So I guess a few days ago someone of vague, national significance with a huge Twitter following declared that the pandemic is over. Don’t get me wrong, I’m overjoyed. Good riddance. But I *do* have a few questions. 1/ 
1. Just a few months ago, the @CDCgov (hi team!) released a paper saying that 1 in 5 acute COVID cases end in #LongCovid. Is that done now? Are there no longer cases of Long COVID being caused by #COVID? Or are we just ignoring the problem? 2/
2. @CDCgov (we must stop meeting like this!) published a second paper that taught us that every acute #COVID reinfection increased your risk of death by 3%. Three hundred americans a day are still dying from COVID. Is this just the cost of doing business now? 3/
3. OK. So, between the #vaccines (which can cause vaccine injury in some folks) and the new variants, most infections are “mild”, right? So #COVID is only *really* a threat to the very old and very sick, right (remember we’re ignoring #LongCovid risk)? Cool. So, follow-up… 4/
4. Before declaring the pandemic to be over, surely we put a safety net in place for the very old and very sick? Like, you’re excused from things like jury duty (just to keep you alive let’s forget about your *right* to participate), medical staff will do house calls, etc? 5/
5. And we set up social support infrastructure for these “high risk” people, yeah? Because we know the science that social isolation causes health issues equivalent to smoking 17 cigarettes/day, so we wouldn’t just leave them alone while the world “gets on with it”, right? 6/
I’m just asking these questions because I work in healthcare and I haven’t heard about any of these strategies in place before the pandemic was proclaimed to be over, but I’m sure they must be in place because otherwise that statement would be reckless and deadly to millions 7/
(To the chronic illness community I apologize for the tone of this tweet I’m not trying to trivialize your plight but this was the only way I could communicate these things without having a rage attack) end
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