hello new followers and welcome! a little about me, 4 years ago, i was intubated with severe breakthrough #covid i had a #stroke and i am currently #disabled and doing my best to recover i read a looooot of #books and i like to post and talk about themas well as other random stuff i hope you enjoy following me and vice versa

Review of "Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass" by Sarah Jones

https://stardustrohrig.com/2025/03/16/disposable-review/

#Books
#BookReview
#NonFiction
#Essays
#COVID
#Disability

Gee, it's a mystery! If you're an idiot.

As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
https://www.alternet.org/tuberculosis-2671337939/

#covid #CovidTests #CovidTesting #PublicHealth

'The government recently shut down the program that would mail four free COVID tests to anyone who requested them, but a lesser-known program for community groups is still running. If you have a plan to distribute tests for free, you can request them by the hundreds. '

https://lifehacker.com/health/how-to-get-free-covid-tests-in-bulk-for-your-community?utm_medium=RSS

The year is 2025. I'm trying to convince someone of germ theory. No, you did not get COVID from the rain. You got COVID from a virus.

Wife is entering week 4, I'm in week 3 of an 'unknown' virus that truly feels like a combination of noro and Covid. Reduced lung function, no appetite, incredible fatigue

She was tested for everything at ER with no conclusion. Now friends reporting they have this and are cancelling Spring Break trips.

Stay masked, stay safe - public health is asleep

Does anyone remember reading articles/posts saying that #COVID would cause #Parkinson's and #cancer in the years after infection? B/c two years after my four bouts, it now appears I have both Parkinson's and cancer. Wish I could find just one such article now.

The 5-year cover-up: How Trump’s racist strategy got buried by the media
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trumps-cover-up/

Today is Long Covid awareness day. An example of the lack of awareness: Last month one of my Long Covid patients died in the hospital. CT scan reported ground glass opacities in the lungs characteristic of Covid but it was ignored. None of the clinical notes made mention of this.
#COVID #LongCovid
https://www.longcovidawareness.life/

On this Long COVID Awareness Day, my thoughts go out to the millions who have been directly affected, or care for someone who has.

Hope you all have someone to lean on in these particularly difficult times, something that still brings you joy.

Hang in there, we're all in this together!

March 15 is #LongCovidAwarenessDay

Everything you don't want to know about #COVID:

COVID is #airborne.
It's not "mild."
Infection damage is cumulative.
It makes you more susceptible to other infections and diseases.
There is no cure for #longCOVID.
The #pandemic is not over.
Wearing a #mask reduces transmission.

Source: whn.global

Statt bei der "#Covid-Aufarbeitung" immer nur zu monieren, wie viel zu streng die Maßnahmen doch gewesen seien, sollte man sich in meinen Augen viel mehr damit befassen, was wir aus dieser Erfahrung gelernt haben und in die nächste #Pandemie mitnehmen wollen. Denn eins ist sicher, die nächste Pandemie kommt bestimmt. Und wenn wir da nur mit "das machen wir aber nicht mehr" reingehen, machen wir am Schluss einfach weniger als zuvor - und nehmen so mehr Todesopfer und Langzeitfolgen in Kauf.

you have got to be fucking kidding me? accountable? maintaining institutional integrity?

OMG, this OPEd is despicable hagiography for a Public Health figure who frankly should be on trial for gross negligence

#CDNpoli #BCpoli #Covid #Covid19

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/were-in-desperate-need-of-calm-decisive-leadership-lets-follow-the-lead-of-this-covid/article_0dde5d9a-fdeb-11ef-a818-830a9fa2f347.html

The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.

"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.

mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.

Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.

In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.

The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.

So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.

For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.

We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.

What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."

- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford

https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-lennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/

Eine Ökonomie des Krieges

Ein spannender Text aus Italien aus dem Jahr 2024 zur Polykrise und wie bestimmte Entwicklungen seit der Corona-Pandemie in die Militarisierung von Staaten und Transformationen zur Kriegswirtschaft übergegangen sind.

https://www.xn--untergrund-blttle-2qb.ch/politik/europa/eine-oekonomie-des-krieges-das-kind-der-permanenten-wirtschaftlichen-depression-008695.html

'Kasernenausdrücke wie „Wir sind an der Front“ oder „Hommage an die Kriegshelden“ wurden endlos wiederholt, ebenso wie die Wiederkehr veralteter patriotischer Rhetorik und Nationalhymnen auf Balkonen, die angesichts der prekären Gesundheitssituation ebenfalls nur von kurzer Dauer waren. Die menschenleeren Strassen erweckten den Eindruck einer Ausgangssperre, die bis zu einem gewissen Grad die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über die Entwicklung der Pandemie und die möglichen Lösungen zur Vorbeugung und Behandlung verdunkelte. Diese Massnahmen wurden in einen Rahmen gestellt, der an die Simulation einer Kriegssituation erinnerte. 

Wow. 5 years ago today, I started my lockdown for Covid. Got up in the morning, did some groceries, and then disappeared indoors as a lot of my world came to a screeching halt.

“If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness.”

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence?utm_campaign=post