#YallMasking
I mask indoors whenever I’m not with immediate family - plus, you’ll see me in a mask outdoors too when I’m in a crowd. This keeps me and those around me safe. I’d love to follow everyone who does the same!
@LinnJarte
I’ve lost a few friends who became Covid -reckless following their first infections. Suddenly, nothing mattered to them except “living life.”
@LadyChuan
Disappointing isn’t it - none of my friends mask, but my daughter masks to keep herself, husband, infant, 4 yo and me safe. I pray she continues, but the pressure to give up is enormous. We live in dark times.
Starting another round of immunotherapy cancer treatments Monday & accepted the fact that I'm pretty much on my own protecting myself in the middle of another SARS-CoV-2 surge. I cannot get infected. So I have to be perfect. Not trying to garner sympathy. Just being a realist. 😷
@keetmuise
Hi. I’m Trish and I live in Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 I mask in all indoor settings outside of my own home - I care about keeping all of us safe from Covid-related death and disabilities.
@lisa_iannattone
@jvipondmd
@TRyanGregory
Thank you so much for writing this paper. Today, in Ontario our CMOH used the bogus excuse of immunity debt as the reason for not reinstating the province’s mask mandate. People are suffering as a direct result of disinformation.
@MeetJess
Might be going out on a limb here, but announcing this again now seems like a way to draw our attention away from the need for masks and clean indoor air.
@ElizaEmTM
I’m so sorry - I mask, but the vast majority of my family and friends do not. At the end of the day, they don’t care if they catch Covid and pass it along to others. It’s total selfishness on their part.
#YallMasking
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As a disabled, chronically-ill transplant patient preparing for a second round of dialysis & transplant, I masked before Covid and haven’t stopped since. These photos have shown me there are fewer people in the world that want me dead than I thought. 🫶
In case you're wondering: yes, sudden death, severe cardiovascular events, pulmonary embolism, stroke, etc. are all manifestations of acute and
#LongCovid
. We know this since 2020 and 2021. A lot of the work in this regard has been done by patients
@YouAreLobbyLud
What if the ultimate leaders aren’t the politicians, but the corporate entities that might have a vested interest in the failure of public health?
@amandalhu
My son goes to a gym with upgraded ventilation and our local dentist has hepa air filtration everywhere. Glad this is more common than I realized, but you’re so right about the schools. Our kids deserve to be protected.
@GreeneWendy
I’m so sorry Wendy. It’s painful to deal with situations like this. The people we thought were on the same page as us, really aren’t and they don’t care to find out why.
Well I refuse to just 'fall by the wayside' because governments choose to make me vulnerable by doing 0.00 on Covid-safety. I refuse to be sacrificed on the altar of rich people's profits. Not without one helluva fight. In fact I have every intention of surviving out of spite ✊
Just a matter of time before measles hits hard in Canada.
How a misinformed small minority has managed to have so much power is baffling yet anti-vaxxers appear to control the path healthcare is heading down.
@LadyChuan
Hope you didn’t sustain any injuries from this — I wouldn’t go to an ER unless I was in a life-threatening situation, so I get it. Maybe your colleague suffers from this:
SARS-CoV-2 causes permanent brain damage.
Cognitive deficits were global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and reduced anterior cingulate cortex volume one year after hospitalization.
@LauraMiers
- The Ontario government has refused to mandate masks despite paediatric ICUs being over capacity. What kind of society makes so little effort to keep children safe?
@MeetJess
Having read the studies, I know multiple infections lead to chronic health problems and early death. I can’t bear to think of my children suffering through all this. Their lives have just begun and they deserve so much better
1/ 11🧵 Covid is a vascular disease 🩸. We need to stop thinking of it primarily as a lung 🫁 disease. I hear lung Doctors says ‘we don’t see much on the chest X-rays in
#longcovid
’. The rheumatologists say ‘we don’t see raised inflammation on the blood tests in
#LongCovid
’
@TRyanGregory
@bethechange1682
No - developing immunity would make reinfection impossible. Maybe the real question is: why do so many people believe this is true with respect to Covid?
@LauraMiers
We have all the medical studies now, millions of deaths, millions disabled, and STILL, most people don’t want to know the horrors they can face after Covid infects them. Denial trumps reason.
@laurieallee
A friend recently insisted that I’ve had Covid and might even have LC and just not know it. None of this is true, yet she persisted. “Everybody is getting it and there’s no way to avoid it, so stop with the masking.”
What the conformity!
@MeetJess
@GaloresCircus
I can’t decide what’s worse - the close family and friends who couldn’t care less if they infect you, or the health care professionals who don loose-fitting surgical masks and deem Covid « endemic. »
German Federal Health Minister warns: "multiple coronavirus infections can seriously affect the immune system...affected are coping with an immune deficiency that can no longer be cured. Research has shown very clearly that many people are"
21 January 2023
@sassyashieOG
One of the worst parts about being in a relationship with a narcissist is that they can fool almost everyone around them with their charm. When you end the relationship, so many people, even in your family, sides with them and sees you as the crazy one. I’ve lived this hell.
