Do other colds, flus and similar viruses cause problems with the brain, heart, gut, autoimmunity etc?

Yes.

But they are already baked in to our baseline statistics, and COVID doesn’t just add to this in a simple way. It’s synergising… it’s causing its own impact and facilitating others. The best analogy I can come up with is that we had a curry, it had lots of different flavours of problems, and then we added two heaped tablespoons of chilli to it…

It’s affected the whole mix.

I said “oh no…”

They said “oh no… what?”

“XEC is here”

“Why do you care if XEC is here? You just wear a respirator and carry on as normal.”

“Why do I care? Maybe because all of the kids under the age of five are completely unprotected from it… -> Maybe because all of the elderly are wandering about without a mask on now because they either think they have robust hybrid immunity, or their doctor doesn’t wear one so they won’t either…

I don’t believe it is the fault of any kid that goes to school for infecting their parent or grandparents.

It was the grown ups responsibility to put in place the reasonable expectations for disease control in school.

Kids. We failed you… and I am so very sorry for your loss. This happened to a kid we know that brought delta home from daycare. Her mum died.

Warning.

Some of the top schools in the country are encouraging mask use coming up to exams and the end of year 12.

And the kids are wearing them.

You want a competitive ATAR, do what Olympic athletes and the highest achieving kids in the country do. It’s not anywhere near 100% use… but it’s a large number…

I’d like to clear something up.

When they said c19 would become seasonal, they weren’t referring to human behaviour in the context of varying climate/weather conditions leading to complex epidemics continuously worldwide. They meant once a year in winter and just like all the other colds.

I can’t tell you all the details because I’m am running between day job and evening taxi service for kids…. BUT

SAFER INDOOR AIR IS COMING AUSTRALIA!

#auspol Key players… you all know Prof Sutton left CHO Vic position to go to CSIRO?

Well he’s been beavering away over there collating all current evidence.

Importantly ->

PML

On investigation also HIV positive…

But symptoms came on in the context of COVID-19 too.

https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1818007607514472451

Some people would have you believe COVID had nothing to do with it…

But I have been warning for a long, long time.

COVID messes with the immune system and blood vessels. It inflamed the brain.

No… medical professionals aren’t “struggling to prevent transmission”.

Where airborne disease guidelines are followed, outcomes are outstanding. (E.g. infectious disease hospital in Italy 2020.)

Medical professionals and health managers are choosing not to follow the protocols. That’s mainly because of government acceptance of “a certain amount of loss” aided by chaos agents and misguided people in media… including SoMe.

The sensitivity of PCR for C19 is not 100%.

No where near in fact.

In clinical practice it was around 70%. RAT even lower than that depending on when it is done and how often.

You might be wondering how spraying healthy humans with a known pathogen that can cause long term disease or death can ever pass ethics.

-> The risk of the study is compared to the risks of not doing the study, and what the chances are that a person will be exposed to the same risks without doing the study.

It’s possible COVID is making kids hypertensive.

Been googling. A smattering of case studies of kids with hypertension after having COVID… possibly transiently… and a huge Korean study where they talk about lockdowns and cardiometabolic risk factors… but then note that -> “In the BMI-specific analysis, an increase in the prevalence was prominent in the normal BMI group.”

We are slowly meeting the family of other masking kids… and so far… they are doctors kids…

Curious… One geriatricians kids.

Every time I read those tweets about masks (respirators) not working I lose a brain cell.

Of course they work.

They’ve been used in industry for ages.

They’ve been used to provide care to patients with serious illnesses, protecting the HCW for ages… These groups that tweet garbage about respirators not working… what do they propose? We just leave the sick to die without care cos we risk more than 50% chance of death if we go near them?

@NSWCHO

I am in a situation that could only be true as a comedy skit.

It’s autumn going into a nasty winter.

Waves are rising of many viruses.

I’m in a medical centre.

Everyone is coughing and has a runny nose.

No one is in a mask of any sort. The doctor is sick and unmasked.

When reading this it’s important to understand. The flu always was a prolific killer, worthy of annual vaccination campaigns, surveillance and investment into public awareness. It’s only been very recently that it has been used as a benchmark for whether a disease is tolerable in society or not. Prior to COVID-19, we were working every year to reduce the impact of flu, admittedly without the knowledge of how impactful general use of masks might be, but still.

Things we used to do in the past that might shock now as seen on TV and modelled by experts.

I’ll start.

Doctors advertising smoking. Drinking alcohol and driving.

Strangely, I can safely say this has happened to me before.

Cigarette smoke used to make me very ill as a child.

I was considered weak and antisocial by extended family for not being able to stay indoors at parties as a child. ->

https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1789320170688705006

I used to walk straight out the front door, back door, onto balconies or corridors… and once, when I really couldn’t get out of the house and everyone lit up their post dinner ciggie, I lay on the ground with my nose sniffing the air coming in under an external door.

This is a study that anyone with a heart will find excruciating to read.

https://twitter.com/bogochisaac/status/1788546614153314550

Firstly, I’d like to say the good things.

They have clearly tried to capture infection episodes. Routine nose and throat swabs frequently and serology too. Well done.

If I had one thing to add to this… I’d add stool samples.

I’m not saying the virus that fuses brain cells together did it… I’m just saying it might have had a part.

theguardian.com/education/2024… I’m not saying being persistently unwell and absent from school due to COVID infections and secondary bacterial infections plus viral reactivations did it… I’m just saying they might have played a part.

Y’all know influenza viruses can change in a blink using a process called reassortment right?

virology.ws/2009/06/29/rea… Southern hemisphere influenza is just taking off…

“The latest respiratory surveillance report shows more than 4,700 people in NSW were diagnosed with influenza in the last four weeks, a 16 per cent increase compared with the previous year”

.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/202…

The playing field did change… between the pre vaccine and vaccine era… but after that?

Honestly, I don’t know.

Data erosion is so bad I can’t answer the question “Are things getting better?”

-> I have reason to suspect things aren’t getting better…

Reducing access to vaccines.

Not strain matching vaccines.

Reducing protections in hospitals, aged care and other communal facilities.

Accumulating infections…