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Someone just coughed on you. You were on a crowded flight. Now your coworker is sick. The window to prevent infection is narrow. Here’s exactly what to do in the critical hours after a high-risk exposure 🧵1/13

In Kingston General Hospital because ⁦@Starbucks⁩ in the roadside pullover put cow’s milk in a clearly labeled oat milk iced latte. This is the SECOND hospital visit for Starbucks-induced anaphylaxis.

@AllisonPearson @Jack62Swans Eugenics in a luxury handbag.

@Jack62Swans It killed very few people who weren’t elderly, morbidly obese or with pre-existing conditions. Lockdown harmed far more than Covid.

I am sick of this. I don’t know anyone who died of Covid. I do know people who got horrible side-effects from the jab and were hospitalized. I know people with serious autoimmune reaction and paralysis. People who got blood clots on the brain and some who died after the jab.

I've been hanging out on /r/AISoulmates. In awe of how dangerous the shit these chatbots are spitting out is. Everyone on this sub has been driven totally insane

The Virus You Thought Was Gone Might Still Be in Your Gut - Long COVID I have been thinking about Long COVID and how the gut slips under the radar, even though it is threaded through so many of the symptoms people live with. The gut does not only digest food. In Long COVID, it can turn into a wounded landscape. People wake with nausea, or cramping, or sudden diarrhea that interrupts meetings, or bloating that ignores calorie counts. We talk about brain fog and fatigue, but these gut symptoms can change how people live. They turn Friday night dinner plans into anxiety, healthy boldness into fridge raids at midnight. Here is the science Dysbiosis, which is just a fancy word for microbial imbalance, happens when the SARS-CoV-2 virus knocks out protective gut bacteria like Bifidobacterium and gives space to inflammation-friendly microbes. That imbalance can stretch into weeks or months, and since the gut is tied to the immune system, it can ripple into joint aches, mood swings, and symptoms well beyond the belly. Then there is PolyBio’s work. They have funded research at Penn, UCSF, and Karolinska, examining gut tissue months after infection. What they found was not just viral fragments. It looked alive. As Michael Peluso put it, “our findings provide clear evidence of virus persistence and sustained immune activation after COVID-19.” Timothy Henrich added, “we found SARS-CoV-2 double-stranded RNA in … gut samples,” noting how that form “is usually produced during viral replication or active viral life cycling.” That persistence may explain why some immune cells never fully stand down, why the body feels like it is still defending itself. Leaky gut, or increased intestinal permeability, is another piece. Imagine your gut lining as a fortress gate that is supposed to let good things in and keep trouble out. Long COVID can weaken those gates. Viral proteins or inflammatory messengers slip through into the blood, seeding the foggiest cluster of symptoms such as fatigue, fog, and aches that do not track with any normal medical logic. The gut-brain axis is not a metaphor. It is a physical line of nerve and chemical wiring. When the gut is off, it sends fuzzy, sometimes panicked signals to the brain. The result can be restless sleep, mood dips, or anxiety that sticks. What about hope? • Probiotics and diet: Some people respond to carefully selected strains or fiber-rich tweaks. Not a cure-all, but sometimes a hint of relief. • Antivirals: Trials are testing drugs like Truvada and maraviroc. If there is live virus in the gut, hitting it directly may help. PolyBio-funded work is designed to find out. • Barrier repair drugs: Larazotide tightens the junctions in the gut lining. In children with MIS-C, it stopped spike protein from leaking into the blood and eased inflammation. That success is now feeding Long COVID trials. The gut is messy, but not hopeless. If we can clean up the microbial balance, seal the gates, and flush out or shut down that viral pocket, maybe the fatigue eases, the fog lifts, and Friday night dinners stop feeling like a gamble. Sources COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body for More Than a Year After Infection — UCSF News: ucsf.edu/news/2024/03/4… Viral Persistence and Immune Activation in Long COVID — Science Translational Medicine: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Tissue-Based Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Persistence up to 676 Days — National Library of Medicine (PMC): pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11… PolyBio Launches Global Consortium to Study Long COVID — J. Craig Venter Institute: jcvi.org/media-center/n… PolyBio Long COVID Research Overview — PolyBio Research Foundation: polybio.org/longcovid/ Mechanisms of Gut Barrier Dysfunction in Long COVID — Science Translational Medicine: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Larazotide and Barrier Repair in Post-COVID Conditions — PubMed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40737433/ Gut Microbiota Alterations in Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome — Molecular Medicine: molmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Dysbiosis and Immune Dysregulation in Long COVID — Frontiers in Microbiology: frontiersin.org/journals/micro… Pharmacological Approaches to Long COVID — Life Sciences (Elsevier): sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UCSF Long COVID Tissue Study Identifies Replicating Virus — UCSF / Peluso Lab Press Coverage: respiratory-therapy.com/disorders-dise… Henrich Lab Quote on Double-Stranded RNA in Gut Samples — UCSF: ucsf.edu/news/2024/03/4…

