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justyourluck, 1 month ago to random

Gee, it must've slipped their minds.

The media conveniently left this part out:

“The truth is that my health has been affected by long covid and this has limited my strength to undertake the breadth of travel essential to my position. Because I cannot be sure to regain that strength fully, I need to step aside for someone to be selected and to take over.” (from his email to staff)

Long Covid Forces The UN's Humanitarian Chief To Quit

#LongCovid #Covid

https://www.donotpanic.news/p/long-covid-forces-the-uns-humanitarian

hannu_ikonen, 2 months ago to ADHD

The Federal Trade Commission is STILL accepting complaints from the public related to the shortage of #Adderall #Vyvanse #Methylphenidate #Concerta and ADHD medications generally.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-hhs-seek-public-comment-generic-drug-shortages-competition-amongst-powerful-middlemen

One concern is ongoing private equity purchasing of generic pill press companies that is creating artificial scarcity deliberately.

Additional link from Additude Magazine: https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-medication-shortage-ftc-hhs-rfi/

#ADHD #MentalHealth #PrivateEquityPredation

18+ dancingdogs, 1 month ago to Madrid

😮

The commission highlighted a series of protocols in place from March 2mid-April,
which appeared to show that the #Madrid government, led by the rightwing People’s party,allegedly initially instructed officials to block the transfer of sick people who lacked private healthcare insurance or who had conditions such as physical disabilities/cognitive deterioration
They may not have died had other political decisions been made
https://bird.makeup/users/meetjess/statuses/1774282321677386080

#covid #covid19 #spain

currentbias, 1 month ago to random

Every way to properly convey the urgency
Also implied the presence of banal conspiracies
Pervading every level of the structures that contained us
Our consent was manufactured by the ones who entertained us

https://blog.open-source-eschaton.net/thanks-for-playing

ToveHarris, 1 month ago to random German

#CovidIsNotOver und nicht mild

"Most governments are trying to trick us into believing we don't need to adapt to COVID-19. They can't sustain the illusion forever."

"Governments are trying to assimilate #COVID19 into our lives by ignoring it. They are assuming it will just fade into the background as it becomes part of the landscape of common illnesses we face."

https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/the-greatest-trick/

#COVID #Corona #LongCOVID

18+ VeeRat, 1 month ago to novid

The interest in calling Covid “endemic” is a need to say “the pandemic is over”.

Saying “the pandemic is over” implies that no one needs to take precautions anymore. It implies we don’t need to mask, we don’t need to isolate, we don’t need to test… basically that we can go “back to normal”.

Calling Covid “endemic” is not just a pedantic need to redefine the stage we’re in with the virus. It’s an excuse to remove precautions and feel good about it. It’s an open invitation to “other” the people still trying to protect themselves and everyone else. It’s a method of moving the argument from the practical “should we continue taking precautions” to nothing more than ivory tower semantics.

Covid is still dangerous, no matter what we call it. Implying it’s not is a dangerous practice.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUpN95 @novid

Geoffberner, 2 months ago to USpolitics

It's amazing reading all these nytimes and other articles saying "Why are so many kids absent from school nowadays? Must be a new culture of laziness. Probably lockdowns. Or phones. We definitely didn't give a generation Long Covid, because that's not something we're permitted to discuss." #CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #WearAMask #uspolitics #nytimes

DoNoHarmBC, 1 month ago to random

As #LongCOVID Awareness Month draws to a close, we’re reminded that the growing number of people with Long Covid deserve safety and solidarity year round. A thank you to @wanderingkayli (she/her) for sharing her story:

“A single COVID infection completely upended my life two years ago by disabling me with Long COVID. This is happening to millions and yet public health is not treating COVID with the seriousness it deserves and preventing infections in all healthcare settings. I haven’t seen a dentist in so long because I keep hearing people getting reinfected there. COVID isn’t seasonal, and unless everyone is wearing a mask if they can do so, my vulnerable family members and I can’t safely access healthcare. In an ongoing airborne pandemic, the more masked up, the better – we all share the same air, and we should be preventing healthcare-acquired infections year round. Everyone is at risk of Long COVID and post-COVID damage, not just the disabled and/or immunocompromised. It’s also not sufficient to merely wear baggy surgical masks where aerosols get through! Let’s follow the science.”

👉 Tell BC gov to #KeepMasksInHealthcare and strengthen protections: https://donoharmbc.ca/vulnerability-isnt-seasonal/ We want to send as many messages as possible by April 1 because last year, they discarded masks in healthcare in early April.

