Justine B
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"They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover Up" seen in Mother Jones, Slate, Daily Beast, NPR-WYPR, Baltimore Mag, FAIR, more.
Joined April 2009
It is the ten year anniversary of Freddie Gray's arrest and death in Baltimore. As an author of a book on the subject, based on unreleased evidence, I am going to *DEBUNK ONE MYTH EACH DAY* about what really happened. Starting with: . How was #FreddieGray actually killed? 1/.
#OTD, April 12, 2015, Baltimore PD killed Freddie Gray. @jewstein3000's book They Killed Freddie Gray digs into police archives to show Gray was fatally injured when cops threw him head first into a van. Cops, prosecutors, feds conspired to cover it up with "rough ride" story.
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I told my dad that disabled people aren't accepted as immigrants to almost every country in the world. He said, "what's my disability?". I pointed at his wheel rollator, without which he can't walk.
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Pelé died of Covid, not cancer. The media hadn’t been consistently telling the truth. I find this all very very weird.
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Three years ago disabled people warned you that the great unmasking (end of covid protections) was a sign of how we were slipping towards mass eugenics. I don't recall anyone listening.
Dire warning: 6.3 million people can die from AIDS if US cuts funding
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I saw a doctor recently on telehealth and he asked my weight. I knew it because I had weighed myself recently. So I said “around xx.” . He said, “should we say xy?” Which was seven pounds higher than I said. That’s how inherently unreliable most doctors think patients are.
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They would invite me in for the interview before him, but he thinks I'm disabled and he's not. "I didn't think they counted mobility.".
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My dad is a wise, cognitively abled man in his 80s. Please do not use this to mock, demean, or misdiagnose him. Not accepting one’s own disability is extremely normal for most of us. See the replies.
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I’ve been watching this Palestinian journalist’s videos and just seeing her own physical deterioration from lack of food and water while she keeps trying to report from the streets is horrific. It’s cameras in the death camps.
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Ok I don’t think I like this: let’s normalize people participating in society with a disability so that we don’t do standing ovations for just being “brave” enough to not disappear.
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@STEPHMHAMILL Women can be sex objects if they want, if it benefits them personally, professionally, or turns them on. When Channing Tatum strips, do you feel it puts all men at risk?.
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A doctor today said I don’t have asthma it’s anxiety based on nothing. I’ve been diagnosed by doctors with asthma since I was a toddler. I used pumps and vaporizers and have taken meds since childhood. I gathered my shit to walk out. She told me to sit. I lectured her and told….
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He also laughed when I pointed it out so he’s not burdened by shame either, though that is common and acceptable given the culture. We just don’t normalize disability so it didn’t occur to him . I didn’t expect this to take off. I was just sharing a funny anecdote at night.
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The latest bad Long Covid press says it resolves in a year. The source? Patients stop seeking treatment in a year. Yes we do that when you offer no help, especially when medicine isn’t free.
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The CVS near me is no longer offering a PCR test. Rapid tests cost $70. Without a positive test, you can’t get Paxlovid. I can’t imagine worse people running this country.
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🧵. I think @jonfavs and others don't understand. THIS is how Long Covid happens in the vast majority of cases (including mine):. 1. Someone has a relatively mild infection, is not hospitalized, feels "normal" in a couple of weeks, at most.
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@bbcease Youre going to get people killed @phillypolice. Not everyone can physically handle that spray. And people might fall. @PhillyMayor @DA_LarryKrasner.
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Biden normalized what people thought was horrible and aberrant in Trump.
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RFK’s son having long covid is just more evidence of what disabled people keep telling you: our family members are some of the biggest eugenicists around.
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The biggest lesson from the AIDS crisis was that many people were not going to stop engaging in risky practices, so we had to fight for imperfect mitigations . So, no, I can’t wrap my head around condemning people for masking at concerts.
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As many people said, Christina Applegate herself pointed out that all of the over-the-top applause was embarrassing and ableist . But we need to understand that the ovations given to disabled people for existing are almost always IN PLACE of jobs and actual accommodations. 1/.
