. . . that people on the streets don’t.
Goodtern wraps it up for you:
And yeah – the list grew and is still not exhaustive…
Ten things twitter folks know about Covid that people o the streets don’t.
1
Covid isn’t over
2
There’s no such thing as herd immunity
3
Covid is hospitalising thousands each week
4
Covid harms kids
5
Covid moves like smoke
6
Hybrid immunity won’t end the pandemic
7
Catching Covid does not benefit you in any way
8
Covid can cause Long Covid
(even if you’re vaccinated)
9
Covid damages your body leaving you at risk of Covid Induced Delayed Injury
(even if you’re vaccinated)
10
Covid infection can damage your brain
(even if you’re vaccinated)
11
Covid is a systemic infection that harms every part of your body.
12
There are new and potentially very nasty variants on the way
13
Some of the pharmaceutical tools against covid are failing
14
Masks and filtration help remove covid from circulation in the air and provide a layer of protection
15
Covid is affecting pregnant women and their developing babies
16
The vaccines are generally safe (with specific known medical exceptions)
17
Covid is not mild
18
Covid is considerably reducing life expectancy
19
Covid is harming the economy
20
Covid has disabled millions of people
21
Covid is harming immune systems
22
Covid is harming every system
23
Covid is not fully understood yet
26
Plastic screens don’t protect against airborne focus
27
You can catch Covid in one breath
28
Fresh air ventilation reduces concentration of Covid particles.
29
Covid particles can hang in indoor air for hours if there is limited ventilation.
30
People breathe through both their mouth and nose
31
Surgical masks are close to pointless, masks should be ffp2/3 n95/96
Correction to 31
Should read:
Cloth masks are better than no masks, surgical masks are better than cloth masks, but well fitted ffp2/3 n95/96 masks / respirators are far more effective than either.
32
You can catch Covid repeatedly
33
Repeat infections are not necessarily more mild
34
Damage from repeat infections is cumulative
35
Covid infections age you
36
Handwashing is a great thing to do anyway, but Covid is mostly caught by breathing in floaty smoke-like covid.
37
You can catch Covid from someone more than 2m away
38
You can catch Covid outdoors, but it’s less likely
39
Activities like singing, shouting, and exercise make you produce more viral particles
40
You can catch Covid from friends or strangers
41
Some people are on their sixth infections already
42
The efficiency of your vaccination decreases over time
43
An infection is not an immunity top up
44
Hospitalisation is not mild
45
More children have died from covid in the UK in 2022 than in 2020 and 2021 put together
46
You can’t tell if you’re infectious
47
Lateral flow tests are a useful tool, but they’re not guaranteed reliable
48
Covid functions similarly in children to adults – there is no “but kids don’t…”
49
Swabbing throat and nose is better
50
Many people don’t realise their ongoing symptoms are long covid
51
Some people who have had Covid barely remember their infection
52
Coughing spreads covid particles very effectively
53
Boosters are useful in reducing short-term serious illness and death, but you can still develop long term problems from infection after vaccination
54
Mitigations are more effective when used together eg ffp2 masks + ventilation + isolation
55
Masks are not the only mitigation.
Some mitigations are invisible
56
No one wants lockdowns
57
Different covid strains have different symptoms and effects, some are more dangerous than others, none are mild
58
Covid can cause problems anywhere in your body, so long term effects can be very different from one person to another
59
There are people who will do anything they can to stop you believing points 1-58.
60
A covid infection does not protect you from future covid infections
61
Covid illness and death has disproportionately affected ethnic minority groups
62
Covid infection can be serious for anyone, not just ‘the vulnerable’
63
Covid infection can be exceptionally serious for ‘the vulnerable’
64
Sensible proportionate Covid mitigations are good for the economy in both the short and long term
65
Long Covid is not caused by anxiety
66
Covid infections increase your risk of death from other causes
67
Covid brain damage can cause anxiety, depression, memory loss, character change, mania and more
68
One way masking is only partially effective
69
A society with no covid mitigations forces vulnerable people into high risk choices or their own personal lockdown
70
Covid infection creates vulnerable people
71
Covid is not mysterious.
