CarolAnn Barrows ~ Dedicated to protecting myself & others from pandemic pathogens in Kānaka ‘Ōiwi land I need COVID Conscious/Airborne Aware friends on Maui!
Kihei, Maui, Hawai'i
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Do you need someone to simply listen to you?
I Listen.
This is a gift I am giving to our COVID Conscious Community.
I am a musician/vocalist so deep listening comes with the territory. I've also known the value when someone is able to just listen to me without trying to "fix" me. This has helped me to hear myself so I can solve my own problems. So, I've studied listening and taken several courses in how to listen to others.
All that said, If/when you need a friend to just LISTEN to you, please feel free to DM me.
I'm all ears.
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Aloha All ~
I am in great need of your help today to secure temporary safe shelter.
Two days ago, police suddenly arrived and forced me to leave my home because of a temporary restraining order based on completely false allegations by a person I don’t even know and about events that never happened.
I am in complete shock.
I am forbidden to return to my home until after the court hearing on October 5th, when I will have the opportunity to respond to the allegations. I am confident that when the court discovers that there is absolutely no evidence of any harm I have ever caused, the TRO will be dismissed and I will be able to return to my home.
Right now, I need a SAFE, quiet place where I can sleep, eat, rest, regain my footing, and prepare for that hearing.
I have found a condo near my home on Maui where I will be safe until the hearing. It is available beginning tomorrow.
I need your help today. I need to secure the condo before it is taken. My goal is $3,000.
If you are able to help me create this safe refuge, please contribute today through PayPal at:
paypal.me/CarolAnnBarrows
Any amount will help me get through the door and into safety tomorrow. If you aren’t able to contribute financially, please share this request today with someone who might be able to help me.
I desperately need safe refuge. I’m asking for help creating it.
Thank you for helping me have a safe place to stay until I can go home.
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CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 retweeted
Breaking: a new study says a covid infection can stop new neurons forming in the brain, a key neurological process that enables the brain to renew itself. The stalling of this process leads to a "quickening of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease." 🧵
ALT Image shows the first page of the paper which is titled "The functional and structural changes in the hippocampus of covid-19 patients"
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Beyond sobering....
If you follow me for COVID/Long COVID content, listen to this discussion.
All of it.
I could give you my interpretation of what happened here. I could tell you which parts made my stomach drop. But I don’t think you need my interpretation.
You need to hear it for yourself.
I feel for the patients.
I feel for the doctors who understand how profoundly complicated this disease can be—and who are still willing to walk into these spaces, answer difficult questions, and try to help people who are desperate to feel whole again.
And if you’ve ever wondered why some of us have carried this persistent sense of dread for the past 6½ years…
Maybe this will help you understand.
Because when you start seriously discussing things like persistent biological abnormalities, misfolded proteins, microclots, endothelial dysfunction, immune dysregulation—and procedures like therapeutic plasma exchange as possible interventions—you are no longer talking about “a cold.”
You are staring directly at how much we still do not understand.
And hearing another person articulate concerns you’ve been carrying around in your own head for 6½ years is profoundly unsettling.
If we ever reach a point where people need repeated procedures to clear pathological material from their blood just to remain functional, then we have an enormous problem.
Not a messaging problem.
Not an anxiety problem.
Not a “move on” problem.
A biomedical problem.
And potentially a very, very big one.
Fuck.
The whole thing is fucked.
Listen to the discussion.
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I am in shock! Last night I was forced out of my home by Police because a vagrant accused me of harassing her. She filed an injunction against civil harassment yesterday in the court here on Maui and without any evidence the judge signed a temporary restraining order against me. I was forced to leave my own home and cannot return for 10 days until after the hearing. Sitting in my car with a few essential belongings, I cried so hard - wanting to die and get out of this hell realm. If it had been easier, I would definitely have killed myself - as the Hemlock Society states, "delivered myself from a life not worth living". (ask me how I know this).
I somehow survived the night by camping in my former husbandʻs office. (I divorced him 3 years ago because he LIED to be about masking while at work and away from our bubble, thus wantonly and without my consent risking infecting me SARS2). He has a guest room, but when I called and told him what had happened he refused to give me shelter but told me that I could use his office. Now you know why I divorced him. Ever since I have been unable to afford safe housing. That said, despite the horrors, I HAVE REMAINED UNHARMED BY SARS2 - and have therefore refrained from infecting and harming anyone else. But what a heavy heavy cost. 🙁
I feel completely hung over today from grieving my guts out from more abuse and cruelty than I can bear. Last night I reached the limit of my ability to bear any more human cruelty - from imposters who claimed to "love" me but then horribly abused and now fucking strangers and a police and court system that refuses to protect me.
Last night my soul left my body and went into hiding – which is why I wanted to die. If there had been an easy way to kill myself I would've done it last night but it was all just too complicated. It took me a long time to get to sleep but eventually I was able to wrestle myself into unconsciousness. When I woke up this morning I started calling my soul back so I can survive. While I no longer want to kill myself I also don't want to stick around for what is apparently endless cruelty and abuse.