LONG COVID, a 🧵
Long Covid prevalence is no longer tracked in the UK so it’s useful to see data from other countries.
A new study from Canada was published this week which led with the shocking statistic that:
📍1 in 9 Canadian adults have experienced long-Covid symptoms…
@_bahhumbug
@LippityLipLip
Covid reveals people for who they really are - I discovered almost all my friends and family are in denial and care not a bit whether they infect me or anyone else.
@crystalmundypsy
@ElaineCarol3
We’re not supposed to notice the increase in excess mortality, excess disability, excess viral, bacterial and fungal infections. The pandemic is over Lol so must be a mysterious new pathogen 🦠
@MeetJess
There’s no such thing as a mild case of Covid. Here’s one of countless, and I mean literally countless scientific studies, proving this unfortunate fact.
@LauraMiers
A lot of people are talking about vaccines on this thread - it’s important to realize that while they reduce the chances of hospitalization and death, they only somewhat reduce the chance of Long Covid. You can still wind up disabled even if fully vaxxed.
@laurieallee
@keetmuise
I’ll never understand how our leaders have become complicit in spreading a deadly, disabling virus. And we’re fine with sacrificing ourselves and our families …
@LauraMiers
A lot of us who take Covid precautions feel as you do - the people we’ve known and loved are now callously warning us not to live in fear - to just pretend it’s 2019 again, even if it disables or kills us or others. Thank you for voicing this and know that you aren’t alone.
@laurieallee
If you have other people who depend on you or who you care about, it’s impossible to live like there is no tomorrow. By extension, this means either those living so selfishly either have no one they care about or care about no one. IMO it’s probably the latter.
@verygoodchat
And this is why we must mask. COVID-positive people are everywhere and there’s nothing we can do about it now that the medical profession is complicit.
@Billius27
We need public health, not political health decisions that protects us from preventable deaths. The easiest and cheapest form of protection from airborne pathogens is a mask so
#BringBackMasks
@MeetJess
Friend’s grandkids were coughing most of the summer - the entire family is unconcerned despite the fact that the 3 yo is on a wait list to have her adenoids and tonsils removed. I don’t get it. Shouldn’t we be questioning why our kids are always sick and then doing something?
@MeetJess
One big BA5 wave just beginning in Ontario - the third this year. Just a wild guess here but we could go right from BA5 to BA2.75. What happened to Covid being seasonal?
@ahandvanish
If you lose your health, you lose everything. Those of us who’ve struggled with chronic health problems, understand that. No restaurant, event, conference - nothing is worth the risk of contracting an incurable disabling disease. So, please do be afraid.
@ABC
Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story - oh and btw, babies who’ve had Covid but didn’t drink alcohol can experience liver failure and need transplants. Many experts blamed adenovirus. Some said dogs 🐕 Anything but Covid.
@MeetJess
Covid, even mild cases, puts you at risk for blood clots, but these aren’t the kind of blood clots you’re used to seeing. They’re what you might see in a horror movie.
@AmitAryaMD
Once you know having Covid can cause brain damage and makes you 5 times more likely to experience a heart attack, stroke or blood clot, (regardless of vaccine status) you’ll likely want to avoid the virus at all cost. You can’t put a price on your health.
@LadyChuan
My eldest daughter and her husband have a 1yo girl and they’ve done nothing to protect her, despite everything I’ve done to inform them. This baby is always sick, but they don’t test. It breaks my heart.
@LauraMiers
We are also out of childrens’ cough and cold medications as so many non-hospitalized children are sick with a « cold or flu virus - we’re not supposed to talk about Covid, but we know most of these kids are sick due to Covid. When did we stop caring about our kids?
@LauraMiers
@SafetyFirst____
I think about this issue every day and worry about how my baby grandkids will fare in a world without infectious disease protections.
@MoriartyLab
This is also the first time in modern history that our leaders and major public health organizations have deliberately misled us about the seriousness of a highly contagious disease.
The most accurate information, sadly, can be found not in out mainstream media, but on Twitter.
@EnemyInAState
@MeetJess
Covid is truly the perfect mass-killing machine. So seemingly benign, people welcome it, thinking their immune systems will take care of it. So insidious that it’s victims won’t connect their ongoing health decline to that one little thing - getting infected.
@MeetJess
We need to be scared by what’s happening to people - maybe that fear will motivate us to take precautions like wearing a mask. We might just save our lives or the lives of people we love.
@DisabledOntari1
What’s happening to you is not ok - I see from your feed that you are or were just in hospital. Can you access community support with help from staff there? If that’s not possible, could I help you access support? Please DM me.
