Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Dreamy Run Profile picture
Dreamy Run
@dreamy_run
'Someone who knows what they're talking about.' ABD PhD, social science. LongCovid (Feb. 2020) & related illness (POTS, ME, etc.). 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Oct 25 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Some things I find interesting about this 👇 "CHARM2" study:

24.7% of the study's SARS-2-infected participants had symptoms 1+ month after initial infection. Data are missing from ~3/4 of the initial study's ("CHARM") participants...

🧵1/9 …(i.e., nonrandom sampling from the initial population of incoming Marines could've introduced selection biases, etc.) so this 24.7% figure is not very trustworthy. But the actual prevalence must be between 6% (if none of the missing had LC) & 80% (if all the missing had LC).
2/
Aug 14 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory is instructive here. She found that as social creatures, people look around at what others are supporting. In order to avoid becoming social outcasts, noncommitted people (most of us) will just jump on the most popular bandwagon...
🧵1/6 ...and stay quiet about whatever's less popular. As people stay more & more quiet about the less popular view, that view seems — and thus becomes — less & less popular, in a spiral of silence.
2/
Feb 9 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
It may seem surprising when aerosol scientists, filtration experts, and occupational hygienists don't protect themselves from SARS2. After all, people who know #CovidIsAirborne should know to #MaskUp, right? But that's not how human nature works.

1/14
In order to try a solution, people must first believe there's a problem. It's Marketing 101. But our pandemic marketers have chosen to inundate the public with misinfo like "covid is mild/over," "only old, frail, obese, or otherwise undesirable people get severe covid," etc.

2/ Tweets: @kprather88 What would be most helpful message to get out? Evidence for how we know Sars2 is airborne? How can we help protect people against airborne spread? @arijitchakrav I think the notion that everyone is individually at risk from this, that this is not someone else’s problem. As long as the public thinks it’s just a cold, they will keep tuning out the “details”. @dreamy_run [bullseye emoji] People need to believe there's a problem before they're even willing to talk about a solution, given that solutions always incur costs. But convincing people they're vulnerable to anything ...
Jan 14 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Wait for it... 🧵

Doctors and nurses in various parts of the world are reporting that the current situation is as bad as — or worse than — at any other time during the pandemic.

1/11

Patients are arriving in hospital and immediately getting worse — and often dying — like at the beginning of the pandemic.

2/
Nov 5, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Here’s my current thinking about how we got to this absurd place in the pandemic. 🧵
1. At the outset, perceived uncertainty re: this novel virus allowed leaders to choose the most expedient option (re: PPE availability, personal vs. public responsibility, pressure from business leaders to prop up the ST economy).
*
*
Sep 3, 2023 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Top 11 things revealed by this 👇 FOI email from the BC CDC (@CDCofBC) to the PHO of BC (Dr. Bonnie Henry):

(H/T @Notatmypicnic, @MamaToronto, @beansprouts_mom)



" From: Mckee. Geoffrey [BCCDC] To: Henry. Bonnie HLTH:EX Sent: September 20, 2022 10:01:59 AM PDT Hi Bonnie, Just wanted to let you know that I had a briefing with Minister Whiteside from Ministry of Education and Childcare this morning as she had some concerns about recent media regarding the release of the seroprevalence results and subsequent questions about severe disease and Iong COVID risk. She was hoping that you could comment on the interpretation of the seroprevalence results for kids during your next briefing and what that means for severe disease and Long COVID am...
(continued from previous image) "...I walked her through the seroprevalence results, particularly how they were already fairly high in children in March 2022. We also went through the data around pediatric hospitalizations etc. and how they have remained low (and overestimated based on cause of admission). The Long COVID issue is a bit more challenging based on the lack of clear data. but I'm not aware of significant concerns being raised by pediatricians. We also discussed the comparison or flu vs covid among pediatrics. I also gave her a heads up on what we know about the modelling ... 1. Our criticism of the seroprevalence study was heard loud & clear by the BC Ministry of Education & Childcare, the BCCDC, & DBH.

"...tremendous discussion over Twitter among those who don't feel the province has done nearly enough..." -@charliesmithvcr
straight.com/ovid-19-pandem…
May 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Reminder:

Respirators, ventilation & air filtration all get rid of covid in a room.

Respirators are better at preventing near-field transmission. Ventilation & filtration are better at preventing far-field transmission. Both strategies together work better than 1 or the other. Illustration of people and ... Reminder:

Universal respirator use works much better than one-way respirator use. "In which environment ...
May 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Well here it is, the moral justification that officials have been using for sickening billions and killing & disabling millions of real, actual human beings:

"When we think about what covid has done, we do need to think about the economy and other social determinants of health." Get it? If a bad short-term economy & covid both sicken people, and women & minorities are extra-affected by both "lockdowns" & covid illness, then you can just choose whichever of those 2 bad options is easier (closer to "normal," more supported by your colleagues, etc.). 🙃
May 29, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Top 16 reasons you think you don't know many people w/ #LongCovid:

1. You don't know many people well enough to know their illnesses.

2. LC is mostly invisible.

3. People haven't connected the dots b/w their current illness & their covid infection.

4. People haven't noticed yet that their health and/or functioning is worse.

5. People have been gaslit (by family, friends, physicians, etc.) into believing that their symptoms are not LC.

6. Social stigma & disbelief discourage disclosure.

Feb 21, 2023 • 55 tweets • 25 min read
Here's some evidence contradicting the proposal that "hybrid immunity" (the immunity one develops from covid infection plus vaccination) can be "built up in the population" and is "good for future prospects." 🧵
∙
∙
1/~50 'Q: What is hybrid immunity... TL;DR:
"Hybrid immunity" may reduce future severe acute covid, but it doesn't greatly reduce transmission, so it produces viral evolution & immune dysfunction (which extend the pandemic) plus other acute & chronic illness, healthcare decline, economic decline, isolation, etc.

2/ "Hybrid immunity"...Graph showing that excess m...Excess mortality in the EU ...Bar graph of UK (ONS) Long ...
Sep 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🧵. @TheLancet has just released a major report "on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic." In it, the authors roundly criticize a widely held, historical misconception about viruses and SARS in particular —
1/6
doi.org/10.1016/S0140-… — the misconception that viruses are primarily transmitted through close-range large droplets. The authors concluded that reluctance to overturn this centuries-old error & acknowledge #CovidIsAirborne has led to untold suffering during the pandemic.
2/6
Sep 15, 2022 • 35 tweets • 12 min read
Let's see if I can enumerate the problems revealed by this study coathored by the chief public health officer of B.C.

(1)The person in charge of keeping the public healthy instead removed health protections.

(2)She manipulated this "protection variable" as part of a real-world experiment.

(3)Participants were denied informed consent.

(4)Participants did not even know they were in a study.
Feb 7, 2022 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
A 2013 lecture by Dr. Paul Cheney has been getting some Twittention lately. It's a goldmine of info re: #MECFS & the PEM variety of #LongCovid. For people who don't have the spoons to watch (or read) the whole thing, I've pulled out a few nuggets.

Stress & chills:
"[In ME] the body adapts to a low-energy state. It has to, because if it tries to stay at a high-energy state, it generates too much oxidative stress, which is deadly. So it adapts to a low-energy state. How do you think the body creates a low metabolic rate?"