RT @michaelmoran: 🤫 "Silent" organ damage after COVID "Silent" organ damage after COVID is now documented across the heart, brain, lungs,…

RT @michaelmoran: The most damning fact about COVID: you can have measurable organ damage without ever feeling sick. Asymptomatic people sh…

If Covid wasn’t actually a problem that would be obvious by now. But it’s year 7 and Covid is still clearly around. You can easily see its effects everywhere you look. The only way a person could think otherwise is if they are refusing to look.

RT @michaelmoran: People are noticing pets suddenly dying from congestive heart failure lately. There are likely many reasons but it’s wort…

Watch a Covid wave move through a community that has decided the pandemic is over and you will hear the most inventive denial of your life. A month ago a woman at the gym where I work came back talking about pneumonia and a cough. It was the supplement, she said. A side effect. She waved off the idea that we were in another Covid wave the way you wave off a conspiracy theory from a stranger. Today she came back with a sudden, severe pain on the outside of her hip, out of nowhere. She thinks it's the office chair at work. The same chair she has sat in for 20 years. Between classes a client told me she spent her PTO last week on her sick daughter, then got sick herself. She works for a dermatologist. "I can only use my days off for my kid," she said. "I run out when I get sick. I have to go to work anyway. Just coughing it up in there." She shook her head. "There is no way I could wear a mask if I was sick again. I'd be coughing all day, nose dripping everywhere, having to blow it every 20 seconds. Oh no. That is hell." This is what a Covid wave sounds like. The pneumonia is from a supplement. The new hip pain is from the office chair she has sat in for 20 years. The sick days were already spent on the child, so the cough goes to work. The mask is the unbearable part. They connect every dot except the one that would make the full picture visible. Their lives are arranged so that dot never has to appear, so the picture never has to be seen. Denial is the permanent lighting they live under. It keeps each story small enough to inhabit, and together they form a world in which Covid is never required. I do not believe there is a way out of this. The denial is not a surface to be argued off of. It is sewn into the way they account for their health, their jobs, and their children. They are fully immersed. The larger picture has been made unthinkable.

Fake account @thebrittanyxoxo @MrBrittanyXOXO

Speaking as a Covid cautious therapist, I can say that just because you’re Covid cautious doesn’t mean you have OCD. To have OCD, the thoughts need to be irrational. There’s nothing irrational with not wanting to be harmed by a virus that can cause disability and death.

"I don't need to take precautions because nobody else does" is probably the most stupid take in all of this.

It’s got to that time of year that I start dreading in about February! The family ‘what are you doing at Christmas? I was thinking I’d come to yours or maybe we could go to a nice pub for lunch?’ And another year of me saying ‘obviously I can’t do that’ 🫠

MANUFACTURED. THE WHOLE CRISIS WAS MANUFACTURED Whistleblowers inside the Kennedy Center are now saying what everyone suspected the second Trump installed himself as chairman Officials halted repairs that were already planned and paid for. Then pointed at the building falling apart and used it as the excuse to shut the place down You break it on purpose. Then you "discover" it's broken. Then you get to close it, gut it, remake it however you want That's not mismanagement. That's a con job with a building as the mark Trump didn't take over the Kennedy Center to protect the arts. He took it over to control who gets a stage and who doesn't Staff who spent years running that institution are now watching it get dismantled by people who created the emergency they're "solving" Artists losing bookings. Programs getting cut. A cultural institution that survived five decades of actual wear and tear now collapsing because Trump's handpicked board needed a pretext This is the same playbook every single time. Manufacture the crisis. Point at the wreckage. Claim you're the only one who can fix it He did it to the press. He did it to the courts he doesn't like. Now he's doing it to a building full of pianos and stagehands Half the country will read this and shrug because it's "just" the Kennedy Center Watch how fast that shrug turns into rage when they do this exact move to something you actually care about

You realize when you get HIV you have like no symptoms in the acute stage, right? You realize women get HPV, have “no symptoms,” and then get uterine or cervical cancer years later right? You understand post viral disease is heterogenous in symptomatic expression, right?

The last 24 hours of news as a woman: - A man jacks off to the woman next to him on a plane. United makes her return to her seat. - 7 frat boys drug and gang rape a student for hours, and advertise “free p*ssy” to their frat. Cornell makes them write essays. - A football player rapes a student. LSU reduces his suspension. - A teen boy stalks and stabs a girl 10 times. Courts grant only a restraining order. - Brendan Carr spent 9 years in a cult raping teen girls. Trump made him FCC Chair.

RT @peamilkstan: "do you expect people to wear masks forever" yes, actually, with the way things are going

One of the things I say to people If there was cholera in the tap water, you can bet your ass I'd be carrying a water filter around and/or my own clean water. And I'd do it as long as there is cholera in the water

RT @michaelmoran: “Ending the pandemic” was a political decision, not an epidemiological event. ⚡️🧵 The World Health Organization declared…

Trump's evil mentor.

Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.

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It’s funny being called ‘COVID forever people’ by the people ensuring that COVID is forever.