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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
Dec 22, 2025
Those who say they've 'moved on' from Covid have nothing more than denial & hope.
Us apparent 'zealots' actually look at data and studies. We understand that we're a short way into a long term issue; the full effects of which will take years to be fully obvious & undeniable.
1/🧵
Finding out several years down the track that what us 'weirdos' have been saying for years was right will be much too late for many.
We also know that if things turn out better than we expect, all we did was adapt our lives to reduce our odds of being irreversibly affected.
2/
We also know many people who have already been really seriously affected by covid infections. We don't ignore them or gaslight them. We listen and acknowledge that what they are suffering is very much inline with what studies have shown covid does to harm us.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Dec 17, 2025
Electrostatic filtration media used to make respirators and air filters is a true marvel of science & engineering.
Odd that some think it doesn't work.
HEPA filters have been around for decades too.
HEPA filter technology actually makes it possible for you to read this post.
1/🧵
"Producing the semiconductor chip that you have in
your computer, phone or tablet, is a highly sensitive process. The chip has to be fabricated
in clean rooms where HEPA filters ensure the air contains less than 1 particle per cubic foot."
2/
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"As a comparison, most common indoor spaces have hundreds of thousands of air particles per
cubic foot."
Pretty useful tool eh?
Let's also have a look back to 1980 when a paper was written about electret filters. The type of media used in respirators:
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Dec 14, 2025
Saddened to hear football legend Ian Rush spent 2 days in ICU and is still in hospital with flu.
It can happen to anyone at short notice.
What people don't realise is that when it does, very little is done in hospitals to prevent co-infections with other airborne pathogens.
1/🧵
When so poorly, you are extremely vulnerable.
You really need to be kept away from other airborne diseases (and other germs of course).
But in my experience, the air quality inside hospitals can be very poor. Nothing like good enough to prevent spread of covid for example.
2/ Image
Also, staff & visitors in many UK hospitals are not required to wear any respiratory protection.
Worse still, staff are encouraged to be at work even if covid +ve as long as 'they feel well'.
The staff are not even protected from the patient and could get a co-infection too.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Nov 1, 2025
During the Cvd inquiry, I noted so many references to decisions having to be 'evidence based'.
I would like these people to produce one single piece of evidence that this advised technique prevents transmission of diseases - airborne and other modes.
👀Show me the evidence.
1/🧵
For example, how many times have we been thwarted when wanting to put air filters into classrooms?
Even as a simple emergency measure early on we were told that not enough evidence of efficacy exists.
So much so, that RCTs were called for and then never published.
2/
Ever wonder how much of their advice is actually based on evidence?
Like; is 'consider wearing a mask' based on evidence? Does someone considering doing so ever stop a single infection? Of course not.
Does evidence exist that washing hands prevents cvd infections? Nope.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Oct 23, 2025
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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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Oct 12, 2025
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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