In May '22 (yes, AFTER Omicron) CDC stated clearly 1 in 5 infections cause long-lasting health complications.
We've been watching this unfold across all demographics.
Those of us following COVID are not claiming to have some secret knowledge; Health officials have been clear.
In fact, in the 3 years since, we've seen a large number of studies showing how it affects EVERYONE, not just those "over 18+" - including unborn fetus, children of all ages.
Everyone is vulnerable to the damage COVID causes.
Everyone.
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🧵 1/ For me, Joe Biden's legacy will forever be his capitulation to corporate interests on COVID-19, and the dismantling of protections and precautions against it.
His admin did everything in its power to feign normalcy, which cost hundreds of thousands of lives (and counting)
2/ Operation Warp Speed began under Trump in May of 2020. Despite right-wing rhetoric, we got vaccines in Dec 2020.
When Biden took office in late Jan, most people had gotten their second shot.
But the first thing they did was take credit for it to further align C-19 with Trump
3/ That isn't to credit Trump, who worsened the pandemic at every turn, but the strategy to paint COVID-19 a "Republican problem" was well underway.
By January 2021 we had hit 400k deaths in the United States, which was still headline news at the time (when people still cared.)
While everyone else are attempting to shuffle COVID under the rug, medical researchers are still out there working to define the scope of its effects and adverse outcomes.
Imagine if climate change could be solved by simply wearing a sweater for 3 months for ONE single winter.
Well that's actually how simple it could be to bring COVID down to manageable levels. If 70% wore proper masks in public spaces, COVID could be wiped out, likely in months.
"COVID-19 Pandemic Could Be Stopped if at Least 70% of the Public Wore Face Masks Consistently"
Let's talk about wastewater data vs reported positive tests, accuracy, and shedding 🧵
First, a graph. This shows Biobot's publicly available wastewater data for the U.S. overlaid with the CDC's reported positive tests from March 2020 to May 2024.
Notice how closely they track?
Since the beginning of the pandemic, wastewater has been our most valuable resource to measure and track what is happening with COVID-19.
Santa Clarita public health published this graph to show how closely their wastewater data aligned with testing before testing ramped down.
After Omicron in Winter 2021 (when Delta CEO demanded halving isolation times) testing ramped down and minimization and normalization ramped up.
CDC dashboards became confusing. Data reporting weakened, and people started to become skeptical of wastewater data accuracy.
Something important to remember is that for most people, things that happen in the world are not perceived as what they actually are.
For them, the COVID-19 pandemic "was" less about the actual dangers of the virus than it was just a scary time of restrictions, rules, confusion.
For most it was just a cultural event. The underlying mechanisms of the virus, how it infects, spreads, kills, disables, was never part of their thought process.
The underlying mechanism of what was actually happening was not a factor whatsoever. Only what they were told to do.
So when someone has no understanding of what is actually happening, it's no wonder they are so easy to be steered into normalizing it.
They were like children who were grounded, but rather than think about why they were punished only wanted to know when they could go play again.