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Your 🎯 writing deserves to be read way beyond Twitter. And there's a sizeable and growing community of C/LC folks here now.

And I can’t shake the feeling that Covid did not just pass through us. It altered how we process emotion. How we read one another in the space between words. It shortened patience. It thinned empathy until it moves through us without weight or warmth. The invisible threads that once bound people together now fray the moment they begin.

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Sometimes I wonder if it is just me. Or if something fundamental broke inside every one of us the moment Covid arrived. I had a baby in 2020, and somewhere between the raw survival of newborn nights and Long Covid illness, the world slipped out of alignment. Now I can’t tell what changed more, me or the rest of humanity. I still try to build friendships. They begin warm, effortless, almost luminous. Then something falters. A tone lands wrong. Or a silence between us stretches one heartbeat too long. And just like that, they vanish from my life.

🎯🧵 by @envidreams.bsky.social on XTwitter about our current Covid reality:

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Fierce either way. 😉

Thank you for this visual metaphor, Dr. Fernando. 🤣 & 🎯

Me looking at the hectic Monday I planned by mistake.

This is a 'gossamer worm' (genus Tomopteris) & unlike their benthic polychaete cousins they live their whole lives floating free in ocean currents (holoplanktonic).

They're bioluminescent, with a fluid-filled central coelom & a thin layer of muscle driving their parapodia (paddles?)

ALA Clean Air School Symposium NOTE: All times listed below are in Central Time. Agenda times and order of topics are subject to slight change. 10:00 AM: Opening Remarks + The Case for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) 10:50 AM: Core Elements and the Intersection of IAQ and Energy Efficiency 11:25 AM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 11:55 AM: Break 12:05 PM: Taking Action: 6 Key Drivers 12:35 PM: How to Make it Happen - Programs and Resources for Schools 12:50 PM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 1:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Adjourn Featured Speakers Speaker list and bios coming soon!

The American Lung Association is hosting a 3.5-hour virtual "Clean Air School Symposium" on May 5.

Register: action.lung.org/site/TR?fr_i...

My optometrist is still rocking an N95 in 2026. Every year. He cares & it shows. I actually look forward to my annual eye exams because I am safe & the ventilation is good too. Plus, fun new glasses 🤓

You Should Be More Freaked Out by Shingles The viral infection leaves millions with chronic pain, increased stroke risk, and lifelong nerve damage—yet vaccination rates remain dangerously low.

My wife still has painful episodes, 9 years after she contracted shingles: www.wired.com/story/shingl...

Direct link to the preprint mentioned 👆

Risk assessment of cardiac arrhythmias in the early post-COVID-19 period in non-hospitalized patients—long-term data from the PoLoCOV-CVD study (Apr 16, 2026)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

[ FREE PDF available ]

Risk assessment of cardiac arrhythmias in the early post-COVID-19 period in non-hospitalized patients—long-term data from the PoLoCOV-CVD study 🚨I’ve warned you already many times: Mild COVID = HEART RISK! ➡️Interesting Polish study analysed 893 non-hospitalized adults with no prior cardiovascular disease (CVD) who had confirmed COVID-19 and were evaluated ~12 weeks post-infection via 12-lead ECG and 24-hour Holter monitoring,

🚨🧵by Dr. @harryspoelstra.bsky.social on XTwitter:

"Risk assessment of cardiac arrhythmias in the early post-COVID-19 period in non-hospitalized patients—long-term data from the PoLoCOV-CVD study

🚨I’ve warned you already many times: Mild COVID = HEART RISK..."

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Australian Government media release page titled “Free RSV vaccine for older Australians.” Banner includes a photo of Health Minister Mark Butler. Text states the government is introducing free RSV vaccinations for older Australians to protect against severe illness. Details show media event date and publication date: 19 April 2026. Media type: Media release. Audience: General public.

Free RSV vaccine for older Australians.

