Without clear clinical guidelines in México, people with Long COVID face gaslighting and erasure

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/02/18/without-clear-clinical-guidelines-in-mexico-people-with-long-covid-face-gaslighting-and-erasure/

Key points you should know:

-Long COVID may affect millions of Mexicans, but a lack of information prohibits adequate medical care and innovative research.

-Some Mexican doctors are calling on the government to establish a national clinical guideline, which could direct local clinics and medical experts on how best to diagnose and treat the disease.

-Similar to other countries, the government places higher-priority on surveilling and addressing other easier-to-diagnose diseases, like dengue.

-Despite attempts to approve a clinical guideline, the government agency in charge of approvals has yet to review the proposal.

“In Mexico, if there’s no statistics, there’s no patients. If there’s no patients, there’s nothing to treat,” said Cesar Lepe Medina, the 34-year-old founder of the Long Covid Mexico Comunidad Solidaria Facebook group, which is a support and advocacy group with some 6,500 members. “If there’s nothing to treat, there’s no need for public policy or programs to draw attention to it.”

Compare Long COVID to dengue, a disease that is easier to diagnose due to tests and which México tracks publicly. When cases explode as they did in 2023 and 2024 — last year México confirmed more than 124,000 cases and 478 deaths — government officials and the press rushed to respond. For example, the government pushed national campaigns and prevention strategies against dengue, and state health departments implemented strategies to eliminate mosquitos.

In addition to Long COVID, Lepe Medina has contracted dengue twice. He notices the difference in how his country addresses them. While dengue is discussed, Lepe Medina said Long COVID is “taboo.”

“Here in México, they talk more about the flu and dengue than COVID-19,” Lepe Medina said. “We are collateral damage that no one wants to take on because we require a lot more money and resources.” Lepe Medina said his private medical insurance hasn’t paid “a peso” because Long COVID isn’t recognized in Mexico.

Rodríguez Álvarez suspects the government doesn’t want to take on the cost if too many Mexicans have Long COVID; with recognition, the government would be on the hook for consultations, tests, and treatments. If the narrative is up to the government doctors, “they will probably tell you that you don’t have anything,” he said.

Limited resources means México also lags behind other countries when it comes to research. In one 2024 study of global Long COVID prevalence, Mexican researchers noted that “nearly all evidence has been obtained in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.” Per another 2024 study that analyzed international Long COVID clinical studies, the authors suggested the highest number of studies occurred in the U.S., India, and Spain. Meanwhile, México has conducted only four Long COVID studies, according to a search on World Health Organization’s International Clinical Trials Platform.

“In the U.S., Germany, Great Britain, and Spain there’s more advancements overall among scientists who are doing investigations,” said Aristóteles Ramírez, a political science professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro who developed Long COVID following an infection in fall 2020. When he researched his symptom of dysautonomia, he didn’t find any Mexican studies. Only Spanish ones.

Findings from México’s scientists also aren’t making it into clinics, Ramírez added. But research is needed for new strategies to help manage symptoms. He wants more research focusing on Long COVID care strategies in México. “Don’t tell me there’s no answer,” he said.

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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april 5

Anticapitalist Covid Conscious Reading Club

Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability

access our discord to see the details

https://linktr.ee/healthselfdefense_

"Ableism must be included in our analysis of oppression and in our conversations about violence, responses to violence and ending violence. Ableism cuts across all of our movements because ableism dictates how bodies should function against a mythical norm—an able-bodied standard of white supremacy, heterosexism, sexism, economic exploitation, moral/religious beliefs, age and ability.

Ableism set the stage for queer and trans people to be institutionalized as mentally disabled; for communities of color to be understood as less capable, smart and intelligent, therefore “naturally” fit for slave labor; for women’s bodies to be used to produce children, when, where and how men needed them; for people with disabilities to be seen as “disposable” in a capitalist and exploitative culture because we are not seen as “productive;” for immigrants to be thought of as a “disease” that we must “cure” because it is “weakening” our country; for violence, cycles of poverty, lack of resources and war to be used as systematic tools to construct disability in communities and entire countries."

https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/moving-toward-the-ugly-a-politic-beyond-desirability/

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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Are you in latinoamerica and need masks? Please contact us.

