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@1goodtern
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…
And 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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Jan 3
I think we've let the damage that covid infections do to *linings* slip into the background of all the other problems that covid infections cause.

I think this may be a *big* problem.
Also, this damage happens *in every infection*.

Vaccinated or unvaccinated, first infection or tenth.
Fibrosis is failed repair.

And in the lungs, gut, blood vessels, and organ linings, it rarely heals back to normal tissue.
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Jan 1
It's worth remembering that the UK's end to covid restrictions was built on:
Most kids here never getting vaccinated.
Opening early to get an economic advantage.
Allowing hard intense repeat waves of Covid to rip through.
Getting rid of the weak.
Not much long covid. Image
Nothing scientific.
Just denial, cruelty, wishful thinking, and greed.
So we had *a significant head start* on mass reinfection over a lot of other countries.
Read 13 tweets
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Dec 31, 2025
Let's run the checklist as it stands at the start of 2026.
Altered innate immunity: check
Impaired antibody responses: check
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Dec 30, 2025
People seem to have forgotten that, in the years before effective HIV treatments existed, many people lived and worked quite normally with HIV for a *long* time. Sometimes close to a decade.
Think of Freddie Mercury, still recording albums.

Magic Johnson, playing elite professional basketball right up until he retired, and only then disclosing his HIV status.
Rock Hudson, still acting.

Rudolf Nureyev, still directing and choreographing and dancing in major productions.

Arthur Ashe, still writing, travelling, campaigning.
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Dec 30, 2025
There's something else very important about the @jonstewart video.

"You go 'are you sick' and they say 'I don't want to talk about it'.

When Jon Stewart asks why you're wearing a mask, TALK ABOUT IT.

Say one of these easy things.
Pick one, learn it:
I wear a mask because Covid is airborne.
I wear a mask because I don't want Covid again.
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Dec 30, 2025
oh ffs, honestly, how do these people not know that covid infection makes you vulnerable to shingles.
Here's the exact mechanism:
Shingles is your old chickenpox infection (VZV), once sitting dormant in nerve tissue, now waking up when cell-mediated immunity dips.
The immune control that keeps VZV asleep is heavily *T-cell driven*. When T-cells are depleted, exhausted, or distracted, VZV gets its chance to resurge - what was once chicken pox, is now *shingles*.
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