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#CovidIsNotOver

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Hi Mastodon & @violetblue!

I'm looking for an N95 mask with no metal but with an exhale valve for my spouse to wear at his warehouse job. He's been wearing 3M 8210V religiously since 2020 to keep from bringing Covid home to me, but his employer is reinstating the use of metal detectors and if the metal staples used to attach the straps set it off, I'm pretty sure he's going to punch out anyone trying to remove his mask.

Suggestions? Boosts appreciated!

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@verymetalsite @HannahCelsius Het aantal rioolwatermeetstations waar SARS2 virusdeeltjes gemeten worden is door RIVM teruggebracht van 311 naar 133, en de meetfrequentie is nu 1x p week. Daardoor lopen we nu 1 extra week achter met betrouwbare metingen over covid-verspreiding. Zie bv locovid.nl/weekbericht-covid19

Ook ik heb de indruk dat het aantal besmettingen toeneemt, je hoort het overal. Eind juli hadden wij ook zelf #covid19 in huis. Lastig, hele dag met ffp2 op in huis.
#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

locovid.nlWeekbericht Covid19 2025-29 – Low Covid info & actie

Have yet to see a study that shows a benefit of repeat Covid infections...

COVID significantly increases risk of death from metastatic cancer, new study shows.

New research published in Nature last week suggests that viruses like COVID-19 and the flu could awaken dormant cancer cells that have previously spread to the lungs, triggering rapid growth of metastatic disease.

healthimaging.com/topics/clini

Kan het niet staven, maar heb het idee dat de corona weer oploopt, en dat dat op de één of andere manier niet meer door data weerspiegeld wordt.

Hier toch ook weer diverse mensen ziek, en ik hoor net van een instelling waar opeens veel zieken zijn - ik wil geen alarmist zijn maar toch eigenlijk ook weer wel.

Sadly the misinformation machine has gotten to my mum and she is refusing further Pfizer vaccines. I think the latest claims they it causes blindness was the final straw. She says its new research but I can't find the associated research, just a short tabloid article without a link; some "reporting" on dodgy websites, and some older studies that say it's rare and #COVID is a bigger risk to your eyes.

Has anyone seen this research? I need to find it and see if it's valid in anyway to try to convince her to keep getting them, because she doesn't protect herself in any other way, and another round of COVID will not be good for her.

A study tested kids long after they had (mostly mild) COVID-19. There were immune and heart changes:

increased immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels in all age groups and long-term changes in ECG.

and it was NOT rare! Allergies more than tripled, and

They also exhibited various heart rhythm disorders (35%).

⚠️ 35% ! ⚠️

That was using 24-hour ECG monitoring on 400 kids - hard data from a large group!

brieflands.com/articles/ircrj-

h/t mastodon.social/@augieray/1149

International Cardiovascular Research Journal · Clinical and Functional Characteristics of Cardiovascular System in Children Who Have Undergone COVID-19The involvement of various functional systems in the pathological process of COVID-19 has been extensively studied. Nevertheless, significant uncertainties ...
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@CppGuy @andymoose

If I had thought of it before, I should carry a laminated a copy of that 'Swiss cheese' model of mitigation. 😂

But as I hinted, I couldn't tell you the last time someone commented...

It's someone thinking I owe them an explanation that annoys me. I don't challenge people about their choices, unless I see someone pummelling someone else... and yes, I've intervened in that sort of situation, to my daughter's horror. (I can be a bit of a 'tiger'.)

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@andymoose

I'm afraid on some occasions I get rather aggressive when someone challenges me about my mask.

On good days I try to tell myself to feel sorry for anyone who is so 'thick' they don't know any better.

That said, it's been quite a while since anyone has commented to my face. Occasionally young children can give me a look between fear and curiosity... but that's understandable if their adults don't mask.

I dunno, wastewater data indicating 1 in 110 people infected seems like a pretty big deal. Especially since it's August, which is not supposed to be virus season.

Still masking. Getting some side-eyes. Don't care. I have Epstein-Barr dormant in my system. My future will never take second place to the opinions of some rando in a grocery store, or an alleged colleague, or even a family member.

(Gen X post-menopausal, #neurodivergent, anti-capitalist, intersectional feminist simmering cauldron of rage. Hear me roar.)

For anyone feeling intimidated by the dominant/eugenicist culture, your health is far more important than the opinion of some asshat who won't be there if someone infects you, even if you suffer longterm impacts from an infection, even if those impacts stop you from earning a living or cause you to lose your housing.

Their options mean nothing. Self-care combined with community care. That's our only sustainable way forward.

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Blood from ME/CFS patients and LC patients had slightly different results:

  • CFS weakness was perhaps more profound

Although statistically insignificant, the CFS tissues had a much lower contractile force compared to LC-19

  • but Long COVID muscle fatigue was easier to trigger

A functional muscle is capable to sustain an increase in its force of contraction proportionally with the stimulus until a certain limit is reached, beyond which depletion of the energy reserves or changes in structural integrity induce impairment. For LC-19 [exposed] tissues, this limit was reached at a lower stimulating frequency compared to the control and CFS sample

[1] iopscience.iop.org/article/10. full paper iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

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Long COVID and ME/CFS blood impairs muscles - new evidence validating LC and ME/CFS sufferers:

The model [...] replicates muscle weakness and compromised contractile performance frequently experienced by patients. It also hints at the applicability of the Push-Crash Cycle theory

finding that

patient sera [blood] not only lowered the overall ability of the muscle to execute work but post peak performance, the tissues experienced weakness and inability to reach the same performance again, particularly for LC-19 diseased tissues.

specifically

Short exposures (48 hours) to [each of Long COVID and ME/CFS] patient sera led to a significant reduction in muscle contractile strength

and

prolonged exposure (96–144 hours) caused muscle fragility and fatigue, with mitochondria fragmenting

[1] iopscience.iop.org/article/10. full paper iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

h/t @NilaJones

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Interesting. I didn’t realise the #pandemic ended. What date was that? You can’t say it was before or after something unless you have a date for that something.

I think it’s more like since people stopped caring about it.

A #pandemic has a technical definition and we are totally still in it. It’s just that people can’t be bothered to do anything about it any more.