CarolAnn Barrows ~ Dedicated to protecting myself & others from pandemic pathogens in Kฤnaka โลiwi 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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This piece is for men. Every time I write a piece about how men systemically abuse women, my DMs explode with โNot All Menโ complaints. But now, a new study demonstrates that empirically, statistically, & factually, it literally is all men. The data is horrifying.
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People donโt pay attention to the fact that COVID impairs their attention.
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Herpesviruses. The ones that lie dormant in us for life - wake up during COVID. Documented over and over. A new review maps it across the whole family and leaves the big question open - is the reawakening driving the illness, or just a sign of how battered the immune system is?๐งต
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i hate how capitalism has turned almost every basic human need into something somebody can profit from. even being alive feels like an expensive subscription at this point
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Capitalism has ruined peopleโs worldview, making extreme selfishness and greed seem normal. Itโs not humane, or normal, to believe that human beings should be denied shelter, food, and healthcare simply bc they have no money. This is dystopian.
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Most people donโt need therapy. They need a steady income, a roof over their heads, and food on the table. A lot of people would be doing so much better mentally if they didnโt have to constantly worry about affording these three basic needs.
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Two Long Covid treatments have beaten placebo in randomised trials. Both effects are modest, and neither seems to treat upstream lesions, just symptoms. They are:
๐ง Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reduced fatigue more than placebo in the REVIVE trial: 399 adults in Brazil, 60 days of treatment. The effect was about half a point on a 7-point fatigue scale, and it is not known whether the benefit lasts past 90 days (Reis et al. 2026). It is a prescription drug, so talk to a clinician before considering it.
๐ฆ SIM01, a synbiotic (probiotic bacteria plus prebiotic fibre), beat placebo at 6 months in 463 patients, with more improvement in fatigue, memory and concentration. It was a single-centre trial in Hong Kong, so it needs replication (Lau et al. 2024).
Small steps, not cures. Infection is never harmless, so masks, ventilation, filtration and vaccines still matter most for protecting others and people at highest risk.
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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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Iโm starting to think the whole โBUY A 3-YEAR-OLD USED CAR TO AVOID DEPRECIATIONโ 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.
Youโre 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 youโre 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 canโt 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.โ
