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It's interesting how often tone-policing is the first response to legitimate criticism. Am I angry at Bonnie Henry and the terrible impact she's had on Canada's Public Health response to the pandemic? You betcha. I genuinely try to use measured language when tweeting but...
Her decision to drop virtually all covid protections in British Columbia, thereby justifying other PH officials doing the same, is utterly indefensible. People are literally dying because she refuses to acknowledge she's wrong. #CovidIsntOver #covidisairborne #longcovidisreal...
Being polite isn't getting us anywhere. We need to speak the truth. Politicians and public health leaders have adopted ageist, ableist policies that are maiming & killing thousands, including many previously healthy, young people. None of us should be okay with that....
So much of COVID is nuance.
Yes most people in the pandemic died from failure to treat and iatrogenic death, this doesn't mean the virus is not a bioweapon. Both are true.
The fact that it disables and kills in the long term hasn't occurred to them,
yet.
That's its beauty >
Yes most people in the pandemic died from failure to treat and iatrogenic death, this doesn't mean the virus is not a bioweapon. Both are true.
The fact that it disables and kills in the long term hasn't occurred to them,
yet.
That's its beauty >
What if, after waves of acute infection, the pandemic is declared over? Everyone goes back to work, the virus endemic, we just have to live with it.
Yet- each reinfection is a cumulative risk for LC immune suppression, and within a few years the majority of people are disabled? >
Yet- each reinfection is a cumulative risk for LC immune suppression, and within a few years the majority of people are disabled? >
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Spoke to a lady at a Garden nursery today, she looked concerned by me wearing a mask. I reassuringly said to her ‘as far as I know I don’t dont have C19.’
She said, ‘oh thats great.’ and looked relieved.
She then went on to say how she really should be wearing one too..…1/🧵
She said, ‘oh thats great.’ and looked relieved.
She then went on to say how she really should be wearing one too..…1/🧵
she has a problematic immune system. I felt she felt like she was pressured not too.
She said “I had covid. It was very mild. But… I haven’t been right since. It seems to get worse. I’m out of breath all the time like I can’t breath past a tightness right here in my chest…2/
She said “I had covid. It was very mild. But… I haven’t been right since. It seems to get worse. I’m out of breath all the time like I can’t breath past a tightness right here in my chest…2/
.“I get dizzy & sweaty sometimes when I stand up, or if I am standing for long. The Dr checked me out and said my breathing is normal….but I’m not right. It’s like my energy levels didn’t recover, & keeping on going is making it worse. I really don’t want it again.”
She said..3/
She said..3/
There are a lot of people on Twitter who are vocal about not believing in #LongCovid
It got me thinking about what other “invisible illnesses” exist out there so here’s a thread 🧵
It got me thinking about what other “invisible illnesses” exist out there so here’s a thread 🧵
1 - Allergies (especially food allergies). “Are you really allergic or do you just not like carrots/nuts etc”
2 - Arthritis (particularly rheumatoid). “Do you really have arthritis or are you just lazy”
In case anyone is wondering how we NHS Nurses are doing out here- read this.
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#NHS
#LongCovid
Nurses with long-COVID: NHS urges trusts to redeploy,not dismiss. rcni.com/nursing-standa…
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#NHS
#LongCovid
Nurses with long-COVID: NHS urges trusts to redeploy,not dismiss. rcni.com/nursing-standa…
2 / #LongCovid 
#LongCovid has cost me everything — my health, my home, my career, proximity to everyone I know and my ability to rebuild what was destroyed. I’ve been without income for over a year. This virus has taken my life — without actually killing me.
2) Because SunLife wrongfully denied my long-term disability claim, I had to sell my new dream home to survive. My #LongCovid symptoms started only six months after moving in.
3) I say ‘wrongfully’ denied because I’m genuinely sick — I’m not faking it, lying about it or making it up. I’m not lazy, unwilling to work, hoping to retire early or attempting to commit insurance fraud. I am completely debilitated by #LongCovid and incapable of working.
