Yale New Haven hospitals have partially reinstated a mask mandate. Anything is helpful, but they could do better with a permanent mandate, for everyone, with N95+ respirators.
#wearamask
Will this be the wave of COVID that will finally kill me?
Seeing the new infections, like the new variants, I wonder, is this where I become one of those numbers they call collateral damage?
Is this where they say that few people die from coronavirus and that they feel sorry for my death, but that it happens sometimes? Is this where I develop more terrible illnesses and disabilities as a consequence of another COVID infection? Is this where my Long COVID will worsen?
Is this where new diseases will be used as an excuse for violence by some doctors? Is this where a new bout of weakness will transform my life and make me see again who is truly willing to care for me and who has too much ego for that?
COVID is not random or inevitable; it's pure mathematics, and any form of harm reduction, any way to break the chain of transmission, makes a difference. Don't let the system tell you what words to use and what meanings to give. Lives of people with disabilities or those categorized as weak are not disposable, and we must fight against that idea.
In 2020, I was very close to death, and I remember that when I felt I was going to die, I was overwhelmed by comforting memories: people I had loved or still love, events that made me feel strong.
I want every COVID-conscious person to know that it is thanks to your community care that I breathe now, and I will never forget this until my last breath.
I want every COVID-conscious person to know that it is thanks to your community care that I breathe now, and I will never forget this until my last breath.
¿Será esta la ola de COVID que me acabará matando?
Viendo los nuevos contagios, como a las nuevas variantes, pienso ¿es aquí donde me convierto en uno de los números que dicen daños colaterales?
¿Será aquí donde se diga que hay pocas personas que mueren por coronavirus y que sienten mi muerte pero que a veces pasa? ¿Es aquí donde desarrollo enfermedades y discapacidades más terribles como consecuencia de otra infección por COVID? ¿Es aquí donde mi COVID persistente empeorará?
¿Será aquí donde nuevas enfermedades serán utilizadas como una excusa para la violencia por parte de algunos médicos? ¿Es aquí donde un nuevo episodio de debilidad transformará mi vida y me hará ver de nuevo las personas que realmente están dispuestas a cuidarme y las que tienen demasiado ego para ello?
El COVID no es azaroso ni inevitable; es pura matemática, y cualquier forma de reducción de daños, cualquier manera de romper la cadena de transmisión, marca la diferencia. No dejes que el sistema te diga qué palabras usar ni qué significados darles. Las vidas de las personas con discapacidad o de las personas categorizadas como débiles no son desechables, y debemos luchar contra esa idea.
En 2020 estuve muy cerca de mi muerte y recuerdo que cuando sentía que iba a irme, me sobrecogió recuerdos reconfortantes, personas había amado o amaba, eventos que me hacían sentir fuerza.
Quiero que toda persona Consciente del COVID sepa que es gracias a vuestro cuidado comunitario que respiro ahora, y ni hasta mi último respiro olvidaré esto.
#CovidPersistente #LlevaMascarilla #RealistaCovid #CovidSonAerosoles #birdflu #gripeaviar
#covid #pandemic #covid19 #longcovid #flu #influenza #rsv #thanksgiving #holidays #christmas #newyears #winter #maskup #covidsafety #wearamask #health #chronicillness #solidarity #community
Great episode on the role of the media manufacturing consent in the age of Covid. Good example of how propaganda works. I'll also not forget how in the Netherlands the government (including your adored Kaag) followed exactly the same script:
https://public-health-is-dead.simplecast.com/episodes/badpress-k_Z9F5kW
I also don't forget how my fellow lefties joined the necropolitics of our class enemies as soon as the effing government gave them the green light. As one of the guests says: "You're not resisting fascism when you're not making your spaces accessible for disabled people during a pandemic."
#propaganda #Necropolitics #eugenics #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask
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Great article on our ongoing experiences with society as Covid Cautious/Aware people.
"I know an unmasked ER doctor or nurse has clearly convinced themselves masking is pointless and I feel I can’t afford conflict or tension when I am approaching a life-threating situation (on the verge of developing a sepsis infection). In my worst pain, at my most vulnerable, I must play the role of the good (that is, compliant) patient lest I risk worse quality treatment...
"To put this all another way, coerced infection—the complete lack of mitigation and the normalization of mass and repeated infection of a debilitating virus—is ubiquitous throughout society. The culture and policy—or maybe better said political project—of coerced infection is crucial to the maintenance of late stage Capitalism."
https://jacobscheier.substack.com/p/our-culture-of-coerced-infection
COVID pone en peligro el embarazo y los recién nacidos. ¿Por qué no se advierte a los padres?
https://autodefesasanitaria.substack.com/p/covid-pone-en-peligro-el-embarazo
¿Por qué debería preocuparme por el COVID?
https://autodefesasanitaria.substack.com/p/por-que-deberia-preocuparme-por-el
❤️🔥😷mascarilla es cuidado comunitario
El COVID no ha terminado:
• El 50% de las infecciones son asintomáticas.
• Mínimo 10% de las infecciones acaban en COVID persistente.
