Alicia McDaniel

lab safety, nasty chemical waste , teaching teachers, still learning and mom, must have coffee...not in that order

[tern @1goodtern]

I've seen a few people recently celebrating that "mortality rates are back to 2019 levels so covid is over".

And it's a genuine sign that they're not very bright...

[Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband]

@dysclinic Almost spit out my coffee at a religious studies professor doubting the existence of something because there is insufficient proof. Still enjoying a chuckle.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

The hardest thing about COVID isn’t the science.

It’s the invoice.

Accepting the evidence means paying for years of miscalculations, bad assumptions, social conformity, and public certainty.

Most people would rather dispute the bill than pay it.

[tern @1goodtern]

I've had this idea in my head for a while, and I haven't been able to properly polish it, so you're going to get the unfinished version, but it might get the right person thinking...
It's about the definition of Long Covid...

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

If you talk to someone who doesn't understand that people are still dying of COVlD, here I explain excess deaths in a way a 5 year old can understand. The key is understanding mortality displacement.

[tern @1goodtern]

https://t.co/dUdXvbrUnE

[tern @1goodtern]

Articles seem to be completely pointless on here, but I'm trying it again.

No one sees them, no one reads them.

What's the point?

[tern @1goodtern]

It's amazing that lockdowns caused all the same symptoms as the infectious disease they were put in place to prevent.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

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

It is psychologically easier for society to believe children suddenly damaged themselves with iPads than to confront the possibility that adults collectively failed to protect developing brains during an ongoing airborne pandemic

This is all about shifting blame & responsibility

[tern @1goodtern]

If covid infections make you *more vulnerable* to almost every other pathogenic infection by multiple mechanisms, then you'd expect increases in almost every other pathogenic infection.

And that's what we see.

Ten completely unsurprising news stories:

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

These gerrymandered maps only work if we don’t show up.

That is what they are counting on.

These maps will break under the pressure of turnout.

[tern @1goodtern]

Yet again, it's worth noting the difference between your body's initial immune response to a pathogen - 'a flu like illness'- and then the later effects like, in the case of hantavirus, the blood vessels in your lungs leaking in such a way that you basically drown from within.

[tern @1goodtern]

Well, at least one good thing has come out of today which is that the government here have had people all over the news programs to warn that covid is airborne.

Probably worth knowing that, in a week when lab confirmed covid cases jumped 50%.

[tern @1goodtern]

The difference is:

People who are concerned about the danger of Hantavirus want to be wrong, and take action to ensure they are.

People who are not concerned about the danger of Hantavirus want to be right, and take action that ensures they're wrong.

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

The pandemic exposed that for many self-described progressives, “care for others” was conditional all along

Conditional on convenience

Conditional on comfort

Conditional on it not requiring sustained behavioural change

The left has shown how devastatingly weak-willed they are

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

4/ TESTING

The WHO confirmed that the hantavirus tests can only detect the viral RNA in a SYMPTOMATIC patient, from the first day of symptoms.

To clarify: this means someone infected will test NEGATIVE for the entire duration of the incubation period until onset of symptoms.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

HANTAVIRUS OUTBREAK 🧵

Following the WHO press briefing, I wanted to compile a thread with the key points.

1/ ISOLATION OF PASSENGERS

Concerningly, it seems the WHO are NOT recommending to isolate cruise ship passengers (even high-risk contacts) UNLESS they develop symptoms.

[tern @1goodtern]

Don't ever forget that your government upgraded the air filtration in its main government buildings during an airborne pandemic, but not the hospital you attend or your mum's care home or your kids' daycare or prisons or shelters.

[tern @1goodtern]

It's worth remembering that the World Health Organisation headquarters, the United Nations buildings, your government's buildings, and billionaires' palaces have all got state of the art air hygiene systems to clean the air.

Your kids' schools? Your nan's nursing home? Your brother-in-law's prison? Nothing. Just dirty air.