🚨 How I went from working with superstars at the prime of my life to homebound after a tick bite nearly killed me.
Covid isn’t the first highly-politicized, common, chronic infection 🦠 on earth.
That would be Lyme…
My crazy story:
📣 I was honored to tell my chronic
#Lyme
recovery story to
@BayAreaLyme
for their latest blog.
I share abt what happened to me as often as poss Bc I found so few recovery stories when I was sick. I felt hopeless.
I hope my journey can help others.
Please share 🙏 🙌🏻❤️🩹
My psychologist friend: Have you noticed how many people seem to have brain damage lately? Like, literal cognitive decline and behavioral or personality changes? Am noticing it everywhere, even in my longtime patients.
I asked my friend, a smart, experienced psychologist, why so many are susceptible to being gaslighted, refusing to see what’s in front of them.
She said: “Ppl wanna believe they’re safe & that their leaders wouldn’t harm them, it’s not reality-based. It’s Stockholm syndrome.”
I remember late Feb/ early March 2020 hearing an interview w epidemiologist where he was asked when the pandemic will end.
He said something like, “not for several years, maybe 2024/ 2025.”
Took my breath away. I prayed he was wrong.
Now I realize he was being gentle.
I woke up to a number of disturbing messages from HCW friends. One MD lost a “healthy” pediatric patient (7 yrs old) to an unknown stomach virus.
Said the ER staff is “traumatized.”
Wrote: “The news is not covering any of what we’re witnessing—
@CDCDirector
has failed us.”
😭 Sharon Stone, still sick & testing + 16 days in:
“I managed to not get Covid for so long, do you know how I got Covid - because they stopped wearing masks [at doc’s office]. And do you know where I got Covid, from a nurse!" 😡
⚠️NEW big study: “adds to evidence of virus’s potential to cause profound damage to central nervous system and exacerbate global burden of dementia…even a mild case is associated with brain shrinkage equivalent to as much as a decade of normal aging.”
On phone w an eye doc: “So many of my young, healthy patients are suddenly having ocular problems now. All these so-called mild cases are turning out to be extremely problematic.”
💔Now, dead from heart attack. 49. RIP.
I genuinely pray that those who had the power to stop Covid from infecting humanity are tried for crimes against humanity.
So I woke up with something that's literally Black Hairy Tongue. People, including my doctor, seem to think it's no big deal, and will go away soon, but it certainly is gross.
One thing HIV, COVID, & Lyme have in common?
Latency. A period when you (generally) recover from flu-like initial illness & feel ok.
Weeks, to months, to years later is when problems often begin.
Ppl don’t seem to be aware of this & it’s THE MOST IMPORTANT THING to know.
Friend: I have THE WORST COLD. Chills, drenching sweats, 102 temp, headache, exhausted.
Me: 🤔….doesn’t sound like “a cold.”
Friend: (raised voice) IT’S *NOT* COVID. OK??? NOT COVID!!!
Me: Why are you yelling?
Him: BC I AM F-ING SICK OF COVID.
Me: So stop getting it 🤷🏻♀️ ?
Spoke to MD/ scientist this morn & took notes:
“It’a not the initial infection I worry about, it’s the long-term. We now have a rash of strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms, organ damages, sudden death that aren’t being attributed to Covid but are clearly a direct result of it.”
👏🏻 👏🏻 Kudos to
@AlaskaAir
for having police waiting for the woman who coughed in a passengers face & harassed him for 6 hours on his flight from NYC to CA for wearing an N95. Even after he shared that he had a severely ill child at home.
“With hardly anyone in attendance wearing a mask and over 11,000 reported cases in Beverly Hills, the Golden Globes had all the makings of a "super-spreader" event…”
Jamie Lee Curtis Tests Positive for COVID After Golden Globes, And Fans Are Concerned..
Fam friend got covid from neighbor who needed help getting up stairs. Neighbor tested + next day.
