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@1goodtern

Apr 28

Covid cases, positivity, hospitalisations, and wastewater here in the UK are all at their lowest point since surveillance started.

Here are the ten things I'm doing differently:

1
I'm still masking with an ffp3 mask everywhere indoors in public to avoid inhaling viral particles.

2
I'm still using hepa filtration in my workplace to filter viral particles out of the air.

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@1goodtern

Apr 26

I've just written and deleted a few versions of a thread about how there are some health conditions that are socially acceptable.

The people who have them are somehow almost canonised just because they have those conditions...

But there are also health conditions that are not socially acceptable.

And if you have one of those health conditions, you're rejected.

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@1goodtern

Apr 15

Look:
There is no such thing as overdiagnosis.

There is just diagnosis (correct) or misdiagnosis (wrong).

If a diagnosis is correct, then you can't have too much of it.

If there's any incorrect diagnosis, then it's a misdiagnosis.

So you can't have 'too much diagnosis'.

It's like saying something is too appropriate.

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@1goodtern

Apr 15

Trigger warning.
It takes a while for this disgusting article to reach its point, but when it does, it does it with so much callousness and wanton cruelty.

"Long Covid – the disease that started as a hashtag"

No, you hideous ghouls, it starts as covid infection.

On 2020:
"it’s inescapable that the period was a melting pot for psychosomatic conditions."

Yes, that would be what killed that quarter of a million people, and hospitalised one and a half million people. Psychosomatic conditions.

Ffs. This doctor that "stresses she isn’t dismissing suffering" literally dismisses the suffering caused by covid infections.

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@1goodtern

Apr 8

So it's now recognised that Long Covid is probably costing the world economy about a trillion a year in lost productivity.

You're reading that right.

So what should we do about it.

1) Reduce new infections by reducing transmission.

A) Clean the air in every public space now.

This is far easier than it sounds:

CHUMV (you can say it Chumvee):
CO₂ monitoring
HEPA
UV
MERV
VENTILATE

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@1goodtern

Apr 8

Here's a quick personal story.

Twenty something years ago, I picked up a mystery infection that hammered my system and left me with all sorts of health problems.

I'll come back to some of those bits in a mo, but here's the point of the story:

After a while, I discovered that I'm ok with exercise as long as it's a very small increase of something that I'm used to.

(this is not an 'all you need to do to get better is exercise' thread, and it's not a prescription of exercise to people with any chronic illness, I'll explain that more later too)

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