"But he died *four weeks after* his covid infection" really is not the argument winner they think it is.
Same goes for "but all these people developed their disability *after* they had covid".
When do they think that people who had covid would die?
When do they think that people who had covid would develop a new onset disability?
Oh, wait a second, I'm answering my own question, aren't I.
They're so stupid. They think that Covid can only do damage during the infection, don't they.
They don't have any idea that the effects can take time to surface.
Like your tyre doesn't necessarily go flat the moment you go over a nail, but can deflate with time.
Like when you unplug your phone in the morning, you look at the charge and it's 100%... but by evening it's worn down.
Like clearing all the trees from a hillside doesn't cause a flood, but when the rain comes, the hill no longer absorbs the rain, and the floodwaters rage.
Maybe this is one of the worst misunderstandings out there: that covid effects are instantaneous.
They're not all instantaneous.
Maybe that's a myth to dispel.
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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.
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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.
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.
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...
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.