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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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May 27
I have just had the craziest morning.
I meet up twice a year with five colleagues to coordinate an annual event.

When I arrived the first two were already there...
One was talking about how her husband (early 50s) has not returned to work after a stroke six months ago, and about how she (early 50s) was dealing with unending fatigue.
The other guy replies, "Yes, my sister (40s) had a stroke at the end of last year, and her husband (late 40s) has just had an operation for a brain tumour."
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May 26
I haven't worn ffp2+ masks for the entire pandemic.

I bought a load in mid January 2020, and started wearing them in February 2020.

But then I fell for some weird disinformation...
The weird disinformation was that there wasn't enough manufacturing capacity to make enough ffp2+ masks for healthcare workers.
Which was *completely untrue*.
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May 23
How do I put this.

The people who say that endless repeat covid infection is not a concern... They say it, despite the fact that studies like this one are only coming out now after *five years of work*. It was based on cases in 2020.

There *is* enough evidence in to say that endless repeat Covid infections are going to be detrimental to long term health on an individual and population level, but there will be even more evidence to come.Image
There will be problems caused by cases caught *today* that will not be out for years.
Don't forget:

*Mass widespread* universal covid *infection* only started in 2021.

*Mass widespread* universal covid *REinfection* only started in 2022.
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May 21
In the mid 2000s, I got ill while finishing a project in Eastern Europe, and developed some health conditions that nobbled me for a few years, and my whole life changed track.
I didn't go back, but I never took my eye off what I had seen start to develop:
Putin's new empire.
🧵
Let me explain.
Gorbachev's perestroika descended into Yeltsin's mess, which evolved into Putin's era.
The first few years of it were a juggling act as Putin capitalised on the chaos and convinced the West that he was the best option for a stable Russia.
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May 21
Covid infections cause damage to the brain.

Damage to the brain increases the risk of anxiety and depression.
They are *physical* and *biological* conditions.

What did you think was going to happen when we infected everyone repeatedly with Covid? Graph title: What Happens When You Repeatedly Infect A Whole Population With A Virus That Affects The Function Of The Brain? Monthly new long-term disability benefit awards for anxiety and depression in the UK before and after Covid was let rip: Graph stays roughly flat at 2000 to 2700 awards per month, then at Freedom Day it skyrockets to 6000 a month.
The clinical medical condition of 'Anxiety' is not primarily caused by *something that is worrying you*.
The medically recognised condition 'Anxiety' is more like a glitch in how the brain and body handle stress, where the physical and biological alarm systems gets stuck on high alert, even when there's no clear danger.
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May 17
Unmentioned by the government, by health media, by doctors, by wellness commentators, by anyone, there has been an >astonishing< change in the underlying causes of deaths in the UK.
This is the proportion of each week's deaths in the UK that involved 'a disease of the respiratory system' in the years leading up to Covid's arrival. Image
That graph comes from data provided by the UK government to track the causes of deaths.
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