#sars2

[socialismforall]

Weekly COVID-19 Update for 2023-12-24

COVID is still airborne, and COVID still very much isn't over.

Northeastern and Midwestern USA SARS2 virus levels in wastewater are *soaring*, Northeast is currently at 1500 copies/mL (~750 copies indicates a strong surge), and Midwest is at 1300 copies/mL. Southeastern and Western USA are maintaining relatively lower levels between 600 and 700 overall, but both are still climbing. See https://biobot.io/data for county-specific data as results can vary widely between locales.

How to reduce your risk of infection? The SARS2 virus is airborne and can spread like smoke, so #MaskUp with an #N95 or better, avoid superspreader events and locations, and stay up-to-date on your boosters. Do it for yourself, so you don't catch SARS-CoV-2, and for others, so you don't spread SARS-CoV-2. Even if you're fully vaccinated, your risk of developing #LongCOVID following an infection is lower but not zero, and multiple reinfections increase your odds of negative health outcomes. Plan A always should be to prevent an infection from developing by wearing a respirator with a good seal around your mouth and nose (FFP2, FFP3, KN95, N95, N99, P100, etc.).

Holiday tips:

-If someone tells you that COVID is over, you might ask them why, if we didn't consider COVID to be over in 2020 or 2021, when the COVID wastewater levels were lower, why should we consider it over now, when the virus is circulating in even higher amounts?

-"Fewer cases" doesn't mean much when most of the at-home rapid tests don't get counted in official records, and the most accurate PCR tests are neither freely available nor given to everyone getting on a plane or attending classes.

-"Fewer deaths" also means less when you remember that about 1,200,000 of the most vulnerable people already have died from it, COVID-19 remains the #3 cause of death in 2023 (behind heart disease and cancer, the risk of both of which may be increased by COVID), and the risk of a Long COVID/post-acute COVID syndrome (PACS) disability or other potentially life-shortening organ damage (brain, kidney, lung, immune, etc.) isn't measured just by the death count. Also, the USA's life expectancy still hasn't recovered from the drop it experienced following the start of the pandemic.

source: https://biobot.io/data

source: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20231006/these-are-the-top-10-causes-of-death-in-the-us

source: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and-the-heart-it-spares-no-one

source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33914346/

source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/29/average-us-life-expectancy-increased-not-pre-covid/71738611007/

#covid #pandemic #corona #coronavirus #sarscov2 #publichealth #science #disease #covidisntover #virus #medicine #sars2 #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #health #lifeexpectancy

[medsocionwheels]

Did anyone else notice

The COVID19 tag was trending on here yesterday? 👀

It's like the pandemic still exists or something. Color me shocked.

Hopefully this means people are catching on. This breaking period has been a long and exhausting one.

#covid19 #covid #sars2 #sars cov 2 #pandemic #mask #n95 #wear a mask #trending #breaking point #tired #anyone else #spotted #fyi

[pokabrows]

The senate hearing on long covid is Thursday January 18 starting at 10 am EST. (Right now!) Link in reblog because it's being streamed. People are sharing their experiences of becoming disabled by covid.

#covid #covid19 #mask up #pandemic #sars2 #sars cov 2 #disability #usa #disability rights

[blindedbythedarkness]

Am I sad I never knew how good and simple and safe life was back before 2020? Yes.

Am I mad that I took it for granted? No, because someone with hope could never imagine a world like this.

#c rambles #grief #grieving #mourning #loss #bereaved #bereavement #covid #covid conscious #covid cautious #covid-19 #pandemic #covid isnt over #covid is not over #sars cov 2 #sars2 #wear a mask #clean the air #long covid #shielding #depressed #depression #suicidal #suicidal thoughts #depression thoughts

[dsm-v]

the scariest thing to me that most people don't even realize is that the acute phase is not the disease. that's becoming conspicuously evident the longer this all goes on. but sure let's go partying every week because YOLO

#covid-19 #sars2 #cobid #i guess when you're young and healthy practically aging by a factor of a decade nearly overnight doesn't actually sound that bad #i've watched a lot of young people my age and younger die over the past few yeara #and even when y'all are annoying little pricks i'm still never ever pleased to see it happen #it's like watching a train crash from afar or something. it's terrible and awful but you can't look away bc you can't do much anything else

