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Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social
Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social

There will be a reckoning, I fear, for how we allow children to be repeatedly infected with #COVID19

STUDY: "Significant cardiac changes in adolescents post-COVID-19 indicate the risk of cardiovascular complications and the need for long-term follow-up. Significant cardiac changes, including increased fatigue, cardiac arrhythmia, and inadequate night-time BP decrease, have been identified in adolescents. Heart rhythm abnormalities were found in 35% of children."

https://brieflands.com/articles/ircrj-161434

Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social

Just so I'm clear: The people who believed a single anonymous source about Democrats in a nonexistent pizza restaurant basement now think it's just fine that 1,000 FBI agents reviewed 100,000 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to remove Trump's name.

Make that make sense, please.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-name-redacted-epstein-files-public-figures-2107647

Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social

New data on disabilities in the workforce has been released by the Federal Reserve, and we're at a record level of disabilities that are still rising. Disabilities in the US started rapidly rising right about the time we got tired of masks and decided repeated reinfections with #COVID19 was no big deal. Despite thousands of studies that find COVID can affect chronic health, we continue to pretend that this abrupt and continuing 40% increase in disabilities is a mystery.

Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social

Year 6 of the #COVID19 pandemic is about to start.

Infections aren't as deadly as they were, but the harm from accumulating reinfections is a story that will slowly be understood in the years to come.

With few taking any precautions, even during surges, and less than 25% of Americans taking advantage of COVID vaccines the last two years, we're inviting more reinfections, more viral evolution, more Long COVID, and more accumulating damage to health.

Take some care in 2025, friends.

Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social

Every time I post objective info about #COVID19, some idiot responds with a variation of β€œWhat do you expect us to do, isolate forever?” or β€œDo you expect society to shut down?”

Black-or-white strawmen arguments drive me crazy. There is a world of things we can do between β€œpretend COVID doesn't exist” and β€œlock ourselves away forever.” In fact, if we did those things--safe air in public places, masks & behavior changes when COVID surges--we could control COVID & save the health of millions.