#COVIDisAirborne
: For Dummies
✅ How to convince any IPC team still stuck on droplet & AGP viral transmission dogma
1. VIROLOGY LOGIC:
SARS1 was airborne, so SARS2 is airborne.
Simples!
That's why
@WHO
didn't want to call it SARS2, see?
From an NHS colleague
‘Walking down a corridor outside oncology clinic. All patients masked. None of the staff are’
☣️ NHS staff know face masks help protect their patients; why have they suddenly lost their minds?
This unprofessional nonsense has to stop
#COVIDisAirborne
Reading this paper just triggered a fight-flight response
TL/DR
☣️ SARS2 has 'learned' to suppress immune responses against itself, favouring early re-infection
☣️ SARS2 'parents' help their 'progeny' via negative immune imprinting
See why I'm scared?
If you are unfortunate enough to be admitted to hospital, please wear a respirator
YOU must protect yourself against SARS2 inhalation, because Gov guidance is set to push for a return to normal, mask-free, airborne transmission amplification
It’s madness
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Today I asked my kids if they would be OK wearing face masks in class
Son, 11, was fine; started pimping his FFP2 with his favourite Pokémon
Twin sister’s head dropped & lower lip wobbled
“I’m scared the girls will whisper & it makes me think that what I am doing is wrong” 😢
London theatre visit: no masks
Catch ‘a cold’, with anosmia 🤨
4 days later chest pain on walking
6 days after that -> heart attack Tn>50,000 (a big one)
She’s only 56 & had no cardiac risk factors; previously well
If you knew the air was dangerous you’d wear a mask, right?
Primary school children in Devon now getting reinfected 2 months after first dose of a virus that depletes T cells & has multiple adverse effects on brain, lungs & blood vessels
We have no idea of the long term harms
There is no rational management plan
Nothing to see here 🇬🇧
How have public agencies colluded with Gov so effectively, that instead of being recognised as an act of mutual respect & concern for others, wearing a face mask can be seen as a cause for shame?
In science, as in life, the most interesting details & surprises often come from secrets; what's never seen the light of day
I think now's the right time for one such 'secret' to be revealed
It concerns
@WHO
teams, & the word 'airborne'
#COVIDisAirborne
/🧵
Derriford 'Covid surge' sees 5 wards turn red
This is where I work
Dangerous central IPC guidance, poor infrastructure & NHS culture have combined to create this crisis
Until all accept & embrace airborne mitigations, it’s going to get a lot worse
Covid: Workplaces told to plan for absences of up to 25%
Is anyone else struggling to understand why this ‘plan’ for mass infection is deemed necessary?
50 yo previously fit & well; completed a triathlon, & has place on London Marathon 2023
🔵 Mild SARS2 infection Mar 2022
🔴 Heart attack Oct 2022
Her life will never be the same again
‘the government must stop gaslighting the public & be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses to them & the NHS’ 🙃
Dear journalists
Once, you clapped for us. Gov-led death of healthcare is the story of a lifetime: will YOU help protect the NHS?
💥 Health board reintroduces masks for hospital staff and visitors
☣️ Cases & staff absences soar after mask mandate dropped
🤔 Who could ever have predicted this?
@AlisonGeorge10
H/t
@Geraint6Jones
When the immune system cannot clear viral infections, what happens?
☣️ Hepatitis B/C -> liver cancer
☣️ EBV -> multiple sclerosis
☣️ HIV -> AIDS
The immune system cannot clear SARS2 infection ⬇️
…what will happen?
@JohnSnowProject
@fitterhappierAJ
We have a new preprint out today on biorxiv examining the ability of NK cells to kill SARS-CoV-2-infected cells! tldr; they’re pretty terrible at it.
A tweetorial: (1/11)
I recently received what I interpreted to be a thinly veiled rebuke for suggesting that it was unwise for NHS staff to hold a meeting in a crowded room, unmasked
I guess it's easy to lose sight of reality when being force-fed a diet of pandemic lies?
My twins both got COVID19, age 10y.
Eddie woke up this morning feeling like he had COVID again, 11 days after infection. He cried.
Early days, we’re so lucky - could be so much worse - but I’m appalled that senior scientists actively chose NOT to try to prevent this.
