To the wonderful #longcovid community, can you share any threads about how covid cautious people minimise risks whilst out in the world? I've seen CO2 monitors and portable air purifiers mentioned, but don't know where to start

In Sep '23 this John Snow Project* article drew together the science on Covid viral persistence, advancing a hypothesis with implications so great most prefer to pretend it's not happening*.

🚨 There is only Long Covid & asymptomatic #LongCovid 🚨

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johnsnowproject.org/insights/a-n...

Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy

The silence on this is wretched. Every single player and national team should be asking about this and demanding answers from FIFA and UEFA.
h/t @leylahamed.bsky.social

a different angle of the Marta goal that everyone is talking about

Oddly, you never hear Fox News viewers criticized or even questioned for inhabiting a hermetically sealed bubble. It’s almost as if this entire canard is about the right’s ability to infect, infest, and dominate us.

The real test for #bluesky will be how funny can we make it the next time one of the major royals RIPs or scandalously disappears off the face of the earth or has a cheating scandal with the marchioness of timothee chalamet

X: Blocked people can read your tweets

Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting

The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way

Anyone else in the #longcovid community have a sense of why masking is so (SO) much less commonplace in UK community spaces than US ones? I see lots of US folks facing hostility and apathy, but it seems to me a whole different level here

And then the wider societal dynamic of "out of sight, out of mind" is compounded by a post-pandemic neoliberalised context. Meaning, rather than seeing this as a collective or societal injustice, Long Covid is reduced to a case of individual bad luck. That this "bad luck" can

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My baby #cat Lala bringing me gifts to ease my long covid grief 🥹

This weekend I'm overwhelmed by the gulf between the things I'd love to be doing and my #longcovid life. I am dreaming about dancing with my friends, music vibrating and holding sweaty hands 💭 in reality I have to rest for several minutes between sitting up and going to the loo

Suggestion for folks asking for mutual aid support (based on years of experience):

There's no need to say you're embarrassed or ashamed or hate to have to ask.

That's exactly how capitalism wants you to feel. And it wants you to reinforce the idea that asking for help is shameful.