#Covid#Lockdown days. Picking up his wife for a final check up from a quarantine center and maintaining social distance - Mizo style 😁 Checking if she's comfortable is the cute part. #Archives
“Post-recovery from COVID-19, the immune system undergoes reconstruction. However, the elevated interferon responsive genes in monocytes can still be found after 4 months since the infection, which implies that the immune system is not fully recovered after 4 months…”
5/snip "The supply system fragility described above obviously affects far more than just food supply. All other critical supplies & materials needed for civilization similarly depend on foreign production, marine shipping, ports, truck drivers, warehouses, etc. Similar to the grocery store experiment, try going to your local hardware / home-improvement store & look at some “Made In _” labels. Just a couple examples: I found plywood made in Brazil & 1x4 lumber from Sweden.
Every aspect of our globalized supply chain is hyperfragile. When shocks eventually exceed the system’s resiliency, for example if a climate-caused #famine creates gaps in those “essential workers” so taken for granted during #covid, citizens of industrialized countries will experience shortages of building materials, gasoline/diesel, car repair parts, etc. Those shortages will create feedbacks affecting other sectors. A hyperfragile system pushed beyond its limit will experience impacts far exceeding the magnitude of the shock."
Biden allowed Covid to turn into a mass disabling event:
"when President Joe Biden ended all pandemic emergency measures last year, the lights were turned off, the premises were vacated, and the last four-plus years were effectively chalked up to a bad dream."
A coworker is out with Covid. I worked with her last week while she was sneezing & had a runny nose. But I had my N95 on, & was also airing the house out so I did not get sick.
(Always air out your vacation rental for at least an hour, folks)
Unsure how common this is in other #ChronicIllness affecting cognition, but when you have #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis the writing errors you’re almost guaranteed to make are:
Double the same word
or
Exclude it altogether
Or do both!
So frustrating & the sicker you are the worse it gets. You simply can’t see mistakes! Other problems too ofc but I’ve found this is the most common error made by #PwME
It takes forever to draft posts so when those of us on the more severe end of #ME make one it’s really hard. I wish I could explain how tough it is & people understood how much we’re sharing of limited energy supply.
And sometimes you get too sick to read and write at all. Or look at a screen because of sensory overload.
Now it’s worse because of my recent 3rd #Covid infection which both worsens existing symptoms and gives you new ones!
It’s the kids birthday this week, it’s almost June and we’re all sick again. The kid’s had the “cough at night that doesn’t go away” for weeks and my throat and lungs hurt as they haven’t in a long time. Tests are negative for days and fuck I hate kindergarten sometimes. We haven’t changed a lot of our behaviors but the amount of kids hacking away at his school the past few weeks is sad frankly #ottawa#kids#covid
In other news, the #NZ govt still plans to phase out free RATs by end of June.
This is a spectacularly bad idea, so please write to your MP and/or the MoH to ask they continue. Aotearoa #Covid Action has an open letter here: https://covidaction.nz/en/keepratsfree
Also, find your nearest location that dispenses free RATs and stock up over the next few weeks according to the size of your household.
My experiments going out with my CO2 monitor are discouraging. Tonight, with COVID in wastewater at its lowest in 11 months in my city, we went out to eat. We hoped for outdoor dining, but it rained, so we sat inside. CO2 readings:
4:30 pm: 50% crowd in a brewpub: 1548
5:45 pm: 75% crowd in a Mexican restaurant: 1341
7:45 pm: Long line at ice cream shop: 1896
I thought businesses upgraded air filtration & ventilation, but these readings encourage me to stay home. #COVID19 taught us nothing.
@augieray there is no incentive - either tax provisions, encouragement by public health, grants, or even public pressure
the entire clean air movement is being actively suppressed, you can't bring C02 monitors into schools in British Columbia, as a staff member or student - school boards, local, provincial and national politicians run away at the very suggestion
and it's literally the cheapest and simplest thing they could do
Et en bon français : tout conseil pour gérer un #covid quand on a un diagnostic de #mecfs ou #emsfc et minimiser les chances d'un #covidlong est très bienvenu.