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B Rob

@alpineopen.bsky.social
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I hold on to hope for a scientific breakthrough, or an exisiting medication that can treat ME/CFS & Long Covid, as we suffer terribly Care about animals and the world we share with them. To suffer, is to know that others suffer too

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Trump says Republicans should "probably not" increase taxes on the rich in their forthcoming tax bill. Meanwhile, his tariffs will hit poor and working-class Americans the hardest. "Party of the working class."
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I bet if one of their family members had #LongCovid they wouldn’t be cutting funding
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
An interesting read. Higher levels of EBV and herpes virus (as already known) but the hypothesis of IFNa auto antibodies wasn’t apparent #mecfs #LongCovid #peME #LongCovidAwareness www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17...
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
WT… F
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Nothing will ever trickle down.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you think Putin's agenda sounds similar to Trump's, there's a reason for that. Both are trying to distract from the economic looting by their respective oligarchies. Watch this video I put out just a few years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-nO8cBD79k
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The Real Motive Behind the GOP's “Culture War” | Robert Reich
Why do Putin, Trump, and the GOP sound so much alike? Their culture wars have similar agendas: Diverting attention from the economic looting of their respective oligarchies. At its core, it’s all about preserving wealth and power. Why Republicans are NOT the Party of Freedom ►► https://youtu.be/IPzlR_mGQIM
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Unfortunately the pharmaceutical companies can’t see that if one of their drugs helped improve or even cure #longCovid or #MECFS then they would become profit even more massively, with virtually no cost to them. But for some reason they have the heads in the sand cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
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Long COVID studies stymied by pharma’s lack of cooperation
Academic researchers want to repurpose drugs for the condition. Manufacturers aren’t supplying them
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Handy for #MECFS and #LongCovid sufferers
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
‘Post Exertional Malaise’ PEM a term used by these researchers isn’t new, ME/CFS isn’t new. As someone mentioned in the comments SARS-CoV back in 2002-03 wasn’t new. Most patients with ongoing PEM have ME/CFS What’s new is the previously ignorant medical & research community is finally waking up
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Robert Saunders (aka McMullen) @roberthmcmullen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Thanks for your continuing support, George. Please could you encourage your followers to sign and share the S4ME petition which calls for Cochrane to withdraw its harmful review of exercise therapy for CFS? www.change.org/p/cochrane-w...
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Sign the Petition
Cochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019/2024 Exercise therapy for CFS review
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Replacing civil servants with loyalists. Upending the lives of millions who rely on federal programs. Grotesquely blaming "DEI" for disaster. Trump wants to consolidate power through divide-and-conquer tactics. We must stand together and fight back. youtu.be/wSYbNcjGjhA?...
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Fighting Back Against Trump II | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Liverpool Echo: ''I used to travel the world but now I'm 38 and trapped in my own home'' "In 2020 I got unwell with covid and developed ME [myalgic encephalomyelitis] and long covid. That gave me chronic levels of fatigue and I ended up bed bound." www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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'I used to travel the world. Now I'm 38 and can't leave my home'
Linka can only experience the outside world by looking at her garden through the window
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Well worth signing against the scientific fraud done by the Pace Trial authors, and by their boyfriends at Cochrane. They say “Trust the science” We say “Test the science”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board has endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.
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Jeff Bezos' Editorial Board Calls Trump's AG Pick, Who Lobbied for Amazon, 'Qualified'
The Washington Post's editorial board gave a thumbs up for Trump's attorney general pick Pam Bondi, who previously lobbied for Amazon.
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Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Long Covid in Children - we’re still looking for families who’d like to take part and help in this research. Please get in touch
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Hope for #MECFS #LongCovid Interesting to again see T cell exhaustion, Interferon signalling, & viral persistence as suspects in post viral illness, as is the ‘Innate Immune Response’ mTOR inhibitors and HIV antivirals are suggested youtu.be/UnFZ9ZyJ1nI?...
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Long COVID Research & Potential Treatments Part 1 (E27) Ft. Prof David Putrino
YouTube video by Long Covid The Answers
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
85% of #LongCovid patients improved on this treatment (in the trial). Hopefully it can be repeated by other researchers and we see research discover why there’s improvement #pwME #MECFS sleepreviewmag.com/sleep-treatm...
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Human Umbilical Cord Blood Infusion Improves Fatigue in Long-COVID
Clinical trial results show that HPC, cord blood effectively treats post-COVID fatigue, with 85% of patients experiencing relief.
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Fantastic news to see a drug trial in #LongCovid I didn’t see PEM mentioned though. So email the researchers requesting PEM as criteria. Otherwise they will be too broad & the trial may not reach statistical significance #MECFS 1/2 clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT065...
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Most probably we would have had a handful of treatments for #LondCovid #MECFS by the time the pandemic arrived …
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Good to see Nath explain things, after the controversy of ‘Effort Preference’ although not a full answer, at least the rest of the interview was interesting #MECFS #LongCovid
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Worth sharing…
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A well written article on #LongCovid mentions #MECFS I wonder about the viral persistence hypothesis, as why would SARS-CoV2 cause the same symptoms as ME/CFS? As the disease existed before Covid. Are different viruses capable of persisting & causing ME/CFS? Or is viral persistence jst correlation
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Long COVID is becoming a serious social and economic issue for Australia
Addressing this health challenge is vital to getting many people back participating fully in their lives.
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Throw out your black spatula… Black plastic cookware is full of toxins, like flame retardants and forevermore chemicals, as is recycled from junk plastics, often coloured black to hide contamination discolouration… 1/2
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is vindication for ME/CFS patients. As ‘Effort Preference’ used in a recent NIH study should never have been implemented. This new study proves something we all knew, that ME/CFS patients can’t preform cognitive tasks like healthy people. #MECFS #LongCovid
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042 - Cognition really is worse in ME/CFS
YouTube video by Neuroinflammation, Pain, and Fatigue Lab at UAB
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A riveting video on the appalling history of those that made #MECFS a behavioural condition. Trigger warning: Anger inducing Please don’t attack these conmen as that’s what they previously used against ME patients to paint us as the villains #LongCovid www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiwX...
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ME/CFS Scandal Explainer (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
YouTube video by Broken Battery
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Brilliant post by Monbiot
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A good video interview by David Tuller, with researcher Prof Chris Ponting who he and his team have identified 116 markers in ME/CFS. #LongCovid #MECFS virology.ws/2024/11/19/t...
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Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting on "Replicated Blood-Based Biomarkers" for ME in Big Data Pre-Print Study | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH Along with several colleagues, Professor Chris Ponting, a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh and a leading ME/CFS researcher, r ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One of the forms of hybrid warfare Russia is developing to use in Western nations is cyber-attacks to disable sewerage systems, flooding the rivers with shit. How, in the UK, would we detect them?
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-...
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I remember reading the paper & thinking the authors had widely overstretched with the all #LongCovid patients claim, as it was only the hospitalised that they had data on Its clear non-hospitalised patients had a very noticeably different progression of disease #MECFS virology.ws/2024/11/18/t...
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Trial By Error: The BMJ Corrects REGAIN Study's Expansive Claims; Results Only Applicable to Post-Hospitalized Long Covid Patients | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH In February, The BMJ published a study called Clinical effectiveness of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabili ...
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Julie Houston @julesahouston.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Warning! There is a fake Care For Gaza account on this site. Please see post below, report and block. #CareForGaza #Gaza #Palestine x.com/CareForGaza/...
Post from X by @CareForGaza showing screenshot of fake account @careforgaza on bluesky.
It says -  There is a fake account on the new platform Bluesky going around using our username and posting a gofundme that was NOT created by us.

