The Gauntlet

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Missing the world, missing my health, missing political allies, and missing my mom

Mar 20 • Julia Doubleday

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February 2026

The ghost of loss gets into you

One month, five days, without my mom

Feb 8 • Julia Doubleday

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December 2025

2025 is ending, my mom is in the ICU

An update from me

Dec 30, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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Uneasy Peace

Two years in, I find moments of gratitude and happiness between Long COVID crashes

Dec 8, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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November 2025

"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world

For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.

Nov 10, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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October 2025

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do…

Oct 15, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

Oct 5, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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September 2025

With RFK's Attacks on the COVID Vaccine It's Official: We Don't Have the Tools

RFK's moves to limit access to the COVID vaccine are the latest in a long line of moves that shrank- rather than expanded- the size of the so-called…

Sep 19, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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Long COVID stigma adds insult to injury

It's weird having an illness a lot of people simply don't believe in

Sep 2, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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August 2025

Homebound & down

It's been about a year since my Long COVID symptoms became so severe that I lost the ability to leave home. Psychologically, it's difficult.

Aug 6, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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July 2025

The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)

It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care

Jul 22, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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Long COVID patients among those likely to be targeted under new Medicaid work requirements

Long COVID patients already struggle to access SSI. Now, Trump's Medicaid work requirements could see chronically ill and disabled people without…

Jul 11, 2025 • Julia Doubleday

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