That One Bird Writes Stuff

I write stuff. The art I post is created by myself. My writings are all my own. I also draw in greyscale. For the fanfiction that I write, I don't own any of the characters. I just like to write about adventures they have. For my own created world of Elivera, that I own and am still working on its worldbuilding in the original stories for it. For my pronouns see: https://en.pronouns.page/@thebird For my created world of Elivera see: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/elivera3A-the-lost-ones-aidanbird/ For my fanfiction see: https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheBirdWrites/works

[thatonebirdwrites]

Compilation of fic I've Written

Here's a masterlist of Fics I've written. I will update this periodically as I write stuff and share it. The WIP means work in progress. If a link doesn't have that next to it, then I consider it finished.

On AO3:

TLOK: How Was Those Three Years?

TLOK: Asami's Hidden Box of Letters and Poetry

TLOK: Is This A Romance?

TLOK: Spirit World Vacation (WIP)

TLOK: Shared Moments Series: Book 1, Book 1.5, Book 2, Book 2.5, Book 3, Book 3.5, and Book 4 (WIP)

Supergirl: Supercorp Endgame Series: Confession and Unraveling Realities

Supergirl: Terminal Velocity, Texts, and Cats

Supergirl: You Are the Only One Who Sees Me, Trusts Me, and Believes in Me

Supergirl: Reach For The Sky

Supergirl: Tear Apart the World To Save You (WIP)

Supergirl: Lena's Grimorie

Supergirl: Books of Destiny (where most of my oneshots will be posted)

Supergirl: You Call This Archaeology?

Supergirl: Shattered

Supergirl: Supercorptober 2024

Supergirl: Cheating Death (originally posted to tumblr in four parts but finally up on AO3)

Supergirl: Goatbusters

Supergirl: Wheeling into Your Heart

Supergirl: SuperCorptober or Adventures of Supergirl and Lena (WIP)

Supergirl (Dansen): We Live in a Place Where Everyone Watches You

On Tumblr (Slowing porting to AO3):

Supergirl: Boardgame Practice

Supergirl: Kara crashing Lena's Date

Supergirl: Reach For The Sky (Hiking and Recovery)

Supergirl: Indiana Jones AU Idea for Supercorp

Supergirl: Sam Confronts Kara Over Her Hurting Lena

Supergirl: Kara's Love of Misshapen Pumpkins

Supergirl: Confession

TLOK: Rain and Thunder AU

Supergirl: An Analysis of Risk (my continuation of FazedLight's ficlet)

TLOK: Endless Autumn

Supergirl: Balcony Scene

Supergirl: She Wants Me For Me

Supergirl: Medieval AU

Supergirl and TLOK: Crossover Shenanigans

Supergirl: Color Out of Space

Supergirl: Building Inspection and Lava

Supergirl: Happy and Carefree

Supergirl: Some of Lena's Handmade Spells

Supergirl: The Food Stand

Supergirl: Secret Wedding

Supergirl: The Golden Potato

Supergirl: Lena Regrets Reading Supergirl Smut (But not really)

Supergirl: Matching Tattoos

Supergirl and TLOK: A tale of Two Gentle Moments

Supergirl: Cold of Death, Warmth of Love

My Original Fiction (characters from my Elivera world): A Short Trip

Supergirl: Memories

Supergirl: Fallout AU

Supergirl: Nia's Lessons on Intuition

Korrasami: Alternate Start to Book 3.5

Supergirl: Shattered excerpt 1 and Excerpt 2

Supergirl: Kara Finally Gets It With Mxy's Help

Original Fiction: Excerpt from The Lost Ones

Supergirl: The Watch

Supergirl: You're not even a real woman

Supergirl: Cheating Death and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4

Supergirl: Kara, the Fourth Worldkiller (would like to turn into larger fic someday)

TLOK: Magical Animal AU

Supergirl: Kiss a blonde

Supergirl: Outer Wilds AU (WIP - would like to turn into larger fic eventually)