Fam friend got sick soon after. Doc said, “Don’t worry. Stay home 5 days & then go back to work in a mask. Any mask is 👍🏼.”
She did, & infected 4 colleagues.
Thx,
@CDCDirector
!
I just met a longtime AP reporter who told me, “I eat healthy & work out and that prevents Covid.”
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I don’t have the energy for this.
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SO. MUCH. COUGHING.
Never heard anything like it.
In my house, I hear neighbors walk by coughing “the cough.”
In town, same thing.
Yesterday, heard an infant with “the cough.”
It is extremely depressing.
I am worried for humanity. Esp the majority who don’t get it.
The entire staff where I get my hair cut has been sick w COVID over the last 2 weeks & told me they’re too financially strapped to stay home from work to recover. They have “no security or protection.”
One said she only made $250 in last paycheck bc she was too ill to see…
So, I have 6 vax’d friends sick w Covid now. Some on infection 2 or 3.
One in hospital.
2 didn’t know there are any avail treatments, & got sick 1st week in ofc after masks dropped.
One had stage 3 cancer.
They’re “shocked” to be sick now bc “we were told it was over.”
Just spoke to rep from nat’l bloodwork lab & asked if they’re working from home or back in office.
He said, “Still working from home. We’re in healthcare so we know what’s going on, & it’s not safe to go back now. This’ll be the case for a long time.”
Physician said to me yesterday:
“So, they’re telling us we have to live with this—with SARS!!— and pretend it’s not happening, pretend even, as doctors, we’re not seeing what we’re seeing. It’s madness. It’s a horror show. And the lies are thick and endless.”
My friend just pulled a large investment 💰 after company CEO told her he doesn’t take COVID seriously, has had it several times, & doesn’t protect employees w upgraded IAQ.
“He doesn’t protect his brain, he doesn’t get my money.”
^ That’s a real quote from a smart investor
Major
@NIH
study finds COVID can quickly disseminate & infect multiple organs, including brain, & remain for months (likely, we will learn, years). Even in mild/ asymptomatic cases.
If you don’t understand why mass-infection is catastrophic, read this.
Just hung up w friend who called for advice.
She contracted Covid 2 mos ago.
She is 39, active, “healthy.“
Still v sick, can’t work, short of breath, coughing etc.
I asked if she treated early & she said her doc told her, “You’re young, no need.”
This is malpractice.
🚨 Health care worker of two decades at major US Hospital told me this memo about KIDS HAVING STROKES just went out to hospital staff and he wants to throw up.
No. This is not normal. He & his colleagues never saw this influx of kids with strokes before Covid ruined the 🌎.
Want to share something personal Bc I think it is important.
My dad was infected w Covid (and flu!) last week because
@CDCgov
decided it’s cool to let ppl out of quarantine when they’re still contagious!
This is how it happened:
Wear your N95 proudly. Even if you’re the only one.
#Longcovid
is common and it will F you up. The more infections, the greater the risk.
Latency is the 🐘 in the room. “Mild” & asymptomatic cases still = HIGH RISK for organ/ vascular (strokes, PEs, heart attacks) damage.
A media blackout on a HUGE story; the tragic rise in sudden deaths of young, healthy people.
Husband, dad of 2 little ones died suddenly of a heart attack last night.
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Wow. Well, as I’ve mentioned a few times here, one anti-COVID measure I’ve been taking for 4 years is application of neosporin to my nose (in high-risk situations like MD appts etc).
Thrilled to see
@VirusesImmunity
& team confirm this as being effective against COVID etc
Preventing infection is the best way to avoid diseases like
#PAIS
. A new study from our team
@tianyangmao
, Jooyoung Kim,
@marioph13
et al shows that a generic antibiotic neomycin acts on the host immune system in the👃🏽to trigger antiviral resistance. (1/)🧵…
After learning that
@CDCDirector
@CDCgov
staff still working at home to protect themselves from Covid, someone sent me this post from a MA parent describing the outrageous hypocrisy displayed by Jha and Walensky who made sure their kids’ school was well-ventilated.
