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@1goodtern
Feb 16 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Yesterday in hospital a doctor in a flimsy surgical mask under his nose stood admiring my FFP3 mask.
Him: Oo. That looks like one of the good ones.
Me: Yes, it is.
Him: Has it stopped you catching anything?
Me: I've not been sick in five years.
Him: How do you know?
Me: I'm sorry?
Him: How do you know you haven't caught anything?
Me: I don't understand what you mean.
Him: I said how do you know you haven't caught anything.
Me: I didn't say I haven't caught anything.
Him: Oh, I thought you did.
Me: No, I said I've not been sick in five years.
Him: No way.
Him: And you're in here often? All year round?
Me: Yes.
Him: Hmm.

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Feb 16
One of the things (one of the many things) that people don't understand about bird flu is scale.

If one teenager catches it now and is affected badly, they will get lots of attention and support.

If it goes human to human and 100,000 teenagers get it...

They'll get none.
Because not only will there not be enough to go around, also the healthcare workers will all get it because they've decided to pretend not to know how to stop airborne viruses, so they'll all be out too.
But there'll also be 100,000 kids and 100,000 of each of every age range.
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Feb 15
A while ago I met with a group of teenagers. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices, future work. Instead of talking to them, I listened, and the actual problem was very different. Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’
This wasn't a group of random kids from across the school, they were some of the higher achieving kids with good academic prospects.
And, yes they started off talking about exams and university options and choices and future careers.
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Feb 15
I had been baffled for a while by this weird and inaccurate obsession with droplet transmission in healthcare.
How could some people in healthcare be so obstinately obsessed with *droplet* transmission while ignoring *aerosol* transmission.
And how could they be so fixated on denying aerosol transmission when we knew a hundred years ago that mitigation against airborne disease worked.
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Feb 14
So... let me see if I have this right:
People are avoiding healthcare because they're anxious.
And... People are attending healthcare more because they're anxious.
People are thinking they're sick because they're anxious
People are denying they're sick because they're anxious
People are dismissing their own symptoms because they're anxious.
And people are fixating on their symptoms because they're anxious.
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Feb 14
This tweet won't go viral.
But when this flu season dies down, my bet is that virtually none of the flu cases in hospital now (in indiana or anywhere) will have been H5N1 and there will have been no reassortment of H5N1 proteins into other existing Flu A cases either.
The rise in Flu A cases is consistent with the rise in Flu B cases and Norovirus cases and RSV cases and measles cases and whooping cough cases and tb cases and strep cases and campylobacter and polyomavirus and shigella klebsiella E Coli Legionella Mpox and everything cases.
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Feb 8
🚨 New in depth study on #LongCOVID confirms what patients have long reported: symptoms are episodic, persistent, and disabling. Quality of life and functional status take a serious hit.
jogh.org/2025/jogh-15-0…Image
🔍 16-week cohort study found no clear recovery trajectory. Symptoms, especially fatigue, cognitive issues and breathlessness fluctuate wildly over time. The "get better with time" assumption does not hold up.
📉 Even with some improvements, relapses are common. The non-linear, unpredictable nature of Long Covid makes it a distinct disability that needs better recognition and structured care.
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