Supergirl: Is this Sake?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: ACT 1 - Quiet scenes between fights

Supergirl/Pacific Drive AU: An Unusual Find

Essays:

Ethical Problems With DEO

Infodump on Tea

Short essay on Alex's mind wipe of Kara = alien in Season 4

Essay on Kara's Privilege

Disability in Clair Obscur: That which hides hope with scars

Clair Obscur: That Which Seeks The Right To Exist Temporally and Spatially

Clair Obscur: To be accountable to those that come after

TLOK and ATLA: Science of bending

Nonfiction Essays Concerning Issues That Impact Human Beings

Ableism used as a Buzz Word and an Analysis on Accessible Spaces

Actions Folks Can Take In These Scary Times

Disability History

A Primer on Writing Trans Characters (Older Essay)

Important Resources (and Books)

Zines and Workshops

Accessibility: Community of Care Zine

Some Rules for this blog

Apparently, I can only pin one post? I edited in this seven point list on 10/9/2024. I wanted to be clear on a few things about this blog:

Please do not request me to write smut or draw smut. I write what I feel comfortable writing. If I feel comfortable enough to write that I will. Thank you for understanding.

I'm disabled with several chronic illnesses, and I'm a system. Please do not make jokes that are rooted in ableism (nor make jokes rooted in transphobia). That will end up a block for sure.

I'm currently being very careful about who I reply to regarding messages to me. If you don't get a reply from me, it has nothing to do with you and more to do with my health and energy.

Feel free to message or send an ask about my writings and art. Remember to be kind! (I like to make friends, but just remember the above points. Also, sometimes it takes awhile to respond because of my poor health.)

I will update this post with what I've written within a few days of when I wrote it. If I posted my writing to both Tumblr and AO3 at the same time (such as with Supercorptober), I'll only include the AO3 link.

Okay, that's it. I wish I could have pinned two posts.

Thanks for reading!

[thatonebirdwrites]

Worst hospital visit of my life this weekend. I hate how so many ER/ED's treat patients like objects. I was still mostly unconscious when I got discharged, and the tests I needed weren't ever done. My younger sister's proof of the concerns my general care doctor had was ignored. I'm still ill but am now afraid of going to the ER again. At least I have a written trail of the fuckery so I can report it?

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[covid-safer-hotties]

Share Your Long COVID Story

The World Health Network (WHN) is gathering stories in support of Long COVID awareness. We want to hear from those with lived experience—pat

[thatonebirdwrites]

I contracted it from nurses who didn't mask in 2022. I didn't get better. My illness had worsened by 2023. I lost my job. Fought to go on disability. Was denied four times before I went before a judge with a lawyer. Nearly passed out on them. Finally got my disability, then had to fight for the medicare/medicaid. was in and out of hospitals due to all that stress. I can't leave the house without assistance or a mask. I can't ride my bike anymore. It sucks.

Please mask up folks. please wash your hands often. please use proper air filtration devices in your rooms.

[fireat-will]

it's so important to have nuanced women in kids books because I don't think I would have grown up like I did without Tamora Pierce and her books.

Like Sandry is so gentle and that never takes away from the fact that she's cool as hell (and fucking terrifying dude Magic Steps was kinda traumatising as a kid)

Daja is chill a lot of the time but it's also very clear a lot of that is the trauma of her entire family dying and being declared responsible and outcast from her entire people. Hey what the fuck were these books on in hindsight? Like she's such a nuanced wonderful character.

I hated Tris as a kid but that is because I am Tris so....fuck. I look at all the things I hated about her and realise they were things I hated about myself and now I try to appreciate it and she just? she makes me feel so warm.

Briar being a plant mage ohhhh ma'am you fucking KNOW IT. something something magic stereotypically given to women being given to like the only male pov character Ms Pierce has ever written (I think, don't quote me but I've read a lot of these books and I can't name one) something something.

