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"There was a recent 2024 study that showed us that individuals who survive an acute COVID-19 infection (...) on average will lose somewhere in the neighbourhood of two to six IQ points per infection."
"although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."
Seriously, wear a mask 😷 .

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing long COVID.

Good article summarizing a lot of things relevant to continued COVID'19 caution:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
Key points:
COVID'19 weakens the immune system:
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So it's not just about infecting you and causing respiratory illness and fever and all of the things that we usually get with the viral infection. This virus also specifically causes your immune system to become weaker.
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It damages blood vessels:
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In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
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The folk idea that infections make our immune system stronger and stronger like a muscle just isn't true (or at least, doesn't apply to COVID'19 because of how, unlike most other viruses, it damages the immune system):
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For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.
The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.
"""

Combo flu-COVID vaccine shows good immune response, safety in older adults:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/combo-flu-covid-vaccine-shows-good-immune-response-safety-older-adults

This framing of long COVID is uh chilling. Not masking in public sure seems dumb.
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/long-covid-mode-seeing-the-crisis-through-games/

Researchers have discovered a breakthrough link between
organ failure and long Covid
after overcoming contentious Covid-era autopsy regulations
and one of the medical profession’s most high-profile legal disputes.
https://archive.md/TrZ32

Conflict Stories Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

excellent analysis of covid state of play
From Julia Doubleday.
"Each time a new wave crops up, the media scrambles to let the public know that COVID is spreading “again” ... But each time, it fails to inform the public that nearly half of COVID cases are asymptomatic, that COVID looks different in different patients, that vaccines do not prevent infections, that rapid tests have high false negative rates, and that COVID is fully airborne.
"Taken together, the virus I’m describing is much more difficult to control than the one the press presents. The press frames the virus as something that can be halted by familiarizing yourself with the symptoms, staying home once you feel sick and test positive, and avoided altogether by simply getting vaccinated or keeping ones’ distance from sick people. ...
"The misinformation that reigns in liberal spaces is not the result of accidental miscommunication. People don’t know that the virus is asymptomatic 40% of the time because there is simply no universe where that virus is controllable without an elimination strategy, or a day-to-day mitigation strategy."
#covid #misinformation #denial #CovidIsAirborne

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A network of Linux (v3.16) source code file inclusion. Nodes represent source files and a directed edge indicates if one file includes another.
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ford f150, red paint subtly chipped, with a "new driver" sticker on the back.

Kash Patel claims 'breakthrough' in Fauci COVID origins probe (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337460-fauci-fbi-investigation-breakthrough-patel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p152#a250606p152