@NjbBari3
This is such bad news - I’m guessing people think they are fine, but the virus has just gone into hiding? Is that correct? People around me all saying it’s “a cold” while I’m trying to explain immune escape and Long Covid.
@LauraMiers
This happens in Canada as well - in fact, I know someone who entered hospital due to heart problems, caught Covid and died. I would have to be literally dying before I would go to a hospital these days.
@drjudymelinek
@lisa_iannattone
I refuse to be in the minimizer’s tribe, no matter how unpopular I’ve become. Glad to find other like-minded people here!
@MoriartyLab
We’re in the midst of the most deadly infectious disease pandemic in modern history - and yet our leaders would have us believe it’s a mild flu. Thank you
@MoriarityLab
for bringing the truth to light.
@MeetJess
Covid really doesn’t spare anyone. The sick, the old, the unlucky - they’ve filled the cemeteries already. But what public health officials don’t want you to know, is that millions of once-healthy working-aged folks are now disabled by Covid. We’re all at risk.
@chantz_y
That’s so unfair - I’ve got people in my life who try to convince me the pandemic is over, but luckily no one has initiated an intervention - at least not yet. Do you have any allies who can ward them off?
SARS-Cov-2 Associated Neurocognitive Decline did not have to be the third leading cause of neurological disease, but is because of the genius of the virus, it carries the hallmark of a chronic HIV infection.
@keetmuise
You are absolutely doing the right thing which is to keep your child safe. My soon to be 4 yo grandson won’t be attending JK this coming fall due to lack to mitigations in the schools. Solidarity
25-54 year old males are experiencing a nearly forty percent increase in monthly deaths from cardiovascular & respiratory diseases since the start of the pandemic
Retweet of you would like public health professionals, including the CDC, to please explain why that is happening
@EnemyInAState
We have monkeypox here in Canada, 2 cities so far, but public health is really downplaying risk, saying it’s mild and not easily transmitted. Common sense indicates otherwise - something is going on…
@ProfAWPeet
@UofT
@workingatuoft
Wishing you a speedy recovery and appreciate you speaking publicly about your illness. People need to know that without mask mandates, everyone is at risk.
@drseanmullen
Excellent advice, but sadly 2 of my 3 adult children live like it’s 2019 so all I can do spend time with the 1 Covid-safe kid and her family. All the information I’ve shared with the Covid deniers has gone unread and unheard. I hate to think of what their futures hold.
@1goodtern
A friend commented today that my homeschooling my grandson deprives him of the opportunity to “build up his immunity by catching all the kids’ diseases like chickenpox, measles…” We vaccinate to prevent those, I said, adding she should read this:
The “hygiene hypothesis” is the misnomer that just won’t die. We don’t need to get sick to be well. A better name is the “biodiversity hypothesis” since the rise in allergic/immune diseases is thought to be related to the loss of contact with biodiverse environments (nature!).
Two thirds of Canadian Covid deaths, with the exception of those in Quebec, may have been missed or not reported. How can anyone claim Covid is mild, when we don’t have the data?
@COVID_19_Canada
Outside QC (CAN-QC in tables), only about one third of excess all-cause mortality is accounted for by reported COVID deaths.
Since all of QC excess mortality is accounted for by reported COVID deaths, this suggests 2/3 of COVID deaths outside QC may have been missed/unreported.
@kprather88
@Billius27
@CDCDirector
Excellent thread - last time I checked, no one was breathing 😮💨 through their hands. Let common sense prevail here. We need mask mandates and clean indoor air.
@LadyChuan
Longtime friend is desperate to travel to Greece, but has delayed the trip due to mysterious and relentless coughing - “not Covid,” he says, adding he tested only once.
Another friend of his died suddenly land mysteriously last week in Monaco - strep then sepsis- not Covid. Hmm
.
@Safety
Sue
@inkblue01
@getalifeLCAP
are explicitly stating that I'm a member of
@LongCovidAP
. I am not & never have been a member. Moreover, this post implies that I'm causing harm to LC patients. I'm a first wave
#LongCovid
patient. This is defamation & targeted harassment.
"a woman in Michigan contracted Covid-19 and died last fall two months after receiving a tainted double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to harbor the virus"
@LauraMiers
@a_lil_bow
If you read the studies, it’s impossible not to take extreme Covid precautions. Wish I weren’t surrounded by so many who refuse to read and instead take the word of friends or worse - Public Health.
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.
Consider this: Covid “has mutated beyond detection on the original testing methods …” So a cold could actually be Covid.
#CovidIsNotOver
and you need to
#WearAMask
A really vicious cold bug has spread all over India (and the world). Almost everyone I know - including myself - has had a bad throat infection that then lingers for days as a chest congestion. Very annoying.
@OliveSiffleur
Your experience illustrates why it’s so important that every patient have an advocate with them at all times. So many in healthcare don’t actually care about the health of their patients.