It’s weird Bc music/ TV business protocols have been REALLY good. Lots of testing, hepa filters, KN95s or better required. Hollywood knows #COVIDisAirborne.
THIS ⬆️ , however, makes NO sense and is a huge mistake.
Hey @sagaftra - vaccines don’t block transmission or lots of chronic illness that will cost productions unbelievable pain & $$$. Don’t be stupid. Require N95s and don’t give in to political pressure. Protect your people.
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When @StevePhillipsMD & I were in midst of press tour for our book CHRONIC, which is abt persistent infections that cause chronic/ psych illness (including Covid), we were told by nat’l news show that they’d love to have us on but we can’t give info counter to @CDCgov@NIH.
We explained to producer how much they were misleading public, gave multiple science-based examples.
News producer said, “OH! I KNOW! WE KNOW! We just can’t have you say it on TV.”
We opted not to do the show.
They wanted us to NOT say:
#CovidIsAirborne & ALL need N95s, vaccines-only won’t work, no herd immunity w Covid, people need EARLY TREATMENT, like #Lyme, Covid is chronic in a % & THAT is a big cause of #LongCovid.
Some of us won’t sell our souls to promote our careers.
My biggest lesson after almost losing my life to #Lyme ❤️ failure after 12 dogmatic NYC docs failed to recognize what was wrong, gaslighted me, & implied my serious symptoms were in my head…
NO ONE WILL DECIDE MY FATE.
I was bitten by a tick in my sleep in LBI, NJ, July 4th weekend 2014, there for friend’s wedding.
Came back to nyc, woke up w crushing head/ neck ache. Little did I know “summer flu” is usually #Lyme.
Few days later, was feeling a bit better but saw bite & rash on shoulder.
Walked to urgent care. They said it was #Lyme, told me not to google it 😑, & that with 3 weeks of doxycycline, I would be 💯 fine.
My gut feeling said something was very wrong. But I wanted to believe.
I followed up w an @IDSAInfo doc from NYU to be sure.
They claim to have little insight into what’s causing this calamitous “syndrome” affecting millions globally. Perhaps @NIH should stop blocking research into pathogen persistence in tissue and they’d have this mystery solved.
I call it what it is; chronic COVID.
Semantics inform treatment. Let’s stop with the “post-viral” rhetoric when we are most def dealing with active, ongoing infection(s) in many w/ ongoing symptoms.
As is the case w chronic #Lyme & other stealth, persistent infections.