Rosethorn and Lark my beloved. I also have a new appreciation for Crane because unfortunately I relate to him hideously and he is paranoid but very right about so much.

UGH I WANT PHYSICAL COPIES OF THESE BOOKS

[quentims]

Lovers’ Sanctuary

[montereybayaquarium]

Today is Endangered Species Day!

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The Endangered Species Act helps safeguard critical habitats, reduce harmful human impacts, and give species a chance to recover. And when ecosystems recover, they become more resilient—to climate change, pollution, and other threats.

Healthy oceans support food systems, coastal communities, and a stable climate. Protecting endangered species isn’t just about wildlife—it’s about all of us.

Because when we protect them, we protect the future of our ocean. 💙

Sign up for ocean action emails and learn how you can take action to protect endangered species!

[willgrahamscock]

the most essential part of a fandom are those people who immediately tell you to write it, draw it, make it when you share your ideas, you have no idea how many fanworks are born just because someone encouraged it

[queer-as-city-folk]

I just, I don't understand how people live willingly in the suburbs

[queer-as-city-folk]

I feel less human out here

[queer-as-city-folk]

Like I am more an animal in a cage than a person, I can't go anywhere

[thatonebirdwrites]

it's because of white rage/flight. too many marginalized populations with darker skin tones in the city itself. a lot of white people fled to suburbs and did that to themselves.

can't be sharing society with a diverse group of interesting people. no, that would mean developing empathy and compassion for others i guess

suburbs shouldn't exist honestly. they aren't good for environment or for people.

[skaraptor]

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day

[thatonebirdwrites]

I put this in the notes. got whole essays on my thought process and what I researched in some of my works (Shattered, Confession, Unraveling Realities, and some of my oneshots). Except there's never enough characters in the notes and I always have to pare it down to fit. lol An annotation mode would be so rad and I'd have to physically stop myself from overusing it probably.

[thatonebirdwrites]

Lately

Spikes tear thru my skin pierce my sides and I hang dripping blood like rain. People avert their eyes, others grab sharpened rebar, and my pain echoes like thunder. A person stands near me. they yell about rights, but others sneer and mock, as the laws seethe and grow to accommodate more spikes, more needles to eviscerate my mind, brain, and body until I am an empty husk, then and only then, is their bloodlust sated.

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

[lytefoot]

My favorite - at the school board meeting: "For some reason, the seventh graders specifically are really struggling."

What year were this year's seventh graders in first grade?

Oh.

In education it's absolutely wild, because every year the group of students coming up are missing a completely different basic skill because they were in a different grade when the entire educational infrastructure had no idea how to teach remotely (a skill we absolutely should have already had).

And you feel like you're taking crazy pills, because all your colleagues want to treat this as a personal failing of the individual students, totally without any cause.

[thatonebirdwrites]

We are in a Mass Disabling Event right now.

We are also in a culture of denial, where the grief of what we've lost has not been addressed. People are stuck in the denial stage and haven't accepted what has happened this past six years.

Due to the denial, people trip over backwards to blame things that aren't the cause of current issues such as the lockdowns. The struggles students have in school, those who became permanently disabled due to the virus, the increasing brain fog people deal with now, and other debilitating symptoms have a common cause: that one virus that started its reign in 2020. If people hear the name of the virus, they often shut down and go into denial mode. Seen it happen so often..

We failed to curb this virus, which means we failed one another, failed children, failed all those that died, failed those who contracted a disabling and painful chronic disease. All because the government decided companies making profits matter more than people's lives.

We don't have to accept this framing of profits over people. We can fight back against this but it requires collective grieving.

We can create spaces for collective grieving, to assist one another with moving from denial to acceptance.

We can educate one another with planned events, zines, blogs, etc., to help people understand the current health difficulties being faced right now have its roots in this particular virus, and to brainstorm ways to assist one another.

Yes, it's scary, but if people want to truly live, to reach their full potential, then they must grieve what we've lost as a society.

They must grieve all the lives lost.

