Resist the fatalism.
An Omicron infection is NOT inevitable.
It has a weakness: it needs to travel on an air bridge.
We have the technology to break that air bridge, through filtering, cleaning and changing the air.
🧵 on some Omicron avoidance SUCCESS stories!
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In 2020, two months after my C-19 infection, I was admitted to the same hospital where I trained with a heart rate of 135 (sinus tach) and oxygen sat of 89 in bed.
My attending physician was a guy I’d been good friends with since intern year, who knew I was a healthy, endurance athlete.
He looked at the monitor and asked me if I thought my vitals were “real.” He then proceeded to document in the chart something along the lines of: “it may be anxiety but it may be something else.”
Really hoping insight has grown since then, and Simone gets prompt care for what’s causing her tachycardia. Because despite all I’ve seen in my career, and gone through as a patient, that was a snapshot in time that still haunts me.
And I’m still not well 6 years later.
Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.
And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.
The article title from the diabetes scientists said, "We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!"
I guess they were right.
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Good, because my goal is to make the air in every indoor space in the world completely safe to breathe without any risk of infection from any airborne pathogen, no masks necessary.
@JPWeiland My county tests the air in schools for COVID and other respiratory illnesses.
Our wastewater numbers are at a relative low, about 29% of what they were a year ago. But they found COVID in 60% of air samples versus 10.7% last year. The week prior, it's 50.9% this year, 0% last.
Good.
I'm glad WHO has warned that Andes Hantavirus may be spread person to person by airborne particles.
That's what they should have done with Covid in Feb 2020.
Then in March 2020 they should have said "Yes. There's no maybe. Covid is spread by airborne particles".
It's widely accepted that hantavirus transmits from rodent excreta to humans via inhalation of aerosolized virus, so I don't understand why we're so reluctant to acknowledge the inhalation route for human-to-human transmission.
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5 years ago today, Biden and the CDC said vaccinated people don’t need to mask just as we were close to getting C0VlD under control.
After this, the U.S. government stopped trying to contain C0VlD, causing nearly a million deaths and tens of millions to become disabled.
The most successful ruling class in modern history was the American one.
Not because of military power.
Not because of economic size.
Those are real but they are not the achievement.
The achievement is ideological.
They convinced the working class inside the imperial core to identify with capital rather than with each other.
To see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires rather than permanently exploited workers.
To vote for their bosses' interests while believing they were voting for their own.
To support overseas policies that suppressed the same movements they were involved in at home.
To break solidarity along racial and religious and cultural lines so completely that the most naturally powerful political coalition in the country, poor and working people of all backgrounds, has never, in modern American history, achieved its full organized expression.
The Vietnamese fought thirty years against military force.
The American working class has been losing a war it doesn't know it's in.
Against an enemy it's been trained to see as a friend.
With weapons it's been trained to see as "threats."
The battlefield is not a jungle.
It is a mind.
And they have been winning that battle for a very long time.
If a new cardiovascular disease appeared out of nowhere and affected billions and caused the death of millions, understanding the root cause and origin would be at the top of the research agenda in my field. In the world of infectious disease, raising the topic of origin of covid provokes. . . [crickets]