A rant 👇
So that’s another previously healthy adult struck down by ‘mild SARS2’ causing heart failure - LVEF 20%
@CMO_England
& co want every adult to be repeatedly infected - preferably by kids - to ‘ensure’ non-severe SARS2 disease every time
Friends, this is the road to hell
🚨 UK public interest message: letter to my MP
'As a hospital doctor since 1995 I am writing to explain that due to the mismanagement of the SARS-CoV-2 [SARS2] UK epidemic, the health service is in a state of chaos and crisis.'
#COVID19
#COVIDisAirborne
‘Even after 30 days of use, the mask still scored over 99%’
Anyone else use their purchased respirators for [community protection] weeks on end without having an issue?
⬇️✅ data to usefully inform this practice
@JohnSnowProject
@Iamgoingtosleep
@akm5376
@microlabdoc
Given how much training, teamwork, care & dedication is required to get someone through major surgery or serious illness, to say that I’m livid that dirty ward air can undo all this good work in an instant, is a massive understatement
@JohnSnowProject
👋🏻 cardiac electrophysiologist here
🚨Don’t get AF
Please wear minimum N95/FFP2 when in shared indoor spaces outside the home
Why?
The NHS is no longer fit for purpose; now’s not the time to get sick
Thanks
Measles transmission is airborne, yet the best
@UKHSA
teams can come up with is this
What about letting in some fresh air?
What about face mask (preferably respirator) use?
Why is the UK health security agency so weak on public health messaging towards cleaner air?
@SMHopkins
Can we discuss experiences of hospital SARS2 outbreaks?
You know, all those cases occurring despite perfect droplet & fomite IPC?
Staff off sick, untested patients unknowingly acting as superspreaders, vulnerable patients dying?
I'll start
A friend of mine told me...
My kids are pretty tough, & they know the evidence
God knows they’ve overheard convos about this these last 2 years
My kids even know that [FOI] data affirming the BENEFIT of face masks in schools has been used as an argument AGAINST face masks in primary school age kids
PS Evolution to mild is bullshit
I know you both know this but for the benefit of you know who lying bastard 'scientists' here's a picture I made a while back to help dispel this myth
Pity the ad men are in the ascendency right now, but that will change as the 'scales' fall...
Dear
@QMUL
,
I would like to nominate
@dgurdasani1
for an award for services towards combating disinformation during the pandemic.
Deepti has never given up fighting for the truth to be known.
How about it please? 🏅
Are
@QMUL
aware this person has been attacking a group of parents asking reasonable questions with ad hominem and incorrect/ misleading smears for close to 2 years?
This does nothing for trust in public health, and reflects terribly on the university as others here point out.
Emails between Mark Woolhouse &
@JeremyFarrar
21st Jan 2020
MW: Just to be clear - you don't think it will go global, or it will?
JF: It will
It probably already has
So many asymptomatic, very mild infectious individuals who can transmit - sort of worst hybrid of flu+SARS!
So the HEPA filters are on full whack at home, but the kids have come back from school coughing & snotty
Bit antisocial wearing FFP3 at home
So how long will the HEPA hold?
Will my medic wife & I get through this winter without being disabled by SARS2?
#COVIDisAirborne
True story, Mar 2023
79yo admitted for emergency coronary stents
🙏🏻 A life saved thanks to decades of research & staff training
Few days later an unexpected heart attack
Angio shows copious clot in all coronaries - SARS2 PCR+
RIP thanks to disinformation & dirty NHS ward air
If you are unfortunate enough to be working at an NHS Trust whose IPC team slavishly follow such Gov guidance, please wear a respirator
YOU must protect yourself against SARS2 inhalation because you will have no idea who around you is infectious with SARS2
It’s madness
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Hospitalization of Infants and Children Aged 0–4 Years with SARS2
🚨 5x greater rate of hospitalisation during Omicron vs Delta surges
Will this be a wake up call for ‘let it spread’ minimisers?
H/t
@dgurdasani1
via
@CDCgov
But even my daughter can wobble at the thought wearing a face mask in class
They both took masks in. I don’t know what will happen; HT has promised to help 😇
I just want my kids to be happy & healthy & I know masks in class will help
🙏🏻
#RebelsWearRPE
There's much more to say but I'll leave it at this:
Is the world's health safe in these people's hands?
Can we trust them to tell the truth?
Can we trust them to lead with honesty & integrity?
#COVIDisAirborne
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Superb expose of historical documents from
@WHO
&
@CDCgov
confirming bad science: THERE NEVER WAS EVIDENCE of droplet transmission
So why wouldn’t WHO IPAC teams listen to the 239 scientists telling them that SARS2 was airborne, July 2020?
