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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
@PeteUK7
May 21, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
On recent dog walk, got chatting to a lady I'd met a few times:
Her: Are you holidaying abroad this year
Me: I can't because of Covid & immunosuppressed family members
Her: But Covid is over now
Me: 1 in 45 people are infected & 1,000 ppl a week dying
Her: Not now though
1/
Me: Yes, those are recent numbers
Her: But you never hear about it anymore
Me: Yes because they'd sooner you ignored it
Her: It doesn't affect vaccinated people
Me: Well it does and you can still get bad outcomes & LC
Her: Well it's mild now and it'll soon be over
2/
Me: The 1,000 ppl dying every week are not finding it mild
Her: But they probably had something else and didn't die from it
Me: Yes, they'd like you to think that
Her: Well we've all had it anyway and so we're not worried
Me: But you can get it over and over again
3/
Her: But I was fine anyway. Had no symptoms at all so I'm not worried
Me: But asymptomatic infection doesn't mean it hasn't harmed you or weakened your immune system. It doesn't mean it will be asymptomatic with a subsequent infection
Her: But catching it again is rare
4/
Me: It's not rare. It's commonplace. Immunity is transient & lasting immunity is impossible
Her: Well the boosters will help
Me: So when's your next one planned
LONG PAUSE
Her: I haven't heard about getting another booster
Me: So how will you stay protected as this progresses
5/
Her: Well this will be the last wave. Omicron was a blessing
Me: There are already new variants that are expected to cause another wave
Her: But they just get milder until it's gone
Me: Where do you get your news from
Her: BBC and the Mail
Me: I see.
6/
Her: Well there's not much we can do about it. It's like getting a regular cold & we got those every year
Me: It's very different from a regular cold & there is plenty we could be doing about it
Her: Well we can't just keep everyone locked up
I explained clean air approaches.
7/
The propaganda has done a fine job in making people believe this is all over. It's clear that what I said was news to her & that she kind of only half believed me.
She & her family feel like there is no risk whatsoever. I can't change that no matter what I say.
8/
Many people seem to think that vaccines have solved the problem & any other kind of measure is a lockdown.
It's clear that the message about ventilation, measuring CO₂, high levels of air filtration, overhead GUV & FarUV have not yet reached everyone.
I'll keep trying.
9/END

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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Oct 23
Ppl say 'I've had a bout of Covid'.
In a real bout, like boxing, fighters prepare well. Honing skills to try to defend themselves.
Most ppl do nothing to avoid Covid.
Boxing is typically 12 rounds and not infinite rounds like Covid, as each new wave swerves their defences.
1/🧵
But what people really don't get is that you sustain damage with each round.
You might not even perceive it or it might knock you down.
The damage may manifest later with people not even connecting the 'bout' they had to their worsening health or decreased cognitive ability.
2/
You see this in boxing too. Fighters can sustain damage in a fight and continue through to the end but then collapse after the fight is over or suffer brain damage years later from taking hits over a sustained career.
When boxers suffer in this way, people are never surprised.
3/
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Oct 12
The fact that proper messaging about the harms of covid infection, long covid & effective ways to protect yourself has been left to members of the public to advocate for is a massive frustration to me.
People are generally unaware because of a total Public Health failure.
1/🧵
It isn't just a failure to provide the correct information; it's worse than that. It's a concerted effort to provide inaccurate info which is fed to the public through the media; the BBC for one who are entirely complicit in causing harm. Today's article is a prime example.
2/
I spoke to a contact I hadn't been in touch with for a while. It was clear that she was concerned about Covid and other infections for herself and her teenage kids. She told me one teen wears a neck gaitor over his mouth & nose and uses hand gel when travelling by train.
3/
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Oct 11
An anecdote from me as a small business owner.
I see many more mistakes & mix ups from my clients than I've ever known.
Obvs I get more 'out of office ill' replies too but Covid affects the brain & it's noticeable imho.
Mistakes are increasing; sometimes financial ones.
1/🧵
Today for example, I had a company pay an invoice that was due to an entirely different company with that starts with the same letter. Refund issued.
Also today, another customer paid an invoice that they had already paid. Another refund issued.
2/
The burden of errors costs businesses. Not every company will be upfront about receiving mispayments but it's also taking our time up trying to reconcile accounts, having to deduce the issue, get bank details for customers and then go through the process of sending £s back.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Aug 9
When Covid started, society largely came together.
A shared sense that we could act in a way that helped us all; especially the most vulnerable.
When Gov's realised this threat was here to stay they had 2 choices:
1) Lie
2) Be honest
Which do you think they chose?
1/
They effectively threw tear gas canisters into the crowd. They needed to break the togetherness and get people to disperse and back into their old way of life.
They knew it was airborne.
They knew it was, and remains debilitating and causes all manner of long term harms.
2/
But they needed people back at work & spending as usual. Kids back at school.
This could've been achieved by being honest but this would have required investments & unpopular mitigations.
Education & truthful messaging would've been paramount to success; yet it was possible.
3/
Read 7 tweets
Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Aug 4
Badly designed studies give the wrong answers.
Here, air filters were used in *some* residents rooms; always on sleep mode.
In communal areas they were also hugely underpowered.
The level of air filtration is super-important.
Seemingly not to researchers designing studies.
1/🧵
2/ I'd expect honest reviewers to see the issues here immediately rather than report 'doesn't work'.
It's as simple as me studying whether heat can cook chicken.
I raised the chicken temp by 1 degree C.
Chicken remained raw.
Therefore heat does not work to cook chicken ❌.
2/
It's absolutely as obvious as that.
We'd then compare the untreated chicken and that where temperature was raised by 1 degree and find no significant difference.
Would anyone be at all surprised?
It's the same with air filtration; the amount matters. Like it really matters.
3/
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Aug 3
Until the real harms from Covid infection are widely understood and accepted, pretty much nothing is likely to change.
Acknowledgement means everything else slots into place easily.
It would no longer be a fight for the obvious steps needed.
There would be a demand for them.
1/🧵
People would want to know how it's transmitted and how to avoid it.
The drive for clean air everywhere would face no push-back.
The thousands of nonsense arguments would be brushed aside.
There are still relatively few of us who know and understand the true harms.
2/
Perhaps society is too far gone and the denial is overwhelming but if everyone knew, and they knew because every Govs and public health department's disseminated this; if every healthcare worker they encounter tells them while wearing respiratory protection - it could change.
3/
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