Anticapitalist Covid Conscious Reading Club

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

july 5

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https://linktr.ee/HealthSelfDefense_

"Learning from other struggles against eugenics, for self-defense in healthcare, and for popular response to healthcare

The history of every society that has existed until now is the history of class struggle. We can learn from the struggles of the past to inspire us, nourish our hope, and (often something lacking in the COVID-Aware community) foster humility.

The Black Panther Party is one of the clearest examples not only of political strategy but of humility, so I ask the following question: Do you think revolutionaries like those in the Black Panther Party would blame people for not wearing masks? No. What do you think they would do? How do we revolutionaries behave? With curiosity, with compassion, and with scientific methods. This requires not only a scientific understanding of how COVID works biologically, but also how to scientifically study the social contradictions that normalize COVID."

https://maskupactup.substack.com/p/stop-blaming-people-for-not-wearing

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

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Group For Compassionate and Radical Covid Conscious People

https://linktr.ee/HealthSelfDefense_

The foundations of Health Self-Defense are based on an anti-fascist and anti-capitalist stance in the fight against eugenics. It's not just about "wearing a mask" but about fighting against all forms of violence. For us, a political analysis is necessary because if we don't understand the politics of disability, we are condemned to blame the oppressed for the oppressions they suffer.

-This is a group with a compassionate and radical approach to COVID. There are already enough groups that shame people for not wearing masks and blame the oppressed for being oppressed. This is not one of those groups.

"We believe in humanity. It is not true that most people are selfish, bad, stupid, ignorant, or unwilling to learn. Most people do not know what is going on, or feel powerless to stop it, or both.

A great majority of people who have stopped taking Covid precautions have done so because they have been misled, because they are exhausted, and because we are in an information vacuum. Governments are downplaying Covid’s continued existence and evolution.

We are asking people, essentially, to distrust the choices and assessments of everyone around them, as well as what their eyes and ears are telling them. We are asking them to realize their old life is gone forever. This is a huge ask. It is the hugest possible ask. On top of that, people cannot fathom how it could be true.

We have to find a way to build an on-ramp, to essentially “onboard” people into this reality we’ve all gotten so used to. We have to remember that we are asking a lot. All of this is normal to us now, and we’ve gotten acclimated (somehow). Our mitigations reflect the truth, and they are the right things to do. But we are asking people to change their entire lives in a very serious way. It’s not just masks, at this point. It’s everything."

https://covid.tips/

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

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Antigen tests on sale for €0.09 each from Altruan! They expire in August, that's why they're on sale.

https://altruan.eu/es/products/exactsign-covid-19-antigeno-prueba-rapida-prueba-de-laicas-softpack-1-prueba

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

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😷❣️♿️Today is a good day to practice community care! Disabled lives deserve to be cared for, just like all oppressed lives. Wearing a mask is putting this idea into practice. I wish you all a wonderful day, may mutual support and solidarity inhabit your practices and hearts. And may complicity with eugenics burn. Let's oppose the culture of trivializing infections.

My recommendation: start wearing a mask outdoors in your neighborhood, take a walk, and start getting used to the feeling again!

I also recommend being able to be in communities of people who wear masks, especially online, but also in person in some places! search your mask bloc in maskbloc.org and I'm always available to chat and try to support you through this process, which I know is a difficult transition. My telegram is demianmasks.

https://neopaquita.es/@maskblocorg@zeroes.ca

https://maskbloc.org/

If you support Palestine and don't wear a mask, either you don't know the harm you're doing or you don't care about the oppressed.
https://maskupactup.substack.com/p/if-you-support-palestine-and-dont

Whenever someone makes you feel like you're exaggerating, please remember that COVID causes disability and death. In my case, my life is miserable because of persistent COVID. Not everyone knows the great work you're doing by wearing a mask, but we know it's the right thing to do, and that's why we practice it.

• 50% of COVID infections are asymptomatic.
• AT LEAST 10% of infections end in persistent COVID.
• Vaccines don't prevent infections.
• Reinfections destroy us. There's no way to "train" the immune system because it's not a muscle. 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.
• Antigen tests give false negatives. The way to know if you have COVID is with a PCR test.

#LongCovid #YallMasking #WearAMask #CovidRealistic #HealthSelfDefense #CovidIsAirbonw #birdflu

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Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good

https://archive.is/E4wjH#selection-974.0-974.3

“I think there can be no excuse for doing further trials on exercise that don’t make it explicitly clear that if it works, it only works for a subgroup of people and they need to be really carefully defined, and that any results that are presented should not generalise across the entire long covid population,” says Caroline Dalton at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Perhaps most importantly, the study was patchy in its assessment of one of the most debilitating aspects of long covid: post-exertional malaise. This is a worsening of symptoms, such as extreme fatigue, after exertion that isn’t proportional to the amount of activity that was done. “Post-exertional malaise is the most unifying and profound and debilitating aspect [of long covid],” says Danny Altmann at Imperial College London. “It’s incredibly non-trivial.”

