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Apr 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
1. 'They detected portions of viral RNA for up to two years after infection, although there was no evidence that the person had become reinfected. They found it in the connective tissue where immune cells are located, suggesting that the viral fragments were causing the...
2. ... immune system to attack. In some of the samples, the researchers found that the virus could be active'.

This phenomenon of viral persistence is obviously no surprise to the many extremely talented researchers who have been mooting it for years.
3. It is vital to remember that SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible virus with a propensity to relatively rapidly re-infect people. At the population level, this means that viral persistence - with all the health problems it can potentially cause - may well become the norm.
4. As such, we face a future with an ever-increasing percentage of the global population suffering from chronic health conditions as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection or re-infection. Viral persistence + high transmissibility + fast re-infection is a bad combination.

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Apr 11
1. What this patient experienced is emblematic of the fact that both emergency care and GP services are in a state of collapse in Northern Ireland.

BBC News - Altnagelvin: Patient spent nine days in 'staff locker room' - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
2. There are a couple of points to be made about this. First, Northern Ireland is very much the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the UK; without intervention, what is happening in NI now is likely to happen to these services in the rest of the UK in the next few years.
3. Second, the reason for this state of collapse is multi-factorial, but the one factor that is - unsurprisingly - never discussed by policymakers is the effect of Covid-19. Acute Covid patients and patients suffering from sequelae of infection add demand to the system.
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Apr 8
1. I am 17 years sober today. My sobriety is the single most important thing in my life. In fact, it defines my life. Without my sobriety, I would not be alive to write this. If I had kept drinking as I was drinking when I made the decision to put down the bottle, I would have...
2... died long, long before the Covid-19 pandemic began. In my own experience, and speaking purely for myself here, there are two crucial elements to sobriety: leaning into that which is uncomfortable, and recognising the arbitrary nature of societal norms.
3. As such, sobriety for me is composed of embracing that which is difficult every day and refusing to accept that which is tacitly defined by society as 'normal'. Normal and I parted ways this day 17 years ago, and I have no desire to embrace it again, pandemic or no.
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Mar 24
1. It is important to remember that the ongoing attempt by certain scientists, media, and governments to erase Long Covid is a perfectly logical extension of their already-successful efforts to normalise acute Covid-19 disease.
2. Acute Covid-19 was normalised by force-fitting SARS-CoV-2 infection into a category I can best describe as summed up by the phrase, 'like any other respiratory virus'. This simple - but false - idea now permeates infection control practices, testing etc.
3. The same tactic is now being used on Long Covid: 'like any other post-viral syndrome'. Again, false.

I have a background in both philosophy and political theory, and I assure you all that words have power.
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Mar 19
1. Sometimes I find it difficult to remain professional and measured on this platform. This is one of those occasions, as I watch politicians seemingly unable to grasp the fact that with Covid in a state of constant and unmitigated transmission, children will be sick more often..
2. ... and hence absent from school more often. Why? Because when a new virus is in circulation, along with all the other pathogens that were circulating pre-pandemic, children will get infected by pathogens more often and hence become sick more often.
3. Yes, I could talk about how Covid-19 can dysregulate the human immune system, or the significant sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including Long Covid, but to keep it very, very simple:
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Mar 14
1. A consequence of 'normalising' Covid-19 (which, let's face it, is actually in many cases a concerted effort to *erase* discussion about the disease), is that it tacitly creates a false binary between living healthily and avoiding infection.
2. I've seen a few examples of this false binary lately, and generally they take the form of an earnest (and sincere) concentration on living and aging as healthily as possible without mentioning that SARS-CoV-2 infection is a risk factor for new-onset chronic illnesses.
3. There is a tacit and toxic assumption that underlies this false binary, which is as follows: that it is impossible to live and age healthily AND try to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection. This notion is both incorrect and insidious.
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Mar 2
1. The reason the pandemic is uniquely dangerous is because of its pace. That is to say, the changes it is causing in society (highly stressed healthcare systems, workforce issues etc) and the long-term effects of infection are accumulating slowly enough to be normalised.
2. This phenomenon - familiar to climate scientists - is effectively the tale of the boiling frog. It is both insidious and pernicious.

For a good description, see here:

washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/0…
3. We see this in the data on the prevalence of Long Covid and other sequelae of infection. We see it in the data on the increasing risks of re-infections. Many of us see anecdata in our own lives - a level of illness in our social circles that wasn't normal pre-pandemic.
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