Lola P. Germs
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reiterating for americans who don't know, that the US never had any proper lockdowns and that people in many countries literally had limits on how many times they could leave their house per day, how long, and where they could go, and I'm talking about SPAIN not China.
Why does everyone in America refer to the isolation and psychological damage caused by “The Lockdowns” as if they were welded inside their home for two years straight?
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reminder that the guy who invented the modern residency system was addicted to cocaine and structured the unlivable working hours to accommodate and mask his addiction.
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saw this demonstrated beautifully once by a man who would not stop ripping huge vape clouds on the escalator at the train station
A supercomputer from the Kyoto Institute of Technology has simulated what happens when someone coughs on the escalator
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living in europe, i can order a bulk box of 25 SARS-CoV-2 rapid tests for thirty cents a test, aka 7,5€ for 25 rapids. people in the US are getting fleeced.
A single test for COVID / Flu A/B / RSV is widely available in Europe for less than the cost of a covid test in the U.S.
The Biden Administration is a catastrophic public health failure.
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the united states didn't have lockdowns! like soooo few USians don't seem to understand that many other countries closed all businesses by law, and then mandated people could only leave home a certain number of times per day, for grocery shopping and a time-limited walk.
Okay I'm gonna say it
Years of covid lockdowns just made it so that a certain chunk of young people just literally don't have friends.
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I was studying abroad in Germany when the pandemic started- here's what it was like in Germany's largest state. schools and all businesses other than grocery stores and pharmacy's etc. shut down by law. people were paid something like 80% of their salaries to stay home.
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genuinely so much of the way we do education (not just in medicine) is based off of repeating someone's bad idea for so long it becomes orthodoxy. then people assume there's a well-justified reason we do it that way, rather than just inertia.
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funny how this keeps being rediscovered by the media but it doesn't seem to stick :'-)
Scientists fear Covid may be responsible for a coming wave of dementia. Here's how having Covid may have harmed your brain.
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new GP offered to put on a mask when she saw i was wearing one. said she normally doesn't wear them for well-visits. which, no surprise there, few doctors keep up with.. basically anything. but then she actually DID cite a recent study to give me health advice...
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(which is not to, like, poo-poo measures that some countries took to stop disease spread. just to put in perspective that the US did very little compared to other high-income countries and Americans really don't seem to realize the extent of how nothing their "lockdowns" were)
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see: the amount of homework we give children, and waking up teenagers super early for school even though it's completely at odds with their puberty brain clocks.
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this video is the most fun you will ever have learning about COVID brain damage (probably)!
for sharing with those who refuse to learn about it otherwise (also on insta and TikTok, pick your poison)
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i dream of her...
(this purifier actually creates a clean air zone bc ✨physics✨, and would be perfect for situations where you need to unmask and can have this right in front of your face: lunch break, dentist, doctor 😻)
I made a short video for the AirFanta 4Lite laminar air purifier. A small batch is on the way to US warehouse. It can be pre-ordered now. This week replacement filters will also be shipped. In a few days I will make a longer video introducing the how the filtrated laminar flow
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ma'am, ur keeping up with the latest Swedish tattoo epidemiology but not the effects of the virus that y'all are being exposed to daily??
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i genuinely think that ten years from now a study that retrospectively traces the health outcomes of every 2024 Olympic athlete (or as many as possible) as a cohort would be illuminating and also depressing.
German decathlete and medal hopeful Manuel Eitel is out of the 'post-covid' Olympics with covid. Posting on Instagram he wrote: "Today is one of the worst days of my life. What I'm feeling right now is beyond any defeat I've ever experienced...I no longer understand the world."
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just a friendly reminder that bifold masks with the nose wire left in the default sharp angle are not serving you well if you're the lone-masker! i'm seeing masked selfies like this from many different people make the rounds.
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okay but how many of these athletes are going to develop LC after trying to "push through" COVID? bc i'm thinking a lot 😓
He began feeling unwell on Sunday, ahead of his men's 100m breaststroke final.
#BBCOlympics
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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y'all still masking??
