"We didn't optimize placement or air changes or make sure they were turned on so air filters don't work" The study's limitations aren't trivial: they're disqualifying. What SHOULD have been measured: fluid dynamics, viral presence, particulate spread, etc. was not. WTF. #JunkScience #HEPA #JAMA

Dick Zoutman@dickzoutman.bsky.social · last wk.

Dose matters! Bedroom units ran at 60 m³/h on the quietest “sleep setting”. In a typical single room that’s roughly 2 air changes/hour. Aerosol engineering consensus generally wants 6+ ACH for meaningful pathogen load reduction. This tested low-dose comfort settings, not adequate filtration.

Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading about ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related news for the week of July 6 - 12. s4me.info/threads/news... #MEcfs #PwME #LongCovid #PwLC

Pacing in the Real World onelifelivedwell.substack.com/p/pacing-in-... Screenshot from AMMES July 2026 Newsletter #MEcfs #LongCovid #PwME

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Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · last mo.

I may not know why me and not you I may not know what else I can do But there is one thing I know for sure For having read it in all the literature: "More research is needed." #LongCOVID #MECFS #PwME

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Michelle.Marie@stronggirl-rage-on.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Day 1375 BRT: "Don't listen to your body. Talk over it. It's stuck in fight-or-flight. So just tell it to calm the fuck down." Couples therapists, hostage negotiators, diplomats: Cause that always works. BRT: "This is different. When it fails, we get to blame the victim." #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

Perhaps People With Long Covid Should Talk About Something Else For A While

"Oh, I can run. I just won’t get up the next day" …or the day after that. I guess the better sentence would have been: "…who no longer can 'afford' to" But then people would be like: "Why? They broke?" Yup. We definitely broke. In 'all' the wrong places. #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

COVID Chronicles@covidchronicles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Day 1369 — Spotted in the wild at a Triathlon/Duathlon this weekend. 💜❤️‍🩹❤️ Next time that little voice tells you nobody cares, remember that the best of us do, deeply. And that they, too, are out there. #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

Day 1369 — Spotted in the wild at a Triathlon/Duathlon this weekend. 💜❤️‍🩹❤️ Next time that little voice tells you nobody cares, remember that the best of us do, deeply. And that they, too, are out there. #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME

"Whoever is in your life, those who harm you, those who help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know — let them off the hook, help them off the hook." Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/03/l...

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…

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Ladies, LADIES. The only reason there aren't studies on this actionable, 100% legitimate, undervalued cure is because of PEOPLE LIKE YOU. Scientists are AFRAID. Look at what happened to Semmelweis! tHiS iS nO diFfeReNt BRT isn't a racket, it's nothing like prayer healing. REPENT! #MECFS #Wired

COVID Chronicles@covidchronicles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's worse, it will only reinforce the author's false premise that Long COVID "advocates" are the reason this "cure" isn't being explored. Oh, but it is. In piece after piece after piece of unsubstantiated pop-sci drivel. Dear @wired.com Cherry-picked anecdotes do not science make. #pwME

🧵OF KEY CONCERNS We've now read Alan Levinovitz's WIRED piece on Long Covid. Our concern isn't that it discusses psychological theories. Our concern is that it repeatedly conflates criticism of evidence with creating a "climate of fear". Those are not the same thing. /1

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

Six years since the height of the pandemic, the scientific community remains baffled by long Covid. But there might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.

After the awfully unscientific WIRED article on Long COVID feed your head with a great article on the late Barbara Ehrenreich who exposed the ‘Positive Thinking’ Industry

How Barbara Ehrenreich Exposed the ‘Positive Thinking’ Industry

Businesses that laid off masses of employees had a message that Ehrenreich encapsulated as, “you’re getting eliminated… but it’s really an opportunity for you. It’s a great thing; you’ve got to look a...

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Long Covid Estimate Revised Up After Researchers Include People With Long Covid

Fck Data Centers!!

