Pam
@pamboling.bsky.social
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Writer. Writing my way out of long COVID, trauma, life, and everything. NO DM's please.
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pamboling.bsky.social
Yes, I agree. I'm beyond fear though. Fear just makes my symptoms worse. Accepting "this is life now" has made it much easier to live with.
pamboling.bsky.social
I can't tell you the number of times I've thought about this over the course of my illness. Countless. It boggles the mind how badly we've handled this thus far.
pamboling.bsky.social
Practically the entire population of the world could be walking around with ticking time bombs ...

... while a sizable portion of the (American) medical establishment continues to pretend they're oblivious to the facts about post-COVID complications and implications.
gayfabfourfan.bsky.social
Untreated HIV can take on average around 10 years to progress to AIDS. This means HIV was unknowingly circulating throughout the ‘70s (and likely before). Going by this rough timeline, we won’t know what damage a single COVID infection, let alone several, does long term until around 2030.
oniblackstock.bsky.social
The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.
pamboling.bsky.social
This sent chills down my spine.
pamboling.bsky.social
House Republicans will go to any length to avoid swearing in Adelita Grijalva. Kind of makes one wonder how many of their names appear in the Epstein files. Or maybe they fear what Trump will do to them if the files are released.
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gayfabfourfan.bsky.social
“We live in a society that decided years ago to ignore a global pandemic, & continues to look away as the numbers of people disabled & killed by Covid climb each day. We’re forced 2 continue contributing to the economy & carrying out our civic duties without a shred of protection from…institutions…”
pamboling.bsky.social
Republican operatives aligned with Trump now own voting machines in "more than 40 states."

"Free and fair" elections, my arse. If you don't like the outcome, just buy the systems that generate outcomes. Voila.

Private enterprise at its basest.

www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Liberty Vote acquires Dominion Voting Systems, touts paper ballot 'simplicity' - UPI.com
St. Louis-based Liberty Vote has acquired Dominion Voting Systems, among the nation's largest election technology companies, and was wrongly accused of election rigging.
www.upi.com
pamboling.bsky.social
He took a job he's grotesquely unqualified to do. Now he's "losing his mind" because he can't control his incompetence. Who could have predicted it?
pamboling.bsky.social
They're also trying to convince the public that autism is a result of parental choices. Pity the poor mother who believes that shit. Talk about an assault on a person's psyche!
pamboling.bsky.social
When the population-at-large realizes that COVID acts a lot like HIV, maybe they'll take it upon themselves to stop volunteering for disability and stop listening to the moneyed interests who seek to protect profits over people.
gayfabfourfan.bsky.social
The Atlantic, the NYT, and so many others also participated in the destruction of public health by repeatedly publishing the lie that COVID is mild, and now an organ- and immune-system damaging airborne virus is running rampant everywhere—w/ no infection control anywhere.

Great work everyone.
volts.wtf
The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
Wise words and hope. Thank you, Jane Goodall.
yasharali.bsky.social
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
pamboling.bsky.social
We (they, actually) didn't just tolerate it. They rewarded the rioters with pardons and significant financial incentives to join ICE. If they're going to stick with the precedent they set, why aren't they handing out $10,000 checks to protesters at government buildings?
pamboling.bsky.social
The devil is in the details, which he cleverly omitted. Republicans are working to "fix" healthcare so that only the elite can access it.
pamboling.bsky.social
We are fast approaching the point that being a registered Democrat or voting for Democrats will get you labeled a terrorist by this administration.
pamboling.bsky.social
Has anyone in this administration or the MAGA movement denied being a fascist? Evidence suggests they're all proudly, loudly fascist.
pamboling.bsky.social
He was actually sentenced to 10 years, 9.5 of which were suspended. The only consolation in this is that child sex offenders are perhaps the most-hated among the prison population.
pamboling.bsky.social
This gives me hope, lifts my spirits, both of which I needed tonight!
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
There's a global uprising underway that the media
ISN'T showing you

🖕the government around the world!
pamboling.bsky.social
Nobody wants to be the one to publicly admit that COVID causes autoimmune disease. I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere, yet long COVID acts very much like other autoimmune disorders and, in some cases, like a combination of several autoimmune disorders.
pamboling.bsky.social
I agree wholeheartedly. Politicians aren't our biggest problem. Corporate thugs are. We need a crop of politicians courageous enough to take on grotesque wealth disparity and oppressive employment practices including low wages and worker rights.

THAT might re-unite this nation!
chrismurphyct.bsky.social
People on the right and left are sick of big corporations - like media companies - having become such a dominant force in our economy and our culture. Whichever party offers a vision to break up concentrated economic power has the potential to capture a new alignment of voters.
pamboling.bsky.social
Thank you! I will.
pamboling.bsky.social
That's wonderful that you've found good medical care. So far, I get blank stares from every provider I've seen when I mention long COVID. I don't know how it's possible that any medical provider could still be in the dark.
pamboling.bsky.social
So do I. I've improved dramatically this year over the previous four, thankfully! I'm still severely limited in what I'm able to do and still have constant widespread pain, but I'm no longer relying on other people for literally everything. Don't give up hope!!
pamboling.bsky.social
Meanwhile, people who believe this are putting themselves at risk of contracting it. How do they explain long COVID to people who were never vaccinated? I have (anti-vax) family members who describe long COVID to me without associating it with COVID. It breaks my heart.
pamboling.bsky.social
Their vaccine "informed consent" says, in effect, that vaccines -- not COVID -- cause (many of the symptoms of) long COVID.
patbiosteamist.bsky.social
Final ACIP update for the Covid vaccine:

1) Covid vaccines for all ages will be based on individual decision-making (no recc).

2) 65+ can just go and get it.

3) 6 mos-65yr, vaccine informed consent will be required to be discussed prior to receipt with 6 points of mandated misinformation

1/2
pamboling.bsky.social
Bullet points 2, 3, and 4 describe long COVID quite well. How long before they start blaming long COVID on vaccines and telling desperately ill people that it's their own fault? Is denying disability based on vaccine "choice" in our future too?