¿Estás en LATAM y quieres mascarillas? Contacta con nosotres! Hablamos español!

Do you know someone in latinoamerica that need masks? We can coordinate to send them! Contact us!

[email protected]

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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Skin problems when wearing a mask, explanations and solutions

Thai Brows made a short and a long video talking about acne problems when wearing a mask explaining possible explanations and solutions

https://healthselfdefense.substack.com/p/skin-problems-when-wearing-a-mask

Summary:

· Hydrate + moisturize skin before hand

· AHA/BHAs/retinoids at night

· Hypochlorous acid to soothe irritation

Transcription of Thai Brows’s long video:

“If wearing a mask is making you break out, this video is for you.

There are several reasons why this might be happening. Wearing a mask for long periods of time can lead to acne mechanica, which is caused by friction and pressure on the skin. To help prevent this, make sure your skin is properly moisturized before putting on your mask.

Also consider internal and external factors that may be contributing to breakouts, such as stress, hormones, medications, pollution, and weather changes.

If you’re starting to mask regularly again, try to avoid introducing new active ingredients into your routine. Avoid using exfoliants like AHAs, BHAs, or retinol under your mask. Save those chemical exfoliants and retinoids for nighttime use.

For your morning routine, focus on:

· A gentle, non-stripping cleanser

· A hydrating toner and/or hydrating serum

· A moisturizer that isn’t too heavy but also not so light that your skin dries out under your mask

Look for moisturizers that are hydrating without being greasy and that leave a smooth finish so your skin doesn’t feel sticky.

A lot of people have strong opinions about hypochlorous acid right now, but I think it’s actually a great addition to both your skincare routine and your COVID precautions. Hypochlorous acid is naturally found in your white blood cells. It’s antimicrobial and antibacterial, helps calm the skin, and can reduce redness. It can also help kill bacteria, viruses, and fungi. I like to keep a spray with me when I go to work or out in public. If I take my mask off during a lunch break, I’ll spray it on before putting my mask back on.

Another reason you may be breaking out is that your mask doesn’t properly fit your face.

· If it’s too big, it moves around too much and causes friction.

· If it’s too small, it’s tight and uncomfortable, adding pressure to your skin.

Some mask materials may also not be compatible with your skin. Cloth masks can harbor bacteria, especially if they’re reused, and they’re not as protective against viruses. In general, upgrading to a FFP2, KN95 or N95 is recommended.

Please don’t get discouraged from finding a mask that works for you. Even though dealing with irritation and breakouts can be frustrating, getting sick can have a much bigger impact on your life. In addition to COVID, other illnesses like RSV, colds, and the flu continue to circulate. Protecting yourself still matters.

I know trying different masks can be expensive and overwhelming if you don’t know where to start, but it’s worth finding the right fit for both your skin and your health.”

Products mentioned in the video:
Skincare barrier renew gel-to-foam cleanser

Example: RoC Barrier Renew Gel-to-Foam Cleanser

Hypochlorous Acid Spray

Example: tower 28 SOS Rescue Spray

Barrier cream with Hyaluronic Acid

Example: tower 28 SOS Recovery Cream

Moisturizing bomb toner

Example: Aqua Bomb Hydrating Toner for All Skin Types 200mL

Control pore serum

Example: Peach Slices Oil Control Pore Serum

Cream that moisture and helps lock in hydration

Example: Mixsoon Bean Cream 65ml

Skincare cool biotic moisturizer

Example: Dr. Brandt Cool Biotic Prebiotic Redness Relief Cream

Masks for people with sensitive skin and/or neurodivergent:

https://healthselfdefense.substack.com/p/masks-for-people-with-sensitive-skin

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

An invitation to the COVID Conscious community to anti-imperialism

https://maskupactup.substack.com/p/an-invitation-to-the-covid-conscious

Imperialism is unreformable. Many so-called leftists would remain silent if imperialist money were used for public schools or healthcare. This is a mistake. We cannot sacrifice our comrades in the Global South, believing it’s either them or us. It’s them and us. The entire global working class. We owe unconditional respect and solidarity not only to the national working class but also to our comrades in the Global South who suffer because of our imperialist state. We cannot fight against eugenics without fighting the empire.

