I pulled a muscle again moving my weighted blanket around so that's kinda like working out, right? hashtag just long covid things

There's a weird thing that some people with LC have where large blood draws lead to symptom relief for hours/days/weeks. Probably something something microclots or inflammatory something being removed temporarily, or maybe the body's response to injury...? No one knows, we're all just speculating. But it happened to me personally after a big blood test and then I was seriously looking into donating blood regularly, or, alternatively, nurturing a crop of medicinal leeches at home.

I am STRESSED about the potential mask ban in North Carolina and I am trying NOT to think about it but it is NOT WORKING

It also just isn't true that humans are the only creature that shows empathy. We've observed altruistic and empathetic behaviors in lots of animals, and I think anyone with a pet would argue they can love

A concern I have about this is the long term effect on the nasal microbiome. In the same way that using antibiotics orally can fuck up your gut microbiome and lead to an increased risk of other health problems, could fucking up the nasal microbiome lead to poorer viral resistance in the long term, or an increased chance of developing allergy/histamine/MCAS issues (which are already triggered by COVID infections)?

Honestly I think pretty much everyone should try supplementing magnesium. Estimates vary but some huge portion of the US population is deficient without knowing it. There are different forms of supplemental magnesium - if anyone wants to try a combo that is high quality to quickly see if any form helps, I'd recommend OptiMag Neuro.

Possibly there is something about the beer that you're reacting to. Like, beer has gluten in it. If you have a sensitivity to gluten you get an inflammatory reaction, and a hangover is a inflammatory response too, so it might just feel like a worse hangover instead of a more obvious gastrointestinal sensitivity.

And the way to prevent it is vaccination, and multiple vaccination is better than single to prevent long COVID.

Fun fact, if you say the word "mask" in 2024 you will spontaneously combust. Also definitely don't cite the actual statistics on how much vaccination reduces the risk of long covid. It totally doesn't matter. Everything is fine.

Are we going to start seeing people get COVID not from infection, but from themselves in reactivation?

I have been wondering about this for ages. In the past year I have seen a couple people who are uber-isolated (bedbound, no medical care) with long covid testing positive repeatedly with no known exposures. Either they're astronomically unlucky, or...

I think most people are extremely numb. Maybe emotionally just to get through the day, maybe as a result of the constant barrage of stimulation we get online. So media portrays things that are horrific and shocking because it's the only thing that makes anyone feel anything.

I can't tolerate it personally. I have to skip out on a lot of media that is popular these days because it's just too brutal for me. But I am probably an outlier for neurodivergent reasons (mirror-pain synesthesia, high affective empathy).

As a teen my acne would clear up immediately for weeks after getting a bit sunburnt on my face. Very much regret not sunscreening sufficiently now because of the increased skin cancer risk I took on. But I was told this happened because the sunlight killed off the bacteria on my face. I figured out recently that homemade hypochlorous acid does the same thing and is completely safe, and indeed, it is extremely effective at controlling my adult acne. .

Why can't anyone make a decent monster collecting/battling game

Ooblets is a fantastic indie game with the exact opposite vibes of this one

I don't think so. I'm a very fast reader and I still kinda "hear" words in my head when I go at a relaxed pace. It's just that at a certain level of literacy, your brain has the ability to visually recognize words faster than you can mentally enunciate them, and it can also recognize words faster than you can mentally process for comprehension. I realized this when of my relatives started to play a game with me where he would flash me a paragraph on his phone for just a second or two, and then I would somehow be able to recite it back. You can deliberately make yourself read at this speed but it's not very fun, requires focus, and again, is often so fast that you start losing full comprehension of the content.

See the speed reading subsection here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization - in summary: everyone seems to subvocalize to varying extents, unless you deliberately train yourself not to, which you can, but you shouldn't, because it sucks.