YOU are at risk for Long COVID

Long COVID since 7/21. adhd since forever. mostly a misandrist. anti-capitalist. WEAR A MASK 🌈✨

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

[ID: Twitter thread by David Steadson @DavidSteadson “This graph is a draft for a Long Covid paper I'm working on. The paper will be a while, but I think it's important that people - and policy makers - understand the implications now. It is *very* serious. With current estimates of the risk of Long Covid at approx 20% at each infection (yellow line), and policies leading to an expected 2-3 infections per year, **the vast majority of people can expect to have suffered some form of Long Covid within the next 2-3 years**” Even if Long Covid risk is only 10% per infection (grey line), and 2 infections a year, your odds of getting Long Covid reach more than 50% in just over 3 years. If infection damages your immune system, as several studies suggest, it'll likely happen faster - or be worse.”]

[vitariesocks]

Thinking about how a year ago I was interviewed by a very popular radio show about my long COVID symptoms (I was over a year into experiencing them). They ended up not using my story because “it was too sad” and “I didn’t recover like other people”. They told me to contact them when I had recovered to potentially share my story in the future. I wrote back and told them that most people with long COVID will never recover, and that they weren’t accurately reporting on how COVID affects people. They never replied.

A year later and my symptoms still haven’t improved at all. Anyways, here’s your reminder that the COVID reporting you’re reading (at least in the U.S.) is probably not accurate and is not actually reflecting the suffering of real people.

[oxbowreality]

"post-pandemic" this, "post-pandemic" that... so why are people still getting sick with a life-threatening disease on a regular basis? riddle me this, assholes.

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned of “Box beds” – cabinets with beds in them and, sometimes, lockable doors – were used for privacy and safety in parts of rural medieval Europe before individual bedrooms were common. They became fashionable even in homes with bedrooms and remained in use in Scotland into the 1900s (x)

[routevegetable]

god i’ve really let this account become a waste

[notallmensheviks]

the only real victims of cancel culture were the dixie chicks

[1dietcokeinacan]

“This Is Why You’re Always So Tired”

[routevegetable]

hiiiiii

wow it’s been about 6 months since i been on this account... wild.

[neverthere12345]

[dankar-camoran]

[weepingbouquettyphoon]

LOL

[growing-grey]

have you ever looked at someone and thought…

i could look at you for hours and not get bored

[j6]

me looking in the mirror

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[oneheadtoanother]

[holy-sciences]

This is what invasive thoughts look like

[zuzoq-deactivated20230823]

Vancouver artist Andy Dixon

[teenagerposts]

[4aminlondon]

Reed is a bad friend.

Don’t be like Reed.

[mens-rights-activia]

Y’all remember that ok Cupid study that they did on heterosexual attraction and race from 2009-2014?

Can we discourse it a bit? Theres just so much to unpack here

Notable points:

-everyone hates black women

-anti-blackness

-everyone who isn’t Asian hates Asian men(emasculation of Asian men)

-white m*n and Asian women are the highest rated overall

[your-fave-dandy-deactivated2019]

1. That isn’t true.

2. Again not true.

3. Have you even seen the KPop fandom??

4. Why did you censor “men” in this case but nowhere else?

[emeraldmercury]

Also notice the women had more negatives towards race than the men, and black men looked badly at white women. 

Then again I wouldn’t take OKC as a place where you find good people… 

[your-fave-dandy-deactivated2019]

Yeah, the biggest case of “antiblackness” here is from asian women so I guess it really isn’t related to oppression and actually due to normal preferences that people have

[sedosa]

@your-fave-dandy news flash: “normal preferences” don’t include race and if they do, you’re a racist

[your-fave-dandy-deactivated2019]

It’s perfectly fine to not find a certain race attractive or tend to find a certain race more attractive than others.

If you dislike or like certain races above each other, then that’s racism, but dating preferences are not racism.

[mens-rights-activia]

Dating preferences don’t exist in a vacuum and are influenced by racism, be it stereotypes or conditioning, etc.. Its not an attack on anyone to point that out.

Why can’t we talk about why people would have an idea of all people who have a certain skin colour or features when even all those people don’t look or act exactly alike?

Black/Asian/Hispanic/white people exist all over with different cultures and look and act differently but you’re trying to tell me that reducing them to their skin colour and witing them off in dating is in no way influenced by racism? 🤔

[redwaltz]

I used to think I didn’t like black men. I didn’t think I was racist, and certainly didn’t believe stereotypes. I thought it was just purely aesthetics. But then took some time to actually examine why I thought that, since I wasn’t even actually looking at ‘em. I’d been so socialized to think something that I didn’t bother to examine it for myself. After that I decided I wasn’t going to define my preferences by what I didn’t like at all; when I break things down to individual features and explore what I like then I spend more time looking at individuals as individuals. The stupid thing was I was already doing that with white and latino men; it’s not as if I find all of them the same level of attractive, so it follows I can’t find all black and asian guys the same either.   

(This is also ignoring the fact that too many people only value folks based on how much they wanna fuck them… ) 

[dianaspot]

Iconic image of Princess Diana on a yacht in Portofino, Italy, in August 1997.

[highoffculture]

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