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Jul 25, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
At a time we have the tools & knowledge to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 - most of the Western world has given up, the result being death rates in some countries *in the vaccine era* are higher than any point in the pandemic, simply because they've let it spread unmitigated.
It looks like so many countries (including now Australia) bought into the 'living with it' ideology, without actually putting in the measures needed to protect public health. The impact will be devastating- not just in terms of death, but also long-term disability.
Even in countries like the UK, where vaccine uptake in vulnerable populations has been high, so death rates have dropped, long COVID is affecting 2 million people - with numbers having increased substantially in the vaccine era- because of unprecedented levels of transmission.
Before the anti-vaxxers jump on this- it's not because of vaccination- it's *despite* vaccination - because these countries have used their over-reliance on vaccinations to tolerate much higher levels of infection, rather than use a vaccine plus multilayered approach to reduce it
Most people don't realise this- but current infection rates in England are *140 times* higher than the rates at the same time in July 2020. At those rates, a vaccine only strategy isn't going to be enough. By any stretch of the imagination

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Mar 24
A brief 🧵on recent experience with possible MCAS (Mast Cell Activating Syndrome) as part of long COVID. Hoping this thread may help others who have symptoms of MCAS post-COVID who may not have been diagnosed, or have considered this possibility & may be untreated as a result
Some background- I have had hypermobility, GERD, auto-immune disease (UC) & mild POTS before COVID. After COVID, the POTS, GERD worsened & I developed fatigue, brain fog & PEM. To those who know about MCAS, none of this will be surprising, as all these are associated with MCAS.
I recently had a wk long episode of gastro-enteritis, and was very puzzled as to what was going on. I hadn't eaten out & no one else at home was ill. I am on treatments that could cause this as a side effect, but I'd never had these effects with the doses I was using before.
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Mar 15
The media won't cover high quality peer reviewed published evidence on the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on every single organ system, but rushes to cover 'expert opinion' on an unpublished non-peer reviewed abstract that contradicts everything we know about LC so far.🧵
And of course no one can really critique because we know nothing about the actual nitty gritty of the study, as it doesn't exist, even as a preprint. How does one deal with a system like this?
It would be like if there was a whole body of empirical evidence that supported the earth being spherical, but one person conducted a study that they say showed the earth was flat (unpublished), but asked us on the basis of that to stop referring to the earth being a globe...
Read 11 tweets
Mar 14
Using TV shows to support the hegemony of normalising COVID by dismissing those taking precautions as having 'post-covid anxiety'. These shows, like MSM serve to maintain the status quo by dismissing anyone whose actions may threaten this normalisation as 'anxious'.
This is how a one normalises mass infection with an illness with serious long-term consequences. First, they call it 'mild' and suggest it's like the 'flu'. Then they talk about how mitigations like masks are harmful (they're not) & onerous, & how 'people don't want to continue'
Then they try to minimise the long-term impacts saying they either don't exist, are all in the head, or are *rarer* with vaccination and current variants. Relativism is used here- i.e. 'the situation is better', although absolute risk at population level is still unacceptable
Read 5 tweets
Mar 12
This is such an abelist way to framing of how long COVID affects a whole family. Rather than highlighting the systemic issues that lead to CV families lives becoming smaller, it frames the risk aversion of an LC affected person as 'anxiety'
npr.org/2024/03/11/123…
Here the partner/spouse of the person suggests that a 'compromise' is needed, where the 'compromise' is basically the person with LC taking risks that could disable them forever if they get re-infected. 'Eating in a restaurant' for example is presented as a reasonable compromise
As someone suffering with LC (and extremely grateful for a spouse on exactly the same page as me), I would never compromise on this- because I know that this could very easily lead to me ending up with even greater disability- which would impact our family massively.
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Mar 8
The public health situation in Gaza is dire -
>1/2 million at risk of famine.
16% of children <2 are malnourished- 70% have had diarrhoea in the past 2 wks
>300,000 cases of resp infection & >200,000 with diarrhoea (1/2 in children under 5)
reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
This is entirely man-made- forced starvation and lack of clean water, crowding - all imposed by Israel with support from our govts. Please please speak up. We cannot be silent. Every day more children are dying. And this will continue until Israel is forced to stop.
We cannot as public health professionals remain silent in the face of one of the worst public health crises - entirely preventable, and deliberately imposed on an entire population by Israel and our leaders.
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Feb 26
As govts take aim at Muslims & immigrants with blatant racism, your regular reminder that the most dangerous entities responsible for the most suffering and death are capitalism, capitalist hegemony, austerity, fascism, and ecocide (all of which are linked with white supremacy).
It's odd that all those who speak about the 'impacts of immigration' or 'multiculturalism', never speak about the huge impacts of capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy on the world- it's hard to imagine anything that has had greater impact on humans & their environment.
I speak to people who talk about authoritarian countries and dictatorships, grateful that they live in 'democracies' with absolutely no concept that they are also controlled by hegemony rather than dictatorship- and that their democracies have not been functional for a long time.
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