Melissa Challenor
@picklemelissa.bsky.social
Ex-twit *urbanmel*
MEAW 🐾 🇦🇺
Former International trade & investment; Thailand 🇹🇭 Board of Investment expert
#ME #LC #LongCOVID #CRPS #PEM_PENE_Sucks
MEAW 🐾 🇦🇺
Former International trade & investment; Thailand 🇹🇭 Board of Investment expert
#ME #LC #LongCOVID #CRPS #PEM_PENE_Sucks
December 11, 2024 at 7:53 AM
If I close my eyes I can’t see him, so I guess he’s not real either.
What are you all worried about, Australia 🇦🇺
Join me in closing my eyes and not looking at anything coming from the US election.
It’s time to invoke our NIMBY.
What are you all worried about, Australia 🇦🇺
Join me in closing my eyes and not looking at anything coming from the US election.
It’s time to invoke our NIMBY.
Welcome to our new AUKUS partner, Trump's nominee as Secretary of Defence
November 13, 2024 at 4:55 AM
If I close my eyes I can’t see him, so I guess he’s not real either.
What are you all worried about, Australia 🇦🇺
Join me in closing my eyes and not looking at anything coming from the US election.
It’s time to invoke our NIMBY.
What are you all worried about, Australia 🇦🇺
Join me in closing my eyes and not looking at anything coming from the US election.
It’s time to invoke our NIMBY.
This is good 👇🏻 and it’s helpful.
I like muting. It blocks at the same time and I don’t have to press anymore buttons 🫰🏻
I like muting. It blocks at the same time and I don’t have to press anymore buttons 🫰🏻
one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk
as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media
here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed
as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media
here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed
November 11, 2024 at 8:18 AM
This is good 👇🏻 and it’s helpful.
I like muting. It blocks at the same time and I don’t have to press anymore buttons 🫰🏻
I like muting. It blocks at the same time and I don’t have to press anymore buttons 🫰🏻
It’s not easy being the mostly bedridden person in the family who is silenced from talking about COVID and what it did to me.
It’s about to impact my siblings and their kids and I’ve had enough of being silent.
Bro just got some links to the peer reviewed studies.
I can’t 🤐
It’s about to impact my siblings and their kids and I’ve had enough of being silent.
Bro just got some links to the peer reviewed studies.
I can’t 🤐
November 11, 2024 at 8:15 AM
It’s not easy being the mostly bedridden person in the family who is silenced from talking about COVID and what it did to me.
It’s about to impact my siblings and their kids and I’ve had enough of being silent.
Bro just got some links to the peer reviewed studies.
I can’t 🤐
It’s about to impact my siblings and their kids and I’ve had enough of being silent.
Bro just got some links to the peer reviewed studies.
I can’t 🤐
Why do I get all the dipshit men desperate for attention in my private msgs?
Women are too busy being awesome 😎
Women are too busy being awesome 😎
November 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Why do I get all the dipshit men desperate for attention in my private msgs?
Women are too busy being awesome 😎
Women are too busy being awesome 😎
Got something to say?
Say it here, in public.
Want my attention? Don’t send me boring private msgs.
You look desperate.
Say it here, in public.
Want my attention? Don’t send me boring private msgs.
You look desperate.
November 10, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Got something to say?
Say it here, in public.
Want my attention? Don’t send me boring private msgs.
You look desperate.
Say it here, in public.
Want my attention? Don’t send me boring private msgs.
You look desperate.
Reposted by Melissa Challenor
Start here with 1st episode! ❤️https://guinesspig.ghost.io/wayside-a-serial-novel/
Wayside: A Serial Novel
This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a ...
guinesspig.ghost.io
November 8, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Start here with 1st episode! ❤️https://guinesspig.ghost.io/wayside-a-serial-novel/
Reposted by Melissa Challenor
Please help build this starter pack for people in the #LongCOVID community who might not be on other lists.
go.bsky.app/5b18oZg
go.bsky.app/5b18oZg
November 8, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Please help build this starter pack for people in the #LongCOVID community who might not be on other lists.
go.bsky.app/5b18oZg
go.bsky.app/5b18oZg
Sister and BIL *WOWED* by my Drager as I popped into the kitchen to give them COVID Safe Schools and co2radical brochures.
“Hardcore mask!”
They know nothing 😉
Niece (5) tries to out-ignore me, but I’ve been doing this a long time 🤣
“Hardcore mask!”
They know nothing 😉
Niece (5) tries to out-ignore me, but I’ve been doing this a long time 🤣
November 8, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Sister and BIL *WOWED* by my Drager as I popped into the kitchen to give them COVID Safe Schools and co2radical brochures.
“Hardcore mask!”
They know nothing 😉
Niece (5) tries to out-ignore me, but I’ve been doing this a long time 🤣
“Hardcore mask!”
