COVID Chronicles
@covidchronicles.bsky.social
Chronicling my journey through purgatory, graphically. Former athlete/composer/writer/woodworker. Saddled with debilitating COVID-induced metabolic dysfunction since Nov 2022. #LongCOVID #LC #MECFS #PEM #SickJokes
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Day 124 - Not sure how to deal with the poop emoji on my head. 'Brain fog' sounds light and fluffy, but this shit's heavier than lead.
#BrainFog #DailySlog #LongCOVID #COVIDSky #LC #MECFS #PEM
["But you still managed to make this, didn't you?" Yes. Yes, I did. And it only took me six days]
#BrainFog #DailySlog #LongCOVID #COVIDSky #LC #MECFS #PEM
["But you still managed to make this, didn't you?" Yes. Yes, I did. And it only took me six days]
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If only their (reasonable) preventative measures were as enlightened as the COVID conscious community would like to believe…
Until we know why a mild infection permanently disabled me & not everyone else, 99.9% of the world will keep bathing in ignorant bliss.
As per public health’s instructions.
Until we know why a mild infection permanently disabled me & not everyone else, 99.9% of the world will keep bathing in ignorant bliss.
As per public health’s instructions.
Unfortunately, they’re only doing it to avoid acute infections during the competition.
100% guarantee they’ll drop all precautions as soon as their events end.
Post-acute illness is what sidelined me. And they have no clue that yeah—it could happen to you.
I ran marathons before Long COVID.
100% guarantee they’ll drop all precautions as soon as their events end.
Post-acute illness is what sidelined me. And they have no clue that yeah—it could happen to you.
I ran marathons before Long COVID.
February 12, 2026 at 4:27 AM
If only their (reasonable) preventative measures were as enlightened as the COVID conscious community would like to believe…
Until we know why a mild infection permanently disabled me & not everyone else, 99.9% of the world will keep bathing in ignorant bliss.
As per public health’s instructions.
Until we know why a mild infection permanently disabled me & not everyone else, 99.9% of the world will keep bathing in ignorant bliss.
As per public health’s instructions.
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Unfortunately, they’re only doing it to avoid acute infections during the competition.
100% guarantee they’ll drop all precautions as soon as their events end.
Post-acute illness is what sidelined me. And they have no clue that yeah—it could happen to you.
I ran marathons before Long COVID.
100% guarantee they’ll drop all precautions as soon as their events end.
Post-acute illness is what sidelined me. And they have no clue that yeah—it could happen to you.
I ran marathons before Long COVID.
February 12, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Unfortunately, they’re only doing it to avoid acute infections during the competition.
100% guarantee they’ll drop all precautions as soon as their events end.
Post-acute illness is what sidelined me. And they have no clue that yeah—it could happen to you.
I ran marathons before Long COVID.
100% guarantee they’ll drop all precautions as soon as their events end.
Post-acute illness is what sidelined me. And they have no clue that yeah—it could happen to you.
I ran marathons before Long COVID.
TIME100 Health 2026 — The blind spot in regards to post-viral illness—including the increased risk of cancers, infections MIs, dementia—is troubling. Even its public health experts are mum about #LongCOVID & #MECFS
We don't exist. None of this is happening to any of us.
And yet... 🧵1/7
#MedSky
We don't exist. None of this is happening to any of us.
And yet... 🧵1/7
#MedSky
TIME100 Health 2026
In today's changing health landscape, these leaders are advancing care, shaping policy, and driving innovations that transform lives.
time.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
TIME100 Health 2026 — The blind spot in regards to post-viral illness—including the increased risk of cancers, infections MIs, dementia—is troubling. Even its public health experts are mum about #LongCOVID & #MECFS
We don't exist. None of this is happening to any of us.
And yet... 🧵1/7
#MedSky
We don't exist. None of this is happening to any of us.
And yet... 🧵1/7
#MedSky
"Most AI-enabled devices coming to market aren’t required to be tested on patients, according to FDA rules. Instead, makers satisfy FDA rules by citing previously authorized devices that had no AI-related capabilities."
JFC
AI IS NOT RELIABLE.
HALLUCINATIONS ARE A FEATURE—NOT A BUG!!!
#Medsky
JFC
AI IS NOT RELIABLE.
HALLUCINATIONS ARE A FEATURE—NOT A BUG!!!
#Medsky
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"Most AI-enabled devices coming to market aren’t required to be tested on patients, according to FDA rules. Instead, makers satisfy FDA rules by citing previously authorized devices that had no AI-related capabilities."