Ok I don’t think I like this: let’s normalize people participating in society with a disability so that we don’t do standing ovations for just being “brave” enough to not disappear.
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I won’t speak up for all immunecompromised people but many of us gave up on the dream of socialization and just want to get groceries and see doctors.
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He died "of" Covid and "with" cancer. A lot of headlines are saying "after a long battle with cancer." . If he was hit by a car, they'd probably focus on that.
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Here is a fact that may make you uncomfortable: if you want to be considered an ally to disabled people, you need to wear. promote, and mandate masks. There are extremely few scenarios in which this isn’t a fact. You don’t have to be an ally tho.
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Biden says long covid for the first time on his way out after four years of stigmatizing and mocking protections, defunding vaccines, and lying about Covid being over.
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So we're just gonna pretend another million or so didn't die under Biden?.
BREAKING: For the first time ever, President Obama reveals that he handed over a detailed playbook on how to deal with pandemics, and Trump ignored it. "400,000 people would've been alive if Donald Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him."
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If you’re not paying attention, Canada is euthanizing disabled people instead of giving support. Okay if we call it eugenics now?.
This woman’s only known diagnoses are autism and ADHD. She was assessed for MAiD 4 times by 5 doctors and now has been given approval.
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A government that both recommends and criminalizes masking.
The best way to reduce your risk from seasonal flu is to get a #flu vaccine but preventive actions like taking steps for cleaner air or wearing a mask are two additional ways you can protect yourself and others this fall. More here:
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I've been saying since 2020 that athletes were getting hit the worst, and my Long Covid doctor confirmed it this year - her patients are mostly very active. But we got fed a narrative that it was people in poor shape or with pre-existing conditions that are the most at risk.
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It’s not the AIDS crisis, which was horrible but killed about 100,000 people in a decade in the US. Covid kills that many in six months. Minimizers don’t have much.
For the record, obviously Long Covid is a thing. What it’s not is the AIDS crisis nor is Biden anywhere close to Reagan. Jesus, folks. Social media has conditioned everyone to go DEFCON HYSTERICAL over every issue. The problem with that is once everything’s a crisis, nothing is.
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Asking people with Long Covid to support Biden is asking people with AIDS to support Reagan in the 80s. He won’t even name our illness, and he’s done everything he can to make it more widespread and less treatable. Indirectly he has also contributed to patient stigmatization.
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A common autistic experience is stating mild to moderate displeasure with things and having that be interpreted as extreme outrage or drama, because the other person wouldn’t be so comfortable expressing that displeasure unless they were that upset.
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I'm seeing a lot of tweets from Adderall patients frustrated that they're being lumped with opioid patients by the feds in restricted access. Opioid patients don't deserve this either!!! . Government eugenics will always expand until it's your own body at risk.
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In case you stopped paying, we no longer have . - Free or affordable accurate tests.- Data collection on cases and deaths.- Vaccines that have any relevance to current variants.- Accessible treatments.- ANY protection for immune compromised people.- Masks in healthcare settings.
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I also got in trouble for filming her even tho she gave permission . Finally a new doc took over for the night shift who did more for me in 5 minutes than the clowns for five hours before. But jeez. Physical therapy exercises for someone in excruciating post-op pain. A wild one.
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The thing I want to warn the newly disabled about is the first time you bring up needing accommodation in one of your communities. It doesn’t matter how nice or socially aware your community is. There’s a very high chance of a backlash - and from unexpected parties.
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… her that she doesn’t know my history, is not qualified to diagnose psychiatric conditions etc. It sucked but ultimately she put in for my xolair. I told her I would get her my records, even though she had all of my allergy tests. I’m side-eying though.
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OH LEMME ADD: He didn't doubt my blood pressure. So this was sexism.
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The rise in ableism on twitter (esp from the left) has a few causes. Disabled voices are louder and angrier with the Covid genocide. So there’s pushback. I also think more people are becoming disabled or becoming aware they are. A lot what we’re seeing is internalized ableism.
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She also said I was overly concerned about infection by masking. Eh fuck her but if I get my shots whatevs for now.
