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Jan 18, 32 tweets

Do you know which whacky loons say that covid infections increase the risk of heart disease?
The British Heart Foundation.

Do you know which antivaxers say that covid vaccines do not fully protect against infection, illness, or long term effects?
Pfizer.

Do you know which hysterical doom merchants say covid can cause long term lung damage even after a mild case?
British Lung Foundation.

Do you know which conspiracy theorists say covid increases the risk of stroke?
American Heart Association.

Do you know which fear obsessed bedwetters say repeated covid infections increase long term health risks?
World Health Organization.

Do you know which lockdown nostalgists say covid can affect the brain and cognition?
Alzheimer's Association.

Do you know which professional panickers say children can get long covid?
NHS England.

Do you know which data deniers say sickness absence rose after mass infection?
Office for National Statistics.

Do you know which unhinged activists say covid is not just a cold?
Royal College of Physicians.

Do you know which radicals say population level infection has population level consequences?
UK Health Security Agency.

Do you know which alarmist weirdos say covid infections increase the risk of diabetes?
American Diabetes Association.

Do you know which shut-in obsessives say covid can damage blood vessels throughout the body?
Nature.

Do you know which neurotic spreadsheet nerds say excess deaths rose after mass infection?
Office for National Statistics.

Do you know which hypochondriacs say covid can trigger long term fatigue syndromes?
Mayo Clinic.

Do you know which paranoid catastrophists say covid increases the risk of kidney damage?
National Kidney Foundation.

Do you know which unbalanced scaremongers say covid affects the immune system after infection?
Nature Immunology.

Do you know which lockdown-brained fantasists say repeated infections compound risk?
The Lancet.

Do you know which data-abusing activists say long covid is common, not rare?
World Health Organization.

Do you know which fear merchants say even non-hospitalised infections can have long term effects?
BMJ.

Do you know which control freaks say ffp2+ masks reduce transmission of respiratory viruses?
UK Health Security Agency.

Do you know which authoritarian busybodies say ventilation reduces airborne spread?
Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.

Do you know which paranoid germaphobes say clean indoor air matters?
World Health Organization.

Do you know which joyless killjoys say respirators work better than loose cloth masks?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Do you know which hysterical obsessives say reducing reinfections reduces cumulative risk?
The Lancet.

Do you know which hand-wringing technocrats say HEPA filters reduce viral particles indoors?
ASHRAE.

Do you know which science-denying extremists say staying home when sick reduces spread?
NHS England.

Do you know which conspiracy-minded cranks say layered mitigations work better than any single one?
BMJ.

Do you know which risk-obsessed weirdos say prevention is cheaper than long term illness?
Office for National Statistics.

Do you know which out-of-touch loonies say public health measures protect the economy as well as health?
OECD.

And people who warn about all that stuff get called all those things.

And many of those groups above warn about multiple factors above.

Do you know which fearmongering grifters are warning about the problems covid infections cause with eyes?
American Academy of Ophthalmology

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