JFC
AI IS NOT RELIABLE.
HALLUCINATIONS ARE A FEATURE—NOT A BUG!!!
#Medsky
JFC
AI IS NOT RELIABLE.
HALLUCINATIONS ARE A FEATURE—NOT A BUG!!!
#Medsky
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Day 1247 of COVID-induced disability—Today I learned my metabolism is really, really (really-really) really late.
If "60 days to fully recover from moderate to severe COVID" is the average... how do those of us with Long COVID impact the numbers, I wonder?
Also… my causal infection? Was mild 🤔
If "60 days to fully recover from moderate to severe COVID" is the average... how do those of us with Long COVID impact the numbers, I wonder?
Also… my causal infection? Was mild 🤔
Smartwatch-derived versus self-reported outcomes of physiological recovery after COVID-19, influenza, and group A streptococcus: a 2-year prospective cohort study
Public health recommendations suggest individuals can resume normal activities 5 days
after symptom cessation. However, our study finds that full recovery can take longer,
indicating that delayed retu...
www.thelancet.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Day 1247 of COVID-induced disability—Today I learned my metabolism is really, really (really-really) really late.
If "60 days to fully recover from moderate to severe COVID" is the average... how do those of us with Long COVID impact the numbers, I wonder?
Also… my causal infection? Was mild 🤔
If "60 days to fully recover from moderate to severe COVID" is the average... how do those of us with Long COVID impact the numbers, I wonder?
Also… my causal infection? Was mild 🤔
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McKinsey helped kill human beings & create new #LongCovid disabled humans in service to #EndStageCapitalism earlier in the shitty "Roaring" 2020s. 🤬
Please dig into Duck Duck Go research on this issue whenever you have time!
Please dig into Duck Duck Go research on this issue whenever you have time!
February 7, 2026 at 12:23 AM
McKinsey helped kill human beings & create new #LongCovid disabled humans in service to #EndStageCapitalism earlier in the shitty "Roaring" 2020s. 🤬
Please dig into Duck Duck Go research on this issue whenever you have time!
Please dig into Duck Duck Go research on this issue whenever you have time!
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Why are certain immune cells affected in COVID and Long COVID?
Viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 called xenoAMPs target specific immune cells based on the cell’s geometry. buff.ly/iWpGOPB
✴️Spiky dendritic cells and T cells are destroyed.
🟠Round monocytes and neutrophils are not.
Viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 called xenoAMPs target specific immune cells based on the cell’s geometry. buff.ly/iWpGOPB
✴️Spiky dendritic cells and T cells are destroyed.
🟠Round monocytes and neutrophils are not.
February 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Why are certain immune cells affected in COVID and Long COVID?
Viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 called xenoAMPs target specific immune cells based on the cell’s geometry. buff.ly/iWpGOPB
✴️Spiky dendritic cells and T cells are destroyed.
🟠Round monocytes and neutrophils are not.
Viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 called xenoAMPs target specific immune cells based on the cell’s geometry. buff.ly/iWpGOPB
✴️Spiky dendritic cells and T cells are destroyed.
🟠Round monocytes and neutrophils are not.
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Every complaint I had against Chomsky concerned the same problem: the way he excused or dismissed atrocities committed by his team: ie regimes and forces opposed to Western hegemonic power. As his friend, Epstein was given the same pass.
In other words, it's not an anomaly.
It's the same story.
In other words, it's not an anomaly.
It's the same story.
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
Correspondence with Noam Chomsky
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.
www.monbiot.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Every complaint I had against Chomsky concerned the same problem: the way he excused or dismissed atrocities committed by his team: ie regimes and forces opposed to Western hegemonic power. As his friend, Epstein was given the same pass.
In other words, it's not an anomaly.
It's the same story.
In other words, it's not an anomaly.
It's the same story.
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'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
Day 1243—Petition to introduce this as a mandatory disclaimer under every hyped-up Long COVID & ME/CFS treatment:
"The Better the Study, the Less It Finds"
"The Better the Study, the Less It Finds"
The skinny on intermittent fasting
"the better the study , the less it finds"
gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/w...
"the better the study , the less it finds"
gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/w...
February 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Day 1243—Petition to introduce this as a mandatory disclaimer under every hyped-up Long COVID & ME/CFS treatment:
"The Better the Study, the Less It Finds"
"The Better the Study, the Less It Finds"
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no new pictures, where are you at mentally?
February 3, 2026 at 2:26 AM
no new pictures, where are you at mentally?
