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tj (i make it past the end)<p>"The act of forgetting has always been a tool of oppression. We cannot adequately resist that which has been revised, erased, or forgotten by our community members. But few will acknowledge that this is happening with COVID. Just as one may utter that “slavery was back then, get over it”, when we use verbiage like “post-pandemic” we are rendering oppression as a static past event rather than an ever-evolving present that shapes our shared future. This tactic has always been useful to those who wish to profit off of our suffering and the cycle will continue to repeat if we do not acknowledge and act on the truth of our current reality. If we do not reckon with our failures to each other around COVID and do the work to remedy it, are we better than those who try to ban our people’s histories’ from the schools? We aid in the crusade to forget every day when we do not consider the pandemic as both current and deadly." </p><p>~V. Copeland</p><p><a href="https://forgeorganizing.org/article/reflecting-on-covid-year-5/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forgeorganizing.org/article/re</span><span class="invisible">flecting-on-covid-year-5/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/CovidIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsntOver</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/CovidIsAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsAirborne</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a></p>
Charité Berlin<p>‼️ Cause of post-<a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> inflammatory shock in children identified: Reactivation of the Epstein-Barr virus appears to cause the rare condition <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/MISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MISC</span></a>. The findings, uncovered by a team from <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Charit%C3%A9Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharitéBerlin</span></a> &amp; the DRFZ, have now been published in <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a>. </p><p>💡 These insights open the door to new treatment methods, potentially not limited to MIS-C.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://www.charite.de/en/service/press_reports/artikel/detail/cause_of_post_covid_inflammatory_shock_in_children_identified" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">charite.de/en/service/press_re</span><span class="invisible">ports/artikel/detail/cause_of_post_covid_inflammatory_shock_in_children_identified</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Charit%C3%A9Paper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharitéPaper</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/EBV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EBV</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/PIMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PIMS</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/SARSCoV2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARSCoV2</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://wisskomm.social/tags/corona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corona</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@nature.portfolio/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nature.portfolio</span></a></span></p>
Hannu Ikonen, MD<p>"They cant do that!"</p><p>My sibling in Ishtar.</p><p>They gaslit 6 billion people that <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> was over, just a cold, no biggie.</p><p>And then targeted the one country containing Covid w/a massive propaganda campaign.</p><p>They absolutely can:<br>🔸️Disappear US citizens<br>🔸️Try to invade Canada<br>🔸️Try to occupy &amp; claim Greenland</p><p>Its the same bastards through &amp; through.</p>
Ducky 🇨🇦<p>McMaster University is starting a clinical trial of an inhaled COVID-19 vaccine. They are looking for participants in Hamilton, Ottawa, and Halifax. The eligibility details are in the press release:</p><p><a href="https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/made-at-mcmaster-inhaled-covid-19-vaccine-begins-phase-2-human-trial/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">healthsci.mcmaster.ca/made-at-</span><span class="invisible">mcmaster-inhaled-covid-19-vaccine-begins-phase-2-human-trial/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a></p>
Augie Ray<p>If 100,000 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> deaths were “an incalculable loss” in May 2020, what should we call the 168,344 COVID deaths since Joe Biden declared the pandemic ended on September 18, 2022?</p><p>What's the difference, besides that people got tired of avoiding crowds, wearing masks, and worrying about each other's health?</p><p>Do the deaths in 2020 count more than the deaths in 2022 to 2025? Yes, COVID killed more in 2020, but COVID continues, threatening tens of millions with chronic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LongCOVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCOVID</span></a> symptoms.</p>
Hannu Ikonen, MD<p>A pandemic isnt an opinion poll. </p><p>59% are *wrong.* </p><p>Factually, patently wrong.</p><p>41% are *right*. </p><p>Wear a Fucking Mask you fucks. </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/114124157989551131" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/</span><span class="invisible">114124157989551131</span></a></p>
tj (i make it past the end)<p>How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic Edited by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp<br>Afterword by Judith Heumann<br>Foreword by Ed Yong </p><p>Open Access PDF + ePub</p><p><a href="https://opensquare.nyupress.org/books/9781479830909/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opensquare.nyupress.org/books/</span><span class="invisible">9781479830909/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/CovidIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsntOver</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/CovidIsAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsAirborne</span></a></p>
Ika Makimaki<p>After these 5 years of <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a>, and in terms of airborne pathogen prevention, do you consider your current lifestyle (self defined, including but not limited to masking, air quality monitoring, crowd avoidance etc)</p>
