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Another week, another 110,000 added to the #LongCovid dashboard. Recent studies would double this estimate: put U.S. PASC cases nearer 48M.

Some 1.8–2.2 M too disabled to work—another ~6 million forced to abandon careers.

Where'd all the workers go, Joe? @POTUS

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@POTUS If you think there's a #LongCovid labor shortage now—just see how bad it is after another year of unmitigated transmission.

Another two years. Three. &c

At some point maybe we can stop past tense magical thinking to consider future we're trundling into?

@POTUS Millions have trained for careers—for passions that defined them—now face future where they can no longer do that work.

Millions more to join their ranks as repeated reinfections of increasingly vulnerable population continues unabated.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS We're losing medical workers—who have been infected while treating the sick—and educators—who are still in classrooms with inadequate ventilation and still largely unvaccinated students—where even basic mask protections have been dropped.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS Post-acute sequelae of covid infection (PASC) will define our society for generations.

Rather than slow recovery after some short-term illness…

This is now the new normal for tens of millions who once thought of themselves as healthy.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS To speak of PASC defining our society for generations is far from hyperbole.

#LongCovid is a neurotropic vasculopathic disease.

It doesn't spare the young nor the presumptively healthy.

Even asymptomatic infection shrivels brain mass.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS Increasingly we're hearing of athletes watching their careers end…

After infection by virus public authorities assure us is "mild".

If this is what happens to professional athletes, what's it doing to tens of millions of ordinary folk?

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS Mysterious is the new mild.

Only there's nothing mysterious about kids needing new livers after being infected by a neurotropic vasculopathic virus that colonizes the organs and ages the immune system and brain.

We've known since 2020.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS Mysterious is the new mild. We've danced this dance before.

Response to this rhetorical trope three generations ago launched a movement.

This time round, response is "Why are they doing this?" and "When will they stop doing this?"

We have to make them.

@POTUS That United States reporting few cases doesn't mean PASC went away.

Tens of thousands began living with #LongCovid this week.

Many were vaccinated.

Many were asymptomatic during the acute phase.

Many don't even know they're sick yet.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS "…7 to 14 million (2–4% of…U.S. population) are expected to result in long-term disability…risk of lifelong complex health problems…economic ruin from health-care costs, unemployment, denied benefits, eviction…homelessness."



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@POTUS Hospital occupancy of beds for all causes has been high over a year and a half now—as capacity continues steady attrition.

Non-covid bed occupancy crests higher after each wave—our hospitals can't keep pace as we get collectively sicker.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS We're leaving the post-omicron wave trough.

Deferred care that wasn't attended to in recent days will have to wait until post-BA.2 wave trough.

At which time, non-covid hospital occupancy will crest still higher.

At yet lower capacity.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS Young healthy people being admitted for heart and vascular issues.

In U.S., these are "non-covid" beds. Only acute infections count as covid beds.

Often only if being given treatments of last resort. Even then only if recently admitted.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS CDC semiotics hinge on just such a covid / non-covid distinction.

Narrow definitions furnish narrow perspectives.

CDC map doesn't show where hospitals are stressed—thus unprepared for growing spike in acute covid.

Who does this serve?

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS Any metric that counts only designated "covid" beds rather than all inpatient beds is—simply put—misinformation.

Many believe CDC semiotics are green until hospitals are overwhelmed.

This ignores all the care hospitals are triaging NOW.

#ThisIsOurPolio

@POTUS Variant after variant, reinfection after reinfection, as we provide heedlessly willing hosts for the virus to further evolve and adapt.

Of course, we're not counting reinfections. That would make case numbers look worse. Can't have that.

#ThisIsOurPolio

When we look at all variants, we see BA.2.12.1 has already overtaken original BA.2.

BA.2.9 doesn't even show up on CDC Nowcast.

Yet.

Nor does BA.2.10.

Information is essential.

Yet we can't rely on our public health agencies for it.

#ThisIsOurPolio

Information is essential.

We're going to Walgreens to get it.

Because our own government won't provide it.

Note how positivity rates are higher among the vaccinated.

Super soldier serum theorem. Choices made in absence of information.

#ThisIsOurPolio

Public health not a matter of personal risk assessment.

Dorothy Oliver and others have shown that higher vaccination rates can be achieved when the work is done.

But vaccination alone is not enough.

I've got mine is not public health.

#ThisIsOurPolio

Current annualized trend translates to a 2022 covid death toll of ~360,000.

As Democrats rest on laurels of not being the other guy.

Are we just gonna let them coast into midterms?

Are we just gonna watch another year of this happen?

#ThisIsOurPolio

Kids dying of covid at three times the rate they were under prior administration.

But, you know—Vibe'n's not the other guy—so we're good right?

When do we act‽

How many die before we act‽

'Cause wishing others would… ain't working.

#ThisIsOurPolio

In past four weeks, U.S. share of global covid deaths was ~4× that of our share of global population.

Our society has failed in handling the pandemic—while governments are busy revising numbers down rather than address continued deaths.

#ThisIsOurPolio

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Another week, another ~47,000 added to the #LongCovid dashboard. Recent studies would double this estimate: put U.S. PASC cases nearer 48M.

Some 1.8–2.2 M too disabled to work—another ~6 million forced to abandon careers.

Where'd all the workers go, Joe? @POTUS

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@POTUS Business journalists have begun to recognize impact of #LongCovid—yet talk about it as if it were due to a one time event, rather than as something that is ongoing and progressively afflicting a larger and larger share of the workforce.

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@POTUS Post-acute sequelae of covid infection (PASC) will define our society for generations.

This isn't just slow recovery after some short-term illness.

This is the new normal for tens of millions who once thought of themselves as healthy.

#ThisIsOurPolio

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Ah, the confidence of the activist white liberal that "humanity" is the problem, and that there's nothing wrong with citing to "humanity" as an explanation for the state of the world when so many of the vast majority of humans aren't the ones who brought us here.
Coming off a phone call w/ roommate's friend who kept insisting that "humanity is insane". Didn't even have the space to check them on the ableism there, they were so committed to it being the fault of "humanity" that the United States is handling both climate and covid so badly.
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