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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
@PeteUK7
Jan 17 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Conversation with relative I haven't spoken to in a while. I'm a bit of an outcast because of my strong views on Covid but with my mum being unwell, family are contacting me for updates.
It's such an enigma to me how people's brains work (or don't).
Here's how it went:
1/🧵
Me: I think things started to go downhill for mum when she got shingles.
Rel: Yes I agree. She declined quickly after that.
Me: And people thought it was safe to ignore chicken pox and decades later, it started her demise.
Rel: Yes it lies dormant and can be very serious.
2/
Me: This is why I take Covid seriously. There's a lot we don't know but what we do know from studies urges more caution.
Rel: Well you just have to carry on as normal. When it started, my son worked every day as a key worker. You can't just stop everything indefinitely.
3/
Me: But there's no need to stop everything; it's about taking the right mitigations and using them in schools, HC, workplaces, public transport etc to reduce transmissions.
Rel: Well who do you think would deliver the food you order online if we shutdown all the time?
4/
Me: Why do you keep saying about shutting everything down - I don't think it was even the right way and I disagree with many actions taken.
Rel: So why are you still avoiding everyone?
Me: I don't avoid everyone. I just use precautions & everyone has ignored me because of it.
5/
Rel: Well it's ridiculous to wear masks for visiting your family.
Me: It isn't is none of them care or take any precautions themselves.
Rel: Just forget all this and start living normally again.
Me: Let's change topics. Are you planning to go visit my mum?
6/
Rel: Well not with a norovirus outbreak on the ward. I'm not in the best of health and my immune system is very low. I catch everything that's going.
Me: I have been every day for the last 45 days.
Rel: I thought you'd be staying clear because of your anxiety about infections.
7/
Me: No, I don't have anxiety and I have been taking mitigations. Wearing my respirator at all times and using good sanitation measures for fomite risks. I have no choice but I can make it safer albeit not risk free.
Rel: Well I'll stay away until she's in a safer situation.
8/
Me: Can you not see how this doesn't add up?
Rel: Meaning?
Me: Well you think I am avoiding everyone and have anxiety about infections and yet I'm there every day and you are staying away because you're concerned about catching norovirus.
Rel: Norovirus is nasty though.
9/
Me: And you think Covid is a nothingburger?
Rel: We have to just carry on as normal. As I said, we can't just shut everything down all the time.
Me: Alright. I'll let you know how mum is tomorrow.

This whole thing is just a mind f*ck.
I gave up. People make no sense.
10/end

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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Jan 12
My mum still in hospital. I have reported on the terrible air quality and lack of respiratory protection but I was unprepared for what happened on tonight's visit.
For the 40th time, I visit the ward she's on. As I walk in, nurse says "you know your mum isn't here, right?"
1/🧵
Well of course I did not know this.
"They moved her in the night"
Where to?
"I'm not too sure - ask at the nursing station"
Why did they move her?
"I don't know"
Another nurse arrives "They moved her to W9"
Why?
"I don't know - ask W9"
Why did nobody inform me?
"I don't know"
2/
As her next of kin, I can't understand not being told this.
Anyway. I arrive in W9.
I'm looking for (mum's name).
"Are you sure she is on this ward"
As it happens, not really but I've been told she was moved here.
"Not on my section. Ask the nurse on Bay A"
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Dec 22, 2025
Those who say they've 'moved on' from Covid have nothing more than denial & hope.
Us apparent 'zealots' actually look at data and studies. We understand that we're a short way into a long term issue; the full effects of which will take years to be fully obvious & undeniable.
1/🧵
Finding out several years down the track that what us 'weirdos' have been saying for years was right will be much too late for many.
We also know that if things turn out better than we expect, all we did was adapt our lives to reduce our odds of being irreversibly affected.
2/
We also know many people who have already been really seriously affected by covid infections. We don't ignore them or gaslight them. We listen and acknowledge that what they are suffering is very much inline with what studies have shown covid does to harm us.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Dec 17, 2025
Electrostatic filtration media used to make respirators and air filters is a true marvel of science & engineering.
Odd that some think it doesn't work.
HEPA filters have been around for decades too.
HEPA filter technology actually makes it possible for you to read this post.
1/🧵
"Producing the semiconductor chip that you have in
your computer, phone or tablet, is a highly sensitive process. The chip has to be fabricated
in clean rooms where HEPA filters ensure the air contains less than 1 particle per cubic foot."
2/
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"As a comparison, most common indoor spaces have hundreds of thousands of air particles per
cubic foot."
Pretty useful tool eh?
Let's also have a look back to 1980 when a paper was written about electret filters. The type of media used in respirators:
3/
 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Dec 14, 2025
Saddened to hear football legend Ian Rush spent 2 days in ICU and is still in hospital with flu.
It can happen to anyone at short notice.
What people don't realise is that when it does, very little is done in hospitals to prevent co-infections with other airborne pathogens.
1/🧵
When so poorly, you are extremely vulnerable.
You really need to be kept away from other airborne diseases (and other germs of course).
But in my experience, the air quality inside hospitals can be very poor. Nothing like good enough to prevent spread of covid for example.
2/ Image
Also, staff & visitors in many UK hospitals are not required to wear any respiratory protection.
Worse still, staff are encouraged to be at work even if covid +ve as long as 'they feel well'.
The staff are not even protected from the patient and could get a co-infection too.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Nov 1, 2025
During the Cvd inquiry, I noted so many references to decisions having to be 'evidence based'.
I would like these people to produce one single piece of evidence that this advised technique prevents transmission of diseases - airborne and other modes.
👀Show me the evidence.
1/🧵
For example, how many times have we been thwarted when wanting to put air filters into classrooms?
Even as a simple emergency measure early on we were told that not enough evidence of efficacy exists.
So much so, that RCTs were called for and then never published.
2/
Ever wonder how much of their advice is actually based on evidence?
Like; is 'consider wearing a mask' based on evidence? Does someone considering doing so ever stop a single infection? Of course not.
Does evidence exist that washing hands prevents cvd infections? Nope.
3/
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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne Profile picture
Oct 23, 2025
Ppl say 'I've had a bout of Covid'.
In a real bout, like boxing, fighters prepare well. Honing skills to try to defend themselves.
Most ppl do nothing to avoid Covid.
Boxing is typically 12 rounds and not infinite rounds like Covid, as each new wave swerves their defences.
1/🧵
But what people really don't get is that you sustain damage with each round.
You might not even perceive it or it might knock you down.
The damage may manifest later with people not even connecting the 'bout' they had to their worsening health or decreased cognitive ability.
2/
You see this in boxing too. Fighters can sustain damage in a fight and continue through to the end but then collapse after the fight is over or suffer brain damage years later from taking hits over a sustained career.
When boxers suffer in this way, people are never surprised.
3/
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