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Mar 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
“About 17% of study participants reported being infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 dominant period. This equates to 44 million cases, which is much higher than the 1.8 million cases estimated by the CDC during that period.” news-medical.net/news/20230227/…
Back in September, we learned an estimated 4%-5% of Covid cases are reported nationally. nbcnews.com/politics/covid… NBC: “The number of reported Covid cases is currently a qu
May 2022, & this was a median estimate. There’s no doubt the real numbers are much closer to this estimate. Even if we don’t officially record & report cases, people are still infected, disabled, & killed by Covid—but quietly, & behind the scenes. washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05…
By December 2022, when CNN published this article, only something like 15 states were reporting Covid data, and we pretended it’s not all Covid so it’s fine.

We also pretend this isn’t going to happen again in a month or two, and it’s really BIZARRE. cnn.com/2022/12/08/hea…
Thread, up and down. This isn’t going to magically change amid no public health measures.

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Jul 6
We had a good run. Live science: RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn News By Ben Turner published July 3, 2025 HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.
What a terrible idea.

“Instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should let it spread through flocks.

The idea is that by doing this, farmers can ‘identify the birds, & preserve the birds, that are immune to it.’” livescience.com/health/flu/rfk…Live science: Essentially, the longer you allow a virus that has shown to be effective in infecting multiple hosts survive in an environment, the greater the chance you give it to spread, to mutate, and to try its luck at adaptation," perspective first-author Erin Sorrell, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Live Science. "Worse case scenario, the virus adapts and expands its host range to become transmissible in humans … Now we have a pandemic."
I tend to believe human-to-human transmission has been well underway for A WHILE now.
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Jul 5
We’re about to coexist with The Screwworm. 🥰
Beautiful 🤌

The accelerationists are ramping up the accelerationism.
“The screwworm, a fly that embeds its larvae into the living flesh of animals and humans, has spread through Central America, including Mexico.” texastribune.org/2025/05/21/tex…Texas Tribune: Texas braces for an imminent screwworm infestation, a threat to the state’s cattle industry U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz hope to fund an operation to kill the parasitic fly before too much damage is done. BY BERENICE GARCIA AND JESS HUFF MAY 21, 2025 2 PM CENTRAL
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Jul 4
Everyone has expertly memory-holed this. It’s chilling.

This phenomenon highlights exactly why we never make progress: Everyone ignores human rights violations when their preferred “side” is in power. They only begin to show concern when the other side takes over & does it too.
I am SO THANKFUL I kept a history of the pandemic on this app for this very reason. It’s like a time capsule.
Here is the thread I kept on the end of pandemic funding under Biden despite RECORD disease & death.
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Jun 20
If you needed to secure antivirals, but your doctors won’t follow the science or acknowledge SARS-CoV-2 is a persistent virus that must be cleared, how would you go about doing that? Are there doctors who do remote visits & take cash? Do we go to China? Dark web? Beg? Plead? Cry?
It has been a full year since the NIH Director admitted SARS-CoV-2 is a live replicating virus that persists.

The below thread on all the areas SARS-CoV-2 persists is my most lengthy thread on this app.
China is using repurposed HIV drugs to clear the virus. Western countries are not.

China’s approach “hinges on a crucial scientific move.

That the mechanisms driving SARS-CoV-2’s persistence and immune evasion are similar to those in HIV.”
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Jun 1
The number of Americans who are covertly living in storage units because they cannot afford rent is extremely alarming. There is an entire corner of TikTok reserved for those navigating storage unit living.

These are people with jobs & degrees, & they used to have homes…
In 2023, homelessness increased 12% in the U.S. amid RECORD RENT PRICES & lapsed pandemic aid.

In 2024, homelessness in the US increased another 18%+.
2024: “The US homeless population increased by more than 18% in a year…

The number follows a 12% increase the previous year & is the highest since the federal government began an annual count of the homeless population in 2007.” bbc.com/news/articles/…BBC: US homelessness hit record high in 2024
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May 26
It’s strange how all the Professional Minimizers—who absolutely insist new variants do not pose increased risks—NEVER mention the horrifying reinfections data, or all the studies that show SARS-CoV-2 persists almost everywhere & causes long-term damage to immune systems.
November 2022 reuters.com/business/healt…Reuters: Nov 10 (Reuters) - The risk of death, hospitalization and serious health issues from COVID-19 jumps significantly with reinfection compared with a first bout with the virus, regardless of vaccination status, a study published on Thursday suggests. "Reinfection with COVID-19 increases the risk of both acute outcomes and long COVID," said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "This was evident in unvaccinated, vaccinated and boosted people
Harvard in 2022, before the EXTREME risks associated with reinfections were buried so Pretend Normal could move forward. harvardmagazine.com/2022/12/covid-…Harvard Magazine: The data show a consistent pattern of increased likelihood of hospitalization, cardiovascular effects, clotting and other blood disorders, diabetes, fatigue, gastrointestinal distress, kidney damage, mental health effects such as depression, musculoskeletal damage, neurological deficits, and pulmonary damage with each episode. Prior infection does not change the course of disease in subsequent infections, just the risk of severe complications. That risk is connected to baseline health status, including comorbidities such as obesity and other preexisting conditions, and it ...
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