Thread by @Protect_BC

1/Excellent reporting by @TheTyee:
“Although many PH officials still dismiss COVID infections as inevitable & even beneficial, a growing body of science shows this fashionable dogma is dangerously wrongheaded, if not an outright form of malpractice.”

A🧵:
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/…

2/ “Reinfections, and 2022 is surely the year of reinfections, just increase the damage from COVID, which can be profound: immune dysregulation, blood clots, nerve cell death, inflammation, lung damage, kidney failure and brain damage.”

hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditi…

3/ “New science shows that Omicron & its variants are getting better at evading immune defences induced by vaccines or by natural infection. BA5, for example, is more transmissible than any previous variant.”

erictopol.substack.com/p/the-ba5-story

4/ “The data also shows that each reinfection confers no immunity. A summer infection, for example, will not protect you against a fall infection. But each and every infection will damage your immune system regardless of how mild the symptoms.”

erictopol.substack.com/p/a-reinfectio…

5/ “So if each COVID infection depletes T cells & destabilizes immune function & the damage is cumulative, then policies that allow the virus to run riot through the population will not only cause immense suffering but erode public health along with trust in government.”
@TheTyee

https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1542146019479232520

6/ “Previous COVID infections probably also play a major role in deadly hepatitis infections in hundreds of children.”

https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1540667898653396992

7/ “Every COVID infection now leaves a non-linear legacy of troubling human health outcomes in unforeseen ways. A Danish study, for example, found that people infected with COVID ‘were at an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and ischemic stroke.’”

https://twitter.com/fae2535/status/1540800452496949248

8/ “Letting the virus rip also supports a nightmare scenario where initial infections disarm and sabotage immune systems leaving them more vulnerable to future infections and new pathogens such as monkeypox.”

https://twitter.com/a_longhurst/status/1543331168501673984

#9/ “Long COVID, which affects nearly 300,000 Canadians, comes with a range of life-challenging symptoms and no real treatment. The symptoms include brain fog, fatigue, muscle pain, chronic inflammation, blood clots and kidney failure.”

https://twitter.com/protect_bc/status/1540770733281771528

10/ “Meanwhile the variants keep on marching…Their current success owes much to the behaviour of PHOs and politicians who think society can live with disrupted supply chains, overwhelmed hospitals, chaotic airports and a workforce with crippled immune systems.”

WorkSafeBC data:

https://twitter.com/ohcasavant/status/1540504570782052352

11/ “In real terms “living with the virus” means living with a normalization of death, reinfections, long COVID, disruption and exhausted health-care workers. People would never vote for a deteriorating quality of life and risk, but that’s where public policy is now taking us.”

https://twitter.com/ty_olsen/status/1542168386691420160

12/ “We could have avoided this deteriorating situation, as The Tyee repeatedly advised, by eliminating COVID in our communities more than a year ago.”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/…

13/ “Elimination remains the only long-term and bottom-up strategy that makes any sense in terms of risk reduction. It is also imminently doable with adequate testing, masking, tracing, supported sick leave and targeted goals for reducing transmission.”

https://twitter.com/protect_bc/status/1541975117973946370

14/ “If anyone needs a reminder that direct simple actions can thwart viral aggression, consider the actions of the Japanese people. Despite having one of the world’s oldest populations, they outperformed most western countries in terms of death & disability with aplomb.”
🇯🇵3C’s:

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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” — C.S. Lewis

#bcpoli #COVIDisAirborne

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thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/…