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The Personal Risk Assessment Fallacy: thinking you can judge COVID risk accurately. Assumes informed choice & structural support that don’t exist. Ignores asymptomatic spread, airborne transmission & long COVID.

Is COVlD going away or... Are we about to get slammed by the BA.3.2 variant? 🔥🔥🔥

CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) has today issued this press release ahead of next Thursday's publication of the Inquiry's module 3 report: tinyurl.com/CATA-press-rel…

I keep seeing people say, "this is the sickest I've ever been, it's so much worse than COVID."

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

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CAN99 hanging on doorknob so I never forget to mask up before opening the door for deliveries . #flu #covid #rsv #sick #home

A respirator can help prevent... When will the public understand this basic concept?

@scott_squires Also helps reduce exposure to particulate matter (PM 10, PM 2.5, PM 1), wildfire smoke particles, traffic pollution, brake dust, tire wear particles, general smog, pollen, mold spores, soot, ash, airborne microplastics, etc etc

This one image explains 99% of people with vaccine hesitancy. They make a very basic statistical fallacy, not looking at relative populations of vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

A Swiss study found that sharing classrooms drives viral transmission significantly more than brief close contact. Consequently, improving ventilation is likely more effective than solely reducing proximity. nature.com/articles/s4146…

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves. Read the full article: whn.global/covid-is-diffe… #COVID #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #SARSCOV2

Every school has a policy to protect those with a peanut allergy (1-4%), but 8.2% of American children have Long Covid (climbing every day) and 100% are susceptible. Children didn’t consent to having their lifespan cut in half or being sentenced to a life in bed. Clean the air!

@BioLayne Became clear in 2020 and still true now. The "follow the science" crowd now ignores data on repeat infections, airborne spread, and long-term effects. Admitting it's real means facing that their choices caused harm, so they act like it's over.

After 25 years in this game I feel very confident in saying that the vast majority of people are NOT interested in learning They are simply interested in consuming more information that reinforces what they wish to believe to be true Frankly, it has gotten to the point where I question if this whole thing is a colossal waste of fucking time Years ago I thought it was just stupid people. Then I realized that even really smart people often suffer from these delusions The reality is the vast majority of people can't deal with the discomfort of something challenging their personal beliefs & will do olympic level mental gymnastics to avoid changing their beliefs no matter how many facts you provide.

Holy shit, after 5 years Health Canada finally put out engineering guidelines recommending people wear N95s, clean indoor air to reduce viral load, and admitted COVID is airborne. Based canada.ca/content/dam/hc…

It’s a slow-moving spiral: first their health, then their grades, then their future. Those for whom Covid looms very present are feeling forgotten, subject to pervasive skepticism and a kind of cultural fatigue when it comes to their illness. 🔗 rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

A $20 box of KN95s can keep you and your family off of GoFundMe trying to pass around a collection plate to pay for your $75,000 ventilator that your insurance doesn’t cover and the weeklong hospital stay that will bankrupt your entire family

I missed this when it came out. Review of organ damage from covid and long covid pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

Another article came out that is suggesting that ventilation doesn’t work in classrooms. Does it actually showthat? No. Does it find out anything new? Also, no. Straw Man Science? Most definitely. Let’s get into this 🧵

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