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Jul 29 22 tweets 3 min read Read on X
John Cunningham Virus is one of those viruses that is an absolute nothing most of the time, many people carry it unnoticed, but then suddenly for some people.... *wham*: total shitstorm. Graph go up
When it goes from innocuous background virus to terrifying emergency, it triggers a kind of brain multiple sclerosis, where the myelin sheath of the nerves of the brain is stripped away.
Myelin is sometimes like the insulation on the outside of electric cables, and sometimes like the insulation that divides two wires in the same cable.
When the insulation is removed, the wires short circuit or just short into the surrounding material.
So when the myelin is removed, the nerves lose the ability to transmit electrical impulses, or the impulses are confused or diminished.
When the change from innocuous to dangerous occurs, the symptoms usually come on fast -
Weakness
Clumsiness
Personality change
Difficulty speaking
Affected sight
And then they get progressively worse.
Detected cases of the virus (not necessarily that condition) in the UK have been going very much in the wrong direction lately. Graph go up
The important question is whether these increased detections are the result of increased testing (because people using certain Multiple Sclerosis and Crohn's Disease and other disease drugs are vulnerable to it)...
... or the result of increased cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), the disease that causes the degeneration of myelin in the brain.
I hope there's someone important who has access to the data looking at that.
Because those numbers don't look great, do they?
Oh yeah, and you know that it most commonly affects people with seriously damaged immune systems, right?
So unless that growth on the graph is caused by increased testing, that graph indicates that there are is an almost exponentially growing number of people with seriously damaged immune systems, since 2020.
This is total cases detected by lab test since 2015. Graph go up
If those are cases of PML, and they keep increasing, then that's worrying.
I wrote another thread about it here, if you want a bit more of a read:
Another possibility, and one that I don't really want to contemplate, is that the rise in cases is caused by a rise in people with problems that look like PML, and then when they go looking for JCV, they find it because it's all around.
We know another virus that can infect the brain.
And that has been circulating in huge numbers since 2020.
If that virus is causing this condition, and the numbers are rising exponentially, that would be very ungreat.
Well shit.
"UFTM research on COVID-19 describes the possible role of the virus in stimulating a disease that affects neurons"
That disease?
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML)
uftm.edu.br/ultimas-notici…
Shit, shit, shit.

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Jul 29
Well, this article, combined with the renewed climb of cases of JCV in England, was a real kick in the balls.
"UFTM research on COVID-19 describes the possible role of the virus in stimulating a disease that affects neurons"
That disease...?
uftm.edu.br/ultimas-notici…
I hope other countries are tracking this and keeping a close eye on it.
Read 13 tweets
Jul 27
We *could not* specifically see covid coming.

We *can* see H5N1 bird flu coming.
I mean we could have predicted an airborne pandemic, because that's the least mitigated transmission method.
But we didn't specifically see covid coming.
It was a surprise.
Read 6 tweets
Jul 27
You've heard the expression 'salt of the earth', right?

A religious teacher seems to be the first to use that expression to refer to people a couple of thousand years ago, and I thought it seemed relevant to the whole 'salting the vibes' thing.

A quick thread... 🧵
The story of the teacher using that phrase gets recorded in three different accounts of his life, and the context and details are very subtly different, so it's actually really hard to know exactly who the teacher is talking to and what exactly they're trying to mean.
But the way I read it is that he's speaking not just to his close followers, but to all of the crowds who gathered to listen to him.
That's implied by two of the accounts.
And he says to them:
"you are the salt of the earth"
Read 21 tweets
Jul 26
So the mutation that is the backbone of the latest peak of the current wave (the s31 deletion) is basically a new one to Covid.
This is all four years of available sequences, and a new mutation causing a *massive* wave, that isn't even close to peaking yet... graph that is flat then rises suddenly
... and that may be followed by a wave from variants with *another* deletion.
I said it's 'basically' new.
But there were a few sequences that popped up in the very early days missing that amino acid. graph that is flat then rises suddenly
Read 11 tweets
Jul 26
Today I walked across cliff paths to an isolated beach, then at low tide scrambled round rocks to an even more isolated cove and found strange piles of artwork there that maybe only I will have seen. Image
Where the sea washes in onto the rocks of the beach with each tide, it had swept up pebbles that were gradually wearing smooth indentations into the rocks over the years and decades and maybe centuries. Image
And then as the rough seas earlier gave way to the calm seas now, the waves left these pebbles in small piles in the indentations. Image
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Jul 25
I've noticed a trend in how people ask me questions about my mask.

They summon up their courage to ask me a question that is, in their minds, a question that can't be answered.

So, having asked it, they switch off instantly and don't even listen for an answer.
For example, "when are you going to stop wearing that?" which actually means "why haven't you already stopped wearing that?", and they think there is no reasonable answer, so they don't listen for one.
They're just there to deliver what they think is a gotcha question.
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