😷 sean murphy 🇨🇦🍁

bright side of the road 🇨🇦 #CovidIsNotOver 😷 & Join a Union #GetVaccinated #MaskUp

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 4th COVID Shot Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third, Massive Swedish Study Finds

Sweden just dropped the biggest real-world study yet 1.6 MILLION people tracked through national health registries

The finding? A 4th dose cut Long COVID diagnoses by 31%.🧵

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

You’ve got to hand it to them.

They changed the language.
Changed the guidance.
Changed the metrics.
Changed the dashboards.
Changed what counted.
Changed what we counted.

Spent months arguing droplets while the virus rode the fucking air.

Then eventually

Oh.

Ventilation.
Filtration.
Aerosols.
Indoor air.

Who knew.

They declared emergencies over and people heard:

Disease over.

They retired dashboards.
Relaxed reporting.
Stopped testing.
Stopped counting as carefully.

Then pointed at the numbers we stopped collecting and said:

See?

Better.

They took a systemic problem and privatized it.

Your mask.
Your vaccine.
Your test.
Your risk.
Your kid.
Your elderly parent.
Your immunocompromised neighbor.

Your problem.

A virus transmitted between human beings became a matter of personal responsibility.

Amazing trick.

They watched vaccine confidence erode.

Watched misinformation metastasize.

Watched people go from lining up for vaccines to treating basic immunology like a fucking personality test.

They taught a generation that infection is inevitable.

That repeated infection is normal.

That protecting other people is neurotic.

That staying home sick is unreasonable.

That wanting clean indoor air is somehow more radical than breathing sewage through a HEPA filter would be.

They turned “living with COVID” into pretending COVID had stopped living with us.

Meanwhile:

People still get COVID.

People still get hospitalized.

People still die.

People still develop Long COVID.

Kids develop it.

Healthy adults develop it.

Workers leave the workforce because of it.

NIH keeps spending hundreds of millions studying it.

The Department of Defense studies it because chronic post-COVID illness can affect military readiness.

Read that again.

We can’t talk about COVID at Thanksgiving without somebody rolling their eyes,

but the fucking Pentagon is worried about what it does to readiness.

That is where we are.

COVID became something that “happened.”

A historical period.

An aesthetic.

Zoom school.
Sourdough.
Tiger King.
Masks.
Lockdowns.

Remember COVID?

Yeah.

I remember polio too.

Still wouldn’t lick the fucking iron lung.

We performed perhaps the greatest linguistic disappearing act of the pandemic:

We ended the emergency,

and somehow convinced ourselves

we ended the disease.

The virus didn’t sign the memo.

SARS-CoV-2 did not attend the press conference.

It did not agree to the new terminology.

It did not care that everybody was exhausted.

It did not care that prevention became politically inconvenient.

It did not care that the economy wanted 2019 back.

It just kept infecting people.

And perhaps the most astonishing part is how thoroughly we normalized the contradiction.

We’ll spend billions studying Long COVID

while acting embarrassed to say “COVID.”

We’ll fund biomedical research into post-viral disability

while designing schools, workplaces, hospitals, restaurants and public buildings as though airborne infectious disease is somebody else’s problem.

We’ll tell disabled people:

We believe you.

And then build society around maximizing opportunities to create more of them.

We’ll tell parents they’re free to send sick children into classrooms.

Tell workers they’re free to come to work infected.

Tell everyone else they’re free to breathe the same air.

Freedom everywhere.

Except freedom from preventable exposure.

Six and a half years.

And where is the reckoning?

Where is the investigation into what we learned?

Where is the massive clean-air infrastructure program?

Where are the ventilation standards people can actually see?

Where is paid sick leave worthy of an airborne pandemic?

Where is the cultural norm that says:

If you’re infectious,

don’t fucking infect other people?

Instead we got amnesia.

We got euphemisms.

We got “summer flu.”

“Something going around.”

“Just a cold.”

“Mystery illness.”

Anything except the word that might remind us we made choices.

[Seamus Hughes @SeamusHughes]

I’ve written a lot of things over 20 years for a lot of fancy places, won a lot of fancy writing awards. This is the most important thing I’ve ever written & it got no traction because of where we published. I would sincerely appreciate if you fixed that

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[😷 sean murphy 🇨🇦🍁 @smurfsj]

‘psychological reactance’

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[😷 sean murphy 🇨🇦🍁 @smurfsj]

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[Redkiraz @Redkiraz]

Insurers know what LC means
- Paul Murray, CEO of L&H Reinsurance at Swiss Re, December 2024:
"now we’ve returned to normal life, we think it’s over and it’s not. People are still getting ill with the COVID infection and they’re still dying"
1/18
https://t.co/mwNiyn45ep

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

Looking at this INCOMPLETE list of what having Covid can lead to makes you wonder: why are public health departments not telling us this? If people knew what they were risking, they would not be so complacent about getting Covid (& the risks are higher the more times you get it)

[tern @1goodtern]

Covid infections harm the brain, and leave long lasting effects on cognition, memory, emotional control.

It's just science.

If you don't like it, just ignore reality, that's what everyone else is doing.

#PISA

[tern @1goodtern]

You're going to see a lot written about the PISA scores.

Covid infections harm the brain.
It's been established over and over and over and over again.

These scores will keep falling as long as people keep getting infected with Covid.

[Christine 🌻 Guenter @ChristineGuent8]

Flu A and Flu B are currently at very low levels or not circulating…But, guess what is…

[😷 sean murphy 🇨🇦🍁 @smurfsj]

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[Smart Air @SmartAirFilters]

A box fan, 4 filters, tape. That's a Corsi-Rosenthal box.

It was tested 59 times in a real classroom. About 30 minutes after turning it on, PM2.5 levels were 60% lower on average! 💪

#CleanAir #CleanAirForSchools #CorsiRosenthal #AirPollution

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

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[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

Turns out the ‘deal’ with Canada that Trump (not Carney) announced the other night was no more real than the 14 ‘deals’ he’s announced with Iran, or the dozens of others he trumpets with no underpinnings. He’s shown he’s desperate to proclaim a victory with someone, anyone. /2

[Galwithapurpose @galwithapurpose]

It's not surprising at all that Trump/Greer tried to change the terms at the last minute. Canada said no to a bad deal rather than caving & for that, Thank You PM Mark Carney. The "Snapback" provision, would have allowed Trump to add the 50% at will, & whenever he felt slighted.

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

Public Health (PH) has all of the studies that we have. In addition, they have directly seen the effect of recommending masks - reducing transmission of respiratory pathogens.

And they still recommend it - although the public health emergency of COVID over.

🧵 Of PH links.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Do you realize how much you have to mess up to be required to make a correction like this?

[😷 sean murphy 🇨🇦🍁 @smurfsj]

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[Michael Geist @mgeist]

In 2017, Russia pushed for a cybercrime treaty that raised immediate human rights concerns. Canada joined many others in opposition. Nearly a decade later, it is now the UN Cybercrime Treaty and despite ongoing concerns, Canada quietly signed it last week.
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