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@1goodtern

Jan 22

Three times a year I meet up with a group of 15 people who do the same job I do.

In my most recent meeting with them:
All of them had been off sick with an infection for at least a week since the last time we met.

6 for 1 week
4 for 2 weeks
2 for 1 month
2 for 6 weeks.

Out of 16 weeks.

These are all people aged between 40 and 60.

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@1goodtern

Jan 19

I caught up with an old friend this week.
I asked how his business is going and he said everyone's sick all the time and it's really hitting their bottom line.

I, wearing a mask that stops inhalation of airborne viruses, replied "That's weird, I haven't been sick in five years."

I really worked hard at putting a sincere note of perplexity and bafflement into my voice, like they do in the headlines.

You know the ones.

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@1goodtern

Jan 18

Look.
There's just more and more sickness here.
This is what we're dealing with.

Whatever the reason, people are just sharing more and more infections with each other.

We need to change course because this is NOT making us healthier.

All these graphs are on the same timescale, 2015 to the end of 2024

They all use the same metric: rolling monthly totals based on weekly data.

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@1goodtern

Jan 18

I've been hesitating about sharing this for a few days now, but earlier this week I was in a hospital ward before visiting hours, and I watched a nurse go from bed to bed in a ward of six touching and treating patients without washing their hands in between patients.

I was just stood there out in the corridor waiting quite a while to see someone in the next ward.

You might think that we have only abandoned mitigation of aerosol transmission of disease, but I really think some healthcare workers here have abandoned mitigation of all forms of transmission of disease.

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@1goodtern

Jan 17

https://twitter.com/annesmithmcc/status/1880217921202582000

Strap in.

This letter from Andrew Gwynne @gwynnemp is pathetic and he should be ashamed to have written it.

Let's break down the worst parts of it.

TLDR: If you have Long Covid, you're not going to get any help from this guy.

https://twitter.com/annesmithmcc/status/1880217921202582000

Mate, you work as an MP and a minister *full time*.

You're writing in reply talking about people who are fully debilitated. Permanently disabled and unable to work. Be very careful about comparing your experience to theirs, and making it sound like their experience is yours.

So 8 months ago there were 100 long covid centres that offered talking therapy and damaging physical therapy for conditions that were neurological and biochemical. 100 long covid centres that were *mostly harmful*.

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@1goodtern

Jan 16

I am just a bird on the internet, but I have a growing suspicion that flu and rsv infections do trigger the immune system in a way that *can* *help* *temporarily* *reduce* susceptibility to Covid.

By temporary I mean like a couple of weeks.

And I put 'can', 'help', 'temporarily', and 'reduce' all in asterisks to emphasise them because this isn't a "flu makes you immune to covid" scenario.

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