“We're a sick nation."

@amolrajan & @bbcnickrobinson ask Labour MP Nadia Whittome why so many young people are out of work.

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“If people really understood the science behind all this, they would have a very different attitude”

Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty

“We analyzed the deaths of United States Politicians during the #COVIDPandemic & found some interesting statistics.

From 2020-2024 (into November) at least 466 active (or recently active) politicians, judges, & the like passed away. “

“(🧵It's the Сονіd, ѕtυріd!): Viewing the US election through the lens of the ongoing ЅАRЅ-Соν-2 раndеmіc.

(My hot take on what happened, and where things are headed. Prelude to the final 🧵in the "How does it end" series)…

…No country can expect sustained 3% growth, if 3% of its workforce drops out every year.

There is no path forward - for the US or any other country - without addressing this. Repeated covid infections are not a sustainable situation.”

“Imagine the impact over the next decade. This isn’t just about individuals; it’s a 10% chance of our doctors, pilots, presidents, soldiers, and police officers all grappling with the debilitating effects of Long COVID. When essential roles in society are consistently compromised, the risks are stacked like blocks in an increasingly unstable tower—one that can only lean so far before it topples. The more we ignore the impact of Long COVID, the closer we edge toward this collapse.

The toll of Long COVID is not a hypothetical future but an unfolding reality. As it affects more people, it strains every facet of society—healthcare, insurance rates, disability programs, and economic productivity. “

“In U.S., ‘The number of annual traffic fatalities in Washington state has jumped from 528 in 2019 to 810 in 2023, a 51% increase since 2019.. 2023 [was] the deadliest since 1990.. Speculation as to why traffic fatalities increased varied.’

IMO, the main reason is the cognitive dysfunction caused by SARS-CoV-2.

“If you were comfortable with catching it and spreading it, you were comfortable with killing people.

At no point in this ongoing pandemic did Covid stop killing people.”

“At the peak of the late-summer Covid wave, U.S. health systems were testing approximately evenly for COVID, flu, & RSV.

Yet, nearly all positive cases were Covid.

PublicHealth guidance must disabuse the myth that Covid conforms to the flu/RSV seasonal pattern.”

“With each wave, SC2 leaves in its wake long-term complications, damage to the cardiovascular, neurological, and immune systems, and chronic conditions

Those who might have been considered ‘healthy’ before infection can rapidly transition into the category of the vulnerable”

“So one can only conclude that the CDC purposefully redesigned their COVID graphic to downplay the severity and reduce attention paid to the —by far— number one cause of death by infectious disease.

Why? What purpose does this suppression serve?”

“I don’t think the majority of scientists who were looking at this early in 2020 or at the end of 2019 expected that, four years later, we’d be dealing with unrelenting waves of variants, which are immune evasive…

…We haven’t seen a widely distributed virus in recent human history that has had this property.”