1/ The lesson of the Nazis, the one that has to be remembered and carried with us all forever, is that 'It could happen here'.

We have been done a dangerous disservice by the popular approval of Godwin's Law - that all Internet disputes ultimately devolve into people shouting 'Nazi' at each other. 2/ Why? Because Nazism threatens to break out at all times and in all places, and requires constant energy and vigilance to be suppressed. Godwin's Law has made us shy of using the Nazi comparison, EVEN WHEN IT IS BLATANTLY OBVIOUS. As it is with Trump and the MAGA movement.

1/ "The impact of various INFECTIOUS AGENTS on human survival and reproduction over THOUSANDS OF YEARS has exerted SELECTIVE PRESSURE on numerous regions of the HUMAN GENOME."

Can we please clear something up?

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… 2/ People mistakenly say that the reason the Native Americans died of smallpox, the flu, syphillis and others is that the individuals concerned didn't have the constant exposure to them that European populations had, so had not built up immunity.

I'm not going to put any effort into refuting this point by point, because... Brandolini

But, really?! I remain baffled by the vehement objection to cleaner air generally, and in schools in particular. Can anyone come up with a coherent explanation? This seems to me a much more appropriate reponse to @Hayley_Gleeson article and the outstanding work of @ColinKinner 👇

https://x.com/CrabbBrendan/status/1838499258716295476

1/ I cannot encourage people more to log into this event this afternoon. It is one of the most critical events in improving indoor air quality since the beginning of the pandemic. Many big cheeses (grandes fromages) will be there. 🧀 See rest of thread.

events.csiro.au/Events/2024/Ju…
2/ Cathy Foley @DrCathyFoley
Chief Scientist at Australia's national science agency CSIRO.

1/ Couldn't be anything at all to do with the widespread prevalence of previous repeat and current COVID infection impacting the performance of these elite athletes, for whom a 1% fall in VO2 max spells disaster, could it? 🤔

https://twitter.com/liammannix/status/1819163205052109067

2/ If you can postulate immunity debt as the reason behind the big surge in incidence and severity of other infections, but dismiss a potential direct effect of COVID out of hand, you are not a serious player.

1/ Guys, guys, guys, this is very interesting. Look at these Boeing 737 CO2 traces from last week on Aranet4 HOME CO2 monitors, one in the cockpit and one in the back with the rest of the Self Loading Freight.

2/ Look at the difference between the inflight CO2 levels in the cockpit (700ppm) and the cabin (1800-2000ppm). Why is this? Because the pilots in the cockpit breathe only fresh air. They do not breathe recirculated cabin air.

1/ BE AMAZED! Come with me on a little journey into the bizarre. We are going to explore the Western Australian government's new "Don't Assume You're Immune" campaign to raise awareness of vaccination and see how long it takes to find a mention of COVID-19. 2/ Things start off promisingly enough with this email to all WA Health employees from the WA Director General of Health, an infectious disease physician. It says the campaign is in response to "inaccurate and false information regarding public health measures". OK, fair enough.

1/ TIMELINE 2019, OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
"There will shortly be the worst global pandemic in 100 years, where a novel virus will kill tens of millions and bring the world to a standstill.
abc.net.au/news/2024-07-0… 2/ It will cause lifespans to fall across the world for the first time in 50 years. Not only will it continue to kill millions for years, but excess deaths will remain elevated, indicating it continues to cause damage far beyond its direct, acute effects.

1/ This is stunning. It isn't just that a high indoor CO2 level represents a poorly ventilated space, but that raised levels of CO2 (from as little as 800ppm) slow down the rate at which SARS-COV-2 decays. At 3000ppm, the effect is dramatically magnified. Watch the video:

https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1797538101801431191

2/ By 3000ppm of indoor CO2, about 30% of the virus stops decaying at all. Can you imagine what this means for a school bus, where CO2 levels can reach 9,000ppm?! This helps explain why there is so much mass infection on the way to and from school camps.

1/ I don't know about the rest of you proles, but I'm staying away from this frickin' virus as much as I possibly can. Nothing - repeat NOTHING - I have seen in clinical practice or the scientific literature in the past four years makes me think repeated infection is 'fine'. 2/ At no point have I thought, "Oh, this is great! It's a total nothingburger, after all! THE EVIDENCE IS IN! LET'S PARTY!"

