CarolAnn Barrows ~ Dedicated to protecting myself & others from pandemic pathogens in Kānaka ‘Ōiwi land I need COVID Conscious/Airborne Aware friends on Maui!
Kihei, Maui, Hawai'i
Joined June 2018
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Do you need someone to simply listen to you?
I Listen.
This is a gift I am giving to our COVID Conscious Community.
I am a musician/vocalist so deep listening comes with the territory. I've also known the value when someone is able to just listen to me without trying to "fix" me. This has helped me to hear myself so I can solve my own problems. So, I've studied listening and taken several courses in how to listen to others.
All that said, If/when you need a friend to just LISTEN to you, please feel free to DM me.
I'm all ears.
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Covid is Long Covid, a chronic disease. Once it enters the body, it remains there, gradually damaging all our organs and systems, slowly killing us.
There are 492,368 papers on Covid. None of them indicate a clearance or recovery. No cure, and many indicate there will be none. 5
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I love psychotherapy and appreciate brilliant therapists. But therapy is an oversold tool, & most therapists are not brilliant.
Be realistic about the role the tool of therapy plays in your recovery. Because your recovery is the project-- not your therapy.
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I don't want my coffee machine on Wi-Fi. I don't want an app for my car, a QR code for my menu, Al customer service, or Google Al Overviews. I just want to buy something once, have it work, speak to a human if I need help, and be left alone. Is that too much to ask?
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I’m starting to think the whole “BUY A 3-YEAR-OLD USED CAR TO AVOID DEPRECIATION” advice is completely dead.
A brand new Toyota RAV4 MSRP is around $31,000. A 3-year-old model with 42,000 miles on it is listed at $27,500.
You’re saving barely $3,500 upfront, but financing a used car at an 8.9% interest rate versus a 2.9% promo rate on a new car.
By the time you finish the loan, you paid MORE in total interest for a car with zero factory warranty and worn-out tires than if you just bought it brand new.
Boomers keep telling young people to "buy used," but the secondary market is so inflated that the old financial rules literally don't work anymore.
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The Covid infection you have now is either going to give you a long term health condition later or going to make the one you have already worse.
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Repeat after me: Hand sanitizer will not stop you from catching an airborne virus.
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Therapy can only do so much if you’re not able to get your basic needs met. Mental health is affordable housing. Mental health is free healthcare. Mental health is free education. Mental health is food security. Mental health is financial stability. Therapy can’t fix the system.
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Not one single war has ever advanced human civilization. It has always regressed it. Every single act of wonder and progress came from cooperation and collaboration. That alone completely debunks the idea of "survival of the fittest.”
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SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS GROCERY EXECUTIVES, BUT I’M DONE.
I just pulled a $4.99 box of cereal off the shelf, brought it to the register, and watched the scanner ring it up as $7.49.
When I told the cashier, she said: "Oh, that’s the digital coupon price. You have to download our store app, create an account, search for the item, and clip the digital coupon before scanning."
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
You inflated the shelf price by 50%, locked the normal price behind an app, and forced me to hand over my personal phone data and email just to pay the actual retail value of a box of food?
Stop hiding basic shelf pricing behind data-harvesting apps.
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Neglect is a form of abuse. May you heal from every experience that made you believe your needs didn’t matter - every experience that made you “easy to please” - every experience that made you fear being needy and that left you hyper-independent.
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Well, well, well…
For the record, the whole “Covid will evolve to become milder & more benign over time” thing was always a lie.
This raises a lot of concerning questions. I would like to once again point out we have no idea what we are doing.
This is a very interesting study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. It suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may be evolving in a way that makes it increasingly difficult for the human immune system to recognize the virus in the first place—not simply harder for existing antibodies to neutralize it.
So now one has to wonder whether if fewer naïve human B cells can recognize an evolved virus, will the vaccines even work? Will they have a difficult time recruiting genuinely new B-cell specificities?
Doesn't this seem like an issue worth considering @FDADrugs @FDA @CDC @NIHDirector_Jay?
Link to paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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We are not built for stress. There are a lot of beliefs that we are, that it’s good for us, that it makes us resilient or better. Here are two huge issues that challenge this belief 1) prolonged, unassisted stress causes physical and psychological damage 2) most of our brain 1…
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In nearly every facet of life the template has been set at “psychopathy.” Look at the traits of psychopathy, from a big picture perspective. Lack of empathy/remorse (it’s not personal, it’s business), superficial charm (confidence), pathological lying (so much so that it’s - 1…
My nervous system is far from "normal" due to a virally caused encephalitis that nearly killed me. (not that this is necessarily a bad thing given what the Normies do). Thus, I am considered disabled relative to the great unwashed masses. I have adapted and while I am unable to work to earn my keep, I know that I have great worth and wealth of compassion, patience, insight, courage, gratitude and generosity - something sorely needed in this world.
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COVID can contribute to suicidal ideation through measurable pathways - a leaky blood–brain barrier, chronic neuroinflammation/toxicity(IL-6, IL-8, quinolinic acid, etc...), and systemic serotonin depletion(IDO-1, platelet hyperactivation, and enhanced MAO-mediated serotonin turnover)... All layered on the burden of navigating chronic illness and disability in a world that - at best - doesn't care.