😳
@CDCgov
@CDCDirector
works remotely while telling us to go maskless into airless offices and “live with” getting Covid over and over.
I can’t even!!!
An employee at a large chain supermarket told my mom (who was in an N95) that 20 employees were out sick with COVID.
The woman had her mask pulled down below her nose. My mom said, “I know this is annoying to hear but, really, you should pull your mask up.”
The reason
@CDCgov
etc are *meekly* recommending mask-wearing is Bc:
1. they lied to public from beginning & claimed Covid wasn’t airborne.
2. When they couldn’t deny it any longer, they lied & said cloth or surgical masks wd protect us.
Just called local optometrist for vision test. Asked what their protocols for Covid are now.
“Oh! You don’t have to wear a mask anymore,” receptionist gleefully replied.
I don’t understand.
I don’t understand.
I don’t understand how this is happening.
My mom just said, “seems like half of our friends died in the last year. Just dropping dead out of nowhere. Never saw anything like it. Do you think it’s something in the air???”
Sigh. Well….
#COVIDIsAirborne
I called 12 dental offices today to find a Covid-safe one.
100% take temp (tho’ most infected don’t get fever!). Approximately half wear only surgical masks (or 2) & face shields (won’t protect patient!).
Zero front desk staff wear N95s. Zero require tests.
OMG,
@CDCgov
!
With school starting & NO infection-protection for kids put in place, the rage & despair among Covid-educated parents I know can’t be overstated.
In the last week, I have had parents tell me:
I am depressed & horrified to learn how many musician friends have been derailed by
#LongCovid
and are too ill to tour or play anymore.
The pattern I consistently hear is that it was the 2nd or 3rd infection that did them in. None had concerning health issues prior.
Public health promotes prevention of:
- HIV
- Tick-borne diseases
- TB
- certain cancers
- malaria
But somehow, they don’t care if we repeatedly contract an incurable, chronic, airborne virus that can disable/ kill long after initial “mild” infection.
Just to be clear.
Be a rebel. Don’t follow
@CDCgov
guidance off the cliff with a herd of 🐑.
You don’t have to submit to being infected with SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS) 3-4x a year.
Wear an N95 or better indoors in public spaces, increase IAQ. Don’t be a sucker.
“We found that a staggering 90% of people living with
#LongCovid
initially experienced only mild illness with COVID-19.
These symptoms had an impact on health as severe as the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury.”
@KathyCo55115034
@calirunnerdoc
My young, healthy friend had a stroke and went blind in one eye after mild case of Covid. My other friend wound up in ER last week w heart attack 4 weeks after a mild case. He’s 40. No risk factors. Got it from his kid (who got it at camp). Anyway…lots of inconvenient truths.
@calirunnerdoc
I completely understand & am so sorry you are going through such torment. I experienced similar terror when I was infected w neurologic case of Lyme. It was like monsters had taken over my brain and body. That’s why i so vehemently oppose mass Covid infection.
What is up w Covid testing??
Is anything being done to improve the tests since it’s clear that they are missing a significant # of positives?
People should not be forced to test over and over and miss window for treatment, this is insane. What’s going on?
Just walked into a shop in N95 and owner says, “Covid’s over, hunny!”
I just very politely responded, “Thanks for the info. F*ck off, asshole.”
I guess this is how we’re gonna roll…
Toxic mold is hugely overlooked, and surprise (!!), hugely covered up Bc (surprise!!) it’s so common, expensive to fix, and causes (surprise!!) so much complex, chronic illness.
Easier to ignore and call people crazy.
See my next tweet:
Friend’s dad needs emergency root canal tmrw.
Endodontist refusing to wear N95, stating, “We follow
@CDCgov
@CDCDirector
guidance & they don’t require it.”
