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#longcovid
This was a massive cover up by multiple agencies at the city, state, and federal level, aided by a local media that still refused to look at evidence or tell the truth!
#OTD
, April 12, 2015, Baltimore PD killed Freddie Gray.
@jewstein3000
's book They Killed Freddie Gray digs into police archives to show Gray was fatally injured when cops threw him head first into a van. Cops, prosecutors, feds conspired to cover it up with "rough ride" story.
I’ve been watching this Palestinian journalist’s videos and just seeing her own physical deterioration from lack of food and water while she keeps trying to report from the streets is horrific. It’s cameras in the death camps
Ok I don’t think I like this: let’s normalize people participating in society with a disability so that we don’t do standing ovations for just being “brave” enough to not disappear
@STEPHMHAMILL
Women can be sex objects if they want, if it benefits them personally, professionally, or turns them on. When Channing Tatum strips, do you feel it puts all men at risk?
The latest bad Long Covid press says it resolves in a year. The source? Patients stop seeking treatment in a year.
Yes we do that when you offer no help, especially when medicine isn’t free
The CVS near me is no longer offering a PCR test. Rapid tests cost $70.
Without a positive test, you can’t get Paxlovid.
I can’t imagine worse people running this country
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I think
@jonfavs
and others don't understand. THIS is how Long Covid happens in the vast majority of cases (including mine):
1. Someone has a relatively mild infection, is not hospitalized, feels "normal" in a couple of weeks, at most.
As many people said, Christina Applegate herself pointed out that all of the over-the-top applause was embarrassing and ableist
But we need to understand that the ovations given to disabled people for existing are almost always IN PLACE of jobs and actual accommodations. 1/
Ok I don’t think I like this: let’s normalize people participating in society with a disability so that we don’t do standing ovations for just being “brave” enough to not disappear
He died "of" Covid and "with" cancer.
A lot of headlines are saying "after a long battle with cancer."
If he was hit by a car, they'd probably focus on that.
Here is a fact that may make you uncomfortable: if you want to be considered an ally to disabled people, you need to wear. promote, and mandate masks. There are extremely few scenarios in which this isn’t a fact. You don’t have to be an ally tho.
I've been saying since 2020 that athletes were getting hit the worst, and my Long Covid doctor confirmed it this year - her patients are mostly very active.
But we got fed a narrative that it was people in poor shape or with pre-existing conditions that are the most at risk.
When I say doctors are useless dummies I mean tonight.
I had surgery Wednesday - two organs removed - and two days later I was in crazy pain but only on one side, not responding to meds. Couldn’t walk.
Went to the triage at the hospital and they called… 1/
It’s not the AIDS crisis, which was horrible but killed about 100,000 people in a decade in the US.
Covid kills that many in six months.
Minimizers don’t have much
For the record, obviously Long Covid is a thing. What it’s not is the AIDS crisis nor is Biden anywhere close to Reagan. Jesus, folks.
Social media has conditioned everyone to go DEFCON HYSTERICAL over every issue. The problem with that is once everything’s a crisis, nothing is.
Asking people with Long Covid to support Biden is asking people with AIDS to support Reagan in the 80s. He won’t even name our illness, and he’s done everything he can to make it more widespread and less treatable. Indirectly he has also contributed to patient stigmatization
A common autistic experience is stating mild to moderate displeasure with things and having that be interpreted as extreme outrage or drama, because the other person wouldn’t be so comfortable expressing that displeasure unless they were that upset.
I'm seeing a lot of tweets from Adderall patients frustrated that they're being lumped with opioid patients by the feds in restricted access.
Opioid patients don't deserve this either!!!
Government eugenics will always expand until it's your own body at risk.
In case you stopped paying, we no longer have
- Free or affordable accurate tests
- Data collection on cases and deaths
- Vaccines that have any relevance to current variants
- Accessible treatments
- ANY protection for immune compromised people
- Masks in healthcare settings
I also got in trouble for filming her even tho she gave permission
Finally a new doc took over for the night shift who did more for me in 5 minutes than the clowns for five hours before. But jeez
Physical therapy exercises for someone in excruciating post-op pain.
A wild one.
The thing I want to warn the newly disabled about is the first time you bring up needing accommodation in one of your communities.
