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Chris Alvino
@ChrisAlvino
Sex & Dating Coach | Creative | Computer Scientist | AuDHD | disabled from LASIK & C19 | he/him | #ActuallyAutistic | #CovidIsAirborne | obligatory ░🐈░
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Sep 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The brain/neural inflammation that comes after a covid infection can be intense. I was constantly rageful for 2-3 months after my infection. My mom noticed it. She said I was like a completely different person. But that's not the worst part ... The scariest part is that I've spent over a decade training my nervous system to be calm and to be able to handle intense emotions, and I can tell you the level of rage I felt was MORE intense than anything I felt before training. So really think about that,
Aug 15 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
As a men's dating coach who's worked with hundreds of men this past decade, so many thoughts. Too many to write. But if you want to know the common thread, you can see it in all of the replies: so much self pity and women blaming, and very little taking responsibility. Putting the economic issues of late capitalism aside (which is definitely a factor bc everyone is broke and burnt out), many men who aren't that affected by this are deeply disillusioned by dating bc they've been indoctrinated into the manosphere way of thinking about women.
Aug 9 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Pretty much everyone I talk to has long covid symptoms currently. They don't call it long covid, but like I have friends and relatives who are super fatigued all the time. They think it's from getting older or over worked. But it only started this year or last year Other friends are now super forgetful or they can't think or read like they used to. They think they're just burnt out or over worked. But, again, it only started in the last few years and it's persistent.
Jul 29 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I still can't get over Olympic athletes, who are using all kinds of the latest tech and nutrition/sports science to increase their edge by the TINIEST fraction of a percent, are not avoiding COVID, a virus that causes endothelial damage, resulting in less than optimal blood flow Seriously, why are all these Olympic athletes rawdogging COVID air without a respirator, risking impaired vascular activity that will 100% affect their performance? And why isn't the Olympic committee protecting their athletes? (That's rhetorical, I know they hate their athletes)
Jun 30 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
Since everyone keeps claiming LASIK is super safe and has a 99% success rate and keeps calling me a liar and a fear monger bc I say it's not and that the industry LIES, here's an ENTIRE thread of receipts (recreated with permission from one of my support groups): Neurotrophic keratopathy -- According to this article, the complication rate of neurotrophic keratopathy alone is 16.7% after LASIK. Source: iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…
Jun 23 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI.

I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ... 1) the massive training sets required to train them cannot be obtained legally so they are stealing huge amounts of content w/o consent, all in the name of "innovation"

businessinsider.com/openai-destroy…
mit-genai.pubpub.org/pub/uk7op8zs/r…
Jun 20 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A lot of people are misunderstanding what this research is about bc the concept of "tight transmission bottlenecks" is not a common concept. This research isn't saying we should be afraid of a single viron that could cause an infection... In the context of viruses, you either have a tight transmission bottleneck or a wide transmission bottleneck (TB). A tight TB means that only a small number of viruses initiate an infection, while a wide TB means a high number of viruses create an infection. Why does this matter?
Jun 10 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I honestly believe everyone with long COVID should give nicotine patches a shot for a couple of weeks JUST to see if they help. Bc if they do, it's usually a pretty significant boost compared to everything else. Like I've probably tried 60-80 different OTC items for LC... If I read about it having even a miniscule effect on LC symptoms (and I could afford it) I bought it and tried it for a significant amount of time before giving up. Out of everything I've tried, the BIGGEST boost to my quality of life came from nicotine patches.
May 16 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
Alright, I've seen threads going around claiming the NC Mask ban isn't a mask ban and the CC Community is making it worse by exaggerating. That's not the case at all. People are mistaking House Bill 237 with the law it's amending, and here's the proof: 🧵 House Bill 237: Unmasking Mobs and Criminals () is a bill of AMENDMENTS. It has four sections: dashboard.ncleg.gov/api/Services/B…
OVERVIEW: The Proposed Committee Substitute (PCS) for House Bill 237 would do the following: • Repeal the health and safety exemption from certain laws prohibiting the wearing of masks in public. • Enhance the criminal punishment if the defendant wears a mask to conceal the defendant's identity during the commission of another crime. • Prevent the executive branch or local governments from distinguishing between religious institutions and other entities during an emergency. • Impose criminal and civil liability on individuals who obstruct emergency vehicles during demonstrations.
Apr 5 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
These stories are so deceiving. LASIK IS NOT a miracle of science, it's a monster of science and a bastardization of public health protections. I had 20/20 vision immediately after my LASIK too, just a few years later, I was BLIND from LASIK. LASIK is an incredibly dangerous procedure. And the risk of complications is EXPONENTIALLY higher than what the industry reports due to fraudulent surveys and data manipulation. Even the dude who approved LASIK for the FDA is trying to get it banned after finding this out.
Mar 26 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Lol, I was eligible to skip multiple grades and passed on MIT to go to Harvey Mudd for math & CS. The reason why? I was undiagnosed autistic & ADHD. Most (all?) exceptionally smart people have undx'd disabilities, which leads to crashing and burning out in our 30s... We crash and burn bc our disabilities (that we don't even know we have) go unaccommodated. Worse still, the systems of corporate America & government are NOT designed to accommodate us, in fact, they're designed to be hostile to us.
Mar 14 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
Been too tired to read or write much lately, but I wanted to add a few things to that NPR article by the wife who is grieving the loss of her regular life more than she's grieving the toll COVID took on her husband. Let's start with some damning quotes... "I want to keep my husband safe & healthy. But I also want our old life back. It feels selfish & trivial to say that amid [his] plight. He is terrified that if he gets COVID again, it will be as harrowing as the first time. And it could trigger a flare up of his chronic illness."
Feb 29 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A family friend died very unexpectedly a few months ago. We just found out why today: fentanyl OD. But here's the kicker: their doctor wouldn't prescribe them anti-anxiety meds so they started getting them off the streets and unfortunately got a contaminated batch. She was only 33 years old and was several years sober. But this war on drugs is pushing so many people to get their much needed meds from illicit places and it's putting their lives at risk. It's just so ridiculous bc it shouldn't be this way.
Feb 21 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
I finally saw a neurologist. My GP referred me for my chronic fatigue (she wants me to do a sleep study). But I thought I'd see what this neurologist thinks about COVID and how it could be related to my symptoms, and boy, was it a doozy... I should have known it would be bad just by walking down the corridor and seeing signs on every doctor's door that said either "masks required" or "masks optional". This dude had a "masks optional" sign on his door...
Jan 30 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
I'm on week 4 of #thenicotinetest for my long COVID symptoms. And let me just say... Hooooly shit I think I might actually be able to get a good chunk of my life back after this. Details below 👇 I will add a caveat that I also started metformin like 5 days ago and MitoQ a month ago, but based on the timing of these changes, I'm pretty sure they're mostly attributed to the nicotine patches. Unfortunately, I couldn't wait to do proper science bc I need results ASAP
Jan 28 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jan 20 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
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?
Jan 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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,
Jan 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Jan 12 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Nov 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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