Nearly every disease that we understand is caused, in some way, by inflammation.
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I am all for people wanting to get more involved with activism and to fight the most immediate threats all around us. That is important. That is essential, in fact. But it rings hollow to see so many people enraged about ICE when they have decided that COVID, RSV, measles, many terrifying forms of the flu, and other rampant infectious diseases are not enough to wear a mask or push back against capitalist systems that are causing systemic harm to all of us—including our own kids.
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@nat (deep, weary sigh)
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I am all for people wanting to get more involved with activism and to fight the most immediate threats all around us. That is important. That is essential, in fact. But it rings hollow to see so many people enraged about ICE when they have decided that COVID, RSV, measles, many terrifying forms of the flu, and other rampant infectious diseases are not enough to wear a mask or push back against capitalist systems that are causing systemic harm to all of us—including our own kids.
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The masked kidnappers are much more visible and seem more terrifying. Microscopic threats don't seem as awful when the death counts appear to be reasonably low (not that they actually are very low, especially if you factor in that COVID causes the thing that causes every bad thing and has made our bodies defenseless to so many other pathogens).
Our collective health is being flushed down the toilet.
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The masked kidnappers are much more visible and seem more terrifying. Microscopic threats don't seem as awful when the death counts appear to be reasonably low (not that they actually are very low, especially if you factor in that COVID causes the thing that causes every bad thing and has made our bodies defenseless to so many other pathogens).
Our collective health is being flushed down the toilet.
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Meanwhile those of us sounding the alarm must feel like 1970s climate activists did. Like we're screaming HELLO, THERE IS IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE OF IMPENDING DISASTER, WE CAN DO SOMETHING NOW BUT EVERY SECOND IS PRECIOUS SO LET'S PLEASE PAY ATTENTION and everyone around us is like, Well I don't think that's a big deal and besides there are other bigger problems...
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Meanwhile those of us sounding the alarm must feel like 1970s climate activists did. Like we're screaming HELLO, THERE IS IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE OF IMPENDING DISASTER, WE CAN DO SOMETHING NOW BUT EVERY SECOND IS PRECIOUS SO LET'S PLEASE PAY ATTENTION and everyone around us is like, Well I don't think that's a big deal and besides there are other bigger problems...
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It should NOT be either/or. It should be the norm to wear a respirator in all activist spaces and all protests. It should be expected of anyone who cares about other people as an absolute baseline.
The invisible threats that are destroying us from within are stealing the futures we cannot yet imagine.
Solidarity means that we must keep learning and we must keep paying attention, even when it makes us defensive and uncomfortable.
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It should NOT be either/or. It should be the norm to wear a respirator in all activist spaces and all protests. It should be expected of anyone who cares about other people as an absolute baseline.
The invisible threats that are destroying us from within are stealing the futures we cannot yet imagine.
Solidarity means that we must keep learning and we must keep paying attention, even when it makes us defensive and uncomfortable.
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So yes, please, take the action that feels most pressing today. And think about the kind of world you want to have, and what it takes to build it. How can you incorporate COVID awareness and clean-air precautions into your activism and your community? This is not just about protecting ourselves and our families—though that certainly will allow us to continue our work much more sustainably.
We need to shift the tide. We need to change the norms.
We need to be loud, and maybe even obnoxious.
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So yes, please, take the action that feels most pressing today. And think about the kind of world you want to have, and what it takes to build it. How can you incorporate COVID awareness and clean-air precautions into your activism and your community? This is not just about protecting ourselves and our families—though that certainly will allow us to continue our work much more sustainably.
We need to shift the tide. We need to change the norms.
We need to be loud, and maybe even obnoxious.
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We need to care SO MUCH about each other that we stop trying to go with the flow. We can't limit ourselves to change work that is popular and supported by our friends and families.
Because the same people who were all about "flattening the curve" and shaming Trumpists for flouting masks and shunning vaccines are now... not masking and not getting regular boosters, for reasons that have nothing to do with science and everything to do with peer pressure.
Y'all are capable.
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Nearly every disease that we understand is caused, in some way, by inflammation.
COVID-19 causes severe, systemic, permanent inflammation in many different parts of our bodies.
It's a bit of a misnomer to say that only some virus survivors have long COVID. Only some people are exhibiting current symptoms of chronic illness that they can directly trace to an infection.
But EVERYONE HAS PERMANENT COVID DAMAGE AND ELEVATED INFLAMMATION.
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@nat my doctor said that no matter what people choose to believe, the fact is that COVID damages every organ in the body.
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We need to care SO MUCH about each other that we stop trying to go with the flow. We can't limit ourselves to change work that is popular and supported by our friends and families.
Because the same people who were all about "flattening the curve" and shaming Trumpists for flouting masks and shunning vaccines are now... not masking and not getting regular boosters, for reasons that have nothing to do with science and everything to do with peer pressure.
Y'all are capable.
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I don't have a nice cozy way to wrap this up. I'm frustrated, but I want to be encouraging. I'm seeing more and more people who get it. I just wish most of them didn't have to become disabled first.
You may have the opportunity to do something BEFORE you're disabled. You'll still have consequences at some point. But you can keep it from being worse. And you can protect others, and help others protect themselves, so in 50 years the world won't be dismayed by your hopeless inaction.
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@nat my doctor said that no matter what people choose to believe, the fact is that COVID damages every organ in the body.
@kimlockhartga This. And not just every organ, but your blood, in unusual ways that other viruses don't!!! Which is probably why it's so successful at spreading to every organ.
https://answers.childrenshospital.org/covid-19-inflammation/
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@nat (deep, weary sigh)
@atax1a I feel that 😭😭 And I share it. It's hard not to be an isolationist as COVID-aware people become more excluded from mainstream society.
