“Due to the reinfection in 2024, I’m no longer able to sit out in the garden - a pleasure that took me two and a half years to build to, and only one reinfection took away from me again." Lydia Fischer Dooley, disabled by #LongCOVID triggered by a 2nd COVID in 2022.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“Due to the reinfection in 2024, I’m no longer able to sit out in the garden - a pleasure that took me two and a half years to build to, and only one reinfection took away from me again." Lydia Fischer Dooley, disabled by #LongCOVID triggered by a 2nd COVID in 2022.
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Wear. A. Mask. #WearAMask
Covid, Flu A, and RSV are wreaking havoc. COVID weakens your immune system, making you more vulnerable to reinfection and other viruses. That helps explain why Flu A cases are surging now. All of these illnesses cause long term health effects.
Covid, Flu A, and RSV are wreaking havoc. COVID weakens your immune system, making you more vulnerable to reinfection and other viruses. That helps explain why Flu A cases are surging now. All of these illnesses cause long term health effects.
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wear. A. Mask. #WearAMask
Covid, Flu A, and RSV are wreaking havoc. COVID weakens your immune system, making you more vulnerable to reinfection and other viruses. That helps explain why Flu A cases are surging now. All of these illnesses cause long term health effects.
Covid, Flu A, and RSV are wreaking havoc. COVID weakens your immune system, making you more vulnerable to reinfection and other viruses. That helps explain why Flu A cases are surging now. All of these illnesses cause long term health effects.
*immunité non durable, réinfection avec les nouveaux variants
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
*immunité non durable, réinfection avec les nouveaux variants
I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine what it feels like to be an expert & still have family unwilling to take your advice. I’m just someone paying attention to the science & feel deeply frustrated. I try to convince loved ones already badly affected by Covid to avoid reinfection. No one wants to hear it.
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine what it feels like to be an expert & still have family unwilling to take your advice. I’m just someone paying attention to the science & feel deeply frustrated. I try to convince loved ones already badly affected by Covid to avoid reinfection. No one wants to hear it.
This is another aspect that needs a 2025 tweak: those who went a bit batshit in 2020 about “pre-existing conditions” care even less now about them and five years in about others in general. Tell them they’re playing Russian roulette with their health which each reinfection and it may plant a seed.
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is another aspect that needs a 2025 tweak: those who went a bit batshit in 2020 about “pre-existing conditions” care even less now about them and five years in about others in general. Tell them they’re playing Russian roulette with their health which each reinfection and it may plant a seed.
Chaque vagues seront pires que les précédentes tant que rien ne sera fait parce que nos corps se dégradent cumulativement. On ne résous pas un problème cumulatif en agissant sur les conséquences, mais sur les causes.
On doit installer des outils pérennes contre les épidémies aéroportées.
On doit installer des outils pérennes contre les épidémies aéroportées.
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Chaque vagues seront pires que les précédentes tant que rien ne sera fait parce que nos corps se dégradent cumulativement. On ne résous pas un problème cumulatif en agissant sur les conséquences, mais sur les causes.
On doit installer des outils pérennes contre les épidémies aéroportées.
On doit installer des outils pérennes contre les épidémies aéroportées.
1 Covid isn’t over
2 long covid exists
3 each reinfection risks worse symptoms
I don’t have the means to check this site out but I urge everyone to to stay alert & use whatever legitimate health resources they have access to
Wear a mask if you can & during the flue outbreak if you feel ill
2 long covid exists
3 each reinfection risks worse symptoms
I don’t have the means to check this site out but I urge everyone to to stay alert & use whatever legitimate health resources they have access to
Wear a mask if you can & during the flue outbreak if you feel ill
Here’s a treatment protocol for Long Covid and ME according to international expert consensus (evidence level 2).
In a few minutes you get an overview of the treatment options.
www.neuropraxis-solothurn.ch/long-covid-s...
In a few minutes you get an overview of the treatment options.
www.neuropraxis-solothurn.ch/long-covid-s...
