PACO

I used to stream full time but now I'm full time sick.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes and I'm going to use this tweet as a springboard.

[Dok @Dok845]

I see a ton about long covid from legitimate, scientific sources that if it was even remotely true would have apocalyptic implications, everyone’s heart, lungs, and brain failing at once, and I can’t square it with the world I actually observe every day.

[Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin]

If the quality of the bots here are any indication, no way AI is going to help cure any diseases

[Danielle Beckman, PhD @DaniBeckman]

6 months in Germany! 🇩🇪🔬❤️
Months of hard work & new challenges! And next week, I'll be presenting our first results at a conference!
What if SARS-CoV-2 leaves more behind than we think?
Millions of people are still living with #LongCOVID, and we keep fighting to understand why.

[AB decemberfairytale.com @silentanb]

So YLE put this graph on the newsletter today.

Notice the "sick season cutoff" at 2.9?

For context (and why 2.9 gives a misleading impression):
-The peak ILI in 2018-2019 was 5.1% and that was the 3rd highest in the 2010s
-The "baseline" (aka sick season cut off) was only 2.2%

[tern @1goodtern]

These are just wild.

Things are so far from back to normal.

Teenage kids are off school over 40% more than they used to be pre-pandemic.

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[One Bad News Full of Big Betties (PUT IT 😷N.) @profesh_fucker]

Praying for some miracles. More debts are coming due on the 13th (Friday the 13th at that!) And I am still firmly in the red. Won't get paid till after this job is done. My SNAP is only 74 and done for the month. Im screaming into the void hoping someone hears. Times are tight.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

We have been ignoring the four humors for too long and it's costing us our health.

[gabby ★ misses 5sos @NO1CAROUSEL]

this might be controversial pls don’t come for me but just bc a bunch of ppl get sick after a concert doesn’t necessarily mean someone went there sick ur body could just run down esp if u traveled for the show and ur not getting enough sleep. anyway thats just my two cents

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

Algorithms are subtly and not so subtly suppressing covid posts. Some of my videos are also being flagged as adult content.

[Olive Siffleur @OliveSiffleur]

Twitter is labeling people wearing PPE as age-restricted adult content.

[David Fisman @DFisman]

New paper out in Lancet Regional Health Americas, with Alicia Grima, Natalie Wilson, Simran Mann, Ashleigh Tuite and Clara Lee. How many Ontario deaths are attributable to respiratory viruses, and how does SARS-CoV-2 compare to flu? 🧵 https://t.co/OhCopBiz9o

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

This "study" is dangerous and misleading. Here's why:

They compared people who tested positive for COVID early in the pandemic (2020–21) with people who tested negative, then followed both groups for two years.

The problem: the people who tested negative didn't stay uninfected. Follow-up ran through Delta and Omicron. The authors themselves report 20% of controls had a positive PCR within two years, and that only counts recorded tests. By Feb 2022, CDC blood surveys estimated ~58% of Americans had been infected.

So by year two, they're comparing people infected early with people infected later. Of course the difference shrinks toward zero. That's control group catching up, not long COVID resolving.

The obvious check is to compare against similar people in the years before the pandemic. They had the data: everyone in the study needed claims from 2019, and they used four years of prior medical history. They didn't run it.

Not sure if this guy is just really stupid, or actively evil.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

Almost okay is a terrible place to be stuck.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

@SalvMattera The Celtics understood quickly and moved on.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

@abbymachines It's like a fever dream version of mid 2010 youtube comments. I love it.

[🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @DcrInYYC]

So this probably won't reach any of the people that need to hear this, but the covid vaccine conspiracy theorists have been wrong about everything. They don't care if you live or die or develop lasting illness. There is a family down the block from me that lost their father

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

@snackowska I was on the receiving end! And yeah some people are committed to not learning but they still force me to try to improve, and others can benefit from that.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

This is something I think about whenever I'm presenting information. I've also taken on the mindset that if someone doesn't understand something I said, then it's my fault, even if it's not.

I find it helpful because it reminds me there are always better ways to communicate.

[ndn sailor pluto 🦋🪬 @mumjeanzz]

If people are collectively able to read and process at a sixth grade level, we need materials explaining things at that level in masse, without condescension, and with access to references cited.

[covid is oncogenic @chaitrovert]

"you're never gonna convince people to take covid precautions if you're judgy & angry on xitter"

meh. people only care about your tone if they already don't want to believe what you're saying.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

@soil_owner @iseeuliars @powcampsurvivor Severe infections have a higher likelihood of turning into long COVID but most people who have long COVID didn't have a severe infection.
https://t.co/ml9rBJzShN

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

i would like to live in a society where it would be unthinkable - utterly inconceivable - for people to go to work/ school while sick

[Bloom Lab @jbloom_lab]

In new study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 has evolved decreased inherent antigenicity in humans, as quantified by a ~3-fold decrease in the number of naïve human B cells that can bind the spike RBD.

https://t.co/OabX5bSYwp

[lay: pinned? what pinned? @laymagdalene]

i am asking if u follow me or even see this to r3post at the bare min, copy from "lay..." to qt to b3wst, and if u can s3nd anything then do so. if u cant do any of these things then unfollow me.