DJT is very sick, & Canada should take these expansionist fantasies seriously. I'm just amazed that there is apparently nothing he can do - deeply offensive, outright criminal, or abjectly incompetent - that will trigger his removal from the presidency. The tolerance is breathtaking.
I suffered from extreme respiratory distress for the first couple of years of my (still ongoing) #LongCOVID. I tried every breathing exercise there was. I still felt like I was suffocating, & my hands & lips remained cyanotic.
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Up until then, I had given up on ever riding a bike again. Given up on a very old love.
Because in March 2020, #LongCOVID destroyed my quadriceps, & riding a bike became painfully impossible. It also caused my (still undiagnosed) atrial fibrillation to spike horribly.
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I still remember the day I overcame my misgivings about e-bikes, got one, & found myself flying through the air, suffused with joy, reclaiming a little of what I had lost -
open.substack.com/pub/theheath...
No, you cannot breathe your way out of #LongCOVID -
#FalseHope monetized
longcovidbreathing.com
Long Covid Awareness Day is not only about recognition — it’s about prevention.
Covid infections are not inevitable. Clean indoor air and better protections can reduce risk.
Read our chair's blog 👇
shh-uk.org/why-covid...
#LongCovidAwarenessDay #SafeAir4All
"No one cared."
"Medical facilities have handled Long COVID the same way they have the ongoing pandemic: ignore it and hope it goes away."
"[W]e must continue to pressure medical institutions to require N95 masks and HEPA filtration."
#Oregon #USA #Healthcare #Eugenics
Message from Meghan Krausch, PhD -
#LongCOVID
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This is what really happened, and it's still happening -
"...apartheid became a ghost that still eats at the table":
open.substack.com/pub/nkhensan...
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[* I was a journalist &, like some of our friends, my partner was a conscientious objector: he was court marshalled for refusing to serve in the #SADF.
My cousin was detained by the security police for 6 weeks because of his anti-apartheid activism, & consequently suffered a mental breakdown].
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"The real lesson from South Africa is that a police state wounds the people it claims to protect.
A society that targets newspapers, universities, migrants and protesters ultimately makes its supporters’ lives miserable, too".
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But in my years in South Africa, living in rural Afrikaner towns as well as in cities, I’ve heard much more about the shock white South Africans felt at how warmly their neighbors and colleagues of color have treated them than I’ve heard complaints about the opposite".
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That never happened in 🇿🇦 South Africa.
"That seems hard for people who never experienced such a total upending of a political hierarchy to understand.
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"The cautionary tale was this: if formerly oppressed people got enough power, they would inevitably pursue retribution – even an annihilation programme" -
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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@davidfajgenbaum.bsky.social, please consider including #LongCOVID in #EveryCure's Drug Repurposing Portfolio 🙏
everycure.org/portfolio/
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And AI is proving particularly useful in finding treatments for rare diseases that are often overlooked by pharmaceutical companies, due to the lack of financial incentive afforded by so few potential patients".
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But while Faigenbaum is the most prominent scientist to have leveraged AI in this way, others are already making breakthroughs. At Harvard Medical School, an AI model found nearly 8,000 approved drugs that could potentially be repurposed to treat 17,000 different diseases.
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In 2022, Fajgenbaum set up a nonprofit called #EveryCure, using machine learning to compare thousands of drugs against thousands of diseases. The most promising are tested in laboratories or sent to doctors who are willing to experiment.
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By repurposing these drugs to treat other conditions, patients get treatments they would not have otherwise.
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David Fajgenbaum's "...experience opened his eyes to the potential that exists in the many thousands of drugs that have already been through the extensive safety testing required to make it to market.
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Now use AI to investigate the off-label use of existing drugs to treat #LongCOVID -
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
"Things don’t always work out in the end. We have to face that and accept that our worst nightmare as a 🇨🇦 nation has become our reality".
Yes.
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"The Government of Yukon is announcing that #ErikNielsen Whitehorse International #Airport is now a member of the #HiddenDisabilities Sunflower network, a global initiative that helps make travel more inclusive for people with non-visible disabilities":
yukon.ca/en/news/erik...
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Good news (and about time) -
Because up until now, medical travellers from the #Yukon were often supplied with these lanyards in Vancouver hospitals, only to travel back to an airport staffed by people who didn't know what they meant.
@yukon.ca
@yukonassembly.bsky.social
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In happier days, when for several years, we watched military aircraft practicing their maneuvers over #Doha, never for a moment imagining how necessary this would prove in 2026 -
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And an hour ago on X, this @aljazeera.com report, and kudos to them for putting it in parentheses -
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▶️ "Weaponizing disinformation as part of an autocratic playbook carries stark implications" -
▶️ "...controlling the message and intimidating the messengers at once" -
#MariusDragomir
@mjrc.bsky.social
perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...
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"MOD also called on citizens, residents, & visitors to remain calm, adhere to the instructions issued by security authorities, avoid being misled by rumours, & rely solely on official statements and information":
www.khaleejtimes.com/world/gulf/q...
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This explains why, lately, it has been difficult to find news of #Doha -
"Officials urged residents and visitors not to film, share, or circulate clips related to ongoing field developments":
www.qatarmoments.com/nearly-200-a...
