You can’t seriously expect to wear out the immune system, blood vessels and organs and think that this will not bite you on the behind at some point.

I was asked: "who are at higher risk of developing Long Covid?" I just answered "those who don't wear a respirator".

Given asymptomatic transmission, you seem awfully comfortable infecting, and likely eventually killing, people. In particular for a former masker.

If you’re a person who cares about not disabling and harming other human beings, including children, you must know that nearly half of COVID cases are asymptomatic, that Covid spreads before symptoms begin, and that you have a responsibility not to harm others. That is simply humanity.

If I said that people shouldn't drive drunk because driving drunk puts other people at risk, it would be offensively silly to mock that idea by saying in bad faith, "Wouldn't people be safer if everyone just stayed home?" But you do you. Keep advocating for avoidable illness, disability, death.

And yet the situation of repeat *SARS* infections in perpetuity doesn't seem unreasonable to you?

60% of people who catch SARS-CoV-2 get it from someone who is asymptomatic or presymptomatic and 40% of infections are asymptomatic. At this point you are like the people year 5 into the aids epidemic saying condoms are just for gays and sailors, or the surgeons against handwashing

any "rational assessment of the threat environment" is that a single infection could be devastating for anyone, and you could spread it to someone else with the same potential for harm.

..mandates should be established. I am also honestly aghast at the fact hat you have an extremist government taking public health apart (with ongoing high circulation of COVID, ongoing measles outbreaks and the risk of H5N1) and you chose to criticize people concerned about airborne infections.

SARS-CoV-2 is airborne. It spreads and can linger in the air, a bit like cigarette smoke. High quality masks/respirators are critical to prevent infection from this dangerous SARS virus and other airborne pathogens

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Another must read: 🔥 “[Masses] are being harmed, more slowly, in more subtle ways... [Disabled people & people with Long COVID] have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”

The problem is not that most people lack information regarding the extreme danger of Covid-19, because information is available. The problem is that most people do not care, and do not want to know. The problem is that most people are willing to accept mass illness and excess mortality. #COVID19

Covid is not over. It’s still killing & disabling Our “rush back to normal” has devastated millions of lives It’s a novel virus. We don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know isn’t encouraging The good news? You can make a difference Wear a mask. Clean the air. Get vaccinated.

At a minimum, please consider wearing a good mask like an N95 on airplanes and in healthcare settings. Now basically no one is, which is deeply dystopian and troubling. COVID is still out there and causing subclinical damage. It’s just basic facts. Basic science. Basic compassion for others.

ok the thing about "covid consciousness sounds conspiratorial" is that like we went into lockdown about this. like. in real life. people were like "this is dangerous" ALL over the world. and then just decided to stop, based on like, vibes. like you did not have to connect fake dots for this

🚨🎯 by @nychealthy.bsky.social: "The best way to prevent Long COVID is to prevent getting COVID-19 or getting it multiple times. That means staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccines and wearing a well-fitting mask, especially when indoors among crowds. Learn more: nyc.gov/longcovid%22 Link to OP 👇

« Enfants et adolescents sont exposés à un risque nettement plus élevé de développer divers symptômes post-COVID après une réinfection par SARS-CoV-2 ; résultats qui s'ajoutent aux preuves antérieures de liens entre le COVID long chez les enfants et des effets multisystémiques. » → urls.fr/8i-Y7o

Look I can no longer unsee the fact that people who I used to know and trust are willing to risk my life and career for brunch. I am done with the idea that I have any place in society.

When a virus that commonly causes cognitive dysfunction has been infecting and reinfecting the global population for years but is simultaneously being collectively ignored this is precisely the kind of normalisation you get. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#SchrodingersCOVID When is mild Covid not mild? When most of those with #Longcovid had seemingly ‘mild’ infections.

rly wish "AI" folks would stop using "reason" and "learn" (etc.) terminology. if anything, successful outcomes are more "luck" than anything else.

His desire for real data is for real people to die

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Ouch! "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow" @petridishes.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

At best, it’s incorrect & imprecise. At worst, it IS callous & dangerous—a perpetuation of the kind of thinking that keeps Covid itself spreading nonstop.

B.C. Ministry of Agriculture & Food announces $2.5M to help egg & poultry producers fight avian flu - the plan includes things like HEPA filters and UV lights. No baggy blues or hand sanitizer? It's almost like H5N1 is airborne. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

We are monsters.

Conclusion: continue and enhance NPIs indefinitely. Anything else is immoral. Thankfully, we've known for years now how to do this with ~zero impact on daily life. Let's get on it, or admit we are monsters.

It's an inescapable conclusion that the large majority of people want each other disabled or dead.

COVID. It's airborne. It's not over - and while many feel in a better place than during the height of the pandemic, public health protections still matter; that includes effective ventilation, booster vaccines, and testing when needed. Long COVID also continues to impact the lives of many millions.

I hate that I have become a hostage in my own home because vulnerable communities can no longer safely participate in public life. Covid is still killing me, my spirit, my trust in others, my ability to live any semblance of a normal life. That's the slow death that no one wants to talk about.

The million dollar question. The outlook doesn’t seem great given everything the thousands of scientific studies say, that we’re taking basically zero steps to stop it, and that roughly 98% of the population is in denial about it. #COVID

"It's been 5 years now. When are you going to get over your Covid anxiety?" Does the virus magically stop doing harm at the 5 year mark? How about asking our leaders why they haven't done anything to fix this in 5 years?

Universal school masking reduced weekly COVID-19 deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 50 percent of districts removed mask requirements by spring 2022 contributing to 9 percent of COVID deaths that year, from Guzman, Imberman, Filosa, Kilbride, and Malkus https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Study shows universal school masking saved lives. Study from the hysterics at <<checks notes>> the National Bureau for Economic Research. #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver #Nimbus #Measles #Flu h/t @maxwellsmith.bsky.social

We never realized, until Covid came on the scene, just how much grown adults are still functioning at the junior high level when it comes to peer pressure. "I didn't want to look weird"

They decided to vaccinate everybody once a year and in some countries every 6 months if you are elderly or immunocompromised. But they removed all mitigations against a vascular and immune dysregulatory virus which mutates to produce immune evasive virus.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

JAMA Pediatrics published a patient info page about Long COVID in children… “Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10 to 20 per cent of children with a history of COVID-19. … this is higher than the number of children with asthma…” TY @blakemurdoch.bsky.social ! edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Louder for the people in the back: "It has been a public health failure that the public does not realize how much organ damage #COVID infection can cause to things that aren’t your lungs (or throat or nose or taste buds)." The image below is based on data collected from 80,071 kids and teens:

The only thing the governments used when they infected almost every single human with C19… was the hospitalisation and death rate numbers. Let that sink in. For a new virus.

And yes. Dropping biosecurity measures and public health measures is an active decision to spread disease. It’s called neglect.

3/ However, the @who.int was clear - "This does not mean the pandemic itself is over, but the global emergency it caused is – for now": www.who.int/europe/emerg...

1/ While the "global health emergency" might be over, the COVID pandemic is ongoing & now in its 6th year with no end in sight, because politics -

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

That road could use a zebra crossing.

If you tell them that COVID is over and that it is getter milder anyway, this is how they will behave.

My friend is in charge of the team that wrote the climate change adaptation plan for Switzerland and this is one of the things they expected.