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"Here's what we know about SARS-CoV-2: - It is airborne, floating and lingering in the air. - One infection can result in disabling damage to almost every cell in the body, from the brain and heart to the nerves and blood vessels. - Every subsequent infection increases the risk of Long Covid and places people who already have it in greater danger. Here's what we don't know: is what it does to reinfect children, over and over and over again, with no end point in sight from the day they are born. We are about to find out. As Dr. Akiko Iwasaki says, at this point the whole population is the control group, and after only five years, Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children. Five years. I am terrified for the children who do not or soon will not know a world without debilitating pain and exhaustion, who cannot trust their bodies to play, explore and imagine, and who will not know the potential of their own minds, unfettered by the cognitive damage from a Covid-19 infection. And I am furious on their behalf."

Violet Affleck, Youth Advocate Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action 23 September 2025

#she's right and she should say it etc.#public health #airborne disease #sars cov 2 #violet affleck #my gifs #for ppl who want to watch the linked vid: the healthy indoor air session doesn't actually start until the 54 min mark #and you can listen to va at around the 2hr 40min mark #EDIT: looks like they fixed it now so disregard the above (and va is now at 1hr 46min)

“Our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes,” Affleck said. “For adults, the relentless beat of ‘back to normal,’ ignoring, downplaying, and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of Long COVID manifested in a series of choices. Young people lacked both real choice in the matter and information about what was being chosen for us.”

“It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, ‘We knew how to protect you, and we didn’t do it,’” she said during the meeting.

BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the

The stringent COVID-19 precautions observed earlier in the pandemic melted away as it became known that Black and disabled people were most vulnerable to serious illness and death, and as Long COVID entered the canon of chronic illnesses ascribed to “hysteria” or “malingering” among their mostly-female sufferers.

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We can “follow the science” even when it scares us, instead of insisting that “we have to live our lives” until those lives go up in flames. The most privileged can recognize both the harm our indulgences already create and the chance that harm will boomerang back in our direction: the COVID denial that excludes Long COVID patients and COVID-responsive people from public life also heightens everyone else’s risk of “falling by the wayside.” (For that matter, those who insist that “COVID is over” and “healthy Americans were not dying of COVID” might be surprised to find themselves in agreement with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.).

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