• Las vacunas no evitan ni reinfecciones, ni el contagio, ni las secuelas persistentes del COVID.
• Las reinfecciones nos destrozan. No hay forma de “entrenar” el sistema inmunológico porque no es un músculo. La realidad es que no construyes tu inmunidad con infecciones repetidas, las vacunas fortalecen el sistema inmunológico enseñándole a reconocer los patógenos sin todos los riesgos. Centrarnos en la prevención de las infecciones es clave.
• Los test de antígenos dan muchos falsos negativos. Los PCR y test moleculares son los test con más precisión.
• El COVID se propaga y mueve como el humo de un cigarro, piensa en las personas de tu alrededor y en ti como personas que están todo el día fumando, se hace más visual entender cómo se mueve el COVID.
• En las infecciones con síntomas se tarda un par de días en dar los síntomas lo que quiere decir que estás por lo menos un par de días infectando sin saberlo. Eres infeccioso de COVID por lo menos 10 días.
#CovidPersistente #LlevaMascarilla #RealistaCovid #CovidSonAerosoles #birdflu #gripeaviar
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid
"resolver la pandemia nunca estuvo en los planes del mundo capitalista, el objetivo explícito de la clase dominante ha sido hacer que la pandemia simplemente desaparezca de la percepción pública.” Let Them Eat Plague! – The Red Clarion (unity-struggle-unity.org)
Want to avoid #LongCOVID? Wear a #mask! 😷
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#masks #masking #wearamask #hospital #hospitalmemes #healthcare #healthcarememes #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesshumor
SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1: So Different yet so Alike. Immune Response at the Cellular and Molecular Level
HIV-1 vs SARS-CoV-2. Similarities between HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 immune response to infection at the cellular level reveal common mechanisms and may lead to the identification of potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19. NK: Natural Killer, DC: Dendritic cell, VS: Virological Synapse.
years ago. Despite these two RNA viruses being different in their mode of transmission as well as the symptoms they generate, recent evidence suggests that they cause similar immune responses. In. this mini review, we compare the molecular basis for CD4+ T cell lymphopenia and other effects on the immune system induced by SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1 infections. We considered features of the host immune response that are shared with HIV-1 and could account for the lymphopenia and other immune effects observed in COVID-19.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9608044/
Patients With HIV May Have High Prevalence of Long COVID
Key Takeaways
• Long COVID prevalence in HIV-positive individuals is estimated at 43%, with significant heterogeneity across studies.
• Antiretroviral therapy reduces poor COVID-19 outcomes, but long COVID effects in HIV patients are less understood.
https://www.ajmc.com/view/patients-with-hiv-may-have-high-prevalence-of-long-covid
Are people with HIV at greater risk for long COVID?
HIV-positive people have a number of risk factors, including chronic inflammation and comorbidities, that increase the likelihood of long-term symptoms.
https://www.eatg.org/hiv-news/are-people-with-hiv-at-greater-risk-for-long-covid/
COVID-19: Study Suggests Long-term Damage to Immune System
"... findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect akin to that observed in earlier studies showing long-term damage to the immune system after infection with viruses such as hepatitis C or HIV." The authors conclude that this dysfunction causes lasting damage and may "contribute to long COVID, perhaps rendering patients unable to respond robustly to subsequent infections by SARS-CoV-2 variants or other pathogens."
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/sars-cov-2-infection-weakens-immune-cell-response-vaccination
Immune systems seriously weakened by COVID
"Individuals who are infected with COVID have many fewer T-cells," said Katzenback. "That's a problem for us because T-cells are a really important part of our immune system that helps defend us against infection."
But at least three studies show COVID-19 actually kills off a significant number of the body's T-cells, so even when a someone recovers from COVID, they are at a heightened risk for other viral, terial and fungal infections.
"That is causing a lot of people to go to the emergency rooms, rightly so, to seek medical aid and it is overwhelming our health care system," said Katzenback.
The only other virus that attacks and kills T-cells is HIV, which causes AIDS, said Katzenback.
'If I wanted to pick out the one cell that if I damaged that cell I would do the most damage to the immune system I,as an immunologist, would pick out the CD4 T cell. That's exactly what this virus did...
https://www.thestar.com/news/waterloo-region/immune-systems-seriously-weakened-by-covid/article_65e18ae6-f798-574a-b35f-9238efa6b786.html
Immunology of long COVID
1. Persistent viral loads or remnants hidden away in tissue and causing chronic inflammation. These viruses may not be measurable via nasopharyngeal swabs because they might be "hiding" in other internal organs, such as the gut.
