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Covid never ended

Signified B Sides | May 13, 2026



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  1. @ludnix

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    I got Covid for the first time a couple weeks ago. I’m still coughing and was vaccinated at least 5 times including recently. It knocked me out for a solid week and I’m young and healthy.

  2. @alexkay88

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    Thank you for talking about this. I have had ME/CFS for many years pre-covid. It bears a lot of similarities to Long Covid. They are debilitating, awful illnesses. It feels like being trapped on a sinking ship.
    The pandemic taught me that governments (and capitalism) don't give a fuck about disabled people. Just this week, my government has removed funding from our national disability insurance scheme and taken away the supports of at least 160,000 disabled people, mostly children. My family and I still mask everywhere. My partner worked at a government covid information line in 2020-21 and saw first hand that they were lying about and downplaying the impact of this illness. My Grandpa died of covid last year. I have friends who are dying of Long Covid as I speak, and are entirely reliant on mutual aid to stay alive. Please, please vaccinate and mask and socially distance and protect those around you.

  3. @missingDstring

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    i’m slightly behind but thank you for this video FD. i got covid in October 2020 and was hospitalized for a week, in which time i had a near death experience. i’m still working through the issues this has brought up in therapy, and have been diagnosed with PTSD as a result. i also lost my step-grandfather to covid complications. hearing people talk like it is just over or it wasn’t that big of a deal (i hear this one a lot) is infuriating and incredibly invalidating as someone who survived a really bad case and lost a family member. i luckily have not noticed many physical after effects of my infection, but the psychological effects have been staggering. it was that bad. it still is that bad. ignoring it is not going to help, it’ll just make things worse for those of us living with longterm after effects.

  4. @emberashford4521

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    I got COVID two years after the quarantine lifted. I almost died and was in an out of the ER repeatedly. I lost my job and now my family is about to go homeless because we're all disabled now. I wish people would at least talk about Long COVID and what it means for us who are basically disabled but won't be covered by disability when the time comes.

  5. @LovlyHorror

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    I have arthritis for which I take immunosuppressants and I'm physically disabled due to my condition. I never stopped wearing a mask because I've never stopped being concerned about everything that's happened since 2020. I appreciate you reminding everyone that it won't just go away.

  6. @acedwards819

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    I've never stopped saying this and I'm lowkey annoyed that it took anyone with a decent sized left-leaning audience 6 years to talk about it at all. I know it's not really your area of expertise but we really just pretended like there was ever an end? Not to mention, a lot of the experts during lockdown said this wasn't going to be over when restrictions lifted and we just ignored them when the government decided we were done

  7. @lmeeken

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    Hopped over from Nebula to like and comment on this version of the video. It's so heartening to see someone with a platform, and someone whose politics I respect, but who isn't specifically health/disability focused, acknowledge this reality.

    Another resource I found useful for navigating healthcare and disability justice under fascism, including the sociological construction of the 'end' of the pandemic, is the Death Panel podcast hosted by disability activists and scholars Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Their book Health Communism is also a great read.

  8. @jemmalambert3751

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    Love that ur talking about this, one thing tho, you showed a lot of people wearing blue surgical masks as opposed to n95's.

    Surgical masks do help a little bit but are mostly covid-conscious theatre. An n95 effectively filters the air whereas a blue surgical mask simultaneously blows unfiltered air out the sides and doesn't effectively filter the air being breathed through the filtration medium. It's better than nothing, but it's really really not a replacement for an n95 or filtered air using at least merv 13 filters or higher with sufficient air circulation per square foot.

  9. @gabrielm859

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    Covid got me last week. I had all the recommended shots, and still felt like absolute garbage for two days, and then I couldn't breathe properly for another 2 days.

    I am at a risk group (asthma). And I'm still not at a good physical state over a week later.

    I'm feeling quite blessed that I only got it now.

  10. @Prato321

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    What if retailers and grocery stores started charities for schools to get the filtration systems they need, and those businesses matched what we put in?

  11. @kate7827

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    THANK YOU! I have had long covid for 2 years now. Before LC, I was exercising 5 days a week and fitter than I'd ever been in my life. I've since lost all my muscle and can't walk half a mile without it inducing flu-like symptoms and debilitating fatigue. Sometimes for days or weeks. I've always been a very ambitious person, but I've had to pull back a lot on personal projects and creative work because of how foggy and fatigued I feel. I'm sorry to hear you're dealing with symptoms too. People are quick to call it deconditioning, laziness, anxiety, etc, but I truly believe it's because the reality (that it's real and could happen to them, and that avoiding it means a major lifestyle change) is difficult to face. This is really important knowledge you're sharing, and I am so grateful that you're doing this. I think continuing to talk about it and raising awareness is absolutely essential right now.

  12. @an_birb

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    Thank you for using your platform to talk about this. I'm immunocompromised and still mask any time I'm in public, including while working my service job. I have friends who have been infected multiple times and have been permanently disabled in various ways. Some developed new allergies, some are on blood thinners for increased clotting risk, some have weakened immune systems and get sick constantly.

    I wish more people cared. I wish doing the bare minimum for societal well-being was prioritized over personal comfort and "the bottom line". And I really wish I wasn't seen as irrational and self-centered for saying that. Like you said, disabled folks can't win.

  13. @ceebadooba

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    I recently had an experience on MARTA where a police officer ordered my to take my mask OFF because it wasn't an N95 mask and the mask I was wearing was considered covering my face which is against the law? Awful experience…

  14. @alwaystired1

    May 13, 2026 at 2:36 pm

    thank u for talking about this. disability runs my life and having had covid i think it is what is making my condition a lot worse. peoples general apathy is so draining, i just want to be considered in public life…

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