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May 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Game over: “Scientist say the failing to tackle fungal pathogens could lead to a ‘global health catastrophe’ & threaten the future food supply for us all, adding famine & malnutrition will kill people much quicker than Covid-19 did.” mirror.co.uk/news/world-new…
“In a rare case, a fungus found only in plants infected a man in India, raising concerns about the growing threat of micro-organisms jumping from one species to the other...

The unnamed patient is a mycologist, an expert who works with fungi & mushrooms.” trtworld.com/magazine/why-s…
“Higher temperatures were found to stimulate the fungus’s transposable ‘jumping genes’, accelerating the number of mutations and leading to adaptations in the way the genes are used and regulated.” euronews.com/green/2023/02/…
“While bacteria & viruses are well known drivers of infection & disease, pathogenic fungi have so far only caused minor problems for healthy people…But that might be about to change.

They are currently most dangerous to immunocompromised people.” (SO many are IC post-Covid)
“Fungí are…also extremely adaptable and many have developed resistance to common fungicides. Higher temperatures also drive the emergence of new variants of the fungal pathogens, while more extreme storms can spread their spores further afield.” theguardian.com/science/2023/m…

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Dec 31, 2025
Here is a thread I made when Candida auris began jumping from person-to-person for the first time EVER. Biden was President & we were 4 months into Back to Normal.

Everyone ignored it.

By 2024, we had C. auris clusters in children’s hospitals, & some states quit reporting it.
The carnage is so widespread, it’s actually breathtaking. After Biden rolled back public health protections in U.S. hospitals, we’ve simply ignored the RECORD disease that followed.

Mark my words, THIS pathogen will collapse our healthcare systems.
We are doing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” public health, & it’s going to kill us.
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Dec 28, 2025
NYS is reporting the largest one week flu increase since record-keeping began in 2004. Hospitalizations increased 63% in a week. Last year, bird flu was surging in tandem with influenza A, & it was concerning.

As the record mutant flu arrives, NO ONE is mentioning bird flu…
I hate seeing these patterns as most of society, including our government, remain oblivious.

CNN ran articles with headlines like, “Spike of flu virus in wastewater raise questions about spread of bird flu.”

Then we forgot.
“More than 71,000 positive flu cases were reported in New York in just seven days — the most since influenza became a reportable disease in 2004.

Hospitalizations are climbing just as fast, jumping 63% in one week.” rochesterfirst.com/news/health/sp…
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Dec 23, 2025
September 2022: “We found a lot of DNA damage that was unique to the COVID patients which wasn’t present in the flu patients. COVID & flu look very different in the way they affect the heart.”

Then the US combined flu/COVID data, & we never looked back. brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queen…
2023: “We found evidence, in the hearts of COVID patients, abnormalities in the way calcium is handled.

The data we present show that there are dramatic changes in the heart. The precise cause & long term consequences of those need to be studied more.” time.com/6256674/covid-…Time: How COVID changes the heart even after the virus is gone.
“The spikes in heart attack deaths have tracked with surges of COVID infection—even during the presumed less-severe Omicron phase of the pandemic.

The data showed the increase was most significant among individuals ages 25-44, who are not usually considered at high risk for heart attack.” cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/covid…Cedars Sinai Los Angeles,Oct24,2022 COVID-19 Surges Linked to Spike in Heart Attacks
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Dec 6, 2025
We knew this by 2022, when the 1-year studies were published.

The data was HORRIFYING. Covid in pregnancy was associated with 2x increased rate of neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Then we spent the next 3 years repeatedly infecting all the babies & kids. post-gazette.com/news/health/20…Pittsburgh Gazette: COVID infection during pregnancy linked to neurodevelopmental issues in study Photo of Hanna Webster HANNA WEBSTER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette hwebster@post-gazette.com DEC 6, 2025 4:00 A
“We should not forget about the importance of protecting against infection in pregnancy. It has a major benefit for moms, but there may be this added benefit for children as well.”

Why are they pretending this is new & uncertain?? post-gazette.com/news/health/20…
June 2022
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Dec 5, 2025
MAHA.

“The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller.” Hill: Trump admin backs Monsanto effort to limit Roundup lawsuits over glyphosate BY RACHEL FRAZIN 12/02/25 02:07 PM ET
OOPS - it’s fine though! Don’t worry, no one can sue!
The Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court that said, “Eat Shit & Die Faster. Who cares if the weedkiller is in all the sperm? Who cares if you’re all sick & infertile? Monsanto needs us.” thehill.com/policy/energy-…The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger the Trump administration’s allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. The Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that lawsuits alleging that Monsanto failed to warn consumers of the health impacts of its Roundup weedkiller are preempted by federal law.
The brief comes in support of Monsanto’s effort to get the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the company had to pay damages for failing to warn about its product’s health impacts. The Trump administration’s brief notes that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers Roundup ingredient glyphosate not likely to be cancer causing and has approved its use. It says that states should not be able to impose further requirements that give rise to failure-to-warn lawsuits.
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Nov 22, 2025
And so it begins…

An American died of H5N1 at the beginning of the year, but we ignored it.

We didn’t report a single human case all year, until recently…not because we were testing & tracking it, but because we were not. ABC: Washington state man believed to be the first to die from a rare strain of bird flu A Washington state man is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu, but state health officials say the risk to the public is low ByThe Associated Press November 21, 2025, 9:44 PM ET • 2 min read
We have been hearing “the risk to the public remains low” since the first human H5N1 case was reported in the U.S. in 2022.

This strain has never been reported in humans before. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/w…The risk to the public remains low," the statement from state health officials said. “No other people involved have tested positive for avian influenza.” Health officials said they will monitor anyone who came in close contact with the man, but “there is no evidence of transmission of this virus between people." Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a statement about the infection that said no information would suggest “the risk to public health has increased as a result of this case.”
“The risk to the public remains low.”
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