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Perspective…and the number keeps growing #TreatLongCovid (image from this story: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMzoCN…)
Melissa Mazur
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Melissa Mazur
@PhillyPhile215
Just a Philly girl, livin' in a lonely world…and a Luddite learning to Twitter. #LongCovid since March 2020 || Lawyer on Pause
Joined July 2021
- Me to mammogram tech: I need you to wear your mask (around your neck). I am immunocompromised. Tech: But you have a mask on? Me: I need us both to mask. I cannot get sick. Tech: Well maybe you shouldn’t have come in then… 🙄 Really?!
- She probably told multiple doctors she was in pain or something didn’t feel right, and they dismissed her as having “anxiety” or being hysterical
- Reminder: the decision by the Biden administration to “end the pandemic” was based on political strategy (not science), with the goal of winning the 2024 election. ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…
- Yo, Philly! Youse masking? We are! Never too late to start again, if you stopped. Info on where to get free masks in next tweet 👇. #YallMasking
- Every time I attend a networking event and share I have LC, at least one person I meet tells me their family member/co-worker/close friend/etc also has LC. EVERY TIME.
- This is what community care looks like! #MaskUp
- My cat became suddenly terminally ill in Feb 2022 around the same time I had a quick and steep decline in Jan 2022 which I suspect was a reinfection during omicron. She died that May. I asked the vet whether it might be C19 related. The vet said “cats don’t get C19” 🙄Turns out cats can get a post-viral illness from a coronavirus that is similar to long COVID & causes immune exhaustion Is anyone gaslighting these cats & telling them they are making up their symptoms? ucdavis.edu/health/news/wh…
- “[T]he eldest Affleck child wore a shirt that read ‘CURE LONG COVID.’ The shirt is from a brand called Berlin Buyers Club, described on its website as ‘a small group of skilled creatives doing what we can under very constrained circumstances after [C19] made us chronically ill.’”Violet Affleck wore a shirt with a message about COVID while out in the Hamptons with Jennifer Lopez. If you’re going to get photographed, you might as well advocate for a good cause at the same time. trib.al/5q1t9df
- Replying to @remyplagueratThank you for this feedback. That’s a point I had not considered.
- I’m traveling & staying in a rural spot. Checking in (masked), I had to explain C19 precautions I would need & why. I was afraid they might not know what LC was or give me side eye. Instead, “oh my mom has LC. The medical gaslighting is terrible. I’m so sorry.” #TreatLongCovid
- I feel like I’m prepping for an oral argument every time I go to the doctor.
- On the train headed to DC for tomorrow’s Senate HELP hearing on Long Covid. Hope my Senator and fellow FJV/alum of @JVCnation @SenBobCasey will also be there! #HELPLongCOVID #TreatLongCovid @HELPCmteDems @GOPHELP
