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@ChrisAlvino
Jan 28 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Describe what your long COVID is like for the normies who don't mask and think COVID is just a cold. I'll go first...
My brain feels perpetually like mush. This isn't fun BTW. I have trouble reading and comprehending anything longer than a paragraph, I have trouble using my imagination, I struggle with brainstorming. I struggle to remember things. I feel like I have dementia.
Which is doubly worse for me bc I'm autistic and am used to having a prodigious brain: I was reading at the college level in elementary school but now struggle to read a tweet. I was paid a quarter of a million dollars for my imagination & brainstorming abilities.
I was known for having one of the best memories around. It was a memory that frightened and intimidated people my whole life (autistic), and now it's full of holes and is just so much worse.
My fatigue is crippling. When the fatigue is really bad, I don't eat. I can't get out of bed. I can't do anything but lie here in the dark for hours on end. It's horrible.
And even when I can get out of bed, the fatigue and brain fog feel like the worst hangover I've ever had in my life, except it's never ending. Imagine being on day 383 of the worst hangover you've ever had. That's me, right now, today.
The relentlessness of it all really starts to get to you too. I've been struggling for over a year now and I just want it to stop. I want to resume my old life where I could just get up and work and live. But it's never coming. And I'm forever waiting.
The worst part is knowing there are no approved treatments for long COVID yet. So if you get long COVID there's not much you can do. I've spent thousands of dollars on supplements and experimental treatments and so far, most things I've tried provide little to no relief.
COVID is not a cold. It never was and never will be a cold. Long COVID is debilitating and disabling and deadly. People are DYING from long COVID. Wear a mask.

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Jan 20
Sometimes I still have moments where I can't believe I have long COVID. Like I tried SO HARD to prevent infection for me and my family. But after 3 years, I finally got infected thanks to my dad.
He was lied to by every public health org, by the MSM, by social media, and by his doctors, that COVID was no big deal. This failed public health response meant none of his friends took COVID seriously either, so how could he?
My dad was always high on narcissism, so for him to stick out by being the only masker with his friends? Impossible. And that's how he got infected and then subsequently brought it home. And now, a year later, he's dead from a cardiac arrest and I'm disabled with long COVID.
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Jan 15
Funny story about mask wearing: Our family friend just flew home today. He's one of the only people masked at the airport. He's first to board and gets a window seat. As the plane fills, no one is masking. Eventually, he sees an older woman wearing a mask,
She stops and asks if any of the seats are taken and that she'd like to sit here since he's masked and would feel a lot safer. So now he's got a seat buddy who's taken the aisle seat. More people boarding, no one wearing a mask. Then they both see another man masking,
He goes to their row and asks if anyone has taken the middle seat, bc he'd feel safer sitting next to other maskers lol. So not only did the only people masking on that flight find themselves, they're all sitting together in what's now the safest row on that airplane.
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Jan 15
This is literally the EXACT reason doctors gave in the 1800s when Semmelweis proposed doctors in maternity wards should wash their hands after working on cadavers. The doctors were OFFENDED at the idea that they could somehow be the source of disease and contagion... Tweet from Jeffrey A Tucker: Do people know how insulting it is to put on a mask when you come near? It's like saying: I suspect that you are diseased and I don't want your filth near my body. Never mind that it doesn't work. It's ruinous to friendship.
This was even AFTER Semmelweis demonstrated that after introducing hand washing, his Ward's infant mortality rate went from 14% to LESS THAN 2%! It didn't matter, doctors felt offended. So Semmelweis, even after saving many lives, was fired from his job in disgrace.
He'd go on to die in a mental institution after being shunned by the entire medical community. And he was RIGHT! Imagine siding with these assholes doctors from the 1800s, bc you're offended at the thought you could be the source of disease.
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Jan 12
I'm on day 4 of using nicotine patches for long COVID. The best part so far? I haven't woken up with brain fog, like, at all this week! I wake up feeling pretty normal in the brain for an hour or two, absolutely amazing. It eventually comes back, but not for an hour or so...
Normally when I wake up, my brain is super foggy and it takes me a couple hours to just get up and get going. Now? It still takes me an hour to get going, but mostly bc I'm just enjoying my time in bed feeling NORMAL for once. Best part of my day.
After that it's been a crap shoot. Like yesterday I had a migraine, and today I felt sick and tired until the evening. I also had a lot of stressful stuff going on too which may have contributed. But when I feel good, I actually feel good.
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Nov 16, 2023
My family is in desperate need of help. Social Security claims my mom suddenly owes them 10k in overpayments out of the blue. We sent in an overpayment waiver and we just heard back, they're withholding 100% of her SSI for a YEAR until it's repaid! Letter from Social Security saying they will be withholding all of my mom's SSI payments until September of next year when she'll receive a partial payment of $504. Her regular SSI payments will finally resume in October of next year.
I'm realizing that, since I still can't work due to long COVID, I truly do need to ask for help. So I'm asking for help: if you have the means to help a family in need, can you donate to our GoFundMe? gofund.me/97dd0cba
You can also send donations via PayPal if you'd rather give directly. My PayPal username is @ChrisAlvino
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Sep 28, 2023
Looking at all of my long COVID symptoms, this is definitely a "mild" case of LC: I was never hospitalized, have no "severe" symptoms, and most cleared up already. The ONLY major symptoms I have left are brain fog, fatigue, and heart palpitations. And yet LC still ruined my life.
I haven't been able to work consistently at all since getting infected. Doing just a single coaching call gives me severe brain fog and fatigue afterwards that can last for days. I have little energy to cook or clean or do any kind of research anymore.
Sometimes doing laundry can take me out for a day. I'm constantly tired. All. The. Time. And it feels like I have no sustainable future.

But any medical practitioner would consider my case mild bc I wasn't hospitalized. My own GP prescribed me exercise for my fatigue. That's it.
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