Friend: But you won’t wear one in light of the fact that my dad is high risk?
Endo: No.
@CDCgov
doesn’t make us. 🖕🏼
My friend just told me she met a friend last week who had weird “herpes-like” lesions on her fingers that she claimed were mosquito bites. In S. CA.
You know how this story ends.
I understand the intense discipline and sacrifice it takes to not get infected. I HATE not living a completely free life. I hate wearing masks.
BUT, I know it’s worth holding out til we have a sterilizing vaccine or early therapeutic to prevent LC. Hang in there. It’s worth it.
Sounds like Leana Wen joins millions of others with a severe case of
#LongCovid
that she is terrified she won’t recover from.
This comes after she repeatedly minimized risk, and increased harm, to the public.
This is an unfortunate, but natural consequence, of her actions.
It’s official — Leana Wen has
#LongCovid
“In July, I wrote about the unsettling experience of being.. very ill & hospitalized. Many readers have kindly written to ask whether I’ve fully recovered.”
“I wish I could say yes — The truth is far from that.”
As I’ve said many times, I can’t overstate the role of toxic mold in chronic illness.
FYI - you generally can’t see toxic mold bc it grows in dark places, behind walls, & releases microscopic toxins (mycotoxins) that can cause severe health problems, even death. Some mycotoxins…
I haven’t been able to see my stuff since I became bedbound far away from where I lived, eighteen months ago. A friend went to check on them and my beloved shoes are… in this state
Fascinating that
@CDCgov
@CDCDirector
has much stronger/ more appropriate recs for a listeria outbreak that’s sickened less than 20 people than they do for a virus that’s killed & maimed millions.
We’re at a point in the pandemic where we have no updated vaccine, or reliable therapeutic to prevent/ treat
#LongCovid
.
No mitigations, no trustworthy leaders, a weary population, a virus that’s stunningly airborne & contagious.
I’m so effing tired of it & that’s the tweet.
Until there is an effective prophylaxis/ therapy or sterilizing vaccine to prevent
#LongCovid
, I will be wearing an N95 or better indoors in public spaces 💯 of the time (& still avoid when poss).
Testing, current vaccines, being “healthy” isn’t working (nearly well enough).
I find the timing of this very odd. Why are they telling us this now? Is there something new going on?
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How does one console a 5th-grader with severely immune-compromised parent who is afraid she will bring home Covid and kill parent since her school dropped masks this week?
Genuinely asking for a friend.
I want to be on the record as saying my dad woke up this morn & went into shock from a new COVID infection that was dxd in ER.
He has been in
@TJUHospital
since 4pm. THEY ARE REFUSING TO TREAT HIM. WE ASKED FOR PAXLOVID AT 4pm. THEY JUST HUNG UP ON HIS INTERNIST!
Improving ventilation can help reduce the risk of
#COVID19
spreading at your holiday gatherings. You can keep windows open, use exhaust fans, and use air purifiers. A breath of fresh air for a safer celebration.
Find more tips here:
My 🐶 was poisoned by Paraquat’s sister chemical, Diquat, in our former HOA in CA and got a Parkinson’s-like presentation, seizures, went deaf, & almost died. The golden retriever a few doors down died from it (seizure).
I consulted 4 veterinary toxicologists who said this is…
The whole office got covid at my friend’s office Holiday Party in CT.
As per
@CDCgov
: vaxxed/ boosted. SO… no masks, indoors.
Several are more than mildly symptomatic. Half will statistically develop longterm organ/ vascular issues.
Remind me how this strategy is good?
Academic MD/ scientist said to me:
“I think it’s fair to say that if this wasn’t intended as a depopulation event, there’s been no attempt to stop it.”
It’s been wild watching PH lose the trust of every believer I personally know.
🦠 Covid is now “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Friend’s daughter & several bunkmates in infirmary at CA overnight camp. Some +ve for strep & also an “unknown coughing virus on top,” acc to nurse.