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
1 Covid isn’t over
2 long covid exists
3 each reinfection risks worse symptoms
I don’t have the means to check this site out but I urge everyone to to stay alert & use whatever legitimate health resources they have access to
Wear a mask if you can & during the flue outbreak if you feel ill
2 long covid exists
3 each reinfection risks worse symptoms
I don’t have the means to check this site out but I urge everyone to to stay alert & use whatever legitimate health resources they have access to
Wear a mask if you can & during the flue outbreak if you feel ill
Good news! I was 100% right when I told my boss I'd know by the end of this week if my prescription of low levels of antibiotics was going to prevent a reinfection.
Bad news ...
Bad news ...
December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Good news! I was 100% right when I told my boss I'd know by the end of this week if my prescription of low levels of antibiotics was going to prevent a reinfection.
Bad news ...
Bad news ...
It's maddening to constantly be on the verge of homeless because I got long covid and have people who dont mask tell me to stay indoors forever if I feel unsafe. That wont even be a fucking option and life gets way more stressful when you're homeless and trying to avoid reinfection.
I know everyone's not poor because I see mutual aid seekers struggling for food & housing & medication & I know there are a lot of more comfortable people than them, who aren't poor, ignoring them.
When yall say things like everyone is poor it makes me realize that you have not actually looked poverty in the face.
It is absolutely disingenuous for anyone to liken him/herself to people who cannot pay bills, who are unhoused, who truly have empty cupboards, who do not have warm sheets.
It is absolutely disingenuous for anyone to liken him/herself to people who cannot pay bills, who are unhoused, who truly have empty cupboards, who do not have warm sheets.
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It's maddening to constantly be on the verge of homeless because I got long covid and have people who dont mask tell me to stay indoors forever if I feel unsafe. That wont even be a fucking option and life gets way more stressful when you're homeless and trying to avoid reinfection.
COVID is a systemic disease that can harm the brain, heart, immune system and more.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
COVID is a systemic disease that can harm the brain, heart, immune system and more.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
Every reinfection increases the risk of Long COVID, chronic illness, disability and even death.
If people understood the real danger, they’d take prevention seriously instead of accepting repeated infections.
YES. We are five years into constant reinfection of a virus that causes literal brain damage.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
YES. We are five years into constant reinfection of a virus that causes literal brain damage.
This is the long term effects of COVID - and everyone is at risk of new or worsened damage from every reinfection. This is not speculation. There’s a vast set of data on this at this point.
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the long term effects of COVID - and everyone is at risk of new or worsened damage from every reinfection. This is not speculation. There’s a vast set of data on this at this point.
Studie: "SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in interstitial lung disease patients and its association with clinical deterioration: a two-year prospective cohort study"
12/22-03/2023, 347 Erwachsene mit vorbestehender ILD & C19 Infekt. Untersuchungen zu Studienbeginn & bei 6, 12 & 24 Monaten
12/22-03/2023, 347 Erwachsene mit vorbestehender ILD & C19 Infekt. Untersuchungen zu Studienbeginn & bei 6, 12 & 24 Monaten
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Studie: "SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in interstitial lung disease patients and its association with clinical deterioration: a two-year prospective cohort study"
12/22-03/2023, 347 Erwachsene mit vorbestehender ILD & C19 Infekt. Untersuchungen zu Studienbeginn & bei 6, 12 & 24 Monaten
12/22-03/2023, 347 Erwachsene mit vorbestehender ILD & C19 Infekt. Untersuchungen zu Studienbeginn & bei 6, 12 & 24 Monaten
Also, Covid vax does NOT provide immunity, can keep you out of hospital & maybe prevent Long Covid but you can still get infected & researcher Putrino says there is no such thing as a Covid infection without consequence
Alt text: chart Fig. 1: Effectiveness of previous infection against reinfection
Alt text: chart Fig. 1: Effectiveness of previous infection against reinfection
New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Also, Covid vax does NOT provide immunity, can keep you out of hospital & maybe prevent Long Covid but you can still get infected & researcher Putrino says there is no such thing as a Covid infection without consequence
Alt text: chart Fig. 1: Effectiveness of previous infection against reinfection
Alt text: chart Fig. 1: Effectiveness of previous infection against reinfection
“Pre-Omicron, infection meant you had 80% protection against re-infection one year later. Post-Omicron, this has fallen to 5% protection at one year, highlighting that vaccination is more important than ever for people with vulnerable immune systems.”
