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@LazarusLong13
Apr 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Airplanes. Measles. 🧵

Measles Claimed 207,500 lives in 2019.

who.int/news/item/12-1…

CoVid claimed 3 million, although the official toll was 1,813,188.

who.int/data/stories/t…

For 2020 and 2021, aggregate, 18.2 million.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

And now? CoVid is as
transmissible as measles. Or almost as.

Yet airplane transmission minimizers would have us believe we can safely ride planes.

Let's take a quick look at what the USA does with measles exposure on flights. 👇👇

jstor.org/stable/20056711
That was for one case of measles on board.

WHY?

Why would the government go to all that effort if airborne diseases are NOT easily transmissible on airplanes?
But maybe the US is just overly cautious. Let's look at the EU.

Nope. They contact EVERY SINGLE passenger and crew member.

WHY?

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Because transmission is possible.

Just like it is with CoVid, also an airborne disease.

And yet minimizers want us to take off our masks for situations in which measles are still on the books.

Guess what happens with measles cases on planes today?
👇 Just last month.
Local health departments were getting passenger manifests.

Frantically calling all the passengers.

Ordering quarantine.

And on that same exact flight, a CoVid+, was quietly tapping their fingers to their favorite song.

king5.com/article/news/l…
You might be reading this while on a plane right now.

Glance at the maskless guy or girl next to you, listening to their music.

And realize that #MeaslesIsAirborne.

That #COVIDisAirborne .

Oh - the song that both were listening to?

BTW, I just realized that someone will notice that for measles they try and contact within 5 days, so they can administer medicine.

Kind of sounds like that would work pretty well with the Test & Treat program, doesn't it?
Realized that the 3 million needed to have "in 2020" added to it or reads like in 2019. Sorry!

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Jul 29
Airborne Brain Cancer.

Thread of Cytomegalovirus, CMV, is airborne. #CMVisAirborne.

And causes brain cancer.

And you probably have CMV already.

Good times.

(Volume up, Jaws soundtrack set to Terry Crew's brain blowing up in commercial)
CMV appears to be not very transmissible**, and not airborne per the AI overview (so, per most websites, which are wrong).

Do we have tropism in the lungs? Yes.

Do we have asymptomatic infections (big clue to airborne).
Yes.

70-80% have it by 50.

proquest.com/openview/b4388…


While in vivo, the virus shows tissue tropism to epithelial cells of kidneys, liver, lungs, adrenal gland, brain and pancreas. Postnatal infections are either generalized involving several tar- get organs or local infections which primarily involve a single organ. In a congenital infection, CMV produces avariety of developmental abnormalities ranging from the fatal cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID), to less severe manifestations (20-23). The infections among adults are normally asymptomatic, however, post transfu- sion CMV infection results in an infectious-mononucleosis- like syndrome (2...
The frequency of seropositivity for CMV increases with age, and may reach up to 70% among those older than fifty years.
No, cytomegalovirus (CMV) is not airborne and is not considered highly contagious. It can only be spread through direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids, such as saliva, urine, tears, semen, breast milk, mucus, and blood. CMV can also be transmitted through sex, blood transfusions, and organ transplants. It can also pass from an infected mother to her fetus or newborn during pregnancy, which is called congenital CMV.
Read the below. Now look at how it reads with a view to aerosols.

.... close contact, near field aerosols, seem to
be significant in acquisition of CMV.

Poor children from homes with worse ventilation, and more air pollution, worsening lung immune systems. These reports suggest that primary infections take place in early years of life. The hygienic conditions and close contact seem to be significant in acquisition of CMV. Children from migrant and black families were found to acquire the infec- tion earlier than those from more prosperous or white families (42,43). In London, 80% of boys aged 10 to 15 years in boarding school had CF antibody, while the sero- positive rates for two day schools were 18% and 29% respectively (26).
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Jul 27
Repeated infections.

A thread of why it's a bad idea. Image
Let's start with the newest.

The more hits your immune system takes, the more it primes you for "increasingly profound and protracted #neuroinflammation"

And "multiple inflammatory challenges can add up to be greater than the sum of their parts."

That's not just SARS2.

All disease-causing pathogens like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites. 1st 3 are generally airborne.

