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most ppl accept stress can cause high blood pressure/heart disease and that those are nevertheless very real and serious conditions. but if you say stress can cause long covid, me/cfs, fibromyalgia etc, one side denies it and the other thinks it means those conditions aren’t real

@Phuxlea @m_aadil @dsowens17 doctors do tell patients the risks. so does the information provided at the pharmacy. this is a made up problem

Ok so your argument is that based on recent political events regarding science and healthcare, medical officials are justified in dismissing and rebutting experiences from harmed patients. Your belief is that the validity of human experiences is dependent on the political environment and the "agenda" it pushes. You have entire conferences which only focus on the positives of the drugs, that "SSRIs saved my life" gets applauded without any mention of the risks, but it's wrong for conventions of survivors?

All the rhetoric about believing the patients. All the talk about empathy and understanding. Then someone actually is brave enough to talk about their experience publicly. Then the mask slips. And what do we see? Instant dismissal. Labelling, discrediting invalidating and dehumanising. It’s such a primitive, fragile reaction. But it sends a very clear message: If you tell certain clinicians something they don’t want to hear then you will become the enemy…. @lololizzle

Dear Joe, I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House. For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that. And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand. My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment. The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for. This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it. But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is: “This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.” The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy. The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar. The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker. The President is our servant. Not our Caesar. Respectfully, Hunter P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

@SteveJonesmt your position frees either spouse from any obligation to participate in sex at all AND legitimizes making out wantonly without any intention of participating in sex

@SteveJonesmt most people who have sex within a romantic partnership want their partner to take and active interest in and participate in their orgasms. you and your spouse are of course free to make any other arrangement that works for the two of you. but…

if every time a woman made out with her husband before bed she got to have a mind blowing orgasm i bet we wouldn’t have to have this cursed discourse

Housing shortages discourage younger families from moving in and older residents from downsizing; school enrolments fall and communities age even faster than they otherwise would economist.com/interactive/un…

@RagingZionist23 every relationship is different but i stand by what i said, purely as an issue of statistical probabilities

@seran72 Do you know anything about the fucking topic? Having an orgasm isn't what makes a woman want or not want sex in dead bedrooms. You don't even understand the topic but have a lot of thoughts on it.

@JPaulNorton doesn’t sound like “marriage” to me but you do you

@seran72 I bet if we all accepted the fact that women are far less responsible for their husband’s orgasms and far more responsible for their own, they wouldn’t have this issue at all.

@enigmartyr you’re projecting your own issues onto what i said

@seran72 Why is the utmost extreme of human pleasure the mortal flesh can muster the bare minimum price necessary to get a woman to do anything that isn't perfectly self-serving?

@__TheBaron__ and there are men who intensely dislike their wives or don’t find them hot enough or whatever. neither one changes what i said

@seran72 Unlikely, there are a number of people here who REALLY despise their husbands. Perimenopause has some serious intense effects on some people.

@SonsofLiberty72 you’re making a lot of assumptions about how other people’s relationships work

To be quite honest if she’s married and hasn’t taken the time to explain what gets her off to her husband and practice it to the point that he knows what to do without being told…that’s on her. Sure for a bit it would feel like work. But eventually it would happen without question and on a regular basis and it wouldn’t even be a second though. Communication.

@seran72 EXACTLY. Speak on it, sister! 🎙️

Nobody says insulin is overused because diabetes is common. Nobody says inhalers are overused because asthma is common. But when depression is treated, suddenly people call it "overprescribing." Mental illness is still judged differently from physical illness. p.dw.com/p/5ECyE?at_med…

this is a pro moss account

In my model, continual mast cell activation acts on the GR to continue the "cortisol blind" leading to hypervigilence and sustained inflammation. It continues the norepinephrine cascade until exhaustion sets in. At some point the systems can no longer sustain the energy production needed for hyperimmune responses.

A hidden viral protein may be one of the key drivers of severe COVID-19 lung damage. ➡️ Researchers found that #ORF8, an accessory protein secreted by SARS-CoV-2, can “reprogram” lung macrophages, making them more susceptible to infection and triggering pyroptosis—a highly inflammatory form of cell death. 1/

Another study shows cerebral hypometabolism in #LongCovid patients with PEM. Cerebral hypometabolism is a decrease in the brain's ability to turn glucose into energy, leading to a severe cellular energy deficit. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Long Covid threatens too many systems at once: labor policy, disability systems, infection-control(/narratives), health-care capacity, psychiatric and functional medicine turf, public-health credibility, and economic normalization. When a disease is expensive to acknowledge, institutions($$$$) tend to invest in disease explanations that offload liability: Stress. Beliefs. Deconditioning. Anxiety. Maladaptive nervous system patterns. These explanations may describe one layer of illness, but they also conveniently relocate responsibility back into the patient. This also happened with ME/CFS and HIV/AIDS.

C'mon @WIRED, you have a chance to do better. Instead of amplifying pseudoscience, why not talk to the patients living with #LongCovid and the researchers studying its biology? Levinovitz is not a physician, neuroscientist, or virologist. His expertise is in religion. Try again!

@bdquinn The irony is that Trump is the most socialist president since Nixon