Joanna S

stone, feather, plant, news collector

[tern @1goodtern]

There are lots of lists of symptoms of Long Covid, but I've been working on making a list of the mechanisms by which Covid causes them.
It's not perfect, but here it is:

[tern @1goodtern]

I was absolutely appalled to hear Bonnie Henry say "Personal Protective Equipment, the word we all dread".

You may have had an instant visceral reaction to that yourself, but here are the eleven things wrong with what she said:

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

1. Superb article by Tess-Finch Lees published today.

'Six years into forever-Covid, the evidence is unequivocal. Coronavirus is an airborne, disabling, neuroinvasive vascular disease that can damage children’s immunity, blood vessels and organs,...

Link in next post

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

Harvard researchers put 24 office workers in the same room for 6 days.

They changed one thing about the air. The workers didn't know.

Then they tested their brains.

Cognitive scores doubled.

Here's what the air you're breathing right now is doing to your brain:

[Roger Gustafsson |bsk.social @RogerGustafsso2]

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The long term heart risks of C-19 💔 A massive new study in the European Heart Journal confirms what many feared: SARS-CoV-2 is not just a respiratory virus. It’s a long-term cardiovascular threat. The risk of major heart events remains elevated for years after infection.

[Kevin Mcleod @dockevinmcleod]

Sunlight is very important for our body and brain. It impacts hormones, cognition, even insulin and our cardiovascular health. Data strongly supports that standard time is better for our health.

Moving to permanent daylight savings time is bad policy. Sunrise in the winter in Vancouver is going to be around 9am with this change. Mornings will be darker. That’s bad for health.

Good public policy would be to remain on permanent standard time.

[SharonBC,Canada @SharonBurnabyBC]

Headteacher of Hayling College [UK] introduced HEPA filtration units into classrooms 2 years ago. Goal was to reduce illness, keep children & teachers in school & support learning. According to school’s attendance data, the impact has been striking https://t.co/EEStkEivnw

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

This is a world breaking moment.

If everything feels a bit extra fucked--its because the people of earth are expected to swallow this and move on.

[Joanna S @jsquipu]

“This is a societal problem that needs societal, layered solutions. Not just speed limits, but air bags, driving regulations and functioning breaks too.
We need to plug the holes in the cheese, not create more.”

[Linn Järte @LinnJarte]

This is not the fault of my friends’ rare choices not to mask. This is a societal problem that needs societal, layered solutions. Not just speed limits, but air bags, driving regulations and functioning breaks too.

We need to plug the holes in the cheese, not create more.

5/5

[Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne @PeteUK7]

I don't want to get sick or spread illness.
Who'd have thought this would be a position held by only a few in society who have the courage to stand out from the crowd😷.
The need to fit-in and conform to norms is way too great for most people.
So they get sick & spread illness.

[tern @1goodtern]

Look at that.

That is just incredible.

Seriously.
Just look at it for five minutes.

Let it soak in.

[tern @1goodtern]

The UKHSA have started publishing this goldmine again - but this year it's even more valuable *because they've reset it to a period when testing was consistent*.

This is very important and it shows yet again:
Covid infection makes you vulnerable to other infection.

[Martha-JD, MBA, PCC-😷🇺🇦 @mryoung151]

When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a dramatic fall – up to 100% – in hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among these staff. 👇 https://t.co/GKO2OVrgR6

[The John Snow Project @JohnSnowProject]

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
https://t.co/nMxPSPxswN

[tern @1goodtern]

😮I want to smash something.
I've just stumbled across the official NHS coding guidance for U07.3 - 'Personal history of Covid-19' - and it left me on the floor.

🚨When paired with the data on the number of times it is currently used, it is a huge unknown national scandal.

[tern @1goodtern]

We live in a society that refuses to believe that it needs to change.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

5. The end result of this is that senior figures in government come to believe the recommendations of public health agencies without recognising the extent to which these recommendations *were originally steered by government*. This becomes more cemented as time passes.

[tern @1goodtern]

I'm not sure why I'm bothering posting important threads at the moment because hardly anyone sees them or shares them. Twitter is broken.

But sometimes I see something that blows my mind, and this was that.

[Mark Roseman @markroseman]

An inconvenient truth that our society is not equipped to psychologically accept or even hear.

Ongoing 2% excess deaths less painful than disrupting our fragile worldview.

This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee https://t.co/cDrlQL5JWd

[Bruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett]

Our asshole president is the biggest baby in the history of the earth. The Canadian ad that hurt his feelings was 100% accurate. I know, I worked for Ronald Reagan in the White House. https://t.co/KSbiGrjYI7