It doesn’t matter how nice or socially aware your community is. There’s a very high chance of a backlash - and from unexpected parties.
The rise in ableism on twitter (esp from the left) has a few causes. Disabled voices are louder and angrier with the Covid genocide. So there’s pushback.
I also think more people are becoming disabled or becoming aware they are. A lot what we’re seeing is internalized ableism.
@KristyRain
@HooteyOwl
@MikeSegalov
@jackblack
I have one of these! Jack Black was sitting ahead of me on the plane! He was listening to earphones and put them on the kid next to him and started head banging! For real. Thrashing his head around with a kid. School of Rock IRL
Here’s the thing about a chronic illness or a medical vulnerability: it changes your life, and it’s not fun. And it’s not the vulnerable person’s job to compensate their partner for that change, because it’s not a choice they’re making, it’s a necessity of their condition.
It’s a very rational fear and every one (but especially women with male partners) should have a plan b if they get sick in which they are abandoned
Men leave their sick partners at a rate of… about 50%
A common and terrifying fear in many people with
#LongCovid
is that their partner, unable to tolerate their illness, will leave them.
@CIBScenter
@WesElyMD
I think Long Covid happened to both Leana Wen and Rochelle Walensky, two of the worst Covid minimizers. Leana had pneumonia in the summer and, after laughing about it, wrote about Long Covid.
Rochelle had a long absence and was hurried out of her position after Covid 1/
When the vaccines for Covid first emerged, disabled people were having a different conversation than the rest of you. You believed Biden and took off your masks.
We were 1) looking at countries like Israel, where vaccination was widespread and disease was still rampant…
This is taking off so to be clear:
This wasn’t about pain meds being withheld. That is a national problem that concerns me greatly and I’ve experienced it. This was just about what happened when the meds didn’t work tho and my doctors being brainless dummies
When you learn that it was always known that “chronic fatigue syndrome” was post-viral - that it was originally called “myalgic encephalomyelitis” because of that - but became “CFS” to minimize its seriousness and make it sound psychological………… 😡😡😡
I’ve seeing a LOT of doctor lately on twitter saying “How did I not realize Covid is causing MECFS/PEM? This is terrible.”
But all of them get defensive when you point out that the information has been out there for years. And medicine has been failing. 1/
As someone who has seen more than a hundred doctor, no they are 95% terrible
With respect, you don’t know how little they know and how much harm they do until you’re dealing with them constantly
Some of yall have lost the plot. Sure, call doctors out and hold them accountable for their wrong behavior when it happens....but stop acting like doctors aren't a vital part of society
You guys don’t get it: I will never be able to get a job because I am medically advised to not be in person. And all of your get togethers and brunches have contributed to this
The left is so violently against disabled people’s needs every single week on here. Good luck with your movement. You’ve alienated a very large marginalized group
Corporations know they can charge more in the US. They know they can charge for healthcare. They know there’s no regulation on rent, carcinogens in food and drinks, etc. they know they don’t have to hire us for jobs. They love it here
Physical therapy to teach me exercises???? I could not move and just had surgery and was in screaming pain.
I looked at them like they were crazy and they started making like I was a bad belligerent patient
When the PT came, I asked her if I could film the convo… 2/
She said yes.
I asked, “when people have surgery and come back two days later in screaming pain, do you usually start them on exercises?”
She made it clear that we couldn’t do anything without pain control. For the next four hours, I was told maybe I needed to poop, etc 3/
A woman has been arrested and confined for refusing treatment and spreading TB.
This is a weird disconnect. We're still enforcing some public health measures at the same time the CDC's official policy is for people to go to work sick with active COVID.
Work from home (WFH) should be something labor activists, environmentalists, and urbanists are fighting for. They spend more time picking on disabled Instacart users.
At the urgent care on Friday, a nurse asked why I was wearing a mask. "Do you have the flu? You'd better not have the flu and get me infected."
The minds.
Nurses be refusing to wear masks, even when asked, in medical facilities during an ongoing pandemic.
Plus I’ve personally witnessed some nurses have the shittiest bedside manner/care.
The rise in young people collapsing to their deaths is only encouraging anti-vax sentiments because our governments won’t acknowledge what Covid does to the heart and blood vessels
Gonna mute this because I thought that he died of Covid was fairly obvious, and some outlets have not left it out of their stories. I didn't realize it was a whole thing.
