Fight your memory, your trauma, however you know how. Your trauma is also something that cannot be named.

And the COVID patients, the COVID dead, the long-COVID sick, the healthcare workers of COVID — all of them fell into the category of those who also cannot be named.

All you have is trying to live with it as much as you can. Trying to forget what cannot be forgotten. COVID became the thing that cannot be named.

How many people are living with these panic attacks. With a memory they wish they didn't have. They struggle to live with it and they don't know how to heal it. How to let go. How to close it.

The trauma stayed. The memory stayed deeply buried. It's terrifying to bring it back out. Today I read a comment from a former resident: "I get a panic attack just from looking at the pics in my feed and starting to think about what we went through back then."

Unspoken truth about lived experiences, lived emotions, lived fears. Pain physical and emotional. Everyone was left alone with their trauma — no resources, no ears to listen, no advice, no support.

This same society chose not to care how much trauma was left.

Society chose to stop thinking about it. Disinformation, conspiracy theories about the lab leak, about vaccines, about doctors and hospitals profiting off it all. It made it shameful to even talk about COVID anymore. The information space buried the subject, shoved it into a corner of memory.

It's proof, once again, that the trauma of that time never passed, never ended, never healed.

Politicians are back to building political strategy on COVID. Here we go again — 2020. And it's triggering frontline healthcare workers to post photos of themselves from back then — in masks, in plastic gowns, in trash bags.

Politicians are back to building political strategy on COVID. Here we go again — 2020. And it's triggering frontline healthcare workers to post photos of themselves from back then — in masks, in plastic gowns, in trash bags.

RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Sentient tomato Paul Thacker called "totally weird person" by Anthony Fauci. 😂😂

Jha has never been helpful, now he is also confused.

Gets worse! 🤦‍♂️ The 🤡 Ashish Jha confirmed he believes the lab leak BS. Got his agreement tweet of 🤡 Jamie Metzl's own lab leak stupidity archived: archive.ph/jd5MW

Exactly this. RFK Jr meant the conspiracy theory kooks peddling ivermectin & hydroxychloroquine. He lied when he said these kooks cured “thousands” of people, and he lied when he said ICUs were empty during the pandemic, and he lied when said RSV & Lyme were caused by gain of function research.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 3d ago

Because RFK Jr. doesn't mean actual frontline doctors. He means the conspiracy theory propaganda org. "America's Frontline Doctors" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

RFK tried a common COVID disinfo tactic, but messed up the delivery. The right loves to say ER visits fell in 2020. 
Stat is true, but it's due to people who use ERs for primary care delaying visits while social distancing. So, ER visits fell but ICUs were full due to an influx of COVID patients.

Because RFK Jr. doesn't mean actual frontline doctors. He means the conspiracy theory propaganda org. "America's Frontline Doctors" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

America's Frontline Doctors - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 3d ago

This guy says we need to listen to frontline doctors, 99% of whom want him to resign.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

Just heard as a part of a political speech: "Florida has become the center of the common sense." 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

Trump cut health care for millions of Americans but pardons criminals defrauding Americans and now wants taxpayers to pay pardons criminals convicted of assaulting police because they supported him. #DrainTheSwamp

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4d ago

President Trump said that he would “push hard” to enact legislation that would offer payouts to people “badly treated” by the Obama and Biden administrations, his latest threat to resurrect the controversial fund.

Kentucky’s largest recipient of state funds under Gov. Andy Beshear’s Medicaid policy was Addiction Recovery Care. Amid an ongoing FBI investigation, the company recently reached a $16 million settlement with the DOJ over fraud allegations. w/ @kentucky.com

Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed.

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did th...

propublica.org

“Ultimately, the real threat of Trumpism and tech-supremacism in Latin America lies not in their capacity for technological modernisation but in their function as technologies of oppression.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.

aljazeera.com

Our ex-FDA commissioner promoted this myth

Dr. Marty Makary: Mad Scientists, Biowarfare, Nazi War Criminal Doctors, Half Rat-Deer Carcasses, and How COVID, AIDS, & Lyme Came from A Lab.

Dr. Makary desperately wants everyone to know he is a brave, free-thinker, able to see the world objectively and without bias, smarter than 99% of his peers. However, in reality his brain is cooked.

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Peter Daszak@peterdaszak.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you're wondering what lab leakers will be conquering next when COVID paranoia eventually dies out - here's their Lyme disease theory doing the rounds. They forgot to read scientific evidence it's been in the US for 1000s of yrs, was found in a European iceman etc. Hilarious!

Weaponization of COVID and immigration gets exhausting when you're both a former COVID ICU doc and an immigrant.

300,000 Haitians legally living in the U.S. have officially lost their Temporary Protected Status this week. ICE is reportedly planning to target Haitian communities and fast-track deportations to Haiti, which is controlled by violent gangs and deep in crisis. Trump’s cruelty knows no bounds.

Record outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite 20M eggs recalled due to salmonella Worst air quality in world from wildfire smoke UN says world risks HIV resurgence due to funding cuts Most measles cases in 35 years They’re going after Fauci to distract you from current public health failures

And somehow we r NOT talking about those who stole millions, spread disinfo, poorly responded to 2020 itself...those from the dem house reports. Because dems didn't utilize those reports usefully. And GOP pulls never ending 2020 all the time to scare ppl & make them vote for GOP.