Wade McCall
@theodorebeef.bsky.social
Coding, melee, runescape... and now long covid
The term ‘health insurance’ in the US is a sick joke. I had a good job and good coverage when I got long covid.
I became too sick to work and lost both my income and my insurance. Literally the exact scenario I thought I was insured against.
I became too sick to work and lost both my income and my insurance. Literally the exact scenario I thought I was insured against.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The term ‘health insurance’ in the US is a sick joke. I had a good job and good coverage when I got long covid.
I became too sick to work and lost both my income and my insurance. Literally the exact scenario I thought I was insured against.
I became too sick to work and lost both my income and my insurance. Literally the exact scenario I thought I was insured against.
I think, unfortunately, this is what keeps me coming back to Twitter. The rampant ignorance and science denial. Somehow it is addictive.
This person questions how we can know the covid vaccine reduces disease severity. As if the scientific papers don't explain their methods in excruciating detail.
This person questions how we can know the covid vaccine reduces disease severity. As if the scientific papers don't explain their methods in excruciating detail.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I think, unfortunately, this is what keeps me coming back to Twitter. The rampant ignorance and science denial. Somehow it is addictive.
This person questions how we can know the covid vaccine reduces disease severity. As if the scientific papers don't explain their methods in excruciating detail.
This person questions how we can know the covid vaccine reduces disease severity. As if the scientific papers don't explain their methods in excruciating detail.
I cannot stand Twitter but it seems like Im always sucked back there instead of here. Not sure why that is, I generally prefer the people and self feed moderation I can do on this app
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I cannot stand Twitter but it seems like Im always sucked back there instead of here. Not sure why that is, I generally prefer the people and self feed moderation I can do on this app
My one wild and precious life and Im losing it to #LongCovid
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
If health ever returns to me, i will spend mine thankful for every day, helping those still in need.
So many of us still trapped.
#pwME #MEcfs
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
If health ever returns to me, i will spend mine thankful for every day, helping those still in need.
So many of us still trapped.
#pwME #MEcfs
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
My one wild and precious life and Im losing it to #LongCovid
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
If health ever returns to me, i will spend mine thankful for every day, helping those still in need.
So many of us still trapped.
#pwME #MEcfs
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
If health ever returns to me, i will spend mine thankful for every day, helping those still in need.
So many of us still trapped.
#pwME #MEcfs
Its silly of me but i get jealous of other people in the #longCOVID and #MEcfs community who still have a loving partner. The crisis my illness created was too much for my relationship to handle, apparently. I still miss them all the time. I also miss the closeness and the warmth of loving someone.
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Its silly of me but i get jealous of other people in the #longCOVID and #MEcfs community who still have a loving partner. The crisis my illness created was too much for my relationship to handle, apparently. I still miss them all the time. I also miss the closeness and the warmth of loving someone.
MFs trying to explain that the pandemic is "over" #longCOVID
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
MFs trying to explain that the pandemic is "over" #longCOVID
Reposted by Wade McCall
I try to be professional on this platform but there are times, like now, when it hits me hard on a visceral level that we are in the midst of a catastrophic global public health crisis and it seems, as a species, we've somehow decided that ignoring it is the best plan we've got.
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I try to be professional on this platform but there are times, like now, when it hits me hard on a visceral level that we are in the midst of a catastrophic global public health crisis and it seems, as a species, we've somehow decided that ignoring it is the best plan we've got.
Im living a ghost of a life just waiting for improvement or an effective treatment to be discovered. I live the same day every day in bed, unable to even entertain myself how i wish. I desire independence. I desire health. Not sure how much longer i can do this #LongCovid #mecfs
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Im living a ghost of a life just waiting for improvement or an effective treatment to be discovered. I live the same day every day in bed, unable to even entertain myself how i wish. I desire independence. I desire health. Not sure how much longer i can do this #LongCovid #mecfs
March 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Two months out from me being in my bed for THREE YEARS.
CIDRAP: “Study shows for most, long-COVID symptoms persist into second year”
“During exercise tests, people with LC had significant reductions in handgrip strength, maximal oxygen consumption, & ventilatory efficiency (how well the body exchanges oxygen)..
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
“During exercise tests, people with LC had significant reductions in handgrip strength, maximal oxygen consumption, & ventilatory efficiency (how well the body exchanges oxygen)..
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
Study shows for most, long-COVID symptoms persist into second year
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Two months out from me being in my bed for THREE YEARS.
Reposted by Wade McCall
It’s wild this isn’t front page news. If NIH had a study where 1 in 22 people who’d had Covid then had a stroke, it’d be a five-alarm fire.
But the average health-related quality of life for ME/CFS is worse than stroke—or literally any other condition it’s ever been compared to.
But the average health-related quality of life for ME/CFS is worse than stroke—or literally any other condition it’s ever been compared to.
January 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It’s wild this isn’t front page news. If NIH had a study where 1 in 22 people who’d had Covid then had a stroke, it’d be a five-alarm fire.
But the average health-related quality of life for ME/CFS is worse than stroke—or literally any other condition it’s ever been compared to.
But the average health-related quality of life for ME/CFS is worse than stroke—or literally any other condition it’s ever been compared to.
My doctor suggested i go for walks every day (Ive been bedbound for months now), whats the worst that could happen? If i get PEM its not like ill die.
#pwME #longcovid #mecfs
#pwME #longcovid #mecfs
January 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My doctor suggested i go for walks every day (Ive been bedbound for months now), whats the worst that could happen? If i get PEM its not like ill die.
#pwME #longcovid #mecfs
#pwME #longcovid #mecfs
Reposted by Wade McCall
The reality is even darker: top scientists have been shouting from the rooftops, publishing countless studies on the dangerous nature of Covid / Long Covid and yet, society turns its back, ignoring the warnings.
