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Genuinely horrific tweet.
If this doesn't terrify you then you are lost.
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It will be the first company ever to lose one *trillion* dollars of value.
Trillion.
1,000,000,000,000.
ALT Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books, JPMorgan analysts say
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If you're old and slow like me, then that Trump Gaza video goes too quick to absorb its full insanity.
So I took a few screenshots for you to digest at leisure.
This is something genuinely posted by *the President of The United States Of America*.
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So... America...
You're the current world centre of bird flu evolution with outbreaks in farmed mammals all across the country...
And you've just turned off data reporting.
That is just straight up *evil*.
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Anyone noticed how Musk is getting more and more unstable with each passing day?
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Do you know what narcissists do when they find out that they are spectacularly wrong?
No?
You're about to.
And it's not pretty.
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I met with a group of teenagers yesterday. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices and future work.
Instead of talking to them, I listened, and the actual problem was very different.
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A colleague has been complaining about his 'brutal cold' for a week that he swore wasn't covid.
Someone just made him take a test before attending a meeting with some old folk, and he tested positive right there in the lobby and he's absolutely fuming they made him test.
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Apparently there's a nasty mystery virus going around that is a bit like flu in the early stages, but can cause strokes and heart attacks and kidney failure and trigger diabetes and fatigue and kill you.
And here's the really weird thing about it... I mean seriously weird...
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They asked us to make personal decisions about risk based on the data then lied about the risk and removed the data.
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Another massive holy cow huge piece of news, so this will probably get about ten likes and disappear into the twitterhole:
CDC say this:
"the virus that causes COVID-19,
can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system
of the body weeks, months, and potentially years after infection"
How the fuck is this not news everywhere?
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We've now had more admissions for Covid in the UK in the first nine months of 2022 than we had in the whole of 2021 or 2020, and, again, NOBODY KNOWS.
That is INSANE.
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When you read about the coastguard admiral being *evicted* from her home with 3 hours notice, bear in mind that 'ordinary Americans' followed the order to carry out that eviction.
None of them said "this is crazy" and quit.
Very few will.
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One of the brilliant things about the Ukrainian drone strikes on the Russian airbases by way of drones shipped close to the targets in shipping containers is that the only logical Russian response is to increase security checks on all shipping inside Russia. Which means...
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You're going to find it very hard to convince me that JD Vance did not kill the pope.
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When a parent says that their children were irrevocably damaged by spending two months at home with them, I think that says a lot about the parent, and not much about anything else.
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It is going to be heartbreaking watching Americans slowly realise what they have done to their country.
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I'm old, so I used to work making buildings safe from airborne pathogens like Legionella.
Do you know why you don't keep catching Legionella?
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Former World Trade Organisation head:
"Mr Trump learned to do business in the New York mafia-influenced real estate market and his tactics are based on extortion"
Wow. That's blunt.
😕
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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I posted this this morning, then deleted it, then thought about posting it, then thought not... but here it is:
This morning I arrived at my workplace early to set up for a meeting because I had been told that the person who was going to set up was ill with Covid.
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I think it's worth saying this again:
If you're an American general today and you're being asked to work on invasion plans for any other country -Canada Mexico Panama Greenland- you need to walk to your nearest microphone and start talking right now.
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Wow.
They're not messing around in Australia.
ALT infected someone with covid again? they are now 3.5 times more likely to develop lung problems 3 times more likely to have a heart condition 1.6 times more likely to have brain changes requiring care
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You should probably know in advance that when you develop Long Covid, there won't be a cure waiting for you at your doctor's.
There won't even be much concern.
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If mild Covid infections can damage your brain, you'd expect to see news stories about people acting aggressively, acting foolishly, acting recklessly, more anxiety, more anger, more violence.
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Conversation with a cardiac ward clerk today.
"It's like nothing I've experienced. People we would have expected to recover are dying all the time.
I'm off for two days now and I just don't know who will be alive when I get back."
What's causing it?
"Oh, it's 90% covid."
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It's not "living in fear" to take sensible precautions to avoid a virus that doubles your risk of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease, and dementia, each time you catch it.
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For two years I've been screaming this into an empty void:
H5N1 bird flu does not need to go human to human for it to cause incalculable damage to the way humans live.
300 million birds are dead because of it already, and it's still going.
It's reshaping the natural world.
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I am now more concerned about Covid than I have been at any point since April 2020.
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My first dissertation was on the causes of the second world war.
Yes.
I am qualified to tell you what times we are in now.
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These videos of the queue up Everest and the aftermath of the cornice collapse that killed a couple of people...
There's something about this that sums up so much of what's wrong with the world.
