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   katharine (thatkatharine@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 09:15:03 JST katharine

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   If you haven’t, for example, persevered to write the Great American Novel through your brain fog, forgive yourself. (“great” and “american” aren’t the aspirations they used to be anyway.)
   If you haven’t been to a cafe or pub in years, those places are gross and shouldn’t be given business until they improve their air quality anyway.

   If the best you can do is hang out to see if science can rustle up some effective treatments, that’s a valid way to be.

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     katharine (thatkatharine@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 09:15:04 JST katharine

     What annoys me about the articles about long Covid is when they look for people who are finding ways to be productive and active in spite of their conditions. Like, who doesn’t love a good triumph of the human spirit story, but it’s the sort of thing that ableists use against the chronically ill to say “look, if they can do it, why can’t you” (sometimes the ableist and the chronically ill person are one in the same).

     Mr. Bill repeated this.