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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 1d

When are we going to acknowledge that "video podcasts" are just low-budget tv chatshows? It's sad that "audio-only" podcasts seem to be going out of fashion - good ones are qualitatively different to visual media, not an inferior version of it. But it's weird that video podcasts are seen as novel.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a generalist discipline that pretty much allows you to justify studying literally anything. Of course it’s got ADHDers

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sending all my love. I’m sorry your parents didn’t and don’t give you the understanding and support you need. I hope you have found other folks (online or irl) who understand your struggles and honor your efforts

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 2d

I think all the time about how much we could knock down community transmission if people just masked where it’s easy, and how much safer that would make places where mitigation is hard, like nursing homes.

Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, I don’t need you to mask everywhere. I just would appreciate it in grocery stores, medical facilities, airports, and airplanes. That would make my life so much safer. Just orders of magnitude safer.

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

If we think distrust of the medical professions is high now, imagine what that will look like when all these kids - whose doctors pretended long covid wasn’t real - grow up. If my parents hadn’t been scientifically minded my experiences would have made me so vulnerable to crunchy MAHA-style bullshit

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not the recipe for a healthy, well-adjusted adult, either mentally or physically. There are major downstream consequences to exposing children en masse not just to covid but to the social conditions surrounding an invisible disability, and it’s really not going to be pretty

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

If living in those conditions even with loving parent advocates can cause CPTSD (it was this diagnosis, specifically around my medically history, that got me to acknowledge what I went through) then imagine what it does to kids whose parents buy into the idea that they’re lazy, or seeking attention?

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

It took a long time for me to acknowledge that what I experienced as a child was chronic trauma and in many cases straight up abuse or neglect. And this was with parents who cared and fought for me, like many of the parents in this article. Not every child is so lucky. Think about that last bit.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

When this pandemic started I had some small hope that it would raise awareness about post-viral illnesses, ME/CFS, and other understudied chronic conditions and I’ve been appalled that it’s gone completely in the other direction. People are so eager to be cruel to protect their own fantasies.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

It takes many of us years or decades to unpack what happened to us. To start seeking medical care or continuing education when we need it after so many experiences w/ doctors and educators who treated us like hypochondriacs

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

What this article doesn’t quite touch on is that there are long-term consequences beyond not receiving accommodations/facing learning loss/not being properly medically treated. Being a child with an invisible chronic illness is traumatic, and it changes how you relate to people forever.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

Watching this play out is so painful because I know exactly what these kids are going through. I had these same problems with school administrators, teachers, classmates, and medical professionals during the cruel years of a childhood post-viral illness (nobody called it that then)

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

And every time you catch covid you’re more likely to develop it :(

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

do the journalists who were being shitty about masking the other day want to comment or

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

No problem! Thanks for being interested

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

I wear glasses and am literally allergic to the mask that gives me the best seal so I get that masking isn’t fun. But even throwing on a less well sealed mask at least when you’re ill will keep other people safer

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

Rather than send you a bunch of separate links from my folder I’ll send you here:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

That way if there are specific things you’re interested in/questions you have you can actively search for them

LitCovid

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 2d

How River Drying Influences Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Insights from Species and Gene shifts academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

How River Drying Influences Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Insights from Species and Gene shifts

Abstract. Drying is threatening global river ecosystems due to climate change, altering community composition and function even upon flow resumption. This

academic.oup.com

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just a question, and nobody seems to be willing to actually answer it.

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

People do seem to care a lot if I mask, enough to become verbally and even physically abusive in public? If you mask in the workplace people also constantly ask you invasive questions or treat you like you’re crazy. Asking people here why it’s too hard to wear a mask is not vilifying anyone…

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

So maybe give the people here who are asking you to help not just keep people safe but also to normalize the behavior for which they receive actual, real abuse some grace. The discomfort you feel when people ask you to take care of other people is not abuse. We’re not screaming at you. We’re begging

elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

They all happened when I was minding my own fucking business. Does shit like this ever happen to you when you are minding your own business not masking? I am guessing not

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve had multiple people ride by on their bikes screaming obscenities. I’d had people cough directly and deliberately in my face or spit at me. I have had one man expose his literal asshole to me. I have had people ask invasive and very rude questions. I didn’t initialize any of these interactions…

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

Stories*

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elkelktick.bsky.social @elkelktick.bsky.social · 2d

Whereas anyone who masks regularly does have recent stores of someone doing some really antisocial shit to them in public

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