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Feb 13, 2023 42 tweets 10 min read Read on X
I thought they said it wasn't airborne.
It's alright, most people don't develop long alien.
Make sure to swab properly.
Wear your mask over your mouth, not the top of your head.
Now that's more like proper PPE.
Stay two metres apart.
You need to catch aliens to not catch aliens, so this is a good thing really.
World Health Organisation guidance.
It's OK, the alien takes a break whenever you're in a restaurant, it won't get you then.
Balloux, Ladhani, and some other gimp figuring out their next grift.
"The alien has never been known to cause cardiac problems"
Ten seconds later
The last thing you'll see.
He doesn't know not to rely on a perspex screen...
Test comes back negative.
Volunteering to go to the shop in April 2020.
Sanitising surfaces in 2020.
Backing away when you realise you've forgotten your mask.
Dreaming about what you'd like to say to a CHO.
Remembering the lost.
"just think of the profits we can make if we can sell medication to everyone who has been infected by an alien"
Ventilate to eliminate.
Always knowing exactly how far people are away from you and which direction the wind is blowing.
"the aliens are defanged and we have all the tools"
It's game over man. Game over.
(not pandemic over)
Trusting in the wrong tools.
Putting the wrong people in charge
"it's ok, this is the exit alien"
Me when you tell me it's ok to take off my mask.
Me when I hear yet another person sneeze. Screaming
"it's alright, schools are totally safe" Newt in the water
I'm sure this PPE will be adequate.
Realising the cdc director is pro-infection.
Realising you're on the wrong side of the perspex screen.
We hold all the cards.
"I'm sure it's not airborne, you'll be fine as long as you wash your hands."
"Don't worry, this is a mild variant, like a natural booster."
June 2019
"it's running out of evolutionary options"
Trusting completely the wrong people.
Watching the next wave approaching.

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Apr 2
When you have a chronic health condition, it can be hard to explain to people without a chronic health condition what it means.
You say, "I have muscle pain", and they say, "oh yes, I did the London marathon and all my muscles hurt for two days".
You say, "I can't sleep", and they say, "oh yes, I was out at a concert last night and didn't get home until two. I only had five hours".
Read 17 tweets
Mar 31
Another quick dive into the NHS staff sickness absence data.

This gets nuts pretty fast...
The NHS shares sickness absence data for different groups of staff.

Most of these staff groups include people of every age. Image
For example you can be a nurse from 22 to retirement age.
Read 50 tweets
Mar 28
You may have thought that the chatter out of schools about kids having developmental problems was bad so far…

But this autumn, Reception will welcome kids born in late 2021… whose mothers caught Covid while pregnant… kids who have themselves caught Covid in every wave since.
I work with three nurseries, and, let me tell you, schools and society are in for an even worse jolt than the ones they've had so far.
I know one family where the mum caught Covid when they were trying for a baby, caught it again when they were expecting, and then the baby caught it when they were just four weeks old.

The most obvious developmental problems in that child are neurological.
Read 7 tweets
Mar 26
And did I post this one already for Core Training...

Covid infections cause a reduction in sets of your immune cells that fight infections... and when you keep catching covid that effect keeps getting worse, so you're increasingly prone to being off sick with cold cough flu. Image
There are over 750 of these charts for the different categories... so I'm just going to pull out a very few of the serious ones for the different groups.
There are pregnancy problems in loads of groups, as well as the ones I've already posted.

Imagine being a midwife and *knowing* this is happening to you and your colleagues.

Again, remember that we have every reason to assume this was not rising before covid. Image
Read 36 tweets
Mar 26
I'm in a lull on twitter without much visibility, so probably hardly anyone will see this, but here's an important thread on "why everyone's sick all the time".

No, you are not imagining it.
Sickness is increasing.
Sickness absence rates are increasing. Image
Let's start with this graph.
The monthly sickness absence rates of staff at the NHS.

They have over a million employees, so this is a massive slice of the population of the country. Image
The graph is *rate*, so it's the proportion of staff who are off sick each month.

So it's not rising "because there are more people working for the NHS". Image
Read 61 tweets
Mar 25
One of the subtle but serious problems in science and health communication at the moment is that people are treating Long Covid like a yes/no thing.

Do you have Long Covid? Yes
Do you have Long Covid? No
It's just not that simple.
I mean even if it were that simple, it's still not that simple.
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