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Oct 12 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
This is beyond embarrassing

Idiotic & blatant gaslighting

There is nothing “normal” about being sick so much

Your immune system doesn’t need a “work out”

If we have “high population immunity” to Covid why are so many million sick with it right now?

Pathetic @BBCNews Image
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Gaslighting in the article
- we are all “immune” to Covid (why are so many infected then?)
- it’s “normal” for so many people to be sick in Autumn (it’s not)
- it’s “good” to get sick & build up
your “immunity” (of course its not, flu & Covid change too rapidly for immunity) Image
Look at how “immune” the UK is to Covid…
Wait, why isn’t that at 0% all the time? Why doesn’t it even touch 0% at any point? Why is it climbing all year??? We are all immune according to @BBCNews & that professor they interviewed?! Image
@BBCNews Covid killed more than breast cancer did in the US last year.

There is nothing “good” about being infected with any illness. Anyone telling you that is lying to you. Why? You’d better ask them, I have no idea why you’d say something so ridiculous.
@BBCNews Every Covid infection risks severe illness, death, post Covid complications involving any of your organ systems that may be life long. It is never a benign event. Risk of long Covid grows with each infection. There is no such thing as long term “immunity” to Covid.
@BBCNews It’s strange a professor didn’t know flu vaccines need to be updated annually due to changing strains. Covid is forever changing as well. We are only ever one change away from a virus that will wipe half of us out. But the @BBCNews will wheel out an “expert” to say it’s normal.
@BBCNews The worst thing about this article is how dangerously misleading its messages are. People will read this & believe it. Including hospital managers and staff. We are “immune”, Covid is “mild”, it’s “normal” to be sick, it’s even “good” to be sick according to the expert @BBCNews
@BBCNews These are the sorts of messages that have been parroted by NHS managers (from government above them) to NHS staff to justify withdrawing testing, masking, basic mitigations, while promoting “post Covid” policy. Yet wards are full of outbreaks across the UK, proof of their lies.

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Sep 1
Lateral Flows

If it’s +ve you have Covid

If it’s -ve you might still have Covid as it’s got a high false negative rate & for many it may not turn +ve until days into an infection

So why test?
Because a positive confirms a Covid infection
A negative is less useful obviously 🧵
This is described as low test sensitivity (so it may not always turn positive straight away when infected), but a reasonable test specificity (you don’t get many false positives, ie if it’s positive then it’s Covid).

If you did 3 tests and got 1 +ve and 2 -ve you have Covid
Due to the false negative risk, it’s recommended to retest on serial days after exposure or if you have symptoms especially.

They are useful tools, but imprecise & due to false negatives can be falsely reassuring if you aren’t aware of this.
Read 4 tweets
Jun 27
“In the current era of high population immunity to COVID-19, additional COVID-19 doses provide very limited, if any, protection against infection and any subsequent onward transmission of infection.”
@DHSCgovuk June 2025

WHO is in charge??? Because this is completely wrong
“In line with JCVI advice, frontline health & social care workers (HSCWs) & staff working in care homes for older adults will not be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination under the national programme for autumn 2025” @DHSCgovuk
@theRCN @TheBMA
what are you going to do about this?
@DHSCgovuk @theRCN @TheBMA “This is following an extensive review by JCVI of the scientific evidence surrounding the impact of vaccination on transmission of the virus from HSCWs to patients, protection of HSCWs against symptoms of the disease & staff sickness absences”

…We have staff off with Covid now
Read 9 tweets
Jun 25
It’s 2025 so you all know
- Covid is airborne
- It lingers in the air for hours & that means you will breath in the virus after the infectious person has gone
- 1 way masking isn’t as good as 2way masking
- opening a window helps but doesn’t just fix it
- you can get it outdoors
- if you are sharing the air with an infectious person you are at risk, this includes within households & outdoors (airborne, not roomborne)
- duration of exposure generally matters
- mitigations are all layers that will help, some more so, no single one is the entire answer
- a positive test means stay away
- a negative test doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have it (false negatives are well recognised)
- testing therefore has a positive predictive value, but a lower negative predictive value
- test may not turn positive until well into infection
Read 7 tweets
May 29
The “reality” now may be that people are trying to live life as if Covid doesn’t exist or is of no real significance
BUT the problem is that isn’t reality. Covid does exist & it’s still killing & disabling people in large numbers.
This is a crucial point 🧵
The “reality” of society adopting mass denial does nothing to mitigate the continued impacts of Covid infections.
Just because people do something, it doesn’t mean it’s right. Very often what people do is the easiest thing & it’s often wrong…
There is a huge difference between the “reality” of social behaviour & the reality of what is actually going on that requires an entirely different social behavioural response.

In this case that would be shifting social behaviour to actually respond to realty. To live with Covid
Read 5 tweets
May 26
Most doctors I know don’t realise the UK government stopped counting & reporting Covid deaths ages ago (zero community data), that they’ve never recorded long Covid numbers & they’ve no idea of the impact of reduced testing ie confirmation bias that numbers must be lower now…
They also have no idea what excess deaths are, the fact they’ve been high throughout the whole pandemic so far, or how ONS have shifted their baseline for this year so excess deaths now include the Covid associated deaths, again offering confirmation bias that everything is ok
This allows most doctors who want to live in denial to more easily do so, as we never get any figures on acute deaths, true admission numbers, numbers testing positive, or chronic impacts like long Covid or excess all cause mortality. Easier to pretend it isn’t happening.
Read 6 tweets
May 7
"During draft guidance consultation, consultees highlighted the treatment gap for children. At the second evaluation committee meeting one clinical expert explained that COVID‑19 rarely makes children unwell" NICE Covid Guidance 2025

How can an “expert” say this???
Study; Children’s cardiac risks from Covid💔

‘children & adolescents are at statistically SIGNIFICANT increased risk of hypertension, ventricular arrhythmias, myocarditis, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrest, clots, chest pain, & palpitations’

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Study 2; Rates of LC for children;
“12%-16% of those infected with Omicron met the research definition of long COVID at 3 & 6 months after infection, with no evidence of difference between cases of 1st positive & reinfected”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…
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