If you want to help a Palestinian family and have a few minutes a day, please post for Retaj! Dr. Divya has everything you need at the following link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Thank you, Dr. Divya for making it so easy for folks to help 💚

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 22h ago

I have to be away this weekend and will have limited internet, which means catastrophe since I need to raise 200 each Saturday for Retaj. I will be able to update this doc with new donations, but won’t be able to post updates. It has graphics & more. Please help. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Some of the people with Cyclosporiasis will end up disabled. They will survive the acute infection, but their lives will never be the same. You never know what infection, accident or injury might change your health forever. Disability justice benefits everyone.

Progress happens when people work together. Honored to be part of the new International Society of Long COVID & Post-Acute Infection Syndromes (islc-pais.com). Together, we're advancing understanding, treatment, and prevention of post-infectious diseases through rigorous science. #LongCOVID #PAIS

Andrew Ewing@andrewewing11.bsky.social · 7d ago

The official website of The International Society of Long COVID & Post-Acute Infection Syndromes — a global coalition of clinicians, researchers and advocates advancing evidence-based care. islc-pais.com

Early COVID mitigations showed us the power of collective action. The environment began to heal. People with disabilities were accommodated. An entire flu strain was eradicated. Folks reconnected with their local communities. We worked together & saved lives.

It’s not your fault you’re disabled. It’s not your fault you’re chronically ill. It’s not your fault you’re living in poverty, lacking health insurance, homeless or unemployed. The billionaire class wants us to believe these are moral failings so they don’t have to help people. We should help.

Campaigners are just trying to raise awareness and encourage the Public to become more informed on the Covid research. Many online are scientists and many have lived experience.

Kegel@kegel7.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you dare to speak about this openly with family and friends, you are either shutdown that they don't want to hear about it, or you're ghosted.

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Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 3d ago

Having a weakened immune system can trigger Shingles. And we have a virus circulating constantly that we know from all the research causes immune dysregulation and yet we are still being advised to catch it. 🤦‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

If you dare to speak about this openly with family and friends, you are either shutdown that they don't want to hear about it, or you're ghosted.

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 3d ago

We need action instead of so many thinking covid isn’t a risk the evidence speaks for itself that this isn’t going away and is a long term risk to all our health and isn’t being taken for the serious problem that it is.

Very fed up of the false narrative that lockdowns were the only harms. Ignoring the children who died from COVID and have long Covid and the many documented harms from COVID itself. It’s time that this was addressed.

After a covid inquiry, the silence of the media has failed to give a balanced narrative. Many children were orphaned, have long covid, had to off roll and miss school because schools were never mitigated. Also there are ongoing health risks now to children.

🌻I🌺walk🌼in🌸Rage🌷🌹🏵 is my name@readwellalaska.bsky.social · 3d ago

Welp. #Teacher be warned. I've been totally thrown by a student collapsing due to f-ing #longcovid right in front of me during class. Yep. Happened last week.

A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.

Keeping schools open without mitigating for airborne transmission of COVID has been harmful to many children. This needs to be recognised.

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You warned parents several years ago about neurological risks from COVID in children hospitalised.

Disagree, children’s health was put last and they knew clearly from Day 1 that covid was airborne. They failed to roll vaccines and still are. Its vascular, causes immune damage and Children are very much still at risk. They never even talk about mental health problems caused by Covid infections.

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Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 3d ago

Disagree, children’s health was put last and they knew clearly from Day 1 that covid was airborne. They failed to roll vaccines and still are. Its vascular, causes immune damage and Children are very much still at risk. They never even talk about mental health problems caused by Covid infections.

This needed to be front page news @theguardian.com The lack of reporting and balance on Covid has been shocking.

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · last yr.

The final preliminary hearing for the Children & Young People’s module was today, CVF, again, made the case for safety. Children's deaths *would* have been higher if many Clinically Vulnerable families had not kept their children away from schools. ⚠️Long thread 1/

This. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Tom Kindlon@tomkindlon.bsky.social · 4d ago

From @onelife_livedwell on IG: There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from living in the space between knowing something has changed in your body and waiting for the world around you to find language for it. #undiagnosed #undiagnosedillness #invisibleillness #spoonie #chronicillness

Five years on. Children and young people are still living with Long Covid. As Samir says at the end of this report: "That we're still here." Thank you to everyone who shared their story, and to Ruth Liptrot and @channel5news.bsky.social . 🎥⬇️ youtu.be/FZp32EIppZ8 #LongCovidKids #ChildHealth

Five Years On: Children and Young People Still Living with Long Covid | Channel 5 News

YouTube video by Long Covid Kids

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None of my family or former friends take COVID seriously and I've had long COVID for 6 1/2 years. I think they've convinced themselves that I'm a hypochondriac. Because of course I just stopped enjoying everything I loved doing after I had COVID and instead decided to sit at home alone forevermore.

