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@1goodtern
Oct 19, 2022 • 126 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Ten things that will not protect you from an airborne virus that moves through the air like smoke.
1
Sanitiser
2
Perspex screens
3
Denial
4
Bravery
5
The World Health Organisation
6
Washing your hands
7
Your government
8
2m distancing
9
Optimism
10
Ignorance
11
Cloth masks
12
Joe Biden
(sorry Joe)
13
A mask under your chin
14
Wishful thinking
15
Optional isolation
16
You do you
17
A surgical mask
18
Surrender
19
The infection control team
20
Closed windows
21
Mass delusion
22
Pretending it's a cold
23
Newspapers owned by billionaires
24
Cleaning surfaces
25
Slogans
26
Nutjobs
27
Indecision
28
A mask that's in your pocket
29
Vaccines on their own
30
Snake oil
31
Luck
32
Holding your breath
33
Being a child
34
Having had Covid already
35
Being outdoors
36
A test kit
37
Being sporty
38
Wealth
39
Blaming something else
40
Knowing/not knowing the person who is ill
41
The economy
42
The decision to live with Covid
43
Minimisers
44
Someone telling you it's safe to take your mask off
45
The room being empty
46
Calling it endemic
47
Being in a classroom
48
A strong constitution
49
Horse de-wormer
50
Being newly born
51
Swagger
52
Your qualifications
53
Perspex face shields
54
Corners
55
Unused mitigations
56
Gloves
57
Misconceptions
58
Magical thinking
59
Positive thinking
60
A conference invitation
61
Scorn
62
Your track record at avoiding catching it
63
Antiviral treatments
64
Group twos*
*see here
65
Group threes*
*see here
66
Not touching your face
67
Being totally over it
68
Hopium
69
The macarena
(it's a thing)
70
Other people
71
Procrastination
72
Hindsight
73
Delay
74
Apathy
75
Incompetence
76
Facing away from someone
77
Avoiding eye contact
78
Hepa filters that are switched off (eg in an aeroplane flying)
79
A mask that you have taken off for a photo
80
Marketing
81
Consultants*
*except clean air consultants
82
Not believing in covid
83
Chief Medical Officers/Provincial Health Officers/Your Regional Variation Of The Above
84
Religious belief
85
Good intentions
86
Nicotine patches
87
Coughing into your elbow
88
Sneezing into your elbow
89
Throwing away your tissues carefully
90
Vitamins
91
Clean living
92
Blaming allergies
93
Being with family
94
Seasons
95
Herd immunity
96
Hot weather
97
Holidays
98
A mask over your mouth but not your nose
99
Misinformation
100
Right Said Fred
Oh okay then, for the Canadians:
101 Bonnie Henry
I'm taking requests now.
102
Privilege
103
Ending mandated mitigations
104
Thoughts and prayers
105
A mask that you have taken off so you can eat or drink
106
A poor understanding of physics
107
(against BQ.1.1, XBB and their friends)
Evusheld
108
Butthole sunning
(yes, that really was a thing)
109
Pulling your mask down to talk to someone
110
A perky attitude
(sorry Prof @DoencaProf)
111
A cruise booking
112
Indoor dining
113
Thinking you're being careful when you're not being careful
114
Being with people you know
115
Special final mentions for cow dung, horse urine, perfume, your race, your blood type, father christmas, and rupert murdoch.
And then if you want to know what *can* protect you, read on here:

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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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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.
Read 20 tweets
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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. Image
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.
Read 10 tweets
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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.
Read 7 tweets
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Jan 17
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.
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*.
Read 25 tweets
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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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