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@LazarusLong13
Feb 24 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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A thread on presymptomatic flu transmission to go into the #FluisAirborne thread.

If there are no symptoms? There are no coughing or sneezing droplets.

Just magical transmission. Except it's not magical - just aerosols.
publichealthscotland.scot/our-areas-of-w…

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Next Voice of Authority, the WHO. Ignore the COVID part.

Heh.


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Here we have the good old ferrets being used to demonstrate aerosol transmission of the 2009 pandemic flu.

Ferrets used because they are the only animal to have the same respiratory symptoms as us.

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"this efficient transmission did not temporally correlate with respiratory symptoms, such as coughs and sneezes, but rather with the peak viral titre in the nose."

So, NOT the coughing and sneezing, but the AMOUNT of virus being produced that was key.

scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup…
@CDC_Firstline - presymptomatic transmission is happening.

cdc.gov/infectioncontr…
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For all of you parents, looks like kids are shedding virus longer pre-symptomatically than adults.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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Another H1N1 study showing clear pre-symptomatic transmission.

Why the focus on H1N1? Pandemics get attention. Day to day viruses do not.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Two HCW presymptomatic transmissions of H1N1 influenza to the immunocompromised.

Good times.

scholar.google.com/scholar?start=…
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Feb 24
The only feelings involved is how I feel about being accused of neuroticism. Nice passive aggressive play there.

No, only facts from studies, and observed reality actually apply.

✅ Covid is airborne. Respirators prevent airborne diseases from being inhaled.

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Covid causes erectile dysfunction, accelerated dementia, personality change (might be a good thing for those who are passive aggressive antimaskers), an unholy ringing in the ears that music producers might find distracting (tinnitus), diabetes,
various thyroid diseases, various diseases where your immune system attacks your own body (autoimmune disease), hair loss, rheumatoid arthritis, other kinds of arthritis, literally ages you by shortening your DNA's telomeres, weakens every layer of your immune system like HIV -
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Feb 16
His handle is @ The Correct Answer - but he is all wrong on @ApricotTreeCaf1

Let me show you how he is wrong - and what an asshat he is.

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Right off the bat, the asshat part.

Apricot has masks for the room as I lovingly call HEPAs. As in they clean the air no matter how much COVID leaks into the air.

And their air cleaning is off the charts good.

1/11 has nose exposed. Not good - but since everyone else is masked, that means their personal risk is greatly reduced.

1/11 has nose barely tucked in. But it is, so their aerosols are partially being filtered.

As are the other 7 in surgical masks.

Are surgical masks
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Feb 11
I cannot believe I have to do this.

#SmallpoxISairborne. #orthopoxvirusISairborne. 🧵

Necessary after the WHO disappeared smallpox and MPX from their airborne list after @mdc_martinus noticed they were on there.


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We both love historical documents from hundreds of years ago, showing it's airborne. Image
More history showing smallpox is airborne

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Feb 6
"45% of ppl who earn <$25k have long covid, vs 15% of those who earn >$200k"

H/t @elle_carnitine - I am wrapping a couple of studies around this fact from the Household Pulse Survey, on WHY.....

Chronic low information from public health. 🧵

census.gov/library/storie…
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✅ "Covid? What COVID?" - @CDCgov has disappeared case counts. It is Machiavellian on their part to start using hospitalizations.

People don't pay attention to hospitalization bed counts because they think they won't need those beds.

✅ LongCovid? The CDC only says Image
vaccinations help protect SOME against it. Of course the CDC has never said respirators are the best way to to prevent LongCovid.

To sum up before heading on - @CDCgov has offered no information on how to 100% prevent LongCovid, and has disappeared the pandemic.
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Jan 28
It gets worse.

😱 13 million people with latent TB walking around. COVID activates latent TB.

😱 TB can be transmitted asymptomatically

😱 "...a single viable TB bacillus, once inhaled, is sufficient to produce infection."

😱 The following case study will freak you out.
Quote above from here:


I love doing transmission study threads. They teach us how pathogens like TB are Infectious Respiratory Particles. Particling? Particled.

@JeremyFarrar, really? IRP? The WHO needs to just go with airborne. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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Here is the study that the rest of this thread comes from:
nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…
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Jan 23
Very interesting article on measles resetting your immune system.

Quick thread on the highlights, and then we'll end up on a Samoan beach with @RobertKennedyJr and Dr. MacIntyre, @Globalbiosec.

This little girl is dead. Kennedy's rhetoric, you could say, was responsible.

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#DYK

✅ Even after they recover, children who have been infected with measles are more likely to die from other causes?

✅ That measles vaccinations reduce OVERALL children's deaths by 30%- 86%?

✅ That the virus targets immune cells and rides the blood stream in WBCs?

Scientists have known for decades that even after they recover, children who have been infected with measles are significantly more likely to fall ill and die from other causes. In fact, a study from 1995 found that vaccinating against the virus reduces the overall likelihood of death by between 30% and 86% in the years afterwards.
Then in 2002, a group of Japanese scientists discovered that the receptor the measles virus binds to – a kind of molecular lock that allows it to enter the body – isn't in the lungs, as you would expect for a respiratory virus. Instead, it's on cells from the immune system.
"[We saw that] it infects many cells systemically," says Swart. "So, this virus causes a viremia, which means that then there's virus in the blood – actually, white blood cells become infected and bring the virus to all the lymphoid tissues, which are your lymph nodes and your spleen, your thymus [a gland in the chest that's part of the immune system]," he says, explaining that this confirmed that measles is an infection of the immune system.
#DYK

✅ Measles infects immune memory cells, then your immune system seeks out to destroy the infection - which includes those same immune memory cells that ALSO have your learned previous immunity?

✅ All of your shots? Poof gone. It takes 3 years to recover immunity.

First measles infects memory cells, then somehow the immune system learns how to identify the virus itself. Once it's started producing immune cells specific to measles, they travel around the body, hunting down infected memory cells So you end up with cells that can identify measles systematically killing off cells that can identify other viruses. The virus leads us to destroy our own immune memories.
Eventually, measles ends up replacing all your normal immune memory cells with ones that can identify it, and nothing else. This means you're only immune to measles – while all other pathogens are forgotten. It's a counter-intuitive strategy, especially from the virus' perspective, since it won't be able to sneak into the body again without being recognised.
Once the immune system has lost its memory cells, it has to painstakingly re-learn everything it once knew. One population-level study from 2015 suggests that this process of recovery can take up to three years – which intriguingly, is around the time it takes infants to acquire immunity to everyday pathogens in the first place. "Children develop a lot of colds and gastrointestinal diseases and need quite a bit of time to develop their immune system," says Swart. "So this is sort of in the same order of magnitude in terms of duration."
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