My friend: I’d like you to test her for COVID so we can get her Rx if needed.
I want my health care providers to wear N95s Bc I care about them and don’t want to see them go through more suffering than they’ve endured for the last 2.5 years.
But I don’t know how to overcome the normalization of wearing ineffective surgical masks.
Any ideas?
😳
@CDCgov
@CDCDirector
works remotely while telling us to go maskless into airless offices and “live with” getting Covid over and over.
I can’t even!!!
My dad needs to go to urgent care for a non-covid-related issue and I can’t send him BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SEPARATE COVID PATIENTS FROM NON-COVID BECAUSE THE EFFING
@CDCgov
@CDCDirector
does not require it!!!
My brain is literally exploding.
@SethMacFarlane
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 truth.
It’s neurologic, vascular, and even a “mild” case can end up ruining your life.
The initial flu-like illness doesn’t mean squat. It’s the second punch that matters.
Seems an easy concept, yet…
Thank you for speaking up abt it.
Friend: I have weird stuff...Like my vision is off & I’m light-headed, just exhausted all the time.
Me: Hmmmm….didn’t you have Covid in Jan?
Friend: OH! It’s not from Covid!!
Me: Ok, what do you think it’s from?
Friend: IDK. That’s why I’m telling you abt it.
Me: 🤦🏻♀️
Don’t be afraid to ask doctors what their logic is for decisions that don’t make sense or feel right.
I have, at times, averted enormous catastrophes with that question.
I am incredulous that in 3 short (long, terrible) years, the 🌎 has become this unfathomably unrecognizable with a deadly, airborne virus killing kids & parents, and our gov is telling us we should learn to live with it. Because they’re not planning to do anything abt it. JFC.
My friend called w severe laryngitis. I joked that she must’ve seen
@taylorswift13
& screamed at the top of her lungs.
No, she said. Just v sick for 2 weeks w “same bad cold” her husband’s had for 2+ weeks. Both w fever & bad cough.
Were u ever this sick w a cold??
I wasn’t.
Also said: “consistently, we are seeing that all patients, all-cause, are significantly sicker, requiring more/longer inpatient care or requiring more frequent hospitalization from ER, than would have seen prior to 2020.”
NEW: 🐒🦠 report from
@CDCgov
:
“His primary risk factor was close, NONSEXUAL contact w numerous unknown ppl at a crowded OUTDOOR event. His case highlights potential for spread at such gatherings, which may have implications for epidemic control.”
H/T
@sri_srikrishna
🚨 PEOPLE WITH LINGERING SARS1 SYMPTOMS GOT MORE DISABLED OVER TIME.
This is why China has a zero Covid policy. They play the long game.
They’re not stupid. We are.
I’ve spoken to a number of mainstream scientists.
The consensus regarding monkeypox is that we are fucked. Just letting you know since
@CDCDirector
@CDCgov
@POTUS
@WHO
is derelict.
While everyone is going left, I’m making a hard right. Doubling down on avoiding new wave of virus.
You don’t have to subject yourself to airborne organ damage bc the gov had gaslighted everyone into oblivion.
It is dangerous, it has longterm consequences.
Beyond over 15 million global citizens dying, millions maimed & disabled, & hundreds of ongoing daily deaths, you all were in NYC while it was Armageddon. I was there. It was a horror that’ll never leave my bones.
How dare you?
I can’t believe how many people I personally know who are SO sick.
Most had avoided Covid until now.
One in hospital, one on way, the rest home w fever, sore throats, throwing up etc.
Yes, all but one had 3 shots, a multiple ppl failed Paxlovid.
I am seeing an acceleration of severe respiratory illness/ COVID taking out older people.
I just learned my beloved neighbor died a few days ago from secondary bacterial pneumonia after acute COVID (this is why I forced hospital to give my dad doxy along w Paxlovid. They…
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