NB: this is immunity against REINFECTION
NB: this is immunity against REINFECTION
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“Pre-Omicron, infection meant you had 80% protection against re-infection one year later. Post-Omicron, this has fallen to 5% protection at one year, highlighting that vaccination is more important than ever for people with vulnerable immune systems.”
NB: this is immunity against REINFECTION
NB: this is immunity against REINFECTION
By Raina MacIntyre
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
By Raina MacIntyre
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
Can recurrent COVID damage your heart and brain?
From Grok:
Yes, recurrent COVID-19 infections can damage both the heart and the brain. Evidence from clinical studies, autopsies, and large cohort analyses shows that each infection increases cumulative risk, even in mild cases.
yeahhhh… asbestosis can take years and years to develop…
covid is out here reactivating dormant cancer cells, causing cumulative damage with each reinfection, rewriting our immune systems from inside our bone marrow *right now.*
covid is out here reactivating dormant cancer cells, causing cumulative damage with each reinfection, rewriting our immune systems from inside our bone marrow *right now.*
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
yeahhhh… asbestosis can take years and years to develop…
covid is out here reactivating dormant cancer cells, causing cumulative damage with each reinfection, rewriting our immune systems from inside our bone marrow *right now.*
covid is out here reactivating dormant cancer cells, causing cumulative damage with each reinfection, rewriting our immune systems from inside our bone marrow *right now.*
/3 You are not “immune” to repeated hits.
Reinfection risk is cumulative.
Damage adds up — even when symptoms don’t.
Reinfection risk is cumulative.
Damage adds up — even when symptoms don’t.
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
/3 You are not “immune” to repeated hits.
Reinfection risk is cumulative.
Damage adds up — even when symptoms don’t.
Reinfection risk is cumulative.
Damage adds up — even when symptoms don’t.
everyone is vulnerable to covid. it goes into our bone marrow and rewrites our immune systems.
only takes a single infection to give you long covid and a bunch of other chronic illnesses, as well as damage that accumulates with each reinfection.
only takes a single infection to give you long covid and a bunch of other chronic illnesses, as well as damage that accumulates with each reinfection.
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
everyone is vulnerable to covid. it goes into our bone marrow and rewrites our immune systems.
only takes a single infection to give you long covid and a bunch of other chronic illnesses, as well as damage that accumulates with each reinfection.
only takes a single infection to give you long covid and a bunch of other chronic illnesses, as well as damage that accumulates with each reinfection.
“It’s not just the illness. It’s the social response to COVID that has grown up around us, isolates & alienates us, creating a sense of pressure, anxiety & tension. People don’t believe in our illness, & they work to ensure reinfection risk is high as it can be.”
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"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“It’s not just the illness. It’s the social response to COVID that has grown up around us, isolates & alienates us, creating a sense of pressure, anxiety & tension. People don’t believe in our illness, & they work to ensure reinfection risk is high as it can be.”
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« People do not believe in our illness, and not only do they not care to help us avoid reinfection, they actively work to ensure that reinfection risk is as high as it can possibly be. »
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
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www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
« People do not believe in our illness, and not only do they not care to help us avoid reinfection, they actively work to ensure that reinfection risk is as high as it can possibly be. »
Excellent review of Pluribus - and parallels with the Covid Hive mentality happening now. The new normal - no worse than a cold - take off that mask and join us! It is an uphill battle to avoid reinfection when no one bothers to test or mask. 😷
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Excellent review of Pluribus - and parallels with the Covid Hive mentality happening now. The new normal - no worse than a cold - take off that mask and join us! It is an uphill battle to avoid reinfection when no one bothers to test or mask. 😷
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November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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