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Following those who have experience w/ chronic illness, those who are keeping up with the literature, and those sacrificing to keep us all safe; wearing P100 respiratory PPE, pursuing personal zero SARS-CoV-2

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Fascists 🖤 a police state

> Alberta government proposes new ‘police-like’ agency, will operate independently https://globalnews.ca/news/10357553/alberta-new-independent-police-agency/

#ABPoli #ABLeg

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Remember that old joke about the Optimist and the Pessimist?

The Pessimist says, "Everything is terrible! It can't get any worse."

To which the Optimist replies, "Oh yes it can!"

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Long Covid is happening at a higher rate than is being reported. If LC only involved 1 per cent of the population then I could see them not doing much, but the numbers are between 10 and 20% and it's more than enough to disrupt the workforce as well as put a strain on our health resources, not to mention people's mental health. Also there is enough research that proves covid damages brains, even among the vaccinated. Right now experts say we're on track to be infected twice a year potentially.

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@Scienceisnotopinions More data from PHAC here: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/post-covid-condition/

The most recent report from Fall '23 indicates it's >10% chance per infection

"14.6% of adults with 1 infection reported longer-term symptoms compared to 37.9% of adults with 3 or more infections."

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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...

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An excellent article decrying the lackadaisical response to all our current and burgeoning catastrophes.. except COVID

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/mlk-vietnam-war-speech-gaza-democracy/

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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

> This Global Identity System Tracks Everything You Do Online https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/global-identity-system-tracks-you/

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Did something happen on Mastodon this morning? I can't get any posts that go back more than about an hour just now, and it's not because that's eleventy billion or whatever. 😕

Edit: this is my home feed. Local seems ok, and Notifications.

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@skyfaller @acm_redfox related to this, maybe?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27989

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00431-024-05503-9?s=09

> 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

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https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/fnp/article/view/5343

> 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.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00372-5/fulltext?s=09

> 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.

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Entirely unpredictable 🙃

> Teacher shortage has staff across Canada working 'in survival mode' https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/teacher-shortage-has-staff-across-canada-working-in-survival-mode-1.7140253

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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-chronic-liver-disease-mitochondria.html

> 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).

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I sometimes say, half jokingly, that I have PTSD regarding my kids being sick (mostly from stomach flu, not from a life threatening sickness thank god).

Last weekend I was told by a loved one that I might have PTSD from covid pandemic.

I'm not sure what to think of that comment. Yes, I still take precautions. The pandemic never stop in my view. And I'm definitely angry at how everything was handled. "We tried nothing and we are out of ideas".

People have moved on, but we are not in a good situation. Nothing I read shows positive signs. When I point that out I get told that such studies need to be taken with a grain of salt, for example the methodology wasn't sound enough. Sure I get this, it's never all black or white, that's how science moves. The issue I have is that I don't see positive studies at all, good or bad methodology. So all the signals are mostly negative, the question becomes how much negative. Debating how bad a situation is does not make it good.

What I find difficult is to protect my family when the world does not care. I can't put my kids in a bubble. I can't control what my spouse is doing (and I don't want to!) I know I can protect myself, but my efforts are moot if the kids catch anything at school where nobody cares.

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@ALoneMasker yep. Using kids as a vector to ensure as few as possible could avoid SARS2 while following the herd was the lynchpin of LetItRip™

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“Is your product, service, or message not being embraced by the target market? Rebrand. Still not? Rebrand again.”

I assume these same folk also spend inordinate amounts of time in the shower, rinse, lather, and repeating.

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And the roads get more dangerous: the deceitfully named "full self driving" is coming to Canadian Tesla m̶a̶r̶k̶s̶ drivers

https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/03/11/tesla-full-self-driving-subscription-coming-to-canada

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We run a tiny 3-person instance, but because of that, our posts are not shared outside of our followers, and I can't see replies if I don't follow a person.

I have one or two relays set up, but it didn't fix the issue. Is the answer to move to a more prominent instance?

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@cliophate yeah, that's a thing for sure. This might help: https://blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher

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In a world that worships youth, a lotta folks are speedrunning getting old.

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What's the cheapest long-term mass storage option for digital files on physical storage? Has to be able to connect to a computer somehow without necessarily being a part of it

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@hannu_ikonen @raphaelmorgan second this; any size is probably fine, but a magnetic-platter based device (aka hard disk drive / hdd) is likely the best for TBs worth. Could get a dock and buy bare drives that you store in a cool, dark place, in static bags, too, though it's not necessarily cheaper.

For true archival storage, you can get archival-class dvd/bluray discs that purportedly last 100 years. Because they're write-once, there's no chance of the data degrading, only the chemicals used to make the disc -- which is what sets archival-class apart from non.

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A few things on this list stuck out to me..

> 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:

[excerpt]
• Impaired judgment
• Apathy
• Lack of empathy
• Decreased self awareness

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/dementia/frontotemporal-dementia

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-leaving-privatized-lab-service-costly-1.7140203

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@InformSM77 now that's some conservative accounting! "Hooray, we saved -$100M!! 🎉🎊"

🫠

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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?

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What’s different about your life now, compared to pre pandemic?

What’s different physically?

What’s different about how you view yourself and those around you?

Do you feel closer to friends and family or more distant?

Are there things you expected to change but didn’t?

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@PapyrusBrigade

The biggest difference is fewer "friends" (were they, though, really?) and fewer in-person interaction.

Having developed chronic illness, a lot of the day-to-day physical calculus has changed.

My perception of myself hasn't changed much, but my perception of others has, drastically. The desire to fit in and maintain position in social hierarchy even unto death is far more prevalent than I ever could have imagined. But I've also found a camaraderie that I never could have hoped for or expected.

Virtually everyone from TheBeforeTimes™ has drifted away.

Life is still full of roughly the same number of good days and bad. The structure of our civilization is much more resilient (for better or, mostly, worse) than I would have believed.

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> 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.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/03/be4d6c881db7-japan-govt-to-stop-covid-19-treatment-subsidies-at-end-of-march.html

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Viral infections pose early heart risks

> "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."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240306203111.htm

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Airflow dynamics scrub classroom air

> research demonstrates that an under-floor air distribution concept combined with a ceiling-distributed exhaust system, which generates local and vertically stretched airflow patterns, can significantly reduce airborne pathogens in classrooms by up to 85 per cent

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240306203120.htm

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