Am I the only person who feels humanity is doomed and today’s kids will have no chance to enjoy longevity we’re used to in rich countries? There are so many nasty things heading for tipping point cataclysm, that escape to bright new safe future seems no longer real. 1/7
Wow! Herts county in UK putting HEPA filters into primary schools for PM2.5s and airborne viruses! Do they get it that
#CovidIsNotOver
? And will this extend to all schools?
Wishing all you covid-cautious, anti-ableist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-war, climate-aware, lovely ppl across the planet ❤️ & seasonal greetings and a happier 2023 free of all the stuff we’re fighting! 🤞(Ok, I know that does take some hopium! 😊)
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Covid-is-over according to my non-masking wife. Her bestie she sees in London for galleries & restaurants has.. er.. just got covid.. b4 her due booster.. and she's vulnerable! Wife thinks I need to get a life.. am I being over cautious?
I've become a covid hermit.. only going for walks & masked shopping. Covid doom has dominated my thinking.
Today had terrible shock that close friend has just found out he has stage 4 prostate cancer 😭
There are so many bad things in the 🌎 now. Feeling very low.
Just had a life-coaching call. She told me that anxting over covid & climate was making me physically weak. If I did cheerful thinking instead, my body would be stronger, and I could fight off viruses better.
So mitigation isn't necessary so long as you don't look up? 🤣
Oh fuck!
Hygienist with baggie blue keeping her chin warm. Got her to put it on properly.
While poking at the pockets in my teeth, regular sniffles and "mild" rasp in throat!
When I ask her, she said it was allergies!
My chances of evading infection??? 🥶
It's getting worse. Had blood test in local hospital. Mine was the ONLY mask I saw. Yes, the ONLY one.
Am I the only one who still thinks we're in a pandemic?
Neuro-damage from LC - what does it look like?
Wife & I had c19 in Dec.
Both now forgeting lots of wds we always hv known. She now has v short temper w me. I am cautious, she isnt and wont 😷.
Is Alz the next stop? 🥶
VERY SCARY!
Had local Labour canvassers knock today. Told them I cant vote Labour because Labour has kicked out the left. They said the local party still has some Corbynistas.
I felt sorry for them.
@madgeims
The biggest tory enablers are sir kid starver's labour party, who have promised to be continuity tories.
I honestly dont GAF which genocide supporting set of tories wins. I want them ALL to lose!
For covid-aware ppl, 2023 is a whole new life from 2019.
But we still have clean water, electricity, supermarkets etc.
When climate & viral disasters break these services, we will be in the shoes of so many of today's refugees.
R U ready 4 that? 🥶🦠🔥🌧
@xabitron1
My theory:
Despite the vast majority acting like it's still 2019 (pre-covid), partying & doing BAU, I believe ppl are silently VERY ANXIOUS (War, Climate (freaky weather), Pandemics, Genocides etc).
So they are living like every day is their last!
It may turn out that way.
Just watching Elton John at Glasto.. one of many ENORMOUS tight-packed crowds..
What % will take an unwanted gift home.. a covid infection with a 1 in 10 chance of long covid?
I used to love festivals, BUT..
🥶
@Carl0s_Vela
Carlos, I get where you're coming from. But please don't say Jews when you mean Zionists. It makes it too easy for them to use the falsehood
Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism
Think of us as Anti-fascist, which includes being anti the Zionist variety.
Jessica Wildfire has this one.
About a woman desperate for her vacation to see the Acropolis:
"I think it’s ironic that everyone wants to see the rubble of old civilizations while the current one crumbles. There’s a strange kind of poetry to it."
I got ridiculed by my wife (again) for
1) asking the plumber to mask up
(neither he nor wife did, just me)
2) opening windows in winter (6°C outside)
3) leaving hepa on!
This battle isnt going anywhere..😢
« Even if Covid disappeared tomorrow, we would never be okay again. Not completely. We can’t unsee or unfeel what we’ve been through.
We’ll remember it forever »
@dreadnaught027
@fatnutritionist
I too am taking max precautions (70 yo, boosted 4 mths ago). But have huge c19 anxst. I'm missing out on gigs, restaurants. Too much horror now, 🇺🇦 war, climate, ba2 surge. Not felt content since 2019.
I have spent a lot of time recently on Twitter, and have developed a real fear of what I've learnt covid can do. And the government and public health (NHS) has in recent months minimised covid.
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🧵
Huge numbers of ppl now suffer appalling post-viral syndromes (eg ME/CFS and Long Covid).
These ppl are hidden behind their closed doors as they often are too sick to leave home or even their bed.
