Do you have #longcovid and feel that your symptons align with that indicating #viralpersistence? Did you know a lot of research indicates that's what's wrong with us? There is some hope. Read on. 🧵
Reverse-transcribed SARS-CoV-2 RNA can integrate into the genome of cultured human cells and can be expressed in patient-derived tissues 🧵 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
This is just but a tiny sampling. The pathophysiology is a near perfect mirror immage, as this paper demonstrates...
Ok I know this shit is scary AF. But stay with me here because there is hope. EVEN THOUGH there is no approved treatment for kong covid nor any realistic trials in progress. 🧵
And it doesnt cost an arm & a leg, either - for most people anyway, even in the US.
The only thing it cost is swallowing a little pride and putting some stigma aside. 🧵
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My ex - who had covid initially at the same time I did & also never recovered - was hospitalized several months ago with severe lymphopenia and opportunistic infections. He died early this morning. I am beyond shaken.
Many of you know I have also been dealing with persistent cd4 lymphopenia and opportunistic infections. We were both infected in February 2020 - long before vaccines existed, before the virus was officially documented in our city, and before masking had even been discussed.
He was a vietnam veteran that served this country like millions of others when drafted at 18. The final years of his life were spent on the streets - blocks from the largest VA hospital in the nation. Like us, there was no help for him.
What they didn't want, though, was for the obvious parallel to be drawn between the immune deficiency they were experiencing and that other virus. The one they spent so much the me and efford demonizing. Becauase they weren't like that. 🧵
And so you probably don't realize that tye original cluster of chronic fatigue syndrome was almost certainly an infectious agent, affecting folks who attended a closed retreat in a remote area of Nevada,causing symptoms anyone paying attention to the AIDS crisis would recognize🧵
They spent the next four decades thwarting research in every way possible, all the while wringing their hands and begging for help. Whay they meant was, a magic wand to make it all go away. 🧵
its so easy to tell immunocompromised people to just stay home if they are rightfully afraid of getting Covid - or the flu, or norovirus, or even just tue common cold (which can kill us), or whatever other germs the eugenicist plaguerates demand the right to spread. 🧵
The pandemic did usher in the age of delivery apps, which does help. But its not a panacea for meeting one's basic needs, especially for follks living on a shoestring budget - which certainly describes most immunocompromised folks who are sheltering at home,
denied the right to participate in society for the plaguerats' normalcy. 🧵