LorraineJan 31, 2025

Air traffic controllers resign at San Carlos, CA, airport near SFO - Fast Company

https://www.fastcompany.com/91270064/a-bay-area-airport-near-sfo-is-losing-all-of-its-air-traffic-controllers-starting-this-weekend

been flying by myself since age 7 & have never been scared of flying in airplanes … but there is zero chance of getting me on a plane today

actually just imagining flying right now is giving me anxiety

you have to be out of your mind.. that DC flight was 20 seconds from landing

also between all the #chronicCovid , insane other passenger’s behavior & pilots who are constantly exposed to new SARSCov2 variants.. nuh uh

less air traffic controllers appears to be the trend as well

A Bay Area airport near SFO is losing all of its air traffic controllers starting this weekend

A Silicon Valley airport that is on the approach to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) will no longer have air traffic controllers.

Fast Company
Show threadMx VerdaSep 22, 2024

https://c.im/@cdarwin/113179191469521409

Also idk if these help (I still haven’t seen a jp translation of long covid yet)

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15123674
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212534523000850
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35986269/

#japan #longCovid #chronicCovid #postViral #longHaulers #disability #spoonie #chronicIllness

Chuck Darwin (@[email protected])

Hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 have an accumulation of senescent T cells, suggesting that immunosenescence may be aggravated by SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our cross-sectional data show that COVID-19, mbut not other respiratory infections, rapidly increased cellular senescence and exhaustion in CD4 and CD8 T cells during early infection. In addition, longitudinal analyses with patients from Brazil and Portugal provided evidence of increased frequencies of senescent and exhausted T cells over a 7-day period in patients with mild/moderate and severe COVID-19. Altogether, the study suggests that accelerated immunosenescence in CD4 and especially CD8 T-cell compartments may represent a common and unique outcome of SARS-CoV2 infection. https://academic.oup.com/jleukbio/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jleuko/qiae180/7762057?login=false

C.IM
Dominik SteigerFeb 21, 2024

#ChronicCovid

Persistierende SARS2-Infektionen:

Selten, jede 1000. bis 200. Infektion.

Mild, 50% mehr Long-Covid-Symptome berichtet.

In der Schweiz gab es seit Omikron mehr als 16 Millionen Infektionen. Alleine seit letztem Sommer wohl etwa 50% Bevölkerungsäquivalent.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07029-4#Fig1

Prevalence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 in a large community surveillance study - Nature

Using viral sequence data, individuals with persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections were identified, and had higher odds of self-reporting long COVID, in a large community surveillance study.

Nature
Show threadErin ConroyOct 8, 2023

@edsuom I read today that 1 in 18 Americans currently has (known) #ChronicCOVID. That would not count undiagnosed disease, the people who have recovered from their chronic COVID symptoms sometime in the last 4 years, nor those who have chronic illnesses from their COVID infection that falls outside the #LongCOVID diagnostic criteria (e..g, diabetes, stroke damage, heart attack or heart disease only, liver disease, etc.).

#MECFS #COVID

Show threadErin ConroySep 22, 2023

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

It's insane to embark on a never-ending arms race with a virus that evolves lightning-fast, without simultaneously making an all-out effort to starve the virus of human hosts (i.e., mutation factories).

#COVID #ChronicCOVID #NOVID

Show threadErin ConroySep 21, 2023

"plan to take multi-layered precautions like using masks, getting boosters, and using remote options through January" "

My advice? Media sources & doctors who spin this as "numbers are going down! yay!" do not have your family's interests at heart & should be cut out of your diet. I can bet they weren't focusing on rising numbers when that was happening.

[He estimates 40,000 #ChronicCOVID cases per day, or 3,600,000 total, which means he's using the lowest rate possible, or 7% of infections]

Erin ConroySep 21, 2023

Americans have contracted over ***50 million*** #COVID infections in the last 3 months- of SUMMER, mind you - according to a seasoned monitor of wastewater data.

That works out to somewhere between 5 million and 20 million people who will be identified as having #ChronicCOVID.

And even more who have unrealized or invisible symptoms that may result in brain damage, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, etc.

https://twitter.com/michael_hoerger/status/1704371381943603676/photo/1

Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA on X

As we've (hopefully) passed the peak of the U.S. late-summer 2023 C0VID wave, is it still a good time to advocate for further precautions? YES! It's the perfect time. (A psychologist's non-calculus version). In contrast to our usual graph, which shows daily cases (see QT), this…

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Show threadErin ConroySep 18, 2023

@Njord @sundogplanets

I assume these at-best calculations were using the most optimistic estimates & the CDC's conference infection rate?

So, at a 7.5% #ChronicCOVID rate, you'd have a 1% risk for each conference, and at a 41% rate, a 5.5% risk for each conference? [Divide by 4 to get risk of severe disability on par w/terminal cancer or major stroke?]

Of course this could go up if there are local outbreaks wherever your conference is located...

Show threadMaksiSanctum he/himAug 14, 2023

It's imperative that we follow this trail of science all the way through to the end.
We can hope it's disproved, but ignoring it will leave us headed in the direction of disaster: debilitating, chronic, irreversible health conditions — or what some are calling a "mass-disabling event."

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #Longcovid #ChronicCovid #PublicHealth

MaksiSanctum he/himAug 14, 2023

Long COVID is devastating and far from rare. As infections rise again, why are we still ignoring it?

"This suppression of science is taking place across all levels of government and on both sides of the aisle, but for different reasons. Politicians have no desire to raise more alarm about COVID."

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/13/long-is-devastating-and-far-from-rare-as-infections-rise-again-why-are-we-still-ignoring-it/

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #Longcovid #ChronicCovid #PublicHealth

Long COVID is devastating and far from rare. As infections rise again, why are we still ignoring it?

As COVID cases rise once again, we're unprepared for the "mass disabling" event caused by long COVID

Salon.com