Alisa Valdes, Novelist
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📍NM I write. I coffee. I mogul. 1+ million novels in print.
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My new novel is weirdly about a man who frames bears for the murders he commits.
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"I don't feel sorry for congress at all. Oh, I'm sorry, did you have to hide under your desk because of guns? Wah wah wah. I've only had to do that six times since kindergarten. School is terrifying. Maybe now they'll pass gun reform." - one of my 9th grade students, today
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Can't wait for the Oppenheimer buzz to die. The bomb those men built? They dropped in on New Mexico to test it. On my mother. She was 18 months old, in the fallout zone. Of the 21 girls in her high school class, 17 had leukemia. Tell THAT fucking story, Hollywood.
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My son's dad left me for his current wife. I stayed single, raised my son alone. When he was 15 I said I was glad he had his "other parents" to model a relationship because I couldn't. My son said, "You taught me something more important, which is how to be happy on my own." 😭
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This quote, from the
@nytimes
review of the OPPENHEIMER film: "He served as director of a clandestine weapons lab built in a near-desolate stretch of Los Alamos, in New Mexico"...
It was inhabited by Hispanos. They were given less than 24 hr to leave. Their farms bulldozed. 1
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Why is he wearing glasses on his face? I don't need glasses.
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Yesterday I had a Zoom call with a famous AfroLatina actress who told me she has been trying to get the rights to one of my books for 20 years. I had repeatedly told my TV/film agents I wanted to work with her. Her handlers and my handlers never introduced us. 1/
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The mechanism of SARS2? Endothelial damage. In plain English? Covid-19 fucks up the lining of your blood vessels. All 60,000 miles of it. Blood vessels lack nerves. You feel OK as it eats your arteries. Doesn't mean it's "mild." It means the endothelium isn't innervated.
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I asked my friend in Cuba today if they're still wearing masks. "Of course we are," she said. "Covid still exists."
Cuba has one of the highest triple-vaccinated rates in the world, 99% over age 2 are vaccinated.
Average 1 death per day.
Still masking, even outdoors. By law.
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The lesson here, folks, is that the establishment doesn't respect any of us. They have their "'proven" way of doing things. Talent and fan base don't matter to too many of these handlers. 3/
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But, no. We want more films about the "complex and troubled" "heroic" white men, who conducted their GENIUS in a "virtually unpopulated" place. These are ALL lies. This is mythology in service to white supremacy and the military industrial complex, masquerading as "nuanced." 8
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My agents seemed to have decided she wasn't important enough for my book, and her agents decided I wasn't important enough for her acting/producing. For TWO DECADES. I just thought she wasn't interested. Then, she contacted me on her own. 2/
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Loyda Martinez. KNOW HER NAME. One of the bravest and most important women in American history.
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TWENTY YEARS of us telling our teams we wanted to meet, and no one allowing that to happen.
This is another way we are kept small. They keep us from one another.
If you are a Latinx creator and you want to meet a writer or actor or producer etc, just find them yourself. END
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I straight-up cried in the Zoom call. It was just her and me. No agents. No managers. Talking like old friends. I could not believe she'd ever even heard of me. Her eyes lit up and she said my book was "life-changing" for her. 4/
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For 20 years I have been trying to sell a film based on the story of Loyda Martinez, a remarkable whistleblower whose family's land was seized for the labs. Her dad was one of the men who died from beryllium exposure at the labs. She later went to work there too. 5
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To be clear, i am NOT talking about my amazing literary agent.
I am talking about film and TV agents at the big Hollywood agencies who look at me and my work as "niche" and unimportant.
Those agents no longer work for me.
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Internal documents show they initially sought to test it on "a third world country" but worried about diplomatic relations. They opted to drop it on rural New Mexico because it was "nothing but cows and Mexicans" out here.
Tell THAT fucking story.
Stop glorifying monsters.
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Many of those families had been on the same land for centuries. The Oppenheimer's crew literally shot all their livestock through the head and bulldozed them. People fled on foot with nowhere to go. Land rich, money poor. Their land seized by the government. 2
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Because of what the labs did to the local Hispano people in northern NM, our communities now have the highest rates of heroin overdose deaths in the nation. The generational trauma and forced poverty is outrageous. We need the real stories of Oppenheimer to be told. END
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The Hispano men all died of berylliosis. These were US citizens, folks. Their land taken, animals killed, farms bulldozed, forced to work for the people who took everything from them, and killed by those people. 4
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She is a computer whiz who rose to the top of her department at Los Alamos. Then she started digging for info on the Hispano men the labs killed, like her father. She filed a class action lawsuit, and won. 6
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This is him, six foot two, very patiently listening to his less-tall Cuban grandpa tell the same story about how much better tomatoes were in the old country, for the 4000th time.