“The thing that has messed up my life is the post-exertional malaise,” says Margaret O’Hara at the charity Long Covid Support, who has long covid. “So any study which isn’t addressing that is just tinkering around the edges.”

This situation is reminiscent of chronic fatigue syndrome, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), which may be caused by an infection and commonly involves post-exertional malaise. In 2011, The Lancet published the PACE trial, which concluded that graded exercise therapy – incrementally increasing the duration and intensity of activity from an achievable baseline – moderately improved fatigue and the ability to perform daily tasks in people with ME/CFS.

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

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De-transition is Gender Liberation, Too

Here's to never being satisfied and forever changing.

https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/detransition-is-gender-liberation

Of course our path to self-discovery is flawed and never-ending. The widespread adoption of gay marriage necessarily meant the possibility of gay divorce. So why is it a problem for the embrace of transition to mean more detransitions?
Is detransition not a form of gendered freedom, too? Are we not all owed the fantasy of the escape from all this fucking gender, even if the utopia we try to build is constructed from the bars of our old prison cells?

I really don’t know what the fuck I “am” anymore. Gender liberation is not really a question of individual identity anyway. I understand that all existence is action-based and relational, and that an identity barely matters at all when it’s not an activity that we do.

So what do I want to do? I want to grow my hair out. I miss the feeling of skirts swishing against my legs. I want to hold hands and stare into a lover’s eyes and feel that they find me beautiful. I want to get railed like a fleshlight and then tucked into bed. I want to cuddle with friends on the couch without them fucking sexualizing me. I want to dance at the street festival without ever taking note of who might be looking.

I want to try climbing a rock wall and see if I have the strength for it. I want to take a break from testosterone to see if I become less anxious and impatient. I want to get heavier dumbbells and build up my chest. I want to bake more. I want to sit still in the park watching the waves. I want to make my peace with my body growing older and getting weak. I want to keep walking down the street and saying hello to my neighbors no matter how I look, no matter who I become, accepting that who I am will be forever changing.

My detransition in 2020 helped me to better understand what is good for me. So did my initial transition and then my retransition. And yet they were all incomplete. If I were to ever detransition again, it would surely bring me insight, and reflect another truth of me while still never representing the whole truth. Some trans people truly identify very strongly as women or men, or as enbies, but for me, being trans is all about feeling uncomfortable with any category, and with the action of breaking away again and again and again. It’s the disavowal, not the desire. I’ve always been better at being a hater than at loving things.

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

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Three Long-term Long COVID Patients – Three Rapid Recoveries: The Monoclonal Antibodies Strike Again!

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2025/12/12/monoclonal-antibodies-long-covid/

Dec 12, 2025

Last week, in “Exploring the Effects of Pemivibart Monoclonal Antibody Infusion in Long COVID: A Case Series Offering Initial Clinical Insights“, John Baratta’s team at the University of North Carolina’s COVID clinic reported on another three long-COVID patients who underwent dramatic recoveries after receiving a different monoclonal antibody.
The drug used, Pemivibart or Pemgarda, is not FDA-approved for any use but can be used in people who are immunocompromised in certain situations. Like other monoclonal antibodies, Pemgarda binds to the viral protein that latches onto cell cell, thereby preventing viral entry. Pemgarda appears to able to neutralize a wide range of Omicron-lineage coronavirus variants.

Monoclonal Antibody Field Heats Up
“We believe that monoclonal antibodies are key to managing the ongoing burden of endemic COVID-19 disease in all forms.” Marc Elia, Invivyd

Monoclonal antibodies appear to be a growth field. Betsy Ladyzhets reported that a Pemgarda LC trial is underway and Invivyd, whose motto is “Tenaciously Working to Fight Viral Threats“, recently announced the formation of the aptly named SPEAR (Spike Protein Elimination and Recovery) group that will “structure and guide anticipated clinical monoclonal antibody (mAB) long COVID trials”.

ME/CFS and other Post-Infectious Illnesses
Because a variety of viral triggers may be present – and some people don’t have a viral trigger – ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, and other diseases face more of a challenge when it comes to producing pathogen-directed monoclonal antibodies. Studies finding EBV reactivation in long COVID has triggered more interest in this very complex virus.
Monoclonal antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) have been and are being developed, but most are used in research and are not available for public use. They should appear over time, though, and may be helpful in diseases such as ME/CFS, which have long been associated with EBV.

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 #HealthSelfDefense

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