2. Our body's own disease-fighting B and T cells triggering an immune response - and subsequent inflammation-in a process called autoimmunity. The problem is: the stimulus that triggers autoimmunity in response to an acute infection is oftentimes occurring continuously in the body, making it difficult to pinpoint and shut down
https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/iwasaki/projects/immunology-long-covid/
Differential decline of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody levels, innate and adaptive immune cells, and shift of Th1/inflammatory to Th2 serum cytokine levels long after first COVID-19
• 14% Total lymphocyte counts were reduced by 14%
• T cell counts were reduced, with CD4+ T cells down 16% and CD8+ T cells down 18%
• B cell counts were reduced by 14%
• Natural killer cell counts were reduced by 19%
• Total leukocyte (white blood cell) counts were reduced by 12%
• Neutrophil counts were reduced by 11%
• Monocyte counts were reduced by 10%
• The most dramatic reduction was in recent thymic emigrant T cells, which were reduced by 45% in CD4+ cells and 34% in CD8+ cells
Conclusions
COVID-19 causes long-term reduction of innate and adaptive immune cells which is associated with a Th2 serum cytokine profile. This may provide an immunological mechanism for long-term sequelae after COVID-19.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39003594/
COVID-19 and Carcinogenesis: Exploring the Hidden Links
• Immune dysregulation: COVID-19 causes significant immune responses, including cytokine storms, leading to chronic inflammation, a known risk factor for cancer development [6-10].
• Chronic inflammation: Persistent inflammatory responses may result in DNA damage, promote cellular proliferation, and inhibit apoptosis, thereby facilitating carcinogenesis [6-10].
• Oxidative stress: Elevated oxidative stress levels in COVID-19 survivors are linked to an increased risk of cancer through DNA damage and promotion of a tumor-friendly environment [12,16,19].
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39350850/
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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QUEER AS IN MASK UP. COVID ISN'T OVER.
Queer and all oppressed people have a history fighting eugenics
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome correlation with SARS-CoV-2 N genotypes
• Genotypes N/120 and N/152 of SARS-CoV-2 have been identified in the acquired immuno-deficiency scope caused by Sarbecovirus.
• A new binding site for the Sarbecovirus N protein is proposed as the main route of infection of lymphocytes through CD147 receptors.
• Immune dysregulation caused by infection of CD147 lymphocytes is consistent with clinical data of severe and Long Covid cases.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417023000872
Oral Candidiasis in Adult and Pediatric Patients with COVID-19
Oral Candidiasis (OC) is an opportunistic fungal infection of the oral cavity, frequently reported under local and systemic predisposing circumstances. While the recurrence of OC HIV-infected subjects has been well described and reported, the association between oral candidiasis and the SARS-CoV-2 infection is a recent finding that subjects.
The work found that the immune inflammatory hypo reactions and immunosuppression found in children and adults with COVID-19 could favor the proliferation colonization of Candida species and the following infection. At the same time, poor oral hygiene and iatrogenic causes seem to be the main risk factors.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36979825/
AIDS and COVID-19 are two diseases separated by a common lymphocytopenia
Salvatore Sciacchitano, Simonetta Giovagnoli, Rachele Amodeo, Iolanda Santino, Maurizio Simmaco, Paolo Anibaldi, Deborah French, Rita Mancini, Claudia De Vitis, Michela D'Ascanio, Alberto Ricci, Alfredo Pennica", Antonio Aceti
A total of 184 HIV infected patients were retrospectively examined and the results of FCA collected and compared to those obtained in 110 SARS-CoV-2 infected patients, examined during the COVID-19 outbreak. We observed a comparable reduction in B cells in both diseases and a more severe reduction in the total amount of T cells in COVID-19 as compared to AIDS patients. The analysis of the T cells subpopulations indicates that there is a comparable reduction in the CD4+ cells count. Conversely, a remarkable difference between them is observed in the CD8+ counts. In AIDS patients the CD8+ cells are slightly higher than normal, while in COVID-19 patients the CD8+ cell count is markedly reduced. As a result, the CD4+/CD8+ ratios, is very low in AIDS and higher than normal in COVID-19 patients.
The NK cells are reduced in both diseases, but SARS-CoV-2 infection causes a more severe reduction compared to HIV infection. In conclusion, both HIV and SARS-CoV-2 viruses induce major changes in the lymphocytes count, with remarkable similarities and differences between them. The total absolute numbers of T cells and, in particular of the CD8+ subpopulation, are lower in COVID-19 patients compared to AIDS ones, while the CD4+ are reduced in both at similar levels. These results indicate that the host immune system reacts differently to the two infection, but they are responsible of a comparable dropping effect on the serum levels of CD4+ T cell population. The meaning of the similarities and of the differences in terms of T cells activation and serum depletion are discussed. The knowledge on how the immune system reacts to these two infections will be useful to better define their mechanism of action and to design specific preventive and therapeutic approaches.
https://www.fortunejournals.com/articles/aids-and-covid19-are-two-diseases-separated-by-a-common-lymphocytopenia.html
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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COVID IS NOT OVER.
WEAR A MASK.
IGNORANCE = FEAR.
SILENCE = DEATH.
“COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?”
SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1, though distinct, share parallels in their biochemical traits and mechanisms, long-term impacts and societal responses. Both can establish persistent infections in tissue reservoirs, immune dysfunction, vulnerability to other infections including opportunistic, systemic damage including hallmarks of accelerated biological aging, and premature neurocognitive disorders. HIV integrates into DNA, whereas SARS-CoV-2 and its parts persist in organs like the blood vessels, brain, heart, tonsils, and lungs.