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@kimlockhartga This. And not just every organ, but your blood, in unusual ways that other viruses don't!!! Which is probably why it's so successful at spreading to every organ.
https://answers.childrenshospital.org/covid-19-inflammation/
@nat I think we are just beginning to see what we've done by not taking it seriously enough. Reactivated Epstein Barr has pretty much triggered every autoimmune illness I have. All from one pesky virus.
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@nat I think we are just beginning to see what we've done by not taking it seriously enough. Reactivated Epstein Barr has pretty much triggered every autoimmune illness I have. All from one pesky virus.
@kimlockhartga Ugh, I'm so sorry 💔 Yeah, I even stopped masking for a while... I spent the early months of the pandemic obsessively following the science, but gradually felt okay about lowering my precautions around 2022 (esp after my first known COVID infection). I'm glad I learned more and changed my habits again but I've lost so many folks I cared about bc no one wants to make meaningful accommodations or change their own habits.
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I don't have a nice cozy way to wrap this up. I'm frustrated, but I want to be encouraging. I'm seeing more and more people who get it. I just wish most of them didn't have to become disabled first.
You may have the opportunity to do something BEFORE you're disabled. You'll still have consequences at some point. But you can keep it from being worse. And you can protect others, and help others protect themselves, so in 50 years the world won't be dismayed by your hopeless inaction.
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@nat Yes. Yes. All of the yes. Thank you.
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@nat Yes. Yes. All of the yes. Thank you.
@Fishercat It sure would be nice to be wrong about things like this 😫 thx for reading and sharing!
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I don't have a nice cozy way to wrap this up. I'm frustrated, but I want to be encouraging. I'm seeing more and more people who get it. I just wish most of them didn't have to become disabled first.
You may have the opportunity to do something BEFORE you're disabled. You'll still have consequences at some point. But you can keep it from being worse. And you can protect others, and help others protect themselves, so in 50 years the world won't be dismayed by your hopeless inaction.
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(The above thread brought to you by starting to read a book about inflammation WRITTEN IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWENTY TWENTY-FIVE that went after antidepressants as a cause in the first 20 minutes but hasn't yet mentioned COVID. Idk if I'll finish it but what do you want to bet it doesn't ever mention COVID, or clean air precautions.)
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@Fishercat It sure would be nice to be wrong about things like this 😫 thx for reading and sharing!
@nat It would be, but we're not.
Absolutely.
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(The above thread brought to you by starting to read a book about inflammation WRITTEN IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWENTY TWENTY-FIVE that went after antidepressants as a cause in the first 20 minutes but hasn't yet mentioned COVID. Idk if I'll finish it but what do you want to bet it doesn't ever mention COVID, or clean air precautions.)
@nat If you do finish it, and it's as bad as you think, maybe review it somewhere?
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(The above thread brought to you by starting to read a book about inflammation WRITTEN IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWENTY TWENTY-FIVE that went after antidepressants as a cause in the first 20 minutes but hasn't yet mentioned COVID. Idk if I'll finish it but what do you want to bet it doesn't ever mention COVID, or clean air precautions.)
@nat I'm too exhausted and unfocussed to read such a book...But are there any general easy tips that could help with exhaustion after a Covid infection?
After close to seven years of masking I had the...2nd? 3rd? infection and now I'm constantly exhausted and unfocussed (but maybe the lack of focus is just a result of the exhaustion).
I cannot focus enough to find out how to inprove this.
Every day is like after a bad night.
(Don't say ask a medical pro, they don't even believe this is real)
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A vanishingly small number of people can be certain they've never had COVID. By and large, these are people who have always taken a very high level of precautions, including regular **accurate** testing (not rapids).
The rest of us? We're waiting to see HOW our long covid shows up.
The best thing we can do is avoid further COVID infections.
Your Paleo diet will not save you from your decision not to wear a respirator.
Yoga and meditation cannot undo repeat COVID exposure.
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@nat Great post! People aren't willing to adjust their lifestyle so they will keep getting sick from covid. I hate how they are hiding this.
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@nat I'm too exhausted and unfocussed to read such a book...But are there any general easy tips that could help with exhaustion after a Covid infection?
After close to seven years of masking I had the...2nd? 3rd? infection and now I'm constantly exhausted and unfocussed (but maybe the lack of focus is just a result of the exhaustion).
I cannot focus enough to find out how to inprove this.
Every day is like after a bad night.
(Don't say ask a medical pro, they don't even believe this is real)
@nat Also, thank you for this thread. I'm glad someone said that.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Secondo fonti europee “appare probabile” un intervento americano in #Iran. Potrebbe avvenire entro 24 ore.
Questa informazione si basa su due fonti diplomatiche europee e un funzionario israeliano anonimi, non su un annuncio ufficiale statunitense.
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@simonett_a speriamo Simo. Sono molto preoccupato, ma anche orgoglioso delle loro lotte. Spero tanto che qualcuno li aiuti perché lottano con le pietre contro le milizie paramilitari armate fino ai denti ... Buona serata a teeeee
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@zinnschlag @afreytes interactive fiction/text adventures I would expect to be *utually* accessible, but the latter not so much; it largely depends on how they (re)paint the screen, as I've recently learned.
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> Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
-- Londo Mollari
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#Wikipedia compie 25 anni. L'età in cui esci di casa a cercare lavoro e scopri che te l'ha già fottuto l'IA.
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@bisonrimant OMG it's adorable 😍
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This is just insane:
Trump wants to start a war with Iran *AND* a war with the rest of NATO simultaneously?!?
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https://youtu.be/dKLrq4zmJpI
Continua l'#avanzata russa.
#Ucraina #analisimilitare
