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Cumulonimble
Understanding that repeated infections add up, and adjusting your behaviour because of it rather than pretending you are invincible.
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Surrendespair
Giving up on avoiding infection, not because it is safe, but because everyone else does it.
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Sterilying
Getting people's hopes up about a potential future but as yet non-existent medical solution, therefore encouraging them to get sick now.
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Mildelusion
Pretending to yourself that pathogens always become less harmful despite facts.
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Denialysis
Ignoring information you don't like.
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Scarecrov
A scientisht (see above) who dismisses people warning about the proven harms of covid by labelling them scaremongers.
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Integrectomy
The removal of ethical integrity from public health or clinical practice.
(with thanks to
@N95Anaesthetist)
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Semmelwince
The expression you make when a doctor washes their hands but isn't wearing a mask.
(with thanks to @N95Anaesthetist)
@N95Anaesthetist 27
Airmnesia
The systemic forgetfulness that covid is airborne.
(with thanks to @N95Anaesthetist)
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Oblividence
Choosing not to notice evidence so you can stay comfortable and relaxed.
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Masquerage
Getting angry with people who wear masks.
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Infectionists
People who actively promote harmful infection as normal, unavoidable, and beneficial, and push others towards it.
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Quacademics
Credentialed people who give dangerous nonsense the appearance of science and hurt people badly.
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Mitigishion
Providing staff with surgical masks for an airborne disease.
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Ignoranscendence
A higher state of ignorance based entirely on the ignorance of others.
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Bloviology
Loving to talk at length about how Covid is harmless, with great confidence but no curiosity or empathy.
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Hippocratic Sloth
Of doctors, being too lazy or unwilling to put on a mask to protect patients from an airborne disease.
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Covoid
A health news article that should mention covid infection, but carefully does not.
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Anythingelsis
Diagnosing a post-covid condition as literally anything else, as long as it is not Long Covid.
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Christmisser
Someone who gets badly ill every year in late December, then treats it as bad luck and does it all again the next year, but also in February and April and June.
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Afterbody
Your body after you've had a covid infection.
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Afterbody Plus
Your body after repeated covid infections, carrying the cumulative and increasing effects.
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I think one of the most important conclusions people are missing from the data in the recent big studies is that covid infections cause radically diverse long term effects in different age groups.
So much so that it could appear as if they've been infected with different viruses.
But it's not the virus that's different, it's the immune system, the metabolism, and the way the body repairs the damage done by the infection.
The word mucinous is going to become much more common.
Yes, bookmark this tweet, it looks bland, but it's important.
oh, okay. I won't leave you hanging.
I've written a lot recently about how we're missing the big picture of how covid infection is doing cumulative damage to interfaces in the body - linings, membranes, barriers, walls, filters.
I don't want to rewrite that all here, but I don't want to bust the flow of this thread, so at the end of it, I'll post the thread I wrote on linings.
I know, I know, you're going to laugh at me for saying that you're more likely to have problems with cramp after you've had a covid infection, but it's all very simple science.
Loads of people have been mentioning cramp recently, and like so many other conditions, yes, covid infection makes it more likely, and makes it worse.
It's just an extra factor on top of all the normal factors for cramp.
Muscles are fussy about blood flow.
They need a steady supply of oxygen to contract and, crucially, to relax.
Covid messes with the small blood vessels that supply it, so muscles end up slightly under-fuelled, and under-fuelled muscles cramp.