Ika Makimaki<p>Entering year 6 of the <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> pandemic, to the best of your knowledge, you have been infected:</p><p>(please boost for reach)<br><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a></p>
Hilda Bastian<p>A big news month for next generation Covid vaccines! Exciting news from Europe - - and roadblocks in the US.</p><p>- Kostaive self-amplifying mRNA authorized in Europe &amp; a burning question answered! It generates more mRNA from a lower dose, but it is transient, too.</p><p>- France taking the lead for intranasal Covid vaccine?</p><p>- With all the roadblocks now in the US, what do prospects for nextgen vax look like there?</p><p>All this &amp; more in my new <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@PLOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PLOS</span></a></span> post:<br><a href="https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/28/exciting-news-from-europe-and-roadblocks-in-the-us-nextgen-covid-vax-update-26/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/</span><span class="invisible">02/28/exciting-news-from-europe-and-roadblocks-in-the-us-nextgen-covid-vax-update-26/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a></p>
Tom Kindlon<p>Sympathetic article; quotes 3 German experts</p><p>"Years after the pandemic, has the threat of <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCovid</span></a> subsided?"</p><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/years-pandemic-threat-long-covid-153323420.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/years-pandemic-</span><span class="invisible">threat-long-covid-153323420.html</span></a></p><p>Includes this "Depending on the symptoms, doctors will often recommend exercise therapy ..." but then that can be true for people without PEM</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/longcovid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>longcovid</span></a></span><br><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/PASC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PASC</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/PwLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PwLC</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/postcovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postcovid</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/postcovid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postcovid19</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/LC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LC</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Covidlonghaulers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covidlonghaulers</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/PostCovidSyndrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostCovidSyndrome</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/longhaulers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longhaulers</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/COVIDBrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVIDBrain</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/NeuroPASC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeuroPASC</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/covid19" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>covid19</span></a></span> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coronavirus</span></a><br><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/SARSCoV2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARSCoV2</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chirp.social/@novid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>novid@chirp.social</span></a></span> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/novid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novid</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/novid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>novid@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> </p><p>1/</p>
James Hawley<p>This post by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>broadwaybabyto</span></a></span> is excellent: </p><p><a href="https://www.disabledginger.com/p/were-witnessing-the-fall-of-public" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disabledginger.com/p/were-witn</span><span class="invisible">essing-the-fall-of-public</span></a></p><p>- why, when, and how to wear a face mask<br>- tips for putting masks on, taking them off, stirring then, and disposing of them<br>- resources for N95s, fit guides, elastomeric masks in multiples countries</p><p>This is excellent material for everyone. </p><p><a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YallMasking</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/publicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicHealth</span></a></p>
Njord<p>I talked to an old friend last night, and was greatly heartened to hear that she's resumed wearing masks, because she doesn't want to get sick and infect her elderly parents.</p><p>I was even happier to hear her say that she only wears n95 masks, because she'd heard that surgical type masks don't protect very well!</p><p>It's so rare to hear that from people I know offline, that I wanted to share it!</p><p><a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a></p>
Tove Harris 2. Account<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LongCOVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCOVID</span></a> nur noch ein psychosomatisches Todesrisiko?<br>Leo Fischer geißelt die Neoliberalisierung des Gesundheitswesens</p><p>Krankheit werde neoliberalisiert: Jeder sei selbst verantwortlich, Gesundheit als kollektive Aufgabe sei ausgelöscht. Krankenversicherungen unterstützten das durch die Förderung von Fitness-Apps. Wer krank werde, habe einfach nicht genug Sport gemacht.<br>Diese Ideologie sei zutiefst behindertenfeindlich und letztlich eugenisch. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corona</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1189058.corona-pandemie-long-covid-nur-noch-ein-psychosomatisches-todesrisiko.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1189058.</span><span class="invisible">corona-pandemie-long-covid-nur-noch-ein-psychosomatisches-todesrisiko.html</span></a></p>