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Well, if you’re hoping that they’ll stop minimizing when long covid happens to them, I have bad news…
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@KristyRain @HooteyOwl @MikeSegalov @jackblack I have one of these! Jack Black was sitting ahead of me on the plane! He was listening to earphones and put them on the kid next to him and started head banging! For real. Thrashing his head around with a kid. School of Rock IRL.
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I want to add a few things I learned in my marriage as a chronically sick person (which didn’t work out): 1/.
Here’s the thing about a chronic illness or a medical vulnerability: it changes your life, and it’s not fun. And it’s not the vulnerable person’s job to compensate their partner for that change, because it’s not a choice they’re making, it’s a necessity of their condition.
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"Well if it's gonna happen, then it's gonna happen. Still gotta live my life.". [Gets Long Covid]. "Wait, how am I supposed to do anything or pay for anything or eat or sleep or walk?".
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Extra annoying because I don’t have anxiety, was super chill, and she knows my elevated heart rate is from POTS. My POTS/ME doc referred me.
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It’s a very rational fear and every one (but especially women with male partners) should have a plan b if they get sick in which they are abandoned. Men leave their sick partners at a rate of… about 50%.
A common and terrifying fear in many people with #LongCovid is that their partner, unable to tolerate their illness, will leave them. @CIBScenter @WesElyMD.
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I think Long Covid happened to both Leana Wen and Rochelle Walensky, two of the worst Covid minimizers. Leana had pneumonia in the summer and, after laughing about it, wrote about Long Covid. Rochelle had a long absence and was hurried out of her position after Covid 1/.
I wouldn't wish long COVID on my worst enemy. Why waste a wish on something that's going to happen anyway?.
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When the vaccines for Covid first emerged, disabled people were having a different conversation than the rest of you. You believed Biden and took off your masks. We were 1) looking at countries like Israel, where vaccination was widespread and disease was still rampant….
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Years ago, a PCP told me "You have the thing that we will be able to name in ten years." She was referring to me having MCAS/POTS/EDS and how the three are so strongly correlative but there's no one name for it. (And now also ME.) 1/.
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I’ve seeing a LOT of doctor lately on twitter saying “How did I not realize Covid is causing MECFS/PEM? This is terrible.” . But all of them get defensive when you point out that the information has been out there for years. And medicine has been failing. 1/.
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When you learn that it was always known that “chronic fatigue syndrome” was post-viral - that it was originally called “myalgic encephalomyelitis” because of that - but became “CFS” to minimize its seriousness and make it sound psychological………… 😡😡😡.
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As someone who has seen more than a hundred doctor, no they are 95% terrible . With respect, you don’t know how little they know and how much harm they do until you’re dealing with them constantly.
Some of yall have lost the plot. Sure, call doctors out and hold them accountable for their wrong behavior when it happens. but stop acting like doctors aren't a vital part of society.
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You guys don’t get it: I will never be able to get a job because I am medically advised to not be in person. And all of your get togethers and brunches have contributed to this.
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The left is so violently against disabled people’s needs every single week on here. Good luck with your movement. You’ve alienated a very large marginalized group.
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My main issue with Facebook long covid groups is people are so desperately sick, begging for help as their fourth and fifth infections plunge them into worse and worse disability, but they won’t mask. Many of them even say “I was doing so much better until I caught Covid again.”.
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Corporations know they can charge more in the US. They know they can charge for healthcare. They know there’s no regulation on rent, carcinogens in food and drinks, etc. they know they don’t have to hire us for jobs. They love it here.
In Germany these cost under US$4 over the counter. We're getting fleeced.
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Kindly just google search. The family gave a statement when he went into the hospital.
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Physical therapy to teach me exercises???? I could not move and just had surgery and was in screaming pain. I looked at them like they were crazy and they started making like I was a bad belligerent patient . When the PT came, I asked her if I could film the convo… 2/.
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She said yes. I asked, “when people have surgery and come back two days later in screaming pain, do you usually start them on exercises?”. She made it clear that we couldn’t do anything without pain control. For the next four hours, I was told maybe I needed to poop, etc 3/.
