I just confirmed this on the phone and it makes me so happy! Victoria Bug Zoo requires masks for the first hour they are open every day, for everybody age 5 and up.
One hour is stingy in the grand scheme, but at this moment I will celebrate anybody making any practical effort towards accessibility and covid safety. The difference between zero and one is huge.
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Post summarises this paper:
New Publication by Solve Ramsay Grant Researcher Dr. Deborah Duricka Studies Efficacy of Stellate Ganglion Block in Reducing Post-Exertional Malaise and Improving Sleep and Neurological Function
"Welcome to the 107th Emerge Australia Research Digest, where we delve into recent research and media releases shaping our understanding of ME/CFS and #LongCOVID..."
The summaries are also available in audio form at link
"22.5% did not recover by 90 days post infection". "Recovery within 3 months was less likely in women and those with preexisting cardiovascular disease"
"No significant multivariable-adjusted associations [for non-recovery] were observed for age, educational attainment, smoking history, obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or elevated depressive symptoms. Results were similar for reinfections"
We are in the midst of yet another #COVID19 wave and yet the healthcare organization is doing away with employee testing and allowing healthcare workers to return to work after 24h. Hard not to despair. I will continue to wear #n95 at all times. #CovidIsNotOver
Nothing illustrates better how little the blanket repression of pro-Palestine activism has to do with anti-semitism than these mask bans that are being contemplated around the US.
You know who is put at greater risk of harm by a mask ban? Literally everyone, including Jews.
You know who thinks they aren't put at greater risk by a mask ban? Fucking billionaires.
Opinion piece asking why we overlook bad things, "especially in this scientific and technological age, when we’ve never been more capable of understanding and addressing them".
Can we talk about pandemics for a second? Can we talk about how badly managed the early stages of the next pandemic are in the US and with a significantly higher fatality rate than covid, a lot of people could die? Like potentially half?
Can we talk about how politicised population health management has become because profits? Can we talk about how the economy needs people to exist, and if half of all people die in a pandemic, then there is no economy? Can we talk about how "the pandemic is over" is a lie?
Can we talk about mass disabling events and the impact that has on society? Can we talk about the lies regarding children's experience of covid? Can we talk about how relatively inexpensive mitigation (air purifiers, masking, etc) have been demonised?
Can we talk about how big corporations blocked cheap vaccines in poor nations? Can we talk about how covid is now "just like the flu?" Can we talk about how the flu is actually a very serious virus? Can we talk about chronic fatigue/post-viral syndrome/long covid have been poorly managed forever?
Can we keep talking about all of this? Can we lobby our politicians, health leaders and the like and get them to take this seriously? Can we have as much health as possible and not have it taken away from us by a disease that could be better managed societally?
It’s been a particularly difficult week where I’ve been let down by a number of people who I thought had my back… and the rampant ableism in society is wearing on me.
I revisited one of the first articles I wrote about being disabled & chronically ill… and am saddened that nothing has changed. Things haven’t improved and if anything people are LESS tolerant & more ableist now than a year ago.
It all started when someone said to me “you’ve been sick for years - just die already”. Whenever I think of that statement I find myself wondering if people would have EVER said something like that before Covid. Many may have thought it - but would they verbalize it?
The pandemic is fueling hatred of disabled and chronically ill people to the point where they will say the cruelest things without a second thought - and it’s leading nowhere good.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development has published a paper, The impacts of #longCOVID across OECD countries, which looks the burden of Long #Covid including how it may impact productivity & the labour force.
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"The economic and social welfare costs of #longCOVID are dramatic: Even excluding the direct costs of health care, long #COVID is likely costing OECD countries as much as $864 billion - $1.04 trillion USD per year due to reductions in quality of life and labour force participation."
From Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System, and a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation & Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai:
"We need to be very, very firm with our messaging that there is no such thing as a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. There is no such thing as a SARS-CoV-2 infection that does NOT have prolonged consequences.”
COVID infection endangers pregnancies and newborns. Why aren’t parents being warned?
The Gauntlet
June 21, 2024
By Julia Doubleday
“Despite pre-natal education’s reputation for warning new mothers of every possible danger from jumping on trampolines to eating soft cheeses, contracting a vascular virus that increases risk of pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth, miscarriage and stillbirth is being ignored. Let’s look at the evidence.”