The statement that SARS-CoV-2 is "airborne AIDS" may be an oversimplification, but it draws attention to emerging evidence showing that the virus induces a distinct form of acquired immunodeficiency (AID). The phrase emphasizes key similarities and is grounded in evidence of shared outcomes, including immune dysfunction through T cell depletion and exhaustion, persistent systemic damage, and neurocognitive decline. These outcomes are further highlighted by the increased vulnerability to infectious diseases, including those that are signature indicators of immune deficiency typically associated with HIV/AIDS, as well as likely several types of cancer. Combined with its airborne spread and high transmissibility, SARS-CoV-2 is an ongoing threat to immunity and contributes to the population-level spread of many infections, amplifying its impact on public health.
As governments rolled back public health protections, leaving the public to navigate the uncontrolled spread on their own, stigma shifted to Long COVID patients and those advocating for continued precautions. These individuals are frequently dismissed as "fearmongers", "anxious" or “overly cautious" despite the objective ongoing and significant harms caused by the pandemic. Medical professionals pushing for mitigation measures face governmental and media backlash. Meanwhile, Long COVID patients experience persistent gaslighting and ignorance from healthcare professionals, exacerbating their struggles to access appropriate care.
Herd immunity is unattainable for a virus that mutates rapidly and evolves to evade and suppress the immune system. Similarly, the rapidly waning hybrid or post-infection immunity offers little long-term utility when achieving it requires infection with an immune-dysregulating, organ-damaging virus. Instead, addressing SARS-CoV-2 as a systemic vascular infection with significant cumulative health impacts necessitates sustained public health measures and innovative strategies to mitigate its ongoing threat to individual and population health. It is essential to prioritize airborne infection prevention, especially while no causal therapies are available for the sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773065425001464
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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ACT UP FIGHT AIDS
MASK UP FIGHT COVID
Opinion: Is it time for an ACT-UP for Long COVID?
https://48hills.org/2024/10/opinion-is-it-time-for-an-act-up-for-long-covid/
ByBRUCE MIRKEN
OCTOBER 9, 2024
While I’m far from the only person worried about Long COVID and our society’s general inclination to look away and pretend it’s not there, people like me certainly feel badly outnumbered. It’s beginning to feel reminiscent of how people with AIDS and their loved ones felt circa 1986—and maybe it’s time for the same kind of response.
For those of you lucky enough not to have lived through that era, by the end of 1986, AIDS had killed nearly 25,000 Americans, but president Ronald Reagan had yet to speak the word “AIDS.” His press secretary had joked about it and the White House press corps laughed. While individual scientists were doing important work, the bureaucracies running the NIH and FDA seemed very much to be in business-as-usual mode. Because the casualties had largely been gay men and injection drug users, it seemed like no one with any power cared whether we lived or died.
So, a group of New Yorkers – mostly gay men – decided it was time to start raising hell. Calling themselves ACT UP, they disrupted the New York Stock Exchange and, as chapters sprang up nationwide, they staged protests that shut down the FDA and NIH. Eventually, people like Anthony Fauci began to see they had a point. I joined the Los Angeles ACT UP chapter in 1988 and ended up getting arrested half a dozen times in protests at the LA federal building, the County Board of Supervisors and the U.S. Capitol, among others. We won major improvements in HIV/AIDS care in the Los Angeles County health system, which cared for thousands of people with AIDS who had no health insurance. When I landed in San Francisco in 1993, I connected with ACT UP Golden Gate.
I get that COVID has played out very differently than HIV/AIDS. AIDS ramped up slowly and seemed not to affect “normal” people until it killed closeted gay movie and TV star Rock Hudson in 1985, and even then officials largely looked the other way. Only scientific breakthroughs in the 1990s finally stemmed the tide of death. In contrast, the much more highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 virus came on fast and furious, turning Americans’ lives upside-down almost immediately.
But now, we’ve arrived at what seems in some ways like an eerily similar place. When needed precautions to curb a highly infectious airborne virus spurred frustration and political pushback, officials largely threw up their hands and gave up. Even measures that don’t involve mandates or restrictions on behavior have mostly either been dropped or never happened in the first place.
A RADICAL IDEA: DO WHAT WORKS
We know what to do. As Clean Air Club founder Emily Dupree and co-author Shelby Speier wrote in Sick Times in May, “We possess the technology to make public spaces safer. Studies show HEPA air purification and far-UVC lamps drastically reduce the number of airborne pathogens in a room and therefore lessen the likelihood of COVID-19 transmission. When combined with other layers of protection, these tools have the potential to finally make our shared spaces more accessible during an airborne pandemic.”
A key word here is accessible. Failure to address indoor air quality and other prevention measures makes public spaces seriously dangerous for those at highest risk, including the elderly, the immunocompromised and those with long-term health issues, including Long Covid.
Such simple, factual messages are rarely heard in official statements about COVID. “What I find the most frustrating about official handling of COVID and prevention is the lack of care, education, and honoring the science around COVID,” comments Clear the Air ATX founder and Long Covid activist Katie Drackert. “Telling people to ‘stay home when they feel sick’ for a virus that spreads asymptomatically? Well, they are just straight up ignoring science.”