[dmnsqrl]

Posted @withregram • @accesscenteredmovement is it fear mongering or is there a legitimate issue that you just don't want to be bothered by? from climate change to covid, this entitlement to a stress free life has resulted in a world all too willing to reject hard facts, concerns, and sacrifice LIVES for "peace of mind" Posted @withregram • @decolonize__ Ableism isn’t fucking radical, so-called comrades! #COVID still ain’t over, people—what the fuck?! #sars2 #LongCovid #WearAMask #Ableism #Eugenics #Immunocompromised #CovidIsNotOver #CovidAintOver #CovidDenial #CovidMinimizing #CapitalismKills #DisabilityJustice #CovidCautious • *appreciate the on point tweets @rupa.marya @VirginiaBuysse @ramoumaaa @decolonialblack @swampflora @authoralisalynnvaldes https://www.instagram.com/p/CoCEW8QukH1xlowKkGquhA_MIFrVL02PktPi4I0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#covid #sars2 #longcovid #wearamask #ableism #eugenics #immunocompromised #covidisnotover #covidaintover #coviddenial #covidminimizing #capitalismkills #disabilityjustice #covidcautious

[jaclynsphotographs]

"When Will You Say Enough": a Letter to my MLA (also the Provincial AG), the Education Minister, and an MLA-P.Eng

Date and time of email: May 24, 2023; 22h22 Hello Attorney General Sharma, Minister Singh, Minister Ma; Today, I am sending the three of you more information on the continued discoveries of potential health harms – many specifically in children – due to allowing COVID to continue to spread unchecked. Please note that none of you need to reply to this email; I do not require nor desire yet…

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#BabyByte #BabyBytes #BCEd #BCPoli #COVID #Disability #Enough #Exclusion #Inclusion #MaskingForAFriend #NoPlausibleDeniability #SARS #SARS2

[addamatic]

(Vocal rhythm, C min, Bflat major, Aflat major Cmin)

Distancing does not end

Oh no it does not end,

Distancing does not end for me

But my heart it still beats

My heart it still loves

And my heart it still longs to be free

Fmin G Aflatmajor, Bflatmajor, Fmin G Aflatmajor, Bflatmajor

The everyday products that most people wear

Impact the safety of air that we share

If someone’s got perfume, hairspray or Tide

I get trouble breathing, get sick, have to hide

Distancing does not end, oh no it does not end, distancing does not end for me

But my heart it still beats, my heart it still loves, and my heart it still longs to be free

I’m not sick of Zoom ‘cause it keeps me connected

And through this screen, I’ve got so much to give

Joining remotely keeps me protected

I’ve just got one body and I’m gonna live

Distancing does not end, oh no it does not end, distancing does not end for me

But my heart it still beats, my heart it still loves, and my heart it still longs to be free

Her oncologist told her, “when you get the vaccine

act like you didn’t, keep isolating”

‘Cause with Myeloma, you’re immune-compromised”

I feel her love when I look in her eyes

Distancing does not end, oh no it does not end, distancing does not end for me

But my heart it still beats, my heart it still loves, and my heart it still longs to be free

Isolating together, and staying connected

We are still here, we’ve got so much to give

Working remotely keeps us protected

These are our lives, and we’re still gonna live

Distancing does not end, oh no it does not end, distancing does not end for me

But my heart it still beats, my heart it still loves, and my heart it still longs to be free (my heart is free)

#spoonie #mcas #distancing #sars2

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

#yall can reblog this #for those of you touting community care or progressive values or allyship to marginalised communities #i better see y’all masking #it goes without saying that if you can’t mask then my saying mask up does not apply to you #but for the people who can mask please do so to protect yourself and others #masking up also protects people who aren’t able to mask #I’m just so tired of being told that death to a virus that is preventable via masking and air filtration and proper testing availability to #prevent spread by allowing people to stop their chain of transmission #is just. fine. like all these people will die and apparently that’s fine and actually a great thing #also. with one or two covid infections formerly healthy people enter vulnerable groups. because the studies coming out right now and #what we know about long term sars1 effects (because covid is not a cold or flu. it’s sars2. it’s severe accuse respiratory syndrome) #are showing that the long term effects on the bodies of people who have had covid will be disasterous #and if covid had been properly felt with then maybe only some people would be facing that reality. but the amount of people who have been #infected not just once but multiple times. with some people having close to double digit numbers of infections. means that the amount of #people looking at sars2 long term symptoms could be quite a large group #coronavirus #my post

[pokabrows]

Great video about speaking in several different elastomeric respirators. Useful for if you are looking at cheaper, easier, more sustainable long term solutions to disposable masks.