My greater issue was with the media outlets *not even mentioning Covid*, the reason he was hospitalized.
I think if people understood what the FDA and Pfizer are up to in this country they would riot.
Why don't we still have home PCR tests?
Why don't we have nasal vaccine sprays?
Why don't we have Novovax - a stable broad vaccine with none of the MRNA side effects?
@jewstein3000
Yeah. FDA blocked Lucia's approval until bankruptcy. Pfizer than swept in and acquired Lucira. I'm worried this is going to become a pattern.
In apocalyptic scenarios, people think it's best to sacrifice the weak or disabled first.
But who has the experience to survive being disabled? That's who you should keep around. The rest of you need at least a few years to get used to surviving without abilities.
2. They get back to their routine - moderate exertion at home and work, exercise, etc.
3. A few weeks or so later, they suddenly feel some kind of pain/weakness/dizziness upon exertion. They push through or rest. It doesn't matter.
4. The next day, they are immobilized.
The portrayal of disabled activists as part of a cult of loserdom and whining is a successful distraction from the reality of the bottomless survival challenges you face once disabled and how nearly half of all homeless people in the US are disabled.
I honestly can’t stop thinking about this and I think it’s the realization that “self-care” has become a cover for being totally anti-social and risk averse
Many politicians and health leaders seem to be discovering Covid is dangerous, harms blood vessels and potentially every organ in the body. The CDC is recommending masks.
All of this was known in 2021 when they all pivoted away from masks and declared Covid over. They lied.
Well I need two surgeries that I can’t have because of mass Covid spread and some of you are celebrating reckless superspreader events.
Sorry if I hate everyone, but it does seem like you all hate me
15. They are back to zero, back to needing months in bed.
This is Long Covid, start to finish, in most cases. I didn't even include how many foods can become impossible to eat, how chronic tinnitus or vertigo or allergies can start up.
8. But it happens again! They are, again, made immobilized by the littlest bit of activity this time. Making dinner, a shower, a short walk, a day of work.
9. They are exhausted, dizzy, but they can't sleep it off.
10. They literally never recover. They have to stop working.
5. They are sick/nonfunctional for a few days or longer. It feels like a wall around them, pressing into them.
6. They wonder if they have Covid again. It feels like it, maybe. But also like something else.
7. They recover and get back to things, maybe more cautiously.
Are they protecting her health with masks? Are they giving her jobs?? Or just standing up cheering until they shuffle her off stage because they’re uncomfortable?
16. I should have added: The continual relapses don't happen immediately. They often feel amazing and do too much because they don't feel the limit.
The disease doesn't hit until the next day or later that week. It's a mind fuck.
Since this is more controversial than I realized, the hospital doesn't determine cause of death. That's autopsies (and they aren't perfect either.) The hospital has discussed "multi-organ failure" as a result of his disease. That doesn't exclude Covid as cause of death...
11. If they are unable to rest, due to their employment, they get worse and worse, until it becomes impossible. Or they have a stroke or heart attack, at a young age.
12. If they can radically rest, they may feel better after 6 months to a year...
Lemme tell you something about Novovax: it has good results and zero side effects. So the administration made it nearly impossible to get and now they are cancelling it. Please tell me they don’t want us sick and dead for profit.
My mom was a bit overweight. Complained for months about gas and bloating. Was told to lose weight. Turned out she had an ovarian tumor the size of a pineapple
#PatientsAreNotFaking
It’s funny when doctors are skeptical of symptoms. Do they know that I’d rather do absolutely anything else in the world besides drive to their dirty, germ-infested offices and look at their ugly faces? I’m doing that to create a narrative?
So medically assisted death has called me 12 times in 48 hours but a doctor couldn’t see or talk to me the entire year of 2023 to help me with my health.
Many of my relationships fell apart last year, because I wanted people to care more about Covid, masks, disability, my health, etc. But I wonder what their takes would be on what happened. They’re mostly social activists. I doubt they would admit this. Kind of curious TBH.
13. They may start up some level of activity again. They may learn about pacing and even get back to longer walks or some kind of exercise routine. They may brag about recovery.
