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Nov 2, 2024 11 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Minimisers:
"If Covid dysregulated the immune system, why aren't we seeing an increase in opportunistic infections, eh?!"

The opportunistic infections: Graphs showing the rise of: Drug resistant Kleb, E Coli, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Other Crypto Hominis Crypto Parvum Rare Crypto Shigella Whooping Cough Legionella TB Listeria Mycoplasma pneumoniae Polyomaviruses
The UKHSA have the gall to say that some of these outbreaks only seem large due to improved testing, when testing rates for them actually *decreased*.

Don't listen to their spin. Look at the big picture.
And all the little pictures.
Data from here:
gov.uk/government/pub…
While we're here, there's no immunity debt to crypto parvum or hominis.

You know what there is though?

There's immunity damage that allows them in.
Also worth noting:
Some of these trends were in operation before Covid, but have increased further since.
And yes, some of these infections are in perfect sync with Covid waves, and some... follow in perfect sync *afterwards*.
Here they are with labels highlighting the years for which there is data available:

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And here's what they look like with the same timescales on every graph. Image
And here's an extra version with Strep A notifications, Measles, and Hep D: Image

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Jul 14
I've been writing a really long thread on the long covid dopamine study, but it's incredibly long winded and complicated and boring and depressing, and even I'm fed up of it, so here's the five tweet version:
I park my vintage 1970s steel car in the sea for a year, then take it out and wonder why it doesn't work.

I ask a mechanic whether the starter motor is rusty.

He says yes the starter motor is rusty.
Is there anyone in their right mind who would think that the starter motor is the only thing that is rusty?
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Jul 10
🚨OH MY WORD. I WARNED FOUR YEARS AGO THAT REPEAT COVID INFECTIONS IN KIDS MIGHT LEAD TO EXACTLY THIS CONDITION. Image
I said that with Covid affecting blood vessels, immune signalling, inflammation, gut, nutrient absorption, nutrient handling, and calcium recycling processes, we should expect a wave of molar incisor hypomineralisation.
I was very surprised that the problem hadn't made it into the media before now - but I guess the children this is happening to now are the children who were born in 2020. The ones who were infected every year since.
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Jun 15
There are some people who would have you believe that vaccines basically all work the same for different infections, and all have the same effect, but that's not true.

Let me explain this as simply as I can:
Some vaccines are like *insurance*.

You are unlikely to get tetanus, but if you do, vaccination can turn a catastrophic outcome into something far less dangerous. It is protection against a *rare but awful event*.
Some vaccines are like a *firebreak*.

The measles vaccine doesn't just protect the person receiving it. When enough people are vaccinated, measles struggles to find new people to infect, so the whole community is protected, including babies and people who cannot be vaccinated.
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Jun 9
Much of the media coverage of worsening health boils down to this:
Gasoline can't have worsened the fire, because the fire had already started.
Covid infections don't have to *cause* a problem to make it *worse*.
If you already have lung cancer, then you catch Covid, your chance of survival drops.
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Jun 8
I had one of those really horrible conversations last week with someone who has had a string of new gut and bowel problems in the last year.

Every moment of the conversation a new alarm bell went off.

I came home and checked the charts.
Then I called them and asked if I could post something about it anonymously.
They said yes, so here it is.
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Jun 8
The biggest challenge around Covid and Long Covid communication is:

Why doesn't everyone get the same effects.
"Covid can damage blood vessels."
"Covid can affect the brain."
"Covid can disrupt immunity."
"Covid can trigger POTS."
"Covid can cause Long Covid."
People hear that stuff, then they look around and think:

"Well Dave had it twice and he's fine."
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