7 slides showing that neither CDC nor WHO presented evidence for the existence of droplet transmission
You may have seen this from the WHO most pandemic refs refer to it - note lack of evidence (its not in 5), and in the def or aerosols it says 'its not yet clear'
🚨 According to
@NHSEngland
’s recent ‘YOU MUST BEHAVE NORMALLY & NORMALLY = DON’T TALK ABOUT SARS2’ IPC missives for NHS Trusts, SARS2 no longer transmits in offices
For real
Staff need only protect each other against this deadly pathogen in clinical areas
Good luck
I pledge solidarity with medical colleagues in Australia living in fear
Fear of
@Ahpra
action towards discipline/dismissal on the basis of false claims of ‘undermining confidence in public health’
We know the negligent actions of our PH leaders, YET 🇦🇺 MEDICS ARE BEING SILENCED
Dear 🇬🇧,
Re: children, schools & Covid19 (pics)
☣️Long Covid: ~530,000
☣️Hospitalised: ~38,000
☣️Critical, requiring PICU: ~6,100
☣️Death: ~380
Please write to your MP.
It doesn't have to be wordy, & it could make all the difference.
Thank you 💙🙏
☕️ PATHOPHYSIOLOGY LESSON
In human disease:
🔴 Myocardial ‘damage’ can be silent
🔴 Pulmonary ‘damage’ can be silent
🔴 Renal ‘damage’ can be silent
SARS2 can cause all these things, therefore:
🔴 Brain ‘damage’…you do the math
Only on Twitter could I be told that despite feeling 100% recovered from having had Covid, I still might have brain damage without even knowing it.
If that isn't fear mongering, I don't know what is.
It's a bad enough virus without inventing stuff about it too.
SARS2 conversation of the week
Scene: Unnamed ward, mixed red & ‘green’ patients, doors open…
Approached by consultant colleague [CC] wanting to make a referral
Me: Hi! But what’s with the surgical mask haven’t you seen the red zones & open doors?
Revealing interview with JVT 07:55
@BBCr4today
Gov-linked advisers will be looking at ICU admission rates & lethality of SARS2; case numbers alone won’t influence policy making
Result: WE ARE IN DEEP SHIT WITH FLAWED THINKING LIKE THIS
Why?
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🚨NEWSFLASH
True statement from Dame Jenny Harries
'while top grade respiratory facial protection is effective for SARS type viruses, the masks being used by the UK public offered much poorer protection'
Why are SARS2-facing HCWs still denied top grade respiratory protection?
🚨 Just heard of a fantastic example of NHS clinical leadership
✅ Staff purchased air cleaners (HEPA) for their department out of charitable funds
😮 Trust said it was a waste of time
😇 But staff know
#COVIDisAirborne
🤔Who is cleaning your air?
@JohnSnowProject
@chrischirp
Clinical teams are discouraged from performing SARS2 testing
e.g. testing only permitted if febrile AND flu-like illness AND increasing O2 requirement
This appears to be in breach of NHS Trust obligations described in the Health & Social Care Act 2008
'Living with' = look away
CC: yeah the only reason I’m wearing this is because I’m told to. Right now anywhere in public I’m not wearing a mask
Me: so you’re happy giving me your pre-symptomatic SARS2 then?
CC: pause
Can I just make the referral? I don’t want to have this conversation
Some doctors ⬇️
The use of the name "SARS-CoV-2" was deemed too sensitive for the WHO-China Joint Mission Report.👇
Was then mentioning the outbreaks in China that clearly indicated airborne transmission also “too sensitive” for these
@WHO
officals?
WHO-China Report:
When you turn on the tap is it safe to drink?
When you unwrap the food is it safe to eat?
When you leave home, is the air safe to breathe?
🚨 BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
✅ Wear a respirator
✅ Ask your boss: WHO IS CLEANING THE AIR?
✅ Ask your Gov: WHO IS CLEANING THE AIR?
@JamesTodaroMD
@dockaurG
@ProfKarolSikora
@FatEmperor
Dear people, please understand: the crux of these assumptions lie on prior t cell immunity, and the virus is one step ahead in this regard; it kills cd8+ t cells. Please refrain from chasing 'herd immunity' in lieu of the vaccine.
