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Autoimmunity in Children Post-COVID: A Silent Risk
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Dr Carol Bird
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Dr Carol Bird
@CallMeSafetyMom
Rural generalist doctor in Australia. Ex Brit. Fan of rigour and epistemological humility. Not a fan of populist politics and where it’s leading us
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Dr Carol Bird retweetledi
Collignon is talking eugenic nonsense - revealing openly the minimiser manifesto - we constantly spend more than $50K on chemo to control just one person's cancer - even when they have a terminal condition. That's just one obvious example of how rich civilised societies apply resources because we have basic ethics & morals. To let people die en masse in order to keep the cafes open is just wrong.
Denis - The COVID info guy -@BigBadDenis
Diseases expert says pandemic planning must put a dollar value on life. "Collignon told ABC radio Canberra on Wednesday that health economists generally valued a life at about $50,000 per year of good-quality life."🤦♂️ @CollignonPeter #eugenics Source: theguardian.com/australia-news…
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Dr Carol Bird retweetledi
This is all so simple in terms of concept, and rock solid in terms of science, yet it is proving so hard to get it into the mainstream. The inertia is phenomenal.
At this point, our failure to ensure good indoor air quality in public spaces amounts to mass deliberate self harm.
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Dr Carol Bird retweetledi
7/ If the CO2 is high in an indoor space - and I'm not going to go into specifics on CO2 values in this thread - then the options are:
Leave the space
Ventilate the space
Filter the air in it with a HEPA air purifier
Wear an N95 respirator
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6/ ... more and more certain the longer time is spent in an indoor space in which someone with an airborne-transmitted infection - COVID, RSV, flu etc - has recently spent time. Eventually, it becomes a near certainty with very short periods of exposure.
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5/ How do you use a CO2 monitor to keep yourself and others safe? Simply: high levels of indoor CO2 in spaces shared by others, like buses, classrooms, offices, represent a high risk of infection. As levels increase, then infection starts to become...
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4/ It is imperative that we improve indoor air quality as a matter of urgency. In the meantime, I suggest people consider using a CO2 monitor to assess the safety or otherwise of indoor air, like - conflict of interest alert - the excellent Aranet4:
co2radical.com.au/buy-aranet4-ho…
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3/ In summary, a high indoor CO2 level does not just signify poor standards of ventilation and that you are rebreathing large amounts of other people's air. It also signifies air which is 'friendly' to the virus and keeps it alive and capable of infecting people for longer.
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2/ By 3000ppm of indoor CO2, about 30% of the virus stops decaying at all. Can you imagine what this means for a school bus, where CO2 levels can reach 9,000ppm?! This helps explain why there is so much mass infection on the way to and from school camps.
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1/ This is stunning. It isn't just that a high indoor CO2 level represents a poorly ventilated space, but that raised levels of CO2 (from as little as 800ppm) slow down the rate at which SARS-COV-2 decays. At 3000ppm, the effect is dramatically magnified. Watch the video:
tern@1goodtern
Al Haddrell is awesome. ❤️👇 Watch this *brilliant* explainer of how higher CO2 levels aren't just an indicator that there is more exhaled air in a room, but a boost to viral airborne longevity. 🔥🔥🧯🧯👇👇
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"Everyone's encouraged to take precautions to stop the spread of COVID-19, RSV, flu, and whooping cough."
Except, obviously, by doing anything which might work, such as improving ventilation, cleaning the air or wearing an N95 in appropriate spaces.🤣
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…
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Dr Carol Bird retweetledi
The price of long cvd is high for those struggling to regain their former health.
Attempts to obscure the name & scale of post viral syndromes are morally, medically & scientifically bankrupt.
My thoughts in @thenightlyau this week (no paywall)
editions.thenightly.com.au/ccidist-ws/the…
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Dr Carol Bird retweetledi
January 2020. They knew they didn't have the PPE for an airborne pandemic, so by March 2020 they made it into a droplet pandemic.
Then hundreds of thousands died needlessly, including so many HCWs. Then the leaders got knighthoods.
David R Tomlinson 🇺🇦💙@DRTomlinsonEP
💥JVT on HCW H&S ‘The historical statutory HSE position is that max level PPE is required. This was neither affordable nor practical for pandemic stockpiling. The diff between PH/clinicians & HSE’s statutory viewpoint have to my knowledge never been resolved’ #BREATHTAKING
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@TheRMH Thank you all so much for wearing N95s at work, helping to break that chain of infection and showing such wisdom and compassion and a great example to others. Merry Christmas!
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From everyone at the RMH: Merry Christmas!
Our dedicated elves/nurses/docs are on duty if you need, but we would love to hear that you are safe with your loved ones at home.
Stay safe, plan ahead and drink responsibly. For emergencies, please dial 000.
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I don’t know what the Question Time issue was but I do know that this thread is an accurate summary of the way the world works now. One feels like a conspiracy theorist when one questions majority narratives. Thank you for helping me feel less of an outlier
George Monbiot@GeorgeMonbiot
1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious. Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it? The grim truth seems to be: yes. 🧵
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Fit tested N95 masking works
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Yes. It could. Allowing, and, in fact, encouraging, mass repeat infection is the most reckless act imaginable.
abc.net.au/news/2023-11-2…
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The advice to ‘wear masks in healthcare if concerned’ fails the vulnerable & those that think they are invulnerable & those in between - so that is - yes - everyone.
Advice so mediocre it wont flush. It is floater advice.
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Yes it is. You can buy Auras and other N95s, including all sizes of Tridents, at www..co2radical.com.au
Prof Marc Tennant AM@MarcTennant
Time to expand wearing. If you are with vulnerable people or visiting in poorly ventilated spaces... With the state of community spread time to get n95 on
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I've had thousands of encounters with SAR-CoV-2+ patients and never caught it once. I wonder why? #COVIDisAirborne something…something…?
Andrew Hewat@AndrewHewat
Their own data:"About '70 to 80pc' of Victorian healthcare workers with COVID-19 caught it at work, Government reveals" Aug 2020👇 We don't need to keep reinventing the wheel. In 2020 HCWs were eventually provided N95s to arrest the nosocomial infections. abc.net.au/news/2020-08-2…
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