They must grieve those of us (like myself) who have become permanently disabled from this virus complicating health issues.

They must grieve the world prior to 2020, and accept that we are in a new epoch -- the Pandecmiene.

To assist the grieving process, we also need to reinvigorate our imaginations and share dreams of what changes we need to build a world centered on people's lives rather than profits.

Other ways to exist as a society is possible such as a library economy, but it means changing our behaviors such as using the layered protective methods of masking, air purification, improved ventilation, tests for the virus, tracking the virus.

Stay safe out there. Grieve what was lost. Take that big step toward acceptance of the big elephant in the room, and may we all collectively choose to deal with that elephant in the room. We aren't alone in this, no matter what our government says. We, the people, have great power when we work together.

[jakeperalta]

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

[thatonebirdwrites]

I have never used genAI, and I uninstall copilot from my Windows systems with vindictive glee. I'm often treated like a weirdo for it. I may be disabled and ill most days, but I like using my own brain and imagination. I like writing with my own fingers. Yes, it takes me longer, and I have to have a lot of breaks, but the satisfaction of seeing the end result that I made with my own sweat, tears, blood, and mind? It's sickening how people have fallen for the genAI trap. don't give up your thinking and imagination to a faulty, misinformation machine. please.

[thatonebirdwrites]

Lately

Spikes tear thru my skin pierce my sides and I hang dripping blood like rain. People avert their eyes, others grab sharpened rebar, and my pain echoes like thunder. A person stands near me. they yell about rights, but others sneer and mock, as the laws seethe and grow to accommodate more spikes, more needles to eviscerate my mind, brain, and body until I am an empty husk, then and only then, is their bloodlust sated.

[pixxyofice]

get invested in that girl side character with no character. give that girl side character life and a stories history. Make that girl character practically an oc with how much you're inventing about her. I believe in you!

[what-even-is-thiss]

im so confused about the artemis thing because theres that post going around about how its propoganda and they make a lot of good points but people i care about a lot are really excited about it and i dont want to hurt them and honeslty im tired of things that look good being bad

Hey.

The fascists don’t like NASA.

They don’t want stuff like this to happen.

They want to give NASA’s budget to the already bloated military.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s fine to celebrate a massive peaceful scientific achievement that’s a collaboration between the US and Canada space programs during a time when there’s so much bad news elsewhere.

I personally hope that this encourages a lot of kids to grow up and defend our space agencies.

[indigo-brainspark]

but DO techbros like nasa? a lot of techbros i see are super into the idea of privatized space travel industry and colonizing mars, the first of which nasa is directly opposed to, and the second which nasa isn't really focused on.

the techbros i see really aren't into the type of science nasa does focus on researching, which is far less glamorous than what they want.

[scrungledwung]

Not only do tech bros generally hate the quiet kind of science that NASA does alongside the flashy launches (NASA is a primary reason why we have literally any weather data in the US), but tech bros REALLY hate the other half of the Artemis Program that I don't really hear people talk about much

The Artemis Accords are one of the first large-scale civil policies about space and related activities to come about since the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. NASA wants to hold people (at least a little) accountable for the junk they're leaving in our orbit, and not enough people talked about this shit back when it got signed, so I wanna talk about it now

Artemis Accords - NASA

NASA, in coordination with the U.S. Department of State and seven other initial signatory nations, established the Artemis Accords in 2020.

[diagnosisnegated]

@covid-safer-hotties

That whole thing pissed me off so much I went through all of those articles myself.

COVID is not “endemic,” and these papers do not prove that it is.

Here’s the core issue:

Most of the papers people cite to claim COVID is endemic are not actually demonstrating that. They are assuming it, using it as background framing, or borrowing a policy/administrative label and treating it like epidemiological proof.

That is a much weaker claim

In epidemiology, “endemic” doesn’t mean “it’s still around” or “we’re used to it now.” It means a disease has reached a stable, predictable baseline level in a population. Predictability is the entire point. If transmission is still producing irregular surges, shifting baselines, and ongoing large-scale impact, that is not endemic equilibrium—it’s instability.

