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Do you know which whacky loons say that covid infections increase the risk of heart disease?
The British Heart Foundation.
Do you know which antivaxers say that covid vaccines do not fully protect against infection, illness, or long term effects?
Pfizer.
Do you know which hysterical doom merchants say covid can cause long term lung damage even after a mild case?
British Lung Foundation.
Do you know which conspiracy theorists say covid increases the risk of stroke?
American Heart Association.
Do you know which fear obsessed bedwetters say repeated covid infections increase long term health risks?
World Health Organization.
Do you know which lockdown nostalgists say covid can affect the brain and cognition?
Alzheimer's Association.
Do you know which professional panickers say children can get long covid?
NHS England.
Do you know which data deniers say sickness absence rose after mass infection?
Office for National Statistics.
Do you know which unhinged activists say covid is not just a cold?
Royal College of Physicians.
Do you know which radicals say population level infection has population level consequences?
UK Health Security Agency.
Do you know which alarmist weirdos say covid infections increase the risk of diabetes?
American Diabetes Association.
Do you know which shut-in obsessives say covid can damage blood vessels throughout the body?
Nature.
Do you know which neurotic spreadsheet nerds say excess deaths rose after mass infection?
Office for National Statistics.
Do you know which hypochondriacs say covid can trigger long term fatigue syndromes?
Mayo Clinic.
Do you know which paranoid catastrophists say covid increases the risk of kidney damage?
National Kidney Foundation.
Do you know which unbalanced scaremongers say covid affects the immune system after infection?
Nature Immunology.
Do you know which lockdown-brained fantasists say repeated infections compound risk?
The Lancet.
Do you know which data-abusing activists say long covid is common, not rare?
World Health Organization.
Do you know which fear merchants say even non-hospitalised infections can have long term effects?
BMJ.
Do you know which control freaks say ffp2+ masks reduce transmission of respiratory viruses?
UK Health Security Agency.
Do you know which authoritarian busybodies say ventilation reduces airborne spread?
Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.
Do you know which paranoid germaphobes say clean indoor air matters?
World Health Organization.
Do you know which joyless killjoys say respirators work better than loose cloth masks?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Do you know which hysterical obsessives say reducing reinfections reduces cumulative risk?
The Lancet.
Do you know which hand-wringing technocrats say HEPA filters reduce viral particles indoors?
ASHRAE.
Do you know which science-denying extremists say staying home when sick reduces spread?
NHS England.
Do you know which conspiracy-minded cranks say layered mitigations work better than any single one?
BMJ.
Do you know which risk-obsessed weirdos say prevention is cheaper than long term illness?
Office for National Statistics.
Do you know which out-of-touch loonies say public health measures protect the economy as well as health?
OECD.
And people who warn about all that stuff get called all those things.
And many of those groups above warn about multiple factors above.
Do you know which fearmongering grifters are warning about the problems covid infections cause with eyes?
American Academy of Ophthalmology

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Feb 7
People don't understand that there are several real models of cumulative harm that apply to covid infections.

People don't like complex ideas, so they avoid them.

This is going to be a long thread, with several simple ideas that combine to make a big complex one.
First off, we *know* beyond all doubt that covid infections cause short term harm.
The amount of short term harm varies from person to person and infection to infection, but it's there.
Read 46 tweets
Feb 5
Do midwives know that they're now twice as likely to be off sick with a pregnancy related disorder than before the Covid pandemic started? Image
Do nurses?
And health visitors? Image
Similar trend across all staff groups, with an apparent accelerating increase more recently. Image
Read 32 tweets
Jan 22
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.
Read 9 tweets
Jan 20
Okay folks, I'm calling it, and it's bad news:

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.
Read 51 tweets
Jan 19
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.
Read 13 tweets
Jan 18
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The three subtle warning signs that everyone's missing:
1
All of the people asking "why is everyone sick all the time now?"
2
All of the people who have been constantly sick for the last year.
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