Dreamy Run
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'Someone who knows what they're talking about.' ABD PhD, social science. LongCovid (Feb. 2020) & related illness (POTS, ME, etc.). 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Joined August 2021
Here's a thread of my "greatest hits." Stand up to cancer. #MaskUp. https://t.co/0jeiPc6wOA
Message for anyone who has ever "stood up to cancer" by completing a Terry Fox Run, donating money, wearing a ribbon, etc.: there is something simple you can do —today— to reduce cancer deaths: wear an N95/FFP2+ mask indoors. Who knows, your kind act may even save your own life.
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If you're triggered by masks in 2025, check your reactance, trauma, and cognitive dissonance. The Man told you to take off your mask four years ago. If you ditched your mask, you're the sheep. 2/2
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Some people were so blinded by psychological reactance from mask mandates in 2020 they failed to notice when masking switched from indicating “sheep's obedience to scams of the Man” to indicating free thinkers’ sensible adaptation to an ongoing threat. 1/2 https://t.co/yB7rswH3L9
@HughThunkIt Of course, mandates also induce psychological reactance (negative visceral reaction to perceived threat to freedom) among many people. And pw reactance tend to be very loud & well supported in some parts of society, so mandates could also have a negative boomerang effect.
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A lot of us think Violet is spectacular, @BenAffleck. She's a godsend to those of us with Long Covid who are mostly suffering alone, w/o the support of the medical profession, much less the help of big-name advocates. Her solidarity & well reasoned eloquence give many of us hope.
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Nice to see sentiments like this by a random neurologist in a random medical thread.
@dawso007 @IlliasulK This case aside, one of these days we are going to find the underlying cause or causes of what we term, chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS, and it isn’t going to be psychological.
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All this to say, if you're a "capitalist" & are concerned about the economy, you should also be very concerned about Long Covid. The more people we allow to get sick & disabled before reimplementing a Swiss-cheese model of prevention, the worse off we all will be. #CleanTheAir
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Of course, the suffering of people with Long Covid, particularly those with severe forms who are tortured every second of every day, is not even quantifiable. If we wait to react, we could lock in many additional future cases that could've been prevented.
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If an additional .05% of workers drop out of the workforce due to Long Covid every year, all else equal (e.g., the sick dropouts aren't replaced by healthy immigrants), a GDP cost of 4% would likely appear at around 4.8 years — that is, right about now.
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Lost income among people with Long Covid in the US has been estimated at $1 trillion in the first two years of the pandemic alone. This corresponds with an annual loss of 1.6% of the 2025 US GDP. The Great Recession corresponded with a GDP drop of 4%. https://t.co/v5ddTCfGkW
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The Long Covid economic spiral is also ever increasing because (a) the per-infection risk of LC appears to be increasing over time, and (b) many long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 have likely already been triggered but have yet to manifest themselves. https://t.co/rt2wlW0ucY
If Sc2 really is carcinogenic, waiting decades for the epi data will lock in a long tail of disease. (This is a good time to introduce https://t.co/031a0MAibg, a neat collab with @gckirchoff that features interactive widgets that illustrate complex sciencey stuff.) (12/)
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When the healthcare sector collapses, more people die and become disabled, leading to an ever-increasing spiral of worker shortages. https://t.co/dsai08ufvH
SHOCKING The tan bar shows the PERCENT of Emergency Room CLOSURES
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When the education sector collapses, a large proportion of the national workforce is forced to leave their jobs to care for children, and if the collapse is long term, highly educated workers would no longer be available for sectors requiring them. https://t.co/ZnKDswFeZW
@bristolboudicca @Keir_Starmer Illness absence is ~40% higher than pre-pandemic for both pupils AND teachers. Air filters would significantly reduce the spread of airborne illnesses. If supply costs were reduced to pre-pandemic levels, it would save ~£61 PER PUPIL. For a class of 30 kids, that saves ~£1.8K!
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When the shortage predominantly affects working-age women and people in public-facing roles, the first sectors to collapse would be expected to include education and health care.
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When the reason for a decreasing worker supply is disability, the economic loss is a triple whammy of less personal consumption *and* less tax revenue *and* more people drawing down the taxpayer-supported security net.
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Imagine what would happen if no knowledgeable nuclear-power-plant technicians were left on the job. Each of us depends on vast networks of people for everything from consumer products to food production to home construction to social order to sanitation. https://t.co/y1aa1gDGBW
Check out this fascinating & insightful new video from @john_mauriello ⤵️ Why Simple Everyday Objects Are Impossible to Make https://t.co/OhlC4pAO4U
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Production and consumption drop. Services cannot be performed. Institutional knowledge gets lost as workers suddenly drop out of their jobs before they can properly train any replacements.
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As we saw at the beginning of the pandemic, when workers are unavailable, the economy quickly falters. Supply chains are disrupted, leading to shortages not only of consumer goods and raw materials, but also of life-sustaining medications and other medical supplies.
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When the supply of workers in an economy decreases, production gets limited and consumption also decreases, leading to further production cuts. As the economy weakens, decreasing consumer confidence exacerbates the problem. https://t.co/YKrF0sWhAB
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As @arijitchakrav said, this one’s for the “but the economy” crowd. (Obviously, disabled people are contributors, not drains, to society. But deliberately sickening and disabling people is no bueno.)
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A 13.1% ↑ in people leaving the workforce due to disabling chronic illness may not sound like much, but that's .05% of the population per yr. If every 2 yrs, 1/1000 of the workforce is transformed from economic spigots to drains, it won't be long before the economy is in crisis.
Direct evidence for a point that I’ve been making for a while- “let it rip” has contributed to labor shortages (which are a driver for stagflation). This one’s for the “but the economy” crowd: https://t.co/VV3qjGERJ1
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King Charles & Princess Kate are among the highest-status people in the world. Can you imagine if one of their doctors informed them of the risks of SARS2 & the benefits of respirators? Can you imagine the good @RoyalFamily would do by wearing respies at public appearances?
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