This is damning. By removing prov mask mandates last yr, Alberta set up an internal experiment between schools boards. The province's own analyses found:
"School boards without mask mandates have 3 times more outbreaks in their schools, on average."
(Feb. 7/22)
#ABEd
1. Long Covid will obliterate the workforce. It will, sorry
2. Even if vaccinated, every SARS2 infection risks later hospital attendance & have you been to an ED recently, or tried to call an ambulance?
ANYTHING increasing pressure is to be avoided - it’s a catastrophe even now
25th March 2020*
"Hi JVT. It's a bit late; what's up?"
"Steve, we need your help. Bloody medics are kicking off about the guidance change. They're refusing to see patients without FFP3"
"I thought the airborne HCID declassification was meant to sort that?"
[*Unverified date]
Should we have acted on the precautionary principle prior to APRIL 2020 when it was established that
#COVIDisAirborne
?
We still aren't doing so now!
2/
@kate_raindrops
Yes & it’s hard to be part of a visible minority mask wearing culture isn’t it?
I even feel like this at work, & I’m a cardiologist in a UK teaching hospital
🚨 10th Mar 2020
‘I respectfully suggest you move from ‘calm voice of authority’ mode to ‘hair on fire’ mode & have the UK move to social distancing & care for the elderly at home ASAP’
David Hunter, Richard Doll Prof of Epidemiology & Medicine, to Prof Chris Whitty
☕️ break pandemic query
Dear
@Ofstednews
Now that 🇬🇧 teaching staff are allowed to attend work even when testing COVID19 +ve, will your inspections require a declaration of how many known infectious teachers are on the premises?
@karamballes
@dgurdasani1
@trishgreenhalgh
TO CONCLUDE
WHO IPC teams are behaving like a wounded animal
☣️ Misinformation tweet not redacted
☣️ Multiple attempts to misrepresent the observable nature of reality are refuted
☣️ & NOW THEY JUST TRIED TO LAY CLAIM TO THE WORD 'AIRBORNE' & THROW IT OUT OF THE DICTIONARY
/22
'Bold action is now needed to ensure that the science of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is freed from the shackles of historical errors, scientific vested interests, ideological manipulation & policy satisficing.'
Thank you
@trishgreenhalgh
&
@Ozbilgin
🙏💙
Cambridgeshire schools asked to bring back masks - BBC News
‘Jyoti Atri, director of public health for the area, said masks were a "sensible precautionary measure".’
Bravo Dr Atri 👏
Now a good plan UK-wide?
@jimmcmanusph
@dgurdasani1
🚨 Friend called 999 at the weekend
10 mins later, still no one had picked up…
When you next need emergency care, did you know that your car is your ambulance; your friends & family, your paramedics?
SARS2 is a health service killer
@JohnSnowProject
🚨🚨Team
#COVIDisAirborne
this looks like the real deal
@WHO
teams embracing reality, & the word AIRBORNE
Technical advisory group co-chairs Lidia Morawska &
@nancyleung_hk
Also
Raymond Tellier
Julian Tang et al
AND
🚨John Conly !!
Is this what repentance looks like?
BREAKING: WHO unequivocally uses the word “airborne” to depict infectious particles transmitted in the air (fits with “waterborne”, “foodborne” etc). Hopefully this easy-to understand terminology will be used throughout WHO.
CONTEXT
Cast your mind back to 2021
We're in ongoing
#COVIDisAirborne
denial
☣️WHO 'It's NOT airborne' tweet Mar 2020
✅Pushback from aerosol scientists July 2020
☣️WHO reactionary COVID19 IPC work of bias fiction, July 2020, denying airborne transmission beyond AGPs
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I have never, nor will I ever have a private practice
Happy to discuss my reasons openly online, but
@nick_coatsworth
has just given me another
H/t
@AshFWH
One such night they got 3 swabs and all were positive
15 staff had to go off sick
All staff adhered to perfect droplet & fomite IPC with FRSM-wearing throughout
I am told no outbreak investigation has been done
Have your IPC teams done any better, or is this 'living with'?
But reviewers disagreed
😇
So what's an embattled WHO IPC team gonna do when their own research has been 'outed' as importantly biased? In plain sight & irrefutably demonstrated to be flawed?
What would a cornered, dangerous creature do: give up, or fight?
