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@1goodtern
Sep 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Thinking of a lady who told me 18 months ago that we all had to get it and get it over with.
She was reasonably healthy then.
She's in hospital now, near the end of her life, her organs shutting down.
The thing is, you don't get it over with.
Covid can persist within you.
It can reinfect you.
Its damage can be permanent.
Its damage can be cumulative.
You don't get it over with.
Covid, as she is finding out as she suffers the repercussions of her third or fourth infection, gets you over with.

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Dec 14
Hmmm.
There's something more than a little concerning about what's happening with Norovirus here.

A quick thread about Norovirus and its place within in the 'quad-demic'.
🧵 Graph of norovirus cases from 2012 to present day. The peaks come in Spring, the troughs come in Autumn. The side before Covid peaks at about 200-300. The side after Covid peaks 400-450. And this year hasn't necessarily peaked yet.
Take a look at those black vertical lines.
That's the stage of the year we're at now in terms of data (the third week of November). Graph of norovirus cases from 2012 to present day. The peaks come in Spring, the troughs come in Autumn. The side before Covid peaks at about 200-300. The side after Covid peaks 400-450. And this year hasn't necessarily peaked yet.
Recently, and most other years, the peak for Norovirus comes in the *the spring*.

But we're already at nearly the highest ever peak of cases.

*In November* Graph of norovirus cases from 2012 to present day. The peaks come in Spring, the troughs come in Autumn. The side before Covid peaks at about 200-300. The side after Covid peaks 400-450. And this year hasn't necessarily peaked yet.
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Dec 9
When you see people posting that 2024 is going to be the hottest year on record, bear in mind that there’s an extra factor in there.
It’s not just about the temperatures.
The atmosphere’s capacity for heat energy is also increasing as global humidity levels rise.
🧵 Image
Let me explain why that's a big deal:
You may have heard the stat that for every degree of temperature increase, the air has the capacity to hold 7% more water vapour.

You might think that just means it's going to rain more.
Read 22 tweets
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Dec 6
This is a good point, and it illustrates the degree to which the powers that be are concerned with *crisis points*.

A quick thread on golf clubs.
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As Cat rightly points out, Covid numbers have been high ALL YEAR.

But, in the eyes of politicians, the numbers have not been high enough at any one point to 'overload the system'.
Covid is the bag of golf clubs in your car boot/trunk.

Well, five bags.
Read 20 tweets
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Dec 4
Every now and then I check back in on the progress of this graph of the proportion of 5-9 year old boys dying in England and Wales.

I keep wondering if that straight rising line that has been maintained for three years will stop rising.

It hasn't yet. Image
That's not the whole of the story of the last ten years, but it's the story of the last three.

Mortality rates in that age group had been generally dropping and dropping.

Then covid was allowed to run rampant, and since then, it's been one direction. Image
Like I said.
I keep checking back in hoping that the current trend has stopped.

But instead it keeps going. Image
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Dec 4
Do you know who is most likely to experience a drug resistant infection?

Someone with immune dysfunction.

Why?
Think of it like a team effort.
When you start taking antibiotics, it's you AND the antibiotics fighting the infection.
But if your immune system is not pulling its weight in the fight, or if your body isn't distributing the antibiotics effectively throughout your body, or if your body's nutrient levels mean you're not producing the right building blocks for your immune system to work...
Then it's not both you and the antibiotics in the fight.

It's just the antibiotics.

And that makes it more likely for the infection to find a way to fight back.
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Dec 3
In 2021 in England, public health decided that the way to get well was to get sicker, and that the way to get rid of disease was to catch it.
It's official policy.
They write it down and everything.

Since then... Multiple infections showing huge spikes since 2021 And they're not all coming down.
All of those graphs are on the same timescale.

For some of them, the data only starts in 2021 - before then, they were rare, but are now becoming more and more commonplace.
I think there are two main causes of those spikes.

The first is that people here have been told they should do nothing to stop spreading and catching disease other than vaccination and handwashing.
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