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Jul 16, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Does anyone talk about long-term #COVID19 symptoms in terms of an #allergic reaction?
I've had this thought for a long time... having been laid up for ≥ 8 weeks, being a hay-fever/dust/cat allergy sufferer the symptoms felt familiar...

... but I'm know scientist, so I thought I was mad.
Turns out, not necessarily.

A quick (unscientific) Google and the idea that viral vectors can interoperate with our allergic response isn't a mad idea:

2002 - erj.ersjournals.com/content/19/2/3…
So for those poor children presenting Kawasaki like symptoms, or for those who suffer (and succumb to) a cytokine storm ... as the presumed consequence of a #COVID19/#coronavirus infection ...

... could it be an allergic reaction?
Would totally explain my symptoms and the path of the disease for me personally... even the difference with my siblings (3x of us we think got it in 🇫🇷 together, the 2x hay-fever/cat-allergy sufferers were ill, the third was not much)
... as well as the seeming randomness of those who get a fever, those who get nothing and those who have some horrible, chronic reaction (skin, breathing, fatigue, headaches, sinus issues etc)...

... random arthritic/inflamed knuckle in my case!?
Is this something everyone's been discussing and I've missed...?

... are some people just allergic to #coronavirus ??...
... if so - is anyone testing [cheap, generic] things like cetirizine hydrochloride in the fight against #COVID19 ???....

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The murder of an MP is obviously horrific but…
… I can’t help but feel that Patel et al’s concern for MPs’ safety is disproportionate in a country where the safety of half the population is constantly called into question.

Ultimately “security” (policing etc) is not the solution.

It’s treating symptoms not causes.
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Force will only mask the inexorable *growth* of the problem. To be met with what? More force. Ad infinitum.
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A brief history of fixing humanity. 🤝 🌍

A thread. 🧵 👇
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Endless wars, global pandemics, rich dying of disinformation, poor dying of famine & flood, rising populism, declining freedoms and occasional economic collapse & austerity.

There is a simple solution..

..but first a little “why”.
In the UK & US we like to think that we live in a practical democracy; that it’s “a place where the people really decide regularly how to be governed”.

This myth is based on the facade that depicts a real, meaningful choice at the ballot box.

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Apple Privacy & the IDFA Apple have bottled their IDFA lockdown ahead of the iOS 14 launch this year The question is why? #KnowWhatMatters onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
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Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Perhaps the biggest looser of this change is Facebook who rely heavily on the IDFA to feed data to their own ad platform. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
@CaseyNewton raised an interesting point Thursday last; that as well as being pro-privacy, Apple's moves are really rather anti-competitive... onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
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