I’m Jewish. I lived in New York for a decade. I am very, very concerned about antisemitism.

I have no doubt that Zohran Mamdani would fight to protect my life and my rights. I have no doubt the ADL has entirely failed to protect me and my family from fascists.

I know where my allegiance lies.

It’s because they can no longer deny long covid exists. So the next best thing is to gaslight everyone by blaming it on long covid sufferers. Thus, it’s still not a pandemic worthy of public health action.

Oh hell NO.

Interesting…if I’m understanding this correctly, POTS sufferers were more active and generally less likely to have psychiatric issues?

My kid is exactly the same. Waaaay over-active & extremely athletic. A happy go lucky kid.

Made me so angry when docs tried to claim he has bad mental health.

That’s 2 classes of DIFFERENT children now who have all said that they enjoyed online school.

The anti-lockdown, covid is NBD, you can only have good mental health if you are in school crowd is really trying to push their narrative hard. I am relieved that kids haven’t forgotten reality.

How is this even allowed???!!!!!

There is literally no critical thinking by the doctor.

In the before times, I had assumed that something this horrible would be scandalous & could never happen. But this is just going on unchecked…

So every single doc is going to ask any school attendance. And obviously, long covid kids are going to have spotty attendance. This gives rise to the ‘then their mental health must be poor because of a lack of attendance. We must get them back into school.’ It refocuses the entire convo. Everytime.

The problem is that it’s actually embedded into their script. We met with so many docs/specialists & every single one asks the same list of questions. School attendance & mental health is on that list. I got exasperated & snapped at one of the docs & he said ‘we follow a script’.

I’ve tried to explain to paediatricians just how ableist this take is. I’ve explained how my kid can’t participate and is excluded, how pushing beyond his physical limits actually causes him to be in school less, I’ve even read to them my son’s poem on long covid. Nothing gets through.

According to the sick kids philosophy, not going to school is more harmful than long covid, covid, and just any anything else. That’s why their entire goal is to get the kid back into school instead of providing medical support.

I had forgotten abt that document and re-reading that is triggering. It is so harmful to kids.

In addition to the fact that they’ve blamed it on SSRDs, they’ve also bought into the ‘school will fix everything’ mentality. Every single doc asks about school attendance. It’s part of the script.