I don’t know how many times this needs to be said. But, COVID is NOT ‘JUST LIKE THE FLU’.

IT.IS.NOT.

This is TRUTH

If you have active #COVID, please do not get on a flight, train, bus, or other public transportation. Even if you feel okay you could infect someone else and kill them. Isolate until you are negative. Please do not kill other people. This should not need to be said.

— Myra Batchelder #VaccinesPlus #WearAMask (@myrabatchelder) December 27, 2022

COVID IS REAL.
Long COVID is very real.
And, it’s affecting MILLIONS.

And, we, as a country, need to deal with the ramifications of Long COVID.

1/ I want to try and explain why the current ‘living with Covid’ is not really the best way to be living with it.

🔵nearly everyone I know who went to Xmas meals or parties is sick. The pay off for meeting people&doing nice things is being sick.
🔵 This is not freedom…read on

— Dr Claire Taylor (@drclairetaylor) December 27, 2022

3/ IF one person in every 500 has Covid& people test and stay home if sick-if you go to a pub or restaurant there is a much lower chance of someone having Covid. 🦠
🔵 result is not having a pay off for meeting up with people and having fun. 😀

— Dr Claire Taylor (@drclairetaylor) December 27, 2022

5/That would be MORE freedom than we have now✔️
🔵 not having a pay off of being sick after a night out
🔵 protecting our future health. Remember Covid damages blood vessels. Every part of our body needs a blood supply. 🩸
🔵Reducing chances of long Covid

— Dr Claire Taylor (@drclairetaylor) December 27, 2022

7/ when it does end we can either
🔵 have avoided infections as much as possible with the above measures and hopefully protected our bloods vessels, immune system&brain ✔️
🔵have protected children ✔️
🔴 or carry on as we are and sustain ongoing damage to our bodies 🩸

— Dr Claire Taylor (@drclairetaylor) December 27, 2022

9/ I have seen countless people
🔴 lose their jobs to long Covid (yes self employed too)
Long Covid is not mind over matter. It is a multisystem vasculitis.
🔴 lose their houses
🔴 lose their families (if they don’t believe them)
🔴 lose their previously Perfect health

— Dr Claire Taylor (@drclairetaylor) December 27, 2022

Addendum- new variants. We don’t know how mild/lethal they might be.
The more people have Covid, the more it mutates, the more variants we have. Viral soup and luck of the draw which variants take hold.
🔵let’s not have regrets if we get a worse variant that it was avoidable 😢

— Dr Claire Taylor (@drclairetaylor) December 27, 2022

I FEEL THIS TWEET.
You can’t call 46 everything but a child of God, after all that he and his Administration have done to mitigate COVID, and we live amongst selfish phucks that believe it’s their right to go around infecting people.

I missed the “calling out” part and I’m glad. The other part: Govt has said to mask, not travel, provided free vaccines/boosters, free tests, and folks complained and refused all of it. Don’t whine about the consequences of your choices. The rest of us are tired. pic.twitter.com/h4PgiKa4fS

— ℝ𝕠𝕓𝕪𝕟 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕥 💛💙✊🏾Vote💙EveryTime (@gimli0413) December 27, 2022

An estimated 19M US adults are living w/ #LongCovid. A survey of 3042 adults examined the persistence of symptoms—fatigue, poor concentration & shortness of breath—lasting >4 wks after recovery. Symptoms found in ~7.3%, translating into ~19M US adults https://t.co/zOf91tCskk pic.twitter.com/xE8CKIfV0f

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) December 27, 2022

Autopsies show #Covid in the brain. How can a respiratory virus—SARSCoV2—cause the nervous system to go haywire? That's a question scientists posed in January & it's still being asked nearly a year later. Neurologic complications are diverse & long-lasting https://t.co/ofVjmylQjd

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) December 27, 2022

PRRI found that 59% of Americans agree that getting a COVID vaccine is a way to live out the religious principle of loving your neighbors, while 40% disagree.

The share of Americans who agreed with this statement increased over 2021. https://t.co/lKR4gnGZEB

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) December 25, 2022

I'm not doing any of that, I'm just wearing a mask. There's no rational reason for me to catch it sooner rather than later and no logical explanation other than perhaps a post-viral cognitive disability for you to have a problem with my personal choice. https://t.co/9GUlxAXmvc

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) December 23, 2022

Chinese looked at wealthy countries with Paxolovid, a variety of vaccines, and far more ICU beds per capita as indications of what they could expect if they decided to "live with COVID". We don't have those things and we didn't get them during the three years we could have.

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) December 25, 2022

People keep trying to share their medicine and the postal service keeps opening and stealing the packages so they can sell the pills to scalpers for a huge markup. They stole a big package I had sent from the US😞 No way to complain or do anything though so need to hide them… pic.twitter.com/NFcKH3ATLE

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) December 24, 2022

It's not that we're all superstitious, it's that we literally cannot buy evidence-based medicine. The stores are all out, it's stolen from packages when we try to import it from abroad, and we can't get booster shots even a year after our last vaccination. People are desperate. https://t.co/gof76zkYZq

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) December 27, 2022

One of these days, we need to have a national conversation of the White Supremacist underpinnings of the anti-vaxx, anti-protection from COVID measures.