Also, quick clarification: the issue is not that COVID has zero seasonality. It’s that it does not have clean, stable, flu-like seasonality. SARS-CoV-2 circulates year-round, often with both summer and winter waves, instead of settling into a single predictable season. That alone undermines the idea that it has reached a steady endemic pattern.

What these papers actually do

There are three main ways “COVID is endemic” gets smuggled into research:

Assumption framing: “In the endemic phase…” (no proof provided)

Policy framing: “After reclassification to endemic…” (government decisions ≠ epidemiology)

Modeling shorthand: “Under endemic conditions…” (a scenario, not a conclusion)

None of these are evidence that COVID has actually stabilized.

Source Breakdown

1. MDPI (Germany insurance data study)

This paper literally defines 2022–2023 as the “first year of endemicity.” That’s not something they prove—it’s something they decide in advance.

And then their own data shows:

hundreds of thousands of cases

multiple peaks (October and March)

thousands of hospitalizations

significant mortality in severe/critical cases

That is not a stable baseline. That is ongoing wave behavior.

So even within their own “endemic phase,” COVID is still spiking and causing substantial harm.

2. ScienceDirect (South Korea social contact study)

This paper is about who people interact with, not whether COVID has stabilized.

“Endemic phase” appears in the title and intro, but:

• there is no analysis of transmission stability

•no demonstration of a predictable baseline

•no test of endemic criteria at all

The word “endemic” is just scene-setting language.

This is like saying “in the modern era” before studying traffic patterns. It tells you nothing about whether the disease itself has reached equilibrium.

3. ScienceDirect (clinical / infectious disease paper)

This paper uses “endemic phase” language—but again, it’s not proving anything about transmission stability.

What it actually is:

•a clinical/infectious disease analysis

•focused on patient outcomes and disease burden

What it does NOT do:

no demonstration of a stable baseline

no evidence of predictable transmission patterns

no test of endemic criteria

Instead, it still describes:

ongoing cases

continued clinical burden

active disease impact

So what you have is a paper about a disease that is still actively affecting patients—

written during a time the authors are calling “endemic.”

That’s not proof. That’s labeling.

4. American Journal of Epidemiology (excess mortality letter

Even this paper—while using the phrase “endemic COVID era”—doesn’t actually support the claim.

It explicitly notes that excess mortality may still reflect:

delayed care

cardiovascular effects

indirect consequences of infection

In other words, the system is still dealing with ongoing downstream impacts, not a neatly stabilized disease state.

5. MDPI (anticoagulant prescribing trends)

This paper is about medication use over time, not COVID transmission dynamics.

“Endemic era” is just a time label, not a conclusion supported by the data.

It does not demonstrate endemicity at all.

6. JAMA Network Open (vaccination cost-effectiveness model)

This is a model, not observational evidence.

It assumes an endemic scenario and then simulates outcomes. That’s a hypothetical framework, not proof that the real-world system has stabilized.

Even within that model, COVID still produces:

ongoing hospitalizations

deaths

long-term health burden

So even the assumption of endemicity still includes substantial disruption.

7. Environment International (wastewater + hospital cases, Japan)

This paper defines “endemic” based on a government reclassification date.

That is a policy decision—not an epidemiological transition.

What the study actually finds:

wastewater continues to track COVID cases strongly

transmission remains widespread

surveillance became more difficult after policy changes

This is measuring before vs. after a policy shift, not proving that the disease became stable.

What endemic would actually look like

If COVID were truly endemic in the strict epidemiological sense, you would expect:

a consistent baseline level of transmission

predictable seasonal patterns

limited, stable variation over time

What we actually see instead:

year-round circulation

multiple unpredictable waves

shifting or rising baselines

continued hospital burden and mortality

reliance on wastewater and emergency-style surveillance

That is not a system in equilibrium.

