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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 10/11/2025

Sunday in Senate Democrats had gained momentum winning state & local elections. Two days later, they caved by voting with Republicans to get rid of healthcare for millions. Now tens of thousands of Americans of all stripes, will die, because that’s what happens when you take away healthcare.

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

We could build systems prepared for the reality we're living in instead of the reality we wish we had. But we need to choose now. Because once you go over a tipping point, there's no going back to the way things were. The only question is: which side of the cliff do we want to land on? (23/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

We could improve indoor air quality to prevent infections. We could redesign healthcare to handle complex chronic conditions. We could protect workers and students from repeated infections. (22/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

There's Still Time Tipping points work both ways. The same forces that push systems toward collapse can push them toward solutions. But only if we stop pretending everything is fine. We could invest in research to understand and treat Long COVID. (21/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

We act like millions of people with Long COVID are individual cases with no broader impact. Systems don't break with dramatic crashes. They fail gradually, then suddenly. A thousand small seams splitting until the whole thing comes apart. (20/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

It's the moment when everyone admits what's been happening all along. Right now, we pretend doctor shortages, teacher shortages, and overwhelmed hospitals are separate problems that just happened to occur at the same time. (19/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

A hospital that was stretched thin pre-pandemic now operates under crisis rules just to keep doors open. This isn't temporary stress. These are permanent changes to how these systems work. What's Coming The scary part isn't the speed of collapse. (18/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

A school district runs fine with 2% staff out sick. At 10% cycling through long-term illness, it's a completely different system. An insurance company handles normal health claims. Then young, healthy workers start filing for disability. (17/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

When hospitals are overwhelmed, people don't get care and get sicker. When workers keep getting sick, businesses can't function. One fender-bender shuts down the entire highway. The Snow on The Roof Tipping points are invisible until you're feeling with something falling. (16/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

Insurance companies struggle to handle disability claims from previously healthy workers. Each breakdown makes the next one more likely. When your doctor is backed up for months, you end up in the ER. When the ER is packed, hospital patients can't get beds. (15/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

Doctor's offices can't handle complex Long COVID patients in 10-minute appointments. Hospitals deal with sicker patients while having fewer healthy staff. Schools can't find substitute teachers when regular staff keep getting sick. (14/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

It doesn't happen overnight. First, they can't keep good employees. Then customer service gets worse. Then they can't pay bills. Each problem makes the next one worse until suddenly, crash. That's happening to our institutions right now. (13/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

Long COVID patients have immune systems that attack their own bodies while failing to fight new threats. It's like having a security system that shoots the homeowners while letting burglars walk through the front door. How Everything Falls Apart You've seen a business close down. (12/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

Memory problems. Attention problems. Thinking problems. In a world where most jobs require you to focus and remember things, even small cognitive damage becomes huge when it hits millions of people. Your immune system turns on itself. (11/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

It causes inflammation and clotting that can last years. Think of your blood vessels as the plumbing in your house. When the pipes get damaged, everything downstream fails. Your brain is taking physical hits. Brain scans from before and after infection show actual structural changes. (10/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

The damage adds up. Your Body Under Siege Long COVID isn't fatigue. It's not brain fog. It's your systems failing in specific, measurable ways. Your blood vessels are getting destroyed. COVID attacks the lining of your circulatory system. (9/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

In America, that's 17 million adults walking around with bodies that don't work anymore. Every reinfection rolls the dice again. Your odds are worse the second time, and the third. Your body keeps score either way. It's like getting into multiple car accidents. Each one might be small. (8/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

The Damage Keeps Stacking Six years in, millions and millions have died. But here's the part that should terrify you: the people who didn't die but can't live either. The WHO puts Long COVID at about 6% of all infections. (7/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

That's what they do when you overload them. Your old car runs fine for months. Then the transmission dies on the highway. That moment when everything shifts from working to not working? That's where we are with Long COVID. (6/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

I was just learning, so I was put on the bunny slopes with a pull rope. When we were done, we headed back, but on approaching the ski rental and restaurant the snow slid off the roof and hit my dad. Not good. Breaking point two, that winter. Systems break. (5/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

It was shallow, but I was very, very cold. Breaking point one, that winter. A few weeks later, my father, mom, and my two brothers went to Snow Basin. A ski resort, but basically a few ski lifts, and a ski rental place with a restaurant above. (4/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

It was time to go back as it was getting dark, and my friend Dale Webber and I walked the half mile back across the frozen grass with some light snow. Near the end of the course was the frozen pond. We had walked across it many times before. Not this time. I broke through. (3/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

In the fall and winter, we played football with the kids down the street, but when the big kids were done, my friends and I would take our Hot Wheels toy cars and drive them around the minigolf roads. It was so fun. (2/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/09/2025

The Breaking Point: Snow is Sliding Off The Long Covid Roof As a kid, probably in 1971, we lived next to a golf course in Ogden, Utah. It had 18 holes, a driving range, but my favorite part was the mini golf course. (1/23)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 09/07/2025

How to Kill a Healthcare System 💔 17 million people losing insurance 🩺 Doctors leaving USA 🛂 New foreign doctors blocked due to visa issues 🔬 Huge cuts to medical research 🎓 Student loans to train doctors capped at $50,00 a year. 🌾 300 rural hospitals to close open.substack.com/pub/notesfor...