1/ Why, indeed? Thousands of patients are catching COVID in Australian hospitals. It kills 10% of them. This is due to a basic LACK OF INFECTION CONTROL. As @drajm says in this outstanding article, this is shaping up to be the Robodebt scandal of medicine.
abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…

https://twitter.com/Hayley_Gleeson/status/1756416639669850391

2/ People catching COVID in hospitals is the ROBODEBT SCANDAL OF MEDICINE 👇

abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…

1/ In medical school, back in the eighties, our teachers were at pains to make us understand that deaths from infectious disease were already in massive decline before the onset of mass immunisation.

sciencedirect.com/topics/medicin…
2/ We were taught that vaccination was only the final layer of a multi-layered public health strategy.

cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/m…

1/ Kylie Lang: Hospital Covid deaths set Qld Health up for class action 2/

1/ This is how hospitals should be. That they are not, with everything we know, is an absolute scandal.

Now, what does this CO2 value tell you as you are sitting in a hospital bed? How does it help you?

@CO2RadicalAus

https://twitter.com/BarryHunt008/status/1748447169823056324

2/ It tells you that the CO2 level in your room is only slighter higher than the CO2 level in outside air, which is around 430-450ppm. In other words, it is almost as fresh and clean as outside air, in terms of contamination by other people's out breaths.

1/ THE BEST ARTICLE ON COVID FOR A GOODLY WHILE
Perhaps ever. I thought I'd better do a thread on it. Dive in. It's long, but it's worth it.👇
abc.net.au/news/2024-01-2…
2/ People are surprised when I say I feel really strong peer pressure and don't want to stand out. It's very hard to keep ploughing your own furrow when everyone else thinks you're a crank. Nevertheless... BRENDAN!!!! 🤦 🤣 🤣 🤣

1/ My mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, always said to me "It doesn't matter how you behave or what you believe if you're a Jew, in the end, to everyone else, you'll always be 'just another filthy Jew.'"

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 2/ The saddest document I have from the Hitler time is this one. It's a 1934 attestation of good service from his former CO for my grandfather, who served on the Eastern front in WW1 as a medical orderly and won the Iron Cross for rescuing the wounded under fire.

If you do not accept that there is a plausible chance these two phenomena may be interconnected, then you are not a serious person.

x.com/7newsmelbourne…


I also make the point that cardiac arrests are relatively uncommon, but when they do occur they are very dramatic, resource intensive events. That means a small overall increase in numbers is instantly remarkable. Which is why we are talking about them and they represent...

1/ LATEST INFECTION CONTROL RULES FROM ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL
I'm in the middle of nights, but some of the premises behind these are so nonsensical I have to write a short thread.

First, "Patients may also request that their healthcare worker wear an N95 mask." 2/ In what world, people, should a patient's safety from hospital acquired infection depend on their advanced knowledge of modes of transmission of infection and the nuances of how to prevent transmission according to the properties of different types of PPE?

1. The constantly morphing narrative, aka, 'the lies'.

First, it was: "Let's work hard to make it endemic [meaning, misleadingly, 'persistently prevalent AND mild'] by all getting infected, and we will have reached the Promised Land."

theconversation.com/with-covid-now… 2. Now, it's: "We have reached endemicity [meaning, correctly, 'persistently prevalent', and no implication re severity], but this is actually a HIGH CONSEQUENCE endemic disease and it's so common now there's nothing much we can do about reducing prevalence, so..."

1/ My mind is blown by seeing medical and nursing staff caring for critically ill respiratory patients, who are wearing either no mask or a baggy blue surgical. 2/ The pandemic has been like a war, as far as medicine is concerned, and medicine advances by huge leaps in wartime. Never before have we deliberately decided to forget everything learned in wartime and go back to pre-war practices.

1/ I'm posting this, because I want people to understand I was censured by Ahpra for "imply[ing] that [politicians and government bodies] are acting either deceptively or coercively, and for motives other than the public health interest".
See next tweet
theguardian.com/australia-news… 2/ Below implies:
A) The public is unwaveringly trusting of the unchallengeable good faith of politicians, pharmaceutical companies, government bodies and others.
B) My words represent such a dangerous challenge to the public faith in those institutions that they must be stopped.