Jared Younger's work is really giving me hope. He cares a lot about figuring this out and is actually getting funding. However outside of research, i totally agree with you. it's egregious that the research is so clear how bad things are and nobody masks even at the cancer center.

i'm completely with you on institutions failing people with postviral illness but research is being done. as someone who got me/cfs from an infection in 2010, much more has been done than before 2020. it's just also true it's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of people who are suffering.

I have long Epstein-Barr .... that I contracted back in 1999. I have never been able to work full time, and now, I can't work at all. I can barely manage the energy for my own basic needs. Trust me, it's a big deal.

There were an estimated 409 million with long covid by the end of 2023! Long covid has overtaken childhood asthma in children as a chronic health problems. All of this because this completely unscientific narrative continues.

getting milder’ is imo hugely irresponsible when it’s only ever referring to the acute infection with zero reflection on Post infection risks. This is why so many think they have nothing to worry about.

I mention this because inevitably, whenever Hussie and What Pumpkin start getting public pushback for their terrible actions, some will try to frame it as online bullies trying to attack a small queer creator, even when all evidence consistently shows Hussie actively attacking small queer creatives

I don't know how to categorize this feeling, but when I say "trans rights are human rights", I don't treat "trans rights" as a unique subset of human rights. I mean that all humans can and should have the right to live and modify and heal their bodies to exist and not suffer for purity reasons.

beautiful, i love wrens. every year they try to nest in my hammock 😂