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luckytran, 2 months ago to random

UPDATE: In the US, COVID wastewater levels are now low.

If you've been holding off getting healthcare or doing other indoor activities, now is one of the best times of the year to do these things more safely.

harold, 2 months ago to cycling

On 1 April, The Bicycle Specialist in Amherst, NS was burgled and two e-bikes were stolen. One was ours, waiting for modifications. We are told that the bikes are still in Sackville, NB. If seen, please call the police. Please share around the #Maritimes

https://eunorau-ebike.com/en-canada/products/e-fat-step

#cycling #theft #BikeTheft #Canada

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Cyber trucks may be rusting right off the assembly line, but at least they don't have iron oxide debt like most, way cheaper vehicles.

freezenet, 2 months ago to news

Where’s the Next Round of Bill C-11 CRTC Consultations?

The CRTC was set to have the next round of consultations on the Online Streaming Act in Winter of 2023/2024. They still haven't happened.

https://www.freezenet.ca/wheres-the-next-round-of-bill-c-11-crtc-consultations/

#Censorship #News #BillC11 #Canada #CRTC #OnlineStreamingAct

trendless, 2 months ago to random

“Immunity Debt Means SARS-CoV-2 Is Good For Your Health, Actually”

-- The New York Trying Times

broadwaybabyto, 2 months ago to disability

“Congrats - you’re old! Maybe this year you will try and be normal again.”

This was a birthday message I received from a relative. They’re referring to my disabilities and to my Covid caution. They consider both “abnormal”.

I’m sick & tired of the insinuation that being disabled means we’re abnormal. That we simply need to “try harder” and we will no longer be sick - or that our illnesses are a personal failing. Temporarily abled people always seem to think it’s OUR fault we are sick.

This assumption stems from people being unable to comprehend that certain illnesses can be permanent but not fatal.

People tend to see illness as two pronged - you get sick and die or you get sick and recover. They don't understand the spectrum that lies in between.

As a result if you become chronically ill - people may be supportive at first but that support wanes when you don't get better. They assume if you're not improving and you haven't died that you're either faking, not really "that sick" or that you don't want to get well.

It's incredibly hurtful considering most chronically ill people spend the vast majority of their energy trying to be well. We do so much to try and retain or improve our baseline - but most of it is stuff others will never see. Compromise & sacrifice are daily occurrences.

The reality is that you can't "try harder" your way out of chronic illness. If you could no one would be sick. We try very hard - but our bodies aren’t well. Just because something doesn't kill you doesn't mean it won't debilitate you and rob you of your quality of life.

I know that's unpleasant for many people to think about - but looking away & refusing to acknowledge our reality doesn't change our situation. It just hurts us and lets you remain in denial. As for faking? Most people are trying to fake being WELL.

Putting on a happy face to make others more comfortable. There's no benefit to faking disabilities. It's a hard life with very little support & many cruel comments like the one I received.

Finally let's consider the word "normal". This person was referring in part to my illnesses (as they see them as an abnormality) and in part to my COVID caution which they see as nonsensical & unnecessary.

Disabled & chronically ill individuals are not abnormal. Health does not equal normalcy.
Health is a temporary state for everyone - not a bar to measure one's worth or commonality with others. It's discriminatory, ableist and cruel to suggest we are somehow abnormal.

As for the Covid caution - I look around at what we are doing and can't understand how anyone could think it abnormal that I'm trying to avoid catching (and spreading) this virus. When did it become "normal" to catch bugs all the time?

When did we decide it was "normal" to throw away our health, the health of the elderly, vulnerable and children? When did we stop caring for other people? We have become a society that looks down on people trying to protect themselves & others. That's ANYTHING but normal.

I don't think anything about the way society at large is responding to covid is “normal" but if it IS? I don't want any part of it. I'm proud to be someone who still cares about what's left of my health. Who cares about the health of others & breaking chains of transmission 1/2

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #Ableism #Disability #DisabilityRights #CleanAir #WearAMask
#ChronicIllness #Spoonie

TheSeege, 2 months ago to random

What COVID-19 Does To The Body (Fourth Edition, March 2024)
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Over 130+ Studies On COVID-19 Effects & Prevention
APR 01, 2024

https://www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid-19-does-to-the-body-fourth

radicalcommunalcare, 2 months ago to random

"In the two years since world governments decided to pretend COVID is “over” without introducing clean air or other mitigations in schools, the rates of chronically absent students were 28% and 26%, respectively. In other words, rates of chronic absence have nearly doubled since COVID began spreading. When you word it this way, it’s a lot less mysterious than the purposely befuddled and befuddling “nearly doubled post-COVID”. After all, kids were never at high risk of death from COVID, are being reinfected at high rates, and many of them are still unvaccinated. In what sense are they, then, “post-COVID”?"

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/nytimes-invents-increasingly-bizarre

#COVID19 #LongCOVID #COVIDNormalisation #PandemicIsNotOver

kennethb, 2 months ago to random

trendless, 2 months ago to random

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1775607000174383323.html

“I think if someone’s going to make a claim like ‘Covid doesn’t harm your immune system’, that’s a bold claim.

The claim itself is contrarian, as it flies in the face of the established science. It’s beyond meaningful debate at this point that some cases of Covid -even mild ones- lead to depletion of immune system components for months.

The people who would have us believe that this is no cause for concern base their argument on the fact that it (a) only happens to some people, (b) only happens for a little while or (c) happens with other viruses as well. All three statements are true. And irrelevant here.

