That disturbing feeling when the overton window's been shifted so far right that formerly rational folk denounce all else as teetering on the distant left edge...
Yet another reason why your private messages should be stored on a server you control or e2ee (ideally, both): it's likely the pseudonyms and accounts you use can be linked back to your IRL identity... and sold to anyone willing to pay
> pediatric patients with long COVID have an imbalance of cardiac autonomic function toward a relative predominance of parasympathetic tone, as already reported in adult patients with long COVID
My daughter's HRV, in contrast, is very low for her age.
I'm wondering what recommendations would follow from polyvagal theory. I just found out that Stephen Porges is a professor at UNC Chapel Hill. You wouldn't know it from how UNC Hospital treats patients. (I had to encourage them to try controlled breathing with my daughter; when a nurse did so, was like she was teaching Lamaze breathing to someone in labor - not what I had in mind. I had suggested box breathing which was the only technique I knew at the time).
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We both later tried a few different techniques including personalized resonance breathing (where you use HRV feedback to figure out the timing of intervals). The one technique that did not result in air hunger in either of us was Andrew Weil's 4-7-8. I'm like Weil - it makes me feel great right away. My daughter just does it each morning before breakfast to humor me.
> Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cause significant neurologic disease. Central nervous system (CNS) involvement of HIV has been extensively studied, with well-documented invasion of HIV into the brain in the initial stage of infection, while the acute effects of SARS-CoV-2 in the brain are unclear. Neuropathologic features of active HIV infection in the brain are well characterized whereas neuropathologic findings in acute COVID-19 are largely non-specific. On the other hand, neuropathologic substrates of chronic dysfunction in both infections, as HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and post-COVID conditions (PCC)/long COVID are unknown. Thus far, neuropathologic studies on patients with HAND in the era of combined antiretroviral therapy have been inconclusive, and autopsy studies on patients diagnosed with PCC have yet to be published.
> We propose that prolonged detection of WI-CL-001 in wastewater indicates persistent shedding of SARS-CoV-2 from a single human initially infected by an ancestral B.1.234 virus. The accumulation of convergent omicron-like mutations in WI-CL-001’s ancestral B.1.234 genome probably reflects persistent infection and extensive within-host evolution. People who shed cryptic lineages could be an important source of highly divergent viruses that sporadically emerge and spread.
Assaults on teachers by conservative (and liberal) provincial governments is wrecking schools, as if to end them, just like the far right is destroying schools in the United States.
> Scientists have identified a new organelle in liver cells called the mitochondria-lysosome-related organelle (MLRO). This discovery could improve our understanding of chronic liver diseases like alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD).
> What are the symptoms of frontotemporal dementia? Symptoms of FTD start gradually and progress steadily, and in some cases, rapidly. They vary from person to person, depending on the areas of the brain involved. These are common symptoms:
Before having kids, I was rarely sick
-- even when it was the height of "flu" "season"; even when regularly hanging out with parent-friends who constantly were; even when my wife was a full-time teacher and regularly brought stuff home.
After having kids, I was sick constantly.
And that was all before the pandemic. I can't. even. imagine. how much worse it is out there, now. And the 'interest' continues to compound.
It's been more than four years since anyone in my now five-member household has been sick -- symptomatically, at least.
I don't miss it one bit.
Would that more parents (et al) were able to experience the Pathogen-Free Lifestyle®. In this era of personal experience above all else, is it the one thing that can break through the LiveWithIt™ propaganda and allow us to begin reining in the suffering and harm?
@trendless 💯 Pathogen Free Parenting is socially difficult but other than that I can’t complain. I don’t feel like death warmed up, we can have thoughtful conversations, I don’t resent them for bringing home yet another thing, it’s just so much nicer. I don’t miss cuddling the sick snot monster.
> The Japanese government said Tuesday it will cease subsidizing medical expenses for people infected with COVID-19, including no longer fixing the cost of medicines, at the end of March due to a fall in the number of cases.
> With Japan's health care arrangements returning to pre-pandemic status from April, patients will have to pay 10 to 30 percent of the cost of coronavirus treatment drugs. Income levels and age determine how much each person pays.
> Government subsidies for hospitalizations and for medical institutions to reserve beds for coronavirus inpatients will also end.
> "From a clinical perspective, our understanding of viral infection of the heart has focused on inflammation, causing problems with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat… But we have found an acute stage when the virus first infects the heart and before the body's immune response causes inflammation. So even before the tissue is inflamed, the heart is being set up for arrhythmia."