Final point

Across all of these sources, “endemic” is never demonstrated through stable transmission data—it’s declared, and then everything else is analyzed inside that declaration.

Calling COVID “endemic” right now is not a neutral scientific conclusion. It’s a framing choice.

And when you actually read the papers people cite, they are not showing a virus that has quietly settled into the background. They are describing one that is still persistent, unstable, and actively shaping public health outcomes.

That’s not endemic.

That’s just something people have decided to call endemic.

[covid-safer-hotties]

My argument stands that rhetoric is not the same thing as data. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting!

[thatonebirdwrites]

Also, the framing choice of calling Covid "endemic" is in stark denial of the rise of LongCovid and other complications caused by Covid. There is a lot of data out there that shows Mass Disabling is happening right now that started when Covid came onto the scene. That alone shows there is no stabilization, but instead shows a persistent, unstable, and active disease that is harming millions upon millions of people. 1. Economic burden of LongCovid: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12639003/

"Long COVID, defined by symptoms persisting three months post-SARS-CoV-2 infection, presents a significant global health and economic challenge, with global prevalence estimated at 36% (ranging from 1–92%). This brief communication consolidates current knowledge on its economic impacts, including macroeconomic, cost-of-illness, and microeconomic impacts, which are estimated at an average annual burden of $1 trillion globally and $9000 per patient in the USA, with some individuals covering substantial out-of-pocket expenses. Annual lost earnings in the USA alone are estimated at approximately $170 billion. Long COVID was associated with increased unemployment, financial distress, and work impairment for up to three years post-infection."

This study examined the economic burden of the mass disabling event due to Covid.

2. LongCovid and policy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41533-025-00460-8

"Long COVID represents the constellation of post-acute and long-term health effects caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection; it is a complex, multisystem disorder that can affect nearly every organ system and can be severely disabling. The cumulative global incidence of long COVID is around 400 million individuals, which is estimated to have an annual economic impact of approximately $1 trillion—equivalent to about 1% of the global economy. Several mechanistic pathways are implicated in long COVID, including viral persistence, immune dysregulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, complement dysregulation, endothelial inflammation and microbiome dysbiosis. Long COVID can have devastating impacts on individual lives and, due to its complexity and prevalence, it also has major ramifications for health systems and economies, even threatening progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Addressing the challenge of long COVID requires an ambitious and coordinated— but so far absent—global research and policy response strategy."

Here this study examined LongCovid and the science around it. The study also included the economic burden of LongCovid, but it's focus was more on the impact to health systems and the lack of global research and policy response strategy.

What is LongCovid?

This Gauntlet article has a fantastic summary with links to the some of the studies (there's hundreds of them out there studying LongCovid and the rapid evolution of Covid itself).

LongCovid is a debilitating disease that can last years after the initial Covid infection, and symptoms often start up within three months of initial infection. Often those who have it (like myself) end up with severe symptoms that make work (as its defined in our capitalist society) near impossible, and so many of us fall through the cracks with little healthcare support while we struggle to enroll in disability for our survival.

What is Long COVID?

A Beginner's Guide

3. A nature study that released in March of this year labels LongCovid as a mass disabling event that is not being taken as seriously as it ought to be: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-026-01516-7

"Long COVID (LC) is a mass disabling event of significant public health concern. Its 200+ associated conditions commonly cluster into fatigue, respiratory and/or cognitive phenotypes. Known to persist for at least two to 3 years post-infection, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine defines it is an infection-associated chronic condition following SARS-CoV-2 infection that persists for > = 3 months as “…a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that affects one or more organ systems.” Long COVID is among the chronic, non-communicable conditions that comprise a rising share of disease burden globally and in the US. In August 2024-- nearly five years after COVID began-- 5.3% of US adults were experiencing Long COVID16; 1-in-4 of them consistently report significant activity limitations from its symptoms. There are still no validated diagnostic markers and treatment protocols for it."

