Higher levels of long COVID were found in lower-income households.

One child aged 17 or under was randomly selected from each sample household within the survey, and parents responded to questions about whether their child had previous COVID-19 illness, if the child had symptoms lasting three months or longer and if the child still had those symptoms at the time of interview.

Results of the analysis, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, showed approximately 1.01 million children, or 1.4%, are believed to have ever experienced long COVID as of 2023 and about 293,000, or 0.4%, were experiencing the condition when the survey was being conducted.

This is similar to the 1.3%, or about 1 million, of children ever estimated to have had long COVID as of 2022, according to the authors.

Among children currently experiencing long COVID at the time of interview, 80% reported to have some level of activity limitation compared with before they had COVID-19.

"The large proportion of children experiencing [long COVID] with any activity limitation highlights the need to examine the severity of activity limitation, functional outcomes, and days lost from school," the authors wrote.

The authors said there may be an under-reporting of long COVID in younger children due to difficulty with the verbalization of their symptoms.

After 30 years of relentless growth and capitalism, a new trend has emerged in China. The search for a simpler, calmer life is leading some Chinese people to seek a life abroad. The trend is so popular that it’s gained its own internet buzzword: the “run philosophy."

This video popped up in my feed andabout 2 and a half minutes in they start talking to a former policeman turned artist name Ye Fu. His story is that after Tiananmen Square he renounced his job, and then was sent to prison after being framed by a friend. After he was released he left the country and eventually settled in Thailand and runs a place for Chinese people fleeing China, basically wealthy chinese liberals.

He claims that before Tiananmen square people were full of hope, and that now people are miserable and desperate, etc. Says everyone is miserable and the economy is about to collapse. The usual.

So I looked him up and his name is Zheng Shiping, and his pen name is Ye Fu.

His grandpa was a direct male-line descendant of chieftain (土司), his grandfather, Liu Jilu, who had graduated from Huangpu Military Academy, was a general and Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguard. After 1949, Yefu's parents stayed in Mainland China. They were cast as rightists, and suffered political persecution. Yefu's grandfather was brought to be persecuted. His grandfather and two aunts committed suicide due to such tough and hopeless life conditions.

His wiki page also links to conversation with Xiong Zhaozheng, the friend who betrayed him, and seems to indicate they were involved with an "overseas democracy" group (coughCIAfrontcough) that was under surveillence at the time of June 4th.

(auto translated by google)I’m sorry, Brother Yefu, no matter what you are like, I have always regarded you as my most chivalrous friend and brother. I’m sorry, I’m not as strong as you, I confessed everything after three days in prison. I apologize for the suffering you have endured, etc.

You have many doubts about that case, and I have many doubts too, the reasons for which I cannot explain to you now. I will explain the truth when I am old and buried in the earth.

People from the Overseas Chinese Alliance did come, but I never admitted it to the police, so they had to release me in the end. I don’t know why you were sentenced. I did go to Guangzhou to contact them a few times, and once at the airport, Liu Fudao [a leader of the Hubei Writers Association and a famous writer] and his men forcibly took me back. The police later showed me photos of my meeting with you and everyone else, indicating that all my actions were under surveillance.

https://chinadigitaltimes-net.translate.goog/chinese/99602.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

And I found another interview that seems to confirm their involvment with an oversees "pro-democracy" group.

03:29 Chai: The thing that he [Ye Fu] cannot wrap his head around is that he went to Guangzhou on your behalf to send a document that you told him an overseas democracy activist would pick up. Later, when the procuratorate brought forth the charges, your name wasn’t mentioned, nor was the name of the overseas democracy activist—even though [the procuratorate] had all the documents. This perplexed him. I’m sure you can understand his feelings, right? Why weren’t you charged with a crime while he was sent to prison?


https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/09/accused-tiananmen-informants-silence-reveals-enduring-public-secrecy-around-1989/

Does the state department act as publicists for these people, so whenever a journalist wants an interview they are funneled towards people like Ye Fu?

Here's a chart of mortality trends showing before and after covid.

Covid deaths have gone down, which is good (and this seems to be true for all age groups, last I checked) but what is alarming is the mortality rate for many other causes shot up in 2020 and just haven't come down.

If you thought drivers got worse after the pandemic, you weren't just imagining things.

And I don't know if the US even has the capacity to measure any other negative health consequences aside from death and disability.

Increases in early adult mortality can signal population risks that may become more pronounced as these cohorts age. These results suggest the possibility of a worsening mortality crisis unless these trends are reversed. Policy solutions will require attention to the underlying causes of intensifying excess mortality among early adults (eg, opioid use, alcohol consumption, traffic safety, dietary risks). The 2 distinct phases of increasing mortality (before and after 2020) may also suggest the need to attend to ongoing consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic—which may be expressed in causes of death related to long-term consequences of infection, medical disruption, and social dislocation—and to deleterious health trends that predated it.

It would be interesting to see how this compares to the few countries which waited until the vaccines were available before they went YOLO.

Along with a baffling rise in post-pandemic mortality rates that has insurers stymied, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020, adding another puzzling factor that could impact corporate bottom lines.

