This has not been planned but I seem to be dealing with spring by buying all the plants and bringing them in.

First I cried a bunch. Then I resolved myself to stay put. Finally I impulsively started getting plants from every shop I go to. Admittedly that's not a lot but from two outings I managed seven new plants.

I am okay with this. I can't go to the plants but I can bring them in. This simple act is bringing me so much joy and helping a lot to balance the pull of the outdoors.

#LongCovid

"A 'Crash' Course on PEM (Post-Exertional Malaise)"

11-minute sympathetic video created by a patient. He has made some slides to help illustrate his points.

https://youtu.be/S6V-0tWwv8Q

#LongCovid #MEcfs #PEM @mecfs

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The PCR positivity map is out and levels have inched slightly upwards in England, slightly downwards in Scotland.

We're coming to the end of the winter reporting season, and the NHS stats are being reported very irregularly.

https://jamestindall.info/skeuomorphology/ladb_covid/index.html

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#covID19 #covid #longCovid #uk

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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Good informative Covid video based on research. Worth the 15 minute watch (and following the link externally to Youtube)
Covid never "ended", repeat infections increases likelyhood of Long Covid and cellular damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1nS_-ra8xE

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Covid19 #PublicHealth #GetVaccinated #WearAMask

The Boston Sunday Globe did a good article covering Long Covid and its long term effects:
https://archive.ph/eQpan

#BostonGlobe #LongCovid #Covid19 #PublicHealth #WearAMask #GetVaccinated

New-Onset Allergies Another Woe for Patients With Long COVID

Researchers examined immunologic and inflammatory profiles in people with long COVID, comparing blood samples from patients who fully recovered from acute SARS-CoV-2 infection with those who developed prolonged symptoms... suggested long COVID is associated with persistent immune dysregulation, characterized by chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion, and disrupted energy metabolism.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-onset-allergies-another-woe-patients-long-covid-2026a10002ka?ecd=mkm_ret_260220_mscpmrk_allergy_top-content_etid8118555&uac=319490FK&impID=8118555

#LongCovid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #GetVaccinated #WearAMask #PublicHealth