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It's better to be cautious and kind than foolhardy and mean.

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Every now and then I go back to the Long Covid guidance from the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and am just amazed by how good it is. How thoughtful it is. How professional it is. How deeply scientific and compassionate and realistic it is.

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A colleague has been complaining about his 'brutal cold' for a week that he swore wasn't covid. Someone just made him take a test before attending a meeting with some old folk, and he tested positive right there in the lobby and he's absolutely fuming they made him test.

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Apparently there's a nasty mystery virus going around that is a bit like flu in the early stages, but can cause strokes and heart attacks and kidney failure and trigger diabetes and fatigue and kill you. And here's the really weird thing about it... I mean seriously weird...

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Grinning dinosaurs posing with the comet.

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They asked us to make personal decisions about risk based on the data then lied about the risk and removed the data.

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Another massive holy cow huge piece of news, so this will probably get about ten likes and disappear into the twitterhole: CDC say this: "the virus that causes COVID-19, can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially

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We've now had more admissions for Covid in the UK in the first nine months of 2022 than we had in the whole of 2021 or 2020, and, again, NOBODY KNOWS. That is INSANE.

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When a parent says that their children were irrevocably damaged by spending two months at home with them, I think that says a lot about the parent, and not much about anything else.

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Ten things twitter folks know about Covid that people on the streets don't.

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I'm old, so I used to work making buildings safe from airborne pathogens like Legionella. Do you know why you don't keep catching Legionella?

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Wow. They're not messing around in Australia.

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You should probably know in advance that when you develop Long Covid, there won't be a cure waiting for you at your doctor's. There won't even be much concern.

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Conversation with a cardiac ward clerk today. "It's like nothing I've experienced. People we would have expected to recover are dying all the time. I'm off for two days now and I just don't know who will be alive when I get back." What's causing it? "Oh, it's 90% covid."

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If mild Covid infections can damage your brain, you'd expect to see news stories about people acting aggressively, acting foolishly, acting recklessly, more anxiety, more anger, more violence.

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It's not "living in fear" to take sensible precautions to avoid a virus that doubles your risk of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease, and dementia, each time you catch it.

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I am now more concerned about Covid than I have been at any point since April 2020.

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Incidentally, we know how to reduce transmission of another airborne pathogen, SARS-CoV-2: hepa filters, ffp2/3 n95+ masks, ventilation, far UV, all that kind of stuff, but people aren't doing it because I don't know.

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81 people were beheaded in Saudi Arabia today. Saudi Arabia owns Newcastle United Football Club.

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I genuinely think that the next generation will not forgive us for what we have done to them and the world they will have to live in.

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I read a lot of Covid research. See my pinned tweet for the angle I view it from. I don't understand all the research, but here's what I do understand: Specialists representing every bodily function are completely freaked out by what SARS-CoV-2 is damaging in their area. 🔥👇

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Once more slowly for those at the back: Covid will be able to mutate past our immunity Covid will not be able to mutate past hepa filters

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It is no accident or coincidence that the general public in many countries came to believe the lie that it's fine to catch and spread Covid.

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A friend was told by a doctor that they were being paranoid and threatened them with a referral for psychiatric care because they thought that they had ongoing symptoms after their Covid infection. They went to a second doctor, and that doctor had them checked out for Lymphoma.

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Lots of insisting: Insisting he was fine, insisting he didn't need to test, insisting it wasn't covid, insisting tests don't work, insisting that everyone has to live with Covid and that you shouldn't isolate now (🚨 false). They insisted he leave.

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It drives me nuts that people in 2023 can understand that we need to filter and sanitise swimming pools, but can't see that we need to do the same for shared indoor air in virtually airtight modern buildings.

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*** you can detect it with a covid test ***

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I know it will get me eventually, but here's to another year without catching Covid. 🥂*

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If you know that covid infects cartilage and persists in it, and you're not terrified, then you don't know what it means.

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Why are some of the people who have gone 'back to normal' so angry with people who are still being cautious?

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You know the social group who the nazis executed first, don't you?

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I had an extremely weird conversation this morning with an aeronautical engineer who is wrestling with designing the next generation of planes and part of his focus is in strengthening the airframes to handle the worsening storms and extremes of weather of the next 30 years.

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Him: "Why are you wearing a mask still?" Me: "You don't want what I've got." Him: "What's that?" Me: "A full and thorough understanding of how Covid is transmitted and what repeat infection does to you."

