TStoneCreations

i'm surprised by how many people don't understand that moving to another country is practically impossible unless you have a heritage claim (generally parents or grandparents who were born there)

you want to move to the UK? okay, well first you need a UK employer to sponsor you, and it needs to be a job that pays ~£40k/$50k a year at the very least. how you find that employer without first moving here to work in the UK is up to you, but you can't work or look for work while on a tourist visa which is how you will probably be entering the country without a working visa. you can come here to study, but when your study visa expires you'll have to leave. you could marry someone from here, but they'd need to be earning around ~£30k/$40k and you need to have been living together for two years which you also can't do without a visa

the same, with some differences, is true for literally everywhere else on the planet. you can't just move to another country.

my point is this: not only are our societies built around a system where your rights can be taken away if enough people vote against your interests, you also aren't allowed to leave.

is a covid-unsafe community really what you want? why is it acceptable to implicitly exclude disabled/immunocompromised people from these spaces? does excluding them mean valuable insight & information & connections are lost? is it worth it?

who told u it was safe to unmask? did u stop bc everyone else did? have u read into the research on covid, its effects on the body both in the acute phase and after? is it worth risking ur own health? is it worth risking others’ health?

who is going to take care of u when u get sick?

Getting Covid can reactivate Epstein-Barr Virus (what causes Mono)

I have been wondering for a year now how I got mono while masking everywhere and sharing drinks with no one.

They think some long Covid symptoms are actually attributable to EBV getting reactivated.

If you have ever gotten chicken pox at any point in your life, there is always a chance you can get shingles later. It is painful and contagious, and I personally know of THREE people who got Covid and then only a month or so later had shingles. Luckily there is a shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine, which is separate from the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine.

This is one of many reasons why those of us who are "covid conscious" stress the importance of prevention: even if you get Covid and it's "mild", any infection can still trigger a cascade of more severe health problems down the line, especially if you've had Covid more than once. As OP said, EBV can cause mono, and mono can lead to ME/CFS, of which Long Covid shares many symptoms.

There’s not a lot of treatments, and there isn’t a single one that is for vaginismus exclusively - they’re all medications or treatments to treat symptoms, but not the causes. In fact, for a long time doctors waved off vaginismus as a purely psychological disorder in cis women.

It’s incredibly common! And it can be treated by physiotherapy.

I know this because I’m currently undergoing physio and although it can take months to recover, I’m already seeing improvement. A lot of the pelvic floor exercises are available online, but if you have these symptoms please TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR and see if you can get a physio referral (or investigation for underlying causes like endometriosis).

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