How it moves and spreads is governed by simple and easily understandable science
72
The amount of Covid virus you inhale may affect the seriousness of your illness
73
The duration of social interactions may affect the amount of Covid virus you inhale
74
We don’t “all have to get it”
75
We don’t “all have to get it” repeatedly
76
The human brain finds it hard to focus on multiple subjects, so it’s easy to forget that there are multiple aspects to the problem of Covid
77
Immunity debt is a fiction created by people who told you that covid was over, mild, or beneficial
78
High prevalence of Covid causes harm to healthcare systems including both basic and emergency care
79
High prevalence of Covid correlates precisely with long delays for ambulances in the UK
80
There is no ‘cure’ for long covid
107
Covid infections can cause erectile dysfunction
108
Covid infections can damage the placenta
109
Wide spread of Covid can be avoided or reduced
110
‘Endemicity’ is not a good thing and should certainly not be a goal
111
The eyes are a potential avenue of infection, even if less common than breath or touch
112
Long Covid is not laziness
113
Long Covid sufferers are not snowflakes
114
Long Covid is not imagined
115
Long Covid sufferers are not doing it for attention
116
Covid can be transmitted in classrooms
117
There is no age group that is at no risk from covid
118
Vaccines can reduce the chance of infection and onwards transmission, but they do not prevent them.
119
Covid may spread via poo particles, making communal toilets an area of risk, and toilet air hazardous
120
Some people, for example the immunocompromised, do not respond to vaccination in a way that will mitigate infection, and run a high risk from infection
121
People who are unvaccinated are far more likely to suffer severe illness, hospitalisation, disability, or death than vaccinated
122
Covid is not evolving to become less harmful
123
Some variants may have combinations of mutations that cause different symptoms and preferentially damage different organs.
124
Newborn babies can catch Covid and are not able to be vaccinated
125
Covid infection for newborns can be extremely problematic
126
Babies can spread covid
127
Covid can damage blood consistency and circulatory system causing clotting in every part of body
128
Covid infection can interfere with the immune system allowing other dormant viruses like herpes and Epstein Barr (glandular fever, mono) to reactivate in the body
129
Air filters reduce the risk of transmission overall, but do not prevent close range transmission
130
Covid infection can cause hair loss
131
You cannot tell someone is vulnerable by looking at them
132
You cannot know if you are vulnerable
133
A significant proportion of spread is by people who are not yet displaying any symptoms
134
Covid is just “like a flu” if you think of flu as something that matches all the info in this thread
135
Effects from some viruses are not seen for decades, and can then be devastating, eg polio
136
No one has survived more than three years after catching Covid*
*because it has only been circulating among humans that long
137
A ‘mild’ initial infection can still lead to serious long term effects
138
Rampant spread of covid has probably allowed the rampant development of mutations
139
Covid can spread in any setting, including hospitals
140
There are no sector of workers, eg healthcare workers, that are immune to covid
141
Everyone who is infected with Covid, whatever age or status, has an increased risk of stroke, thrombosis, heart attack, aneurysm, and more during the initial infection and for a significant time period afterwards
142
Meeting in crowded places, indoor or outdoor, increases risk of infection
143
Covid can be spread in food venues, bars, and cafés
144
Government choices on covid mitigations are often made for popularity and political reasons rather than scientific or public health reasons
145
Catching Covid during pregnancy increases the risk that your child will be born with congenital anomalies, especially central nervous system and genitourinary anomalies
(Covid can mess up the blueprint that guides the assembly of your developing baby)
146
For many Long Covid sufferers, Long Covid is a hideous and long lasting misery
147
The numbers of mechanical ventilation beds occupied are no longer a good indication of the number of seriously ill covid patients in hospitals.
148
Covid isn’t only bad if it affects the lungs, but if it does you can be in big trouble very quickly
149
Covid is not a seasonal virus that only comes at one time of year
150
Covid is transmissible in all climates, hot, cold, wet, dry
151
This isn’t the last wave
152
Nor is the next one
153
The people who were wrong about Covid in 2020, were also wrong about Covid in 2021, and are still wrong now
154
Vaccines have prevented tens of millions of deaths from covid.