RoniP, 2 months ago to random

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06651-y?s=09

currentbias, 2 months ago to mastodon

Is there a way for mastodon (maybe in the ruby) to reject media by default (instead of manually/per-instance in the admin interface)?

#mastodon #FediTips

drclareharris, 2 months ago to sourdough

#SourdoughSaturday #sourdough

Experimenting with a lattice for sourdough scoring.

Next time I’ll make the lines of hash marks closer together.

Sourdough loaf with hash marks to make a pseudo lattice
Sourdough loaf with hash marks to make a pseudo lattice

C19LAP, 2 months ago to random

Are you looking for a safer, collaborative, private community space for #LongCOVID? Please consider joining our main FB group or one of our 60 chapters, all private groups with protections and moderators to ensure a safe, accurate, supportive environment.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JKlXnjp55dxnqqa6ZPjvJTf4oZxLwjv5wC_jdWCIYNY/mobilebasic

noyes, 2 months ago to random

If law enforcement uses generative AI during the course of an investigation, defense lawyers should be able to call the instance used as a witness.

That would be the end of that.

punkmetalnbowie, 2 months ago to random

Medical Xpress: COVID-19 research: Study reveals new details about potentially deadly delayed inflammation.
Covid "may elicit mild symptoms at first but then, for a subset of patients, turn potentially fatal a week or so after infection." #covid19
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-covid-reveals-potentially-deadly-inflammation.html

GhostCottageBakery, 2 months ago to random

#Introduction post.

Greetings Fediverse. I'm a cottage baker located in Piffard, NY just south of Rochester. Started this account to promote my bakery.

This will be my space for posting about new items I'm working on, the disasters that happen as I'm working on them, what I already offer as tried and true products, and all other things relevant to my bakery activities.

As I'm a cottage baker, I do not have a store front. I can only offer deliveries of my home baked goodness to my home area.

currentbias, 2 months ago to random

Can I reiterate that David Putrino called #covid an existential threat on the level of climate change, or that AJ Leonardi said in 2020 that if nothing were done to contain it, it could end civilization?

Or that the four horsemen are a metaphor for the stages a collapsing empire goes through, and that we have rolled over for horseman 1?

SARSCoV2, unchecked, is an attack on our very immune systems, the setup for the endless illness all around us. Next, the empire wars with itself, then starves

subjacentish, 2 months ago to random

It's pretty straightforward.

You get the Minimizers to tell you the risks for SARS2 are now low.

Then you get the Economizers to tell you that "Assisted Dying" is normal and okay.

Then you're dead.🥳

ToveHarris, 2 months ago to mecfs German

Community-driven. Crowd-funded.

The first and biggest community-driven ME/CFS and Long COVID conference

15.05.–16.05.2024
Online. Independent

https://unitetofight2024.world/

#MECFS #LongCOVID

smitten, 2 months ago to random

#CDCSays don't worry about ssh

pezmico, 2 months ago to random

I would rather be the only person wearing a respirator until the day I die, than normalising and contributing to the eugenicist mass death project our capitalist overlords are forcing upon us.

😷 ✊

#capitalismIsADeathCult #CovidIsNotOver

RebelGeek99, 2 months ago to random

Is there a commonly used technical term for when an entire population is clinically-to-subclinically immune dysregulated and serving as incubators, an evolutionary breeding ground for more virulent and/or transmissive strains of commonly encountered secondary and opportunistic infections ?

I know the slang term ("we're effed"), just wondering if there's a specific technical term people are using to summarize the putative phenomenon.

themaskerscomic, 2 months ago to random

Made some updates to my covid awareness and advocacy site on the homepage https://the-maskers-comic.yolasite.com , trying to get the words and information in there just right to match and address the current vibes out there... but it is still like a message in a bottle that I am not sure anyone will find, read, and take to heart in a way that would connect us all again. Feel free to give feedback.

#covid #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #cleantheair

GeorgiaOnMyMind, 2 months ago to random

I’ve had two doctors mention to me this past week the importance of maintaining good brain health to avoid dementia and Parkinsons-yet neither one mentions avoiding Covid. One was surprised I’ve avoided it this long and didn’t understand how I could maintain that since it’s everywhere.

What am I missing? Why isn’t Covid in their discussions for brain health (and Parkinsons)?