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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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Oct 15
A couple of weeks ago, I had a tricky meeting with a family in preparation for a funeral.
I knew in advance that one of the family is fiercely against mitigations like masks, so I was braced for trouble.
When I got to the meeting, he wasn't there, so he missed my prepared speech.
But he arrived later.
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Covid infections make every single part of your body vulnerable to new problems.

Whatever age you are.

But let's pick *one* part of your body, the skin.
You'd be surprised how much harm Covid is doing.
I'm just going to throw a few charts up here of 'hospital episodes' for individual skin conditions that show the last 12 years of data.
(Hospital episodes are not *cases*, they are the number of times someone interacts with a hospital for treatment)
Here's a few different conditions across a few ages.
From top left: Herpes in 18-45s
Viral warts 18-65s
Dermatophytosis 18-45s
Bacterial infections of skin Under 10s
Other mycobacterial infections of skin 18-65s
Mycetoma Under 18s. Image
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Oct 14
The ten stages of Covid era grief:
Denial - pretending to yourself that we're still living in 2019, that endless repeat covid infections don't make you more sick, and that washing your hands makes you well
Bargaining - inviting the virus to infect you now, hoping it will be kind to you when you're older
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Oct 14
For the billionth time:

Most of the 'symptoms' of an infection (fever cough tiredness etc) are your body fighting the infection.

The later symptoms are the work of the actual pathogen… and they're the ones that your body is trying to prevent.
Your body hates infections.
Rightly.

Infections left unchecked will, simply put, kill you.
People without an immune response will simply die when they are infected by even ordinary microbes.
Read 17 tweets
Oct 13
An actual professor said this.

Allow me a moment to tear it into shreds.
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It's hard to know exactly where to start because there are just *so many things wrong with it*, even in just that one tiny sentence... but let's go for it...
Let's just start with this overall weird premise that getting repeat infections with covid now will keep you from getting severely ill when you are older...

WHAT IF YOU ARE OLDER ALREADY.
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Oct 10
A lot of people have been really hard on the ukhsa, but I don't think it's always fair.
They're still a relatively new agency, so I think it's worth taking a moment to highlight some of the considerable achievements of their brief history.
❤️🙌
1
Encouraged everyone to repeatedly and endlessly catch Covid, a virus that has killed upwards of 30 million people and caused lasting ill health for 400 million so far.
2
Pushed handwashing as the solution for the aforementioned airborne virus, proving that they want you to catch it.
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