🥄Bec 💉💉💉💉💉💉

I have had severe RA in every joint since the age of 4, also MS ,Addison’s disease and Felty’s Syndrome. Plus a teenage daughter with Autism and a husband.🥰

[🥄Bec 💉💉💉💉💉💉 @Becciend]

I have been having a private battle with a hospital to provide a safe environment within the oncology treatment space for me to receive my IV treatments. Around December they removed majority of the air filters and went back to baggy blue masks. #CovidIsNotOver #DavosSafe

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Good News!

Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.

[Mel @oskaandme]

Elective surgeries cancelled as Queensland hospitals are overwhelmed with flu & COVID cases.

Nobody could have predicted this.
#VaccinesWork #CovidIsNotOver
https://t.co/D471EBF8vS

[Justin Lee @DailyJLee]

Covid is so bad most people are too scared to read about it, they’d rather tell each other, immunity debt, isolation, and masks are the threat, these they can “overcome”

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

A major new review from Yale (Moen, Baker, Iwasaki, 2025) offers the most comprehensive picture yet of what SARS-CoV-2 does to the nervous system.
The conclusion is stark:
Long COVID is a chronic neuroimmune disorder affecting brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.🧵

[Andrew Hewat @AndrewHewat]

In preparation for the next Covid wave & coming flu season, premier cancer hospital Peter Mac has dumped masks in chemo day unit (now optional) & downgraded from N95 to surgical masks on haematology ward.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Had my first healthcare worker refuse to mask

My chart says I’m immune compromised & require staff to mask. The facility had a policy that if asked, staff will wear

I was told “no I need to breathe to do my job”.

I stood firm & said I’m high risk and masks are required 🧵

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇦🇺AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 13 December 2024

#COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE

[Sue J @SMpwrgr]

Despite the Actuaries Institute changing their baseline to include cvd deaths,

2024 Excess Mortality data is higher than predicted

Especially the shocking 70% higher than expected cvd deaths 😮

Link to report in next post

[tern @1goodtern]

Well, Covid Watchers, today is an odd milestone.

Throughout the pandemic Covid prevalence has been intimately linked with the dominance of sequences with and without two amino acids (H69/V70).

Today, the most recent period of domination here (by sequences *without H69/V70*) becomes the longest since the since the switch started.

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

COVID had & continues to have a big impact on this country, turning around decades of progress. Note that almost all Australia's pandemic excess deaths were in 2022-23. 30,000 people died more than expected in that time.

A spike in COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running https://t.co/wSPZFHGIRi via @ABCaustralia

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Working on my new Disclaimer (Or: A Little Something for the Sealions):

So, let me get this straight. Despite spending nearly five years of my very limited spare time as a full-time working parent translating over 500 peer-reviewed studies—many directly linked to cognitive functioning and SARS-CoV-2—into plain English so that you might have a fighting chance of understanding why the world is going down the drain, I’m the one who's cherry-picking data?

Despite having accurately predicted everything from spikes in excess mortality and vehicular accidents to the nosedive in student performance (shout out to LSAT, SAT & ACT scores!), while suggesting health behavior interventions that could actually make a difference (like, you know, cleaning the air), you’re still skeptical? Even after the data has shown that Covid can and does cause brain damage, backed by imaging studies, cognitive tests, and randomized controlled trials showing that reducing virus transmission improves academic performance, you think I’m just making this up?

Let me clarify a couple of things for the chronically obtuse:

Yes, I am not a medical doctor. But guess what? I do have a PhD in Education with specializations in cognitive health across the lifespan, behavior adherence, and interventions that actually enhance cognitive functioning. And by the way, I’m still a Novid. Imagine that—someone who practices what they preach and remains uninfected.

Brain Fog is Real: Although not a medical term, the phrase certainly makes headlines yet few grasp the reality of what this experience reflects. It’s the result of neurological damage caused by a virus that you’re letting waltz into your brain because, hey, "freedom," right? If you can’t smell, hear, or see properly post-Covid, congratulations—you’re experiencing just a taste of the cognitive joyride you signed up for.

Sealioning: For those who engage in this delightful pastime, let me break it down for you. It’s when someone like you pretends to be oh-so-curious, asking “innocent” questions to refute well-established evidence, all while ignoring the fact that I’ve been doing this shit for nearly five years. It’s not skepticism; it’s bad-faith arguing designed to exhaust and distract from the mountains of data that you refuse to acknowledge.

So, if you’re here to argue that I’m cherry-picking, or that hundreds of published studies converging on the same conclusion, maybe you forgot that I’ve been here all along and you just tuned me out like the syncytia in your brain that severed your neural networks. Also, the science I post is not somehow all part of a grand conspiracy. The data speaks for itself, even if you’re too stubborn (or too far gone) to hear it.

[Emmanuel @ejustin46]

COVID-19 REINFECTION RATES

The information here is derived from multiple studies conducted on the topic. A rate of 64% indicates that out of every 100,000 individuals, 64,000 experienced a reinfection within the past 12 months ! 😨

Thanks @DavidJoffe64 for the idea 💡

[tern @1goodtern]

So...
Can anyone think why suddenly there would be a dramatic 80% increase in cases of TB in England just after everyone started getting repeatedly infected by a virus that can damage your immune system?

[Jess @MeetJess]

How SARS-CoV-2 defeats the innate immune response

“SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing viruses” https://t.co/xCnQUQhUZM

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, MPH, PhD @fitterhappierAJ]

I was severely attacked for saying kids would get Long Covid and be harmed cognitively from infections and that it would be an equal risk with reinfections

10-20% of kids get Long Covid

https://t.co/RSnygdEXTz

[Sue J @SMpwrgr]

One day this human right will be so accepted and taken for granted, people will forget how hard we had to fight for it

#CleanIndoorAir

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

We are wrong to be so comfortable with children getting infected and re-infected. 1/

[David Joffe MB BS (Hons), PhD, FRACP 🇦🇺 @DavidJoffe64]

I still wonder how those that advocated for re-opening schools without upgraded clean air and any mitigation...

How do they sleep at night?

[Dr David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACGP-RG DTM+H @YouAreLobbyLud]

It's amazing, isn't it, that we expect the air on aircraft to be HEPA-filtered, but tolerate filthy, unfiltered air in kindergartens and schools.