Archive - The Gauntlet

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 •

Julia Doubleday

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 •

Julia Doubleday

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 •

Julia Doubleday

June 2025

A Pain in the Neck

On getting a Stellate Ganglion Block for my 39th birthday and resolving not to be one of the "good" disabled people

Jun 27 •

Julia Doubleday

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

Jun 16 •

Julia Doubleday

Common Misconceptions about COVID Hold Strong as New Variant Spreads

Media has the public talking about the "razor blade" COVID variant, but years of inaccurate public health messaging have taken their toll

Jun 5 •

Julia Doubleday

May 2025

Republicans' New Vaccine Restrictions Codify a False Healthy/Unhealthy Dichotomy

Denying vaccine access to the "healthy" makes no sense, not least because anybody can become disabled by a single COVID infection

May 26

I've always been proud of my ability to move forward. But Long COVID has me looking to my past instead of my future

May 14 •

Julia Doubleday

April 2025

Remote Work Empowers Workers. Conservatives are using Pandemic Culture Wars to Target it

The Trump Administration's flimsy justifications for ending remote work for federal workers are based in grievance politics

Apr 29 •

Julia Doubleday

CGRPs, Triptans, supplements, diets, and now Botox- are my Long COVID migraines ever going to end?

Apr 20 •

Julia Doubleday

RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill.

Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem.

Apr 7 •

Julia Doubleday

March 2025

The Great Abandonment

What's worse: Long COVID or the isolation?

Mar 24 •

Julia Doubleday

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