January 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The reality is even darker: top scientists have been shouting from the rooftops, publishing countless studies on the dangerous nature of Covid / Long Covid and yet, society turns its back, ignoring the warnings.
Had an mri a couple of days ago. Had a serious reaction to the contrast (which i know is rare). Currently crashing from the effort of it all. Because I tried to get healthcare... #longcovid is so fair
January 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Had an mri a couple of days ago. Had a serious reaction to the contrast (which i know is rare). Currently crashing from the effort of it all. Because I tried to get healthcare... #longcovid is so fair
Reposted by Wade McCall
Attention abled people: it's time to step up and support our loved ones and comrades who have Long Covid and ME/CFS!!
There are over 400 million people living with Long Covid today, and many millions more living with ME/CFS.
Pick one or two from this list and make it happen!
There are over 400 million people living with Long Covid today, and many millions more living with ME/CFS.
Pick one or two from this list and make it happen!
January 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Attention abled people: it's time to step up and support our loved ones and comrades who have Long Covid and ME/CFS!!
There are over 400 million people living with Long Covid today, and many millions more living with ME/CFS.
Pick one or two from this list and make it happen!
There are over 400 million people living with Long Covid today, and many millions more living with ME/CFS.
Pick one or two from this list and make it happen!
Reposted by Wade McCall
I think this chart really captures the extent to which we need to bend the curve upwards on IACC funding 📈
I call the gap between MS (an underfunded disease) and HIV/AIDS (a highly funded disease) the 'cone of attention' that ME/CFS, Long Covid etc need to push into.
crunchme.org 🔗
I call the gap between MS (an underfunded disease) and HIV/AIDS (a highly funded disease) the 'cone of attention' that ME/CFS, Long Covid etc need to push into.
crunchme.org 🔗
December 28, 2024 at 9:13 PM
I think this chart really captures the extent to which we need to bend the curve upwards on IACC funding 📈
I call the gap between MS (an underfunded disease) and HIV/AIDS (a highly funded disease) the 'cone of attention' that ME/CFS, Long Covid etc need to push into.
crunchme.org 🔗
I call the gap between MS (an underfunded disease) and HIV/AIDS (a highly funded disease) the 'cone of attention' that ME/CFS, Long Covid etc need to push into.
crunchme.org 🔗
Reposted by Wade McCall
Millions of men, women and children all over the world are desperate for a treatment or cure for a disease that has robbed them of their lives. Please support the work of the Open Medicine Foundation (www.omf.ngo) as they search for the cause and a cure.
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #mecfs
December 21, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Millions of men, women and children all over the world are desperate for a treatment or cure for a disease that has robbed them of their lives. Please support the work of the Open Medicine Foundation (www.omf.ngo) as they search for the cause and a cure.
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #mecfs
Finally, I feel like im pulling out of this months-long crash. Mixed feelings about that. Worried ive permanently ruined my baseline.
But i can play video games again so im happy
But i can play video games again so im happy
December 12, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Finally, I feel like im pulling out of this months-long crash. Mixed feelings about that. Worried ive permanently ruined my baseline.
But i can play video games again so im happy
But i can play video games again so im happy
Reposted by Wade McCall
“We’ll have herd immunity [to covid] by April 2021”
— Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA Commissioner
— Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA Commissioner
November 23, 2024 at 4:46 AM
“We’ll have herd immunity [to covid] by April 2021”
— Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA Commissioner
— Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA Commissioner
Reposted by Wade McCall
If the CDC did their job in the 80s and actually investigated the outbreaks of "CFS", maybe there would have been warnings of the potential consequences of post acute sequelae. And maybe we'd have treatments too...
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#pwME
youtu.be/AW0x9_Q8qbo?...
#MEcfs
#MyalgicE
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#pwME
youtu.be/AW0x9_Q8qbo?...
#MEcfs
#MyalgicE
CFS and the CDC's Failure to Respond: Primetime Live (1996)
YouTube video by Laurel B
youtu.be
November 23, 2024 at 12:40 AM
If the CDC did their job in the 80s and actually investigated the outbreaks of "CFS", maybe there would have been warnings of the potential consequences of post acute sequelae. And maybe we'd have treatments too...
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#pwME
youtu.be/AW0x9_Q8qbo?...
#MEcfs
#MyalgicE
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#pwME
youtu.be/AW0x9_Q8qbo?...
#MEcfs
#MyalgicE
The experimental "show replies in a threaded view" option on this app is great, but i wish we could collapse a reply thread so i can see the next without tons of scrolling.
November 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
The experimental "show replies in a threaded view" option on this app is great, but i wish we could collapse a reply thread so i can see the next without tons of scrolling.
I love that all the swifties are here. I really do. But i think you guys came in such large numbers that Im getting swiftie content now, and idk what to think about that
November 11, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I love that all the swifties are here. I really do. But i think you guys came in such large numbers that Im getting swiftie content now, and idk what to think about that
I dont usually post on social media, but...
I think I have long covid. I've been stuck in bed for 3 weeks now...
Anyway, running out of things to do that dont take too much energy. Any ideas?
#longcovid #mecfs
I think I have long covid. I've been stuck in bed for 3 weeks now...
Anyway, running out of things to do that dont take too much energy. Any ideas?
#longcovid #mecfs
October 22, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I dont usually post on social media, but...
I think I have long covid. I've been stuck in bed for 3 weeks now...
Anyway, running out of things to do that dont take too much energy. Any ideas?
#longcovid #mecfs
I think I have long covid. I've been stuck in bed for 3 weeks now...
Anyway, running out of things to do that dont take too much energy. Any ideas?
#longcovid #mecfs