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Canadians, Please consider signing this petition asking for renewable energy to be funded equally well as fossil fuels via subsidies. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
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February 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Canadians, Please consider signing this petition asking for renewable energy to be funded equally well as fossil fuels via subsidies. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
I should apologize for this one. I won't, but I definitely should. Stay warm out there.
#LongCOVID #SickJokes
#LongCOVID #SickJokes
January 24, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I should apologize for this one. I won't, but I definitely should. Stay warm out there.
#LongCOVID #SickJokes
#LongCOVID #SickJokes
"Can you still get hurt if you already fell off a cliff?"
What confuses people is that cursed name:
'Long' COVID is not "COVID, but lasting longer".
It's metabolic injury—multi-systemic dysfunction. It's the virus triggering broad neurological, immunological dysregulation.
So yeah—you can.
What confuses people is that cursed name:
'Long' COVID is not "COVID, but lasting longer".
It's metabolic injury—multi-systemic dysfunction. It's the virus triggering broad neurological, immunological dysregulation.
So yeah—you can.
January 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
"Can you still get hurt if you already fell off a cliff?"
What confuses people is that cursed name:
'Long' COVID is not "COVID, but lasting longer".
It's metabolic injury—multi-systemic dysfunction. It's the virus triggering broad neurological, immunological dysregulation.
So yeah—you can.
What confuses people is that cursed name:
'Long' COVID is not "COVID, but lasting longer".
It's metabolic injury—multi-systemic dysfunction. It's the virus triggering broad neurological, immunological dysregulation.
So yeah—you can.
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Millions of children have #LongCOVID. At #MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series II, Sinéad O'Brien, @cleanairie.bsky.social cofounder, discussed the need for #CleanAir and better sick policy in schools to reduce transmission of pathogens. Watch forum: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/long-co...
January 24, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Millions of children have #LongCOVID. At #MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series II, Sinéad O'Brien, @cleanairie.bsky.social cofounder, discussed the need for #CleanAir and better sick policy in schools to reduce transmission of pathogens. Watch forum: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/long-co...
While Emily Mendenhall's response to the ME/CFS community's criticism is refreshing in its good faith, @longcovidadvoc.com's comment below it (which I've reformated for Bluesky here) is a masterpiece in concise, cogent and respectful dissent. Worth a read. #LongCOVID
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January 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
While Emily Mendenhall's response to the ME/CFS community's criticism is refreshing in its good faith, @longcovidadvoc.com's comment below it (which I've reformated for Bluesky here) is a masterpiece in concise, cogent and respectful dissent. Worth a read. #LongCOVID
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“Wessely read a version of the writing & threatened to sue me if it didn’t include the other side.” - Mendenhall
This raises serious questions about academic pressure, power, and whose voices shape the narrative around ME and Long Covid.
This raises serious questions about academic pressure, power, and whose voices shape the narrative around ME and Long Covid.
🗞️We have a fascinating article by guest writer @drelke.bsky.social on Mendenhall's new book 'Invisible Illness'.
Suffice to say there are complexities & controversies...
🖇️ tinyurl.com/vct9n5ez
Suffice to say there are complexities & controversies...
🖇️ tinyurl.com/vct9n5ez
January 18, 2026 at 5:20 PM
“Wessely read a version of the writing & threatened to sue me if it didn’t include the other side.” - Mendenhall
This raises serious questions about academic pressure, power, and whose voices shape the narrative around ME and Long Covid.
This raises serious questions about academic pressure, power, and whose voices shape the narrative around ME and Long Covid.
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Before the advent of penicillin, syphilis could be a dreaded multisystem disease that slowly killed you. People tried all sorts of toxic and not particularly effective treatments including arsenic and mercury compounds.
It seems that is where we are with long covid.
It seems that is where we are with long covid.
January 22, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Before the advent of penicillin, syphilis could be a dreaded multisystem disease that slowly killed you. People tried all sorts of toxic and not particularly effective treatments including arsenic and mercury compounds.
It seems that is where we are with long covid.
It seems that is where we are with long covid.
To your point: I just revisited your [excellent] "Long COVID Defense Series II" on YouTube… and the comments—my God.
I hate to call it a 'good' sign, but you're clearly reaching outside the COVID Conscious bubble, because the trolls are out in force.
(What I don't get is why they bother?!)
I hate to call it a 'good' sign, but you're clearly reaching outside the COVID Conscious bubble, because the trolls are out in force.
(What I don't get is why they bother?!)
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 AM
To your point: I just revisited your [excellent] "Long COVID Defense Series II" on YouTube… and the comments—my God.
