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Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

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2 years

2020: cancelling shows due to protective measures. 2022: cancelling shows due to the performer needing to heal from serious health problems caused by "a virus".

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2 years

Is ignoring the giant Summer COVID wave working out well for anyone?

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Does anyone else get the feeling that most people don't realize the negative effects of COVID are more than just death and hospitalization?

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2 years

I was talking to someone about COVID, and they hadn't heard that it can cause diabetes. There's probably a lot of folks like them on this app. So, if you hadn't heard of it before, COVID can cause diabetes.

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Public health 2019: many viruses are serious, should not catch. 2022: many viruses are mild, why don't you try them out for yourself and see how you rate them?

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Does anyone else get the feeling the average person doesn't know long covid is common or that it happens even after mild infections?

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2 years

"EveRYoNeS tIrEd Of PreVeNTiNg CoViD" Not me. I'm not tired of preventing COVID. I'm tired of folks trying to convince everyone that the COVID pandemic is over when it clearly isn't.

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2 years

You're walking down the street and you see this bad boy in a storefront window. How do you feel?

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2 years

WHAT IF "let it rip" was bad for the population's health AND the economy?

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2 years

IDK if everyone, who tries to, will avoid COVID forever, but they'll probably accumulate fewer COVID infections and enjoy more healthier days than if they didn't protect themselves. That's worth a lot.

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2 years

Has anyone else noticed that the more someone knows about long covid or the increased risks associated with infection (ex: diabetes, strokes), the more likely they are to want to avoid covid infection?

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2 years

"YoU CAn'T pReVEnT oMiCrOn IT's tOo TrANsmIsSibLe" What's the explanation for the folks who avoided catching it over 6 months into the wave? Are they all lucky?

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2 years

Why are so many people, who claim to not live in fear of COVID, afraid of masks?

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2 years

The weirdest thing about these high profile articles vilifying mask wearing is: the people who still wear masks do so despite at least a year of peer pressure not to. One more article doesn't mean anything to the people who wear masks. Why waste space and time writing them?

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2 years

I will never understand why someone would worry about someone else wearing a mask.

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2 years

Does anyone else get the feeling that consistently talking as if COVID is (almost) over has actually hindered implementation of more permanent changes that would prevent COVID transmission?

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2 years

Who else is masking, washing hands, and seeking clean air to stay healthy for the holidays?

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2 years

Everyone knows they're at risk for long COVID, right?

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2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but catching COVID now will not necessarily protect you from getting COVID in the future.

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3 years

Has anyone else noticed a correlation between being an antivax leader and supporting Putin's invasion of Ukraine?

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Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

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2 years

WHAT IF living with COVID is living with a lower quality of life?

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2 years

The more I think about the risks associated with a COVID infection, the less I understand why so many employers are ok with workplace spread. It must cost them so much in sick leave and reduced productivity.

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2 years

There's been a lot of talk of personal responsibility wrt COVID. Why does no one talk about an employer's personal responsibility to give employees a safe work environment? Why does no one talk about public health offices' personal responsibility to protect the public's health?

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Did anyone ACTUALLY estimate the costs of "let it rip" vs the alternatives BEFORE declaring it was good for the economy?

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2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but businesses who mitigate COVID will do better than ones who don't. W/ COVID, employees can get sick more often or for longer. Customers as well. How would allowing COVID spread be good for business?

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2 years

Does anyone get the feeling some folks don't know COVID can affect your brain?

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2 years

Everyone knows masks prevent flu spread too, right?

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2 years

Why do so few people care about the vulnerable dying from COVID, or 20% of COVID infections developing into long COVID, but so many people care if someone protects themselves "too much" against COVID?

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2 years

2020: prevent COVID spread to prevent hospital collapse due to COVID hospitalizations. 2022: prevent COVID spread to prevent hospital collapse due to long COVID.

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3 years

Masks are too inconvenient? What's the alternative? Being sick w/ covid 2-3 times a year? Sounds exhausting.

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2 years

Does anyone else get the feeling that most people don't know you can get COVID multiple times?

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2 years

If you think this has nothing to do with COVID mass infection, I have a bridge to sell you.

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2 years

Pants are unnecessary to wear in a car alone. But, it is convenient to keep them on if you're going between public places. Same with masks. I hope that makes some folks less mad at strangers in cars.

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2 years

If these rich and famous folks can't avoid reinfection, or long lasting effects from COVID infection with the vaccine only approach to the pandemic, what chance do you have? We need to change course.

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2 years

Does anyone else miss the times when health authorities didn't approve of catching a virus that could maim, hospitalize, or kill you?

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2 years

Some folks don't know COVID maims more than it kills.