#covid #mask up #sars2 #elastomeric respirators #YouTube #video #covid19

[wild-neko]

i need a lesbian to give me a pretty-boy haircut 🥺

#i dont have the spoons to diy it again #wlw #lesbian #dyke #masc #pls i cannot go to a hairdresser it has sars2 and trauma #i miss having good hair ;-; #i will also accept a homoerotic haircut from another queer person #im just forever touch starved with bad hair ;-; #nb lesbian

[liminalweirdo]

[image id: two screenshots of four tweets by user lisa_iannattone on Twitter, posted on 19 December 2022 at 1:14 p.m., reading sequentially: "It's absolutely wild to me that we're pretending that the higher than average number of respiratory tract infections and the pandemic of adults with pneumonia this year is not a warning sign of immune impairment. This is literally how immunodeficiency would present.In clinical practice, we we want to screen for the possibility of an undiagnosed underlying immunodeficiency syndrome, "how many respiratory infections do you get in an average year?" and "have you had pneumonia more than once?" are the 2 first questions we ask.There's been more pneumonias among my healthy adult friends & acquaintances in the last 6 months than among my immunosuppressed patients in the last 6 years. Something is clearly off. And healthy adults with pneumonia is not a viral transmission dynamics issue.This thread blew up and some people aren't sure if I'm suggesting immunity debt. Definitely not. Staying healthy doesn't make you sick, pathogens do. As for the immunity "gap", it's likely a contributing factor but doesn't explain adults with pneumonia. It's SARS2 I'm worried about.

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hey, the pandemic is not over. wear a mask.

in case this is unclear, immunocompromised, immunosuppressed, and other disabled people are not getting sick the same way as healthy adults because they are masking the fuck up and/or still largely being forced to isolate, while many many “healthy” adults are not. just because you are healthy doesn’t mean you are immune to long-term effects from covid. anyone can become disabled at any time. immunity debt is not real.

do your part to protect yourself and others. not wearing a mask is worse than ableism. It’s disablist.

Please at least wear masks in public indoor, and crowded outdoor spaces. Make public spaces safe and accessible for everyone.

#immunity debt #immunity debt is not real #ableism #wear a fucking mask #wear a mask #pneumonia #immunodeficiency #immunocompromised #disability #pretending the pandemic is over doesn't make it true #disablism #described #like disabled people are largely still isolating because of people who don't give a shit if they catch or spread covid

[dsm-v]

what endemic DOES mean: a pathogen that spreads at a stable rate (where for each infected individual, they pass on the pathogen to about 1 other individual on average)

what endemic DOES NOT mean: a pathogen found every-the-fuck-where, that grows and spreads exponentially. the word you are looking for is "pandemic"

#covid-19 #sars2

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

well, the new year is in a bit depending on where the fuck you are.

but what is everyone’s hopes for next year?

mine is much of the same,

“plz no more epidemic of the sars2”

“Plz can we have peace in our lifetime as promised by everyone”

“Plz can the government stop being bad”

“I hope crypto and NFT’s go defunct without people losing their life savings”

And probably shit tons of crying.

this year has been awful!

the next one we haven’t yet seen.

but I wish everyone a happy new year. (Tho Chinese new year isn’t until later, I can’t wait for it!)

let’s hope this one is marginally better!

Yay, 🎉 (:celebration emoji)

[IMAGE ID: a tiny tabby kitten with impact text that says, “I’m actually not even close to my limit, it takes a lot more than this to knock me down" END ID:]

woo, so much shit has happened this year.

yet we are still alive and we are still here, this is awesome fucking awesome!

shout out to our beloved moots

@crippled-peeper for being cool <3 you made us not hate ourselves because of being disabled you deserve the best, from one to another. next year will hopefully be better, and it will !!!!