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💔 Seventeen million people losing health insurance

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 10/06/2025

If we care about the people in these bodies, we must care enough to follow the biology. Not the buckets. Not the branding. Not the slogans. Just the truth. However messy it is. (21/21)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 25/05/2025

So sorry to hear! Thanks for sharing. I’m very close to his age.

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

It didn’t. It just got quiet. Let’s make noise again. (18/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

Because if you’re not, you should probably stop calling yourself a truth-seeker. And for everyone else reading this: The more you get infected, the more likely you are to join this invisible population. Long COVID isn’t rare. It’s just buried. Stop pretending this crisis ended. (17/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

We can even reach out to folks like Jerome Adams, Amy Proal, or the WHN co-founders. They might show up. Or maybe it’s just me and two people living with long COVID, sharing what it’s like to disappear from public life. You up for that? (16/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

One for listening. Invite the people who live with this every day. I’ll help organize. We can ask members of the World Health Network to co-host. You can be the guest, or we can co-host together. We can keep it focused. No mud. No drama. Just people telling the truth about their lives. (15/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

Ask the person who used to fix your sink but doesn’t anymore. The reason you don’t see them is because long COVID is an erasure machine. It deletes people from the visible world. So, @therealtruther.bsky.social, here’s a challenge. Host a space on Twitter. Not one for debate. (14/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

It’s a virus that clings to your blood vessels, inflames your brain, messes with your heart, and leaves people too sick to live their lives. You want to know how many people have it? Ask your mail carrier. Ask your kid’s teacher. (13/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

And if your instinct is to tear down defenders instead of the virus, you’ve already picked a side—and it’s not ours. Long COVID isn’t some abstract idea. It’s vascular. It’s neurological. (12/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

platforms to tear down the people trying to help. He spent an entire X space going after someone who’s gone out of his way to protect this community. Maybe you don’t agree with Sean on everything. Fine. But he’s shown up. He’s defended the vulnerable. (11/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

Then came another round, and that was it. Couldn’t work anymore. That’s three stories right there. I didn’t even have to look hard. These people didn’t vanish. They were erased. And that’s why I’m writing this. Because lately I’ve seen folks like @therealtruther.bsky.social use their (10/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

The kind of guy who builds cabins and splits his own firewood. He was still trying to work when I met him, but I saw what was happening. Paid him out. He never came back. Bob, my plumber? Long COVID. He’s in his sixties. After his first infection, he developed heart problems. (9/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

My cousin in Ithaca? Long COVID. He launched a coffee company. It was doing great—until the reinfections started. He just couldn’t keep up. His body gave out before his ambition did. My handyman Quentin? Long COVID. Farm kid. (8/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

She’s dropped from 105 pounds to 70. We’re trying to avoid a feeding tube. I don’t talk about it much, but it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever faced. Long COVID isn’t rare. We’re just not counting right. I didn’t even realize how common it was until I started asking around. (7/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

But not everyone in my family was so lucky. My oldest son and youngest daughter each got infected once. That’s all it took. My daughter got sick after a K-pop concert. Something shifted. She had a pre-existing issue, but after that infection, it snowballed. (6/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

We ended up in northern Vermont, on a little farm near the Canadian border. Found a community. Started homeschooling. We’ve kept our masks on. Got our vaccines. My wife, my son, and I still haven’t had COVID—not even once. That’s six years clean. (5/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

Part of the trip included a sleeper train from the East Coast to the Bay Area, and a cross-country drive past Devil’s Tower and the Badlands. It was magical. It was also terrifying. But we were trying to protect each other. (4/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

We were the kind of people who followed the six-foot stickers in grocery stores, then upgraded from cloth to cloth with 60% filtration. We moved from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, then to Vermont. (3/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

If you didn’t, it’s because you were smart and chill. I used to believe that too. At least a little. Then I started looking around. Let me back up. In early 2020, my family masked up fast. (2/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 22/05/2025

The More You Get Infected, the More Likely You’ll Get Long COVID People still think long COVID is rare. Like it only happens to anxious people. Or people who “did it wrong.” Like there’s some moral math to this. If you got sick, it’s because you panicked too much. (1/18)

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 04/04/2025

Tariffs on McDonald Island? Hmm, so much for cheap burgers.

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David it Up! @david.notesforfriends.com · 16/03/2025

Donald Kruger effect. "I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me” (November 2015) "Nobody knows more about technology than me,” and specifically claimed expertise in drone technology: “I know more about drones than anybody” (January 2019) #trump youtu.be/sR3f95BGIiA?...

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