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@entylawyer Lewis Hamilton

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@JCFights Omg, the noises 😷

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@TedPillows Insert copy of clip of Klaus Schwab saying 'Prepare for an angrier world... cyber wars, civil war, pandemics'

[Maxi - News from Hell...and Europe. @MaxiMumMother]

@sophwilkinson David Walliams?

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@markhendy Iom is the pits when you live there

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@c14english Nobody is buying it. Nobody is going to buy it. It's over

[Dr. Tau Braun @drtaubraun]

From my perspective as a bio-threat expert, based on current information, the Irkutsk story isn’t about plague. It’s about what fear does to a hospital. The story should sound familiar.

Darya Shipilova was twenty-eight years old, a laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia. On September 25, she broke a test tube of live plague bacteria. She felt fine at first. Then the stress took over. She could not sleep. She started imagining symptoms. By September 28 she was exhausted, feverish, and coughing.

On September 29 she went to Shelekhov District Hospital. The doctors heard “plague lab” and panicked. They gave her broad-spectrum antibiotics, heavy sedation, and eventually a ventilator. The propofol and the antibiotics were too much for her system. The ventilator itself did damage. The tube bypassed her natural defenses, and the machine pushed air into lungs that were already inflamed. She died in the early hours of October 2.

The hospital quarantined the ward. Nearly 200 contacts were identified and placed under observation, many hospitalized. The governor flew in the chief sanitary doctor. Several Irkutsk hospitals closed to visitors. The Irkutsk aluminum plant ordered masks for staff. Masks appeared in public and at kindergartens.

The real story might be simpler and sadder. A stressed young woman broke a tube, lost sleep, got sick from the stress, and then got overtreated by a system that was terrified of plague. The overreaction killed her, not the bacteria.

But the story does not stop with her. It repeats. The nearly 200 contacts locked inside will face the same conditions. Weeks indoors with no sunlight will crash their vitamin D levels, and vitamin D is what keeps the immune system calibrated. The isolation itself will become a stressor, and stress suppresses immune function. The broad-spectrum antibiotics given as prophylaxis will wipe out their gut flora, which is where a huge share of immune signaling happens. The sedation, when it comes, will dull their cough reflexes and let secretions pool in their lungs. The ventilator, if it comes, will be the final insult. The tube bypasses natural defenses, and the machine pushes air into lungs that are already inflamed.

The hospital environment will add its own dangers. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive in wards where everyone is on the same drugs. Fungi like Candida and Aspergillus move in when the normal flora is gone. The people who walked in healthy will walk out colonized with organisms their bodies can no longer fight.

Then Rospotrebnadzor tested her samples and found nothing. No plague. No tularemia. No anthrax. Just pneumonia of unknown cause. The biosafety review found no lab accident. The official line was that she died of something unrelated to her work.

The fear feeds itself. The response becomes the disease.

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@MarkDeReborn11 Nothing is beginning, it's treatable with antibiotics

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

Doxycycline treats PLAGUE with a 97% SURVIVAL RATE.

29 of 30 survived in a randomized clinical trial.

This is not the Middle Ages.

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@RealAlexJones IT'S TREATABLE WITH ANTIBIOTICS. EVERYONE CALM DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM THE INTERNET, FUCK THE FEAR PORN

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@Babygravy9 It's treated with antibiotics

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@benonwine It's ai, seriously

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@ItsLulu_7 It's treatable with antibiotics

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@Tedmarsgoi2 Hit him back

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@crit_gen Gratefully not in a tent I would imagine

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@beyoncegarden Gatver

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@seattleiminyou Professional mail, albeit with some grammatical issues - but you have put them in a difficult position

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@amelia_tweetz Instead of writing this tweet you should go and pitch it and get at least one opened - very good business idea

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

The man who bought Sierra Leone. Jos Leijdekkers’s is one of Europe’s most wanted criminals. His greatest caper yet looks to be the takeover of a country. In half a decade Leijdekkers has turned Sierra Leone, a place previously best known for blood diamonds, into a hub for billions of dollars’ worth of Colombian cocaine, disguised as rice or plantain chips, which pass through each year en route to Europe. By funnelling a share of the profits to Sierra Leone’s political elite and funding large parts of the state itself, Leijdekkers has amassed perks that would be the envy of a Bond villain. He is believed to have a Sierra Leonean diplomatic passport. The police and military establishment bow to him, squadrons of container ships and submarines ply the shores at his command, and he is escorted in a motorcade by the presidential guard beneath a cloud of drones
https://t.co/yRPxsUMi0p

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@InfragilisTee Rage bait 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