They know nothing 😉
Niece (5) tries to out-ignore me, but I’ve been doing this a long time 🤣
#ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts
@DonmarWarehouse for Macbeth starring #DavidTennant
COVID safe performances and venues for punters and players 😷
London 🇬🇧 and the world 🗺️
@DonmarWarehouse for Macbeth starring #DavidTennant
COVID safe performances and venues for punters and players 😷
London 🇬🇧 and the world 🗺️
*PRESS COVERAGE!*
Bylines Cymru’s🏴 article on “Protect the Heart of the Arts” mask hand-out at David Tennant’s Macbeth.
Performers with Long Covid will sound the alarm on Covid’s devastating impact on performing arts.😷
TONIGHT Sat 16 Dec 6 pm, Donmar Warehouse, London.
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Bylines Cymru’s🏴 article on “Protect the Heart of the Arts” mask hand-out at David Tennant’s Macbeth.
Performers with Long Covid will sound the alarm on Covid’s devastating impact on performing arts.😷
TONIGHT Sat 16 Dec 6 pm, Donmar Warehouse, London.
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
’Alas, poor country!’: performers suffering from long Covid to distribute masks at David Tennant’s Macbeth tonight
Performing artists, staff, and patrons are impacted by long Covid. Venues need mitigations including masks. Covid is airborne and not over.
Performing artists, staff, and patrons are impacted by long Covid. Venues need mitigations including masks. Covid is airborne and not over.
December 16, 2023 at 1:34 PM
#ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts
@DonmarWarehouse for Macbeth starring #DavidTennant
COVID safe performances and venues for punters and players 😷
London 🇬🇧 and the world 🗺️
@DonmarWarehouse for Macbeth starring #DavidTennant
COVID safe performances and venues for punters and players 😷
London 🇬🇧 and the world 🗺️
Reposted by Melissa Challenor
🇦🇺Australia's weekly reported COVID numbers: 24 November 2023
Jurisdiction / Cases / Deaths
🔹SA: 2,065 / NR
🔹TAS: 969 / 4
🔹ACT: 488 / 1
🔹VIC: (No data) / 43
🔹WA: (No data)
🔹NSW: (No data)
🔹QLD: (No data)
🔹NT: (No data)
NR = Not Reported
#COVID19AUS
Jurisdiction / Cases / Deaths
🔹SA: 2,065 / NR
🔹TAS: 969 / 4
🔹ACT: 488 / 1
🔹VIC: (No data) / 43
🔹WA: (No data)
🔹NSW: (No data)
🔹QLD: (No data)
🔹NT: (No data)
NR = Not Reported
#COVID19AUS
November 24, 2023 at 7:27 AM
🇦🇺Australia's weekly reported COVID numbers: 24 November 2023
Jurisdiction / Cases / Deaths
🔹SA: 2,065 / NR
🔹TAS: 969 / 4
🔹ACT: 488 / 1
🔹VIC: (No data) / 43
🔹WA: (No data)
🔹NSW: (No data)
🔹QLD: (No data)
🔹NT: (No data)
NR = Not Reported
#COVID19AUS
Jurisdiction / Cases / Deaths
🔹SA: 2,065 / NR
🔹TAS: 969 / 4
🔹ACT: 488 / 1
🔹VIC: (No data) / 43
🔹WA: (No data)
🔹NSW: (No data)
🔹QLD: (No data)
🔹NT: (No data)
NR = Not Reported
#COVID19AUS
Protect 😷 the heart ❤️ of the arts 🎭
#SaveDavidTennant
#CleanAir #COVIDisAirborne #SaveOurArtists #SaveOurActors
x.com/waltz_tales/...
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
#SaveDavidTennant
#CleanAir #COVIDisAirborne #SaveOurArtists #SaveOurActors
x.com/waltz_tales/...
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
x.com
November 16, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Protect 😷 the heart ❤️ of the arts 🎭
#SaveDavidTennant
#CleanAir #COVIDisAirborne #SaveOurArtists #SaveOurActors
x.com/waltz_tales/...
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
#SaveDavidTennant
#CleanAir #COVIDisAirborne #SaveOurArtists #SaveOurActors
x.com/waltz_tales/...
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Good friend died yesterday with voluntary assisted suicide. He had LC badly and a short fight with pancreatic cancer made him check out.
Friend’s Nan died from a C-19 infection and her funeral was today.
The C-19 funeral season has begun.
Try not to join it.
#WearAMask
Friend’s Nan died from a C-19 infection and her funeral was today.
The C-19 funeral season has begun.
Try not to join it.
#WearAMask
November 16, 2023 at 7:39 AM
Good friend died yesterday with voluntary assisted suicide. He had LC badly and a short fight with pancreatic cancer made him check out.
Friend’s Nan died from a C-19 infection and her funeral was today.
