No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. →
On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
The unsupported use case of Bix Frankonis’ disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.
Read the current manifesto. (And the followup.)
Rules: no fear, no hate, no thoughtless bullshit, and no nazis.
On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
I’m catching up on research about being autistic during the pandemic, and this one has something I’m sort of glad I hadn’t seen previously, as it would have been a profound source of anxiety.
Several studies have documented increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines present in individuals with ASD (Saghazadeh et al., 2019). Emerging evidence shows that with at least one phenotype of COVID-19 infections, the body can become upregulated with inflammation through a “cytokine storm,” which can lead to cardiac and pulmonary damage (Lin et al., 2020). A tendency towards a pro-inflammatory state may put individuals with ASD at greater risk of more severe symptoms should they contract the virus (de Sousa Lima et al., 2020).
The cytokine storm was a disturbing thing to begin with, and I’m pretty certain that had I come down with COVID-19, no doctor would have known the above risk factor.
Relatedly: Oregon finally brought its list of eligible underlying conditions into compliance with the CDC’s. For me, this means being a former smoker propelled me into eligibility.
My two shots have been scheduled at a local Walgreens; my first one happens tomorrow.
Originally published to mediocreautistic.tumblr.com by Bix Frankonis. Comments and replies by email are welcome.