(this is my fit for when people are coughing all over the train)
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anyways, this is not a love letter to Germany, which is just as much of a hellscape as the US now, if not more! but I wonder how things could have been different if the US didn't lead the world economy and set the very lowest bar for acceptable pandemic response.
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just lost another long-term friendship to someone who didn't want to acknowledge pandemic reality. they said they wanted to learn more and be safer, we had good conversations, but when it came to wearing a mask a few days before meeting me for my safety, that was too much.
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can't decide if keeping up w research but choosing not to learn about SARS-CoV-2 is worse than no ongoing learning at all. it was still embarassing, but she didn't realize so i had to be embarrassed for both of us 🥲
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Restaurants were allowed to stay open for delivery. We had rules dictating that you were not supposed to gather in large numbers or with people from more than one other household (gist, I don't remember specifics). we didn't have a lockdown tho, I was allowed to leave my flat.
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genuinely think this is a why a number of frienships have ended- people decided it was easier to drop me rather than contend with implications (and according appropriate lifestyle changes) of the knowledge i was trying to share with them
but accepting that knowledge might mean: losing a job, withdrawing from family, seeing friends less, dating less, taking your kids out of school, canceling a big trip, contending with the fact that the lingering illness you or your loved one has is long covid, etc
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considering there's no way Fauci doesn't know that acute infection symptoms are not representative of long term organ damage causes by SARS-CoV-2, what's the game here?
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i am the guy with the most custom charms on my elipse straps (that's a white euro P3 filter in one half and a purple US P100 in another because i think it looks cool and i don't mess around on public transit)
Share masked selfies, because representation matters
#DisabilityJustice
#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsAirborne
#SARSCoV2
#MaskUp
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to not get any more tattoos bc of increased lymphoma risk, according to a recently published study 🥲
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they had literally no idea that other places were doing so much more. I think sometimes that to be USian is to think the US is so big you don't need to learn anything about the rest of the world.
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we had gov-administered COVID Tests suped fast. I got a test in April 2020 when most Americans had nothing. To get the test I called a central hotline, told someone my symptoms, they asked me if I had access to private transportation to go to a test center. I didn't!
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so they told me they would send people to me, and asked if I had enough food to stay home for a few days! the following day two people in full PPE came to the door of my student flat and swabbed me. I had the negative result the following day.
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after a few months of this shutdown, case numbers were super low in DE (like 100 a day), and there was a soft reopening. shops opened with strict occupancy limits. Masks were mandated at this point, but not yet FFP2S (yes, mask mandates in Europe eventually required GOOD MASKS).
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I was able to have a safe, relaxed, in-person social life for a few months in summer 2020 in Germany, and that was the last time! I watched uncomprehending as my friends in the US, with far higher case loads and none of the same protections, were socializing more than me!
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WHAT KIND OF PRECAUTIONS, MARIA??
Quite a few countries showing increasing trends of
#COVID19
infections. Make sure your vaccinations are up to date and take precautions to avoid infection.
Be safe, stay safe. Be kind.
@WHO
@DrTedros
@DrMikeRyan
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Restaurants and cafes opened for in-person dining, with papers at every table where you needed to leave your name and contact info for contact tracing in case someone fell ill. this was replaced with more high tech contact tracing after i left in August 2020.
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uhhh
*checks notes that the people most likely to be repeatedly infected, and that those who face long COVID at higher rates are people of color, low income workers, trans people, queer people, women*
uhhhhhh
There's a big confounder in the Covid reinfection IQ loss study that hasn't been mentioned
It's the possibility that people who didn't listen to the rhetoric that Covid is like a cold chose to remain vigilant and prevent infection and reinfection, and they just have higher IQ
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hello all! I have a whole chunk of new followers so i thought i'd do an intro post! i go by Lola Germs on the internet and i am a pandemic communicator. i started this project a little over six months ago after years of mostly keeping off social media.
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@shhhappens
yeah I'm like... based on my own and other patients' extensive (bad) experiences and the state of medical culture, now and in the last century, I'm gonna say I disagree with the author's conclusion here lol
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y'all masking??
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New shareable short from the Long COVID Crash Course video: Why doesn't anyone I know have LC?
