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People seem to have lost the ability to differentiate between worrying about something and being concerned about something.
Worry is bad, generally. It's mostly unhealthy, unless it's a spur to action.
But concern is sensible, serious, and healthy.
But people are often throwing out concern along with worry.
They try to stop worry by ignoring the problem or downplaying the problem or denying the problem.
When worry should be addressed and allowed to lead to sensible concern.
And measured thought.
And wise planning.
And practical action.
Concern is healthy and lifegiving.
It's not the same as worry.
It's different to anxiety.
It's different to panic.
Practise concern.
Practise compassion.
Practise wisdom.
Practise life.
And learn what's truly positive.

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Aug 20
Hands up who thinks their country has Mpox under control. Graph of mpox cases in the UK rising very rapidly.
Data, as always until they hide it, from the UK government:
gov.uk/government/pub…
No indication there which Clade that is.

Who wants to take bets.
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I met a lady last week in a very sad situation.

It felt like it was all summed up by her bike.

This time last summer she bought herself a road bike to train to cycle from Land's End to John o' Groats.

Then she caught 'a nasty virus' in October.
She seemed back to normal a month later.
If it was covid (and by the sound of it, it was covid) it would have been her fourth infection.
The other three infections were all more 'mild' (and chest/nose/throat, whereas this one was very stomachy) with no significantly notable lasting effects apart from long term reduction in taste and smell.
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Aug 14
I have had the sad privilege this summer of watching people passing covid around at events, conferences, and festivals.

Situations like: "I don't think I'm feeling well enough to drive - I'll meet the coaches, and get a lift with everyone else"
And then they sat on a coach with 40 people when ill, and made people ill.
Like "I think it's just cause I was up too late and breathing in all that dust. I'm good to go."
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Each time the swap happens, a new wave or series of waves starts.
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It's like a bank robber swapping between disguises, except our bodies don't seem clever enough to remember both disguises.
Anyway, I have no idea where Covid is going to go in the next few months, but it's currently been in V70/H69- mode for 240 days now in England.
That's a record for minus mode.
Read 12 tweets
Aug 3
Picture a mineshaft.
One of those hole-in-the-ground types, where you can walk right up to it and peer over the edge into the drop.
A bunch of people decide that the mine would be a good place to throw away their mouldy trash.
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I get it.
You read a title "The plasma metabolome of long COVID patients two years after infection" and it makes no sense to you, which is perfectly reasonable.
So what's it about in words that normal people can understand?
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nature.com/articles/s4159…
Your 'plasma metabolome' is basically the stuff floating around in your bloodstream that isn't cells.
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