Durian LiftOff Jr.

❦ New resting place for @DurianLiftOff. ➲ C-19 archives & resources at ✾ #SARS2 #PASC #NeuroPASC #CardiovascularPASC

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

❦ An archive of scientific studies, articles, resources, and public commentary regarding SARS-CoV-2 – the virus at the heart of COVID-19 – at https://t.co/BucTzMwfAY.

#SARS2 #SARSCoV2 #PASC

#NeuroPASC #CardiovascularPASC #DermaPASC #PneumoPASC #PaediatricPASC

#C19Life

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

The vast majority of people not realising this is simply a way to monitor, and eventually censor, everyone’s online activity is mind boggling

Even if you’re 65, you’ll still have to provide identification/selfie to use X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, discord etc.

Open your eyes

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

As a neurologist, it is now patently clear to me that the vast majority of people on the planet are suffering from neuroinflammation or brain damage (likely both)

The way people speak & behave has changed. Markedly so.

Whether irl, or via messaging/social media. It’s noticeable

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

What am I seeing?

- Reduced empathy
- Increased aggression
- Rising support for authoritarianism
- Declining critical thinking
- Less moral inhibition
- Rising disinhibition & antisocial behavior
- Lack of focus/commitment
- Frequent memory lapses
- Increased impulsivity

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

Ha ha ha.

Yes.

[Justin Lee @DailyJLee]

SARS-CoV-2 "lulls" are what virologists will later come to understand are a viral-ecosystem's "research and development" phases

[Gwladwr @gwladwr]

"...clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

@DavidSteadson @hashjenni Shift work on The Bridge.

[Matthew Gross @HurricaneAddict]

I really don't think enough people fully comprehend the worlds that are about to collide here.

You already have people in geopolitical circles warning about the threat of famine based on surging prices / availability of fertilizer components, and you also have long-term weather modeling all converging on a worst case scenario for a building El Nino event, which will peak near the end of the year. These are two slow moving but entirely predictable disasters that when coupled together will each make the other orders of magnitude worse. (This will take months to fully unfold, but at this point, the die is cast.)

There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.

[tern @1goodtern]

It's worth understanding that when they say "the biggest El Niño ever", they don't mean it the same way as 'biggest hurricane ever' or 'hottest heatwave ever'.

They mean the 'biggest fluctuation when compared with recent seasonal averages'.

Hmm. That's still confusing.

So it's the El Niño with the biggest ever deviation from the recent norm... but bear in mind that the *norm itself is higher than it used to be*.

So the variation is bigger.
But the baseline is bigger.

So no one really knows how big the repercussions of a huge El Niño effect will be on top of the new norm. They can model and estimate, but that's all it is.

But everything is pointing towards the effect being BIG.

I still think I haven't explained it right.

To summarise:
Good luck.

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

@1goodtern Not Chris's first essay...

✾ On critical thinking and behavioural changes:

“But even as new data continued to pour in showing that COVID was even worse than originally thought, I changed my behavior again by doubling my efforts to protect myself...”

➲ https://t.co/fPHSE8s3gf

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

@1goodtern As to the latter? Perhaps a penthouse in New York.

Or a MAGA retirement village in Florida, next to the Gulf of Make Russia Great Again.

Plenty of floorspace in the Divided States of Central-Northern America.

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

'Viral proteins can activate the same pathways after infection that connect neuroinflammation, synapse loss, tau, alpha-synuclein, and broken cellular clean-up.

That’s why parallels with other viruses, including HIV, matter...'

#ZdeněkVrožina

#SARS2 #HIV #Dengue #NeuroPASC

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

Viral proteins can activate the same pathways after infection that connect neuroinflammation, synapse loss, tau, alpha-synuclein, and broken cellular cleanup.
That’s why parallels with other viruses, including HIV, matter.
A new review tries to put this whole story together. 🧵

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

@drseanmullen In no way would a clinician write up a diagnosis of emphysema as "lung fog" in a patient's notes – regardless of whether the patient has described it as such.

"Brain Fog" is not a medical term.

See 'Acquired Brain Injury' (ABI).

#NeuroPASC #SARS2

➲ https://t.co/ZzfxlHBHMc

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

@drseanmullen ✾ Significant ABI can be caused by viral, bacterial & fungal infections.

Brain damage can be focal – or diffuse, involving multiple areas of the brain.

Brain damage can lead to a range of impairments in cognitive, physical, emotional, or independent functioning.

#PASC #SARS2

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

@drseanmullen ✾ Brain damage can be categorised into two main types:

▪︎ Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), caused by an external force;

▪︎ and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), which occurs at the cellular level, and is often associated with conditions like stroke, tumours, or anoxia...

[Arijit Chakravarty @arijitchakrav]

Play Russian roulette for long enough, and leaving the table feet first becomes a guarantee.

Farming this virus at scale in our livestock is a terrible idea.

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

Wake up bae

H5N1 bird flu just rolled out another surprise.

A highly divergent B3.13 virus has been detected in Idaho cattle.

It’s carrying a new receptor-binding domain mutation.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

It has to be under 40dB on max. People say, "Oh, it's fine, I'll turn it down," but that doesn't happen; it gets left off.

But if you try to sell a 40dB purifier, the CADR is lower than the unusable louder model, and no one wants it.

So they get the loud one, and it either gets turned off or set to a lower power that actually offers less CADR for the noise level than the model with the fans purpose-built to run quiet all the time.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

People buy air purifiers like Americans buy pickup trucks. They think they are buying extra capacity a few times a month when they are buying less usability 360 days a year.

People aren't going to fiddle about with the controls to turn down the expensive air purifier you bought, they'll just unplug it. This can be avoided by buying air purifiers that are quiet on max but "moar powah" means no one will, just keep complaining that they get unplugged🙄

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

"... brutalizing silence".

[Durian LiftOff Jr. @DurianLiftOffJr]

The psychological wounding via 'ghosting' - sending to Coventry - by family that was once close is absolutely... unbearable. The phone-silence and active ignoring is now intolerable for me.

Scotty:

- "I canne hold her, sir... she's breakin' up..."

#SettingPhasersToStun

[tj🪻 @SchofMisfortune]

@verygoodchat I feel this. Especially because the way people deny me that protection and care is by ghosting me. I never knew how brutalizing silence could be. I’m so incredibly isolated, and I don’t even have people to talk to over the phone. They all think I’m more trouble than it’s worth