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Back in 2020 I was warning about what Covid infections would do to some developing fetuses and babies and infants.
I was screaming it.

Here's the next stage of effects:
"teachers reported children with poor basic motor skills and underdeveloped muscles"... Image
"A deputy head in the north-west reported an increase in “delayed walkers” with “clumsy movements, dropping things""
"I’ve got two children [in my class] who physically cannot sit on the carpet"
"They don’t have core strength"
"children arriving at school in nappies"
"Some children starting school ‘unable to climb staircase’"
"teachers reported children with poor basic motor skills and underdeveloped muscles"
This article blames screen time, but... how do I put this... I literally watched with my own eyes as expectant mums here caught Covid while pregnant and then gave birth to children with developmental problems.
I've watched these children their entire lives, and seen what happened to their mums before they were born.
It's not all of the kids born at that time, but more than I've ever seen in my working life before.
And the kids with neuro problems don't have them because of screens.

It's literally the wiring of their bodies.
Clumsiness.
Poor bladder control.
Developmental issues.
Special learning needs.
Muscle weakness.
And plenty more.
How do covid infections do that?
More mechanisms than you can count.

I'm genuinely fed up of explaining this again and again and again.
I suppose I should though for those in denial:
Covid infection can harm the placenta.
It can harm nutrient flow to the baby.
It can kill cells essential to development.
It can disable cells ability to manoeuvre properly during fetal development.
It can cause inflammation during development preventing proper assembly of body parts.
Oh flip it. I could keep going, but it's too painful.
Go look for yourself and find the studies that detail the effects of Covid infections on pregnant mothers and developing babies.
No vaccines were made available to babies here.
Not even to any under tens except privately.
I have watched as mums and babies and toddlers have been battered repeatedly by covid.
Just last week I sat with a mum who said "she's been a bit lifeless for the last two months".
"She's just had no energy since she got sick in October. She tries running around and then crashes."
I personally think that's a toddler with Long Covid.

And, no, the mum is avoiding *any* screen time for her child.

Not a TV in the house.

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More from @1goodtern

Jan 31
Feel free to file this one under "tern knows absolutely nothing about anything so shouldn't even open his mouth", but occasionally I wonder about the way that Covid sometimes seems to behave more like some bacteria than like other airborne viruses.
A few intracellular bacteria like TB and Chlamydia Pneumoniae are great at delaying or suppressing the early immune response to establish infection.
Covid does the same:
Read 31 tweets
Jan 28
A few decades ago the New Statesman had a competition inviting people to write in following a three part formula:
I am x
You are y
He is z
It was about the way that you describe your own actions or character.
And the way you describe someone else's similar actions and character to that person.
Read 15 tweets
Jan 27
This question is an amazing question - absolutely brilliant.

It is one of the *central problems* of the covid response puzzle.

I addressed it about two years ago, but can't find the thread, so here's another go...
Single experts do not have the whole picture.

Their expertise applies to *one area*.
So you can have an aerosols expert saying that he is absolutely certain that Covid is airborne, but he's not wearing a mask... why...
Read 18 tweets
Jan 27
They're so desperate to deny replication when the evidence screams it all round.

The reason the team went looking was that T cells were overactivated in the patients' brain stem, spinal cord, bone marrow, nasopharyngeal & hilar lymphoid tissue, heart tissues, and gut wall...
🧵
So they didn't start off looking for persistence.

They wanted to know *why* the T cells were *over*active.
It's the *over*activation that is the problem.
Read 49 tweets
Jan 25
I regularly ask myself whether I'm right to be trying to avoid Covid infections.
Situations evolve and change, so it's worth staying up to date on information.
Then this week I stumbled across an odd pair of charts at the end of the UKHSA's weekly Flu and Covid graphs release (which also include reports on other infections).
They come under the title:
"HCAI, Fungal, AMR, AMU & Sepsis Division"

I'll break that down:
Read 42 tweets
Jan 25
This report coming out in February's Journal of Infection is quite something:
"Characterisation of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in healthcare workers within the United Kingdom: risk factors for infection during four successive waves."

A few thoughts...
journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-…
Basically, the risks for healthcare workers catching SARS-CoV-2 changed throughout the different waves of the pandemic.
Job-related risks were mainly an issue during the second wave, when strict national social restrictions were in place.
Read 23 tweets

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