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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children.”

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Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens

This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1m

Signed and shared.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 3m

And the worst part is if they are sitting in close quarters coughing, they literally are coughing on cancer patients.

These ppl…I can’t deal with them.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 31m

And as someone who has experienced LC myself, there is a very special place in hell for every single immunologist, MD or other expert who has minimized this condition.

And there is always the chance you guys just might get end up with it too bc we all know most of you think you are above masking.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 38m

We know more women than men get LC. Is he studying that? Nope.

He is spending all his time having tantrums on substack bc Dr. Leonardi embarrassed him on Twitter for being arrogant, wrong, and unapologetic about how wrong he has been.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 38m

Is he studying diverse racial groups & their immune system responses to Covid?
Nope.

He is basically screaming online about every paper that shows Covid is serious & infection(s) are causing lasting damage.

Perhaps that’s bc he wants all of us who are suffering to shut up & die.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 42m

He is loudly & aggressively advocating for ppl to minimize & ignore the harm COVID causes, w/ zero advocacy for patients & transmission mitigations, and at the same time LC affects Black & Brown ppl, & disabled ppl & trans more than other groups?

And you don’t find that highly suspect?

Really? 🧐

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone can all claim to hate an evil man. But lying about disease, devaluing the lives of high-risk ppl who are largely disabled, and attacking ppl who disagree with him outside of the professional route of scientific dispute gives Nazi vibes to me.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

He may not personally love Hitler the man or claim not to, but the ideology he clearly wields as seen in his behavior online begs to differ. 🙃

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

And I will add the thing about Marc is that he doesn’t give a shit about Long Covid patients at all.

He only cares about proving himself right.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

But if interested you can start here:

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The State of Health

Abstract. The Third Reich inherited a highly organized German health system. The Nazis also inherited a populace suffering from a wide variety of illnesses

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

And if you would like for me to make some comparisons for you of him & Nazi behavior I would be happy to.

Or you can go away.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

Mam he demonized himself through his own words and actions online since 2020.

& had you been paying attention to that, you would know better than to pearl-clutch about being called out for his own behavior.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1h

at the last #NoKings rallies, attendees were handcuffed for wearing respirators.

the act of mitigating harm to your &your communities bodies by wearing a facial filter is a noble one
+ it's a helluva lot harder to arrest a whole sea of masked faces, bc it becomes normal.

embody solidarity—mask up.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jun 14

confirmation from another source of atlanta cops arresting people for wearing masks on chamblee-tucker road. hoping to confirm what kind of masks these folks were wearing, not that it should matter but 😮‍💨

shared with OP’s permission.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjtLsgfp/

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

Like what specifically is the issue.

Honest experts, all of which believe in lasting immune system damage and systemic damage, lay out plainly what the problems are with bad research.

It’s such a tell that these grifters won’t do that & it’s bc they don’t want other experts to chime in.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

The grifters attack the lay ppl, and make some weird attempt to try and prevent ppl from listening to the findings.

But they won’t bullet point in real terms the issue with the paper.

They will say “data data data” but not like what aspect of the data. Which parts. The study design? The samples?

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

The thing is, from what I have seen from actual experts unlike this thumb since 2020 is that when research is refuted by ppl who aren’t charlatans, they call out the author(s) online & may even take it up with the journal.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

They denied it.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

lol I finished and blocked them.

“There is NO data showing long term damage to the immune system”.

Lol.

What a joke.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

You think all the LC patients showing their immunology lab reports showing what looks like some problems on social media are 1) making it up and 2) knowledgeable enough to know what specifically to doctor on the lab reports?

And that they would converse with each other about it.

Get it together.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

We literally have virologists on this very site who are mapping wastewater data showing persistent infections that are 2+ years old and you on this very same site are claiming that it doesn’t happen.

When those experts in that field are post by post showing the actual data that it does.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

The block is coming once I am done with my monologue.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

Symptoms that are debilitating to patients absolutely damage the immune system.

🙃

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

Ppl who are who are experts in immunology, virology, evolutionary biology, research methodology, aerosol science, clinical care, and data modeling.

And they disagree with you too.

So yes there is an idiot here. But it’s not me buddy.

Persistent infections that cause this level of…

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

So not only am I not an “idiot”, I am very well read on the massive body of global research on the topic.

And I listen closely and daily to ppl who know a hell of a lot more than I do, who don’t behave anything like you do online.

VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 1h

Yes there is.

Now let me tell you about what I do know.

I webscrape and build models with anecdata on Long Covid and with scientific research.

I do comparative analysis between the anecdotes and the research findings.