What if acute COVID seems gone, but parts of the virus aren’t? Our lab is using advanced imaging to see what conventional methods miss, and turn those discoveries into urgently needed #LongCOVID treatments. 🔬 The evidence 👇🏻

Ali Maximilian Erturk@erturklab.bsky.social · 7d ago

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years👇🏻. We develop advanced imaging/AI to cure Long COVID & beyond👇🏻. Join us 🤗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So today already, we have news articles from BBC about more people considering air-conditioning, droughts and now giant icebergs turning over and massive wildfires across our landscapes. All completely normal in our climate denial societies... www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Giant iceberg turns over near Greenland's coast

Video captured by a passerby showed the moment the iceberg collapsed, creating a big wave.

bbc.co.uk

this is a whole freakin mood

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · last wk.

I feel like I'm going crazy, but no, it is the world which is experiencing a mass psychosis event

Help Bex with upcoming rent and utilities (due by end of the month)! In addition, they need to eat and they need a scan to see how their tumor is doing. Give and/or share! paypal.me/thelongestroad

Pay RMM Creative using PayPal.Me

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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass@bexmashaba.bsky.social · last wk.

i’m not doing great, but i’m trying to stay positive please help me to survive this bit i need food, pain medication and i have rent & utilities coming up ($750+$110) i don’t have anything to eat today, and i’m hoping i get some help soon ❤️ paypal.me/thelongestroad

Some studies say more than 10% of people have Long Covid. This too is underestimate bc many don’t know their new health issues are Covid related, Drs. don’t recognize for ex. diabetes or A Fib🫀 can be Covid related. Some don’t even see a Dr. for new issue so are an invisible stat. DON’T BE A STAT, 😷

Global Prevalence of Long COVID, Its Subtypes, and Risk Factors: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

This mega-systematic review evaluated the global prevalence of long COVID and its subtypes and symptoms, and assessed the effects of risk factors for long COVID. Studies published from 5 July 2021 to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · last wk.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, I'm starting to encounter real fightback from those who've chosen to abandon all mitigations. I've decided that I no longer want to take part in a society that is so malevolent about illness. The number of people with obvious Long Covid symptoms around me, yet I'm told to abandon my respirator.

I went to the prayer meeting this evening. Got raked over the coals for getting the puppy, when I can't afford him. 😬😔 Told that I'm anxious for still masking. I told them I was the only one living in reality about preventable infections. So fed up now. 😬😔

The giving circle is so critical, and needs monetary support now more than ever. Give if you can (recurring donations are especially helpful), and share widely to help support folks in Gaza amidst the ongoing genocide! chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

chuffed.org

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 2w ago

Today we highlight SUCH a hopeful project: neighbors helping displaced families in Jabalia refugee camp with food parcels, medical care, children's activities, & more! This is SO essential as the siege worsens. Click "weekly" if you can! Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

We had 6 years to adopt clean air standards We had 6 years to normalize masking Society chose denial instead Now as wildfires rage & the air turns to poison … people are left unprotected Covid cautious folks are still trying to protect those who’ve ignored them for years.

I’m having to fight for it. Every day. I go through endless loops of referrals and intakes that go nowhere. People who tell me this service isn’t the right fit but the next one will be. It’s a merry go round of cruelty that steals all your energy. This is how little they value disabled lives.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: World’s First Vaccine Targeting the Entire SARS Coronavirus Family Begins Human Testing GBP511, developed by UW Medicine and tested by SK Bioscience, aims to protect against COVID-19 and future coronaviruses before they spark the next pandemic. www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...

First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials – Institute for Protein Design

The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats

ipd.uw.edu

Addressing race inequality and racism needs to be a cross-government strategy with a Cabinet Minister designated responsibility for it. It should be a priority. There’s been a significant increase in far right riots, hate incidents and racism against faith groups and BME groups across the country.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

How to tackle racism was an issue that Starmer government struggled with in Autumn 2025. It is not immediately obvious who in the Burnham Cabinet may try to be more vocal on this.