David HembrowDec 25, 2022

It's Christmas Day. Who wants to read bad news ? Not me. But unfortunately even today the national broadcaster of the Netherlands, NOS, is spreading absurd fake news about covid.

Just yesterday I read how the concentration of covid in our sewers had reached the second highest level of the entire pandemic and today the NOS is still enthusiastically telling everyone that it's perfectly OK to pack themselves into churches, restaurants etc.:
https://nos.nl/artikel/2457656-kerken-en-restaurants-zitten-vol-kerst-na-twee-jaar-volop-gevierd

Be careful out there. The pandemic is not over. People are still getting ill, getting long-covid and dying in huge numbers. #gaslighting from governments and news outlets is not helping us to beat #covid, and of course it's not only covid that we need to avoid because we also have lots of influenza, RSV and other opportunistic infections spreading easily due to the compromised immune systems of people who have had covid.

Kerken en restaurants zitten vol; Kerst na twee jaar volop gevierd

De afgelopen twee jaar werd het kerstfeest ontsierd door coronamaatregelen. Dit jaar kunnen we het weer vieren zoals we gewend zijn.

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Show threadWendela Waller
@hembrow I had no idea that one (or more?) covid infections can weaken your immune system? I was under the impression that it would be good if we built up herd immunity so that the virus dies out? Where can I find more info on that statement?
Dec 25, 2022 at 9:28amMastodon for Android
Show threadDavid HembrowDec 25, 2022
@wendelawaller Unfortunately we've been repeatedly lied to about immunity, but you might have noticed that despite all the immunity that or community is supposed to have by now that people are still getting sick. There's a fairly good article here which includes that amongst other myths, work quite a lot of links:
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/
Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay | The Tyee

We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.

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