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.

"Immunity debt" is a carefully constructed - and entirely false - meme, designed to get people to believe that infection is somehow beneficial. Why? Because the calculus is that, although the many damaging effects of the virus are well known, encouraging mass infection is overall better for society (= economy =corporate interests).

1/ There are receipts, Peter. No end of receipts.

https://twitter.com/YouAreLobbyLud/status/1549272565197115392

2/

I am reading this book right now. Dr Howard has collected receipts from the charlatans, quacks, clowns and chancers, many of whom turned out to be previously respected doctors. Was a shock to him. It's been a shock to me.

Not surprising the pigs are squealing the way they are.

https://twitter.com/19joho/status/1649413993222533123

Review from the LA Times
latimes.com/business/story…

FUCK AROUND... FIND OUT

https://twitter.com/BigBadDenis/status/1664126276750446592

1/ This. People think their views of today are some kind of immutable, manifest wisdom. They're not. They are shaped by so many things, but most especially government behavioural modification units. They morph over time, sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes quickly...

https://twitter.com/AlisonGeorge10/status/1641776207938084866

2/ ...and can so easily come to rest 180 degrees from where they were a short time ago. Here in Australia, the government cynically chose to direct everyone to think "You do you", "personal responsibility", "there's nothing we can do", "the only alternative is endless lockdown...

“Expectation of life is 73 for smoker and 74 for non-smoker. Treasury think revenue interest outweighs this. Negligible compared with risk of crossing a street.”

John Snow Project: health misinformation for profit is as old as the hills. Read, share pls👇
johnsnowproject.org/insights/merch… "Whatever one’s understanding of the harms of COVID-19, it would be a mistake to assume governments would automatically protect people from a public health threat in the face of more immediate economic considerations."

johnsnowproject.org/insights/merch…

"People that are at most high risk ... they should take definite plans now to do what they can"

Right. Focused protection of the vulnerable DOES NOT WORK. This is an abdication of your responsibility to protect us all. It is ableist, ageist and racist.

https://twitter.com/MsAmyLewis/status/1641261158773694464

2/ "I am, you are, we are Australian"

You could have chosen to create a narrative around Aussies looking out for each other, around 'mateship', not letting each other down. But instead you deliberately chose "Do what you like, survive if you can".

1/ You know I said the death rate for HOSPITAL ACQUIRED COVID INFECTION in Victoria in 2022 was 7.6%?
Well, it's not, it's actually *⃣10.62%*⃣
These are the internal DoH figures: 344 dead to October, 10.62% of infections.
@amapresident 2/ So, this data has been collected in Australia after all, at least in Victoria. Unsurprisingly, however, it is being kept secret, while precautions against COVID transmission are lifted in hospitals across Australia.
10.62% death rate and all they do is reduce precautions.

1/ A reminder of the kind of arguments people employed in Australia in 2020 to deny healthcare workers airborne PPE. 2/ A reminder of the kind of arguments people employed in Australia in 2020 to deny healthcare workers airborne PPE.