Pui 😷💉x5 Love always wins. — Morrie

On interpreting data: Whenever government officials claim that thousands of people have recovered from COVID, think about these people who are considered recovered by government standards. Make no mistakes, it’s far from over yet.

I have been sick 0 times since i started masking in 2020. After 5 years, I feel 10 years younger. COVID of no COVID, never going back to huffing unfiltered snot. What about you? If/when sterilizing vaccines or a cure for #LongCovid hit the shelves - mask on, or off?

@SalamonSMD Mask on - especially in a public washroom! I can’t unsee those fecal plumes!

Important article. As I've said before, the distinction drawn between acute infectious diseases and chronic diseases is, in many cases, artificial. This is the huge flaw in MAHA: infections can and often do cause chronic disease; vaccines can thus prevent some chronic diseases.

I don’t know what’s radicalized me more the last few years: watching Palestinian kids being burned alive by Israel, people dying from and being disabled by covid, or realizing that all the major political parties are basically the same and we’re really on our own to change shit.

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.🧵

Moen et al. (2025) - Neuroimmune Pathophysiology of Long COVID onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

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

@CaliforniaCodes I hope that pediatricians are advised to not categorize symptoms immediately as “psychological.” It’s often a knee-jerk diagnosis. I have severe Long Covid. Even as an adult, it’s a challenge for me to verbalize my symptoms. If I were a little kid, I would prob cry or scream.

1. It's important to understand that there are no conspiracies regarding the general lack of mitigations against Covid-19. There is no utopia for the extremely wealthy / elites that is 'Davos safe'. 'Covid' is now much more a political term than a disease.

@brownecfm I do political communications in the US— and I still mask. Encouraging masking truly was a political killer here for politicians, and it shows the modern ability to poll gets in the way of good policy making. What people want is not always the best way to govern. 1/

Doctors: we've accepted too many myths about Covid. My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing. youtube.com/watch?v=GPUTTj… 🧵 1/11

This is AWESOME! A nine year old asked to speak at the New York town hall with the candidates for State Attorneys General and he was far more eloquent than the current president of the United States. This kid is going places.

1. I'm an analyst, which means that I am very, very careful indeed to not fall victim to confirmation bias. That is to say, I take significant effort in both my work and outside of it to not, 'see what I want to see'.

2. Remembering that anecdotal evidence - which the following is - is by definition low value, what I currently see in my broad social circle is this: Many more older adults than would have been expected pre-pandemic developing new-onset allergies or food intolerances.

3. Conversely, many middle aged people developing new-onset chronic illnesses - especially cardiopulmonary - at a younger age than would have been expected pre-pandemic. A distinct temporal correlation between new-onset conditions and recent SARS-CoV-2 infection.

We are most definitely in a much better place than we have been with regard to acute severity. That hasn't really been the main concern for years now, though, and repeated infections are not good for your long-term health.

Earlier this week, there was a minor car crash outside our church. I was inside and didn't hear it happen, but a few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. It was the Muslim taxi driver who lives next door, and he was asking if he could bring one of the people in the bump in. He said, "I know you're good people in here, can you give her a cup of tea?" And the answer was yes. So the three of us had a cup of tea. The driver from the crash was in tears for a while. The last thing she needed was to have someone drive into her. After a while she felt better. She said it was the first time she had been in a church since she was a kid. She laughed and said it didn't seem so bad. The taxi driver repeated, "they're good people here". And there we were. A Muslim, someone with no faith, and a priest, sitting and comforting each other, and smiling and loving and living. I think about that moment often. There's no need to hate.

Oh my word. Today I chatted with a colleague who is head of governors at a local school. As he was talking about the school, he said, "we're struggling to keep up, so many staff are off sick now, I don't think we're ever going to get over covid". But...

My jaw dropped, because he's obviously not trying to actually do anything to get over covid, so I asked him what he meant.

He said that ever since teachers had to isolate, they're more keen to stay off work when they're sick.