Bad news: we live in an imperialist state. Good news: it means we can kill the beast from within. Let’s do the fucking work, comrades. Let’s honor the fight, let’s bring the fucking war home.

“Anti-imperialism is the struggle that now defines the efforts of the progressive People of the world, led by the working class, toward liberation- i.e., toward the end of capitalism and its hallmarks of fascism, imperialism, colonialism and semicolonialism, semifeudalism, and many more.

Imperialism is alive and well! Today the one hegemonic world imperialist superpower is the United States. Its stock exchanges and their biggest capitalists and conglomerations of capital set the pace of the world economy; it strongarms world law and politics through its domination of “international organizations” like the UN, and most importantly its financial auxiliaries (the IMF, the World Bank, and every other global cabal of capital-exporters); it holds the whole world in military terror through the ever-expanding octopus of armaments that is NATO. In every country in the world it parks its restaurants and its banks and its oil companies- above all, its capital, and sucks masses of surplus value to add to the capital of its own economy from the lifeblood of these countries. And it parks its military bases alongside them, to keep the locals and their “independent governments” in line! The characteristics of imperialism Lenin described should be obviously visible here.” On Material(ist) Dialectics and Imperialism

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make the apple fall.
It is possible to win and it is possible to win in our lifetime. This is a necessary starting point for any socialist revolution, anywhere, including in North America. Only when we begin with this proposition can we map a path to the seizure of state power. Any other starting point is defeatist. We are not here to equivocate, revise, or delay. We are here to bring about a total revolution in social relations.

It is shocking, then, to see professed revolutionaries in North America repudiate this principle. For example, when arguing for the support of international struggles, advocates will deftly expose the evils of imperialism and rightly insist upon solidarity in response, but what further direction do they give to those they win over? They direct us into elections, lobbying politicians, academic debate, and symbolic protest. In effect, the people with the closest proximity to the enemy are told they must act only as cheerleaders for resistance movements catching U.S. bombs abroad. Overthrowing our ruling class isn’t on the agenda, despite the benefit to international struggles that would come if we could tie down even a fraction of the U.S.’s ability to project violence across the world. The failure to consider this possibility cuts off all thought of accumulating the forces needed to make a rupture within the United States. And because accumulating forces through developing deep ties to the masses is the most stable base from which to escalate confrontation, dismissing this path also dismisses effective and sustained tactical escalations, such as coordinated direct action or sabotage.

if we take the recurring advice of the most advanced decolonial movements and their leaders, it is that we should learn to fight alongside them and push to be as combative and militant as they are; that the further we are able to push in that direction as a movement, the greater our contribution to their struggles against U.S. imperialism. In the words of Adolfo Gilly from his Introduction to Fanon’s A Dying Colonialism, “Instead of pitying us and being horrified by the atrocities of imperialism, better fight against it in your own country as we do in ours… That is the best way to help us and put an end to the atrocities.”” Revolution in Our Lifetime

“We shall see that the same process went on more slowly, in more varied forms, in a much wider field: on the one hand, the development of “parliamentary power” both in the republican countries (France, America, Switzerland), and in the monarchies (Britain, Germany to a certain extent, Italy, the Scandinavia countries, etc.); on the other hand, a struggle for power among the various bourgeois and petty-bourgeois parties which distributed and redistributed the “spoils” of office, with the foundations of bourgeois society unchanged; and, lastly, the perfection and consolidation of the “executive power”, of its bureaucratic and military apparatus.” The State and Revolution, Lenin.