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When the healthiest people in the world keep dropping dead maybe listen to disabled people about Covid and exercise.
Longevity Expert Dr. Dies at 31.The Brazilian, Alisson Nunes specialized in weight loss, muscle development & prolonging life. He was found dead of cardiorespiratory arrest this week inside the apartment where he lived. h/t @NotOstriching. via @portalmvd.
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Guess what your decision not to wear a mask has contributed to?.
BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished.".
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Some lady posted that she’s had covid 8 times, three times while pregnant and now wonders if her lack of capacity and piles of issues are permenopause. She’s barely 40. Ladies: perimenopause doesn’t suddenly destroy your entire body a decade before menopause. Covid will!.
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Covid and tuberculosis are the same biohazard level.
A woman has been arrested and confined for refusing treatment and spreading TB. This is a weird disconnect. We're still enforcing some public health measures at the same time the CDC's official policy is for people to go to work sick with active COVID.
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Recently a POTS exercise expert tried to convince me that my PEM was deconditioning. I told her it happened instantly. I walked four miles a day. Caught Covid. Could never walk distances again… . So she said….
A study in Nature claimed exercise damaged people with post-exertional malaise from #LongCovid. We found this is NOT supported by their evidence: patients were deconditioned, the exercise was extreme, and there were no proper controls #MEcfs.
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Work from home (WFH) should be something labor activists, environmentalists, and urbanists are fighting for. They spend more time picking on disabled Instacart users.
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Apparently @billmaher went after people who still mask. It's medically advised for a lot of us. I have Long Covid. Seconds without a mask and four years later I'm bedbound. Why so much hatred towards the disabled Bill?.
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At the urgent care on Friday, a nurse asked why I was wearing a mask. "Do you have the flu? You'd better not have the flu and get me infected.". The minds.
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That lady is purposefully and continually centering caregivers in the disability struggle, even though they are often our source of abuse. Abled people are jumping on board because she’s giving them permission. Its a hate campaign, no different from the “autism moms” stuff.
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The rise in young people collapsing to their deaths is only encouraging anti-vax sentiments because our governments won’t acknowledge what Covid does to the heart and blood vessels.
Horrifying moment Brazilian gospel singer Pedro Henrique, 30, collapses and dies during performance, leaving behind a wife and newborn daughter
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My Dr called to talk through MRI results that show major compression to a nerve that affects the autonomic system. He said, “I just wanted to validate your symptoms. You won’t think you’re crazy.”. Doctors, I never thought I was crazy.
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Something I learned from my interview w Disability Rights NC’s policy director… . NC legislators were surprised by the pushback on the mask ban. They really didn’t realize how many of us still need to mask. For that… I blame Biden mostly….
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Well someone should tell all the scientists and doctors trialing AIDS drugs on long covid patients that they’re wrong and this person on twitter knows better.
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I had to remove my mask in a doctor's office today and was promised that everyone would wear the n95s I brought, but one asshole refused and snuck in the room. This asshole was picking on me all morning. And now I'm running a higher-than-normal fever.
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Gonna mute this because I thought that he died of Covid was fairly obvious, and some outlets have not left it out of their stories. I didn't realize it was a whole thing. My greater issue was with the media outlets *not even mentioning Covid*, the reason he was hospitalized.
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I think if people understood what the FDA and Pfizer are up to in this country they would riot. Why don't we still have home PCR tests?. Why don't we have nasal vaccine sprays?. Why don't we have Novovax - a stable broad vaccine with none of the MRNA side effects?.
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I can't believe that, in order to find out how bad Covid cases are near me, I have to look up an obscure chart that measures everyone's poop.
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In apocalyptic scenarios, people think it's best to sacrifice the weak or disabled first. But who has the experience to survive being disabled? That's who you should keep around. The rest of you need at least a few years to get used to surviving without abilities.
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2. They get back to their routine - moderate exertion at home and work, exercise, etc. 3. A few weeks or so later, they suddenly feel some kind of pain/weakness/dizziness upon exertion. They push through or rest. It doesn't matter. 4. The next day, they are immobilized.
