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“In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, medical supply shortages got so severe that nurses fashioned masks and gowns out of pool noodles and trash bags.”
Covid History
Ireland's Covid inquiry has been going on for over two months, here's what it's found out
Doctor sounds alarm bells about expansive use of Ventilators during Covid
Other nations had a pandemic reckoning. Why hasn’t the US?
Imagine a story that starts with a leak. Not just any leak—an engineered pathogen, maybe a bioweapon, released by accident or hubris. The initial response? Remarkable. Swift, focused, global. But then—stall. Not because the crisis was over, but because the implications were too
“Imagine a story that starts with a leak. Not just any leak—an engineered pathogen, maybe a bioweapon, released by accident or hubris. The initial response? Remarkable. Swift, focused, global. But then—stall. Not because the crisis was over, but because the implications were too unbearable.
To stop this virus meant changing how we lived. Cleaning the air. Wearing masks. Every day. Forever. And so, the public—spoon-fed lies by the status quo—chose the comfort of denial. The elites, deeply invested in preserving profit over people, sold the myth of “normalcy.” And the masses bought it wholesale. Soon came the exit ramps. Monoclonal antibodies—shut down. A promising protein-based vaccine from the little-guy company? Silenced. Buried. Anything that threatened the billion-dollar vaccine oligopoly or called for actual structural change was swept off the table. Because now—they told us—COVID was no longer important. Red states, the first to abandon public health altogether, dragged the science-forward communities into apathy. Collective fatigue was reframed as rationality. And just like that, masking—like every other preventative health behavior we fail to maintain (don’t smoke, don’t drink too much, exercise regularly)—was dropped. Only this time, it wasn’t just personal risk. It was communal air.
We could have given every school the same protections afforded to New England’s CDC directors and White House science advisors. But we didn’t. Instead, we said fuck Florence Nightingale and chose to reenact an Amber Heard–Johnny Depp toxic drama with our own public health system—shitting the bed on the simplest, most effective intervention of all: clean air.
Now, the former left-wing “health justice” crowd is out here farting their carcinogenic apathy, while a billionaire MD who might actually have something useful is selling his science on right-wing conspiracy TV. Like this script wasn’t bizarre enough already. Trump, ironically, helped his base discover death. And Biden? He finished the job for the lingerers. Now Trump is back—this time aiming to kill us in ten million other ways, with Measles Man (RFK Jr.) warning about food dye while ignoring the most contagious, immune-wrecking, airborne pathogen humanity has ever seen.
COVID isn’t over. It’s a vascular accelerant. A neurological saboteur. A viral remnant with no cure, no test, no reliable treatment, and no honest public reckoning. And yet here we are. Gaslit, infected, distracted. Coughing our way into oblivion.”
COVID-19 Made Our Brains Age Faster
Opinion | A Movie About the Year America Went Fully Berserk
“I have felt desperate for more art about this moment, and I’m always excited when I encounter anything that’s grappling with whatever’s happening,”
'Somebody needs to do it'
IntegralAnswers (@IntegralAnswers) on X
“In 2003, a novel coronavirus swept through Hong Kong, China, and Toronto.
It moved fast, killed quickly, and changed how we saw infectious disease.
This is the story of SARS: whistleblowers, cover-ups, and fear.”
Lessons from COVID-19 I: Mercenaries
COVID podcast tells Vermont pandemic stories
“You lived through COVID-19, and now you can listen to survivors’ stories from across Vermont.
The Life Became Very Blurry podcast documents life during the pandemic through the eyes of everyone from health care workers to families. It’s a unique piece of history, and for some interviewees, it’s empowering.”
Public health still hasn’t reckoned with which Covid policies and interventions failed
“If science is to reclaim credibility, it must be seen interrogating its own failures, not shielding them”
If science is to reclaim credibility, it must be seen interrogating its own failures, not shielding them
The post-Covid world is only just becoming clear
COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told.
Daughter still seeking answers 5 years after mother's death from COVID in nursing home
5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The response of the emWorld Socialist Web Site/em
A Review of “In Covid’s Wake”: According to Laptop Class Professors, the Heroes of the Pandemic Were Laptop Class Professors
“The authors of the Great Barrington Declaration prevented fair and honest discussion by constantly spreading fake information. The authors of a new book don’t care at all.”
