Come on.
Let's do guess the trend.

Where do you think it goes?
😢 I'll give you options.

You've probably asked yourself whether there really are more people with things like prostate cancer and prostate problems.
There's lots in the news, including kings and cartoonists and rock stars.
And some that aren't in the news, like maybe your friends and mine. Well, yeah, here's some actual data rather than just headlines or anecdotes.
This data is the 'hospital episodes' data from English hospitals, for working age men.

This is a massively serious piece of work in Molecular Aspects of Medicine.

A huge wake up call to the world.

🚨 How Covid Infections Might Fuel Lung Cancer

A quick summary thread... 🧵

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This piece of work should ring alarm bells everywhere.

I don't think there's anything new in it, but it's all there in one place for the first time, published in a prestigious journal.

mrs tern asked me today how I deal with people who say that masks don't work.

My answer was pretty boring: You can say, "Well, yes 'basically masks work', but actually it's better to say:

"Facepieces designed to filter airborne particulates from inhaled air, when worn correctly, reduce the amount of airborne particulates inhaled, including covid viral particulates."

Sometimes things happen and I can't share them because I have no idea how to keep them anonymous, so this is all you'll get in terms of detail, but I've just started preparing for the funeral of a young man whose death I am certain was caused by his recent covid infection... But his death will not be certified unto a coroner's inquest has been conducted.

They lied when they said it would get milder for kids.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Three times as likely to get myocarditis after the second covid infection than the first...

Twice as likely to get *acute kidney injury*...

Twice as likely to get *heart disease*...

thelancet.com/journals/lanin… Twice as likely to thrombotic injuries.

I've started working on an overview of the whole vulnerability-to-other-infections-after-covid-infection thing, and it's absolutely mindblowing.

I think the big picture of it is astonishing.

The complexity of what Covid infection does to your body is just staggering. It can make you vulnerable to infection in so many different ways, but even one single way ("Covid damages your immune system") actually breaks down into another whole subset of ways covid damages your immune system...

Them: Wow, why are so many people becoming more obnoxious, careless, angry, forgetful, anxious, distracted, clumsy, irritable, impulsive, sluggish, foggy, flat?

Me: Because repeat Covid infections are frying people’s brains and bodies.

Them: NO I DON'T LIKE THAT ANSWER Them: Wow, why are so many people getting heart attacks, strokes, collapsing on stage, embolisms, aneurysms?

Me: Because repeat Covid infections are shredding people's cardiovascular systems.

Them: NO I DON'T LIKE THAT ANSWER

Have you noticed how many people with Long Covid have vitamin or mineral or enzyme or something else deficiencies?

🧵 I've seen *so many* people commenting about their own deficiency recently, and it feels like it's an accelerating phenomenon.

Maybe the diagnosis of it is an accelerating phenomenon.

I'm not 'wasting my life away' or 'missing out on life'.
I have an enormously fulfilling life, serving and supporting and interacting with thousands of people in my daily life.

And I want to do all that to the fullest for as long as possible, which is why I mask. But I'll tell you who literally wasted his life away.

I'm going to attempt to pop this thread into an understandable form, but by doing so, it will lose a lot of the technical detail.

Basically, there are new variants spreading quickly that don't use one of Covid's classic cell entry methods.

https://twitter.com/LongDesertTrain/status/1971365537906381090

Think of the covid spike like a swiss army pen knife.
The pen knife has one main purpose:
To get the virus into the cells of a host's body so it can replicate there.

So, I got in on the ground floor of chronic repercussions of infection long before Covid started.

Here are five things that happened to me as a result of my mystery infection twenty something years ago. Cognitive dysfunction.
Yeah you could call it brain fog.

I'm just appalled by the current medical and moral and intellectual vacuum at the top of public health and pretty much all the way down.

Let me walk you through three conversations I've had in *just the last fortnight*.

All three asked me the same question. Last week I had a walk in.

A young man, late twenties, with a serious health condition.

Long-term neuroinflammation in the brain can interfere with neurons, synapses, and glial function in ways that ripple out across thinking, mood, and body systems.
Symptoms might include...
🧵

https://twitter.com/elisaperego78/status/1968376350215143469

Psychological and emotional:

Anxiety

Depression

Irritability, mood swings

Apathy or loss of motivation

Sleep disturbance (insomnia, fragmented sleep, non-restorative sleep)

Ten psychological issues that science has proven Covid can cause, but that Public Health are too scared to tell you about: 1
Insomnia

Every now and then I say to myself, "Am I nuts to be trying to avoid covid infection? No one else is."

And then I think about what those scaremongering bedwetters at the British Heart Foundation say. "How does Covid-19 affect your heart?
We explain what Covid-19 does to your heart and circulatory system and how it can lead to conditions such as blood clots, heart damage, palpitations and high heart rate."

Last week I saw someone write about how 6 year olds have never heard of Covid even though they've had it at least five times here.

So this week I asked school children of all ages about Covid.

Some of what they said blew me away, especially the older teenagers.
🧵 I'll start there because people don't read long threads 😅

"Covid? My first infection was nothing. Just a bad cold." "Covid? Nah. I've had it twice, and I'm fine."

A third sequence of BA.3.2* popping up in the Netherlands after a two month break, so it's maintaining itself in circulation even without further evolution.

BA.3.2 has lots of components of a formula one variant... except for the tyres.

When it finds them, it may go *fast*. Just to explain that a little more...

Some dangerous variants appear *complete*.
They're the spawn of one or two existing widespread variants, and just pick up an extra mutation or recombination that makes them even more efficient.

I was in school yesterday, and a class asked me about my mask. I told them about why I wear it, and first one student, then another, quietly said that they had Long Covid. They explained it very matter-of-factly, the way young people sometimes do. As they were speaking, I looked round the class at the other teenagers. They were listening without condemnation and with open minds.

When I write posts like this one, I normally get accused of being a doomer, but I really feel like that's a case of shooting the messenger.

But I'm not holding out much hope that treatments for persistent covid infection will make much of an impact on a population level. Why?