Thread by @kniggem

🧵 Austrian physicans:

"We CAN’T take responsibility for the constant, unmitigated infection of the population w/ a vascular-damaging, neurotropic virus like SARS-CoV-2, in which a previous infection provides no long-term protection vs future infection.”
t-online.de/gesundheit/kra…

They call the handling and management of the pandemic “absolutely appaling”. They state that in Europe alone 36 million people have become chronically ill as a result of Covid infections.

“COVID-19 is not a cold. It is not influenza. It is a systemic, vascular-damaging disease that only spreads via the respiratory route, via aerosols.

COVID-19 is neither over, nor is it a harmless infection without consequences.”

“We the medical community need to play an exemplary role and take measures to protect everyone and NOT continue to bow to social, media and political pressure."

They suggest preventive measures:
-Use of CO2 measuring devices indoors
-Good ventilation using ventilation systems or open windows
-Air purification w/ HEPA filters (in winter or where ventilation is only possible to a limited extent)
-Testing & isolation in case of symptoms

-Keep Covid as reportable disease & provide insight into the vigilance system (e.g. wastewater data, hospitalizations, deaths)
-FFP2 masks
-Reserve blocked time slots on defined days for vulnerable people
-etc.

The full text of the open letter to Austria’s medical chamber (in German)
covidisnotover.info/oeffentlicher-…