/4
We are being force fed the ‘it’s over’ narrative
But thanks to unmitigated SARS2 transmission there’s only one thing that’s over: high quality healthcare
Will any 🇬🇧 leader speak up against this nonsense? 🙏🏻
Probe of ‘Criminal’ Health Worker Deaths from Airborne COVID Transmission Blocked by Government
“the largest single health & safety disaster to befall the United Kingdom workforce since the introduction of asbestos products”.
But was this avoidable?
Physical laws 101:
‘Airborne SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the ward on all five days before activation of air/UV filtration, but on none of the five days when the air/UV filter was operational’
Who’d a thunk it?
h/t
@huwwaters
@mjb302
@LawtonTri
@microlabdoc
@hughes_eilir
Things I wish I’d been taught as a medical student:
☣️ The air we breathe is a breath-exhaled biologically active ‘soup’
☣️ Poor indoor air quality can be lethal
🙏🏻 It doesn’t have to be this way.
#COVIDisAirborne
@andymoz78
We really need to start seeing buildings as being important for delivering healthcare as the flashy scanners etc that we put in them. They’re not places for saving money, and maintenance is essential not some boring thing that can be ignored.
4. The world now understands that respiratory viruses are transmitted via the airborne route. The world doesn't need to be told that they have no right to think this for the simple fact that different study teams have used slightly different words & references...
/15
It was quite a large room, but with only one window ajar & 15 medics doing handover, I checked the CO2.
☣️ 1004ppm
So I opened the other window.
Few mins later, CO2 550.
Imagine how much safer we’d all be at work if the NHS provided CO2 monitoring?
@mjb302
@microlabdoc
Outbreak investigation in an Irish meat processing plant using air quality measurements.
Study confirms and supports important role of ventilation & air filtration in the prevention of superspreading events.
🙏
@johnwenger9
#covidCO2
#SafeIndoorAir
👉
What have I learned since Jan 2020?
🚨In a crisis, ‘outside track’ expertise can act as a crucial sense check & can be life saving
🚨When ‘inside track’ experts stop listening to pain in the ass [sometimes] dissenting voices from scientists outside the field, disaster awaits
4) “AEROSOL TRANSMISSION PREDOMINATES” says Fauci. In other words,
#COVIDisAirborne
— and everyone who once insisted that it wasn’t airborne were absolutely DEAD WRONG and have blood on their hands. They know who they are. We remember.
& what do you think of DfE misusing UKHSA research in this manner, denying primary school age children the opportunity of better protecting themselves, their friends, family & teachers against SARS2 with face masks?
I wonder how many are disabled as a result?
How many died? 😷
CC: yeah but expose any population to a huge stress and you’ll get all sorts of symptoms
[basically suggests long covid is mainly psychological]
🔴This is a medical doctor I’m speaking with
Me: But if you were in Germany you’d be chucked off a bus if you weren’t wearing FFP2
I met a nice lady (ward patient) yesterday who, seeing my respirator, promptly put on her surgical mask
So instead of diving straight in to asking what was most concerning her & how I could help, I opened up a bit about infection control in hospitals
All the talk over the last few days about how the scandal of the post office was out in the open for years but mainly ignored by politicians and media has similarities with covid in schools
"I am glad that in the UK we never mandated masks for young children
Thankfully
@UKHSA
/ PHE and, yes, our politicians, made it more about science/evidence and an appropriate interpretation of the precautionary principle than partisan politics/tribalism"
Let me tell you a story
@UKHSA
Gov-linked medics who suggests hand washing as a useful means to reduce SARS2 transmission & yet fail to recommend wearing a respirator, purely seek to advertise their & their colleagues’ anti-reality narratives
We know what you’re doing here: it’s immoral; please do better
It's like I & many others trying to help save lives have been saying since April 2020:
☣️SARS2 transmission is airborne
☣️SARS2 transmission can occur from those w/o symptoms
Trouble is WE don't work in PH messaging!
But I hope, in sharing empirical truths, some were saved
THEY CHOSE TO FIGHT
Better sit down; it's unbelievable
It involves VIPs at WHO; some are on twitter
Nathan Ford, Chair, Guidelines Review Committee
@mvankerkhove
@allegranzib
April Baller
Lisa Askie
On behalf of WHO Rapid Review Group for COVID19
/5
‘Ontario will offer N95 masks to school staff when classes resume next week, a move that comes after unions and parents have long called for the measure.’
Protecting school staff against inhalation of SARS2; whatever next?
@globeandmail