“The conservative estimate of 20 million excess COVID deaths means many more people are experiencing bereavement. Dunbar’s model estimates an inner circle of 15 people. This means 300 million people losing someone in their close circle, approximately the populations of the U.S.”
“What’s counted as a COVID death is a narrow range of cases with a documented recent infection. This skews toward respiratory deaths in the acute stage, rather than the deaths that occur later as heart attacks, organ failure, strokes, or pneumonias secondary to COVID infections.”
“If the weight of evidence points to an exponential increase in excess deaths from COVID since 2020, and the recent deaths of 6 WB stars are consistent with this shifted baseline, how are people not noticing?
Or, if they are noticing, why are they shifting to the next topic?”
“Accepting that COVID has killed tens of millions more people than reported implies a magnitude of institutional failure that is psychologically costly to internalize.
Even in a crisis of government legitimacy the belief that the system will alert people to health risks remains”
Interior of a train featuring patterned seats in purple, blue, and red. A reflection of a person wearing a mask is visible in the window.
Still masking on public transportation. Given the number of people who are coughing and sneezing, I’m pretty happy with the choice.
Finally made the jump over here, if you're wondering where the follow came from. Happy to see some familiar faces/names
“COVID can lead to aggressive cancers.
James Van Der Beek, Shannen Doherty + Julian McMahon died from cancers between the ages of 48-56.
SARS-CoV-2 creates immune dysregulation, reducing tumor surveillance + creating inflammation. This is why cancers behave more aggressively.”
The way deaths are recorded in the U.S. is not designed to trace a chain from infection months ago to vascular/inflammatory damage to a cardiovascular event today…”
“Because the epidemiological data does not prove that COVID directly caused Nicholas Brendon’s death…the statistics don’t matter. Therefore, the 20+ million unexpected deaths & the settled knowledge abt SARS-CoV-2’s multi-system damage can be wholly discounted as relevant to one’s own life.”
“When public health agencies fail to address the ongoing COVID pandemic, authority bias can lead people to implicitly treat this silence as evidence that the danger has passed.”
“SARS-CoV-2 can create sustained immune dysregulation which reduces the efficiency of tumor surveillance while simultaneously creating inflammation. This is why cancers might present at a more advanced stage or behave more aggressively.”
“With addiction history, a 2023 study reported that patients with alcohol use disorder who had a previous COVID infection had a significantly higher risk of incident cardiovascular diseases within 12 months than AUD patients without a COVID history…”
“A Nature Medicine study found that people who survived the acute phase of COVID had a higher one-year risk of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases.”
“Nicholas Brendon also had clinical vulnerabilities, including a congenital heart defect and an addiction history. Repeated SARS-CoV-2 infection worsens the trajectory of those vulnerabilities…”
“The downstream effects can create complications “from head to toe.”
“SARS-CoV-2 uses the endothelium as a superhighway to the body’s systems. Endothelial infection makes vessels form micro-clots, which reduce oxygen delivery, as well as create micro-injuries, inflammation and dysregulated immune responses across multiple organs…”
I can’t believe my eyes. This long article—which I first thought would be just another “Why are so many young people dying of cancer? Huh/no clue” ones—covers not only Buffy nerddom, but also deep “inside baseball” COVID facts. I’ll briefly hope yet again that this might represent a turning point.
“The direct and indirect effects of premature deaths has likely compromised the collective capacity to assimilate new information. There is simply a psychological limit to what people can internalize when loss becomes repeated…”
“Perhaps most insidiously, many people may simply no longer have the capacity or desire to internalize the implications of mass deaths from COVID. Even if it ultimately means their own premature deaths, those of everyone they love, and for that matter the whole cast of the WB’s peak era.”
This was the entire point of Musk buying Twitter. To kneecap it and turn it into a platform for fascism, mis- and disinformation, etc.
Everyone likes to say, “we have to live with Covid now, just like the flu”, but do they know repeat infections are causing silent damage that will soon be diagnosed as diabetes or liver disease or cardiovascular disease or kidney disease or cancer or early dementia or any of 200 other health issues?
It targets mitochondria, depletes immune system (activates pathogens, autoimmune disease), it's a disease of the blood, causes endothelial damage, hijacks cells, it's oncogenic, it enters reservoirs (bone marrow), deregulates endocrine and nervous system (peripheral and central), accelerates ageing.
Over on Twitter, "Aftab Khan, MD" posted this Harvard study (they don't seem to be on Bsky?):
x.com/aftab_usa/st...
Studied 24 office workers over 6 days, secretly tweaking AQ (ventilation, CO2, and VOCs) - cognitive scores doubled in cleaner “green+” conditions!
Clean the air! #MaskUp #IAQ
bsky.app/profile/prof...
I don't know who needs to hear this, but…
being afraid of an airborne pathogen that can take away your health, future, and ability to do most things you enjoy is an appropriate feeling.
Caution is the appropriate response.
🔬 @catladyactivist
#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid
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The only aspect poorly understood about #COVID is WHY it is still being ignored by most governments, when we have 480,000+ published studies about COVID that attest to it not being just like "any other respiratory illness":
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The mechanisms of Brain Damage are considerable.
There are at least 8 defined pathways that Dani Beckman, Andrew Ewing, Nick Fabiano and myself are trying to pull a paper together... A labour of love.
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