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My son showed up for his job interview in an N95 mask. The receptionist told him he didn't have to wear it, and he kindly replied, "I know, thanks," and continued wearing it. The interviewer didn't mention it or ask about it and offered him the job.
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Loyda's mother and father. Her dad was driven off their family's land when Oppenheimer and the US government seized it to make the labs. They then hired him, made him work with berrylium without protective gear (his white bosses got PPE) and he died of berryliosis, like many did.
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All of the Hispano NM men who were displaced by the labs later were hired to work with beryllium by Oppenheimer. The white men got protective gear. The Hispano men did not. 3
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A friend with Long Covid, also an empty nester and divorced, in her 60s, reached out today. Her kids have moved away. Parents gone. She said she has no one left and is ready to end it all. I told her she has me. I'm driving to Texas next month to bring her back to live with me.
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My son still wears a respirator, mostly to protect me, his immunocompromised mother. He lost his grandma to covid and doesn't want to lose me, too. People mock him. He is shy and on the spectrum, yet holds his ground. He is the bravest and most compassionate 22-year-old I know.
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The first Hispano governor of NM, Bill Richardson, appointed Loyda to run the state's human rights commission. She then filed a second class-action against Los Alamos, on behalf of women scientists not paid fairly. 7
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And tou know what sucks? Nuclear weapons are such a huge industry here that I am actually worried that tweeting angrily about my government giving my mother cancer and a brain tumor will get me in trouble with prospective employers. This is the world I inhabit here.
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Also, her current management is amazing and reached out repeatedly.
The problem was my film and TV reps in the past, I think
Ni modo. We good now
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How it's going....
He's 21 now. An economist.
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Us.
His sign: "This is what a feminist looks like."
He made it himself. 😭🥳
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By literary I mean book. My boik agent is amazeballs.
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"Yes, we understand and we are sorry you're so upset. You do realize using the F word will offend people, right?"
But not radiating toddlers. That's not offensive at all.
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New Mexico had only been a US state for 30 years at that point.
We were not even human to men like Oppeheimer.
My great grandfather was a sheep rancher. Up before dawn that morning. He though the sun rose twice that day.
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@SSSupervillain
@nytimes
It's possible because the narrative of history belongs to the victors.
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@GOTGOONED
@nytimes
You're going to need better google and research skills. I'm not your mama. Do your homework, fool.
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Like, I should just allow my mom to take one for the team, as a baby who had a nuclear bomb literally dropped on her by her own government. The labs are among the biggest employers in my state. Everyone is beholden to them in some way. I'm tired yall
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"But Alisa, this sounds SCARY!"
Yeah. No shit. Fear is a blessing. Fear exists to warn us about things that CAN HARM US. Covid is fucking scary. If you aren't afraid of covid you are either misinformed or you're an idiot.
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Two years ago I was my doctor's first and only Long Covid patient. At my appointment today she told me she now has many. "Young, fit people. Kids. Just not getting better. Just really sick." She looked like she wanted to cry.
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But you'll notice: Your heart beats too hard now. You feel things you didn't used to. If that capillaries die in your inner ear, you might not hear as well. You might hear ringing. People will say this is Long Covid. But here's a secret: It's just covid. This is what it does.
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@Sopal452
No. She didn't. She has had health problems all her life, all of them related to being exposed to high doses of radiation. One of them, a brain tumor, changed her entire personality over the 30 years it was growing undetected in her head, and destroyed our family.
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Friend decided he was "over" sars2. Joined a bowling team. Karaoke at bars. I begged him to stop. He said he'd assessed his risk. Felt safe. He got sars2 last week. Now hospitalized. All to sing karaoke. This is an evolutionary bottleneck. Failure to adapt is death.
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Didn't expect to go viral. Thank you all, for caring about the downwinders like my mom.
If New Mexico's real history interests you, check out my new novel, HOLLOW BEASTS.
Recently signed a deal with actress Gina Torres to develop for TV! xoxo
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So now imagine that those processes can't happen. Or can't happen like they used to. Your skin starves. Your kidneys get polluted. Your labs look normal. Your brain dies a little. Your eyes go bad. You don't die. Your government tells you you're fine. It was mild!
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A divorced mom tries to keep her kids covid safe. The father says she's insane for doing more than
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Everyone is in on the lie. If you send your kids into the world to get this artery-killing virus over and over, you're in on the lie. You'd never let them smoke and drink, because you care about their hearts. But Covid is worse. We tell you this. Show you studies. You don't care.
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Here is the public health communication Cubans are getting texted to them on their phones. I believe this refers to what we call JN.1 here. My cousin just sent it to me. I will translate at the end of the thread.
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@momurgr8
Thing is, they don't tell you when they gatekeep. They just direct your attention elsewhere. Just found out a TV/film agent told a different producer the rights to a different book of mine were unavailable. That wasn't true. Agent has been fired.
