Let's get this straight: the only thing that causes rape is rapists. Not the person's clothes, alcohol, drugs, environment, or anything else.

"Joan Burger, 64, loves coffee, but her morning cup suddenly tasted rancid.. She is among the millions who either lost their sense of taste or smell, or had them significantly altered, after being infected with COVID-19.. for about one in five of those who were once infected [with SARS-CoV-2] — an estimated 37 million people in the U.S. like Burger — that loss or change of smell lingers.. Complete loss of smell is called anosmia, but there are other ways people may be affected.. Other people may have a diminished sense of smell, called hyposmia, which can come and go.. For others, like Burger, it is much worse — everything smells bad, like garbage or burnt rubber, which is called parosmia.." This is not due to your partner's bad breath. 'COVID stole your sense of smell. These little shocks at MUSC might help bring it back' postandcourier.com/health/co…

FYI, "Most people who die of COVID-19, seasonal flu, or a bacterial infection technically die of sepsis – their organs shut down under the weight of the body's own runaway inflammatory response.. In-hospital sepsis mortality [in the US] rose 37.5% among patients 65 and older, and 44% among adults 18–64, between 2019 and 2021. The steepest relative jump in sepsis mortality was among younger adults.. An estimated 36,000 sepsis deaths occurred in 2020 alone, beyond what pre-pandemic trends would have predicted.. Post-sepsis syndrome – lasting cognitive and physical effects seen in up to half of survivors – extends the true cost of pandemic-driven sepsis well beyond the initial hospitalisation, in much the same way long COVID has.. sepsis was formally coded in only about 9% of COVID deaths, while clinical and autopsy studies find sepsis present in 52–93% of those same deaths. The official numbers understate the true toll – by the data's own admission." Long COVID is similar to long sepsis. 'The hidden pandemic within the pandemic: How COVID-19 impacted sepsis – and what comes next' pharmaphorum.com/rd/hidden-p…

Only a profoundly sick society pathologizes the people not causing harm.

Flu is hitting unusually early in parts of the West, catching doctors by surprise as some hospitals see levels of illness more typical of early winter. Epidemiologists and clinicians are encouraging patients to get their shots sooner instead of waiting. wapo.st/4hHFyRy

Being disability conscious and avoiding illness by wearing a piece of fabric is not mental illness. Wearing a mask isn’t an irrational compulsion, it’s a tool for avoiding unnecessary illness.

I wasn’t going to bring this up but my HS junior prom date just died at 46 of colon cancer. I don’t need well wishes. Send those to her family. Another woman I know has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Another with breast cancer. Another with lung cancer …Since the onset of the pandemic. I know cancer happens. Trust me. I get it. I’ve worked with cancer survivors. There’s a cancer center in town. In different places I’ve been when the topic of cancer would come up sometimes people would say, “there’s something in the water.” Anecdotes are anecdotes. And trends are trends. Some pathogens that cause or accelerate cancer are airborne. And some you inhaled yesterday. Lay off the SARS-CoV-2 folks. It’s the “something in the air” ending life a wee bit earlier than usual.

Clean air for the rich! Do they have OCD? Of course not, only middle class and lower class people who are airborne aware have OCD if they are still masking and using hepa filters to clean the air! When the rich do it, it’s something different. For them, their mitigations during

"A young man with ambitions to become the head of Apple in the UK and started suffering with deteriorating mental health after Covid left him with chronic fatigue and long-term effects.. A perfectionist, Stanley Stephens (nickname: "Stan") started suffering with anxiety, depression and debilitating chronic fatigue after not bouncing back from Covid when the pandemic hit. An inquest into the 20-year-old's death held in Truro today (Wednesday, September 30) heard how long term Covid left Stan wanting to find a cure for ME/chronic fatigue syndrome.. [However,] as his mental health took a turn for the worst, Stan increasingly contemplated self harm and taking his own life.. by the time Stan was found in a wooded area outside Mevagissey on February 25 this year, he was physically and mentally wiped out. Despite efforts by police officers and paramedics to revive him he was declared deceased at the scene." Please have the courage to let go of the impossible aims after long COVID. 'Super clever young man struggled with mental health after long COVID’ cornwalllive.com/news/cornwa…