Admirable as they are, the small, volunteer-driven efforts of groups like Drackert’s and Dupree’s are not remotely comparable to the scale of the problem. For now, people must take matters into their own hands. “In the year 2024, people still need to be wearing a well fitted KN95 or above for optimal communal and individual protection,” Drackert says. In the absence of reliable information about air quality in indoor spaces, she suggests getting a portable air quality monitor, which can be reasonably affordable. “High CO₂ levels indicate poor ventilation, which may lead to higher concentrations of aerosols that could contain the virus,” she explains. “Some air quality monitors track particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), which are small airborne particles. While COVID is smaller than these particles, high PM levels may indicate poor indoor air quality.”
Most of us can’t entirely avoid being in spaces with poor air quality, and that leaves us with masking, which the country has largely abandoned. Worse, we’re starting to see bans on face coverings in public spaces being enacted—for example, in Nassau County, New York, and North Carolina.
These laws typically contain exceptions for people masking for health reasons, but, as New Jersey’s Star-Ledger noted in a recent editorial opposing a proposed mask ban, “[I]t leaves it up to the cops to decide whether someone has a legitimate medical reason for wearing a mask at a public gathering.
“How will they know that? It’s subjective. And based on past experience, we know what that means: Police will disproportionately stop and question Black and brown people, who have also been the most likely to continue wearing masks to protect against COVID-19.”
It’s hard to imagine a more demented public policy than making disease prevention illegal. And it’s not hard at all to imagine a COVID-19 prevention framework that would make a meaningful difference without causing a nationwide freakout:
Encourage masking. Even if mask mandates are a political non-starter, there’s still plenty we can do. First, officials can talk about it and actively encourage people to wear high-quality protection like N-95s when in busy, indoor spaces. They can remind people of its importance—that COVID is not over, not just a cold, and that even a “mild” case can change your life forever. Federal, state and local governments could distribute N-95s or KN-95s free or at minimal cost.
Get serious about indoor air purification. Build on what the Biden administration started a few years ago: Develop medically informed, enforceable indoor air quality standards and create a verification system so that people know when a building they enter meets them. Start with public buildings and the largest, busiest private venues, like sports arenas, concert halls and theaters, and move on from there. Give business owners generous technical and financial support in meeting those standards, and a reasonable amount of time in which to do it. While this program is ramping up, fund the local organizations now struggling with limited resources to fill the gap.
None of this is that difficult. It’s not even that expensive when you consider that the federal government is in the process of spending $634 billion to upgrade nuclear weapons that with any luck will never be used. What’s missing is political will, and that won’t be there until people scream bloody murder.
That’s why I think it may be time for a new version of ACT UP focused on COVID-19. The issues are somewhat different, but less so than you might think. While the original ACT UP focused a lot on research, treatment and care, it also addressed prevention. ACT UP chapters around the country started syringe exchange programs, handed out condoms at high schools, and sometimes succeeded in shaming the system into doing the right thing. And of course, there are issues to tackle around Long Covid research that I haven’t addressed here, but which I will try to cover in a future piece.
The fundamental problem is much the same as people with AIDS faced in 1986: a system stuck in neutral, politicians stuck in denial, and a public closing their eyes, covering their ears and shouting, “I don’t hear you!”
The first task must be to break the system–and the broader population, as much as possible–out of its present inertia, complacency and denial.
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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“Nuestra comprensión del SARS-COV-2 y sus efectos en el cuerpo se han expandido considerablemente en los últimos años. Ahora sabemos que Covid está en el aire, extendiéndose y permaneciendo en el aire de forma similar al humo, usar mascarilla y filtración HEPA en espacios interiores es esencial para la seguridad. Sabemos que incluso una infección de leve o asintomática puede resultar en graves efectos a largo plazo para la salud y esos efectos son acumulativos sobre múltiples infecciones, lo que hace que la prevención de la infección sea increíblemente importante. Nuestras vacunas nos protegen de la mayoría de los peores resultados inmediatos, reduciendo en gran medida su probabilidad de hospitalización o muerte, pero no hacen un gran trabajo para prevenir completamente la infección, o prevenir la transmisión hacia adelante. La infección no proporciona inmunidad duradera, por lo que es posible infectarte de COVID varias veces al año. Usar mascarilla con buen sellado (no se escape los aires por los lados) y de alta calidad (mascarilla tipo FFP2 o N95)), es la mejor y más fácil manera de protegernos a nosotros mismos y a los que nos rodean de la infección, algo aún más importante para las personas embarazadas, los bebés demasiado jóvenes para vacunarse, y los niños cuyos cuerpos aún se están desarrollando.” Covid and Pregnancy, Postpartum & Childhood Health — Affirming Postpartum Doula Care & Parent Coaching
La infección por Covid-19 durante el embarazo puede dañar la placenta y al feto
De Forbes: “Un nuevo estudio publicado en The Lancet Europe ha encontrado que las infecciones por SARS-CoV-2 durante el embarazo están asociadas con lesiones placentarias por malperfusión vascular, lo que puede resultar en mayores tasas de restricción del crecimiento fetal, ruptura prematura de membranas y aborto espontáneo. También se observó daño vascular en los órganos de los fetos a través de resonancias magnéticas fetales.” SARS-CoV-2 variant-related abnormalities detected by prenatal MRI: a prospective case–control study - The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
