I knew it! I remember watching the news and thinking this was going to create chaos. We've been paying attention while everyone else decided eating in restaurants was more important than staying alive. The opportunists took advantage of the pandemic, and it's been downhill ever since.

Many, very smart people have talked about the connection between the Spanish flu and the holocaust…it’s actually chilling how we truly are repeating everything word by word. Every day is terrifying in this country.

I see we are at the “build giant prisons” and “prepare to execute lots of prisoners” stage of the “let’s repeat history” game. Won’t be long before we are constructing more cost effective methods to execute prisoners en masse.

Yes, surprised at this too. Then further down they say the best thing you can do is wash your hands…

Just to add 3) to those very important points: waiting rooms (at least in doctor's offices) also tend to have really high CO2-levels at least in the data recorded so far in the indoorco2map project - which is heavily skewed towards german and austrian locations.

Thank you. It's absolutely infuriating the way public health is being abandoned. "Please, sir, could we clean the air?" "LOL NO" I think about Dr Semmelweis a lot. Like, a LOT a lot.

ER is the only place I've been in where I am told to remove my respirator "if I am not sick"... hum, that is the point of my wearing a respirator in the ER 🤔

Is "infection control" basically just astrology?

Waiting rooms aren’t riskier than any other crowded environment…? I can’t stop laughing. Of course they are. You have two groups of people in the waiting room. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

"Study shows impaired energy metabolism in the brains of people with post-COVID" Brain fog, poor concentration and slowed thinking in Long COVID patients are linked to altered brain energy metabolism, with MRI studies showing changes that correlate with worse cognitive test performance.

Just reading about the fall of an empire due to plague… In case you were under any illusions as to how disease and irresponsible leadership can destroy a nation or empire.

"Olympians who got COVID in 2022 are using masks, sanitizer and vitamins for the Milan Games" “We have certain B vitamins, vitamin C, that kind of stuff, that’s cleared with the (U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee), that we take. Anything that will keep me from getting sick" - Amber Glenn

Information that you may find useful. The Maghreb prayer which occurs after sunset has a very short period of time before it is considered “late”. Depending on where you are in the world, that time may vary. For this reason it is usually completed as soon as possible.

Register : bit.ly/cafebjv #covidactionuk #covidaware #covidconscious Joe Vipond is a global expert on Covid and a leading voice in Canadian medical and scientific circles

Had a ‘Fast & Furious’ moment with Kid during the driving lesson. He confused the brake and pressed hard on the accelerator while reversing on a curve in an open area. “BRAKE! BRAKE! BRAKE! BRAKE!” He did eventually find the brake

I was passing through border security a long time ago, and had to dispose of home cooked baby food. The comment from the person chucking it out… “Why are you cooking pasta for your kid? You aren’t Italian?” “It’s very difficult to get the timing of the Yorkshire pudding right for a flight?”

Some kids transferred from one school to another. Word got back. “Someone wears a a good mask full-time here too!” #OneOfTheTwo 😷

Finally out of the hospital and got a new feeding tube (PEG tube). Success

4D musical chairs! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“When one xyz person is hurt, all xyz people feel it.” On radio. Erm… actually, in a healthy multicultural society the abc and the efg, and the pqr people feel it too… because we aren’t psychopaths.

In Dhaka, co-infected patients had a 4.1-fold higher risk of severe or very severe disease than those with COVID-19 alone (adjusted OR 4.12, 95% CI 3.05–5.54), often presenting acute cardiac injury (32%), acute kidney injury (49%), and cognitive impairment (22%) (15).

Is the “Kindy cold” normal… Topic of abc radio Sydney today. 😱 All those parents that were told that years of suffering illness in preschool would “make them ready for school”, “build their immunity” and other 🐂 💩.