From 15 May, a $445.3 million investment will fund free Arexvy RSV vaccines for Australians aged 75+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 60+, with doses otherwise costing around $300 without NIP listing.

www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

Subtweet in the 1st post above is this thread:
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Probing long COVID through a proteomic lens: a comprehensive two-year longitudinal cohort study of hospitalised survivors The study findings provided molecular insights into potential mechanism of long COVID, and put forward biomarkers for more precise intervention to reduce burden of long COVID.

Direct link to the article mentioned 👆

Probing long COVID through a proteomic lens: a comprehensive two-year longitudinal cohort study of hospitalised survivors (Nov 2023)
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

[ FREE PDF available ]

We now have a complementary study that helps extend the picture. If the first paper suggests post-COVID biology may exist on a spectrum, this second one suggests recovery itself may also be real, prolonged, and only partial.🧵

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter:

"We now have a complementary study that helps extend the picture. If the first paper suggests post-COVID biology may exist on a spectrum, this second one suggests recovery itself may also be real, prolonged..."

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Episode #8: Unapologetic with Dr. Jonathan Howard Podcast Episode · No Ostriching Here. · April 18 · 1h 35m

@theresisters.bsky.social got a chance to sit down with @joho.bsky.social to talk a/b his latest book “Everyone Else Is Lying To You” & then we talked about how some of the chickens are starting to come home to roost. #womeninpodcasting #publichealth #thegrifters
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Three examples that show the lack of integrity at HHS under RFK Jr:

1. Claimed that 10 kids died because of the COVID19 vaccine, never produced data.

2. Believe that glyphosate causes cancer, say nothing when Trump orders more.

3. Say that leucovorin treats autism, no FDA approval for this.

This is what happens when they gain power.

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It’s simple. Social media shitbirds with no knowledge, training or experience in public health should not be setting US policy.

They got their jobs because of their successful click-n-like harvesting, and that’s also they do their jobs.

There is nothing but incompetence behind the facade.

Erin, suffering from Long COVlD eyes, made a selfie wearing a black Facemoon KN95 respirator with a matching black T-shirt, while sitting inside a car.

“Something like 50% of COVlD cases are asymptomatic now, so it's impossible to know who’s contagious. Masking is just plain common sense.”—Erin Ahrens @erin7696.bsky.social is devastated by #LongCOVID eyes, in addition to a serious C19-exacerbated chronic condition.
www.instagram.com/p/DXSDq8ckczx/

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Lots and lots of receipts of people telling the experts & authorities who dismissed all of this from the start that they were wrong about it.

Sadly, the notion of accountability in systems that rely on conformity is basically as delusional. Can't go wrong doing the wrong-but-authorized thing.

I wonder if people realise that when we build walls to keep everyone out, we also lock ourselves in?

What questions do you have from Zdenek's summary of that research? (Zdenek's take is in the threadreader link above)

"Medical institutions must educate staff that Long COVID is a disabling condition affecting up to 40% of healthcare workers who contracted and continue to contract COVID-19 while working in hospitals that have failed to control the spread of the virus and other pathogens."

#LongCOVID

Screenshot of The Sick Times article. Headline: “I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me.” Written by Mustafa Talat, April 17, 2026. Image shows three side-by-side photos of the same person wearing protective medical gear, including a mask, goggles, and hooded suit. The central image is clearer, while the two on either side are tinted blue. Caption reads: Photo courtesy of Mustafa Talat.

"I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me"

"6 years later, COVID-19 continues spreading, killing, and disabling people, but many of my colleagues ignore it. Last December, a colleague said, “We can’t keep doing this. COVID is basically over”

archive.md/CLP40

Arrogance, ignorance, incompetence and failure are the defining characteristics of infection control leadership today. It's where Dunning-Kruger fails upwards.

The blood of millions is on their hands - and the inaction of medical disciplinary bodies makes loss of public trust the rational response.

The lack of consequences for bad behaviour is a really big… global scale big… issue.

Would people be so happy to cause damage and loss of productivity if they could be sued for it?