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I feel a solidarity. Solidarity with all the other people who see what's happening. What's being allowed to happen by people who know and don't care. We are living through a dark time. And you know what? It is quite likely the darkest time in human history. Right now.
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Long Covid is a disease of the capillaries. Most people I know with LC were athletes, like me. I was a fitness trainer, runner, dance teacher for decades. Turns out athletes have 200% more capillarization than sedentary folks. Maybe the truth is, LC is more common in fit people.
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Your overlords have misled you, and you have lapped it up because you like authority and dislike being scared. You want to trust them. It's easier than realizing the people who are supposed to care, don't. They don't care if you die. They don't care if you're sick.
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Holy sh*t. It has been only hours since my 1st dose of Paxlovid, but it's doing something. Strong weird metallic grapefruit taste in mouth, but tightness in my chest is GONE and I can take a full deep breath. Heart rate, which had remained up at 86 after my walk, dropped to 64.
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The only person in my life who always takes every precaution against sars2 is an introverted 22-year-old marathon-runner in excellent health. He's the lone masker in his college classes and at his job, to protect ME.
My son wants me to live. 🥰
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I shut comments down. There's only so much "There was no other way to stop Hitler than nuking your mom on American soil when she was a toddler, and you are just another woke bitch for being sad about your mom's lifelong cancers and tumors" a girl can take.
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So, what happens when the endothelium is damaged? Well, the first thing to go are your capillaries and arterioles. They're the smallest blood vessels. One endothelial cell thick. If the endothelium is damaged, they can disappear, get clogged, leak. This won't show up on Xray.
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@limits_stop
My mother lived on a farm 87 miles from ground zero. The day the bomb was detonated, there were monsoon storms and winds that carried the mushroom cloud over her town, and rained. Her milk was from their cow. Well water. Gardens veggies. Her life was ruined that day, at 18 mo old
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It's not over. Americans are lazy as fuck. Easily bored. Attention span shorter than that of a goldfish, according to science. Whiny. Tired of playing covid, so let's just stop playing covid now. Let's do a laugh emoji when you try to warn us, because covid is boring.
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What happens when your microvessels get fucked up? Microvessels are where all the exchanges that keep you alive take place. Oxygen gets from your lungs to your blood there. Nutrients get from your intestines to your blood there. The bad stuff is filtered out there.
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Your doctors? Most don't care, either. They are automatons. Med school weeded out the creative thinkers. They'll give you inadequate tests because the AMA hasn't come up with adequate tests yet. No one is thinking. They follow lists someone else wrote.
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Two close friends who ignored my pleas to stop going to restaurants, parties, etc, who thought my Long Covid was rare and due to some flaw in me personally, now both have disabling Long Covid. Both are extroverts who can't tolerate solitude or "pessimism." Welp.
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Long Covid is now as common as asthma in the US. Imagine being a doctor who doesn't believe asthma is real or worth treating.
1 in 15 US adults have Long Covid—& that’s not including everyone starting to wonder why they’re still struggling after their Jan/Feb infections, everyone wondering why they’re still struggling after “that weird flu” a year ago, or everyone w/ asymptomatic acute infections
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Using a CRP test to look for microvascular damage is like using the naked eye to look for distant galaxies. Won't work. Your doctor will say this means you're fine. Men like your doctor threw Galileo in a tower without ever looking in his telescope.
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Friend with covid: I feel awful.
Me: So sorry. It sucks.
Friend: Well it can't last forever.
Me: Actually...it can. And you've watched me and millions be sick for more than two years. How is it you think that can't happen to you?
Friend: I don't want to think about that.
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My son, 22, who had Long Covid and POTS for most of 2020 and early 2021, ran 18 miles today, preparing for his first marathon next month.
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@rbottoms
@Nina_Metz
Tell me you don't understand film financing without telling me
Podcast, maybe.
Working on it.
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We beat everyone by being brave. So we beat covid by getting bored and saying we weren't afraid of a little cold, while that "cold" ate our arteries. I watch all of this and feel...something. What, exactly, I can't say anymore. Used to be despair. Despair that you're this dumb.
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Long Covid update. So, yeah. I'm getting worse again. Brain. Veins. Nerves. I don't mean to alarm anyone, but many first wavers are tanking at the 3.5 year mark. It does feel like this might be a death sentence. Trying to make peace with that because what the hell else can I do.
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So, how do we do it? How did the enlightened people live through dark times in the past? How is it done? This, I don't know. But I think that's what we need to learn now. There's no one left to be educated. They either know and don't care, or they don't care to know.
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Mutations are what cause evolution. Most of you don't believe in evolution. You don't believe in covid. So you sure as hell don't care about mutated covid viruses. You believe in bullying. It's what we do, as a people. We puff up our chests. We beat them. We beat everyone.
