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Feral Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper watching our climate emergency in horror.
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#pwME - 23 years of #MECFS #POTS #fibromyalgia #lyme #hEDS etc.
I'm one of the #millionsmissing

#Adoptee #AdopteeVoices #prochoiceadoptee #DomesticSupplyOfInfants

Whole truth, raw truth #neurodivergent Aspie

LivesOn a Mountain in Virginia, USA
Webhttps://wolfdreams.me/
PronounsShe/Her

It's all tied together
Preserving what's left of the animal kingdom.
Mitigating the climate crisis
Eliminating fossil fuels
Saving ourselves

We might as well start thinking of them all as one, instead of pretending they're separate issues.

This could be our finest hour

RT @[email protected]

The German Association for #MECFS now offers 32 professional photos for the use in media articles, which adequately depict the reality of people living with ME. #PwME
Often, photos used in articles about ME/CFS do not show the heavy burden of the disease https://www.mecfs.de/stockphotos/

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/ValeBodi/status/1604169905997107200

Stock Photos β€” Deutsche Gesellschaft fΓΌr ME/CFS

Professional stock photos of people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) for free press usage.

Deutsche Gesellschaft fΓΌr ME/CFS

(2) Mark Sumner:

"The disinformation campaign has tried to make it seem as if, in protecting ourselves from COVID-19, we somehow lowered our resistance to flu. This is 100% not true. In fact, the opposite is true. It was ending the steps being taken against COVID-19 that has created conditions for a bad flu season."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/3/2139814/-This-is-the-price-of-COVID-19-disinformation-The-worst-flu-season-in-decades

This is the price of COVID-19 disinformation: The worst flu season in decades

Last week, it became clear that under new CEO Elon Musk, Twitter had stopped enforcing a policy against spreading disinformation related to COVID-19 and vaccinations. They didn’t make a big announcement about this. It wasn’t until people began...

Daily Kos

Don't forget to check out #StandingStoneSunday folks...

... and remember adding caption text to your image and capitalising each word in your # means a lot more people can appreciate your toots!! Thank you 😊

And from us, here's the stone circle that shows up more in our Facebook group than any other - Castlerigg in Cumbria (in the mist!)

#Archaeology #Prehistory

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving

Looks like the NIH has set up a new website so that people in the US can finally report home test results: https://makemytestcount.org/

Hopefully these results will be made public soon, and are factored into policymaking, as current data may be undercounting by as much as 20x.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

MakeMyTestCount: Report COVID-19 home test results safely and privately.

Report COVID-19 home test results safely and privately.

What is the impact of #covid on #PwME in the post-Omicron, post-vaccine era?

Please boost vigorously!

I'll try to put a poll on the bird site as well - please don't respond to both.

@mecfs

If you had #mecfs pre-pandemic, and got #covid after Dec 2021, did it result in a significant functional reduction that:

lasted over 6 months
30.8%
is ongoing (infected <6m)
38.5%
mostly resolved within 6m
7.7%
acute illness only
23.1%
Poll ended at .
"On November 22nd, users can download the free Visible app (no wearable). The app will be available in β€˜Open Beta’, which means it will be available for anyone to download test, and use, as they continue to develop the Visible platform."
#pwME #LongCovid
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2022/11/19/visible-app-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
Visible: The 1st Long-COVID and ME/CFS Activity/PEM Tracker is Here - Health Rising

Harry Leeming was in good shape! He was young, he exercised daily, had climbed mountains, and even cycled across continents. An engineer in the electric car field, he was making a difference as well. Then, in September 2020, Harry came down with COVID-19. No big deal, he thought. He was, […]

Health Rising

πŸ”¬New study by Westermeier shows Endothelial Dysfunction in vitro in #MECFS

⬇️decreased production of nitric oxide by the endothelium cells when exposed to plasma from #pwME

πŸ”¬samples from the UK ME/CFS Biobank

#TeamClots

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1537189122000027#bb0030

ABCNewsLive did a phenomenal 11 minute piece on #LongCovid featuring the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project's very own Dir of Education, Netia McCray, and Founder, Karyn Bishof! They discuss life before the pandemic and how dramatically it's changed living with #LongCovid. 1/2
https://youtu.be/lGGtXpSpiJY

#FBLC #longhauler #COVID #PASC #LongCovidAdvocacy #longcovidawareness #longcovidresearch #longcovidsupport #longcovideducation #longcovidrecovery #longcovidassociatedconditions #LC #LCAC

The challenging struggle of long COVID

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