Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress.
"Zero public health projects in the history of ever have had a stated goal of “ignore it because we have to live life.” It’s fundamentally antithetical to the very concept of public health."
Covid still a risk to vulnerable people - Essex matron says
“An NHS matron said that too often people were mistaking Covid for a common cold and a lack of testing could be putting vulnerable people at risk. Lana Goodwin, who works in Covid services at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Billericay, Essex, said she believed people who were not high risk ‘feel that Covid has gone.’…Ms Goodwin said that her clinic had people testing positive for the virus every day and vulnerable people were ‘unfortunately still dying from Covid.’”
An NHS matron said that too often people were mistaking Covid for a common cold and a lack of testing could be putting vulnerable people at risk.Lana Goodwin, who works in Covid services at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Billericay, Essex, said she believed people who were not high risk "feel that Covid has gone".
Do you still think the government has been transparent with you about SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) or H5N1 (bird flu, a subtype of influenza A found in nearly every animal species)?
“You stopped masking when Biden said it was okay—but it never was. COVID never disappeared, never became ‘milder.’ It’s still spreading to brains, seeding reservoirs in bone marrow, and altering lives permanently. You believe it all started with a bat at a wet market? Natural, huh? Even though the Wuhan lab studying coronaviruses was only 280 meters from the alleged outbreak site? Face it: U.S. research collaborations were involved. What killed your friends, disabled you, and affected your pets was engineered in a lab. No wonder they’d cover it up.”
(🧵It's the Сονіd, ѕtυріd!): Viewing the US election through the lens of the ongoing ЅАRЅ-Соν-2 раndеmіc.
“(🧵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.”
🔥📣 I am thrilled to bring you this fascinating, shocking interview with former CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield. 👀 I almost fell off my seat a number of times. 👀
“🔥📣 I am thrilled to bring you this fascinating, shocking interview with former CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield. 👀 I almost fell off my seat a number of times. 👀”
Ignoring Public Health May Have Cost Democrats the Election
“President Biden owed his 2020 win in part due to his promise that he would do better than his predecessor in handling the pandemic; that unlike Trump, he would “follow the science.” And at first, he did. But once it became clear that new variants would arise and vaccines would not prevent all Covid cases—though they did limit hospitalizations and deaths—the Biden administration went way off course. Rather than following the science and ramping up rapid-test production, covering testing and new vaccines, and upholding commonsense safety measures like masking in health care, his Covid czar, a corporate executive, chose to pretend Covid was a thing of the past.”
President Biden owed his 2020 win in part due to his promise that he would do better than his predecessor in handling the pandemic; that unlike Trump, he would “follow the science.” And at first, he did. But once it became clear that new variants would arise and vaccines would not prevent all Covid cases—though they did limit hospitalizations and deaths—the Biden administration went way off course. Rather than following the science and ramping up rapid-test production, covering testing and new vaccines, and upholding commonsense safety measures like masking in health care, his Covid czar, a corporate executive, chose to pretend Covid was a thing of the past.
A reminder that ~800,000 Americans have been killed by COVID since the Biden-Harris administration began. Tens of millions have Long C0VlD. And C0VlD spread more in September 2024 than any point in 2020. They refuse to do anything to stop the spread, even as thousands die weekly.
November 5, 2024: “A reminder that ~800,000 Americans have been killed by COVID since the Biden-Harris administration began. Tens of millions have Long C0VlD. And C0VlD spread more in September 2024 than any point in 2020. They refuse to do anything to stop the spread, even as thousands die weekly.”
Hold up you’re telling me that by the 3rd time I get COVID, there’s a 1 in 2.5 chance I develop life-changing chronic illness ⁉️⁉️
“Hold up you’re telling me that by the 3rd time I get COVID, there’s a 1 in 2.5 chance I develop life-changing chronic illness ⁉️⁉️
Uhhh CDC wtf?? Y’all were on TV every night in 2021, where you at with this?! Did you fuck up?? (1/2)” Thread:
We may think we’re done with COVID-19, but COVID-19 is not done with us
“I am concerned that the sense of urgency about COVID-19 appears to have faded. The disease has not been discussed during the election season, even though it is an ongoing and developing public health threat. I believe this is a dangerous mindset. The reality is that COVID-19 remains a unique and deadly threat for many people — it is not just another respiratory virus, and should not be treated as such by our leaders.”
I am concerned that the sense of urgency about COVID-19 appears to have faded. The disease has not been discussed during the election season, even though it is an ongoing and developing public health threat.
I believe this is a dangerous mindset. The reality is that COVID-19 remains a unique and deadly threat for many people — it is not just another respiratory virus, and should not be treated as such by our leaders.
If you want to point at any other driving cause besides COVID, to be credible it will need to:
“If you want to point at any other driving cause besides COVID, to be credible it will need to:
- Be new in 2020, pause until late 2021 then resume
- Result in historically massive increases
- Be timed perfectly in sync with the waves and lulls of COVID, for the last 4-5 years.” 🧵
Calm-mongering
“Both the Biden administration and its critics, faced with an impending wave of disease with the potential for mass death and disability, chose to spend their time focused on critiquing or defending the tone of the messaging. The comical absurdity of the situation belies the horrific public health failure. It was a mass mortality event without precedent in the history of the United States. Given that the level of concern of the public was likely to impact their degree of adoption of risk mitigation measures, this misplaced focus on urging calm, rather than masking and vaccination, was a deadly mistake. A more honest discussion about the risks could have saved lives. All the back-and-forth about whether fear was or was not being mongered distracted from the task at hand, which should have been (checks notes) protecting the public from Omicron BA.1.”
So a healthcare worker went to an event, and didn’t want to remove their mask for the photo.
“So a healthcare worker went to an event, and didn’t want to remove their mask for the photo.
‘Don’t worry, send us a head shot and we’ll digitally include it.’
They are literally swapping heads to try to get out of reality.”
Paola Egonu salta l'esordio con Vero Volley (e Ballando con le Stelle): l'operazione al naso, l'influenza, l'infezione. Cosa le è successo
Egonu, best volleyball player in Italy, down with "the flu" and then surgery because the viral infection got complicated by bacterial sinusitis.
there is no flu in italy right now. there's a wave of covid.
As someone who was disabled by Covid in 2020, unceremoniously kicked out of society, & then gaslit by everyone I encountered—which continues to this day—my heart really breaks for entertainers.
“Contract clauses often prevent artists from publicly speaking about Covid while on tour. They have been quietly canceling tours & disappearing, while everyone pretends it’s all very puzzling & mysterious. 🧵”
‘World Health Organisation Doomed the World by Concealing Evidence of Airborne COVID Transmission’
“A former senior advisor on SARS has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of covering up its own evidence proving the airborne transmission of COVID-19, since the earliest days of the global pandemic. “
