My day today,

1. I took my 15yr old son to the Doctor, where they did a test. His results were worse than an elderly person with COPD. Thank you #LongCovid. Thank you #AndersTegnell. Thank you @Folkhalsomynd

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2. We spoke to relatives in Russia, who claimed Russia was defending itself from attacks by Ukraine and NATO. We then spoke to our mutual, elderly, cousin, in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, expecting to die.

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3. I spoke to my brother, in Brisbane, Australia. He is surrounded by floodwaters. Some places have had 1 *metre* of rain in a few hours. More rain fell in 2 days than in a usual 4 months. And it rains a lot in Brisbane normally.

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We are crisis, around the world, and these are all crises of our own making.

We ignored the threat of the pandemic.
We ignored the threat of Putin's decades of propaganda.
We ignored the threat of Climate Change.

We cannot go on like this.

#WeWereWarned
#LookUp

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Feb 28
Unconfirmed reports from a UA parliamentarian that Poland will let Ukraine fly combat missions from Polish airbase.

If true this sounds very risky as Putin may see it as NATO involvement and retaliate.

But! It may be a very smart move and here's why...

ukraine.segodnya.ua/amp-ukraine/ev…
Right now, Putin is essentially daring NATO to get involved. I suspect he believes they won't because of the risk of nuclear war.

He believes however he will take Ukraine, forcing a surrender once he begins mass bombing civilians ala Grozny, Aleppo and Homs.
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Today's use of cluster munitions and (reportedly) a thermobaric weapon are warnings... This is what's coming.

I believe however that NATO won't standby if there is mass slaughter of civilians on our doorstep, not to mention millions of refugees

NATO will intervene directly
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Feb 21
More than 1yr after my son fell ill from Covid and never fully recovered he finally - after I demanded it - has a diagnosis of "post-covid" and finally - after I demanded them - had appropriate blood tests conducted.

The result? The Dr just called to say we should take him to ER
A year. MORE THAN A FUCKING YEAR.

I'm furious.
And just for context - He turns 16 next week. He lost an entire term of school because he was fatigued. He now only makes 3-4 days/wk (if that). He's had to change his choices for his high school streams.
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Read 5 tweets
Feb 20
Secret documents reveal the obvious - Sweden's pandemic strategy has not been to decrease infections as much as possible, but to mitigate to a level where healthcare can cope. Multiple ministers, including the former Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, have directly lied about this.
Prediction: There will be zero repercussions from this being revealed.
Also worth pointing out, the Swedish Public Health Authority literally had a graph explaining this in virtually every press conference for the first year of the pandemic -

Read 6 tweets
Feb 19
I should stop being shocked by this type of thing by Swedish journalists (and scientists for that matter), but nevertheless I keep getting shocked. An anonymous twitter account created a "excess mortality" graph that purports to show how well Sweden is doing over the pandemic.
There are *huge* problems with the graph, which I may go in to later, but just reflect on the fact that this is simply a graph produced by an anonymous account on twitter. That's it.

And here it's being retweeted by the Chief Editor of Flamman, a major left-wing outlet.
A Swede points out to him that the account that tweeted is apparently known for extreme right-wing disinformation.

@LAretakis response? "Eurostat is extreme right disinformation"? Breathe!" Image
Read 4 tweets
Feb 3
Quite a few Danes are upset about my tweet last night about the odd phenomenon of ICU covid cases decreasing in Denmark while cases, hospitalisations, and mortality increase.
A Dane directed me to guidance issued on December 2021 that suggested that hospitals needed to consider whether patients really needed ICU before referring them, or if they could be handled in an existing ward.

It seems to me that this could be a reasonable explanation.
I've been personally attacked for this and told that no, this was only going to happen if ICU was under pressure and that didn't happen. Ends up that just 2 weeks before that guidance, this article in DagensMedicine stated there were only 10 free ICU beds in the entire country
Read 11 tweets
Feb 2
Denmark this week lifted all Covid related restrictions, and one of the many talking points is that patients in ICU have been declining, despite cases and hospitalisations increasing.

What's not mentioned is that at the end of Dec, Denmark changed protocols for admission to ICU.
Denmark, like Sweden, now has *fewer* ICU beds overall than at the start of the Pandemic - a casualty of exhausted health care workers quitting or sick.

With the onset of Omicron, new guidelines essentially said "Do they *really* need ICU? Could you do it another ward?"
Less than 2 weeks later, the total number of patients in ICU (unfortunately OwiD does not have admissions) started to decline. Image
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