JVM Lost

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

🚨 BREAKING: Dangerous Virus With No treatment or cure Spreads Rapidly Across the U.S. New Map Reveals Who Is Most at Risk Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is spreading across the U.S. there’s no specific cure, and wastewater data now confirms widespread transmission nationwide.

We have proof that NATTOKINASE can dissolve the "un-dissolvable" clots seen in long COVID. New research shows how NK breaks down fibrinaloid microclots, the tough structures that usually resist your body's natural defenses. Here's the breakdown:

Right?!

My son is one of them

This needs to go so much further. Covid is a linings, immunity, neurological, clot disease that masquerades as vascular disease masquerading as respiratory disease. And in the absolute absence of vaccinations, the way to stop it is mechanical: ffp2+ masks bmj.com/content/bmj/39…

(He has been isolating / wearing masks even "after the pandemic ended")

That’s crazy! How fascinating!

Does it bother anyone that on average, it takes more than a month to feel recovered after a cȯvid infection? Even if you care more about the well-being of the economy than the well-being of people, isn't everyone feeling unwell for at least a month of every year, like, not good?

Jesus Christ. This is going to go so badly.

In 2026 there will be more mass media articles and commentators ridiculing people taking precautions to avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection while simultaneously hundreds of pieces of research will be published further demonstrating the long-term harms of infection. Ignore the ridicule.

In short: ➡️ SARS-CoV-2 uses more than one trick — from protein antagonists to RNA manipulation — to suppress the immune system and improve its chances of survival. 3/3 academic.oup.com/narmolmed/arti…

New research shows that SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t just enter cells — it actively manipulates the host’s RNA machinery to weaken immune defenses and help the virus survive longer in infected cells. ➡️ The virus’s RNA interacts with different types of host RNA through a sophisticated pairing mechanism, disrupting normal cellular processes and dampening immune signalling. This is another way the virus evades early immune responses. 1/

Jesus Christ

My bench test results for the AirFanta Wear wearable air purifier are complete. I tested and mapped the 0.3 micron filtration at 90 different distances, in 1 cm increments with an AeroTrak optical particle counter. I tested both fan speeds. Fan speed 1 worked best and is shown here. The Wear is very effective if you are very close to it and on center, which is possible to do because it is positionable. But it is very directional, so much so that you may need to decide whether to point it at your nose or mouth, because that small distance between the two matters. The Wear is a potentially useful tool that can give significant protection if it is well positioned and you are careful to keep your head in the right position when breathing. This can be a challenge because the Wear is body worn, not head-worn, and does not move with your head to maintain the distance and orientation required for best protection. It has a 5cm diameter clean air zone at the face that gives respirator-grade protection but past that, 1cm can make the difference between 35x cleaner air and 4x cleaner air as turbulence mixes the filtered air at the edges of the purifier's air stream with unfiltered ambient air. How much filtration you need is a bit subjective depending on your application. If you want to reduce allergy symptoms, any amount may be useful, with more being even better. And using the Wear in situations where you previously weren't going to take any precautions is all upside. But you need to be careful about risk compensation, which is when you take on more risk than is warranted by the protection you are getting. Such as deciding to not use the N95 you were going to wear to visit a relative sick with flu other airborne disease and use the Wear instead. The Wear isn't meant to be a 1:1 substitute for respirator grade masks. Another thing to consider is that N95s help you keep your own germs to yourself The Wear and other personal air purifiers do not. So if your goal is to also protect others from getting sick, then it's better to use an N95 or other high quality source control respirator. I'll post the "as worn" PortaCount N95 mode testing and more details soon, with tests of the Wear in different orientations and distances, including with head and body motion. You can check out the heatmap spreadsheet here: #gid=22114007&range=A11" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… (h/t to @RolandSB13 for suggesting N95 mode PortaCount testing for the as worn tests that I'll be posting.)

🔥 Kids & COVID: The Receipts They Don’t Want You to See People keep saying “COVID is harmless for kids.” So here’s what large studies from the UK, US, Kazakhstan, Brazil, India, and elsewhere actually show. Short version: COVID can affect kids’ hearts and blood vessels for months to years. Repeated infections increase risk. And we still don’t have long-term data on what repeated vascular hits mean for children. The early signals? Not nothing.

Is it inexplicable? Or is it par for the course with them?

A worthwhile thread

This is how people are misled, through the absence of information

Doxycycline helps calm an overactive immune system (aka cytokine storm) and stops active replicating viruses (aka viral reservoirs)