Did you develop Long Covid after dropping precautions bc you believed the Great Barrington Declaration that young people will be fine if they get Covid-19? Please be in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com for a potential @motherjones.com article and reposts are appreciated.

Remember: you’re working with abnormal physiological systems that have lost the ability to recover and adapt to stimulation. Telling patients to do more on any kind of schedule—externally referenced, symptom-titrated, etc.—loses sight of this *basic fact* of PEM/PENE to the detriment of the patient.

By this metric, gender, race, social status, the condition of your teeth, and physical appearance are all "pre-existing conditions."

Some things listed as "pre-existing conditions" have no relation to potential mortality. Multiple studies were done showing that weight is a pre-existing condition for Covid only in that heavier people received worse care and thus had worse outcomes.

We are not playing the "health is morality" game anymore. We should never have played it to begin with. The whole idea that if you have a pre-existing condition you have somehow earned severe illness and waved your right to compassion was pushed during lockdowns to make people spend again.

I feel like most of the people saying these things are not aware that any prior infection with SARS-Covid-19 is considered a pre-existing condition on the majority of risk assessment tables. If you've had Covid, you have a pre-existing condition.

Related to my prior thread, but not the same: I'm seeing a lot of "but did <the literal child who is currently in critical condition with H5N1 and may yet pass away from it> have a pre-existing condition?"

Cut that shit out.

There's a question I see on here every so often. People tend to ask why the worst people tend to follow us onto "left leaning" social networks instead of being content with taking over places like Twitter and Truth Social.

I'm still in bed except for a few hours a day (and those are sitting, I can't stand or walk for more than a few minutes in a row) and almost completely at home.

The things I could lose if I get reinfected are the ability to walk at all, or speak, or digest food.

We need clean air!