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Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic.
1
Covvabarator
A public health figure who sides with the virus over the people.
2
Afraidance
Avoiding the truth because you're scared of it.
3
Justapose
To take the stance that a serious illness is just a cold, just a flu, just a measles, just a whooping cough.
4
Decaydence
Gradually getting sicker because brunch.
5
Sarschasm
The profound gap between what people know about Covid infection and what science has proven about Covid infection.
6
Emopath
Someone who claims to care about children but keeps making them sicker.
7
Scientishts
People who look like scientists but don't look at science.
8
Covincidence
When something proven to be caused by covid infection is treated as a strange coincidence.
9
Masquerode
Undermining mask effectiveness and usage while pretending to respect science and personal choice.
10
Covplay
Warning people to wash their hands or get vaccinated against covid without recommending any action to prevent airborne infection.
11
Deathsmissing
Saying it's ok someone died because they were older, disabled, or a rock or film star, or human.
12
Covnitive Dissonance
Any mental contradiction to do with Covid:
Eg "We know covid doesn't cause harm because no one is testing"
13
Aerosolver
Someone who understands and accepts airborne spread and acts accordingly.
14
Vibonomy
Running the economy on vibes and hoping long term disability just sorts itself out.
15
Pandemystery
A health problem clearly caused by covid infections.
16
Covnitive Dysfunction
Brain fog, memory problems, or slowed thinking after covid.
17
Titaniac
Someone stubborn enough to resist the pressure to keep getting sick like everyone else is.
18
Aerosolution
FFP2/N95+masks worn properly, ventilation, hepa filters, meeting outdoors. 1
19
Cumulonimble
Understanding that repeated infections add up, and adjusting your behaviour because of it rather than pretending you are invincible.
20
Surrendespair
Giving up on avoiding infection, not because it is safe, but because everyone else does it.
21
Sterilying
Getting people's hopes up about a potential future but as yet non-existent medical solution, therefore encouraging them to get sick now.
22
Mildelusion
Pretending to yourself that pathogens always become less harmful despite facts.
23
Denialysis
Ignoring information you don't like.
24
Scarecrov
A scientisht (see above) who dismisses people warning about the proven harms of covid by labelling them scaremongers.
25
Integrectomy
The removal of ethical integrity from public health or clinical practice.

(with thanks to
@N95Anaesthetist)
@N95Anaesthetist 26
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)
28
Oblividence
Choosing not to notice evidence so you can stay comfortable and relaxed.
29
Masquerage
Getting angry with people who wear masks.
30
Infectionists
People who actively promote harmful infection as normal, unavoidable, and beneficial, and push others towards it.
31
Quacademics
Credentialed people who give dangerous nonsense the appearance of science and hurt people badly.
32
Mitigishion
Providing staff with surgical masks for an airborne disease.
33
Ignoranscendence
A higher state of ignorance based entirely on the ignorance of others.
34
Bloviology
Loving to talk at length about how Covid is harmless, with great confidence but no curiosity or empathy.
35
Hippocratic Sloth
Of doctors, being too lazy or unwilling to put on a mask to protect patients from an airborne disease.
36
Covoid
A health news article that should mention covid infection, but carefully does not.
37
Anythingelsis
Diagnosing a post-covid condition as literally anything else, as long as it is not Long Covid.

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Dec 19
Covid infections make people more vulnerable to other infections.

Here's what the Cleveland Clinic say about Brucellosis:
"Brucellosis is an uncommon bacterial infection that comes on slowly and can last for a long time. It can look like a lot of other illnesses, so it’s important to see a healthcare provider to get properly diagnosed and treated. Brucellosis usually isn’t serious, but it can infect your bones and organs, so it’s important to keep a close eye on your symptoms."

Less uncommon now, apparently.Image
Meanwhile... listeria continues its rampant ascent. Image
And so does TB. Image
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Dec 19
You've heard about lots of people having cancer scares recently, haven't you?

I certainly have.
I work supporting people with exactly this kind of situation.
I was specifically thinking today about cancer scares that have turned out to *not be malignant cancer*, *yet*.
I was looking at my notes for the last two decades and I reckoned that there had been about a doubling of it in the last five years. Roughly.
Read 17 tweets
Dec 18
Ok... so this is going to be an extremely weird thread...
If you're squeamish or sensitive, *stop reading*. Image
You know that you have mites living in the hair follicles of your eyelashes and eyebrows, right?

The ones pictured in the tweet above - and another similar species.
I mean, *almost* every adult does.

You're not born with them, and not many kids have them, because they feed on something called sebum, secreted by your skin, and kids don't produce much sebum...
Read 44 tweets
Dec 15
The UKHSA have started publishing this goldmine again - but this year it's even more valuable *because they've reset it to a period when testing was consistent*.

This is very important and it shows yet again:
Covid infection makes you vulnerable to other infection. Image
So... in the weekly flu and covid surveillance report (that also covers other respiratory infections too), they publish these two charts. Image
Image
Covid and Flu's interactions with other infections.

They include:
Read 41 tweets
Dec 15
Most people just don't understand the immune system, its different components, how covid weakens it, and what that leaves you vulnerable to. Image
We tend to imagine immunity as a single light switch.
On or off.

Maybe on a dimmer switch.
Strong or weak.
In reality it is a whole set of tightly coordinated systems, and covid happens to damage several of the ones you rely on for dealing with infections that hide inside your own cells.
Read 35 tweets
Dec 13
Five simple facts about masks:
1
FFP2+/N95+ masks filter out fine aerosols.
They're built to capture tiny airborne particles that surgical masks simply don’t catch.
2
They seal to your face.
The fit is the point.
Good seal, good protection.
Poor seal, poor protection.
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