Violet Affleck’s comments on the COVID-19 Pandemic at the UN today:
“Young people lacked both real choice in the matter & information about what was being chosen for us.”🎯
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“Here is what we know about SARS-CoV-2:
👉 It’s airborne; floating & lingering in the air.
👉 One infection can result in disabling damage to almost every cell in the body from the brain & heart to the nerves & blood vessels.”
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👉 “Every subsequent infection increases the risk of #LongCOVID and places people who already have it in greater danger.”
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“Here is what we don’t know about SARS-CoV-2:
👉 What it does to reinfect children over & over & over again with no endpoint in sight from the day they are born⁉️
We are about to find out!”
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“After only 5 years, #LongCOVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children. 5 years!”
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“I am terrified for the children who do not, or soon will not, know a world without debilitating pain & exhaustion who cannot trust their bodies to play, explore, & imagine.”
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“And who will not know the potential of their own minds unfettered by the cognitive damage from a COVID-19 infection.
I am furious in their behalf.
I shudder to think of where we’ll be in another 5 years of unmitigated infection & reinfection.”
TY Violet for 🗣️up & 😷up!
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