2. "Its like a cold/flu." Covid is a systemic disease. The virus attacks your blood vessels and can therefore invade every organ in your body. It has so many way of damaging your body it could hardly be less like a common cold coronavirus
4a. "It's seasonal." Two of Australia's worst death peaks came in summer. The UK's summer 2022 death peak was worse than this winter just gone
4b. A comparison of covid vs flu hospitalisation rates in England from Oct 2022 to March 2023 showing covid peaks in every season
5. "Masks don't work." A lie repeated across the world, especially in right-wing media. Of course masks work. They've been used in a variety of professional settings, including clinical, for decades. But if you need a study, there are plenty
6. "No one dies of covid now." In May in the UK nearly 1,400 people had covid listed on their death certificate, which means it was deemed a contributing factor in their death
The media enabled these lies and we have to keep calling them out because these lies are not inconsequential. They are literally life or death. Here are some media headlines repeating these lies
Kids are known vectors for every other virus but not covid? This one was always such an incredible con.
From June 2021. The UK has had approximately 7 waves since then, with some of the worst coming in summer
Wrong. There is no innate mechanism that means a virus must always evolve to cause less serious disease.
The article says "for most people, covid symptoms are getting pretty close to other seasonal viruses." The mistake is equating symptoms with the disease
The Guardian's most recent covid article is a minimising affair, scolding those who name new variants, implying covid is not that dangerous any more and suggesting a cost benefit analysis. "We need a conversation about how much to spend to prevent death." theguardian.com/world/2023/may…
Worth saying the reason people believe 6 is the inverse of why they believe they others. There's no media coverage any more of covid deaths, so people assume no one dies of covid
If people are looking for an explanation as to why this is happening, you can check out the link in my bio where I have a few articles. Tldr: capitalist incentives, institutionalised media, cognitive biases, trauma, social constructions of reality, lack of alternatives to normal
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Peer-reviewed study shows even a mild covid infection can impair for months a human gene critical to fighting cancerous cells. Other viruses such as hepatitis B can do this, but none are airborne or in general circulation. Where are the mass media journalists? 🧵
The study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Infection Control shows that gene p53, which stops cells with mutated or damaged DNA from dividing and therefore halts the progression of cancerous cells, is impaired for up to 6 months even in mild covid cases
The researchers showed mild/moderate patients showed statistically significant impairment of the p53 gene when compared to healthy controls at 16 weeks and only a reactivation towards normal values at 24 weeks, or 6 months
The anti-lockdown push was always a capitalist agenda point. On its website, the World Economic Forum (home of the Davos billionaires), says drug shortages are a result of increased demand because lockdowns weakened our immune systems. This is not science. This is a lie 🧵
Keep pushing compounding risk into a system - whether greenhouse gas emissions, destroying the invertebrate foundation of global ecosystems or infecting hundreds of millions with a rapidly mutating virus day after day - and don't be surprised by anything that comes next
There's a tendency for people to look at obviously bad things and say "but this is unsustainable! it will have to change." But the managers of capital do not and cannot think in terms of an approaching point of unsustainability. It's not allowable
If it was, you'd have to make plans for when you'll stop mining, stop making plastics, stop pulling oil out of the ground, stop chopping down forests, stop viral transmission. You'd have to plan to deliberately dial back the machine. Unsustainability is capitalism's feedstock
Breaking: New study shows covid in omicron form can kill even young, vaccinated and boosted individuals with no pre/existing conditions by invading and persisting in organs across the body 🧵
The study out of Argentina consisted of 21 people who had a recent covid infection at the time of their death between January and August 2022, with autopsies conducted to search for the presence of viral persistence in organs
Viable virus was found in all the tissues analysed in various locations, including in the lung, the heart the liver, the kidney and the small intestine
Olympic cycling gold medallist and world champion Filippo Ganna has had to stop cycling. He got covid at the Giro d'Italia a month ago and now has long covid. He's a 26 year-old elite athlete with every medical intervention possible available to him quibicisport.it/2023/06/09/gan…
How elite? A record-breaking five-time world champion in the individual pursuit, part of the Olympic gold medal winning team in 2020 and the world-record holder in the individual pursuit, a record he set not long ago in October 2022
The article describes how he is "focusing on his health" after getting covid at the Giro in Italy and is withdrawing from the Switzerland tour that begins tomorrow
Governments have stopped testing hospital patients with symptoms of the world's leading cause of infectious disease death and the media have stopped writing about it and most people no longer even think about it. It sounds unbelievable. But it's true 🧵
In the last three years covid has killed far more people than any other infectious disease and is the 3rd leading cause of death of any type
In 2022, reported covid deaths were second to tuberculosis as the world's leading cause of communicable death, at 1.3 million (vs 1.6 million for TB), despite comparatively few deaths in China