Covid-19 was presented as a one and done infection, that ‘only’ killed the vulnerable, that didn’t harm kids, that was spread by droplets not air.
That vaccines would prevent.
Now NONE of the above are true, we are floundering in denial with no plan.
Covid is not over.
Where are the minimisers who claimed all of the above now?
They had an awful lot to say in 2020 2021. 2022. They seem to have dropped off, no longer celebrities for telling people what they wanted to hear.
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*Important press release by COVID-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA)
Next week public hearings commence for Module 3 of the COVID-19 Inquiry
➡️focus on the experience of healthcare during the pandemic
Will it be a reckoning for those responsible for the deaths/disability?
2/Proportionately, the UK reported a higher death rate of healthcare workers in the initial phase of the pandemic than almost anywhere in the world. Why?
➡️ module 1 already found we were prepared for the wrong pandemic. One that was not airborne.
3/As a result billions of pounds were wasted on inappropriate PPE.
➡️This ineffective PPE resulted in thousands of healthcare workers becoming infected in the workplace and transmitting Covid-19 to patients and co-workers.
A fascinating 2019 study. Humans can detect sickness from facial expressions 2 hours after induction of systemic inflammation.
It’s a behavioural defence to avoid becoming sick.
So what the heck has happened with Covid& people not at all attempting to avoid it? 🤷🏻♀️
I think the need to ‘fit in’ outweighs the survival instinct in humans.
Years of propaganda has undone Millenia of evolution.
It’s not ‘normal’ to be so casual about getting sick.
That’s why many of us are horrified at the thought of just catching Covid recurrently.
Humans can recognise sickness before the person even knows they are sick.
Now they don’t avoid.
Working on conditions that no one else wants to has taught me one thing:
The problem is the deep seated belief that being sick is a choice or personal failing. Especially women.
No guideline will undo this.
A socialised health service allows this to continue to be propagated.
There is no choice about who people see and what opinions they hold.
Whole teams of people think like this.
Patients suffer.
By the time I see them they often have medical PTSD.
I don’t understand a healthcare system that traumatises patients.
It’s all very well people writing review after review on what long Covid is. But what difference does it make?
None.
People still can’t get treatment for the complications.
Media labels the ones who can’t work now as sicknote Britain.
A friend is in hospital.
BP 80/40 (read as very bad).
Sepsis&dehydration.
Immunocompromised so wearing a mask.
A nurse told her the cause of her dehydration was the mask.
This is not good enough.
It’s not only wildly untrue, it’s patient blaming
She is attempting to not add Covid to her already life threatening issues.
This is not ok in healthcare to comment on people wearing a mask for their own safety.
And for any naysayers- airborne Covid has been isolated from hospital rooms
Masks reduce Covid infections in hospitals. Healthcare institutions that switched to a strict masking policy lowered infections. Those who didn’t, did not.
Had a conversation with a relative today.
Them ‘it’s great we are beating Covid’
Me ‘unfortunately we are not beating Covid’
Explanation from me ensued.
Puzzled look from relative 😲
‘but why does the news (points to TV) tell us it is?
Me 🤷🏻♀️
@BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News
Relative
‘at least things are good enough that we don’t need masks.’
‘At least we can do things and we won’t catch it’
‘At least we don’t have to worry about the kids’….
Dear Media,
How can people who do not use apps like X or have a degree in science make informed decisions when they are flooded with disinformation?
They can’t.
This costs lives and health.
Fascinating B12 study
- it looked at a patient with neurological symptoms with normal blood test for b12
- analysis of spinal fluid showed non existent levels
- antibodies found that stopped B12 entering the central nervous system
- study extended to more patients Contd
Some with the antibodies to CD320 receptor had B12 deficiency and some didn’t.
They think the low-density lipoprotein receptor was acting as a B12 receptor in the periphery only, potentially explaining why anti-CD320 autoantibodies lead to central but not peripheral vitamin B12 deficiency