After rising slowly and steadily since the turn of the century and hovering between 25 million and 27 million, the number of disabled among the U.S. population rose nearly 35 percent in the last four years, to an all-time high of 38,844,000 at the end of November, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Reasons behind the stunning increase vary, but many seem connected to the COVID-19 pandemic.

OH FOR REAL?

If the rate of disability is climbing then that's a pretty good sign that covid is still fucking people up and should be avoided.

The New York Times has a long history of manufacturing consent for war, destabilization, and regime change. From Chile to Iran, the US paper of note has been used as a powerful and insidious tool of empire for over half a century. Let's take a look at a more modern example: Venezuela.

JT's looking to get another visit from the feds.

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What's interesting is the chart on the website. This 2024 flu season is worse than 2023, and 2023 was worse than 2022. If the "immunity debt" theory was right, this wouldn't be happening. Could all the well documented evidence that covid harms your immune system and makes you more susceptible to other diseases possibly be true?

Hospitals in England are being hit by a "tidal wave" of flu and other winter viruses, NHS bosses say.

Data released by NHS England showed there were an average of nearly 1,900 beds occupied by flu patients last week – up 70% on the week before.

That is more than three times higher than this time last year, with doctors warning that they are struggling to contain the spread of the virus within hospitals as well as seeing more patients being admitted.

Covid, RSV and the vomiting bug Norovirus are also continuing to cause problems.

Thankfully, for now, it looks like we have a few weeks before covid takes off everywhere in the US, and it won't be as dramatic as the last one because the summer surge was pretty large and their haven't been any new significant mutations showing up in a while.... but the UK is probably a preview for what's about to happen in the US. Whooping cough is going nuts at the moment.

JPweiland forcasts covid waves, and has been remarkable accurate so far.

Reminder that masking works especially well against the flu and other less contagious virus. Always mask in places that vulnerable and high risk people can't avoid!

I just thought this was an Interesting data point.

Australian primary school students have recorded their best ever results in an international maths and science assessment, curbing concerns about lockdowns disrupting learning.

The 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Timss), released by the Australian Council for Educational Research (Acer) late on Wednesday, analysed the skills of year 4 and 8 students.

About 14,000 students in Australia participated in the test across 500 diverse schools.

The report found Australian year 4 students, whose first years of schooling occurred doing Covid, ranked equal fifth internationally out of 58 countries, and equal 15th in mathematics.

I wonder if those scores will go up, down, or stay the same in following years? Can we place bets on this sort of crap?

Something to think about now that we are in our 3rd year of record levels of infections of pretty much everything.

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Children experience weakened immunity and bacterial infections after suffering from long Covid-19 syndrome, a study published in the medical journal Nature has revealed.

Persistent fatigue was the most common symptom in children with long Covid syndrome, while the majority of children often complained about anxiety.

The researchers focused on a type of white blood cell called neutrophils, which plays a crucial role in combating infections, particularly bacterial ones. They discovered that children with long Covid had neutrophils that were functionally impaired.

“For instance, their ability to attack and swallow harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus was impaired. This might correlate with the rise of multiple bacterial infections that were reported in Western nations among children after the onset of the pandemic," explained Rajeev Jayadevan, chairman, research cell, at the Indian Medical Association’s Kerala wing.

Also there is more evidence that the main long covid symptoms are a result of viral persistance.

And sars-cov-2 spike protein can linger in the brain: New study reveals how lingering spike protein in the brain's borders could explain long-term COVID-19 neurological symptoms and highlight vaccines' protective role.

And neurologic long covid symptoms are disproportionately affects 18-44 year olds.

All of this info has been posted here over the past few years. The warning signs have always been there for all of this. I'm still seeing people blame brain changes in kids on the fucking lockdowns and not the virus that causes brain damage we exposed them all to, repeatedly.

People now blame those drops on lockdowns and vaccines.

Our analysis confirms the continued existence of different Americas within the USA. One's life expectancy varies dramatically depending on where one lives, the economic conditions in that location, and one's racial and ethnic identity. This gulf was large at the beginning of the century, only grew larger over the first two decades, and was dramatically exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These results underscore the vital need to reduce the massive inequity in longevity in the USA, as well as the benefits of detailed analyses of the interacting drivers of health disparities to fully understand the nature of the problem. Such analyses make targeted action possible—local planning and national prioritisation and resource allocation—to address the root causes of poor health for those most disadvantaged so that all Americans can live long, healthy lives, regardless of where they live and their race, ethnicity, or income.

We won't do shit. Helping communities doesn't generate money for oil companies or weapons manufacturers.

Bioconstructor was a soviet synthpop band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1990.

Looks like this album was only available on reel to reel until the mid 90's when it got a full release.

"Barrack HUSSEIN Obmana"

Yugoslavia had the coolest music scene, goddamn.

Have there been any serious attempts to document any of this with higher quality recordings?

It's because Covid is going away, right? Herd immunity is working?

The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995. This represents a notable increase from 7.5 million reported in 2022, placing TB again as the leading infectious disease killer in 2023, surpassing COVID-19

There is plenty of evidence covid attacks the immune system, and reactivated TB is common with people who have AIDS. Could all just be a wierd coincidence and TB just does that sometimes.

Related: TB cases in Scotland rise by 40% in 'largest annual increase' observed to date