😮
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Incidentally, we know how to reduce transmission of another airborne pathogen, SARS-CoV-2: hepa filters, ffp2/3 n95+ masks, ventilation, far UV, all that kind of stuff, but people aren't doing it because I don't know.
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No f***ing kidding.
🤬
"Stricter Covid mask rules could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives, new study finds"
ALT Stricter Covid mask rules could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives, new study finds
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If bird flu goes human to human in America next week there will be no way to find out until it's too late.
America is in a new dark age that will lead to disease and disaster.
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Yeah.
Right here.
Lovely folk.
My Muslim nextdoor neighbours water my plants when I'm away.
I'm a Christian priest, by the way, and when one of them had to go into hospital for a knee operation they asked if I could pray for them.
We give each other gifts at Eid and Christmas.
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I'm going to write in to the NHS and ask if they can put him in charge of PPE training.
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And then it spilled out, what was actually worrying them.
It was really simple, and it wasn't about studies or jobs.
It was about the natural world falling apart.
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Ten things every person in the world should know about airborne disease transmission *before* bird flu goes human to human:
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There's something I'm not understanding about the <deporting Venezuelans to an El Salvador supermax prison> thing.
Well, several things, in no particular order.
You don't deport someone to a prison, you deport them to their country.
El Salvador is not their country.
And these are not criminals. They've not been convicted of anything. And they're being sent to prison. In a country that isn't America or Venezuela.
And they were sent there without any due process. No trial. No court. No conviction.
For some of them, it was based on their tattoos?
And they're going to be held for a year, then that term extended at will?? Without any convictions??
What the fork is going on?
Where's this going to lead?
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I just passed a builder doing work on a house on our street.
He was wearing an ffp2+ (n95+) mask because of airborne particulates from construction.
I asked him if it worked.
He said yes.
I asked him what training you needed to put one on and he said:
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81 people were beheaded in Saudi Arabia today.
Saudi Arabia owns Newcastle United Football Club.
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I genuinely think that the next generation will not forgive us for what we have done to them and the world they will have to live in.
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I don't often push in conversations, but yesterday I pushed.
Him: "Why don't we see T so much any more?"
Me: "He has Long Covid."
Him: "No, he doesn't, he has a post-viral condition after that infection he had last year."
Me: "You mean after that Covid infection?"
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I read a lot of Covid research.
See my pinned tweet for the angle I view it from.
I don't understand all the research, but here's what I do understand:
Specialists representing every bodily function are completely freaked out by what SARS-CoV-2 is damaging in their area.
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Once more slowly for those at the back:
Covid will be able to mutate past our immunity
Covid will not be able to mutate past hepa filters
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Every day is a good day to remind yourself that King Charles has hepa filters in the reception rooms of his palace, and the economic forums require pcr testing, and the powerful make their chauffeurs wear respirators around them, but you're common, so for you covid is over.
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Talking to a family of five who described their most recent round of Covid infection as 'asymptomatic'.
Me: "Oh, so why did you test?"
The Mum: "Because my mum was coming round and I was feeling ill."
Me: "I thought you said you were asymptomatic?"
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If you hear "Please have compassion and mercy on the vulnerable" and think it's nasty, then you're an asshole.
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People now: "Spanish Flu just went away on its own"
People in Spanish Flu:
ALT A family with masks on and a masked cat
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It is no accident or coincidence that the general public in many countries came to believe the lie that it's fine to catch and spread Covid.
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So it turns out that Covid is becoming like a cold in that you'll be able to catch it five times a year.
But it's keeping the feature where it can infect your brain and heart and liver and kidneys and blood vessels and everything and damage them all every time.
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A friend was told by a doctor that they were being paranoid and threatened them with a referral for psychiatric care because they thought that they had ongoing symptoms after their Covid infection.
They went to a second doctor, and that doctor had them checked out for Lymphoma.
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Lots of insisting:
Insisting he was fine, insisting he didn't need to test, insisting it wasn't covid, insisting tests don't work, insisting that everyone has to live with Covid and that you shouldn't isolate now (🚨 false).
They insisted he leave.
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But something about it didn't ring true.
There was just an underlying current of dread about *the future*.
University and careers weren't themselves scary.
They were scary because they were in *the future*.
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It drives me nuts that people in 2023 can understand that we need to filter and sanitise swimming pools, but can't see that we need to do the same for shared indoor air in virtually airtight modern buildings.
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I know it will get me eventually, but here's to another year without catching Covid.
🥂*
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I had an extremely weird conversation this morning with an aeronautical engineer who is wrestling with designing the next generation of planes and part of his focus is in strengthening the airframes to handle the worsening storms and extremes of weather of the next 30 years.
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Just so people reading this know:
When you have covid, you exhale covid particles into the air. Even with just ordinary breathing.
