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Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko has confirmed that ex-Twitter staff have setup their own server instance on Mastodon! Revenge is seemingly a dish best served cold! πππ
#covid damages your immune system in ways we simply donβt understand.
If you value your overall and long-term health, do your best to avoid catching it. Donβt fall for the: βitβs mildβ narrative until we know what βmildβ really means.
And, in all honesty, we have absolutely no idea about long term impacts yet π
The horrible history of #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis - How medical misogyny & decades of medical malfeasance by a faction of psychiatry led to no treatments for #MECFS & #LongCOVID
My blog post here: https://illustratorinterrupted.blogspot.com/2021/05/i-caught-virus-and-never-recovered-part.html

Tweeting vs tooting
#Twitter #Mastodon #MastoDaoine #IrishTwitter #Humour #TheSimpsons
Muscles grow by increasing the size of their cells, not by increasing the number of cells. In contrast, the cells of the immune system and body mainly increase by reproducing in response to infection.
These cell divisions have a limit. Telomeres, at the end of chromosomes, shorten with each division until the cell stops dividing or dies.
#Covid19 shortens Telomeres. Yes, immune systems will age.
https://mastodon.green/@fitterhappierAJ/109372994883071557
A misanalogy offers a teaching moment Muscles grow by hypertrophy rather than proliferation The cells of your immune system and body predominantly divide in response to infection The divisions have a limit Telomeres shorten after SARS 2 infection Yea, immune systems will age