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Immune exhaustion, the culprit for long COVID and chronic complications Chronic immune exhaustions underlie the development of long COVID.

Virginia Tech researchers, 2 cohorts, found long COVID looks less like slow healing and more like an immune system stuck in overdrive with exhausted T cells and ongoing IL-6 JAK/STAT signaling, helping explain fatigue brain fog and breathlessness.

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HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO BRING OUT THE SWISS CHEESE MODEL 😭😭
*cries in epidemiologist*

OK where I'm losing my mind, is this part.

Those of us in the covid cautious community are often called anti-vax for the assertion that the vaccine does not eliminate transmission. Not saying it doesn't HELP, but it's imperfect.

Have you been vaccinated? Have you had covid since? SO ARE WE WRONG?!

lol people keep blocking me instead of responding, cowards. You can’t run from covid forever with your vaccines from 2021

Then why did my entirely boosted choir have a superspreader of 25 people mere weeks after dropping mask mandates? That was just a big coincidence?

Mandating masks helped drive a flu strain to extinction. Covid aside, why are people not interested in reducing transmission of ALL airborne viruses?

As someone who spent a LOT of years arguing with antivaxxers....no the fuck it is not

Im a historian of vaccination with a MS in public health
this is most certainly not "explicitly anti-vaxx" and its actually insulting to people still worried about long COVID to frame them as equivalent to the real anti-vaccination people in power/charge now.
Criticise her message without this.

For anyone who doubts these processes -- or humanity's power to alter our planet -- consider this dispatch from the poles: Human-caused warming has already melted so much ice in Greenland and Antarctica that Earth's rotation has slowed and its axis has shifted, slightly altering the length of the day and disrupting the precision of satellite tracking, global positioning systems and timekeeping.

oh my god

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I can HEAR the damage. Once you know what a normal mucosal wave is supposed to sound like & how the voice functions, it opens a window into the body that is revealing, if you listen for it. I’d love to go back to school for SLP/Vocology, but alas, Trump made that almost impossible w his loan changes

& vocally, I AM an expert. I have been teaching voice since 2011 & have a MM in vocal performance. I know laryngeal anatomy & a litany of diagnoses that can affect the voice (although obv I am not qualified to diagnose), but guess what? I am often the person who has to tell ppl to go see a doc

aerosol scientist? No, but I’ve been able to observe through my lived experience how these scenarios play out. Someone comes to rehearsal sick, and magically 2-4 days later, a bunch of others are sick. Whoa, wow! It’s STILL HAPPENING & a lot of it is covid, & people are sick af. I hear it in voices

Although, I will still argue that spinning air for a living (singing) & having experienced a superspreader in real life that according to all of you is “super rare/shouldn’t happen) (even tho there was on at the literal cdc a few years ago lol), makes me qualified to discuss how air moves. Am I an

Every health crisis in modern history has found its qualified henchmen to peddle minimization — asbestos, cigarettes, radium. You name it, there was an expert there at the center telling everyone it’s gonna be ok. There is FAR more profit/clout to be gained by minimizing than uncomfortable truths

FTR, covid activists are following experts too. U think I came to these conclusions entirely on my own, as a music teacher? No! I follow tons of scientists, doctors, & researchers who have been sounding the alarm. One lone immunologist who wants you to sub to his substack shouldn’t be ur #1 source

Furthermore, “because we have immune systems”, hello? Immunocompromised ppl exist & still deserve protection. The fact that we are letting this virus run rampant in cancer infusion centers, for example, is unacceptable. Covid has the ability to damage an immune system upon reinfection, too.

You know this dude literally creates burner accounts & has blocked or harassed p much every single scientist or activist that has challenged him? Of course he found a new audience over here lol

Please expand the pool of experts you are listening to, because he is a notorious minimizer

Just because our immune systems have seen it before doesn’t mean SARS2 isn’t evolving to be more immune evasive, isn’t infecting T cells, and isn’t causing systemic dysregulation. Again, there are SO many studies that continue to confirm this, & for some reason Marky Marc over here loves to downplay

Ofc you’re quoting Marc, I should have known.

He continues to deny the damage that covid causes to immune systems, despite other immunologists disagreeing. U accuse us of cherry picking, yet you are listening to one lone minimizing voice that contradicts numerous studies. LongCovid is still a risk

Anti-vax: My immune system will protect me. The weak deserve to die. Let the diseases spread!

Vax 'n' relax: My vax will protect me. Let the diseases spread! I will pretend to care, sometimes, that vulnerable people die.

Vax 'n' protect: Hey man, no one deserves to die. Stop spreading disease!

And two, in general, people in the center prefer preserving the status quo in which they are comfortable to making significant social changes like rights expansions. Any push toward major change upsets their comfortable sofa, and so they see all threats to that as equivalent.

Why? I can’t presume someone else’s heart and mind, but I have two theories. One, this argument is coming from people who used to be cautious but aren’t anymore and feel guilty and defensive about it. So making the people who haven’t quit seem nuts and extreme quells that feeling.

And I don’t think most of these people are obtuse enough to be genuinely confusing “THE VACCINES ARE EVIL” with “the vaccines are a good tool, but not sufficient to protect against Covid infections on their own. Layered mitigation is key.”

So I believe it is an intentional conflation.

I don’t think I have ever seen a remotely popular Covid activist say people should not get vaccinated, and i follow tons of them.

What I have seen is constant posts from the center saying this is happening, with no evidence and no follow up to the logical problem the claim presents.

A: our safety model needs more slices of Swiss cheese because one slice isn't enough

B: WHY DO YOU HATE CHEESE?

A: no, the cheese slices are a metaphor for imperfect but necessary safety measures that work better when stacked in numbers

B: oh, okay, I see. WHY DO YOU HATE SAFETY MEASURES?

One of the misinformation talking points from centrists on Covid is that Covid activists and anti-vaxxers are the same.

I want you to think of any other rights movement where the centrist position has been “ugh, these people on the far ends are both so noisy, they’re the same.”

Is it all of them?

There are a ton of indie game devs on Bluesky and the vast majority of them would strongly disagree with you.

This is a wildly incorrect take

Also, artists do expect to be paid across mediums… what’s with you capitalists thinking art & artistic labor has no value? Yikes

So someone with measles can spread it before they have symptoms, it can float in the air for hours and years later, they can develop new health complications?

I still remember how I was willing to show up to see events with friends, but insisted on doing so while wearing an N95. That's how I found out how many people would rather not invite me at all than deal with being seen in public with someone masked in their party.