500,000 deaths prevented in the UK alone
155
Hand sanitisation should not be prioritised ahead of air hygiene
But still keep your hands clean
156
It’s actually possible to tell how bad covid hospitalisations in the UK are getting *just by listening out for the frequency of ambulance sirens*
157
There have already been more covid hospitalisations in the UK in 2022 with three whole months left and a huge wave to come than in 2020 or 2021
158
Reported covid data lags:
Symptoms lag behind infection
Testing lags behind symptoms
Hospitalisation lags behind symptoms and testing
Death lags behind symptoms and hospitalisations
“but deaths aren’t going up” is meaningless
Re 158
You don’t find out how bad a wave is until after it is passing, so don’t believe anyone who says “this wave is mild”
159
Death is not the only bad outcome
162
You may not test positive on a lateral flow test for a number of days after you develop symptoms
163
Covid can trigger vast numbers of tiny blood clots in the smallest blood vessels called capillaries, reducing the efficiency of blood flow to any tissue
164
Covid can trick your body into attacking your liver
165
There is no evidence that children are not infectious after three days of symptoms
166
There is plenty of evidence that children can remain infectious as long as adults
167
Plastic see through face shields protect against spit, but do not protect against covid that moves like smoke
168
The next month of statistics of ‘within 28 days of Covid’ deaths are already fixed by the number of Covid infections that took place in the last month
169
You can’t stop covid infections by not reporting them
170
The tools to combat covid are far more readily available to the rich and influential
171
Covid can trigger diabetes
172
Covid can cause your teeth to fall out
173
Covid can trigger epilepsy
174
Covid may lower your body’s natural ability to fight cancer
175
Covid damages body tissue
Your body is completely made of body tissue
176
Re 158
You don’t find out how bad a wave is until after it is passing, so don’t believe anyone who says “this wave is mild”
177
Covid was mostly likely the main cause of that liver damage in kids
178
Society doesn’t see the worst long covid sufferers, because they are unable to leave their house, bed, or hospital
179
The end of the pandemic is not in sight
180
Your pets can catch Covid from you
181
People who tell you optimistic things about Covid do not necessarily have your best interests at heart
182
Covid can trigger or make worse POTS.
{POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, probably needs its own whole thread.
In a nutshell… no, I don’t think I can. But trust me, it’s a nightmare}
183
Covid, like many infections, can trigger a type of brain swelling in children called PANS (Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) that can radically alter a child’s personality
184
On average, everyone who has caught covid has given it to more people than gave it to them
185
You can be infected by multiple variants at the same time
186
Children do not need to catch Covid to build immunity
187
Covid infection in children can trigger swelling throughout the body called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (which means that Covid infection in children can trigger swelling throughout the body)
188
Covid can damage your optic nerve causing loss of sight
189
Covid can damage your olfactory nerve causing loss or distortion of tears and smell
190
Covid can damage your hearing..
One common hearing problem is tinnitus, a ringing, buzzing, or rattling in the ears
191
No wave will ever bring herd immunity
192
Covid is evolving to evade our bodies’ biochemical defence systems and the pharmaceutical treatments we use to fight it, but it will never ever be able to evolve to avoid hepa filters
193
It will only take one single new evasive variant to totally escape all the scant immunity that has been acquired from vaccinations and infections
194
Covid infection can have a massive impact on the menstrual cycle
(and vaccines can too to a lesser degree)
195
Women make up 70% of healthcare workers worldwide, a sector that has disproportionately suffered during the pandemic
196
A single covid infection can damage your lungs equivalent to 15 (fifteen) years of aging
197
Covid particles move in the air by diffusion, which means they spread out slowly through still air, decreasing in concentration, and they move by convection, carried on draughts, when they can potentially remain concentrated.
“There is still nothing beneficial about a covid infection”
I was trying to say
“There was nothing beneficial about a covid infection before vaccination, and there’s nothing beneficial about a covid infection now”
198
Asthma sufferers are at significantly increased risk during and after Covid infections
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