"Long COVID" is a chronic condition resulting from chronic activation (inflammation) of the immune system following/due to an acute infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus
* "Long" COVID is actually just COVID in a chronic/ persistent form
* All people with persistent COVID exhibit systemic immune inflammation together with CD8+ T-cell exhaustion
* A subset of persistent COVID individuals also exhibit chronic fatigue as function of severity
Significant symptoms/co-morbidities of persistent COVID are:
* Cognitive defects
* Weakness
* Dizzyness
* Loss of "fitness"
-- In all with persistent COVID
And:
* Fatigue in those with severe persistent COVID
Given that T-cell exhaustion is a defining trait of persistent COVID, assume that those with perstent COVID are also immune compromised
@fitterhappierAJ was right all along
What a surprise
@EvanBlake17 @arijitchakrav
@fitterhappierAJ @EvanBlake17 @arijitchakrav This is a gold-standard example of the political technique of telling the truth but telling it as slowly as possible
This paper is authored by a number of WHO luminaries and they have been sitting on this information for over a year
Waiting till pandemic was over to release
Note that two of the most prominent characteristics of persistent COVID
Monday Morning Mirth Mainlining comes to you courtesy of the University of California's reasons why it is removing HEPA filters from its classrooms (over the objections of students and staff)
Why HEPA filters are even worse than a SARS-CoV-2 infection, courtesy Berkeley:
* Air currents that can spread untreated air to other people in the space
* Noise that increases with the fan speed
* Maintenance and filter replacement considerations
* Energy consumption and potential power failures
And the number one reason why Berkeley is removing HEPA...
...filters from its classrooms, despite the students, staff and faculty preferring they remain is:
* Theft of unattended devices
Yup. Those worthless HEPA filters that just use electricity are nonetheless a hot commodity on the black market!
The correlation between in-person school, SARS-CoV-2 infections and death from COVID in children in the United States
This graph shows SARS-CoV-2 infections (using case reports as a proxy) and deaths from COVID in children (age 0-17)
@jneill @arijitchakrav @mskathleenquinn
A few things are apparent:
* There is a ~1-month lag between symptomatic onset ("case") & death in children from SARS-CoV-2 infection
* Infection rates & deaths are highly correlated with in-person schooling (blue boxes)
* Case surveillance collapsed spring 2023 ("decoupling")
The tragic thing is the willingness with which the public eagerly and gullibly swallowed the "Omicron is mild" & "hospitalizations are with COVID not from COVID" Urgency of Normal bullshit
Levels approaching/above US NAVY toxic workplace exposure (8,000 ppm) routinely seen on public transit
"US Navy toxicity experts set the exposure limits for [submarine crews] to 0.8% CO2 based on animal studies which indicated an increased risk for stillbirths."
@skogsdyr_
Levels (3,000 ppm) approaching or above those associated with neuron damage in children routinely encountered on commercial airline flights
"exposure of chronic 0.3% CO2 in adolescent mammals causing neuron destruction,"
As I've explained in tweets before, calculating "excess" deaths involves first deciding on a "baseline" period against which you will compare deaths today
Which baseline you pick determines if today's deaths are equal to, under or over what deaths you expect to have
Picking a baseline is an intrinsically political act.
It is the act of deciding what is "normal"
Ordinarily baselines are picked from a set of years prior to the current year, typically five years prior
When you pick a period of years five years prior to now
it looks like this
The blue area is the baseline in this case. I chose 2015-2019
Emphasis on chose. Politically, I want to convince you that 2015-2019 is what "normal" looks like
And my software tells you what years aren't "normal," according to me (red areas)
Excess deaths from disease in school-aged (5-17 years old) children tell a haunting story of democide in the United States
Children were literally sacrificed in a desperate and futile attempt to maintain commercial real estate values
This is a plot of the same thing except with school age deaths from disease (NOT COVID) on an absolute scale
You can see the drop in deaths due to COVID mitigations in 2020
And the surge in deaths in 2021 as children were sacrificed to save commercial real estate values
Again, these are deaths from all diseases in school-aged children (5-17 years old) in the United States
In 2021 they went from a baseline of about 375 deaths a month to 425 -- about 50 deaths a month from COVID if you believe in excess deaths as a measure of COVID deaths