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I wonder if, after 5 years of the pandemic, we may regret:

- Not issuing everyone with free N95 masks;
- Not putting (effective) HEPA units in all public indoor spaces (schools/workplaces);
- Not installing CO2 monitors in all public indoor spaces (schools/workplaces);
2/
- Ignoring health & safety in the workplace in a pandemic;
- Repeating "We have the tools" and not using them;
- Not addressing global vaccine inequity;
- Not listening to scientists, medical professionals, aerosol engineers;
- Favouring politics over science;
3/
- Paying exorbitant sums to consulting firms (with poor track records of integrity), to shadow manage the pandemic;
- Or copying other governments who paid exorbitant sums to consulting firms (with poor track records of integrity), to shadow manage the pandemic.
4/
How long will it take us to realise that unless we're all safe, none of us are safe?

If we keep this up, the grim upside of all of this will be that soon we won't have to worry about climate change.
5/
"...even patent lies may slowly become more credible, provided enough repetition":

blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chase…

#ThePandemicIsNotOver
#BringBackMasks

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Jun 26
The muscles of Long Covid patients with post-exertional malaise (PEM) often struggle to extract oxygen from the blood, as efficiently as might be expected.

H/t @Gronnet

theguardian.com/science/2022/j…
"After coming across research that showed that mitochondria in white blood cells were not as efficient in generating ATP in patients recovering from Covid-19, she concluded that this might be the root cause".
Also - "A common ailment reported by people with long Covid and ME/CFS is dysautonomia, a peculiar condition that causes a rapid increase in heartbeat and lightheadedness when patients attempt any form of activity.
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"Pooled mean prevalence results for any experience of PACS (Long Covid) extracted from nine systematic reviews, ranged from 51%–80%".

Yes. Read that again. 51%–80% of infections develop Long Covid. /1.

publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docume…
"Pooled mean prevalence results for specific PACS [Long Covid] symptoms were extracted, when available, from 32 systematic reviews".

Yes. Read that again. Extracted from 32 systematic reviews. /2.
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I have been saying this for 23 months. A clear chest x-ray and apparently healthy pulse oximetry do not mean you are fine. Or that you can breathe properly. Not with COVID-19.

h/t @AngelaReiersen
“We know that when you have the COVID infection you have trouble breathing and that’s because there’s infection in your lung, but an additional explanation is that the virus enters the respiratory centers of the brain and causes problems there as well":

newsroom.uw.edu/news/research-…
I had blue hands, blue lips, and was gasping for breath. In March 2020 the ER doc insisted I was fine. I was very definitely not fine.
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Long covid's cognitive dysfunction makes it easy to seem like the unreliable narrators of our own medical stories. Especially with doctors who practise evidence based medicine. Whereas I used to be articulate, I now search for words, forget symptoms, dates, chronology.
And sometimes in the middle of a sentence I give up, trail off...

While it is hard for doctors, it is harder for me. I have to be so focused, deliberate. It feels as if COVID-19 has burnt the neural paths I used to easily hop between, trace up, redouble - to extrapolate.
This isn't easy anymore.

Especially for a new condition that requires a lot of effort to convince medical science that it exists, and exactly how it exists.
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