I am unsheltered and disabled. I do not have the ability to make enough money to pay for any kind of shelter - anywhere.
If you can somehow help safely shelter me, or even just express kindness and compassion, please do, but please do not give me unsolicited advice about what I can do to stop people from abusing and neglecting me (IT IS NEVER EVER EVER THE VICTIMʻS FAULT WHEN BEING TARGETED AND ABUSED) or how I can access agency or nonprofit help with housing and legal assistance - Iʻve searched everywhere and there is no help available for me and I am on a 7-year waiting list for subsidized housing. Three years ago I had a GoFundMe campaign was not able to raise enough money for ongoing housing needs.
Thank you for caring enough about me to read my tragic report of what is happening to me. If youʻve gotten this far, please let me know with at least a LIKE so that I feel less lonely, scared and hopeless.
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RT @michaelmoran: Calling disabled people “unreasonable” for needing access is the locker-room humor of eugenics: normalizing contempt is a…
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RT @michaelmoran: One of the greatest double standards is treating SARS-CoV-2 as a personal choice while treating HIV prevention as a colle…
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Every day we learn more terrifying information regarding why we must prevent infection and spread of SARS2
"as attention shifts to the prolonged sequelae of COVID-19, commonly referred to as Long COVID, a troubling pattern has emerged: symptoms often resemble or exacerbate chronic conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases and autoimmune disorders.
SARS-CoV-2 infection has been shown to disrupt the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a tightly regulated interface whose integrity can be disrupted by systemic inflammation.
This BBB impairment may allow peripheral inflammation to affect the brain, potentially accelerating the onset or progression of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD).
Moreover, in both AD and PD, aberrant lipid metabolism is increasingly recognised as a key contributor to neuroinflammation, synaptic dysfunction, and neuronal death..
The overlapping mechanisms also involve RAS (renin-angiotensin system) imbalance, including ACE2 (primary host receptor for SARS-CoV-2) dysregulation, which has been suggested to contribute to both Long COVID and neurological diseases."
SARS-CoV-2 triggers a wide range of dysregulation that can induce a wide range of symptoms.
'ACE2 dysregulation and lipid metabolism: Mechanistic interplay between COVID-19 and neurodegeneration'
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 retweeted
Telling disabled people to prioritize meaningless jobs over their health is cruel. Expecting someone to sacrifice their health just to prove they’re productive is not support, it’s dehumanizing.
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CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 retweeted
I’m genuinely curious:
What other subjects have become so saturated with misinformation, contradictory messaging, institutional reversals, half-truths and people confidently talking out of their asses that society eventually just…gave up trying to understand them?
Not because nothing is known.
Because the information environment became so polluted that “who the hell knows anymore?” became the default response.
Nutrition seems like one.
Climate change, maybe, for some people.
But SARS-CoV-2 may be one of the strangest examples I’ve ever watched unfold in real time.
We somehow went from an enormous global scientific effort producing an extraordinary amount of knowledge to a large fraction of society concluding that it’s gone, it’s mild, I’m immune, we have to live with it, and nobody really knows anything about it.
That is a fascinating…and terrifying….epistemic failure.
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This is very important for all of us to understand and thanks to Michael clear mind, easy to comprehend.
🧵 How SARS-CoV-2 Unlocks Herpesviridae
🦠You are already a multi-herpesvirus host.
Roughly 90% of adults carry Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). HHV-6 infects over 90% of people by age three. Add CMV, HHV-7, VZV, and HSV, and most of us harbor several herpesviruses for life. They don't sit idle - they persist in latency, a reversible state of minimal gene expression with no infectious virions, waiting for a signal to wake.
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PLEASE READ THIS
“I joined the gym to carry my grief. To feel better. My sister died recently. Suddenly.”
The smile was still on her face when she said it.
That is the smile most people wear now. The one that lets grief walk into the room without forcing anyone to look at it. A cover that is put on so the world can keep going.
I do not know how many sudden deaths we are supposed to absorb before the room itself starts to smell like absence.
What number would finally be too many?
What number would make us look at the air and say the word we have already erased from speech?
Covid has never stopped walking in with them, unannounced and unspoken,
every single day tucked right behind a smile.
She walked into my class already smiling. Brand new member. The smile arrived before her name did.
She told me almost immediately, as if the words had been waiting in her throat the whole drive over.
“I joined the gym to carry my grief. To feel better. My sister died recently. Suddenly.”
The smile was still on her face when she said it.
That is the smile most people wear now. The one that lets grief walk into the room without forcing anyone to look at it. A cover that is put on so the world can keep going.
I do not know how many sudden deaths we are supposed to absorb before the room itself starts to smell like absence.
What number would finally be too many?
What number would make us look at the air and say the word we have already erased from speech?
Covid has never stopped walking in with them, unannounced and unspoken, every single day tucked right behind a smile.
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CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 retweeted
You have got to be kidding me Biobot wastewater for Covid went straight up this week!!!! This is the NATIONAL Covid level on their chart.
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