This study along with another one for the UK shows the massive impact LongCovid is having right now. Both examine the persistent of LongCovid, the prevalence of it within the population, and the fact little to no treatment protocols or consistent diagnostic markers have been established.

This article does a good job of summing up the above points and the studies concerning this:

The Effects of Long COVID - World Institute on Disability

by Kate Anderson Some people have decided to “move on” from the pandemic, returning to offices and social events without masks. Many people

The Patient-Led Research Collaborative studies Covid and LongCovid and its impacts. Their page here includes a lot of studies that are highly relevant that explore this topic in more depth, including diagnostic criteria and prevalence of the disease. They also have a robust list of studies that examine the pathology and medical aspects of the disease and its prevalence.

5. The persistent mutations of Covid.

A lot of studies examine this topic, but I'll highlight this particular one from 2025: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61555-x

"COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory disease that is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although multiple vaccines and treatments have been developed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, new variants of SARS-CoV-2 continue to emerge in human populations. These variants renew the threat of COVID-19 to public health, extend the socio-economic impact of the pandemic, and highlight a growing need to understand the evolution of SARS-CoV-2."

This study examines various ways to improve detection methods and understanding of how Covid evolves. The language used in the study very much points to this as an *on-going pandemic* that despite political framing hasn't actually ended.

The point here is the mass disabling of our population across the world has continued and not stabilized. The mutations of the Covid virus are still swift and have not stabilized. Covid is an on-going pandemic, but those in power and the populace are covering their ears to deny the truth of this.

We can combat Covid, but it requires a change to our way of living:

Preventive layered measures such as N95 or better masks, vaccinations, improved air ventilation, air purifiers, and so on. The populace needs to be educated on these layered measures and how we need each layer to limit transmission and severity.

All healthcare workers need to mask, vaccinate, testing, and improved air purification at the minimum. This has not been done, and if anything healthcare workers have been given terrible recommendations to their protections and hygiene as well as their workplaces failing to provide these materials.

Improving manufacturing of the layered protection measures, but doing so in a more sustainable and cost-effective way. This way we can make it easier for people to access these measures.

Grieving what we've lost is crucial to the well-being of all of us, and denying the reality of Covid and its impact hampers our ability to collective grieve and respond to this crisis.

Improved disability benefits and systems that support those in need instead of penalizing and complicating their access to desperately needed resources. At the moment in the USA (and in other Western countries), it is incredibly difficult to even access any disability benefits and programs, and even when one does, there is a massive shortage of care workers, funding, and programs to support people. This is primarily due to a persistent ableism that's built into our systems and regards disabled people disposable.

Dismantling the socialized ableism that is saturated into our cultures and policies and societal systems. In my zine I wrote, I examine the history of ableism and disability activism and include links to the books digging deeper into this topic in my bibliography. I also expanded the definition of Accessibility to show how it impacts multiple spaces within a person's life. To combat ableism requires understanding disability and accessibility and pushing back against ableist policies and rhetoric.

Accessibility Zine Completed and Ready for Download

The Accessibility Zine my friend and I worked on is completed! I asked friends and members of the National General Strike group (they have a

So in conclusion, we have ways to combat Covid and lessen severity and to slow or stop the mass disabling event, but at this moment of time, most countries across the world are failing to utilize these measures or improve societal systems to better support people. Instead, countries have fallen for the capitalists insistence that profits matter more than people.

We need to do better, and we need to work together in solidarity since Covid and LongCovid affects many populations across ethnic lines, of any gender, of any sexual orientation, of any nationality, of any identity. Our more vulnerable members of our populations are often harder hit, but even the fit and healthy can be impacted.

I truly think that ableism, which is socialized into many people in many countries across the world, has hampered these efforts to mitigate and develop better treatments. As history has shown, denial of disability has been used to control and dispose of disabled people.

Covid isn't endemic, and even if it was, there is absolutely no excuse in denying this reality and doing nothing to mitigate it. We can and should do better.