Turn 36 today & I’ve spent my entire thirties with #LongCovid. When I turned 30 I was biking to work 10 miles a day, & since my mild covid infection — I struggle to walk more than a block or work more than a few hours a week. Here’s 4 things I wish everyone knew:

People seem to have forgotten that, in the years before effective HIV treatments existed, many people lived and worked quite normally with HIV for a *long* time. Sometimes close to a decade.

Applies outside California too! Applies to "super" flu as well as other airborne infections. I can't believe that given the choice between simple precautions and influenza, so many choose the latter.

🏥 | "It’s infuriating to witness a preventable crisis unfold. It’s placing intolerable strain on the NHS workforce and endangering vulnerable patients." @drmattuk warns the NHS faces a ‘state of preventable emergency’ as the flu outbreak escalates. https://t.co/ybfYuO1BsO

"This salmonella season you should consider cooking your chicken".

6+ years now, and still, instead of acknowledging and protecting ourselves from what caused the trauma we're all "why is everything shit" and "won't somebody think of the economy".

Please, my friend, take note that you have lived through six years of Covid-19. And please, my friend, take care for you are living through year seven of Covid-19. * A compendium of the 300th week of plague poems… https://t.co/aIk3dTGQ5G

Five simple facts about masks:

So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

Check out these graphics posted this week by the Heart Foundation of Australia - not too mild, is it?

Quite brave of a politician who faked her CV to mock the leader of a rival party for being honest about his

🧵1️⃣ It’s UK Budget Day - so here’s a budget #RachelReeves hasn’t announced: a proper Long Covid Budget. We've estimated the real economic burden of Long Covid at £12-15 BILLION A YEAR. At a £ a minute that puts us back in 26,500 BC - the Late Upper Paleolithic 😳 #Budget2026

Wearing a mask in crowded indoor settings this fall can protect you and others from COVID-19, flu, and RSV, even if you don’t have symptoms. Well-fitting masks, like N95s, KN95s, or KF94s provide the best protection: https://t.co/GSNg7r7fQF

The five things you need to know if you're just realising that it's bad for you to keep catching Covid:

Why do I keep speaking out about Covid? Why do I think clean indoor air is imperative for schools? Let me tell you a story. I was 46 when I first caught Covid. It changed my life and turned our family's world upside down. 🧵 1/

There has been a welcome fall in Covid infection levels in England. However, the risk level remains HIGH, and people should not even think of relaxing precautions. Around 1 in every 136 people in England were infected as of 26 October. https://t.co/Uhjygv1hVz

Fuck COVID. And fuck everyone ignoring/minimizing/denying it.

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POTS is a common symptom of #LongCovid - insist on screening if you have LC or experience worsened symptoms when standing compared with seated/lying down.