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I knew the collective delusions before. Lived with the marginalizations and dehumanizations every day. The lack of equity. Not fun. But I could live with that. I can't live with this. How do I avoid the air of this shared atmosphere? How do I avoid the breath of fools?
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I will never forget how I, as a US citizen, could not afford the health care I needed in my own country in 2007 even though I had insurance, and Cuba, the nation my dad left at age 15, took me in as one of their own anyway, and gave me care at a Havana hospital for free.
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As for the guy who thought it was cool to shrug in my comments and say "Oh well, it was worth it" to me about my own mother's pain and suffering? Somebody check his backyard for bodies. Pretty sure there are lots of pets missing in his neighborhood, too.
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This is how it works in a society that is not beholden to the fucking Koch brother(s) and dark billionaire fascist money. You mask until everyone is safe.
Everyone.
The US has fallen 100% to white supremacy and eugenecists, and no one cares. Incredible.
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Despair that your stupidity will kill us all. It will seem slow. It's not slow. It will be lightning quick, in geologic time. In evolutionary time. Carlin was right. We are a cul de sac. An evolutionary cul de sac. And so it's not despair anymore. I feel this other thing.
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The president said covid is over, and you believed him. Many of you thought it never existed. Many of you who thought that have died of covid. Or will. You cannot express your regrets for being that stupid once you're already dead, so you are very quiet about this now.
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Day 4 on Paxlovid. Improvements have held. I feel good. Like the old me. Stunned.
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When my son, then 19, went to the ER in 2020 with post-covid tachycardia and POTS, the only thing they did was test the young brown man with a Spanish surname for drugs. He was a National Merit Scholar and marathon runner. The RAGE, people. I still feel it.
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Had a Zoom with clients recently. Of the 5 people there, all teachers, none knew of Long Covid. One said a 1st grader where she teaches just dropped dead. Another said she had Covid 4 months ago and still can't breathe right...1/3
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One of my friends ignored my pleas to stop being reckless about getting covid over and over. "I've had it, and I was fine," she said.
She got it a 4th time in sept and is surprised how bad it has been. She's not getting better 3 months later. She's asking for advice now.
Sigh.
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but I've recovered from
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One of my good-time-only friends heard I was feeling better and immediately invited me out to a restaurant. I'm like...dude. I am NEVER going to a restaurant again. "But you're better now." Yeah, and I want it to stay that way. So many think you can't get this virus again.
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Seeing tons of posts from people getting covid-19 despite their N95 masks. I have no financial choice but to start a new day job tomorrow, in person, in an office where only one other person masks. There is no safe way to do this, is there? Needing to work is risking my life.
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I'm seeing SO MANY people posting their + tests this week, getting infected in N95 masks. Is Paxlovid even working for the newer variants? I can't believe this is the world we live in. Forced mass endless infection with a disease that destroys the brain, heart and blood vessels.
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Two friends who have allowed their kids to keep getting reinfected at school "so they can be normal" now tell me their teen daughters have Long Covid. One kid keeps pushing through sports only to crash the next day. These are all people who told me I was rare, they were fine.
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An old friend just called me the "Queen Covid" and mocked me for still taking precautions against a disease that nearly killed me and did kill my son's beloved grandmother. When a society becomes this sadistic it seem to me to have stopped being a society at all.
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Not sure who needs to hear this but being vaccinated does NOT prevent Long Covid. I was recently on a radio show with the head of a major health-care company who said being vaccinated prevents Long Covid. Either she was lying or doesn't know the truth. Either way she was wrong.
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Starting thread of how I eat in a day to keep my Long Covid in remission. Symptom-free for 9 weeks, I am not recovered. If I deviate from my protocol, symptoms return. This is not medical advice, just my story. 1/n
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I am up past midnight writing songs. I have my full vocal range back for the first time in 25 months. Paxlovid has cured my Long Covid, at least for now. No one is more astonished than I am. I have so much energy and feel so normal. I never thought I'd feel like this again.
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New findings, 3+ years into Long Covid. My brain MRI yesterday showed small blood vessel disease of the brain, areas of white matter hyperintensities from either ischemia or demyelinatiom. I was in perfect health in Feb 2020. Now I have the brain of an 80-year-old chain smoker.
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Words matter in this battle.
BRAIN DAMAGE, not brain fog.
PARESIS, not fatigue.
PERMANENT ORGAN DAMAGE, not GI issues.
WIDESPREAD, not rare.
PERMANENT SENSORY LOSS, not "temporary loss of smell or taste," "blurry vision," or "temporary tinnitus."
Science needs poets.
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With Covid cases going vertical in NM I asked to please be allowed to do my keynote for a big childhood health conference in ABQ remotely this week. The organizers, who admitted having gotten covid two weeks ago at another such conference, fired me and demanded the deposit back.
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