Most doctors dont know how to treat them!
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@DrRupaMarya
This is creeping fascism.. gradually all protest becomes illegal and authoritarianism escalates.
Every little freedom we think we have today we may need to fight to hang on to!
First they came for
#JSO
..
🍉✊️🇵🇸
Just watched LOT of really bad news climate doomer vids, and you'll see my corresponding doom posts on my profile page.
I thought I was strong enough to deal with it mentally. But I'm not. I am very depressed for our future. 😭
If you follow me, please send some ❤️ and ✊️.
@drclairetaylor
The "covid is over" gaslighting's almost like mass hypnotism.
Like lemmings heading for a cliff, or nazis sieg-heiling a hitler rally
Sadly so few of us are staying REAL about covid, and keeping our FFP2 masks on!
Stay safe Dr Claire.. ❤️
Due to a childhood that included being bullied and unwanted, I have throughout my life been awkward with other ppl. Sometimes appearing very extrovert, jokey or dogmatic politically, to hide the real me, or just introvert & quiet.
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@NateB_Panic
@JJ69399
And here's the one I keep getting:
Them: "I had a bad covid, but that's great because I am immune now."
Me: "I know ppl who've had many covid infections, so that's hardly immunity"
Them: "That's ok, because I'm immune"
🤦♂️
Interesting take from wife & friend on covid minimization: we're old ~70 & no longer are able to do what we could a few years ago. So may as well live your life to the full, and dont care about getting it as we're already knackered! I dont buy it, but bet thats not uncommon!
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@JonathanCOnP
@helaineolen
In spaces all of us NEED to share, transport, hopitals, shops, and much more, masking should be mandatory for maximum risk mitigation. Totally agree with what you say for clean air. Without mandations, we discriminate against the vulnerable who cant take such risks.
@broadwaybabyto
Excellent 🧵 Kelly.
Having to spell out your ex-friend's disgusting ableism in 2024 is shocking - a bit like having to explain what's wrong with racism, homophobia, mysogeny, or whatever! You'd hope that we'd gone past this: but on many of these, we seem to be moving backwards!
So many of our friends now have "not-covid". Wife wants to see her ill friend. Anticipates my saying she shouldn't. I mansplain 2-way quality masking outdoors should be ok.
Is she right to feel it's impolite to have a f2f chat w close friend, masked?
@drclairetaylor
We had a plumber round today to fix the boiler. Unmasked. I was masked, and still flung windows and back door open. My wife couldnt see point of masking.
But plumbers go to loads of ppl's houses! And symptomless doesnt mean he cant infect!
So tiring trying to stay covid free
Twitter has poleaxed the visibility of my tweets. Please do me a favour: if you see this, please give it a like, then I can see how badly I've been hobbled - thank you! 😊
@psvbluemts
@IsThisReallyNe8
I did that too.
But confession: I'm the archetypal ex-smoker who hates all vape/smoke.
Gave up from 30 cigs p.d. in 82.
When smoking ban started, I was the one risking a bloody nose telling ppl to stop smoking in restaurants.
Anyone else having daft rows with partner over covid? Wife thinks friends wouldn’t give it to you as they’re trustworthy! 🤦♂️
When I say dont even know if WE have it, throws box of RATs at me and says go test myself!
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"I believe millions of people around the world are stuck in this stage of paralysis. They’re smart enough to understand that things are really bad, but it’s so frightening that they refuse to think about it."
Does anyone know if toothache is a common sequelae of covid? I'm getting mild but chronic jaw pain coming and going, like a mild headache. But cant find any specific tooth causing it. My covid was in the latter half of December.
@EnemyInAState
That thought had crossed my mind. When is COVID CAUSES IMMUNITY DEPLETION going to be shouted from the rooftops? With the corollary that we need protections to stop infection?
Psych nurse friend works in London hosp. Has had C19 three times. Used to be covid cautious, now goes everywhere unmasked and has joined the its-over majority. I've never knowingly had C19 & mask everywhere, avoiding indoor socialising.
Is there now more than one reality?
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I know you'll all think I'm weird. But I want my money spent on saving lives rather than killing people.
So why can't my taxes be diverted from NATO's Ukraine killing machine into paying jnr docs & nurses in NHS properly, and training up more of them?
My tweets get v little traction these days. I'm sure the EM algos have screwed me. So I'm going to massively cut back on twitter time and get stuck into reading books.
