{"id":1786,"date":"2023-03-15T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actagainstcovid.ca\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:08:52","slug":"long-covid-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actagainstcovid.ca\/long-covid-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Long COVID Awareness Day (in Long COVID Awareness Month)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world has entered the fourth year of the SARS-COV-2 panic. In Saskatchewan (as of this writing), no local media has acknowledged the anniversary of the pandemic. The small number of media outlets that are even paying attention to COVID’s anniversary continue to downplay COVID’s long-term seriousness, and large outlets, like the Wall Street Journal, are outright pathologizing people who continue to protect themselves, their communities, and their loved ones by masking. Politicians of all stripes want to sell us the good news of their terms, and by design, this excludes talking about Long COVID or glossing over it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To push back against the national forgetting of the pandemic, when so many people have lost their lives or health to the airborne virus, the notion of Long COVID Awareness Day and #LongCOVIDAwarenessMonth started to be developed and gather steam online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post will highlight actions and resources people are providing about Long COVID and events to highlight the day and the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We by no means have the most comprehensive resource, but our own Long COVID resources page<\/a> is where we try to keep an up-to-date list of resources on Long COVID: avoiding it, surviving it, taking action, and so forth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will keep this post updated through today<\/strong> as we hear about more events to mark the day and the month, raise awareness, and highlight online and IRL actions, so please come back to visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Places to gather and talk online<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

First, International Long Covid Awareness Day<\/strong> (@LCawarenessInt<\/a>) is hosting a number of Twitter Spaces online today for people to talk survival and activism around Long COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n