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“This brand of person” is a euphemism for disabled people.
Didn’t realize this brand of person is still at it on here. Impressive stamina.
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The portrayal of disabled activists as part of a cult of loserdom and whining is a successful distraction from the reality of the bottomless survival challenges you face once disabled and how nearly half of all homeless people in the US are disabled.
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Risk averse is good when 30 year olds are having heart attacks and strokes from a virus.
I honestly can’t stop thinking about this and I think it’s the realization that “self-care” has become a cover for being totally anti-social and risk averse.
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Many politicians and health leaders seem to be discovering Covid is dangerous, harms blood vessels and potentially every organ in the body. The CDC is recommending masks. All of this was known in 2021 when they all pivoted away from masks and declared Covid over. They lied.
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Well I need two surgeries that I can’t have because of mass Covid spread and some of you are celebrating reckless superspreader events. Sorry if I hate everyone, but it does seem like you all hate me.
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More people have died of Covid in four years in the US than of AIDS in 40 years. That’s because the first is airborne and the second is an STD. So basing Covid policy and practice on AIDS history, as some are demanding, may not make sense.
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Does anyone remember the phrase “opportunistic infections” being discussed during the height of the AIDS-era? How immune dysfunction would bring on deadly infections? . Welcome to the AIDS-era of Covid.
Don’t wanna alarm anyone with merely anecdotal evidence but hey why does everyone have walking pneumonia right now.
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They've been trying to sink Novovax every year and it should be an anti-trust violation.
🚨More fuckery from the FDA 🚨. Rumors about them signing off on mRNA vaccines soon, but unclear if they'll sign off on Novavax, who submitted their vaccine for approval before Pfizer and Moderna. This is the exact gatekeeping BS they pulled last year.
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15. They are back to zero, back to needing months in bed. This is Long Covid, start to finish, in most cases. I didn't even include how many foods can become impossible to eat, how chronic tinnitus or vertigo or allergies can start up.
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8. But it happens again! They are, again, made immobilized by the littlest bit of activity this time. Making dinner, a shower, a short walk, a day of work. 9. They are exhausted, dizzy, but they can't sleep it off. 10. They literally never recover. They have to stop working.
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Also why do so many doctors think blood pressure lowers upon standing in POTS? Do they not read diagnostic manuals? POTS is defined by elevated heart rate on standing WITH NO corresponding blood pressure drop. That’s called orthostatic hypotension. Not a biggie but. .
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5. They are sick/nonfunctional for a few days or longer. It feels like a wall around them, pressing into them. 6. They wonder if they have Covid again. It feels like it, maybe. But also like something else. 7. They recover and get back to things, maybe more cautiously.
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Are they protecting her health with masks? Are they giving her jobs?? Or just standing up cheering until they shuffle her off stage because they’re uncomfortable?.
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Not to mention the study never said this. It was only funded to measure brain development until 25. Evidence suggest the correct continues developing and changing.
y’all are gonna “the prefrontal cortex doesn’t finish developing until 25” your way into disenfranchising 18–24 year olds of their right to vote.
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For people who have to mask: do you all have one person who doesn't mask where it breaks your heart more than anyone else?. For me, it's a friend I had that really really pretended to be on our side for so long. Then suddenly, it was offensive to bring it up and now I'm blocked.
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11. If they are unable to rest, due to their employment, they get worse and worse, until it becomes impossible. Or they have a stroke or heart attack, at a young age. 12. If they can radically rest, they may feel better after 6 months to a year. .
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16. I should have added: The continual relapses don't happen immediately. They often feel amazing and do too much because they don't feel the limit. The disease doesn't hit until the next day or later that week. It's a mind fuck.
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Since this is more controversial than I realized, the hospital doesn't determine cause of death. That's autopsies (and they aren't perfect either.) The hospital has discussed "multi-organ failure" as a result of his disease. That doesn't exclude Covid as cause of death. .
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Lemme tell you something about Novovax: it has good results and zero side effects. So the administration made it nearly impossible to get and now they are cancelling it. Please tell me they don’t want us sick and dead for profit.
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