@aguineapigcouldntdothis for supporting this blog tirelessly, and being genuinely so cool be proud of yourself! happy new year

@icedragonaftermath for supporting this blog and being cool

@aloeverawrites for everything your awesome

@snekdood for changing my (pop) thoughts on veganism and for being awesome

@blacktipreefsharkwizarding for coming back after being lost in the account move <3

@problematicpooch for supporting the blog!

@t-is-tobi for being genuinely so cool

@roots-system even though we don't talk much you guys are awesome

@75screamingtoads for being the coolest

@rin-and-jade for being one of the best peoples out there, you guys deserve all love !

@iosonounapersonamiao for being so kind and awesome! your the best

@valcaira for being awesome and supporting the blog <3 and just being around, your cool!

@ex-alias for being a huge supporter of this blog, shout out!

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@emery-reblogs for supporting the blog!!!!

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@fishyyyyy99 for supporting the hell out of this blog!

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@spark1edog for just being here, it's a joy to see you round!

@theelectricalcity for being a HUGGGGGE supporter

@head-of-sea-foam-the-system for sticking around you guys are the best

@shitpostingsystem who has stuck through thick and thin, you guys deserve the best, thanks for sticking around <3

@anarchywoofwoof hope next year is better, your the best

@atypi-cals you guys are great! <3 thanks for supporting this blog !!!

@pigeon-system-boys for sticking around and supporting the blog <3

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@island-76 for tirelessly supporting this blog!

@808-bantar for supporting this blog!!!!!

@olivertheballer idk who you are, where you came from but you are the chillest guy, and we love seeing you around. your a joy <3

and many many more who I have zeroooooo energy to write.

I wish all of you a happy new year, and best wishes.

from the us-the-voices system,

may next year be kind on you!

#-pop/lena #us-the-voices talks #happy new year #2023 is over #this year has been fucking hell #like the last 4 years #cheers to this one being better! #ygfiyalcsgu;hidqgufdhiyidgu;vhwfqdhidhiwfeu #it still feels like we should have 3 more months of 2023 but eh it's next year soon #peace and love hopefully next year. and learning new things and maths probably

[jaclynsphotographs]

Dear John...

How to thank you, John Horgan, on your retirement? (Originally, I wrote this letter to you for your 2022 birthday, but I missed the submission deadline, because I was busy trying to figure out how to keep my kids safe at school during a pandemic… for a third [pandemic] year… I’ve adjusted it a little, but much of it still stands, so here you go.) Thank you for letting thousands of people die…

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#BabyByte #BabyBytes #BCEd #BCNDP #BCPoli #COVID #Disability #Exclusion #HumanRights #Inclusion #MaskingForAFriend #NDP #NoThanksJohn #SARS #SARS2 #ThanksJohn #Twitter

[covidsafehotties]

Red Blood cells do not have ACE2 receptors, but SARS-CoV-2 can interact with them via several receptors or auxiliary membrane proteins.

Highlights

"Recent data show that Sars2 infection causes significant damage to the red blood cells, altering their morphology, deformability, and aggregability."

"Loss of red blood cell deformability and/or increased aggregability favors the development of thrombotic processes in the microcirculation, as has been described to occur in COVID-19 patients."

"In addition, many patients also develop systemic endotheliitis associated with generalized coagulopathy through activated platelets."

"This manifests itself clinically as obstructive microthrombi [microclots] in the area of the medium and smallest vessels, which can affect all internal organs."

"Above changes in the red blood cells may contribute to the microangiopathy/microthrombosis associated with COVID-19 and may result in impaired capillary blood flow and tissue oxygenation in different/all Internal organs."

Obstructive microthrombi could be the main culprit of internal organ damages from covid. These sequalae come as a result of complex interactions in the cardiovascular system, descirbed in mostly de-jargoned terms:

1. Loss of red blood cell deformability and/or increased aggregability)

2. Endotheliitis(Inflammation-induced/white blood cells)

3. Activated platelets

#mask up #covid #covid 19 #covid isn't over #pandemic #covid conscious #long covid #covid is airborne #wear a mask #coronavirus