Angela (she/they)

Journalist Sara Murphy is working on a story about the impact of climate disasters on people with #LongCOVID, focusing on the American South. She would love to connect with people who had to manage the recent ice storms and extreme cold, or even previous disasters. Contact: hello@saramurphyphd.com.

Never forget how beautiful this all is. Never stop imagining how much more beautiful it could be.

This is so frustrating and disheartening. I spent months in 2020-21 on this feature about how all psychologists needed to prepare for an influx of Long Covid patients, yet APA's work largely stopped there. www.apa.org/monitor/2021...

A chart with white background with light grey stripes showing virus activity for Ontario

A chart with white background with light grey stripes showing virus activity for Toronto

Ontario wastewater released today…be careful out there, folks!

wwater.ca/Ontario

As most of the COVID -safe/-aware community can tell you, try wearing a mask everywhere & declining indoor eating invitations and then see how many friends you have left.

One reason I'm so disappointed in influencer doctors & scientists with massive platforms who downplay masking is that maskers already face enormous stigma. Public health deserted us. Politicians mock us. But scientists too?

I'll always side with the most vulnerable & powerless

I know, that at this point,
you have more than enough reasons
to be wearing a mask
but considering a new report
has found “data centers’
air pollution associated
with lung issues, death,”
you now have yet another reason.

abled people: can u do the thing?? disabled people:...technically yes BUT it would hurt like hell/ruin my day/trigger a flare/exhaust me/be a fall risk/make me more sick AND THEN i would have to spend a day in bed/increase my dosage/cancel all my other plans/spend a week recovering afterwards abled people:...but you CAN do it [2 people talking 1400s or something] oh, they are such dicks about spoons!

Most accurate thing I've ever read

Recording is now up! bsky.app/profile/bets...

This was a really great event! I'm looking forward to sharing the recording in the next couple of days.

The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure In historical viral epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza and Zika viruses, prenatal exposures were correlated with risk for neuropsychiatric conditio…

“This study reports that in utero SARS-CoV-2 viral exposure was associated with decreased cognitive skills in toddlers at age 2, and this association was mediated by cortical gray matter volumes in the newborn brain.”

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You’re Invited!
February 2026 DJA Community Support Zoom Meeting
Thursday, February 26th, 6-8pm ET / 5pm CT / 4pm MT / 3pm PT
Link for More Information and to Registration:
discojourno.com/event/dja-co...

Screenshot of The Boston Globe article titled “A father fights for his daughter’s future as she struggles with long COVID,” by Felice J. Freyer (updated Feb 20, 2026). Subheading notes researchers now recognize eight forms of long COVID, with slow treatment progress. Main image shows Samantha Crausman, 28, lying in bed wearing an eye mask, covered with a blanket in a dim bedroom with pillows and items nearby. Reflected in the window, her father, Dr. Robert S. Crausman, stands outside on a porch wearing a mask and winter clothing, looking in. The scene highlights strict precautions to avoid reinfection, including limited contact and visitors staying outside.

Samantha Crausman, 28, has had ongoing symptoms since a COVID infection 4 years ago. She and her parents were fully vaccinated when they got COVID in 2022, but only she didn’t recover. At risk of worsening with reinfection, her family still lives with strict pandemic-level protections.

#LongCOVID

Please continue to invite me AND say you will have airborne precautions in place. Then I might ACTUALLY go for longer than an hour.

Please continue to invite me. I enjoy pretending I might go.

A wastewater virus signals chart for Toronto, ON showing a big Covid spike in Feb 2026

#Toronto: we are currently undergoing a big Covid surge.

Get vaxxed, mask, and clean the indoor air.

I get my masks from here: www.masksupplycanada.com

Stay safe out there, everyone! 😷

wwater.ca/g/Ontario/To...

A promotional collage for the LCA SHOP featuring eight Polaroid-style photos showcasing advocacy-themed merchandise. The top row includes: A laptop with a circular sticker that reads "Long Covid: Multisystem, Devastating, Biological." A person with blue hair and neck tattoos wearing a black t-shirt that says "ME/CFS SUCKS" in orange gothic lettering. A person wearing a dark hoodie featuring a colorful portrait of Frida Kahlo and the text "Well behaved women rarely make herstory." A person in sunglasses wearing a navy t-shirt with a hand logo and the text "LONG COVID ADVOCACY." The bottom row includes: A person holding a black tote bag that says "ME/CFS SUCKS." Two people standing back-to-back; one wears a shirt with angel wings on the back, and the other wears a shirt that says "ANGELIC TROUBLEMAKER." A person with a beard wearing a t-shirt listing names of activists (Ali, Chavez, Tubman, etc.) with the letters of "ACTIVIST" highlighted in blue. The back view of a person wear

🎁 If you need to up your advocacy game for Long Covid Awareness Day, March 15th there's still time to order from our shop!

longcovidadvoc.shop

Smartphone screenshot showing two New York Times “Breaking News” push notifications. The first, at 5:38 AM, says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over links to Jeffrey Epstein, citing the BBC. The second, at 2:01 AM, says Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s ousted leader, was found guilty of leading an insurrection over his 2024 martial law decree. Each notification includes a “Share” option and a bell icon.

Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.

I bothered Halifax council about the same issue for the third year in a row. Thank you Terri for live-posting through a very long meeting!

Here are my remarks from this afternoon:

DHS axed its civil rights staff—and opened the door to a major lawsuit The agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable.

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Measles like COVID lingers in the air Mask up and please make sure you're vaccinated

Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain: new study Over 20 million Americans are believed to have long COVID, suffering symptoms such as severe fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness and muscle pain.

As I've said many times before on this platform, the moment I decided that I was going to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2 was the moment I read that acute Covid-19 could cause both cognitive dysfunction and anosmia.

nypost.com/2026/02/10/h...

Second chance to support this exciting Long Covid legislation tomorrow/Tuesday February 10th! Submit your testimony between 8am & 6pm Eastern Time. You don’t have to be in Maryland! Instructions here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Submit Written Testimony Alert!
Tuesday, Feb 10th ONLY!
8am-6pm ET

SB 0392 Long Covid Innovation Grant & Loan Program

Submissions are required to have a my MGA account
NOT required to be a Maryland resident

Please see linked 🧵 for details

#LongCovid

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

Some of us have been screaming this for years

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Ty to my editors at @uwimprint.bsky.social for championing me, and to all the people who spoke on and off the record for that story. I would not be here w/o you! And I hope to keep doing my best to bring these stories to light.

JHM Shortlist | CUP

My Oct 2025 article on the #UWaterloo layoffs and budget cuts got shortlisted for the JHM Labour Reporting Award!
www.cup.ca/jhm-shortlist
Article:
uwimprint.ca/layoffs-what...