COVID-19, EBV, and Hepatitis B all show us that infection early in life can set the stage for lifelong consequences — even when the initial infection looks mild or silent. Let’s put this in perspective: --- 1. Hepatitis B as a Model If a baby acquires Hepatitis B at birth,

applin's life is a hard one 🍎

A recent meta-study put global pooled long COVID at 36%. The "other people" it happens to is everyone, given enough infections. (link below)

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry” “If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence” “If we don’t release inflation data, there’s no inflation” “If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases” You see what’s happening, right?

I do still think this article is a turning point. bmj.com/content/390/bm…

are they just hoping that killing autistic people will bring the rates down because I don’t think that’s how it works

“NO!! THATS THE WRONG CONSPIRACY THEORY!! You’re supposed to subscribe to MY baseless nonsense, not some OTHER stupid idea!!!”

Unrelated but seeing the photo of RFK jr next to this photo of Trump makes me wonder why the hell he is always cast in shadow like that

We’re an Advil/ibuprofen household but I’ll fight to the end for Tylenol rn

Apparently their stock has been falling since MAHA latched onto Tylenol for the autism thing. Tylenol also makes Kenvue about a billion dollars in revenue per year. I cannot IMAGINE the lawsuit they’re cooking up rn 💀

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks & clean air at the UN today!

The lion has long covid

It makes me sigh pointing this out. But at the "Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action" deep inside the United Nations headquarters, the air quality was not good. Can someone have a word with Montenegro..

The unhinged reaction of right wing media to Violet Affleck's speech should be a damning lesson for "COVID is over" liberals and leftists - look at who you've chosen to align yourself with.

When I had Covid back in 2024, it took me 6 or 7 days of full blown symptoms to test positive. And I hadn’t felt right even before that, so possibly longer.

No shade on OP bc public health failed us, but again: nearly HALF of all COVID infections are asymptomatic. That means you have no symptoms at all, throughout your infection. This is why “I mask when sick” doesn’t control COVID. wrote about it here: thegauntlet.news/p/common-misco…

There was a thing on NPR today about how much they all loved using ChatGPT and they kept calling it a person, talking about it like a friend, cooing over it like it was a baby learning to talk and not a glorified chatbot 💀

“Let’s not talk about the news, it’s too depressing” “The news is so heavy, let’s talk about something light!1!” you’re right, maybe we could actually do something about it instead of moving on, maybe that discomfort can be channeled into change

If these people wanna see what REAL health anxiety looks like they’re welcome to come try and talk me and my OCD down off the ledge after taking two 40mg capsules of Ritalin ER LA instead of one while I lament over the belief that I’ve grown a prostate which now has cancer