PATOLOGÍA PLACENTARIA EN MADRES INFECTADAS CON COVID-19 Y SU IMPACTO EN EL RESULTADO DEL EMBARAZO
En un estudio de 170 mujeres que dieron a luz después de una infección confirmada por Covid, el 50% presentó anormalidades placentarias. Estas se asociaron con resultados adversos del embarazo, incluyendo un número significativamente mayor de muertes fetales (17% frente al 4%) que no podían explicarse por otros factores de riesgo. Los bebés que sobrevivieron presentaron puntajes más bajos en el test de Apgar (una medida básica de salud al nacer). The placental pathology in Coronavirus disease 2019 infected mothers and its impact on pregnancy outcome - ScienceDirect
Personas embarazadas y recientemente embarazadas tienen mayor riesgo de enfermedad grave por COVID-19
Del CDC: “Si estás embarazada o estuviste embarazada recientemente, tienes más probabilidades de enfermarte gravemente por COVID-19 en comparación con personas que no están embarazadas. El embarazo causa cambios en el cuerpo que pueden facilitar enfermarse gravemente por virus respiratorios como el que causa el COVID-19. Estos cambios pueden continuar después del embarazo. Las personas con COVID-19 durante el embarazo tienen más probabilidades de experimentar complicaciones que pueden afectar su embarazo y al bebé en desarrollo, en comparación con quienes no tienen COVID-19 durante el embarazo. Por ejemplo, el COVID-19 durante el embarazo aumenta el riesgo de parto prematuro (antes de las 37 semanas) o de muerte fetal. También puede aumentar el riesgo de otras complicaciones del embarazo. Para maximizar la protección contra las variantes y evitar posiblemente contagiar a otros, usa mascarilla en zonas interiores …”
Resultados a seis meses de bebés nacidos de personas con SARS-CoV-2 durante el embarazo
Del CDC: “Este análisis encontró que entre los bebés nacidos de personas que tuvieron COVID-19 en cualquier momento del embarazo, muy pocos dieron positivo a SARS-CoV-2 (el virus que causa el COVID-19) en sus primeros 6 meses. Sin embargo, la infección y muerte infantil fueron más comunes, y la lactancia materna fue menos frecuente, cuando la persona embarazada tuvo COVID-19 dentro de las dos semanas previas al parto. En general, las infecciones en bebés fueron más comunes entre los 15 días y los 6 meses, probablemente debido a la transmisión en el hogar o en la comunidad.” Pregnancy and infant outcomes by trimester of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in pregnancy–SET‐NET, 22 jurisdictions, January 25, 2020–December 31, 2020 - Neelam - 2023 - Birth Defects Research - Wiley Online Library
Resultados del neurodesarrollo al año en bebés de madres con prueba positiva de SARS-CoV-2 durante el embarazo
“En este estudio de cohorte de 7,772 bebés nacidos durante la pandemia de COVID-19, aquellos nacidos de las 222 madres con prueba PCR positiva para SARS-CoV-2 durante el embarazo tuvieron más probabilidades de recibir un diagnóstico de neurodesarrollo en los primeros 12 meses después del parto, incluso después de ajustar por parto prematuro. Estos hallazgos preliminares sugieren que la exposición al COVID-19 podría estar asociada con cambios en el neurodesarrollo y subrayan la necesidad de investigaciones prospectivas sobre los resultados en niños expuestos al COVID-19 en el útero.” Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 1 Year in Infants of Mothers Who Tested Positive for SARS-CoV-2 During Pregnancy | Pediatrics | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
Morbilidad asociada al post-COVID-19 en niños, adolescentes y adultos: estudio de cohorte emparejado con más de 157,000 personas en Alemania
“En este estudio retrospectivo de cohorte emparejado, observamos una aparición significativa de nueva morbilidad en niños, adolescentes y adultos a través de 13 complejos de diagnóstico/síntomas predefinidos, después de la infección por COVID-19. Estos hallazgos amplían la evidencia disponible sobre condiciones post-COVID-19 en grupos de edad jóvenes y confirman hallazgos previos en adultos.” Post-COVID-19-associated morbidity in children, adolescents, and adults: A matched cohort study including more than 157,000 individuals with COVID-19 in Germany | PLOS Medicine
Secuelas postagudas del SARS-CoV-2 en niños
“Los síntomas del COVID prolongado pueden incluir dolores de cabeza, pérdida del gusto y del olfato, diarrea, dolor crónico, erupciones, confusión mental y mareos, pero también condiciones de salud más graves como problemas cardíacos y diabetes, según una revisión de investigación.” Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in Children | Pediatrics | American Academy of Pediatrics
La infección por SARS-CoV-2 debilita la respuesta de las células inmunes a la vacunación
“La infección por SARS-CoV-2 daña la respuesta de las células T CD8+, un efecto similar al observado en estudios anteriores que mostraron daño a largo plazo en el sistema inmunológico tras infecciones con virus como la hepatitis C o el VIH.” SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
SARS-CoV-2 detectado en heces neonatales mucho después de la infección materna
Los bebés nacieron con reservorios de SARS-CoV-2 en sus intestinos meses después de la infección materna. La presencia del virus en el intestino del bebé podría impactar significativamente el desarrollo del sistema inmunológico antes y después del nacimiento, con el potencial de aumentar la susceptibilidad a enfermedades y otros resultados peligrosos. SARS CoV-2 detected in neonatal stool remote from maternal COVID-19 during pregnancy | Pediatric Research
Los niños tienen un riesgo similar de COVID prolongado que los adultos, según estudios
Del Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas de la Universidad de Minnesota: “Aproximadamente un tercio de los niños y adultos tienen COVID prolongado. Aunque los niños y adolescentes tienen muchas menos muertes o consecuencias graves por infecciones de COVID-19 comparados con adultos, se sabe poco sobre los síntomas prolongados o post-COVID en este grupo de edad, es decir, síntomas que persisten por más de 12 semanas después de la infección aguda.” Más recientemente, se descubrió que 1 de cada 6 niños presenta síntomas que persisten más allá de los 3 meses.