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I think: a) there's a lot more Covid brain damage around than people realise b) people don't know what brain damage looks like c) it's cumulative

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"How on earth could Covid infection cause kids to die of Strep A? What a ridiculous claim!" I'm begging you to read and share this reply to that question. The important point is in tweet 4 1/

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I have been genuinely gobsmacked this week by the widespread use of HEPA in government buildings and at events like Davos. I've been campaigning fruitlessly for HEPA in schools for two and a half years. Meanwhile those two-faced turds protect themselves with it.

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Message from surgeon friend today saying that he's beginning to suspect that repeat Covid infections are causing cumulative damage and that covid is harming immunity.

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If you've been following me for a while you'll know that I bang on and on and on about hepa filters. Turns out the world's richest and most influential use them. Also, I suspect, improved ventilation. What do you spot in this picture? There are two things that leap out.

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Because old people like me worked on making buildings safe from airborne pathogens like Legionella.

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The Spanish Flu comparison is an insidious one that I keep coming across. A woman in her late 50s said it to me yesterday. "do you know when the Spanish Flu ended?... It didn't!"

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OK. So a huge problem here is that most people are looking at acute covid from an individual viewpoint and seeing low risk, when they should be looking at long covid from a societal viewpoint and seeing that we're in massive trouble.

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Pilot friend has just admitted to himself, his family, and his employer that he has long covid and is no longer safe to fly. 😔

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The good news is that there's no evidence that the effects of Covid last longer than 40 months.

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I'm going to say it again. People in the UK are catching Covid, not being tested for it, and dying within days. How do I know? Because I'm taking their funerals.

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I think: a) there's a lot more Covid brain damage around than most people realise b) most people don't know what brain damage looks like c) it's cumulative

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This is a brilliant segment by the @Todayshow about the direct connection between catching Covid and the raised risk of a heart attack. I had to keep pinching myself to check it was real and I wasn't dreaming. Thank you @NBCNews @ErinNBCNews @DrJohnTorres Please share widely!

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Four deaths from Storm Eunice is a tragedy, and is rightly being reported on news headlines. 254 deaths from Covid today and every day barely even mentioned. There's something wrong there.

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Today's hard conversation. Man in 50s. In the last six months he has had: Myocarditis Vertigo Intense tinnitus Intense waves of fatigue Narcolepsy He asked me: "Why is this happening to me?" Very gently, I tried to tell him.

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I'm a trustee of a charity whose electricity bill will rise from £8k in 2019 to £50k in 2023. We're screwed. This country, I mean. You know what this means for businesses, charities, homeowners, industry, hospitals, schools? Everything will *collapse*.

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A covid-minimising friend caught Covid twice, developed problems with their blood pressure, fainted on the stairs, broke their leg in three places and had to spend two weeks in hospital and guess what...

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He's here on twitter. I kind of hope he sees this.

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Wow. Astonishing news in the UK that the release of the winter infection survey data tomorrow is being cancelled because the rates it showed are so high that Downing Street have crapped themselves and hidden the results.

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I met a woman today for a meeting, and let her know in advance that I would be masking, but that it was because I have a vulnerable family member (which seems to be acceptable to a lot of people).

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The person who told me that I should be brave and stop wearing a mask because we all had to catch it to make it milder has been in bed for most of the last six weeks because they were brave and caught covid again to make it milder.

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I just don't understand how anyone could believe that masks make you sick while a virus that invades the lining of every organ in your body doesn't.

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I think I might be out of the twitter jail. Who can see this and thinks that Covid infection is still dangerous and worth avoiding. 🔥

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The people who study Long Covid wear masks in public indoor spaces, use ventilation, etc, not because they think they're going to die in the acute phase of the infection, but because they know about LONG COVID.

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Headline: Scientists who study #LongCovid wear masks in public indoor spaces.

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If you're still trying to avoid Covid while 99.9% of the world are trying to share it directly with you, you have my utmost respect.

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When you finally understand the danger of SARS-CoV-2, you will hate the people who warned you for not convincing you.

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If you haven't been infected, you really want to avoid being infected. If you've been infected once, you *really* want to avoid being infected twice. If you've been infected twice, you **really** want to avoid being infected three times.

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Whenever you see any news reports about a sudden increase in the number of people with mental health problems, think about this:

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@Gab_H_R December 2009 — aftermath of SARS1:

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One other thing to note, they don't normally test anymore, they only made him test because of how much he was coughing. 😕

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"There will be a reduced number of members of the royal family present in order to avoid the health risks associated with large crowds." Wait. What? There are health risks associated with large crowds?

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Those people who told you they had a nasty flu last month? They had Covid. Those people who told you they had a nasty stomach bug last week? They had Covid.

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We figured out how to stop it. There are still very occasional outbreaks, but generally buildings and their maintenance schedules are now set up in a way that Legionella is rarely a problem.

