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Long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness among US children, impacting est. 6 million kids. JAMA Pediatrics outlines symptoms, different by age, from poor sleep & appetite in toddlers to fatigue, brain fog, & mood changes in teens hubs.ly/Q03pxzmC0

A major new review from Yale (Moen, Baker, Iwasaki, 2025) offers the most comprehensive picture yet of what SARS-CoV-2 does to the nervous system. The conclusion is stark: Long COVID is a chronic neuroimmune disorder affecting brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.🧵

Heading into the grocery store, mask goes on. Period, the end. Am I tired of this? Yes. Do I like wearing a mask? Nope. Does that change my behaviour? Also Nope. Why? Because this was never about what I ‘felt’ like doing. Head up. Shoulders back. Deep breath. Onward.

National Cancer Institute Publishes Bombshell COVID Article Today 🔥COVID greatly increases risk of hospitalization & death among people with cancer 🔥COVID causes >50% of cancer treatment disruptions 🔥Metastatic cancer, acute leukemia, lymphoma, & chemo increase risk

I asked Grok 4 about Long COVID. It's very concerned about Long COVID, thinks society should take it far more seriously, acknowledges that it's currently devastating society, and thinks that people should still be masking and avoiding COVID infection as much as possible:

Most leftist anti-maskers think they are annoyed by the masking-left but actually are mad at material reality. I also wish it wasn't airborne, there wasn't asymptomatic spread, and that vaccines offered sufficient prevention of transmission. But wishing that doesn't make it so.

By the way, HIV was also dismissed as "mild flu like symptoms" at first, and it took over a decade to figure out that it killed you years later due to destroying the immune system. We already know now that covid is also killing people long after the acute symptoms are gone.

In one day, we just hiked 350+ stairs on the Moro Rock Trail & 2.5 mile General Sherman Tree trail in the Sequoia National Park at a 7,000 ft elevation. Our 2 & 5 year old boys rocked both trails while in their masks 😷 since lots of people passed en route (many coughing)

Can’t make this shit up anymore 🫠

"leftist" but you don't mask "disability advocate" but you don't mask "community care" but you don't mask "we keep us safe" but you don't mask "healthcare access for all" but you don't mask "do no harm" but you don't mask "liberation for all" but you don't mask

I think the hardest thing about getting into arguments about COVID, is that the average person's understanding of COVID is frozen in 2021. It's essentially explaining to Boomers why things are unaffordable today.

Crying reading young ppl in TikTok comments discover in real time that they have brain damage from past covid infections. No one’s ever told them that it’s connected and they’re panicking because they’ve had Covid so many times. So heartbroken and angry that we’ve let this happen

Thread of the fucked up mask related experiences from my out patient procedure today! Me: can you confirm the doctors will be masking during my procedure? Nurse: oh umm, I’m not sure, I think maybe! I don’t know. Uh is there a reason you’re asking…? 1/

UC San Diego doubling down on their discrimination of a patient who requested staff wear N95. They claim the “warning letter” accusing the patient of being disruptive was not retaliation for self advocacy. Of course it was retaliation.

This is disgusting ableism from a place that should know better. Far too many people are being infected in healthcare settings. For many of us, it’s the only place we go because we are still shielding. We deserve better than having to choose between care and covid:

COVID doesn’t just come and go. It raises your risk for heart attacks, diabetes, cognitive decline, and even cancer—and the effects add up with each reinfection. If you care about your long-term health, protecting yourself from COVID is non-negotiable. Read the science. Take…