https://autodefesasanitaria.substack.com/p/covid-pone-en-peligro-el-embarazo
❤️🔥😷mascarilla es cuidado comunitario
El COVID no ha terminado:
• El 50% de las infecciones son asintomáticas.
• Mínimo 10% de las infecciones acaban en COVID persistente.
• Las vacunas no evitan ni reinfecciones, ni el contagio, ni las secuelas persistentes del COVID.
• Las reinfecciones nos destrozan. No hay forma de “entrenar” el sistema inmunológico porque no es un músculo. La realidad es que no construyes tu inmunidad con infecciones repetidas, las vacunas fortalecen el sistema inmunológico enseñándole a reconocer los patógenos sin todos los riesgos. Centrarnos en la prevención de las infecciones es clave.
• Los test de antígenos dan muchos falsos negativos. Los PCR y test moleculares son los test con más precisión.
• El COVID se propaga y mueve como el humo de un cigarro, piensa en las personas de tu alrededor y en ti como personas que están todo el día fumando, se hace más visual entender cómo se mueve el COVID.
• En las infecciones con síntomas se tarda un par de días en dar los síntomas lo que quiere decir que estás por lo menos un par de días infectando sin saberlo. Eres infeccioso de COVID por lo menos 10 días.
#CovidPersistente #LlevaMascarilla #RealistaCovid #CovidSonAerosoles #birdflu #gripeaviar
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid
"resolver la pandemia nunca estuvo en los planes del mundo capitalista, el objetivo explícito de la clase dominante ha sido hacer que la pandemia simplemente desaparezca de la percepción pública.” Let Them Eat Plague! – The Red Clarion (unity-struggle-unity.org)
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Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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What are the best European or at least non-US respirators?
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 #DavosSafe #BringBackMasks #CovidConscious #CleanAir #CovidCautious #BoycottUSA #FFP2 #FFP3 #N95 #N99
WHY PROGRESSIVES AND LEFTISTS NEEDED TO WEAR A MASK SINCE YESTERDAY
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bl0DsT8khogQ_TOOYjBlor8TBj7N6A72dDwL2sLQRzs/edit?tab=t.0
I can now say, year four into the C19 pandemic, that I’ve had enough conversations with supposed progressives and revolutionaries about the importance of masking. Person after person, always the same talking points, always the same polite concern followed with dismissal and apathy. I am one of many who are tired of people not being honest with themselves and not committing to their claimed values. These conversations have become so repetitive, so artificial that I resort to typing my own automatic response to common talking points rather than wasting my time doing one-on-one. It should concern all anti-capitalists that, when confronted about masking and accessibility, visibly fall back on the same replies as right-wingers. While the latter may sound more crude and unapologetic, the premises are identical.
It is crucial to self-reflect on one’s own actions and whether they align with one’s values, because so many have tolerated cognitive dissonances and let them translate into material harm. Some have chosen it knowingly, which begs the question of how serious an individual is about the human rights and liberation of all peoples.
1. But we are social creatures, we have to see each other’s faces. Many essential settings don’t carry a social cost to wearing a mask, namely places like malls, grocery shops, public transit, pharmacies, movie theaters, concerts, conferences and clinics. A vast majority of activities can be carried out with a mask across the face. It makes sense to become a link in the chain to block transmission wherever possible, to protect the wellbeing of performers and workers. Any human being is vulnerable to Covid-19, some are simply more vulnerable, but this virus and its long-term effects don’t discriminate.
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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Hidden COVID virus found nearly two years after infection
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/hidden-covid-virus-found-more-than-a-year-after-infection/
Pieces of the COVID virus can lurk in our blood and tissue for almost two years after the initial illness has vanished, a discovery that might offer clues to the mystery of lingering post-infection disability, according to new research from UC San Francisco. Four years after the U.S. went into lockdown, the worst of the pandemic has passed. But for people with long COVID, the illness remains a daily misery. The new research suggests why: The virus is not always fully cleared after the initial infection, so remains deeply embedded, even though people are no longer contagious. It is not yet known if these small viral proteins, called antigens, are causing long COVID. But, based on the new discovery, the UCSF team is conducting clinical trials of potential therapies that could attack the hidden pathogen.
