with such extreme emotion in this situation? He was murdered on the first day of Pride. Indigenous people are not numbers. Say his name.

submitted 18 days ago • 46 comments

Johnathan Joss died a hero. He was murdered for being gay, he went out protecting his trans husband from being executed. They burned down their home and killed their pets and then they murdered Joss while trying to murder his husband. The New York times can barely muster "fatally shot." I hate this.

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Another Thursday, over 8 months without our @tinu.bsky.social and this isn't done for her family! Please share this on all platforms, we need eyes on this to get it done. If Tinu and her work meant anything to you, please share! If you can't help, please share! 💖 www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Mask up NOW “A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.” www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

I'm going to tell you something the government won't (and I can't believe I'm the one saying this): coronavirus damages the placenta. Women who are infected experience double the baseline rate of stillbirths.

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Good human! www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/s...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Reminder: Murderbot is an it, not a him. It is very clear on this point multiple times through the books and the show is following that

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

Ah. Good. Zero mention of how apathy on the right and left STOKED BY THE MEDIA made for this moment, lots of pretending that COVID is a bygone problem…I wonder how on earth these conspiracy theorists got a foothold and a platform? 🤔 www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

This research letter highlights how deaths in the US were higher in 2023 than they were pre-pandemic. Covid and its longterm health impacts are not over. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

www.cbsnews.com/video/millio... Populism normalised this. It normalised millions of children being unprotected for airborne transmission of a virus that causes organ damage and this is ongoing. This is not ok and it’s not normal for governments to wash their hands of responsibility.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 31 days ago • 228 comments

Did you know that we as trans people don't have to redo Gender Wars shit? The dudes rock, the dolls rock, the theys rock. The only important distinction right now is are you cool or are you a cop.

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments

Boycotting large chains is a privilege. Protesting is a privilege. Moving States or countries is a privilege. Prepping is a privilege. Growing your own food is a privilege. Stockpiling meds is a privilege. Far too many of the “solutions” to fascism are inaccessible to many disabled people.

submitted 32 days ago • 72 comments