New local album

The Three Pillars Of Resistance, by Outa Line

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COVID-19 is Airborne AIDS

The statement that SARS-CoV-2 is "airborne AIDS" may be an oversimplification, but it draws attention to emerging evidence showing that the virus induces a distinct form of acquired immunodeficiency (AID). The phrase emphasizes key similarities and is grounded in evidence of shared outcomes, including immune dysfunction through T cell depletion and exhaustion, persistent systemic damage, and neurocognitive decline.

“COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?”

SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1, though distinct, share parallels in their biochemical traits and mechanisms, long-term impacts and societal responses. Both can establish persistent infections in tissue reservoirs, immune dysfunction, vulnerability to other infections including opportunistic, systemic damage including hallmarks of accelerated biological aging, and premature neurocognitive disorders. HIV integrates into DNA, whereas SARS-CoV-2 and its parts persist in organs like the blood vessels, brain, heart, tonsils, and lungs.

These outcomes are further highlighted by the increased vulnerability to infectious diseases, including those that are signature indicators of immune deficiency typically associated with HIV/AIDS, as well as likely several types of cancer. Combined with its airborne spread and high transmissibility, SARS-CoV-2 is an ongoing threat to immunity and contributes to the population-level spread of many infections, amplifying its impact on public health.

As governments rolled back public health protections, leaving the public to navigate the uncontrolled spread on their own, stigma shifted to Long COVID patients and those advocating for continued precautions. These individuals are frequently dismissed as "fearmongers", "anxious" or “overly cautious" despite the objective ongoing and significant harms caused by the pandemic. Medical professionals pushing for mitigation measures face governmental and media backlash. Meanwhile, Long COVID patients experience persistent gaslighting and ignorance from healthcare professionals, exacerbating their struggles to access appropriate care.

Herd immunity is unattainable for a virus that mutates rapidly and evolves to evade and suppress the immune system. Similarly, the rapidly waning hybrid or post-infection immunity offers little long-term utility when achieving it requires infection with an immune-dysregulating, organ-damaging virus. Instead, addressing SARS-CoV-2 as a systemic vascular infection with significant cumulative health impacts necessitates sustained public health measures and innovative strategies to mitigate its ongoing threat to individual and population health. It is essential to prioritize airborne infection prevention, especially while no causal therapies are available for the sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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.

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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The speed at which No Kings and 50501 "leaders" and organizers have shown their ass should be a simple, concrete, graspable lesson to liberals and left-liberals that protest policing and reform politics serve only to self-limit any attempt at true change.

These people are just as scared of revolutionary change as the fascists are, and that becomes glaringly obvious in their cooperative response to further fascist crackdowns. They love the performativity of the Big Protest, they love the cathartic release of yelling at the cops, but when it comes to attempting to do any real, material harm to the fascist regime, they are (not-so-)suddenly lovers of the law, eager to point the damning finger at the anarchists and insurrectionists whose fiery energy they were riding in the streets, and whose community organizing they were praising and even often claiming as their own.

My friend Eva has run an absolutely incredible mutual aid operations out of MacArthur Park in LA for an uninterrupted six years, and she experienced a brutal and bizarre attack during food service that landed her in the hospital last week.

Eva is truly an incredible community leader whom I have personally learned probably everything I know about mutual aid from. Can you help us support her recovery and medical bills? https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-community-leaders-recovery