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@DiamondSchmitt in the ugliest bait and switch in Ontario history, that resulted in the death of wildlife, thousands of trees, and the wholesale robbery of something in the public trust. Worth it?

@GOtransit nobody answers the phone all day, which is dangerous for the disabled. Need a bus with a working wheelchair lift in Peterborough bus 88 June 8 2025 at 9:30am. Today’s bus didn’t have working parts, and it left a passenger stranded for almost an hour.

From gutting environmental protections to ignoring the voices of Indigenous communities and municipalities, Doug Ford’s Bill 5 is dangerous. ‘The worst piece of legislation in a generation’: 100 organizations oppose Ford’s Bill 5 thestar.com/news/ontario/t…

@silentanb And the US has just killed MRNA research that would make these tumors that kill a thing of the past.

Glioblastoma cases seem to be reported quite a lot now. I've been told of one in an acquaintance just last month. I'll just leave this here And say once again that cov loves to munch on the brain pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10….

@PierrePoilievre A traitor is a traitor is a traitor. You stood with maple maga. Not fit to lead this country you neither respect nor love

A Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal. Just like Trudeau, Carney was out promising hundreds of billions in new spending with no way to pay for it. A 4th Liberal term will mean more taxes & inflation to feed their spending. Let’s cut waste, taxes and inflation—FOR A CHANGE.

NEW: An Ontario lobbyist with close connections to Premier Doug Ford and the PC Party violated the province's lobbying rules, according to the integrity commissioner, after requesting Greenbelt lands be removed without registration in 2022. globalnews.ca/news/11106095/… #onpoli

I think about this video often. Every Canadian should watch it.

Hey Canadians, you know that the NationalPost is US owned and their interests no longer align with Canadians

@PierrePoilievre Says the uneducated man who has not even managed to pass any legislation despite a lifetime in government. Without foreign interference you’d be nothing.

“Mark Carney is a mirage Plagiarism accusations only the latest evidence he's been oversold” nationalpost.com/opinion/np-vie…

🚨ACTION: #LongCovid research funding is on track to be fully eliminated & could mean the difference between treatments in our lifetime or not. If you care about that — please take action & share this! 1. Call: win.newmode.net/longcovidcampa… 2. Email: actionnetwork.org/letters/long-c…

@CBCOmbud why is there an ad for online gambling on cbc gem? This seems very dangerous.

"A Global News analysis of 50 of Poilievre’s most recent YouTube videos showed that they included a tag — hidden from viewers, but not from the videos’ publisher — used by a misogynistic online movement." globalnews.ca/news/9178531/p…

PeePee math Savings $1800 per year income taxes New costs Scrapping $10/day daycare equals $2000 PER MONTH cost to family of 2 with kids below 4 years old Loss of dental care for millions $1500/year Raising retirement age to 67 again delaying 1000’s of $$$ over 2 years

@DrJacobsRad Polievre’s guys held ottawa Alberta and Ontario ransom for over a month, costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars.

Yesterday, Carney announced that he will cut taxes by 1% for the lowest tax bracket. Today, Poilievre promised to cut taxes by 15% for the average Canadian. Which leader do you think understands that there is an affordability crisis?