“Long COVID patients deserve swift, accurate diagnosis and timely, effective treatment,” said Jaime Seltzer, scientific director at the nonprofit MEAction, which advocates for patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS. Is the clandestine virus constantly provoking the immune system, causing symptoms? That’s one leading theory. Another possibility is that COVID triggers an autoimmune response when the body mistakenly attacks itself. Or perhaps, long after it fends off infection, the immune system fails to turn off.
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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WHAT DOES COVID DO TO THE BODY?
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LUNGS. In 2020, one of the biggest concerns regarding COVID was its impact on the lungs. COVID pneumonia has been one of the biggest causes of death in COVID ICU patients. Many have and still are dying in the hospital on ventilators. But for those who do survive, the effect on the lungs can also be severe. For some, there is physical evidence on X-rays to show the scarring done by COVID, but due to current lack of testing for damage, many suffer from shortness of breath, chest pain, and a lingering cough without any evidence to account for their experience. Many people have experienced low blood oxygen levels, some are even on oxygen. Struggling to breathe is not only incredibly painful, but oxygen machines are often expensive and big. Our lungs are vital to every other function in our body. The true extent of the damage COVID does to our lungs may not be apparent for years, but we know enough to know that it can and does hurt our lungs
HEART. Months into the pandemic it started to become clear that COVID can affect the heart in very unexpected ways. People were showing up to the ER with heart attack symptoms, and then testing positive for COVID with no other symptoms. There is evidence that COVID causes blood clots and affects the arteries. People in their 20’s and 30’s are dying of sudden heart attacks and strokes following a COVID infection. AFIB, which is a heart condition where the heart beats out of rhythm, has been linked to COVID. Myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart, can result due to COVID literally damaging the heart’s tissue. Stress cardiomyopathy is a heart muscle disorder that affects the heart’s ability to pump blood effectively.
NERVOUS SYSTEM. One of the most concerning aspects of COVID is its ability to completely wreck the nervous system. The nervous system is responsible for the electrical signals throughout the body, it includes hunger, thirst, temperature regulation, needing to use the bathroom, heart beat, and more. It is basically like a tree with roots extending all over the body. Many people have developed Dysautonomia and POTS as a result of COVID, both conditions that impact the nervous system. Dysautonomia affects the function of your heart, digestive tract, sweat glands, blood vessels, pupils, and sexual function. POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) is a condition where the heartbeat increases 30 to 40 beats per minute when standing up. Many people with Long COVID experience fainting spells, weakness, panic attacks, anxiety, and chest pain, which are all common symptoms of POTS. In fact, many people are misdiagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder or Panic Disorder instead.
BRAIN INFLAMMATION. Brain fog was identified pretty early on as a symptom of COVID, but many people don’t understand what “brain fog” actually is, given its seemingly innocuous name. Brain fog can be severe, and for a lot of Long COVID patients, brain fog is the most isabling of the hundreds of other symptoms they experience. Some of the more serious symptoms include forgetting how to do your job, new or worsened depression, psychosis, loss of ability to visualize your thoughts (aphantasia), severe memory loss (both short and long term), racing thoughts/new OCD, anhedonia and lack of pleasure or interest in daily activities that used to bring you joy, suicidal ideation, change in personality, and more. Many presenting with these symptoms are dismissed by doctors as purely psychiatric, despite evidence that COVID causes brain inflammation and can even cause brain lesions. There have been multiple documented suicides attributed to post COVID depression or psychosis.
Myalgic Encephalomyelytis (ME/CFS or better known as “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”). Historically caused or triggered by a hit to the immune system, ME/CFS is one of the most painful and disabling conditions one can experience. Viruses like Epstein Barr can cause it. We know that COVID is triggering the development of ME/CFS after an infection, and some people are having their EBV or other latent viruses reawakened by the their immune system as a result of COVID. ME/CFS always significantly impacts a person’s ability to live, which can include the ability to shower, brush your teeth, or even get out of bed. Best case scenario is being able to go to the grocery store by yourself, and worst case scenario can be needing a feeding tube due to being too weak to eat. A major marker of this syndrome is “Post Exertion Malaise” (PEM), which means you experience an intense crash after engaging in some form of activity.
OVERALL EFFECT ON IMMUNE SYSTEM. COVID causes all of these conditions, which comes as no surprise when we examine the history of pandemics and viruses. EBV was recently found to potentially be the root cause of Multiple Sclerosis. HIV is a virus that can lead to AIDS. Polio caused people to develop paralysis. We are currently only at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding COVID’S true effects on the body, but it is not looking good that it’s only been 4 years and we already have a wealth of evidence to show that it is very damaging. We can safely assume that COVID is bad for us, no matter your age, health status, or how active you are. Scientists have even noted its ability to kill our T-cells, which are our defensive cells, also putting us at higher risk for cancer and other diseases.
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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