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May 29 • 8 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Top 16 reasons you think you don't know many people w/ #LongCovid:

1. You don't know many people well enough to know their illnesses.

2. LC is mostly invisible.

3. People haven't connected the dots b/w their current illness & their covid infection.

4. People haven't noticed yet that their health and/or functioning is worse.

5. People have been gaslit (by family, friends, physicians, etc.) into believing that their symptoms are not LC.

6. Social stigma & disbelief discourage disclosure.

7. People believe LC myths ("you can't get LC if you're young & healthy," "you can't get LC if you've been vaccinated," "LC symptoms are just ageing or anxiety," "if your Dr. won't diagnose it then it's not LC," "covid symptoms only last 2 weeks," etc.).

8. Your knowledge of a person's new LC deficits could threaten their livelihood.

9. Your society values pushing through illness as though it doesn't exist.

10. The severe cases dropped out of your life when they became housebound. #MillionsMissing

11. Others may think you're not the sort of person who's safe to confide in.

12. Ignorance is bliss. Defense mechanisms like denial & minimization can distort your thinking. cartoon showing a long line...
13. Psychological biases like confirmation bias can blind you to cases right in front of you.

14. There's always another plausible excuse for large-scale effects like labor shortages & health-care crises.

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15. Widespread knowledge about the prevalence and severity of LC could threaten the short-term economy, so a lot of people are trying to convince you LC isn't a problem.

Venn diagram showing almost...
16. You haven't had covid enough times to have gotten clinical #LongCovid yourself — so far.

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May 31
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May 30
Well here it is, the moral justification that officials have been using for sickening billions and killing & disabling millions of real, actual human beings:

"When we think about what covid has done, we do need to think about the economy and other social determinants of health."
Get it? If a bad short-term economy & covid both sicken people, and women & minorities are extra-affected by both "lockdowns" & covid illness, then you can just choose whichever of those 2 bad options is easier (closer to "normal," more supported by your colleagues, etc.). 🙃
So the way that officials are able to sleep at night after enacting policy that has directly caused the illness, long-term disability, and death of masses of people is apparently by believing that removing protections actually improves health by getting people back to work.
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Feb 21
Here's some evidence contradicting the proposal that "hybrid immunity" (the immunity one develops from covid infection plus vaccination) can be "built up in the population" and is "good for future prospects." 🧵
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2/ "Hybrid immunity"...Graph showing that excess m...Excess mortality in the EU ...Bar graph of UK (ONS) Long ...
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Sep 16, 2022
🧵. @TheLancet has just released a major report "on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic." In it, the authors roundly criticize a widely held, historical misconception about viruses and SARS in particular —
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— the misconception that viruses are primarily transmitted through close-range large droplets. The authors concluded that reluctance to overturn this centuries-old error & acknowledge #CovidIsAirborne has led to untold suffering during the pandemic.
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Sep 15, 2022
Let's see if I can enumerate the problems revealed by this study coathored by the chief public health officer of B.C.

(1)The person in charge of keeping the public healthy instead removed health protections.

(2)She manipulated this "protection variable" as part of a real-world experiment.

(3)Participants were denied informed consent.

(4)Participants did not even know they were in a study.
(5)To the extent participants were informed about risks, the experimenter was dishonest, claiming that the manipulation would not produce any meaningful effects (e.g., schools are safe, so masks don't make a difference), while the experimenter's own data suggested otherwise.
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A 2013 lecture by Dr. Paul Cheney has been getting some Twittention lately. It's a goldmine of info re: #MECFS & the PEM variety of #LongCovid. For people who don't have the spoons to watch (or read) the whole thing, I've pulled out a few nuggets.

Stress & chills:
"[In ME] the body adapts to a low-energy state. It has to, because if it tries to stay at a high-energy state, it generates too much oxidative stress, which is deadly. So it adapts to a low-energy state. How do you think the body creates a low metabolic rate?"
"The answer is that it downregulates thyroid function. So the lowered thyroid function – get this – is not the problem. It’s the solution. ... Admittedly, that’s going to produce stuff like being cold, because that’s what it’s like to be at a low metabolic rate."
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