It occurs to me that

#LearnToLive with #COVID #massinfection

is structurally similar to

Learn to live with #massShootings in the US.

There is the same coordinated lassez-faire policies resulting in rollback of risk management, regulation & continuous safety improvement mindset, with the corresponding same minimization & false narratives of the consequences.

This is an exceptional article about #COVID #risk #minimization techniques. I wish I had written it. I recommend it to anyone who takes #SARS2 #RiskManagement seriously.

tl;dr? Here is a brief summary🧵

https://howtohideapandemic.substack.com/p/how-to-hide-a-pandemic

The article summaries the techniques of #risk #mininizers, who while telling you to do your own #riskAssessment are also engaged in *propaganda* (and I choose that word advisedly) to establish a different narrative with the objective of manufacturing consent for #massInfection

You cannot #RiskManage what you do not see, think about, talk about or measure. If you want to manage your COVID risk, you need to understand, think around & through the minimization techniques.

I wrote about this recently in my Raven Rock post, where similar techniques were used during the cold war. As a society, we have done this before, with the risk of nuclear war. And currently, with the risk of climate change.

Thank you @anarchademic for highlighting it. I have subscribed.

A friendly reminder.

#SARS2 #Reinfection is not benign, every reinfection carries additional, compounding risk.

#Vaccination reduces mortality risk, but *it does not eliminate it*, and for some outcomes, does not change the hazard ratio.

These are the statistics that justify why you should continue to #WearARespirator in the face of our current lassez-faire repeating #massInfection policy.

Al-Aly et al, "Acute and postacute sequelae associated with #SARSCoV2 reinfection", Nov/22

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

#COVID19 #Risk #COVID

#JohnSnowProject are just awesome.

Read this to put the sword to the next minimizer trope - #MassInfection is Protection

SARS-CoV-2 and "Textbook" Immunity

https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/textbook-immunity/

#SARS2 #sarscov2 #Covid19

On Normalcy Bias by @jessicawildfire

"A disturbingly large portion of the public seems totally unmoved by stories of children dying in hospitals.

Many of us have struggled to understand how tens of millions of decent people could possibly act like this. Normalcy bias explains everything. Like it or not, they’re doing what their brains have evolved to do."

https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/its-not-cool-to-overreact-how-normalcy

#massinfection #NormalcyBias #sarscov2 #COVID19 #pandemic

#SARS2 #Mutation rate is increasing due to relaxation of NPIs and #LetItRip strategy #MassInfection

A video from Diego Bassani, based on NextStrain data. Source: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/all-time​

#covid19 #epidemiology #LongCovid