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@swiftiescaskett
it's still happening tho, and much worse. the period of time in which the news was focusing on bodies and death count was really low compared to what came next. the news just stopped featuring it. you are ignoring what's happening because the news gave you permission to stop.
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the long COVID crash course for explaining stuff to normies is OUT NOW! link in next tweet :~) please watch and share!
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my face when the antivax bots have found the LC video and are leaving the exact kinds of bs comments you'd expect 🫠🥲
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today i watched a woman wet cough into her hand and then immediately use that hand to press the door open button on the train. but i'm the one people are staring at for wearing a mask 🙄
STORY FROM THE AIRPORT:
"how are you?” And they both said “not good, we have COVID” with NO MASKS.
Everybody within earshot looked disgusted and scared and 40% of people put on masks.
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anyways i have non-anemic iron deficiency (ferritin: 12) and a few other things that were slightly off but she was like 'take an iron supplement ur fine it's prolly ur period' dhshahahh
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this is the earloop mask that some quantitative fit testers have gotten mega good fit factors in! which also comes in many sizes! not easily available outside China yet but an exciting option in the future for kids + those that struggle w head straps!
In the spring when flowers are blooming, wear a beautiful mask and have a good mood.
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Dear TV doctors, search "cardiac" and "SARS-CoV-2" on PubMed, ur welcome.
Doctors say they are seeing an alarming number of seemingly healthy younger patients having heart attacks. Now doctors at Mount Sinai are tracking patients to see if they can uncover the new risk factors behind the trend.
@annenbcnews
reports.
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violet has definitely made an impact if this creep is going after her. proud of her for using her privilege for good! esp when we know there are plenty of influential people with long COVID happy to stay silent with their money as a cushion from the worst impacts.
Vinay Prasad of
@UCSFMedicine
then engages in misogynistic slander of Violet Affleck, calling her hysterical and claiming that Long COVID is simply mental illness, with no evidence.
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my relative's two-year-old can't talk at all, as in she makes sounds but can't form any distinguishable words, and my family members are like 'well that's weird but I'm sure she's fine'. they have all been sick so many times over the last few years and travel regularly.
Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Scientific Reports
43.74% of children in this study had abnormal neurological findings.
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this was so obviously BS and a cynical ploy to get people spending more money at the cost of their health.. still hurts that 97% of the young queer leftists into "community care" i used to be friends with bought it hook, line, and sinker :'-)
3 years ago today, the CDC & Biden admin announced that vaccinated people could safely stop wearing masks.
Since then, over 750,000 people have been killed by C0VlD in the U.S., including many vaccinated people. Over 28,000 have died in 2024. Over 25 million now have Long C0VlD.
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getting much closer to finishing this thing. titles are done. most of the images are added but I still have like 50 to add and a million citations to format and add. it's boring grunt work and I'm struggling. pls comment sumthin like "u can do it champ".
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Why doesn't my doctor know about long COVID?!
there's a lot that goes into how little many healthcare workers know about the ongoing pandemic...
but here are a just a few reasons why your doctor might not be up to date on LC!
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@actupny
this is not it- disabled people have been forced out of leftist and queer organizing spaces. we have been told repeatedly, directly, by people who tell us they're our allies, or by people who were our closest loved ones, that protecting us is unecessary and too hard.
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when 'pandemic influencers' with platforms bend over backwards to justify why it's cool for them to advertise their public unmasking and frame it as a personal risk choice-- actually NO, ur contributing to the culture in which my desperately ill-friends can't even get safe care
Doctor: You know, if you don’t want covid you should stay away from hospitals
Me: well yeah, but I had severe crushing chest pain for ten hours
Doctor: you probably should have stayed home and waited for it to pass
Me: that’s not what the 911 operator said when they sent me here
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wow after one coworker on my six person team was out last week w COVID two more are sick this week so weird
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this is what i wear to walk 100 meters in the punishing sun to buy groceries (breathable natural fabrics and loose fits for foreseeable future 🫡)
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@elle_carnitine
yes unfortunately :'-) the local anaesthetic properties of cocaine were discovered in the late 19th century, prompting lots of physicians to experiment w/ the substance, leading to addiction in many cases!