Njord<p>When you wear an n95, p100, P2, P3, fp2, or ffp3 respirator, do you use one with a vent?</p><p><a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a></p>
Augie Ray<p>If you're coughing and you know it, wear a mask, <br>If you're sniffling and you know it, wear a mask, <br>If you're sick you know it, doesn't matter it's COVID,<br>If you're sick you know it, wear a mask.</p><p>If you're active and you love it, wear a mask,<br>If you're hearty and you love it, wear a mask,<br>If you're healthy and you love it, you don't wanna get Long COVID, <br>If you're healthy and you love it, wear a mask.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WearAMask</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StillMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StillMasking</span></a></p>
Hannu Ikonen, MD<p>Answer: they dont wear a fucking mask during a fucking airborne pandemic. </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a></p>
Octavia con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars:<p>This is going to be mostly my personal experience with long covid, interspersed with bits of knowledge I receive from the various medical staff that are helping take care of me~ :shiba_excited: I'll try to make sure I just reply to the last post so people new to the series can look back at the old posts easily :bugcat_nod: </p><p>Hopefully, it can help people understand some of the effects of this rather widespread, invisible disability that I and countless others have to fight day in and day out and empathise with those that have it :hug_love: </p><p>-----</p><p>One of the physical symptoms is that I'm dimished to something like 20% of my previous max stamina, with activities costing multiple times what they previously did alongside a much slower stamina recovery :cat_frown:</p><p>Grocery trips are prohibitively expensive on the stamina now, and I need to sit for 30~45 minutes before I can even put groceries away...showers require most of a day's worth of stamina (baths are a little better but harder to wash my hair in... cooking? I have to have a stool in the kitchen and even then, the parts that require standing drain my stamina quickly :frog_dizzy:</p><p>and honestly? I'm one of the lucky ones...Physics Girl (youtube) recently managed to stand up for the first time in a year or two, and that's been both a sobering reminder of what long covid can do as well as a source of great hope for my own recovery, though I'm ready to fight it for years (on top of the 1.5ish years I've already had to deal with it).</p><p>Back on the topic of physical stamina, the worst part is that exercise doesn't work. For a healthy human, using up 105% of your stamina leads to increased stamina after recovering for a day or two. For long-covid patients, exceeding our (now much smaller) stamina capacity *decreases* our stamina capacity :cat_facepalm: </p><p>You can think of it as an injury paradigm in that overloading a leg recovering from a recent breakage will re-injure it, not strengthen it :zerotwo_shrug: </p><p>and that's probably enough for a first entry :cat_think: </p><p><a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCovid</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/longcovid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>longcovid</span></a></span></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>(7/?) So to recap so far: People in the US aren't rising up en masse because we are living against the backdrop of an on-going <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> that is harming our health, committed activists have been <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/traumatized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traumatized</span></a> and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/BurntOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurntOut</span></a> by their so-called "comrades" and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/leftist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftist</span></a> groups uncommitted to care, and in general, people in the US tend to exist in a state of precarity to begin with. </p><p>Those are, to me, the big reasons why people aren't flooding the streets to stop <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> or <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s blatant <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a> overreaches. And of course, this is what the <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascists</span></a> want. They want us tired and burnt out and precarious so that we will let them have their way, and they know full well that once they consolidate power, they will keep us even more traumatized, burnt out, and precarious as they continue to oppress and exploit us for their own gain. What do we do about this?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MovementBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MovementBuilding</span></a></p>
Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>(2/?) So, why are people in the US too tired to protest the hostile takover of our government by a manbaby billionaire? </p><p>I'd like to state the obvious and point out that <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a> is still a pandemic. Most people in the US have, on average, had about 3-4 <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> infections at this point. Covid can leave people with debilitating fatigue for months or even years after the initial infection. It can leave people with brain fog, chronic coughs, depression, autoimmune disorders, and a host of other maladies. Even if some people don't realize they have <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCovid</span></a> or don't have symptoms serious enough to warrant a <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/longhaul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longhaul</span></a> diagnosis, those infections add up. People are getting sick more frequently and the effects of these illnesses are adding up. People are physically tired. </p><p>I don't think that's the only explanation, but it's the backdrop under which everything else is happening.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MovementBuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MovementBuilding</span></a></p>