From the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have raised concerns about the potential for long-term health problems linked to SARS-CoV-2 and warned repeated infections are likely to increase the risk.
An association between COVID and cardiovascular disease emerged quickly.
And now — almost exactly four years since the first case was discovered in Wuhan — a growing body of scientific research is cautiously linking the inflammation caused by a COVID infection to diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well as autoimmune conditions from bowel disease to rheumatoid arthritis.
The virus has even been suggested to impact some pregnant women, associated with double the risk of premature delivery.
As the eighth COVID wave hits Australia, experts are taking notice.
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When the first wave of COVID patients began reporting loss of smell and taste, Barnham’s radar went up.
“Any time you see olfactory impairment it tells you that there’s going to be neurological impact,” he says. “Loss of smell is a cardinal, pre-clinical symptom of Parkinson’s disease and it’s been implicated in Alzheimer’s disease as well.”
The fact that COVID patients reported loss of smell not only during the active phase of the disease, but as a persistent symptom, suggested to Barnham that longer-term health consequences were likely. Loss of smell is associated with loss of brain volume.
I hate it when your parents are like “I know you better than you know yourself!” Like no you don’t
Like oh, you’re an expert on the inner machinations of my psyche? Name three of my top ten existential dreads
“But I raised you!” Ya and the only version of me that you know is the one I carefully crafted so that you wouldn’t ask me questions because it became obvious early on you couldn’t handle the honest answers
I don’t think I’m meant to be employed. It really cuts into my goofy silly haha time. and it makes it nearly impossible to have any wow life is beautiful let me take it in time.
why this is textbook antisemitism and also religious persecution: the Jewish community of Williamsburg, Virginia has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with the bombing. They do not make policy, they do not have control of a foreign sovereign government (*Israelis* should not be blamed for that either btw). They are being discriminated against for being Jewish. This is a cancellation of a holiday celebration because that holiday is Jewish. Suppressing Judaism and Jewish people from coming together is prejudicial. There have been menorah lighting cancellations in multiple cities (after pushback, one in the UK was reversed. every incident of this should be met with pushback). when we tell you this is harmful, please believe us. Jews of the diaspora being punished and threatened does not help anything. demonizing Jewishness to the point where it can’t publicly be seen lest it be “controversial” is not only antisemitic, it is dangerous.
The Jewish Community of the Virginia Peninsula is shocked and alarmed at LoveLight Placemaking’s decision to cancel a menorah lighting scheduled for the Second Sundays Art and Music Festival on Dec 10 in Williamsburg – claiming it did not want to appear to choose sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict. To be clear, the menorah lighting, which was to be led by a local community rabbi, had nothing to do with Israel or the conflict.
Yet, appallingly, the event organizer claimed that a Chanukah celebration would send a message that the festival was “supporting the killing/bombing of thousands of men, women, and children,” – and even went a step further, by offering to reinstate the event if it was done under a banner calling for a ceasefire.
We should be very clear: it is antisemitic to hold Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s policies and actions, and to require a political litmus test for Jews’ participation in community events that have nothing to do with Israel. Those standards would never be applied to another community.
Since October 7th, we have repeatedly seen cases of Jewish people and institutions – including synagogues, Jewish homes and businesses – being targeted, sometimes violently, by those opposed to Israel or its actions. At a time of well-documented, rising antisemitism, the singling out and targeting of Jews is dangerous and harmful, serving to further exclude and alienate our community.
The Second Sundays Art & Music Festival has been a meaningful and important community event that brings people together under a powerful message of unity, love and light. Excluding Jewish participation from a festival that should welcome everyone undermines its very message. We call on LoveLight Placemaking to reconsider our request to engage in dialogue, educate themselves on the harmfulness of their decision, and reinstate the apolitical Menorah ceremony at the event.
Shout out to the Tall, Fat, Wide, and deep voiced trans women who get disregarded and discarded because we can’t and won’t fit into a Shitty, Little Gender Box For Your Pleasure
This goes double for the trans women in our own community who discard and disregard us for the same reason
AND DON’T FORGET OUR BLACK SISTERS AND SISTERS OF COLOR
I’m reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of ‘making the desert bloom,’ was done to 'de-Arabize’ the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.
And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)
Many of these European trees are planted by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Unfortunately, many Jewish people (myself included) have trees planted by the JNF in our “honor,” on the occasions of our births or b'nai mitzvot. You can donate to Stop The JNFas well as donate to their efforts to plant native trees in Palestine. The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) also has a campaignfor planting olive trees and grape vines in Palestine.
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