Not me trying to vent to my mom and she’s like “you realize you work in an EMERGENCY room right” no shit?? I’ve worked in the most dark/disturbing parts of healthcare for 8 years, I see multiple deaths/traumas/violent situations a week I’m allowed to be bothered by some cases!! I’m a person, lol

In some countries, being infected with measles or chickenpox and mpox at the same time occurs fairly frequently. If we let diseases rip in rich countries, this will happen even more, and those countries are investing whatever they have to try and stop it… Because it’s killing children.

Koussevitsky here we come! youtu.be/e3_s_4J-EXg?...

The best and only plan with SARS-CoV-2 is to wear respirators and avoid infections.

🙋🏻‍♀️ Excuse me please, there is a bin on fire.

Well. We took the big step. We bought a double bass. It’s been about a year with the hire instrument… and little musician has been admitted to an orchestra… so… it was time. Not an expensive one (relatively) but sounds good.

Which is why relying on omicrons (plural) infection mediated immunity to prevent outbreaks of serious older strains is probably not the best plan.

Western Australia’s Chief Health Officer, Dr Andy Robertson, warned that falling vaccination rates could lead to preventable deaths among children and adults, blaming misinformation spread by the anti-vaccination lobby. Source: archive.md/0z673

"airborne respiratory microflora (ARM)" Love it! Read on 👇🧵

Bodily fluids will contain many microbes that are nonharmful or even beneficial. In this study, they collected exhaled aerosol and measured something they call the airborne respiratory microflora (ARM). This is essentially the mixture of non-pathogenic microbes in exhaled aerosol.

The risk of the airborne transmission of disease correlates with the amount of infectious exhaled aerosol. Since people exhale CO2 with aerosol, its conc has been used as proxy for exhaled aerosol In this article, researchers propose a new way to estimate risk of transmission

Oh the replies to this one… long essays on why X should continue to be validated as a legitimate place to share information. It’s a tool of an authoritarian regime that manipulates information reach. People are starting to realise.

I'm a tiny voice in #VirusFreeAir advocacy, but I'm perplexed and bemused that not even my own followers will get on board with advancing this messaging. I mean, we know that these choices turn, first and foremost, on the money equation, but it just doesn't resonate... 🥴

Has anyone else downloaded the shark app? Mine is going off every hour tonight… There are a lot of tagged sharks near the coast… and I have no idea if it’s always like this…

At Wuxi Huishan District People’s Hospital, 23 adults with ear effusion after Omicron infection were tested. SARS-CoV-2 was found in the middle ear fluid of 12% of cases nearly a month after infection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I can’t emphasis this enough. Spending on health is an *investment*.

Based on the evidence we're seeing more & more frequently these days, the ruling class doesn't care about the future, or is actively betting on a future where the "underclass" is increasingly maligned and weakened through famine, disease, and war.

Tell me something I don’t know… like how to find this elusive unicorn. 😴

Why do we keep pretending that ‘cost-saving’ is at the top of what matters to us in public health? This is an economic priority, not necessarily a health one. We get too sucked into trying to be ‘pragmatic’ & lose sight of the notion that such an ideological stance is a choice not an inevitability.

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Olympians are masking up with N95s because they know a covid infection can derail their chances of competing. They know it could derail their careers. They know it could disable them. They’re practicing self care and community care. Give them a gold medal in public health!

Western Australia is worst-performing state for emergency department wait times. In 2024–25, just 29% of patients needing urgent care were seen within the clinically recommended 30 minutes, according to the Report on Government Services. Source: archive.md/kF3DY

I was just in Bunnings in a black KN95 zimi. Obviously not me though as I don’t match the rest of the description…

"The patient reported no travel history but had a history of consuming raw date palm sap. All 35 contact-persons are being monitored and have tested negative for NiV and no further cases ” Risk increases when seasonal higher-risk human activities increase. www.who.int/emergencies/...

I, for one, question whether this guy's tech should be integrated into every government system. fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

So. If you are too frightened to leave your house, just in case you get abducted based on your appearance… how do you vote? Is that a free and fair election? If you can’t get to your local letterbox?

Just saw a gentleman in a KN95 black bifold mask in Bunnings. Looking sharp and smart. 😷 #Respie