Thread by @ProfDFrancis

Look, what's the matter with everyone.

The revised Jama Cardio paper is brilliant. It's an all-clear!

The interesting features on the scans in Covid survivors are real, but they are caused by the risk factors, not by the covid.

The conclusion you can make from the paper is that:

Lolling about on the sofa (instead of playing sport) is the way to make your heart go funny on the scans!

Yes, be scared of getting Covid.

Fear is useful if it helps you take sensible precautions, such as getting OTHER people to wear masks (as well as you, of course), and not getting too close, even when everyone seems well.

But it is not a reason to go utterly bonkers.

If we keep telling people not to do things, eventually they will get fed up and tell us to get stuffed. They may reject the actual GOOD advice we give, which would be a terrible shame.

I realise that there are rumours of myocarditis, ghouls, goblins etc.

But the paper is here to save us.

We have the two iron-clad tests of that, which are fully displayed for all to see. No need to guess how they were interpreted etc.

Here are the data.

Is there myocarditis to get excited about?

Step 1.

Is there "itis"? Is the CRP frightening?

I thought you might say that, you bunch of slackers.

So here, I have googled it for you.

And I've even zoomed in to the first thing on Google, so you don't have to squint your oh-so-tired eyes.

And here are the data, plain as can be.

You muppets!

So there isn't any "itis".

How about some "myocard"?
Let's get me some "myocard"

I love the smell of myocard in the morning.

What is the normal range of hs Troponin T?

Oh look, there is this thing called Google.

Oh what, you are too tired to search it for yourselves?

Boo bloody hoo.

OK this is the last freeby you are getting out of me, cos I am sick of this stuff.

And right on the first click you get this:

Here are the data again. Remember, ignore the two irrelevant columns, and ignore the old paper numbers: obviously they have changed now.

OK? So stop whining.

Leave me alone.

I have proper stuff to do. This paper gives a very nice clearing of people who have had Covid WITH SYMPTOMS SO MUCH THAT THEY STILL HAD TO HAVE AN MRI SCAN to participate in sport.

Shutting down a sport, played by sportsmen who not only have not had to have an MRI scan for bad Covid, but haven't even noticed anything unusual at all, is completely nutty.

Maybe they have another secret dossier somewhere, like the WMD people had?

All I keep getting sent is this paper. And the paper is A-OK for a good recovery from even rather nasty Covid.

Heh heh.

See what I mean?
People resent being bossed around.

Masks and social distancing are a public good.

Banning people from physical activity, on the strength of a paper that shows that it is LACK of physical activity that upsets the heart, is not.