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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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@1goodtern

Sep 28

Look.
There are people around here who have had Covid 3 times in 10 months, and some who've had it 4 times in 13 months.

They catch it every time it's around in even a vaguely new form.

Now *don't say* that's because "they're vaccinated", because ALMOST NO CHILDREN NOW UNDER 12 HAVE BEEN VACCINATED HERE...

And some of these are kids under 12 who have never had the opportunity to be vaccinated, let alone been vaccinated.

And don't say "oh, well it's good they're catching it that often because it must be mild now".

No.
It's not.
They've been off work and school ill in bed.
Not all of them every time, but some of them each time.

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@1goodtern

Sep 27

A quick thread on whether waves of Covid infections correlate with waves of heart attacks.

(If you haven't got time to read 12 tweets and read 10 graphs: THEY DO)
🔥🧵

2019.
A normal year.
No Covid.
The lines are the ordinary lines of weekly and average and expected cal outs.
There are no unusual spikes of call outs to cardiac/respiratory arrests.

That graph comes from the National ambulance syndromic surveillance: weekly bulletins.
Published here:
gov.uk/government/pub…

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@1goodtern

Sep 27

I chatted about this with a colleague yesterday.

They raised this report and a couple of local incidents, and said that it is really sad this stuff is happening.

I offered the suggestion that both the local people they mentioned had been ill with heart problems in the immediate aftermath of Covid infections.

Their response really opened my eyes.

They said "you're as bad as the people who blame it on the vaccine"

My eyes popped out.

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@1goodtern

Sep 24

Ok.
There is a lie going round that things are back to normal.
That Covid is over and not affecting us any more.

I'd like to share a few charts to address that.

If you don't want to read a long thread, here's the quick answer:

No
We're not back to normal.
Nowhere even close.

At least, things aren't back to normal *here*.
I don't have time to figure out if things are back to normal where you are.

Maybe they are.
If so, good for you.

Let's look at it first in terms of sickness.

Not many organisations publish their sickness absences.
But fortunately the largest employer in my country, NHS England, publishes theirs.

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@1goodtern

Sep 24

🚨You know what increases the risk of rhabdomyolosis, right?
Right?

"3 Tufts lacrosse players ⚠️still hospitalized with rhabdo a week after workout⚠️"
👀

For those that don't know, rhabdomyolysis is a rapid breakdown of muscle tissue that floods the bloodstream with proteins, potentially leading to kidney failure and severe complications.