Not discussed by their study, but alcohol, heat, processed food, alcohol, smoking - all hit your immune system.

And all have hammered LongHaulers.
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Jul 24
Hypothesis: reducing the inoculum you are exposed to will result in a less severe infection.

Follow-up Hypothesis: wearing a respirator will result in less severity than cleaning the air with a HEPA.

Been thinking on this for a long while. Here are the underpinnings.
🧵
On the first, this is a pretty common theory. Here's a good quick overview of the idea 👇.

Greater the inoculum, the worse the outcome.

A dose-response relationship between viral load and outcome, to use the more scientific parlance.

thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

The influence of the inoculum on disease severity is more challenging to study in humans, given that some viruses only cause mild clinical manifestations in immunocompetent human hosts. Viruses that cause severe disease symptoms are too dangerous to study experimentally in humans, and disease severity is more challenging to measure than is infection itself. However, in one controlled experiment with respiratory syncytial virus, five of the seven human participants who were successfully infected with undiluted, higher dose virus inoculum (105 plaque-forming units) administered intranasally, ...
Given the severity of illness associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, human challenge studies are controversial.31 However, in an animal model of SARS-CoV-2 infection, Syrian hamsters were successfully infected with two different doses of SARS-CoV-2, intranasally and intraocularly, and the higher dose was associated with greater weight loss and more severe lung abnormalities on chest imaging.32 In another experiment, when a surgical mask partition was placed between the cages of infected and uninfected Syrian hamsters, only six (25%) of 24 hamsters protected by the surgical mask partition wer...
Here's an epi example of two groups of soldiers spatially separated, but very similar in make-up.

Group after masking and social distancing
13 (15%) of 88 asymptomatic.

Group before masking
102 (47%) of the 215 soldiers who tested positive were symptomatic. Some epidemiological data1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 37 suggestive of the viral inoculum effect with SARS-CoV-2 are also worthy of notice. A natural experiment of sorts occurred in the Swiss Alps between March 25, 2020, and April 14, 2020, in two spatially separated homogenous cohorts of soldiers of similar age (median age 21) and without substantial comorbidities.4 After a COVID-19 outbreak occurred in one of the cohorts, physical distancing and surgical mask-wearing was implemented in both cohorts. An outbreak of COVID-19 in the previously unaffected cohort occurred after the implementation of th...
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Jul 22
🔥 Wildfire season, folks! 🔥

Got a smoky or smokey house from a fire or a BLT sandwich gone wrong?

TLDR;
Make a #CorsiRosenthalBox with activated carbon filters

AND CLEAN SURFACES:
By vacuuming, dusting; then wiping and mopping with a commercial, non-bleach solution. Pic of smoke and fire - hopefully not headed your way.
Huge caveat. The carbon filters will fill up quickly with particulate matter.

While the smoke is ongoing? Regular filters.

After the smoke is over, while cleaning up? The activated carbon filters (ACF).

Someone is working on a variation of the CR Box w/ 3 regular panels,
1 ACF panel. Numbers are still being run. No ETA, so I am going forward with this thread, as is.

⚠️ACFs are also great for paint fumes.⚠️

BTW, this thread will get a fair amount of useful clarifications, so check the end of the thread, in a couple of days.
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Jul 22
A new strategy.

I used this new study, that points to C0vid co-infection with StaphA, worsening StaphA, to write the HICPAC.

The patient safety pages do not recommend N95s.

This allows me to avoid the quarrel of StaphA OR C0vid being airborne.

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And allows me to use their words on N95s being best for C0vid against them.

Soft-copy email below.

hicpac @ - just join these together.

This strategy can be used on every safety page for every disease.

cdc.gov
docs.google.com/document/d/12y…


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- SARS-COV-2
hastens
worsens
X

Find the X CDC safety page. Confirm no N95s recommended. They never are.

And you are off to the races.

Some will think, "this is just some weird internet trick."

This is just us using their system against them.Scholar.google.com
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Jul 19
A NEW Colorado Chicken farm outbreak with 1.34 million.

The one with 5 people confirmed infected, 64 pending, has 1.8 million, 10-14 days of work.

CDC team of 10 has just been dispatched for the 1.8 million.

The farms are about 35 minutes apart (thank you @0bFuSc8!)

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