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And what's possibly even weirder and even more baffling is that you can avoid catching this mystery virus by wearing a quality mask properly... *** and no one can be bothered to do that one simple thing ***.

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I don't think the experts have been this alarmed about an upcoming wave since Delta in December 2020. Seriously. Folk I really respect are freaking out a little. I think January and February are going to be *very bad*.

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There is no immunity to Strep A. There is just a functioning immune system. Avoiding Strep A in 2020 does not make you vulnerable to Strep A in 2022. Having a damaged immune system makes you vulnerable to Strep A in 2022. SARS-CoV-2 damages your immune system.

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If the government had continued requiring testing for Covid, we would be at the point where we would be able to say

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Imagine thinking that HIV was over in 1985, stopping testing for it, denying its long term effects, lying about how to stop catching it, winding down researching treatments, and ridiculing people who highlighted it.

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This view is unpalatable for some people, in which case, I'm more than happy to lose some followers:

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Someone decided for you that it's ok for you to be infected with SARS-CoV-2.

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There are people in the UK who are catching Covid, dying within days, and Covid is not recorded on their death certificate even as a contributory factor to death. I know, because I'm taking their funerals. Why is this being deliberately concealed?

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I told you. I flipping told you. They're not even going to make kids with measles stay home from school, are they. They're going to rip it.

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So yesterday the technical lead for Covid at the World Health Organisation said that everyone should be aware that covid causes long term heart problems, and that we have no idea how that damage will shake out in five, ten, or twenty years. And the world went straight back out…

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Just like you, I have so many questions. I got told about it in a phone call, I didn't see it, just heard a live narration.

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The reason that the cautious people are getting infected after three years without is not that they are necessarily doing something wrong. It's that the careless people are now going everywhere when sick and they're coughing everywhere.

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Ten reasons why the illness I have is totally not covid.

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This video from today's #Panorama ... astonishing... they knocked this one out of the park. Profiteering on school buildings... charging £566k for £60k's work... building a school for £20million and getting paid £90 million 😲

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If you've had Covid recently, today is a good day to remind yourself what to do if you have a heart attack.

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Sick kids shouldn't be in school. They should be on the sofa, wrapped in a duvet, with a movie on the TV, and their personal choice of hot drink.

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People who wear masks aren't weak. It takes steel to go against the flow of a whole society.

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Remember 9 months ago when they said that Covid-19 patients retain elevated risk for at least nine months...? H/t @BigDay_Mandy ❤️

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If you're still looking back at 1930s Germany and saying "I don't know why normal people didn't do something to stop it".

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So if you say "I'm fine catching Covid" then it means you're fine with spreading it.

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You have only heard a tiny fraction of the harm covid does to you.

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Thinking that catching Covid will build up your immune system is like thinking that a concussion will build your intelligence.

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The Autoimmune Registry:

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When they say 'masks don't work', do they mean the masks firemen wear, the masks fighter pilots wear, the masks asbestos removers wear, or the masks chemical weapons experts wear?

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People warned that repeat Covid infection was damaging the immune systems of children. Governments ignored that warning. Now the children are dying.

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We're just going to accept death rates 20% higher than they used to be without a fight, aren't we?

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Ten things we know so far about New Covid.

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If you still think it's a good idea to not catch Covid, give us a wave.

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At work today I got nagged by a colleague about my mask, my lifestyle choices, my not dining out, my understanding of the dangers of covid. I'm extremely tired today and my reply was long and angry.

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If you're at the point of questioning whether it's time to stop worrying about Covid and live free, I would suggest that the next two months is exactly the wrong time to do that. 😬

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Ten things that will not protect you from an airborne virus that moves through the air like smoke.

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OK, here's a question for you... Why do film and TV productions have excellent covid mitigations.... But keep totally quiet about them?

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After a meeting this evening in which I wore an ffp3 respirator, someone shouted at me "you're supposed to be a man of God, why are you so afraid?!" I've thought about moments like this a lot over the months, so I quietly and gently replied "why are you so afraid of me wearing a…

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He's not stopped working, and has posted on Facebook about 'feeling grim but cracking on'. He hasn't stopped interacting with people in the last week, as far as I'm aware.

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Why does SARS-CoV-2 damage appear in such different ways in different people? You have probably all known the answer to that this whole time, and have been humouring me, but I just had that jaw drop coffee cup drop moment of the pieces fitting together.

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I personally am not worried that this bird flu is going to jump to humans. I'm worried that it will wipe out hundreds of entire species of birds. Literally wipe them out. You don't think there's any significance to that, but that's because you don't think.

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Because they're better informed than journalists.

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