Those particles can then float on the air for hours.
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Yep.
All of you Evangelicals, you absolute dingdongs, this is the god you're actually worshipping.
A literal golden statue of the antichrist erected in the new kingdom of Trump.
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If you know that covid infects cartilage and persists in it, and you're not terrified, then you don't know what it means.
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Why are some of the people who have gone 'back to normal' so angry with people who are still being cautious?
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Him: "Why are you wearing a mask still?"
Me: "You don't want what I've got."
Him: "What's that?"
Me: "A full and thorough understanding of how Covid is transmitted and what repeat infection does to you."
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The Spanish Flu comparison is an insidious one that I keep coming across.
A woman in her late 50s said it to me yesterday.
"do you know when the Spanish Flu ended?... It didn't!"
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And they see the urgency of the problem, because they may be living with the repercussions for the next 60 years, a world overheating and falling apart.
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So their parents want them to study to be doctors and architects and engineers, but they don't want to just ignore the problem and study, they want to make a difference *now*.
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I think:
a) there's a lot more Covid brain damage around than people realise
b) people don't know what brain damage looks like
c) it's cumulative
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"How on earth could Covid infection cause kids to die of Strep A?
What a ridiculous claim!"
I'm begging you to read and share this reply to that question.
The important point is in tweet 4
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Ahead of a potential bird flu pandemic, I would give one specific warning:
Be *very careful* about whom you trust for information.
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Because old people like me worked on making buildings safe from airborne pathogens like Legionella.
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I have been genuinely gobsmacked this week by the widespread use of HEPA in government buildings and at events like Davos.
I've been campaigning fruitlessly for HEPA in schools for two and a half years.
Meanwhile those two-faced turds protect themselves with it.
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Message from surgeon friend today saying that he's beginning to suspect that repeat Covid infections are causing cumulative damage and that covid is harming immunity.
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If you've been following me for a while you'll know that I bang on and on and on about hepa filters.
Turns out the world's richest and most influential use them.
Also, I suspect, improved ventilation.
What do you spot in this picture?
There are two things that leap out.
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People don't seem to grasp that 3° of global warming doesn't mean everything will be 3° warmer.
It means that the extreme peaks will be 10-15° warmer.
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Thank you, New York Times.
But I think 'alarmists' might be the wrong word then?
ALT "The covid alarmists were closer to the truth than anyone else"
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"It's a fucking mask mate. You put it on your face and shape it so it doesn't have any gaps."
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This is a brilliant segment by the @Todayshow about the direct connection between catching Covid and the raised risk of a heart attack.
I had to keep pinching myself to check it was real and I wasn't dreaming.
Thank you @NBCNews @ErinNBCNews @DrJohnTorres
Please share widely!
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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.
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OK.
So a huge problem here is that most people are looking at acute covid from an individual viewpoint and seeing low risk, when they should be looking at long covid from a societal viewpoint and seeing that we're in massive trouble.
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The good news is that there's no evidence that the effects of Covid last longer than 40 months.
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Pilot friend has just admitted to himself, his family, and his employer that he has long covid and is no longer safe to fly.
😔
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I'm going to say it again.
People in the UK are catching Covid, not being tested for it, and dying within days.
How do I know?
Because I'm taking their funerals.
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The two biggest acts of economic self harm in modern history have been Brexit and Trump.
And both have been brought about by Russian misinformation campaigns.
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This wasn't a group of random kids from across the school, they were some of the higher achieving kids with good academic prospects.
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Reading this morning that the World Health Organisation quietly CLEANED THE AIR in their head office in 2020 while telling everyone that covid wasn't airborne.
I was stunned for 30 seconds.
Now I'm furious.
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I think:
a) there's a lot more Covid brain damage around than most people realise
b) most people don't know what brain damage looks like
c) it's cumulative
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One of the strangest amateur diagnoses I have heard of was when a friend's teenage son came home from school and uncharacteristically swore at his mum.
She put one hand on his forehead, shoved him in the car and took him straight to hospital.
Meningitis.
Don't mess with viruses that infect the brain.
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It's strange how masks work when it's billionaires' chauffeurs, and rock stars' personal assistants, and the doctors treating olympic athletes, and hollywood movie sets, but they don't work for a cancer ward.
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Four deaths from Storm Eunice is a tragedy, and is rightly being reported on news headlines.
254 deaths from Covid today and every day barely even mentioned.
There's something wrong there.
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Today's hard conversation.
Man in 50s.
In the last six months he has had:
Myocarditis
Vertigo
Intense tinnitus
Intense waves of fatigue
Narcolepsy
He asked me:
"Why is this happening to me?"
Very gently, I tried to tell him.
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