A lot of people have messaged me saying they'll mask when mandates return because they don't want to be ridiculed. A lot of people who know better & want to protect themselves are risking their entire lives because no one around them is taking precautions. This is really scary.

I promise you I feel the pressure too & I promise you it DOES get easier eventually. I found reserves of inner strength I would not have known existed. I care about people's opinions less now. When you're masking 'alone,' there are millions of us around the world on your side too

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1 in 37 Americans have COVID. This means that there are ~300K ppl who have COVID right now that will develop long COVID, just as I did. This is what it's like to get long COVID as a healthy young person, and what treatments are available when you have $$ and great insurance:

tern I suspect you are right - making covid more like HIV than any cold nature.com/articles/s4159…

Some say I’m obsessed with Covid. Not at all – what I’m obsessed about is our inability to scientifically assess risk, and make rational decisions about how to utilize tools and policies to optimize individual and societal benefit. This is about far more than just Covid. 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🦠

Jerome Adams 🎯 We are essentially an irrational species naturally prone to superstition, basic errors of judgement, inability to assess risk & probability. Education often instils a rational discipline, but as seen in this pandemic, a high level of education is not an antidote for stupidity

I hear people say Covid is a big risk for the immunocompromised. This is true, but those who go on to deal with Long Covid become immunocompromised. If we keep going round and round, everyone will be high risk.

My new single “OTHER SIDE” is finally out. 🌗 It feels like a weight off my chest letting these words out into the world. To the ones who still show up for me and listen. Thank you. You continue to save me.

Ing Stephanie Laidlaw Understanding Economics and Finance Why are you having a go at people still being cautious if you're so unconcerned about Covid? Is it because seeing people talk about masking makes you realise you've made a deadly error?

I used to love to read, write, bake, walk, do yoga, color, travel, DIY, etc…I still love those things but my chronically ill body doesn’t allow for much. It’s soul-crushing to use all (or most of) your energy just for survival and none (or almost none) of it for enjoyment.

looks like i’ll be celebrating my birthday with three doctor’s appointments. the past year of life has been stolen from me anyway, so par for the course i guess.

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… i learned today, tomorrow can’t be saved” -The Maine

asking for help is a vulnerable thing, but here i am anyway, because i’m on the edge of losing everything i’ve ever worked toward and ever loved: gofundme.com/f/survival-fun…

v3nm0 or p4yp4l are preferable because there’s no fees, feel free to dm for those. GFM semi-anonymized in the interest of attempting to maintain some shred of privacy, but i’ve already had my medical history dissected and gaslighted by a corporation so there’s not much left lol.

elle carnitine 🍉 bubblewrath.bsky.social at the end of the day systems create the conditions for these failures, and preclude the conditions for mitigation.

this is so FUCKING upsetting to read, as someone who has been screaming from the rooftops about precautions for years, being ignored, getting long covid, then still being ignored but now also left to die. we are on our own in it, and my heart hurts in more ways than one.