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88,803 more people died than expected in Canada (excess deaths) from Jan 25/20 to May 5/23. Nearly double the deaths of WWII or the 1918-20 flu pandemic. Today @bmj_latest launched a series explaining why Canada's COVID response should be investigated. bmj.com/canada-covid-s…

Covid infections can cause strokes, heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms in the post-acute phase. Even if the acute infection is mild. Even if you’re vaccinated/boosted. Even if you’re healthy. Even if you’re young. Even if you already caught it before and have “hybrid immunity”

World leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann has declared the future burden of long COVID to be "so large as to be unfathomable". He has published a scientific review of long COVID in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4157… Listen to the full podcast here: rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Confirmed COVID deaths: 6.94 million Estimated excess deaths during the pandemic: 23. 81 million (range: 17-31 million) #estimated-excess-mortality-from-the-economist" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ourworldindata.org/excess-mortali…

@Lord_grimz @sbkaufman For us, I could see my son had learning challenges. My mom, a retired teacher, could see he was very bright. The school saw him as just avg, not needing help. After paying for a psych ed assessm't, turns out he's highly gifted w/ a learning disability.

@sbkaufman Any bullet point signs to look for?

Did you know that many gifted kids also have learning disabilities? It's called "twice exceptional" and there's an entire field dedicated to supporting bright and creative children who also have significant challenges blocking their growth: amazon.com/Twice-Exceptio…

We have made a grave error in confusing our bodies' immune response to encountering a virus (e.g., fever, runny nose, cough) with the DISEASE caused by the virus (e.g., brain cell fusion).

As I predicted, deaths from COVID in April of 2023 are nearly identical to deaths from COVID in April of 2022 This is what endemic means In December of 2022, COVID killed three times as many people as the flu In April of 2023 COVID killed thirty times as many as flu

C0VID & excess deaths: The last 3 years have seen a very big increase in total deaths in the world. As this analysis from The Economist shows, C0VID is responsible for basically all of it. 2022 worse than 2020 XS death rates still high in 2023 economist.com/graphic-detail…

Sigh. Masks worked - for the first 2 years that we wore them. Compared to 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦 averted: - 95,000 deaths - 483,000 Hospitalizations - $42 Billion in costs Only 5% of 🇨🇦 was infected until the Great Unmasking™️ of 2022 Now 90% of 🇨🇦 has been infected, many several times 😢

Never, at any point in time, did the unvaccinated die at a lower rate than the vaccinated from COVID-19. Elderberry, sea-moss, magical tea, prayer, the infinity gauntlet... None of these things offered protection from COVID-19. Not a debate... ourworldindata.org/grapher/united…

Talk about mixed messaging. On one hand, the WHO sends the biggest possible signal to stop worrying, and then later says we still need to worry! This is very typical of an agency that has repeatedly failed to rise up to these challenges. When this all started, they could have rallied the world to counter the disease with real airborne precautions, stuff we’ve known since SARS1, focusing on the quality of indoor air. And people would have listened… we could have avoided lockdowns, people could have seen their relatives safely in hospital, businesses could have stayed safely open, and trillions of dollars in economic output saved, and we would have had enduring protection against future respiratory pandemics. Instead, a few entrenched figures with careers to protect, kept any action from being taken and here we are today. Instead of ventilation upgrades we got ‘6 foot distancing’ Plexiglas and millions of gallons of hand sanitizer. This outdated guidance is still pushed by some authorities even to this day! Except for a few Asian countries, no one has been about to spell out exactly how to live this new reality, between absolute panic, and absolute denial. The topic has become taboo, that even mentioning the word here will get this post off the algorithmic feed. Now we have the worst of all worlds; we watch our life expectancy numbers plummet, our elderly and vulnerable facing a good chance of disability or death literally every time they get infected, and everyone else facing a decent chance at disability each time, and all we have is an antiviral which is hard to get, and a vaccine that barely works to prevent infection. This sh*t needs to be made into a movie.

Hope is not a strategy.

1,128,404 Americans have died of COVID-19, with 1,300 more still dying every week. 250,000 American children have lost a parent. Millions of Americans are suffering from long COVID. Loneliness may not be the worst thing about the pandemic.

We locked down when we knew nothing about COVID. As we gain information we know it is worse than we thought. It is a neurotropic, cardiotropic virus that suppresses the immune system and is possibly the most transmissible virus we have seen. So, we drop all mitigation measures.

Until the medical community understands that COVID is not a simple respiratory illness we are going to have problems. It is unbelievable how many still consider it a minor nuisance like a cold.

He's right of course. I'm resigned to the likely reality that my life may not be nearly as long or as healthy as I expected it to be in 2019. We *could* try to solve this problem together, with solutions like improved indoor ventilation, but we have chosen denial over action.

Basically I put humans at higher risk for everything except caring about one another.

Remember: - Covid is the leading cause of death by infection - Covid is a blood vessel disease not flu - Covid causes new onset autoimmune disease - Vaccines don't prevent covid - Covid isn't seasonal - Long covid can come months after covid None of this is front page news

Big waves aren't the main problem now. Full ICUs aren't the main problem now. Deaths aren't the main problem now. The main problem now is the sustained high baseline of infections/hospitalizations, impacts on many organ systems, long COVID, and rapid variant evolution.