The C-19 funeral season has begun.
Try not to join it.
#WearAMask
Friend’s Nan died from a C-19 infection and her funeral was today.
The C-19 funeral season has begun.
Try not to join it.
#WearAMask
New profile pic
Because she’s a blonde YEAH YEAH YEAH!
Because she’s a blonde YEAH YEAH YEAH!
November 15, 2023 at 11:53 AM
New profile pic
Because she’s a blonde YEAH YEAH YEAH!
Because she’s a blonde YEAH YEAH YEAH!
Any clues on where I can get one of those clippy things you use to pull together the ear straps at the back of your head when wearing a mask 😷 that is gaping at the sides?
Thx!
Thx!
November 1, 2023 at 6:03 AM
Any clues on where I can get one of those clippy things you use to pull together the ear straps at the back of your head when wearing a mask 😷 that is gaping at the sides?
Thx!
Thx!
How to downplay a SARS2 wave in Australia 🇦🇺
Incompetent government, healthcare, and journalism
Just tell the people what’s going on and ask them to #WearAMask
It’s not rocket science 🤦🏽♀️
Incompetent government, healthcare, and journalism
Just tell the people what’s going on and ask them to #WearAMask
It’s not rocket science 🤦🏽♀️
The 8th Wave. #Covid19. #auspol
MASK UP, PEOPLE!
COVID cases rise in Victoria, prompting call to mask up. Here's a rundown of all the updated facts on the coronavirus
MASK UP, PEOPLE!
COVID cases rise in Victoria, prompting call to mask up. Here's a rundown of all the updated facts on the coronavirus
Do I still need to wear a mask and isolate? Here’s a COVID-19 key facts update
Australia appears to be on the verge of an eighth COVID wave, with Victoria and NSW residents urged to wear masks to limit community transmission. Here's an update on the key facts about COVID.
www.abc.net.au
November 1, 2023 at 5:58 AM
How to downplay a SARS2 wave in Australia 🇦🇺
Incompetent government, healthcare, and journalism
Just tell the people what’s going on and ask them to #WearAMask
It’s not rocket science 🤦🏽♀️
Incompetent government, healthcare, and journalism
Just tell the people what’s going on and ask them to #WearAMask
It’s not rocket science 🤦🏽♀️
It beggars belief that governments globally are insisting on disabling their populations.
Just how smart are our leaders? It’s not looking good folks 🤦🏽♀️
Just how smart are our leaders? It’s not looking good folks 🤦🏽♀️
New Zealand: "The reality is, if this is the trajectory that we're on, which it feels like we are, we're going to end up with an enormous percentage of our population at some degree of suffering from Long COVID at any one time."
#COVID19NZ #LongCOVID
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#COVID19NZ #LongCOVID
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
NZ must prepare for Long Covid implications, researcher warns
Interim results from New Zealand's Long Covid Registry show that support measures are lacking and people are going to work while unwell. Interim results from New Zealand's Long Covid Registry show tha...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 1, 2023 at 5:41 AM
It beggars belief that governments globally are insisting on disabling their populations.
Just how smart are our leaders? It’s not looking good folks 🤦🏽♀️
Just how smart are our leaders? It’s not looking good folks 🤦🏽♀️
Emerge Australia
Doing awesome things for the MECFS and Long COVID communities 🙏🏼
Doing awesome things for the MECFS and Long COVID communities 🙏🏼
Welcome to the 100th edition of Emerge Australia’s Research Digest…we’re shining a light on @EmergeAus’s own contribution to ME/#CFS (and now #LongCOVID) research, with the launch of AusME, the new Australian #MECFS & Long #COVID Registry & Biobank
www.emerge.org.au/researchdige...
#PwME
www.emerge.org.au/researchdige...
#PwME
Research Digest 26/10/2023 – Emerge AustraliaAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscal...
www.emerge.org.au
October 31, 2023 at 8:44 AM
Emerge Australia
Doing awesome things for the MECFS and Long COVID communities 🙏🏼
Doing awesome things for the MECFS and Long COVID communities 🙏🏼
“The US study found a "high proportion” of kids with the bug”
THE BUG?!
It’s a virus 🦠 not a bug
Imbeciles 🤦🏽♀️
THE BUG?!
It’s a virus 🦠 not a bug
Imbeciles 🤦🏽♀️
“The study also found that 86% of children met the medical criteria for a medical disease called thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). The rare disease can cause clots in small vessels and has been connected to more severe SARS-Cov-2 symptoms among adults-“
www.thesun.co.uk/health/24519...
🌐🧪🩸🛟🧠📈
www.thesun.co.uk/health/24519...
🌐🧪🩸🛟🧠📈
October 28, 2023 at 4:06 PM
“The US study found a "high proportion” of kids with the bug”
THE BUG?!