Lenin already showed us that even in a state with a democratic system of government, it remains a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Capitalist states, first through bourgeois revolutions and, second, through imperialism, are machines that have tended toward their own refinement, bureaucratization, and militarization. The dominance of the financial oligarchy brought about this evolution of states, culminating in state monopoly capitalism, where they actively participate in economic management, repression, and the guarantee of stability, along with the ever-increasing control of all aspects of the lives of the masses, all in accordance with the financial oligarchy’s agenda.

Today, we see that the situation is not only different from what Lenin described, but has worsened: we have professional politicians on the payroll, a highly militarized police force, and the state has become so pervasive that it regulates every aspect of social life. Historically, we have seen that in both imperialist countries and semi-colonies, when parties capable of being even minimally disruptive or proposing significant social policies come to power, they either tend to follow the same formulas as the other parties, watering down their discourse and proposals and becoming ineffective (Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, etc.), or the financial oligarchy exerts its influence and has the power to bring down the government, as happened with Allende in Chile or how inflation itself buried French social democracy during Mitterrand’s government.

Despite all of the above, we currently observe that there has been no qualitative change regarding the role and form of parliamentary democracy in most imperialist countries, including our own. There is no qualitative change in the form of parliament and its “political obsolescence” in imperialist countries compared to the previous century, such as a shift to a more opaque or indirect electoral system, excessive extensions of government terms, blatant manipulation of election results, a more pyramidal electoral system, etc.

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

Long-COVID, viruses and ‘zombie’ cells: new research looks for links to chronic fatigue and brain fog

https://theconversation.com/long-covid-viruses-and-zombie-cells-new-research-looks-for-links-to-chronic-fatigue-and-brain-fog-261108

Millions of people who recover from infections like COVID-19, influenza and glandular fever are affected by long-lasting symptoms. These include chronic fatigue, brain fog, exercise intolerance, dizziness, muscle or joint pain and gut problems. And many of these symptoms worsen after exercise, a phenomenon known as post-exertional malaise.

Experiencing illness long after contracting an infection is not new, as patients have reported these symptoms for decades. But COVID-19 has amplified the problem worldwide. Nearly half of people with ongoing post-COVID symptoms – a condition known as long-COVID – now meet the criteria for ME/CFS. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, it is estimated that more than 400 million people have developed long-COVID.

From acute viral infection to ‘zombie’ vessels
Viruses like SARS-CoV-2, Epstein–Barr virus, HHV-6, influenza A, and enteroviruses (a group of viruses that cause a number of infectious illnesses which are usually mild) can all infect endothelial cells. They enable a direct attack on the cells that line the inside of blood vessels. Some of these viruses have been shown to trigger endothelial senescence.

Masks are community care❤️‍🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org

• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.

“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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Telegram and Signal Channel: Antiimperialist Solidarity — Sending Masks to LATAM

How this channel works:
1. We send requests saying:
- If it’s urgent or not, and an estimated date if possible
- Country where the masks/tests are needed
- Number of masks needed, and if there’s a preferred model
- Number of COVID tests, if applicable
- How we can cover the costs, details if fundraising etc
2. If you can help with a request, feel free to message the person who posted it directly.

We created this space to connect people who need protective materials with those who can send them.

Join the channel in Telegram or Signal

https://linktr.ee/healthselfdefense_

We must declare that life is more precious than capitalist economies.
“Solidarity is a group that stands together, and would do so for even its weakest member. It is that community which resists the intoxicating lie of individualism—we live for ourselves and by ourselves.”
-Cole Arthur Riley.

We must support our inherent right to health and dignity. COVID-19 is not mild, it is not endemic, and it is not "just a cold." COVID-19 is a serious illness that can damage every part of your body, reactivate dormant viruses, permanently damage your immune system, and disable you.

The ruling classes have a long history of witch hunts to scapegoat the sick in response to infectious disease epidemics, rather than meeting the needs of the population.

