https://teapawt.net/t.co/KsjAvmdgdp. Head of @StratEDGY Working for a thriving future for all
Wellington, New Zealand
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Post-C0vid-19/ Long C0vid Myocardial Blood Panel
➡️Post-C0VID-19 and Long C0VID can trigger serious cardiac issues, including myocarditis, myocardial injury, heart failure, and heightened risks of thrombosis or inflammation-driven damage.
➡️I've had numerous requests for a focused blood panel to evaluate these post-C0VID myocardial conditions.
➡️Here's my curated overview, drawn from expert consensus (e.g., American College of Cardiology guidelines) and the latest scientific literature as of 2025.
➡️Practical panel you can routinely ask your GP/Specialist/ LC-Clinic today:
1. First (widely available):
-hs-Troponin I/T
-NT-proBNP
-Lactate (resting)
-LDH
-hs-CRP
-D-Dimer
2. Second, extended (adds mitochondrial specificity):
-GDF-15
-Coenzyme Q10
-FGF-21 (if your lab offers it)
-cf-mtDNA
- see overview.
➡️These tests, combined based on the strongest evidence available in 2025, give the clearest possible picture of ongoing myocardial injury, cardiac energy deficit, and mitochondrial stress in post-C0VID-19 and Long C0VID.
➡️In my opinion, this is currently the most targeted panel you can realistically get.
➡️Print it out, take it to your GP, cardiologist, or Long COVID clinic and ask them to run it (most of these are standard blood tests). Don’t let anyone tell you “we don’t test for that” — the markers are well-established and widely available!
🤔Always open for funded additions/comments!
StephaniePride.bsky.social retweeted
Stanford researchers show growing evidence that infections may raise dementia risk - while vaccination, especially shingles and flu vaccines, is linked to lower risk. The findings suggest preventing infections could help protect long-term brain health.
stanmed.stanford.edu/infecti…
StephaniePride.bsky.social retweeted
If COVID is syncytial, which has been confirmed again recently, and COVID is persistent...
That means people are experiencing persistent syncytia formation involving any cell that expresses ACE2 and many more...
That means that Long COVID, driven by persistence, whether symptomatic or not, is DEGENERATIVE.
This matches the outcomes we see in patients.
However, what this really means is that if you are denying persistence or preventing the use of treatment that will remove persistence IN ANY WAY....
Then you are killing people.
That's it... You are literally playing a role in the eugenics of chronically ill, disabled, and nonsymptomatic people.
You are helping kill everyone who dies of a post-COVID event.
Could we please knock this shit off already?
I was reading your tweets in 2020 and will be forever grateful for them. I was already immune-compromised pre-Covid and because of your info (and that of a few others) took every precaution not to get Covid. It’s now 2025, I N95 mask everywhere and am still a #Novid. Thank you!
Really important thread - please read - and wear an N95!
StephaniePride.bsky.social retweeted
Minimum Wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
stats.govt.nz/information-re…
StephaniePride.bsky.social retweeted
here are FOUR drivers of Long COVID...
-PERSISTENCE
-AUTOIMMUNITY
-PHYSICAL DAMAGE
-LATENT VIRAL REACTIVATION
T cell dysfunction is not a primary driver because it's a part of autoimmunity and persistence.
Microvascular dysfunction is a product og physical damage and autoimmunity.
The fact that they cannot discern this means they are not experts.
This is like going to a color wheel and claiming colors that aren't are primary colors.
And this chart looks drunk.
This is pure incompetence and ignorance on the subject.
Once again a very accessible thread from @1goodtern. This one explains the research on how covid causes long-term damage to your body and increases your risk of developing cancer.
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No empire goes down quietly so the times ahead are perilous for most of us and the planet. But these are also extraordinary and yes, unprecedented times. And it’s a stage of decolonisation I never imagined could/would happen in my lifetime
StephaniePride.bsky.social retweeted
For too long W Europe has retender it could carry on buiness as usual. But yesterday’s disgusting White House spectacle has ended that studied delusion.
Forget the emperor having no clothes. There is no empire to turn to!
StephaniePride.bsky.social retweeted
Over the past 500 years, Western Europe built a world that it looted, occupied, ruled and shaped to its will. This reshaping the world included its settler colonies of which USA is the most imperially successful.
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🧵Zelensky being publicly berated by US president and VP (a mass media spectacle par excellence) has left western Europe stunned, shocked, and floundering. There was much ‘unprecedented’ about the spectacle but I want to talk about something that isn’t being discussed.
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as an anthropologist, one of my specialisations is authoritarianism & revolutionist practice in response to it
one of my research foci for is the social processes of a society's descent into authoritarianism
a historian once told me:
it happens slowly, then all at once.
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This is so, so important, from @monaeltahawy
ALT Text: We are not obligated to show respect to those in power. We do not owe politeness, civility, or decorum to racists, misogynists, and bigots. Remember your power. “Getting along” and “uniting” and “being civil” with white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes. We must never “get along” with fascists. We must never “unite” with white supremacists. We must always “argue” with patriarchy.
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🧵 Something some of you might not know about me is that I lost my sense of smell entirely for 18 months at the beginning of the pandemic after contracting COVID. It was before the 1st UK lockdown and well before smell and taste loss was a recognised symptom of the virus.