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2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it is Normal to change your behavior to protect yourself when your environment becomes less safe, for example if your community's COVID levels increase.

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2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there are more than just 2 options for controlling COVID spread. It isn't just between lockdown and "let it rip".

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2 years

Did anyone ACTUALLY estimate the costs of "let it rip" vs the alternatives BEFORE declaring it was good for the economy?

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2 years

Everyone knows someone with lasting damage from COVID by now, right?

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2 years

New pandemic phase just dropped: Long COVID is real and real expensive.

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2 years

"How long are you going to wear a mask?" I'll wear one until covid risks subside. It's easy to take off a mask. It's hard to recover from long covid or death.

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2 years

IDK why folks make it complicated. While COVID is still maiming and killing people, if I am inside a public place or outside in a crowd, I wear a mask. No need to do calculus. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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2 years

"For now, even vaccinated, boosted, and previously infected people aren’t immune to Long COVID. Any infection could lead to lingering complications, which underscores the importance of limiting exposure to the virus as much as possible." Thanks for saying it clearly @TIME 👏👏👏

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2 years

Does anyone else find it ironic that the CDC director tweeted a useless recommendation to wash hands to prevent respiratory viruses, then tested COVID positive within 24 hours of it?

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2 years

Long covid isn't like the Easter bunny. You don't need to believe in it for it to exist.

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2 years

WHAT IF it wasn't good to continually catch COVID?

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2 years

Taking precautions against COVID isn't living in fear of it. It's lowering a normal day's risk down as close as possible to 2019 levels. Who wants to get disabled grocery shopping if preventable? Not me.

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Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

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2 years

You're at risk for long COVID. Everyone's at risk for long COVID.

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2 years

Ok. Let me get this straight. We're going to be surprised everytime a new COVID wave comes? That's the"living with COVID" plan?

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2 years

Wow. Even McKinsey is catching on that mild acute COVID leads to productivity losses, and therefore, negatively affects the economy. And of course, long COVID, severe COVID, and fatal COVID also negatively affect the economy (and people's health, QOL, finances, etc).

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2 years

Long COVID can affect anyone. Therefore, wearing a mask isn't some favor you're doing for the clinically vulnerable. You're doing a favor for you. Everyone is better off when they prevent COVID.

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2 years

Does anyone else feel as though most people don't know that putting yourself at risk of catching COVID is orders of magnitude more risky than the everyday risks people take (driving, smoking, drinking, etc)?

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2 years

It just occurred to me. Now that we're "living with COVID", that means we will be sicker/need more sick days on average bc most folks will catch COVID at least once per year in addition to the other sicknesses. Has anyone's employer increased the number of sick days?

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2 years

Here's an idea: how about we don't purposefully infect kids with a novel virus until after we know how it might affect their development?

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2 years

Does anyone else get the feeling that relying only on vaccines and past infection aren't enough for omicron?

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2 years

The absolute best case scenario after a COVID infection is you are as healthy as you were before. There are some bad scenarios as well like long COVID and death. Immunity from infection is fleeting. There is no upside to an infection. Why take the risk?

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2 years

Why do "learning to live with COVID" folks advocate against learning to protect yourself from it? Masks, air filters, etc.

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2 years

Have your employers figured out that rampant COVID spread in their workforce is disruptive to productivity, continuity of service, etc?

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2 years

Imagine thinking mass infection would improve the economy.

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3 years

Wow. 😐 Today the Danish CDC announced: * 30% ppl who caught covid have long covid 6-12 after * 60% of Danes had omicron 18% of 🇩🇰 will have long covid 6+ months later w/those numbers. Grim. For Danes, Denmark, and anyone following their trajectory.

Statens Serum Inst.

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SSI estimates that 59% of the adult Danes have been infected with covid-19 since November. It's the conclusion from the results of the 3rd round of the blood donor study for covid-19 antibodies

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My husband on his COVID experience: "I've never been sick for this long." It's been 2 weeks. The next one could be 2 weeks. This isn't taking into account the risk of long COVID. Who has time to keep on catching COVID?

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We're still discovering the long term impacts of COVID and will for decades to come. But, it's important to highlight that we know enough _today_ to know COVID is bad for you on average. 🧵

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2 years

If you value your brain, prevent COVID.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but kids mass infected with a novel virus is a *bad thing*. There is no way to know the long term effects of COVID on someone who is still developing. Kids can't understand this and make personal risk assessments. Adults have to protect them.

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Does anyone else feel like some folks don't know you can get reinfected with COVID?

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Is anyone else getting the feeling that the increased disruptions and destruction since 2020 wasn't mainly from the protective measures but actually from COVID itself?