Under feudal rule in what is now Europe, the bubonic plague was blamed on the Jewish people, accused of poisoning water wells. During the early AIDS epidemic, gay and bisexual men were demonized for their sexuality outside of heterosexual, monogamous, and partnered marital relationships. The denial of the severity of the COVID and long COVID public health crisis is a denial of science based on materialism. Once they have strayed from the paved path of science, medical judgments about people who report illness, pain, and disability have nowhere to travel except in the furrows of already deep historical prejudices.

Without seeking a scientific explanation (which already exists and is still being researched), doctors too often resort to pathologizing those who are oppressed based on their race/nationality, sex, sexuality, and gender expression. This creates more obstacles for those who are oppressed to access medical care. Sick people suffer from denial of credibility, unemployment, poverty, lack of health insurance, institutionalized racism, the requirement for ID, the oppression of women, and other oppressions based on sexuality, sex, and gender. Those who are oppressed and most impoverished are also more likely to be among the countless sick and disabled people who have stopped seeking medical answers or treatment, just as so many millions have abandoned their long and fruitless search for work and dropped off the unemployment rolls.

The COVID and long-COVID pandemic leaves the most oppressed and impoverished without diagnosis, care, or treatment. Institutionalized racism results, for example, in medical photographs and descriptions of rashes and other physical signs related to COVID and long COVID being documented only in light-skinned people. The long COVID pandemic affects oppressed peoples, from Native Nations on reservations to oppressed people living in impoverished rural communities.

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-across-14-nations-show-25-30-rate-long-covid

A new study in BMJ Global Health across 13 middle- and high-income countries reveals that 25% of patients reported symptoms of long COVID after symptomatic COVID-19, and long COVID is significantly more prevalent in participants from less wealthy nations and in patients of Arab or North African ethnicity.

A second study published in BMC Public Health showed that, among 3,693 COVID-19 patients in China, 30.2% reported at least one persistent long-COVID symptom, and 10.7% noted symptoms affecting daily life.

Among the 25.1% of participants who said they experienced long-COVID symptoms, 12.8% reported sleeping disorders, 9.8% reported joint pain, 8.7% had fatigue, and 8.1% noted headaches. Almost a third of participants (29.8%) from lower middle-income countries said they had long COVID, compared with 14.4% in high-income countries (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.53; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10 to 2.14).

The highest long-COVID prevalence was seen in patients with Arab/North African ethnicity (36.1%), and hospitalized patient were also at increased risk of long COVID (aOR, 2.04; 95% CI, 1.63 to 2.54).

• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.

“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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Anticapitalist Covid Conscious Reading Club

first Saturday of each month

access our discord to see the details

https://linktr.ee/HealthSelfDefense_

april 5
Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability

may 3
The Role of Psychiatry in the Occupation of Palestine

june 7
Let Them Eat Plague!

july 5
Stop blaming people for not wearing masks and start having a political analysis of eugenics.

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards

https://time.com/7206080/long-covid-psychiatric-wards/

In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she didn’t have.
That decision was a last resort for Erin, who asked to be identified only by her first name for privacy. Her health had deteriorated after she caught COVID-19 nearly a year earlier; the virus left her with pain, fatigue, rapid weight loss, digestive problems, and vertigo. After another bout with a virus months later, Erin only got sicker, developing heart palpitations, muscle spasms, hoarseness, and pain in her neck, throat, and chest.

Erin was no stranger to chronic illness, having coped with a connective-tissue disorder her whole life. This was different. She became unable to work and rarely left her home. Her usual doctors were stumped; others said her litany of symptoms could be manifestations of anxiety.
When it became too painful to eat and swallow, Erin grew severely malnourished and was hospitalized at a large academic medical center. “I felt at the time like this was my last hope,” says Erin, who has since been diagnosed with Long COVID. “If I didn’t get any answers there, I didn’t know where to go afterward.”

She was admitted for a six-week stay and given diagnoses she knew were wrong: an eating disorder and anxiety.

The vast majority of Long COVID patients will not land in psychiatric wards, but Erin is far from the only one who has. “Emergency rooms are dangerous places for people with Long COVID,” says David Putrino, who studies and treats the condition as director of rehabilitation innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York.

• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.

“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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