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It's better to be cautious and kind than foolhardy and mean.
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Jun 25 • 25 tweets • 1 min read
Every now and then it comes back round to that eternal question:
Why must we do nothing to stop airborne viruses? We're allowed to do things to stop airborne bacteria.
Jun 25 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
I've been supporting a family whose child has an *excellent* diet.
Just ridiculously healthy and well made and varied food.
But...
The child is suffering from malnutrition.

What? 🧵 It turns out that it's really simple:

The child is *eating* all the right nutrients, but their body is *not absorbing* them properly.
Jun 20 • 23 tweets • 2 min read
All absolutely totally flipping normal in England at the moment as hospitals start declaring critical incidents due to 'severe and sustained pressure' IN JUNE.

🚨THIS HAPPENS WHENEVER THERE'S A COVID WAVE🚨 Critical incident declared at two hospitals in Staffordshire after 'severe and sustained pressure' It doesn't happen in numbers at other times.
Jun 19 • 20 tweets • 2 min read
A quick incomplete summary reminder of Sunak and Johnson's 'leadership' on Covid: Ignored warnings
Jun 17 • 27 tweets • 2 min read
Covid waves don't just come as waves of acute infection here in our local community.

There's very much an extended pattern to them.

Each one is a cycle. These are my observations and impressions of how it works here in our English town, so this is anecdotal comment not measured scientific research.
I'm just dropping it into the mix for people to consider.
Jun 13 • 17 tweets • 2 min read
Look.
Covid doesn't even have to have damaged your immune system to make you more vulnerable to Whooping Cough.

Let's just run through some stuff that covid infections can do to you that make you more vulnerable. Image Your lungs have a function called the mucociliary escalator that shifts gunk up out of your lungs.
Jun 12 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Look.
This is *really* serious.
The ukhsa and the press have been talking about this whooping cough outbreak as if the *upper limit* of the outbreak is the number of people who are unvaccinated. Image (Or who weren't exposed to it in 2020. Obviously that one doesn't make any sense at all. It's the vaccination one that is the worrying one)
Jun 12 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
⛔⛔
Another Holy Shit moment.
My Spanish is rusty, but this chart of whooping cough cases in Madrid seems to say that 90% of the kids with whooping cough there had been previously vaccinated against it.
The implications of this may be devastating.
⛔⛔
H/t @JohnFin39760730 Image "Por grupos de edad, el 97% de los casos entre 5-9 años y el 98% de los casos entre 10-14 años estaban
correctamente vacunados."
😮
Jun 11 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
So many illnesses are rising so dramatically in England.
We need to talk about the current complete abject failure of the UKHSA as an organisation. Here's what it's supposed to do.
"UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) prevents, prepares for and responds to infectious diseases, and environmental hazards, to keep all our communities safe, save lives and protect livelihoods." Image
Jun 10 • 47 tweets • 7 min read
If you take a glance at an 'AIDS defining illnesses' list, you'll see somewhere on the list "progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy".
👀🧵 You can go away and google a list if you like, but here's the CDC's list (from the US Veteran's Affairs website).
There's Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy down the bottom. Image
Jun 10 • 26 tweets • 3 min read
Masks and respirators are a clear visible sign that someone is actively taking steps to stop airborne pathogen transmission. If you see someone in a mask (and even better, a respirator), you know that
a) they think there's something to protect against
b) they know it is spread by inhalation and exhalation
c) they are taking personal responsibility for taking action
Jun 8 • 39 tweets • 3 min read
It's starting to drive me a little nuts that people think we can find "the cure" for Long Covid.

Have you ever had a car back from the bodyshop after it has been in a crash?
🧵 It's like saying there's 'the cure' for the damage.
The frame is slightly off.
The steering pulls just ever so slightly to the left.
The rear left door doesn't shut so easily.
There's a weird whistling noise from the vents.
The headlights are misaligned.
Jun 7 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
We're going to need a bigger graph.

Whooping Cough in England.

This is the fault of the people who think sickness makes you well.
Anti-vaxxers. Natural immunityers. Pro-infectioners. Anti-mitigationers. Immunity Debtors. Most Peoplers. Anti-Maskers. We-Have-The-Toolers.a graph of whooping cough cases going off the charts. The anti-vax crowd have driven the rejection of child hood vaccination with false claims of danger.
Jun 4 • 31 tweets • 3 min read
I've had a few friends catch covid for the first time in the last few weeks.
They're feeling a bit rubbish because a) they have covid and b) they thought they might manage to keep their run going longer.

If you're in a similar boat, here are a few thoughts... Risk reduction is not the same as risk elimination.
May 30 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
>Holy Shit<

Whooping Cough cases in England

😮 flat graph that suddenly goes very high. The last two weeks' notifications in red.
The growth is stratospheric. Image
May 29 • 34 tweets • 2 min read
You're noticing the increased lack of morality now, aren't you? The loss of compassion?

On a mass scale. And both from the ground up and the top down.

It's got a few more years of worsening to do still. I don't think it's just caused by the damage to the brain that covid infections do.

There are loads of factors.
May 27 • 41 tweets • 3 min read
Do you use lateral flow/rapid antigen tests to test for Covid?

Do you know how a positive or negative should be used to change your behaviour?

A quick quick thread: If you test negative on a single LFD/RAT rapid test, it means nothing.
May 26 • 53 tweets • 3 min read
Ten ways in which we're not ready for the next pandemic: 1
Most people now think that the way to deal with a pandemic is pretend there is no pandemic.
May 26 • 14 tweets • 1 min read
There's a key word in this tweet.
Which do you think it is...?
I'll say which one I think it is in the third tweet in this thread... 🧵 This tweet is just to give you a chance to go back and look at Jennifer's tweet without accidentally seeing what I think it is...
May 25 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Can I just say something that really feels like bullshit to me about the whole 'testing the water' thing that Thames Water is doing?

It takes about 7-10 days for cryptosporidium to cause diarrhoea.

If people have been having diarrhoea long enough for it to get noticed... ... and then get reported on, then you're looking at infections that were picked up maybe 14-17 days ago, at the very least.
May 23 • 19 tweets • 2 min read
We're into a sixth stage of the covid pandemic in England.
It has some implications.
Let me run through how we got here: Stage one:
No vaccinations, no treatments, no mitigations, Covid loose.