That's why you wont see much of me on here. Hope 2024 won't be as bad as those of us in the doomersphere fear ❤️
What do ppl think about indoor spaces eg restaurants having to publish outside their premises a sign showing their covid hygiene rating? Eg somewhere that had good ventilation, hepas etc gets a 5, but stale air is a 1”
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@ClaraRo55
Countries normally have that right. But not if they're in the axis of evil, a set of countries defined by the US.
Similarly, countries in the axis of good are entitled to bomb or attack anyone they wish, esp if in the axis of evil!
Surely everyone agrees this rules-based order?
Covid-conscious peeps: pls wish me luck!
About to go for 90 min dentist appt to get drilled for an implant.. what chance is there that the air in the room is virus free? 🥶🥶🥶
If you were informed that some action you do could disable or kill ppl you come into contact with, and you do it anyway, dismissing the info and gaslighting that the opposite is true, does that make you a sociopath?
#CovidIsNotOver
#MaskUp
93yo SIL in hosp w bad back, now got c19. Other rels 80+ w various disabs. Wife wants us to hv few dys hol there to visit them. But she wont be as c19-cautious as me, putting us bth at risk. She says I am being selfish insistg on safety! 🤦♂️😩
What to do.. 😢 HATE THIS!
@reneenicolegray
@myrabatchelder
My ❤️ goes out to you! I'm taking max precautions to avoid covid, so no indoor gigs/restaurants/public transport. Always FFP2 masked.
As u say, everyone else acting like covid is over.
Just my opinion: I thing WE are sane. THEY are gaslit.
MSM now beginning to link younger ppl's heart disease with covid! 👏 They're getting there..
But as this is educational, WHY didn't they mask up in the studio for this? Scientists need to be good role models, unlike 'Do as I say not what I do' politicians!
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!
@1goodtern
Tern, of the many disasters we're seeing coming at us, are there ANY you can see light at the end of its tunnel?
• Pandemicene hell (SARS2, H5N1..)
• World war & genocide
• Climate collapse (Floods, fires etc)
• Mass poverty, homelessness, hunger
• Refugees facing hell
😭😭
Our friend staying over for festival tomorrow has the end of "cold". We have open windows, hepa, and when not eating I masked. Wife & friend dont😷😩
Russian roulette with an extra bullet in the chamber? 🥶🤔
@AkanKwaku
@pickledog47
I am British! Born in apartheid SA and live in England. I am now so proud of my birth country and disgusted my current country is complicit in apartheid and genocide in 2024.
Doubly-disgusted our official opposition party is united on this with our govt!
@Carl0s_Vela
I too am a Jew. But not all Zionists are Jewish and not all Jews are Zionist. We're not. Nor are some sects of orthodox Jews. Nor the large numbers of Anti-Zionist Jews on PSC demos.
I dont like saying 'Jews committing the genocide' even if many of these ZioNazis are Jewish.
Dont miss great talk with Jeremy Corbyn and Yanis Varoufakis on the need for peace to avoid the cliff edge of WW3!
Please like and RT if you see this post!
@DebHolloway
100% Deb this thread on dot joining!
On climate, if govt & big oil & big war dont join the dots and sacrifice megabuck profits for planet's survival, we're cooked.😩🔥
So does it matter if lesser mortals don't get it? 🤔
Excellent piece by Caitlin on how western dissent is gaslit as "pro-Russia" or "Russian-troll" pieces.
Sadly, most ppl will believe this gaslighting rather than Caitlin.
They're Not Worried About "Russian Influence", They're Worried About Dissent
One of the craziest things happening in the world today is the way westerners are being brainwashed by western propaganda into panicking about Russian propaganda.
@1goodtern
@tigresseleanor
Depends who you read, but LC probability is between 1:5 and 1:8 from 1st infection. And each infection increases that probability. If part of LC is the harm to immune system (C-AIDS), this must be very scary for them. Hope none get LC! 🤞
@MeetJess
@LauraMiers
@loscharlos
When regulations are stripped away for max profits, we're heading for disasters that are totally avoidable!
That's why strong unions fighting for safety are so necessary.
Shame that unions are not taking covid seriously.. another man-made disaster, killing & maiming Ms of ppl!
On February 3, a horrifying railroad accident took place. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. You might've seen images of the flames, but you probably haven't heard that unions were trying to prevent this exact accident. 🧵
@TuckerClemens
Great thread, Lisa.
There'll be huge numbers of us who care about these things.
But not in the Labour party. Genuine socialists will either have left that miserable party or have left their socialism.
@zeno_ninis
@maosbot
Agreed. But it shouldn't be an optional accessory. FFP2/N95 or better should be widely distributed free, and be mandatory. Eventually, ppl will feel as uncomfortable unmasked as naked.
