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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 4d

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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 4d

🔥No treatment for LC, affects millions Canadians. “But we do have prevention tools: clean indoor air, high-quality respirator masks..Vac won’t stop transmission, but it helps reduce severe acute disease.”The tools are here. The question is:🔥why we are choosing not to use them?

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 4d

🔥No treatment for LC, affects millions Canadians. “But we do have prevention tools: clean indoor air, high-quality respirator masks..Vac won’t stop transmission, but it helps reduce severe acute disease.”The tools are here. The question is:🔥why we are choosing not to use them?

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Otafuku3 @otafuku3.bsky.social · 5d

「人々はLongCovid のために住まいを失い、住まいがない場合、再びCOVIDに感染する可能性が高くなる。

政府は、現状維持と国民を落ち着かせ管理下に置くことを優先するあまり、人々をミスリードし、うまくいくことを願っているように見える」

Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 6d

🔥”People have lost housing because of long COVID & are more likely to get COVID again if they are unhoused.

Governments, in the interest of maintaining the status quo & keeping the population calm & under control, seem to be misleading people & hoping for the best.”

www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm

Governments, in the interest of maintaining the status quo, seem to be misleading people and hoping for the best.

www.thespec.com

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Thimbleberry @robber-fly.bsky.social · 5d

“Every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles.”

Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

“parallels to HIV & concluded “that SARS-CoV-2 is much more than a respiratory virus-it is a complex immunomodulator that targets central defense cells themselves.”

COVID is “an existential threat”.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

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reneke.bsky.social @reneke.bsky.social · 4d

"Die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über das Risiko wiederholter COVID-Infektiomen für die Gesundheit von Kindern sind eindeutig. Eltern werden dringend gebeten Vorsichtsmaßnahmen zu ergreifen, darunter das Tragen von Masken, Impfungen und die Förderung gut gewartet und korrekt kalibrierten Belüftungssystem in Schulen."

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 5d

1. My background is in CBRN defense. I was involved in the field long before the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.

I used to essentially discount comments on social media - especially this platform - as fringe, not representative of the real world. Sadly, this is no longer the case.

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

GD is it hot in here or is it just me…

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

still helps reduce severe acute disease. “The tools are here.

The question is:

🔥why we are choosing not to use them?”🔥

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thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

🔥”No treatment currently exists for long COVID, which affects millions of Canadians. “But we do have prevention tools: clean indoor air, high-quality respirator masks, testing & smart avoidance of exposure,” explains Bar-Yam. Vaccination won’t stop transmission, but it 1/2

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

🔥”The weight of science on the risk repeated COVID infections can pose 2 children’s health, is “no longer murky”🚨urges parents to take precautions, including masks, vaccinations, advocating for well-maintained & properly calibrated ventilation systems in schools”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

Related. 2023.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

We Need a Revolution in Clean Indoor Air | The Tyee

Why it will take re-engineering, not just medicine, to close the door on COVID.

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

The current scientific consensus not only accepts that clean air saves lives but is belatedly shaping new engineering protocols for schools and hospitals that, with other measures, could eventually help end the pandemic.”

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thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

🔥🔥”actions that should flow from the realization that COVID is 🚨primarily airborne-a fact once denied by the World Health Organization & dismissed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

actually improves lives and strengthens communities. The purpose of action is the public good.”

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thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

physicians, scientists & community organizers can act on what reality requires & not partisan or special interests & their priorities. It is about restoring links between knowledge, responsibility & benefits of co-ordinated action, the kind of action that

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

🔥”Bar-Yam recognizes that in many places COVID & concerted public health responses to the risk it still poses have been politicized along polarized lines. So he recently started Unpolitics. The initiative is dedicated to “rebuilding connections & creating a space where people1/3

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

like Epstein-Barr or shingles.

An epidemic of shingles, for example, is now afflicting young Chinese adults who have just recovered from a bout with COVID.”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

🔥”science now says about COVID infections, whether they appear mild or severe?➡️EVERY infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes & heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline & dementia; for deregulating the immune system & for reactivating viruses

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

After just a few years, the decline is visible. A few more, and

🚨large parts of the population may be
🚨too impaired to function effectively, leaving us
🚨without the collective ability to respond.” 2/2

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

🔥”Brain fog’ is not a metaphor; it is evidence of structural loss,” he adds. “We see it in the research, & we see it around us. I have friends getting sick repeatedly, losing clarity, judgment & capacity. This threatens everything our societies depend on. 1/2

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

🔥”American Journal of Preventive Medicine Focus that

draws some disturbing comparisons between repeated COVID infections

& untreated HIV infections,

noting each can cause chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion & accelerated biological aging.”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

“recent surveillance data from Canada’s hospitals shows between 25 and 50 per cent of patients hospitalized with COVID were infected 🚨inside health-care facilities over the last two years.”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

“something that public health discourse has largely neglected: “We may be living through a slow-moving immune decline crisis.”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Sass @sasswashere.bsky.social · 5d

cardiac injury with accelerated aging”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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