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US registered COVID deaths in the last 12 months: 380k US estimated flu deaths in deadliest recent season (2017-18): 61k The past year's COVID deaths are higher than the worst recent year's flu deaths by a factor of 5. COVID is still deadlier than the flu.

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Experts in Switzerland are calling for clean indoor air to mitigate COVID, and other pathogens, spread. Do you agree we should clean indoor air?

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but infection isn't inevitable.

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Why do people think that we can't lower COVID, flu, or other disease spread? What do you think happened to Cholera, Polio, or small pox? They just got bored and went away, or we humans interrupted their spread? Which is more likely?

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It shouldn't be a controversial opinion that the number of kids requiring liver transplant per year should always decrease. The new hepatitis is not tolerable.

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Did anyone ACTUALLY estimate the costs of "let it rip" vs the alternatives BEFORE declaring it was good for the economy?

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Did anyone ACTUALLY estimate the costs of "let it rip" vs the alternatives BEFORE declaring it was good for the economy?

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That Germany slipped into recession last year is often attributed to global crises. A new study comes to a different conclusion: without the record high level of sickness, the economy would have grown in 2023. On average, each employee had 20 sick days.

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This is damning. 1 in 12 triple vaxxed infections develop into long COVID. The vax lowers your chance of long COVID, but critically, it doesn't eliminate it. That's an incredibly important point for your quality of life. Source: UK's @ONS

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Let's get this straight. Everyone agrees that COVID is going to be here for a long time. But, only a few want to do ANYTHING to mitigate the associated risks? Make it make sense.

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"If you care so much about preventing disease, the flu was always causing harm. Why didn't you wear a mask pre 2020?" I didn't know how. Then I learned how to wear a mask in 2020. Now I know how to wear a mask. Therefore, I wear a mask to prevent diseases. It isn't a gotcha.

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2 years

With flu season coming up, and COVID season being all year round, I have to ask: What's stopping health authorities from recommending masks and clean air to prevent them? The past 3 years showed those are much more effective than washing hands.

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Just remember: when someone tries to convince you (re)infections aren't that big of a deal, they aren't staking their (quality of) life on that assertion, they're staking yours. There's a huge difference.

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I'm old enough to remember when we just accepted certain viruses were bad without having to experience why ourselves.

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2 years

Oops

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2 years

Mark my words, no good will come of a COVID infection.

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1 year

Folks are complaining about getting sick a lot more now that Wintwrs coming back. Genuine question: do people really not remember how much masking reduced other respiratory illnesses in 20/21? Why don't they wear masks again?

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2 years

Who else wants to be #DavosSafe ?

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2 years

Born in the pandemic. Died of the pandemic. 🕯 Society failed this 23 month old. How many more kids, who never experienced a non-pandemic world, are we going to fail?

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Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

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By the way, this is no dig on anyone who didn't know about COVID's association with higher diabetes diagnosis rates. This shows a failure of communication from public health to allow folks to make _informed_ decisions. An underinformed population is their failure.

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Does anyone get the feeling that many folks don't know eating right and working out doesn't do much to prevent long COVID?

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Big oops. It's not even accounting for: "If a 35-year-old dies of a heart attack or stroke three months after having acute covid, the death is not likely to be coded as long covid," @zalaly said.

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"Everyone is suddenly an expert on COVID and it's risks. 🙄🙄🙄" Everyone was told to make their personal risk assessment for COVID. What did you expect?

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The CDC estimates 8% of US adults are experiencing long COVID as of early July. 👀Here's the estimate of % of adults with long COVID by state.

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Megan Ben Dor Ruthven

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Well I'll be. Mass infection isn't good for even young people's health. It isn't good for the economy.

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With COVID cases increasing, is everyone ready for their officials to be surprised, again?

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The @CDCgov estimates 1 in 13 US adults have long COVID so far. That's high enough as it is. We should stop while we're behind.

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It is normal to want to protect your kids, even from a novel virus that has been shown to damage organs.

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Folks are waking up to the unfortunate reality of COVID. "Many people are being reinfected, and long-term immunity is limited. This seems to be an unfortunate feature of the biology of Covid-19". Better now than later. 👏

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Wearing a mask in public isn't living in fear. It's NOT fearing what others will think of you trying to protect yourself and others. You're brave for masking. Thanks for protecting. 😷

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I think many people think about long COVID as symptoms that continue from your initial infection. But, I'm getting the idea that long COVID symptoms can start weeks after you've recovered. Has that happened to anyone?

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Testing paradox: getting rid of testing doesn't make COVID go away, it actually enables more COVID spread than if there was more testing (and subsequent isolation).

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Does anyone get the feeling some folks still don't know that COVID is NOT one and done? It can reinfect.

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Everyone has to know someone with long term effects from COVID by now, right?

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