@Sandyboots2020
@ampincivero
That's so crazy!
If you've not yet read this, please do, and please pass it on to as many as possible, so that the word "covid" can be used in conversations again!
@EnemyInAState
Chris, is there NO way to get these dots joined up other than on twitter? How can those now happily de-masked get to know that THIS is a covid sequelae?
Contacting your MP? MSM?
It shouldnt be just a tiny few of us taking covid seriously! 😬
Was going to enjoy my post-hygienist breakfast.
Before I went, used Dentyl CPC mouthwash and Nasofed AV nasal spray. When home, reused Dentyl.
But due to gum ache and sensitivity am no longer hungry.
Before I went, I had no pain whatsoever! 😬
I've done a deal with my non-masker wife. I will go on a 1.5hr each way bus ride to see large open garden (🥶).
But for this, she agrees to mask with FFP2 both ways! 😷 (👍)
Is this a small win?
Ps: This may be a pyrrhic victory!
#CovidIsNotOver
#MaskUp
In GP surgery awaiting appt. The receptionist is coughing/sneezing unmasked. The rolling TV ads warning of heart attacks/strokes from excessive drinking. Fortunately covid doesn’t do this. Er.. does it? 🤔
@danielgoyal
@Alexand64830045
Did you forget the /s ?
Surely ur not serious, Dan.. medical staff so underworked they can take on heaps of overtime - just for ££? If they haven't already hit burnout, they soon would do.
"Dear patient, we have a 3am opening this Sat for your xyz operation. If you can attend.."
@MeetJess
My wife ridiculed me for saying that all staff & visitors to a care home should be masked. For her, the pandemic is over, and I'm being ridiculous.
@ElizaEmTM
Wife hasnt seen her friend (who's just got it) for a cpl of wks now, so afaik hasnt got covid. But if I ever suspected she was +, yes we'd isolate and I'd mask at home. I know this isn't optimal, as I should ALWAYS mask around her as she doesn't mask when out. My bad..🥶
But I am hugely aware of and grateful for the anonymity of this!
I STILL, at 71yo, feel a personal internal embarrassment about who I am, that comes from my rotten childhood. I love when ppl say nice things to me or agree with something I say,
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They're using phosphorous bombs on Gaza.
They're bombing hospitals.
Ambulances.
Journalists.
Children.
They're doing genocide.
International govts are doing nothing - many backing the bombing.
🇵🇸😭😭😭
@drclairetaylor
Dr Clare, hope you are fully better.. excellent thread ❤️
But question on LFT: Is it common to have symptoms for a few days and still show negative to begin with?
Does this mean that symptoms doesnt mean ur infectious? Or LFTs not reliable?
Thanks!
Ok. I put my hands up in surrender. EM's algos have beaten me. I'm going to stop writing tweets, as they're so deboosted no one I dont explicitly @ sees them. I'll just click likes. Maybe I'll be a "quitter" (someone who quits twitter).
I cant take any more. My eyes are sore from crying. My anger inside is explos1ve. How do we get on with our "normal" lives in UK, while this is happening, with our taxes paying for part of it, RIGHT NOW? 😭🤬
✊️🇵🇸
Am I the only nutaholic, who buys a giant bag of nuts intending to munch a tiny handful at a time, but ends up having terrible gut rot having consumed the lot? Smoked salted almonds are the worst for moreishness.
Climate scientists pulling their hair out over the huge non-linear jump in heat. They see the window of mitigation closing fast!
Does anybody think they're wrong to worry?
The ruling class KNOWS all this stuff. It's their planet too!
But they wont act against BAU.
WHY NOT?
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The pandemic gives me many long periods on my own, which can be a relief.
Are my mixed-up feelings, with all the self-doubt, common?
And is there an overlap with being this type of person and being covid-cautious, and/or leftwing?
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BA5 has peaked in UK & hospitalisations dropping. But BQ1 & BQ1.1 on the rise. NHS already near breaking point, even with current warm weather, winter is still to hit. Masking & testing almost non-existent.
WHO is anxious but not panicked. WHY NOT??
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yet often feel "imposter syndrome", that it's only because ppl cant see the real (rejectable) me. I still struggle to feel I deserve validation! It seems as if some ppl naturally "belong", while I am an "outsider", living mostly in my head,
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The BBC soap 'Doctors' today featured someone who was covid cautious. Script just portrayed him as 'anxious', and behaving this way bc he was grieving! The doc he saw was very understanding & kind, but it never occurred to her to mask during the consultation!
Awful messaging! 🤦♂️