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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · Feb 7

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.

A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

What is Long COVID?

A Beginner's Guide

www.thegauntlet.news

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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 2d

“If thousands of studies are telling you to look for a certain kind of harm and then millions of people start wondering why they are experiencing exactly that type of harm, is it so hard to connect those two dots?”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 2d

"If thousands of studies are telling you to look for a certain kind of harm and then millions of people start wondering why they are experiencing exactly that type of harm, is it so hard to connect those two dots?"

Or has #COVID has destroyed people's ability to reason...?

#disability #pandemic

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

The term long covid was invented before the vaccine

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Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @katieklocksin.bsky.social · 2d

“I’d argue that you can’t see what you refuse to see.”
😭😭😭

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

I literally NEVER had migraines before covid and now I’m on daily Qulipta, Topomax, I take beta blockers (also for POTS), for abortives I have Ubrelvy, naratriptan and a prescription strength NSAID which I take TOGETHER, I also do Botox and I’m about to try injectable Emgality. Nothing is working

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

I doubt she makes a habit of diagnosing patients generally. She certainly didn’t say anything to me about my scan (all clear thankfully 😌). And she was a nice lady generally! It just felt like she seriously got anxiety from what I was telling her - that I had serious health problems following COVID

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely think she only stepped SO far out of her lane- I wasn’t even there for the heart scan for anything relating to my migraines, it just came up chatting!- bc of this reflex ppl have to dismiss long covid no matter what. She just couldn’t resist being like ummm but MAYBE ITS NOT THAT.

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ARRA - Association pour la Réduction des Risques Aéroportés @associationarra.bsky.social · 2d

Personne n'a de #COVIDLong mais par contre, tout le monde a un "brouillard mental", des problèmes de mémoire et oublie ses mots...

Pourquoi avec toutes les preuves scientifiques qu'on a sur le #SARS-CoV2 on continue de collectivement fermer les yeux ?

(article en anglais)

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

“Tomb” Swanson @swansontea.bsky.social · 2d

“Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging”.

I feel this. I’ve remarked that I felt like COVID aged me a decade

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 2d

"This is the narrative the left uses because it allows them to be 'sympathetic' to Long COVID patients while refusing to mask or take any sort of preventive action. This is the idea that Long COVID is real, it exists, but only a certain kind of person gets it, and it’s a small minority of people."

What interests me about the “the lion does not concern himself” meme is the cracks it puts in the central fiction of the lies being told about Long COVID since 2022. Since that time, we’ve had two main narratives about Long COVID. The first, usually spewed on the right but too often adopted by the left as well, is that Long COVID is not real. It’s made up, it’s something lazy people use to stay in bed and get out of work, and/or it’s hysteria and conversion disorder.

But the second, more often left-wing narrative, is the one which is really punctured here. This is the narrative the left uses because it allows them to be “sympathetic” to Long COVID patients while refusing to mask or take any sort of preventive action. This is the idea that Long COVID is real, it exists, but only a certain kind of person gets it, and it’s a small minority of people. There’s something special about them, it must be genetic or something, and it doesn’t really affect most people.

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 2d

“Reactions online seem to be simple disbelief that COVID damages brains- but this is anti-science…However we still have a hegemonic refusal to acknowledge COVID as a threat from the far-right to the far-left, it is a largely united front to treat COVID as the cold it is so clearly not.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 2d

"The evidence has been building for years and has been consistent; COVID causes brain damage.

Despite the clear evidence, we’ve continued to infect the population, not once, but repeatedly, with no plan to end the onslaught of reinfections."

#LongCovid

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Not Many Spoons @tironbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Insightful. “Disabled people, and people with Long COVID, have been calling ourselves canaries in the coal mine for a reason. We may have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 2d

"We’ve been serially infecting children with a virus that damages their brains. We know it does this. And we just…. keep doing it?"

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 2d

The hypocrisy of the left when it comes to the idea of “following the science” is truly staggering.

What's odd about the political climate surrounding forever COVID is that I really don't see what the counterargument is against the idea that we should stop infecting children with a brain damaging virus. Reactions online seem to be simple disbelief that COVID damages brains- but this is anti-science. The science is clear. However, today we still have a hegemonic refusal to acknowledge COVID as a threat- from the far-right to the far-left, it is a largely united front to treat COVID as the cold it is so clearly not.

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Elaine @elainenoro.bsky.social · 2d

You know, you see these articles about the cumulating effects of COVID and it's really bad but locally you have to discuss with people that say "if it's an epidemic, there is no need for protection anymore".

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

mattobserve.bsky.social @mattobserve.bsky.social · 2d

…. 🤷‍♀️

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Sean Carroll @sean-a-tiger.bsky.social · 2d

“nobody can get a virus that is objectively bad for you, objectively harmful, that we know invades the brain, degrades the immune system, and attacks the blood vessels, dozens and dozens of times, and just “be fine” That is not how human bodies work.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 2d

"The fact that COVID infections damage our brains is not debatable. There are hundreds of studies to support that COVID affects the brain, leading to memory, attention, executive function, and mental health issues."

again: COVID infections damage our brains

#LongCOVID

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Emma @inneiennyfas.bsky.social · 2d

This week's must-read 👇

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 2d

“Often when people online claim that the studies about Long COVID “can’t be true,” their evidence is that we’d be seeing a catastrophic level of damage around us by now were their findings accurate- and I’d argue that you can’t see what you refuse to see.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Reposted by Julia Doubleday

Rocket57 🇨🇦 @rocket57.bsky.social · 2d

This is a brilliant article that I’m going to send to a bunch of people even if I know they likely won’t read it.

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

But for someone who was looking for answers/confused the medical system is looking to give any explanation but covid, even when you already come in with a diagnosis of long covid . So bizarre