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so here at the pharmacy u can get three rapid tests for 3.90€
(does anyone have the scoop on why rapids are so wildly overpriced in the US? 👀)
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i think a lot about the tweet(?) i don't remember the source of, which was like "to those who think their immune systems evolved to handle living in tightly packed frequent contact with thousands of other individuals and novel pathogens: you are thinking of bats actually"
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just wanted to say i'm not sure that many people know that the person who makes
@NukitToBeSure
torches is a queer non-white woman who redistributes a ton of resources she gets into donations of clean air tech to mask blocs and vulnerable ppl!
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still hurts every time. this person knew how many others have done this but still did the same. most people would rather drop you entirely than admit their own vulnerability and culpability, no matter your history. hardest personal lesson of this shit era.
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i strongly suspect that two of the ghostings that ended some of the longest term and closest relationships in my life in the last few years were enabled by therapists that encouraged my loved ones to focus on themselves and their own comfort above everyone else
My last therapist recently send an email asking for a review, which I could give anonymously. I responded that I didn't want to leave him a review because it wouldn't be a good one. I told him that the way he encouraged people to focus solely on themselves isn't healthy. That we
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i knew the “lockdowns” were bogus when they said only essential businesses could stay open and i still had to go to work. whole time i worked at chipotle 😭
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okay long COVID crash course script complete- it's almost 6000 words, so it's gonna be 30-40 min, chunked into ~10 chapters with discrete starting points and headlines so it's easier to process
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@pot8um
it's so funny that this person's idea of incomprehensible misery is not eating in restaurants like... all of the things they moan about here are non-issues or mild annoyances compared to the shit i've faced that was ACTUALLY hard.
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tbh i feel this very much. in my personal life i am extremely angry and i have no more active relationships w people who aren't already on the same page re: COVID or like are actively trying to learn and improve.
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I am in the YouTube live chat thing and I haven't broken anything yet 🙏🏻
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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO: How to Stay Safe[r] @ Home
First video in new Q&A series where I answer the questions you send me 🤓. If you wanna know how to protect yourself when living with others who don't take precautions, this one's for you!
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just as disabled and vulnerable people all over the world are deemed a reasonable sacrifice to keep our totally unsustainable economy churning in the short term, people in the congo are sacrificed so that we can get new tech every year. it's all connected!!
For anyone who’s unsure about what’s happening in Congo, I hope this helps.
#FreeCongo
🇨🇩
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full vid done! this guy about COVID and the gut is maybe a good one to send to health and fitness nuts who are into probiotics and prebiotics and mysterious juice "cleanses", but who think COVID is no big deal 👀
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Rode out to a fairly country endstation to pick up a discounted like-new Levoit core 200s for my travels via regional craigslist equivalent. I saw a mountain.
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I have prepared my calling cards for the festival (why have a business card and give out free masks when you could combine them 😅)
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i attended a COVID-safe backyard potluck yesterday and we covered 9 people w/ three pluslife pool tests 🥹
haven't hung out w that many people since 2019. really grateful for access to this thing, wish it was more easily available in the US for mutual aid sharing and borrowing.
The cool toy that I wish I had, feels as hard and complicated to get as a PS5.
Imagine being able to instantly settle every doubt or argument with every friend over what the Mysterious Cough is or isn't, right there in the space of a shoebox
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and I'm not talking about china I'm talking about like SPAIN.
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"During COVID" is literally now? Please clarify?
A systematic review of 57 studies of ~29,000 physicians in 25 countries found nearly 1 in 5 physicians experienced PTSD during Covid
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seems like a mark against the "reusing respirators after letting them sit in a paper bag for a few days" routine (which was never based in any science as far as i could tell) and a point for the Van der Waals force 👀
New study by
@linseymarr
:
“We aerosolized SARS-CoV-2. After 1 hr, we were able to recover infectious virus from fabric masks but not an N95 or surgical mask. When we pressed artificial skin against the masks, we found viral RNA but no infectious virus on the skin.”
#MasksWork
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"if it kills me- and also everyone else, except everyone else dies sooner and worse than me- then what can you do? it's not like it's possible for me to change my lifestyle in any way, so i guess we're ALL fucked 🤷🏻♀️😎"
This is spot-on in my opinion. And contributes to white peoples’ recklessness around covid & climate.
