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Weekly COVID update: Get your updated vaccine AND mask up to protect yourself and those at risk!

The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org

COVID-19 spread seems to have peaked for the summer in the South, but may still be increasing in the West and is starting to go up more in Northern states. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/n...

longcovidjustice.orgWhat to do if you or someone else in your household has COVID-19 - Long COVID Justicefrom LONG COVID ESSENTIALSa resources series by The Sick Times x Long COVID Justice With changing and conflicting guidance from national and local public health agencies, it can be confusing to know w...

And if you get sick, rest, take lots of care, and isolate as much as you are able longcovidjustice.org/acute-covid/

Weekly COVID update: Get your updated vaccine AND mask up to protect yourself and those at risk!

The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org

COVID-19 spread seems to have peaked for the summer in the South, but may still be increasing in the West and is starting to go up more in Northern states. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/n...

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Weekly COVID update: Get your updated vaccine AND mask up to protect yourself and those at risk!

The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org

COVID-19 spread seems to have peaked for the summer in the South, but may still be increasing in the West and is starting to go up more in Northern states. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/n...

Reach out if you're curious about practicing precautions again but don't know where to start! This zine by @newlevant.bsky.social is a great place to look out for an updated and researched rundown on COVID in 2026: bsky.app/profile/newl...

Hazel Newlevant@newlevant.bsky.social

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

21 Sept

I think about this scene from Andor a LOT and repeat this phrase to myself often: "Power doesn't panic."

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

21 Sept

ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids

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7 Sept

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wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

This plays into gaslighting & overlooks deeper, more pressing systemic failures around the medical industrial complex, healthcare crisis, and medical misogyny & racism. It can even be put in conversation with the ongoing, mass-disabling COVID pandemic.

WIRED@wired.com

In addition to providing a rare approximation of national unity (uniting everyone from medical professionals to liberal feminists and MAHA acolytes) the perimenopause telehealth boom offers something else: a glimpse into the future of medicine in America.

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We're dealing w/ (among other things) a failing healthcare system, in denial about the impacts of COVID & continuing along well-worn grooves of medical misogyny & racism. What it can offer remains largely inaccessible to an increasingly more sick populace & grifters prowl to profit off it.

The problem isn't mass-hysteria induced by telehealth startups, which threaten to “eclipse the current healthcare system.” The problem is the healthcare system and a culture of capital-driven privatization that exploits that system’s failures.

wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

WIRED@wired.com

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theguardian.com‘They can’t ignore us any more’: five women on long Covid and medical misogynyMany are still reporting minimization of their long Covid symptoms – and it’s partially attributable to the fact that female patients are routinely dismissed

a related “fun” fact: ME/CFS, a common condition for LC patients that features chronic fatigue and brain fog, was described as a disease for “depressed menopausal women" in the 1980s & was mocked in the media as “yuppie flu” … www.theguardian.com/society/2022...

thesicktimes.orgLong COVID is significantly underreported across the globe - The Sick TimesLong COVID, which has affected more than 400 million people around the world, is often underreported, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

COVID is allegedly “over” so we lack collective awareness around its impact. There’s ~400 million cases of LC worldwide & many go w/out diagnosis, struggling alone with symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations, nervous system dysregulation, and more thesicktimes.org/2026/04/14/l...

wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

WIRED@wired.com

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kff.orgAmericans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs | KFFThis data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that many Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic ...

our healthcare/insurance system isn't set up to effectively offer care. When medical misogyny or racism blocks access to care, People with money seek out options that profit off of systemic failures. But most are left figuring out how to fill the gaps & suffer for it www.kff.org/health-costs...

thesicktimes.orgStop telling women their Long COVID is menopause - The Sick TimesFrom friends to medics, women are used to having their health issues dismissed, minimized, or blamed on their hormones.

to complicate this piece further: the Royal College of Nursing recently published clinical guidance on diagnosis confusion between Long COVID/perimenopause. And middle-aged women have increased risk of LC. For more/sources, see @thesicktimes.org reporting last month thesicktimes.org/2026/07/10/s...

wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

WIRED@wired.com

When a doctor doesn't believe you or respect your treatment decisions, what do you do? If you can afford it, you find someone else/pay out of pocket. If not, you're stuck with what you get. And if you can't access healthcare (& many can't, especially after ACA/Medicaid cuts), you're screwed.

28 Aug

IC is a juicy archive for all things abolitionist that I keep coming back to again and again. Check it out to see how criminalization affects so much more than prisons and to dream-scheme our way to more possibilities

Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social

We're so close to 10k followers! Would you quote post this with why you think people should give us a follow? ☺️👉👈