# First Wavers // August 8 2023, ~1 min read // #longcovid > First wavers w/Long Covid are dying of things that look a lot like early AIDS deaths, with immune system panels showing similar dysfunction, and I don't see a SINGLE major news outlet making the connection or asking questions. > > Meanwhile, the new CDC director talks about Barbie. => https://twitter.com/laurieallee/status/1687863032649752576?t=bZuRaOkrGxEdUlfTt75Udw&s=19 laurie allee via Twitter => https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9608044/ SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1: So Different yet so Alike. Immune Response at the Cellular and Molecular Level I really try hard to not be a doomer. But as a first waver, it's really cool how I might just drop dead from "unknown" causes soon. I found a life, love, more love, and it'll all be ripped away from me because our society doesn't care about people. I'll be surprised to live to 40. I would be very pleased to live to 60. It's even worse that there's a high chance my death won't be considered covid-19/longcovid related. The massive downplaying and memory holing of this virus and disease is downright sociopathic. I used to believe humans were ultimately good because at large we cared about each other. Pandemic has dashed these naive notions. ## linked tags => /tags/longcovid #longcovid -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- => https://lizsugar.me/2023/08/08/first-wavers.html View this page on web