Oh they are doing their job: maximize earnings.
 The farcical fallacy underpinning this piece serves one purpose:

"Engagement" "The job" is what needs redefining (in politics, journalism, business). Someday, soon, society is going to realize that profit as the only driver is driving us off a cliff

COVID Chronicles@covidchronicles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@wired.com's premise is: BRT: "This cures Long COVID" Science: "Prove it" BRT: "Can't. Researchers are too afraid of the backlash" So… you're saying you've cured cancer, but because scientists are skeptical you're NOT going to organized a bullet-proof double-blind randomized control trial? 🤔🙄

WIRED has decided to hide comments pointing out that the author of the “It’s your fault for having Long COVID, you have it because you’re thinking and talking about having it instead of ignoring it” article has no qualifications to be talking about disease management.

Playing Chicken With Oblivion@oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a brilliant scientific article by a professor of religious studies with a B.A. in philosophy/religion! You can tell how much expertise the author possesses about infectious diseases by his strident anti-wokism and persecution complex. What a joke. Shameful and embarrassing for Wired & JMU.

here's a WAY better Long COVID article. after you've read this evidence based one, the Wired article will seem very silly

Understanding Long COVID: Causes, Symptoms, and What the Science Says

Explore a comprehensive, science-backed guide to Long COVID. Learn about biological causes, common symptoms like brain fog and PEM, diagnosis, and management.

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WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

Disagree that the evidence is mixed. I looked closely at the evidence in 2025 before shelling out the thousands it would cost for a full protocol. Trials designed, funded and performed by HBOT clinics showed improvements. Trials designed, funded and performed by third parties did not.

Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scientific American: 'Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is being explored as a long COVID treatment. Here’s what the research shows' 'Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed' www.scientificamerican.com/article/hype...

@wired.com's premise is: BRT: "This cures Long COVID" Science: "Prove it" BRT: "Can't. Researchers are too afraid of the backlash" So… you're saying you've cured cancer, but because scientists are skeptical you're NOT going to organized a bullet-proof double-blind randomized control trial? 🤔🙄

The Painful Truth About Long Covid

There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.

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The upshot to BRT going mainstream (and I can't believe how absolutely everywhere it is now): We get to recycle the same posts. My only consolation is a slim one: The Wired piece on Long COVID will age about as well as climate skepticism. "Told you so" isn't the flex I thought it would be.

COVID Chronicles@covidchronicles.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Day 1322—With the amount of Brain Retraining, Neurofeedback & Neuroplasticity podcasts, books & clinics being suggested to me by "concerned" friends & family, I'm happy to announce Long COVID & ME/CFS will soon no longer be a thing. Cause all these things clearly work. 😑

1) Mention hard science only to dismiss it 2) Give the grift equal—nay, more—time & narrative approval 3) Watch engagement soar Climate obstructionism, anti-sanitary, anti-trans, anti-immigrant dog whistling all follow this lucrative recipe NYTimes, Atlantic do it Now @wired.com does too

That @wired.com hit piece on Long COVID was actually a masterclass in gaslighting. Name-drop the hard science, only to dismiss it. Make it sound like all sides of this "debate" have legitimate arguments. It's the Climate Hoax all over again. "Climate skeptics are afraid of activist backlash".

What's worse, it will only reinforce the author's false premise that Long COVID "advocates" are the reason this "cure" isn't being explored. Oh, but it is. In piece after piece after piece of unsubstantiated pop-sci drivel. Dear @wired.com Cherry-picked anecdotes do not science make. #pwME

Pity the author didn't review the negative studies in PAIS. Brain Retraining doesn't work. New preliminary data from the AIR trial is a good example. The effect is similar to natural recovery & fluctuations of the disease. Gupta scored even a bit worse than TAU. www.linkedin.com/posts/me-cfs... 🧠

1) 🇪🇺 The controversial European project on Long Covid includes a randomized trial on amygdala retraining and online CBT. In a preliminary analysis, both fared no better than usual care. 2)… | ME/C...

1) 🇪🇺 The controversial European project on Long Covid includes a randomized trial on amygdala retraining and online CBT. In a preliminary analysis, both fared no better than usual care. 2) This is...

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WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

Six years since the height of the pandemic, the scientific community remains baffled by long Covid. But there might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.

COVID Chronicles, day 1355 A cousin I haven't seen in years was in town for her son's tryouts. She had two hours to kill, sitting in the warm sun, 30 minutes away. And here I was, forced to write, once again, "Sorry, can't make it out today". Long COVID is harder than it sounds. #pwME #MECFS #PEM