The authors of the Great Barrington Declaration prevented fair and honest discussion by constantly spreading fake information. The authors of a new book don’t care at all.
@chrischirp.bsky.social on Bluesky
“This is what I said about lockdown being a terrible choice, but that the alternative was also terrible. And it wasn't just about deaths either. 1/3”
5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure
"We've seen so much long COVID in just the last year or two."
A spring break that didn't end: 5 years later, COVID's impact still felt in Brevard schools
5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
“Failure to reasonably presume, then later accept the airborne spread of COVID and operationalize the appropriate structural mitigations is at the source of every major shortcoming in our response to the pandemic, and every major form of physical, mental, economic and social harm it has brought about. It doomed our public health, social and economic responses, ensuring they would not be fully effective, appropriately targeted and minimally disruptive, ultimately leading to many divisions in society we see today.”
Failure to reasonably presume, then later accept the airborne spread of COVID and operationalize the appropriate structural mitigations is at the source of every major shortcoming in our response to the pandemic, and every major form of physical, mental, economic and social harm it has brought about. It doomed our public health, social and economic responses, ensuring they would not be fully effective, appropriately targeted and minimally disruptive, ultimately leading to many divisions in society we see today.
COVID-19 Impact: How the virus changed our lives 5 years later
I don’t think it’s widely appreciated yet just how much COVID disinformation is an assault on democracy. COVID conspiracy theories were the best recruitment tool for the far right in decades. They’ve left us damaged—undermined faith in our governing institutions, science, and modern medicine.— Walker Bragman (@walkerbragman.bsky.social) 2025-03-08T16:32:33.464Z
“I don’t think it’s widely appreciated yet just how much COVID disinformation is an assault on democracy.
COVID conspiracy theories were the best recruitment tool for the far right in decades.
They’ve left us damaged—undermined faith in our governing institutions, science, and modern medicine.”
It was known (and publicized) in 2020-21 that COVID causes organ damage (lungs, brain, heart, etc.). But that was shushed up in 2022 with the Biden administration’s rush return to “normal” for the sake of the economy. Now 5 years in come the “Emerging evidence is beginning to show…” articles.— #9 Dream (@gayfabfourfan.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T16:33:36.180Z
“It was known (and publicized) in 2020-21 that COVID causes organ damage (lungs, brain, heart, etc.). But that was shushed up in 2022 with the Biden administration’s rush return to “normal” for the sake of the economy. Now 5 years in come the “Emerging evidence is beginning to show…” articles.”
Pandemic Deemed 'Over' by 59%, yet Future Health Crisis Feared
40% of Americans say life will never get back to “normal.”
11% say they have Long Covid.
21% say they are very (3%) or somewhat (18%) worried about getting Covid.
58%, are worried that there will be another global pandemic in their lifetime, including 16% who are “very worried” and 42% “somewhat worried.”
5% say they “always” or “very often” wear a mask outside their home, and 13% do so “sometimes.” 28% “rarely” wear a mask, and 54% “never” do.
COVID Impact: 5 years later
ABC 7 New York: COVID Impact: 5 years later
“Researchers don't have all the answers to that, Hsu said. But large numbers of people - many of them previously young, active and healthy - ‘are now effectively disabled because of long COVID.’”
Opinion | How Covid Remade America
“the world does not seem now more buoyant or full of hope, but abrasive and rapacious and shaped nearly everywhere by a barely suppressed rage. We have still not reckoned with all we have lost.”
Covid rules should have been same across UK, Simon Hart says
“Rules to try to limit the spread of Covid during the pandemic should have been the same across the UK, a former cabinet minister has said. Simon Hart has claimed ‘politics in the decision-making’ led to different restrictions on things like wearing face masks in Wales and England after being agreed by their respective governments. ‘I just didn't feel that decisions were being made purely on the basis of disease control and risk management,’ said the former Welsh secretary and MP.”
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Right you lovely people. It's time to talk about the Third Bump again.
Strap in, this isn't good news. Just to give you a quick recap: Before the pandemic started, annual rates of sickness, new onset disability, and death were pretty constant here…”