This is not a new thought, but it is really fucked that the place I’m most scared of getting sick is in the hospital because nobody wears a goddamned mask

Well, at least they could make bullet-proof ones for the USA.

/s

A dark background with white text reading: “I saw your disabled stats. Three recent college grads within a block of my home are sidelined with POTS, including my daughter. I wonder if they’re counted in those stats. One is trying to work, another can’t get out of bed with PEM, and mine is trying to finish grad school from the sofa. Don’t know what she’ll do after that. We are just trying to buy time, waiting for answers. I think this is so much worse than anyone knows.”

From a former newspaper journalist.

Wake up you No Kings folks. You’re omitting a huge item in the buffet of grievances against government. It’s leading to many of your grievances including accelerating everyone’s short-fuses, poor short-term memory & incapacity to understand what’s going on!

Marc Johnson & @SolidEvidence X.com I was always afraid this would happen. There are 2 cryptic in the same Cleveland sewershed. An Alpha and a BA.1. 9:12 am • 8/2/2026 • 4.2K Views

Which is why relying on omicrons (plural) infection mediated immunity to prevent outbreaks of serious older strains is probably not the best plan.

The WHO shuts off the embarassing spectacle of excess deaths in June 2024.

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”

Donald John Trump (15 June 2020).

✾ For the full picture, see ‘A WHO’s Who of VOCs, VOIs and VUMs: Alphabet Stew and Numeric Ragout for Dummies’...

💧 www.c19.life/who-voc-voi-...

#TrumpAsTheBedrockOfGlobalPublicHealth

Good luck☘.

The WHO shuts off the embarassing spectacle of excess deaths in June 2024.

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”

Donald John Trump (15 June 2020).

✾ For the full picture, see ‘A WHO’s Who of VOCs, VOIs and VUMs: Alphabet Stew and Numeric Ragout for Dummies’...

💧 www.c19.life/who-voc-voi-...

#TrumpAsTheBedrockOfGlobalPublicHealth

Good luck☘.

Keep them swept under the carpet with the rest of the numbers.

Remember:

“If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”

(15 May 2020)

And:

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”

Donald John Trump (15 June 2020)

Now the bedrock of Public Health.

Weird.

I read that as "shared hands in bowels..."

(My predictive reading went after my third infection.)

I have Semmelweis on the brain.

#SemmelweisRoolzOK

A WHO’s Who of VOCs, VOIs and VUMs: Alphabet Stew and Numeric Ragout for Dummies SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 archives: Scientific publications, media articles, resources, and comment.

It was a G20++ / Trillion Dollar Club decision.

They looked at the numbers, as the Blood Orange would say... and they "made a deal with the virus".

💧 www.c19.life/who-voc-voi-...

#SARSCoV2 #SARS2 #WHO? #NumbersGame

Mine need doing. I'm trying to ignore their mid-greyness... difficult when they're looking at me centre-stage in my living-room...

The AirFanta 3Pro is a beast: outstanding.

Mostly keep it on low and forget it's there, until visitors come, when it puts in ++ work (during... and after).

Beauty. 🤍

"There's nothing like the smell of a fresh filter in the morning... smells like... fresh air..."

🤣🥰

Totally ace piece, by Orla Hegerty, on transmission - and solutions.

It all could have been so easy-peasy...

#SARS2things

❦ “Knock-knock... It’s mild!”

A treatise on the history of Mildness.

💧 www.c19.life/knock-knock-...

Pale green background. Greens Against Covid next to their logo - the Green Party of England and Wales green sunflower, with a white coronavirus crossed out inside. A darker green banner shows a question: "Isn't the pandemic over?" Pale green background. Greens Against Covid next to their logo - the Green Party of England and Wales green sunflower, with a white coronavirus crossed out inside. A darker green banner shows quotes "The Covid pandemic is not over. The Sars virus that causes Covid continues to circulate widely, mutating and causing surges of infections. It continues to kill the vulnerable. Even mild initial infections can result in long term harm. Anyone can get Long Covid, a life-changing disease." In small letters at the bottom: Promoted by Covid and Long Covid Campaign Working Group (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.

Pale green background. Greens Against Covid next to their logo - the Green Party of England and Wales green sunflower, with a white coronavirus crossed out inside. A darker green banner shows quotes "The Covid pandemic is not over. The Sars virus that causes Covid continues to circulate widely, mutating and causing surges of infections. It continues to kill the vulnerable. Even mild initial infections can result in long term harm. Anyone can get Long Covid, a life-changing disease." In small letters at the bottom: Promoted by Covid and Long Covid Campaign Working Group (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.

We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.

Nonchalance plus human hubris equals... not a great sum.

I'd use this while wearing an unvalved P3/100 elastomeric. Because I don't like getting infected. I'd think of it as an auto-oxygen tank that would flip on automatically if my main tank malfunctioned while diving at 50 feet...

In a crowded auditorium, or in a gross-out A&E/ED ward...

By the way, Bsky really mashes up nice image files.

Original file at...

💧 www.c19.life/variant-watc...

👍🏻

I serendipitously took a screengrab of BA.3.2's emergence just before GISAID bailed... and kept popping back to check on its progress - but the G-plug had been pulled, with 3.2 vanishing into the air.

Mike, is this GISAID-bail to prevent the general public from watching Spidey's Return? #Odd

The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now.

I. Told. You. So.

Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.

Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)

Very Nine-One-One.

Just in time for another anniversary?

#Lockstep #Goosestep

The politicians who want to sabotage the United Kingdom's public healthcare system so that their friends can cash in on US-style profiteering are succeeding...

#AustraliaToo

Too much cash in the health industry to ignore. (It'll be positively booming soon... ☠)

Anglophile Pharma Unite!! 💀

“The infectivity of NB.1.8.1 was significantly higher (2·5-fold; p<0·0001) than that of LP.8.1. NB.1.8.1 binds more strongly to ACE2 than LP.8.1.5 … the increased fitness of NB.1.8.1 is due to its augmented infectivity rather than its increased immune evasion”.

Far-UVC Technology Poised to Transform Indoor Infection Control Far-UVC technology offers a promising solution for continuous disinfection in occupied spaces, with growing evidence supporting its safety, efficacy, and potential in health care environments.

Direct link to the article w/ link to the 20-min video:

Far-UVC Technology Poised to Transform Indoor Infection Control (May 14, 2025)
www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/far-uvc...

Just a Wednesday thought.

If we're renaming the Gulf of Mexico (we aren't) - then let's at least get 'America' properly fixed.

Something like 'the United States of North America' - #USNA - or just #NA for short.

Or 'the Semi-United States of North America', or #SUSNA.

#Americans? #YaKiddingMe.

Poster à la drunk-driving, that says: "Not Drunk. Not High. Just Infected... Driving with COVID can kill - you, or someone else."

#CovidDrivingKills

Video shows Israeli soldiers forcibly expelling Palestinian families from their homes before carrying out demolitions in Khirbet al-Dabaa village in Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank.

‘Individuals who had COVID-19 exhibited significant changes in brain biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

COVID-19-positive individuals exhibited lower cognitive test performance compared to controls – equivalent to almost two years of age-related cognitive decline.’

Hm.

#SARSCoV2

With much love (and time).

💧 c19.life/blog

#SARSCoV2 #PASC
#CovidComplications

Had a quiet period from June-Sept 2024 with a 3rd (unwanted) infection.

It's tiring to swim upriver.

#P3 #N100
#Elastomeric
#Respirator

▪︎ Carrageenan + SARS-CoV-2 Google search:

💧 www.google.com/search?q=car...