I hate to call it a 'good' sign, but you're clearly reaching outside the COVID Conscious bubble, because the trolls are out in force.
(What I don't get is why they bother?!)
I hate to call it a 'good' sign, but you're clearly reaching outside the COVID Conscious bubble, because the trolls are out in force.
(What I don't get is why they bother?!)
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Pretty alarming stuff from this study by Griffith University’s National Centre for Neuroimmunology & Emerging Disease (NCNED).
#covi̇d19 #longcovid #braindamage #coronavirus #publichealth #wekeepussafe
#covi̇d19 #longcovid #braindamage #coronavirus #publichealth #wekeepussafe
January 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Pretty alarming stuff from this study by Griffith University’s National Centre for Neuroimmunology & Emerging Disease (NCNED).
#covi̇d19 #longcovid #braindamage #coronavirus #publichealth #wekeepussafe
#covi̇d19 #longcovid #braindamage #coronavirus #publichealth #wekeepussafe
My 1227 days of COVID-induced purgatory strongly disagree.
There is no cure for Long COVID.
Vaccines don't prevent it nearly as much as repeat infections increase its likelihood. We don't know why it maims some people, only that it does. Yes, even now.
#MaskUp #Ventilate #Don'tCatchCOVID
There is no cure for Long COVID.
Vaccines don't prevent it nearly as much as repeat infections increase its likelihood. We don't know why it maims some people, only that it does. Yes, even now.
#MaskUp #Ventilate #Don'tCatchCOVID
January 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM
My 1227 days of COVID-induced purgatory strongly disagree.
There is no cure for Long COVID.
Vaccines don't prevent it nearly as much as repeat infections increase its likelihood. We don't know why it maims some people, only that it does. Yes, even now.
#MaskUp #Ventilate #Don'tCatchCOVID
There is no cure for Long COVID.
Vaccines don't prevent it nearly as much as repeat infections increase its likelihood. We don't know why it maims some people, only that it does. Yes, even now.
#MaskUp #Ventilate #Don'tCatchCOVID
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Don't just stand there
Watching it happening
I can't stand it
Don't feel it
Something telling me
I don't wanna go out this way
But have a nice day, then...
For the beautiful occupation
The beautiful occupation
You don't need an invitation
To drop in upon a nation
— Travis (2003)
#ICE #Greenland
Watching it happening
I can't stand it
Don't feel it
Something telling me
I don't wanna go out this way
But have a nice day, then...
For the beautiful occupation
The beautiful occupation
You don't need an invitation
To drop in upon a nation
— Travis (2003)
#ICE #Greenland
Travis - The Beautiful Occupation (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Travis
www.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Don't just stand there
Watching it happening
I can't stand it
Don't feel it
Something telling me
I don't wanna go out this way
But have a nice day, then...
For the beautiful occupation
The beautiful occupation
You don't need an invitation
To drop in upon a nation
— Travis (2003)
#ICE #Greenland
Watching it happening
I can't stand it
Don't feel it
Something telling me
I don't wanna go out this way
But have a nice day, then...
For the beautiful occupation
The beautiful occupation
You don't need an invitation
To drop in upon a nation
— Travis (2003)
#ICE #Greenland
I could have written this. This is me. Three years, four months. In purgatory.
“Before I became ill, I was very busy… Then it all changed. My world completely stopped… For the last 3 years, I have spent most of my days in my house, resting, chasing doctors and insurance… researching my diagnoses and…crashing.” https://buff.ly/47nqt0i #pwME #LongCovid
January 18, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I could have written this. This is me. Three years, four months. In purgatory.
@cleanairie.bsky.social Great talk, Sinéad. You might have just gotten lucky—also practiced radical rest, got Long COVID anyway. Wish I knew why me and not you. Soon, hopefully.
Designing ways to make indoor air as safe (and silent) as outdoors. Was great to hear your common sense. ✊
Designing ways to make indoor air as safe (and silent) as outdoors. Was great to hear your common sense. ✊
Long COVID Defense Series II
YouTube video by MaskTogetherAmerica
www.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:11 AM
@cleanairie.bsky.social Great talk, Sinéad. You might have just gotten lucky—also practiced radical rest, got Long COVID anyway. Wish I knew why me and not you. Soon, hopefully.
Designing ways to make indoor air as safe (and silent) as outdoors. Was great to hear your common sense. ✊
Designing ways to make indoor air as safe (and silent) as outdoors. Was great to hear your common sense. ✊