I wonder how many more ME/CFS deaths there have to be before we finally start talking about the disease as one that kills people in what should be the prime of their lives. I wonder how many more lives have to be completely destroyed before we decide that this deserves urgency

Do you even have the tiniest bit of understanding of disease progression? Are you aware you can have 20% of your kidney function without any symptoms? Are you aware you can have cancer and not know it? But ok, you feel fine, so you’re definitely 100% healthy 👍🏻😂

This article is paywalled. Once “the entire internet” has been “deeply censored,” we won’t be getting it back. The Internet created Millennials & Gen Z, & our overlords are desperate to reverse it. Future generations aren’t meant to be thinkers.

We look at our neighboring worlds and we see a grim warning. Venus is a runaway greenhouse hellscape, its surface hot enough to melt lead. Mars is a frozen, bone-dry desert. Earth is the anomaly,a perfectly balanced, delicate jewel where the conditions for life are miraculously just right. Yet, we continue to treat our atmosphere as if it were an infinite dumping ground. A fragile canopy. A destabilized climate. A global crisis.

Interesting. Uchicago finds in a preprint a strong signature of T cell apoptosis in Covid- more than HIV, and a loss of naive T cells I wrote about t cell apoptosis and a loss of naive T cells in frontiers in 2020 as being problematic biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out." Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it." The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened. When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time. The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie." This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

– You seem awfully obsessed with that branch #longcovid #postcovid #ableism #accessibility #satire

A huge risk factor for developing ME is pushing through an infection and not resting during and after. Especially if that infection is covid. Can you guess who's disproportionately being infected with covid right now and forced to push through it?

Teaching step class today when one of my regulars on the way into class tells me “This past week I had to attend three funerals. Very STRANGE. I mean THREE. One was elderly, you know… but the other two? Younger than me. I really don’t know why…” I just stood there acting supportive and empathetic, nodding, while inside I was screaming. “Hello?! It’s Covid!! It’s still here taking people down in the prime of their lives and we are all pretending it’s normal. How many more “strange” weeks are we all going to continue having before we stop looking away?

When a government knowingly adopts policies that expose millions to a disabling virus, suppresses information about its dangers, refuses to mitigate spread, and abandons those already injured — the resulting deaths are not natural. They are the foreseeable outcome of deliberate political choices. And when choices kill people, that is murder.

4 years later (than when originally posted), but a whole lot louder in a society that has accepted incessant/unnecessary sickness so as to uphold the post pandemic simulation.

Hospitalized again, not sure why i keep bothering. With Long COVID, you get gaslit for years till the damage is done, and the doctors tell you that nothing can really be done anymore. Most doctors are useless, and I stand by that because I have documented enough fucking data points across my time being sick to prove a statistically significant, systemic failure.

Please consider getting a library card, even if you don’t use it much. Cities look at those numbers, and they help keep libraries open, funded properly, and safe from budget cuts.

NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS: “If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt." nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/po…

artificial intelligence

My daughter sends. She knows all about this. Also please come over so I can feed you

In 2020, native orgs asked the government for tests and were sent body bags instead. There are studies showing white people stopped caring about COVID when they found out it disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and PoC more. Letting COVID rip has always been genocide.

able-bodied persons had better wake up to the (inevitable) fact that if they/we live long enough, we will be disabled; & if we live longer, we will be severely disabled. this MAGA/GOP war against "disabled" persons is actually terrifying. you may think that you are 100% healthy but, face it, you are one bloodwork or CAT-scan away from un-healthy. one hour in your life can alter it forever. have some sympathy for the disabled & what this administration is threatening before it is too late.

Psychosis Neuroinvasive brain eating bat virus prefrontal cortex COVID cognitive disregulation In psychopathology, psychosis  is the inability to distinguish what is or is not real. Examples of psychotic symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, characterized by impaired empathy