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Dec 10 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
#RealityCheck: Counter to naïve, disempowering stories, we CAN end SARS-CoV-2 just like SARS. The virus isn't novel. It worked so well in 2003, most never noticed that international travel surveillance is key.

Follow the Precautionary Principle: N95 grade PPE and eye protection. ImageImage
End the SARS pandemic fast to be able to mitigate climate breakdown. Maybe this can help:
Once you sort out SARS, go back to climate. Promise, it won’t be boring. There is no logical or ethical alternative.
#RealityCheck: Sunday infectious disease update (#SIDU). (1) At a rate of 117 cases per day, #mpox is slowly accumulating mutations (=monkeypox). (2) SARS-CoV-2 exceeds 536,000 cases/day. (3) UK/EU/US prepare to force WHO to end the COVID-19 PHEIC by withholding data (PCR tests). ImageImageImageImage
mpox: 110 countries report cases overall. US, Brazil cause a concerning increase over the past week. Allowing mpox to become endemic will be a mistake. worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/mpx_global/

SARS: 31 countries (13%) still report data to WHO on COVID-19 hospitalization. who.int/publications/m… ImageImageImage
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Read this and weep - COVID-19 data could be presented just as clearly, IF epidemiologists and public health officers were protected from political interference.

Among the most important questions now: why was the political decision made in 2019 to let SARS rip, unlike in 2003? Image
Syndemic Infectious Disease Update #SIDU 221211 continues with ebola.
Screenshot here from the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda. who.int/emergencies/di… Below reference to the one in DRC. If you follow these questions, a pattern should emerge. To address it, faster learning and better organization will be needed.
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Dec 12
#SIDU was a pun on Syndrome d'immunodéficience universel associé au syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère (#SRAS) but an epidemiologist added a better term: #Syndemic. It's the central 21stC governance challenge. Use syndemic theory in every mother discipline. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ImageImageImageImage
We are past the point of subtlety. Just as with global climate change, once the problem is visible to the naked eye, it is too late to mitigate root causes.

We all need to learn to respect and dance with systems. If this is news, @bethsawin threads help.
@bethsawin I've written some very hard, unyielding threads about these questions. Frankly I prefer the wiser, more refined, experienced language.
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Dec 10
CDC’s alter ego @CDCgov_parody offers more reliable public health scicomm than @CDCgov. 哭笑不得 😂😭
@CDCgov_parody @CDCgov The U.S. has reached 1.2 million excess mortality since the start of the SARS pandemic. Many blame 'vaccines', but look at the data -- mortality was excessive long before vaccines. Get comfortable with the idea of eradicating SARS the old-fashioned way. Image
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Dec 9
I often wonder what still needs to be said about SARS. (1) Everything has been said over & over & over & over. (2) If you haven't heard it, you should ask yourself: why not? What's been your source of information? (3) Yet, in Pandemic Year Four (PY4), we return to the basics. 1/k
There are philosophical and physical limits to the current state of systemic dysfunction. It's easy for me, admittedly, because we've thought this through for climate breakdown. Applying the same to the SARS pandemic is a simple transfer of knowledge. 2/k
I've written a lot already - millions of characters, or possibly words - about these questions, so can't really be bothered to draw it all into a coherent form; that's not how twitter works. It DOES reflect the recombination skills of a HCoV in the information realm, ironically.
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Dec 7
Respect for Michael Olesen, among the few outspoken epidemiologists. Current SARS policy is slow-onset E, more than policymakers realize. Anyone who understands the public health data knows. This is why we warn and why Long SARS data isn’t being collected.
Three years has been enough, many are beginning to speak up.
(1) Who deserves Darwin Awards for their actions since 2019? I nominate airlines. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤡 (2) Dynamics matter. Climate is a global problem (Dennis Meadows), SARS a universal problem. (3) SARS is ‘rate-limiting’. To mitigate climate, eradicate SARS first.

Else, we face dark futures:
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Dec 7
"The solution to the problem of « clean water » was infrastructure but it was lawyers who forced gov to act. In 1919 Canada it was Public Health nurses in schools, but they were abandoned in 1995."

The SARS pandemic will end only if (!) lawyers end it. Lawyers where are you? 1/n
More precisely, where have you been the past three years?
I don't know why Canada has been at the bleeding edge since the start of the pandemic, but it entered its fourth year (since the start of pandemic spread). As WHO is about to be forced to end the PHEIC under IHR 2005, the stakes are only rising.
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Dec 7
We face a global catastrophe and unprecedented crisis of expertise. @osmastro, political scientist, China expert, and USAF strategic planner is just one of countless examples.

As the momentum of morbidity and mortality takes hold of the west and, perhaps, China, what comes next?
You need to understand that, contra wishful western projection, China didn't choose "Let 'er R.I.P." policy, or not yet. - There will be immense pressure on Chinese healthcare systems, and we've long observed dysfunctional responses (airborne protections).
The next big question: will planetary cognitive dissonance (#shorttermism) win? Can they gaslight parents to view every new weird outbreak of respiratory diseases and secondary infections as "surprise" or "immunity debt lol", rather than as caused by SARS?
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