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@luckytran@med-mastodon.com“So how long am I going to do this? Until indoor air is safe for all, until vaccines prevent transmission, until there’s a cure for long covid. Until I’m not risking my family’s future on a grocery run. The truth is that however immortal we feel, we are all just one infection away from a new life.”
Please read this key piece by Madeline Miller. The pandemic isn’t over until we can prevent Long COVID. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/
This piece makes a great argument that we can't really consider the pandemic over because millions are suffering from Long COVID. Sadly the Post's editors undermined it by removing the original title “I have long covid. For the millions like me, the pandemic isn’t over,” and categorizing the piece as "post pandemic."
@luckytran "Two of my friends went on to have strokes. A third developed diabetes, a fourth dementia. One died." hot damn.
@luckytran @maloki Typesetter error. Should be
“Post” Pandemic
@luckytran Maybe it's "Post" as in "Washington Post" 
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Pathology indicates that all that have had Covid continue to suffer injury because the virus isn't gone. Focusing on Long Covid plays right into the hands of those that perpetuate ableist and eugenicist narratives. It blames the canary for dying rather than the coal gas that killed it.
@luckytran Honestly, the pandemic isn’t over for anyone, so I’m glad they changed the hed. The new one hits harder IMO, and the first one felt dismissive and less personal.
@luckytran I wonder who influenced the title change?
The pandemic isn't over for the hundreds of thousands people contracting new cases
@luckytran derailed is an understatement. I never leave my house 3.5 yrs and counting. Never had covid hopefully never will. Said goodbye to everything. I have severe asthma. I know what it is like to have your lungs try to drown you. No thanks. 2 years ago I would have paid $100 for a hug; now I would pay $1000 to be assured no one would EVER touch me again. 3 years of #covid nightmares now I am just afraid of people. Thank you for your article. #covidcloister syndrome #CovidIsNotOver
@luckytran I've managed to evade catching Covid-19 for 3.5 years now. But now one of my children will go to school and everyone in my environment with children in school caught it sooner or later. Damn. Hope we can at least get another vaccine shot soon.
@luckytran while I haven't caught covid, I did recently have a flu and it humbled me, I couldn't do anything for a whole day and was out of it