So many white people are more passively suicidal than want to admit and have this mentality of “if it kills me, it kills me, I’m not going to change what I do”.
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@elle_carnitine
if u point out to these guys that queer people are disabled at a much higher rate that the normal population they mysteriously vanish from the conversation
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I'm gonna tackle 'lies about kids and COVID' after I finish this Guts & Wastewater arc. Please drop ur top studies and the top lies they contradict (I've got a lot saved up but more minds are always better)
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have you heard people blaming how much they get sick on having not been sick often enough before? 🤔 the immunity debt myth has gained mainstream traction in the last few years as an easy and convenient explanation for the rise in illness, but is it true?
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here is an analogy! our city has horrible public transit. many people without their own vehicles are forced to spend inordinate amounts of time walking and riding buses that come once an hour, but the mayor has stated "our city has no need for expanded transit, just buy a car."
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these precautions are putting more than one recent long COVID conference to shame 👀
Wow! Look at the safety measures taken for the SFU event with Ed Yong this week - amazing. This is how to build an inclusive event 👏🏼👏🏼
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watching on the first day does a lot to boost for Al Gore Rhythm.. pls.. 😰...
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this is a lil video i made about the importance of seal
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@AlexGerber6
things didn't magically become safe w the vaccines. literally no science supported the idea that vaccines were enough to remove all other mitigations. it was a cynical messaging choice to get people spending money in public at the risk of their own health.
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I KNEW MY BUILDING AIR WAS HORRIFIC! this is the the hallway that always smells like 40 years of cigarette smoke.
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the (ongoing) pandemic is well-documented in scientific literature to cause brain damage that could be affecting many ppl's ability to drive safely. so cities "doing something" about this would look like stopping disease spread and investing in treatment + safe public transit.
Wish cities would do something about the fact that since the pandemic the vast majority of drivers drive homicidally and when they’re even slightly inconvenienced by me, a normal person trying to cross the street or ride my bike they behave like they’ve got lead paint brain
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I moved (mostly)! Three round trips w rental app car to schlep my stuff across town. Apparently I still know how to drive and it was actually a bit fun 👀
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went to an apartment viewing w/ a friend. first thing agent did was look at our masks and ask "uhh are y'all sick?." anyways w the way people react to the masks + my Real Job income being just under the minimum that all these landlords require, feels impossible to find a place.
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hey y'all- working on a video about long term consequences of COVID in the gut 👀 people with Long COVID and gastro issues- what has impacted your life the most? what do you most want people to know about how this has changed your life?
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all the people going off about 'shaming individuals' seem really clueless about the extent to which disabled individuals have been abandoned and harmed by the majority of the individuals they used to know... it's such a common experience it could be... systemic 😮
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very important! HEPA placement matters! i see a LOT of pics at HEPAs just kinda like... in the corner. they should be placed centrally between people to be as effective as possible.
Placement matters!
Closest to infector is best (duh), but this is never known. So our results found that, in the absence of knowing who is infected, deploying a PAC at the
center of the room is recommended.
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i haven't been symptomatically ill with anything communicable apart from a bout of norovirus last year, likely from takeout! my last cold was five years ago!!
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At job, I've had multiple meetings w/ Germans this week cancelled this week due to illness. Germany is literally in a recession due to amount of sick days taken. Nothing to see here lol!!
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YouTuber pregnancy announcement includes "I was sick with a really bad cold for the first few weeks of my pregnancy" 😐
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outfit reveal for the long COVID crash course video out on friday at
🕛12 PM PST
🕒3PM EST
🕗 8 PM GMT
🕘9 PM CET
🕙 PM EET
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the premiere of the long COVID crash course is set for tomorrow! sign up to get notified and join the live chat and after-watch livestream to teach the algorithm that this is a neat topic and please don't suppress me :'-)))
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@NukitToBeSure
omg i actually fondly remember the moment when you made an unwise choice with the c02 cylinder testing for the heartbreaker assassin tool, and then showed it and explained why it was no good! bc it's badass to acknowledge a fuck-up so we can all learn from it!
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the empty retro train car w all windows open that u deserve to travel in
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