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And maybe that’s the part I find most impressive. Not that SARS-CoV-2 disappeared. It didn’t. Not that Long COVID disappeared. It didn’t. We disappeared them culturally. We changed the vocabulary until the crisis sounded historical. Changed the surveillance until the danger became harder to see. Changed the expectations until repeated infection became background noise. Changed the social contract until protecting one another started sounding unreasonable. And somehow somehow… we made millions of people experiencing the consequences feel like they were the strange ones for noticing. That takes talent. Truly. You’ve got to hand it to them. Well played, fuckers. The virus is still here.

You’ve got to hand it to them. They changed the language. Changed the guidance. Changed the metrics. Changed the dashboards. Changed what counted. Changed what we counted. Spent months arguing droplets while the virus rode the fucking air. Then eventually Oh. Ventilation. Filtration. Aerosols. Indoor air. Who knew. They declared emergencies over and people heard: Disease over. They retired dashboards. Relaxed reporting. Stopped testing. Stopped counting as carefully. Then pointed at the numbers we stopped collecting and said: See? Better. They took a systemic problem and privatized it. Your mask. Your vaccine. Your test. Your risk. Your kid. Your elderly parent. Your immunocompromised neighbor. Your problem. A virus transmitted between human beings became a matter of personal responsibility. Amazing trick. They watched vaccine confidence erode. Watched misinformation metastasize. Watched people go from lining up for vaccines to treating basic immunology like a fucking personality test. They taught a generation that infection is inevitable. That repeated infection is normal. That protecting other people is neurotic. That staying home sick is unreasonable. That wanting clean indoor air is somehow more radical than breathing sewage through a HEPA filter would be. They turned “living with COVID” into pretending COVID had stopped living with us. Meanwhile: People still get COVID. People still get hospitalized. People still die. People still develop Long COVID. Kids develop it. Healthy adults develop it. Workers leave the workforce because of it. NIH keeps spending hundreds of millions studying it. The Department of Defense studies it because chronic post-COVID illness can affect military readiness. Read that again. We can’t talk about COVID at Thanksgiving without somebody rolling their eyes, but the fucking Pentagon is worried about what it does to readiness. That is where we are. COVID became something that “happened.” A historical period. An aesthetic. Zoom school. Sourdough. Tiger King. Masks. Lockdowns. Remember COVID? Yeah. I remember polio too. Still wouldn’t lick the fucking iron lung. We performed perhaps the greatest linguistic disappearing act of the pandemic: We ended the emergency, and somehow convinced ourselves we ended the disease. The virus didn’t sign the memo. SARS-CoV-2 did not attend the press conference. It did not agree to the new terminology. It did not care that everybody was exhausted. It did not care that prevention became politically inconvenient. It did not care that the economy wanted 2019 back. It just kept infecting people. And perhaps the most astonishing part is how thoroughly we normalized the contradiction. We’ll spend billions studying Long COVID while acting embarrassed to say “COVID.” We’ll fund biomedical research into post-viral disability while designing schools, workplaces, hospitals, restaurants and public buildings as though airborne infectious disease is somebody else’s problem. We’ll tell disabled people: We believe you. And then build society around maximizing opportunities to create more of them. We’ll tell parents they’re free to send sick children into classrooms. Tell workers they’re free to come to work infected. Tell everyone else they’re free to breathe the same air. Freedom everywhere. Except freedom from preventable exposure. Six and a half years. And where is the reckoning? Where is the investigation into what we learned? Where is the massive clean-air infrastructure program? Where are the ventilation standards people can actually see? Where is paid sick leave worthy of an airborne pandemic? Where is the cultural norm that says: If you’re infectious, don’t fucking infect other people? Instead we got amnesia. We got euphemisms. We got “summer flu.” “Something going around.” “Just a cold.” “Mystery illness.” Anything except the word that might remind us we made choices.

This is very shortsighted, below. There is a consultation about it. Can I encourage all those who understand (ie the Covid aware) to participate. The link to the consultation is the second tweet in the link below

RT @Cazzi83: @SupportingHH_UK

This ⬇️ statement from the Doctors’ Association UK (@TheDA_UK) is from last year… …but healthcare workers are STILL denied a free COVID vaccine. It is STILL irresponsible. It is STILL short-sighted. dauk.org/denying-nhs-staff-c…

RT @BigBadDenis: A study using PET brain imaging found people with Long COVID had significantly lower levels of VMAT2, a protein involved i…

I'm going to try to make this clear: Covid infections increase your risk of developing long term health problems. Covid vaccinations *do not eliminate the increase of risk* caused by the next covid infection, they merely *reduce the increase of risk*.

#NHS Surgery admissions ward today packed standing room only, not a mask insight Me wearing #FFP3 : “is there somewhere quiet my (loved one) can wait they are at risk of infections” Nurse unmasked “ you don’t need to mask no #Covid19 here” #CancerCare @cv_cev @bloodcancer_uk

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Agree and not just this regulator! Plus some professional bodies and unions. Covid 19 was an occupational hazard and still is ...

Very important question and in my view they have failed to ensure duty of care in relation to #Covid19 and the known harmful #IPC @SupportingHH_UK @alitwy @crr7310

🏥 | @drmattuk: "The Covid Inquiry handed the Government a blueprint to prevent this exact scenario. They chose not to act on it." dauk.org/flu-wave-nhs-facing…

😷 | We're calling for urgent, practical steps to protect staff and patients, including masks, free flu and Covid vaccinations for healthcare workers who want them, and implementation of clean air standards.