Singer songwriter poet LSE law graduate of Polish heritage - writes about Monet, Christmas... and Internet Dating. Re-invented Gardener who is avoiding Covid.
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I've had a really sad day with a local family today.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think there was this much sudden tragic illness ten years ago.
Today's horror show:
Aneurysm.
Wow . The speaker just said that “small vessel disease has increased exponentially” in her patients due to COVID. How we know it attacks small vessels.
Bravo . Feel like I’ve been waiting to hear someone say this in a mental health conference for a long time.
Covid infections harm your body's defences, making you more vulnerable to secondary infections.
To pneumonia.
Or sepsis.
Or meningitis.
Or Lyme.
Or norovirus.
Or flu.
Or E Coli.
Or kleb.
Or Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Or whooping cough.
Or TB.
Or Legionella.
Or <a huge long list that you can see in the news headlines every day>
Covid infection doesn't make everyone super vulnerable every time, but it does make some super vulnerable.
And covid infection also harms your body so that the effects of other infections are worse.
Anybody else wondering what Covid safety precautions Shania Twain was taking when gigging at The Shacklewell Arms pub in London ? I hope she was careful. #shaniatwain
@Ninawildflower I bet it wasn't by Shania Twain ! 😆Anybody else wondering what Covid safety precautions Shania Twain was taking when gigging at The Shacklewell Arms pub in London ? I hope she was careful. #shaniatwain
@singingsox Anybody else wondering what Covid safety precautions Shania Twain was taking when gigging at The Shacklewell Arms pub in London ? I hope she was careful. #shaniatwain
Was due to sing at a Garden Event today, but the airy gazebo where I was expecting to sing had been replaced at short notice by a marquee... with all the crowds sheltering from the rain, it became far too crowded for me to feel comfortable about singing in there. #COVIDー19
There are plenty of world-class L0ngC0vid experts far smarter than I am.
But I bring something they don’t: I’m a CV surgeon and endovascular specialist. I’ve had hearts, lungs, arteries, and other organs literally in my hands. I’ve seen their insides, healthy and ravaged, with my own eyes.
That gives me one brutal, irreplaceable edge: I can take the science and translate it straight into the living, bleeding reality of human anatomy.
And what I see coming is ugly.
You, personally and as a society, are in for one hell of a shock.
Read this 🧵👇
If you keep minimising SARSCoV2, refuse to protect yourselves, and keep swallowing the lies of pseudo-experts chasing money or psychiatrists salivating over a fresh FND goldmine… you’re walking straight into disaster.
Tell every last one of them to https://t.co/rw58iRjUf4 off!
Then follow the hard, unfolding science.👇
Your organs don’t care about opinions. They only care about damage. And the damage is already stacking up, be it momentarily maybe still clinically "silent"! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections
The tweet below includes the most succinct description of Covid-19 I have seen…
It’s a vascular disease that depletes your immune response and causes neurological damage.
(Which means it’s not ‘just a cold’, btw.)
Large study (av age 45) shows people with #LongCovid are 4.48x more likely to have a Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event (stroke, pulmonary embolism, heart failure) & 53% more likely to die.
True regardless of age, BMI, vaccination, variant. Risks last 3+ years from infection. 1/