It’s a virus 🦠 not a bug
Imbeciles 🤦🏽♀️
THE BUG?!
It’s a virus 🦠 not a bug
Imbeciles 🤦🏽♀️
Reposted by Melissa Challenor
“Doctors’ lives destroyed by long covid;
There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS”
There are arguments for both sides. However, both are debilitating. Life will never be the same
There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS”
There are arguments for both sides. However, both are debilitating. Life will never be the same
"There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS"
Alexis Gilbert, a consultant in health protection & long covid patient, in a letter to the BMJ:
"long covid patients face [a] lack of access to diagnosis, management, & treatment...struggles familiar to patients with ME/CFS"
#LongCovid #MECFS
Alexis Gilbert, a consultant in health protection & long covid patient, in a letter to the BMJ:
"long covid patients face [a] lack of access to diagnosis, management, & treatment...struggles familiar to patients with ME/CFS"
#LongCovid #MECFS
There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS
Thank you for highlighting the devastation long covid has wrought on healthcare workers’ lives, including my own.1 I would go further than the BMA and suggest that long covid be considered an occupa...
www.bmj.com
October 25, 2023 at 10:17 AM
“Doctors’ lives destroyed by long covid;
There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS”
There are arguments for both sides. However, both are debilitating. Life will never be the same
There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS”
There are arguments for both sides. However, both are debilitating. Life will never be the same
Reposted by Melissa Challenor
Vietnam: "The health ministry has formally reclassified COVID-19 from Class A to Class B. This means daily case reporting will cease and free treatment will no longer be provided, although wearing masks continues to be advised."
#COVID19 #Vietnam
vietnamnews.vn/society/1605...
#COVID19 #Vietnam
vietnamnews.vn/society/1605...
No free treatment, masks still recommended as health ministry downgrades COVID-19 to Class B
Regular risk assessments should still be conducted, and corresponding response measures should be implemented to prevent and control outbreaks at different risk levels.
vietnamnews.vn
October 25, 2023 at 1:33 AM
Vietnam: "The health ministry has formally reclassified COVID-19 from Class A to Class B. This means daily case reporting will cease and free treatment will no longer be provided, although wearing masks continues to be advised."
#COVID19 #Vietnam
vietnamnews.vn/society/1605...
#COVID19 #Vietnam
vietnamnews.vn/society/1605...
Reposted by Melissa Challenor
TRIGGER WARNING: suicide
Two years ago on the heels of several suicides in the long COVID community, I started a support line that can be called or texted 24/7, and the caller is connected to another long-hauler, someone who understands what they're going through.
1/10
Two years ago on the heels of several suicides in the long COVID community, I started a support line that can be called or texted 24/7, and the caller is connected to another long-hauler, someone who understands what they're going through.
1/10
October 23, 2023 at 12:39 AM
TRIGGER WARNING: suicide
Two years ago on the heels of several suicides in the long COVID community, I started a support line that can be called or texted 24/7, and the caller is connected to another long-hauler, someone who understands what they're going through.
1/10
Two years ago on the heels of several suicides in the long COVID community, I started a support line that can be called or texted 24/7, and the caller is connected to another long-hauler, someone who understands what they're going through.
1/10
Of course kids can develop long COVID; they’re just small humans.
#WearAMask #KeepYourKidsSafe #TheyAreSupposedToBeTheNextGen
#WearAMask #KeepYourKidsSafe #TheyAreSupposedToBeTheNextGen
Yes, children can develop long COVID as well. We talk with pediatric cardiologist Frank Han and pediatrician Tom Nguyen.
youtu.be/B8_-r_Nf_mY?...
youtu.be/B8_-r_Nf_mY?...
COVID-19 Long-Haulers Discussion Group Town Hall: Pediatric Long COVID
Frank Han, MD, pediatric cardiologist; Thomas Nguyen, DO, pediatrician; Amanda Finley, COVID-19 Long-Haulers Discussion Group
youtu.be
October 22, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Of course kids can develop long COVID; they’re just small humans.
#WearAMask #KeepYourKidsSafe #TheyAreSupposedToBeTheNextGen
#WearAMask #KeepYourKidsSafe #TheyAreSupposedToBeTheNextGen
Anyone out there working on LC economics?
Dominic would like to hear from you 🙏🏼
Dominic would like to hear from you 🙏🏼
#EconSky 📉📈
Is anyone aware of people working on the economics of long covid?
I’m especially interested in effects on:
- labour supply,
-productivity, and
-spending on health care.
Any connections will be very appreciated.
Is anyone aware of people working on the economics of long covid?
I’m especially interested in effects on:
- labour supply,
-productivity, and
-spending on health care.
Any connections will be very appreciated.
October 21, 2023 at 8:36 AM
Anyone out there working on LC economics?
Dominic would like to hear from you 🙏🏼
Dominic would like to hear from you 🙏🏼