This is someone posing as us and it is fraud. Please help us get their account on both platforms taken down.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Health Rising: 'The Exhausted Immune Cell Sweepstakes: Spanish Group Proposes Exhausted T-cells and Pituitary Damage are Driving ME/CFS' 'Both Nath & these researchers..propose that an immune defect (in B or T-cells) results in..immune exhaustion..' www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/11...
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The Exhausted Immune Cell Sweepstakes: Spanish Group Proposes Exhausted T-cells and Pituitary Damage are Driving ME/CFS - Health Rising
Spanish researchers propose that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is an immune driven disease that targets the pituitary gland. Treatment suggestions are given.
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A very interesting interview, brilliant questions and answers. Some will be painful to hear. If the pendulum swings too far left then that creates a lot of momentum to swing too far to the right (and vice versa) something we need to remember next for time www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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How dominant is right-wing online culture?
Podcasters and Youtubers with millions of followers, situated outside of the mainstream, are dominating over traditionally liberal and arts media, according to The Times columnist James Marriot.
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If the ‘Eye in the Sky’ was instead ‘Intelligent Extraterrestrial Space Aliens’, this article would go viral…
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B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Microscopic inflammatory processes, possibly involving abnormal microglial activation, fibrinogen deposition, microscopic inflammation & mitochondrial damage = ‘Smouldering MS’ Maybe Prof Ron Davis is right about a ME/CFS subgroup overlapping MS #MECFS #LongCovid www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Smoldering MS May Warrant Unique Strategies
An expert panel defined smoldering-associated worsening in MS, proposing a unique pathology and optimal clinical and research strategies. But one expert questioned the smoldering concept’s validity.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The right’s response to climate breakdown destroys the idea that Trump won because of the “woke” way the left talks. No matter how you discuss it, the very mention incites fury and abuse. Trump’s view dominates because corporate and billionaire propaganda has triumphed.
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