14. Then, they catch Covid or a cold, or overdo it one day at work, or eat the wrong thing.
I think about “Havana Syndrome” a lot and maybe that’s because of my experiences. I was immediately made sick from the air around Ground Zero and told it was safe and to return to work. I never recovered. 1/
Folks are really unprepared for pandemics and environmental catastrophes in large part because they are trapped inside ideologies that they assume confer them health superiority and environmental virtue.
The majority of Covid “fear mongers” on twitter either 1) have Long Covid 2) are seriously immune compromised or 3) are immunologists/virologists.
They’re not bots or trolls. It’s curious how many people including leftists have asked this group to be silent on their concerns
Every winter, our sacrificial women hired to minimize Covid get really sick and disappear, to be replaced by the next woman to minimize the illness that disproportionately affects women.
So many Covid cautious people are telling me that an n95 is enough if nobody else masks.
They’re saying if I caught Covid in an n95 then I must not have fit tested etc.
This thinking isn’t helping us!
Genocide is successful if you can get the majority to never think about the groups being wiped out, the way I see people not think about immunecompromised people losing all of their medical and social protections
Does anyone else wake up with the realization that almost everyone they know and trusted has gone along with the far right on whether or not disabled/sick people should live and participate in society? I wish I didn’t spend each day actively fighting this thought.
Since this conversation is getting some attention, my soundcloud is a book coming out in April that covers how the media helps officials cover up the truth.
If novovax isn’t made legally available to people who previously had MRNA shots (which it isn’t now), many of us who are the most vulnerable to Covid won’t be able to get vaccinated at all. Plz wear masks around strangers or until you get consent. You’re killing us! Literally.
@jonfavs
“Unhinged” is ableist language, so you’re not helping yourself here. How much work do you do on disability activism? Do you think if thousands of disabled people responded similarly to Bernie, we are all unhinged, or could you be missing something
The scenario in which half of humans are wiped out by bird flu and the rest go about life as normal, holding annual memorials and claiming superiority for surviving, is so easily conceivable to me
Food delivery services are an accessibility tool. When you say “Well surely people survived without them before,” ask yourself if there were people who couldn’t walk before ramps and elevators. Did they magically make it up stairs or just suffer immensely?? 1/
Seeing a lot of Long Covid patients saying things like, "Well I tried my old exercise routine and I crashed for a week. Should I just walk or do yoga?"
Nothing. You should considering doing nothing for awhile. Maybe a long while. Your body is fighting itself.
In fact disabled people were the first mass casualties of Hitler. Killing us off - w the medical establishment’s blessing
- paved the way for further genocide
Disabled people have been warning you about what your comfort with COVID’s mass slaughter will lead to.
I wish doctors would drop this and acknowledge that they lost. We diagnose each other better than you do.
A very common example: for seven years I had near daily migraine triggered by environment esp chemicals. I couldn’t eat much. And I reacted badly to all medications. 1/
@catladyactivist
Although we no longer require donors, drive hosts or vaccinated employees & volunteers to wear masks, donors can still opt to wear masks, which are available at blood drives/donation centers. We'll also graciously accommodate mask requests from donors where close interaction…
Given how much attention this is getting, I want to emphasize that this illness im describing is called MECFS. It happens to a half or more of long Covid patients. It happens to ppl with chronic illness post-Lyme, Epstein Barr, other infections too
Until I met more disabled people, I wondered why this happened to me, but I’ve since learned it’s just how things go, commonly.
It’s shocking and depressing, but if you’re prepared, you’ll realize your simple accommodation request may need to come with education and advocacy.
You don’t owe your partner your health or good days. Sometimes the healing process (if at all) takes a long time and is non-linear. You might be pressured to fix things faster, see more or fewer doctors, try more or fewer treatments. Nobody’s business but yours 2/
If there were any allies left - if most of you didn’t stop talking about Long Covid and masks last year so you could brunch - you would understand that losing Novovax and Evushield is like a death sentence, as hard as it was to get. But we have nobody who wants to fight for us.
100%!!!!!!
Nobody knows if you’ve been infected. Asymptomatic cases are rampant, especially in strong immune systems.
You’re not deserving of metals if you weren’t. You’re lucky and have privilege
@katem02134
@danaparish
I'm gonna be extremely pissed from beyond the grave and haunt Twitter if I die of Covid and they only mention my pre-existing conditions!!