This is a disease that most people can expect to get multiple times in their lives (our modeling suggests 1-2x/yr, in the absence of precautions), cumulative damage is well documented for other organ systems. Some -very nonzero - fraction of infections is persistent as well.

There’s no evidence suggesting that some people are uniquely vulnerable to immune depletion while others aren’t. It’s a Russell’s teapot to make the claim, and those who make it should produce the evidence to support it.

If you get the disease once a year and your immune system spends 6 months recovering each time, you are functionally immunocompromised- on average- when you look at it across the entire year.

Repeated infections cause cumulative damage & intrahost viral evolution during persistent infections leading to immune evasion is well documented. Those who make the claim that such intrahost evo during persistent infections is rare should produce evidence to support it.

False analogies to other viruses have been used by minimizers to confuse the issue from the get-go. Covid is not HIV, the flu or a cold. It’s an unprecedented public health threat, and the claim that there is no cause for concern is speculative.”

-- @arijitchakrav

ranil, 2 months ago to random

Could someone explain the concerns around H5N1? Maybe in the context of SARS-COV-2 which causes varying damage throughout the body, is highly transmissible and has very rapid mutations.

We have influenza vaccinations (could they be adjusted for this strain?). We have some treatments - remembering Tamiflu from the past.

I have concerns about yet another virus running in circulation and how people who have been dealing with multiple health issues will deal with another one.

Trying to understand if the current warnings are for concern of a more serious disease; a call to action to stock up and setup processes for prevention and treatment or something else. Particularly given that we let SARS-COV-2 freely transverse our population without any controls (not saying this is a good thing - but it does seem a bar that public health worldwide has accepted and attempting to justify).

Feeling I have missed something.

phil_stevens, 2 months ago to random

Either the billionaires go extinct, or we do.

MEActNOW, 2 months ago to random

Mast cells and neuroinflammation and blood-brain-barrier dysfunction

"Mast cell activation and degranulation destroyed the tight junction proteins in brain microvascular endothelial cells and induced the activation and proliferation of microglia.

#LongCovid Neuro inflammation
#Microglia
#Covid19

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

It's odd, knowing what we know about COVID and where this is very possibly - maybe probably headed.

Like, here I am simultaneously holding the belief that business as usual is going to carry on indefinitely and it will be fine-ish, AND the belief that everyone will die or be completely disabled within the decade.

Rational me believes the latter is likely.

Emotional me just hums along through daily life like everything is normal.

Brad, 2 months ago to random

Omfg. 🤦‍♂️ Pass the tequila we are doomed. 🍹 The inmates are running the asylum.

"This is because we contracted fewer illnesses than normal, meaning our immune systems need time to adjust to less Covid-19 present. It may mean that we become sick more easily for a while." - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/why-everyone-ill-uk-flu-covid-immunity-b1131272.html

RebelGeek99, 2 months ago to random

Getting 2-4x emails a day from recruiters in the #healthIT space and a common theme has emerged-- the expectations of an entire team (writing technical specs, clinical SME, configuring software, validating workflows, testing scripts, documenting process) all rest on the shoulders of a single consultant. Simply absurd.

Good luck with all that lolz... Flooding the #healthcare space with a pandemic virus and then unable to staff specialized roles is most definitely not a "me" problem 😑

johnzajac, 2 months ago to random

There's nothing complicated about any of this. The answers are obvious.

The reason they they want you to think it's complicated is so they can shrug and look pained and say "too bad nothing can be done", or "this is so complex I can't figure out what to do! darn" because what's happening IS WHAT THEY WANT TO HAPPEN.

That some of them pretend it isn't what they want is irrelevant. Their actions speak volumes.

maxi, 2 months ago to random

For me, "no one masks any more" is a all the more a reason to #maskUp. I don't fully understand people who tend to think this is a reason noit to mask¹...

¹ I've learned that this is about #peerPressure and #cognitiveDissonance. As a queer/ND/disabled veganarchist, I might be less susceptible to these effects, partly because I'm just used to stand out & don't give a fuck about social norms. Nevertheless, the power of these effects and the regular clashes of cognitive realities I experience daily are quite frightening.

Be queer
Mask up!

glynmoody, 2 months ago to random

How private equity has used #copyright to cannibalise the past at the expense of the future - https://walledculture.org/how-private-equity-has-used-copyright-to-cannibalise-the-past-at-the-expense-of-the-future/ musicians and creators in general must take back control of their works, rather than acquiescing in the hugely unfair deal that is copyright

rybson, 2 months ago to random

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/society/health/the-world-pretends-the-pandemic-is-over-because-of-who-it-affects/

hannu_ikonen, 2 months ago to random

I know someone was joking about their dad sounding like an AI Chatbot programmed by Fox News but, yeah. That's it to a tee.

3TomatoesShort, 2 months ago to random

So much crip tax lately in the form of delivery fees 😔

inquiline, 2 months ago to random

Just fucking DEVASTATED to learn that the Test 2 Treat program is apparently slated to end in two wks:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/test-to-treat-program-for-covid-and-flu-saves-lives-lets-fight-for-it

(via @PeoplesCDC newsletter)

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver

currentbias, 2 months ago to random

"What can we do about #BirdFlu?"

I don't know -- maybe all of the shit the #covid prevention community is already doing. But that would be too embarrassing, wouldn't it? Good thing you can't die of embarrassment

#FluIsAirborne #CovidIsAirborne #pandemic #PublicHealth