Thread by @NateB_Panic

In 2020, scientists who specialise in the 1918 flu pandemic warned clearly and explicitly: "Covid is setting us up for one hundred years of problems." Our leaders were warned what mass covid infection would do. They ignored those warnings🧵

In the 20th century the world experienced a coronary heart disease epidemic which peaked in the 60s and tailed off in the 90s. No definitive cause has ever been agreed. Many argued for smoking, but the data didn't always fit well. In 2004 researchers pointed to the 1918 flu

In particular, they said flu *reinfections* may have been to blame for the epidemic. “Immune responses elicited at each new encounter with flu virus may reactivate inflammatory pathways to coronary heart disease originally established by a first encounter with the virus.”

In 2009, professors Eileen Crimmins and Caleb Finch picked up on this work, studying the link between the 1918 flu and health in later life. They found heart disease, diabetes and developmental problems were all significantly more prevalent among people born in 1919

Like the researchers a few years earlier, they also said the link between flu and heart disease was likely due to the increase in inflammatory response in the body. What is covid well-known for creating? A highly inflammatory state in the body

The strength of their findings linking the 1918 flu to later health problems, the novelty of covid and the inflammation it causes was sufficient for Crimmins to say in 2020 “I think that covid is setting us up for a hundred years of problems.” gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/cen…

Mass covid infection is disastrous. Herd immunity (still the approach) is disastrous. The flu, a more slowly evolving virus than Sars-Cov-2 evolves enough to maintain a novelty that still kills hundreds of thousands around the world and sickens millions.

Jeffrey Taubenberger was part of the team that isolated and sequenced the genome of the 1918 flu virus in the late 1990s. In 2020 he said: “We’re still living in what I would call the 1918 pandemic era 102 years later, and I don’t know how long it will last."

THERE IS NO HERD IMMUNITY TO THE FLU ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS LATER. There can never be herd immunity to covid, a more rapidly evolving virus

And we're being told we must accept regular covid re-infection. Under 50s in countries like the UK can't even get vaccinated against it now. In the UK public health officials say covid infections are good for 'topping up' immunity. This is not public health. This is public death

Our leaders were warned what mass covid infection would do. They ignored history. Ignored biology. As public health systems buckle and ill-health grows, never let them pretend otherwise. They must be held responsible. For all sources and to read more: t.ly/TMf4m