JayNTO 🇨🇦Mar 22, 2023
Augie Ray

Hmm, deadly fungal infections are worse now.
Hmm, flu and RSV were bad this year.
Hmm, cardiac events are climbing.
Hmm, STD rates are rising.
Hmm, plane near-misses are rising.
Hmm, student absentee rates are rising.
Hmm, disability rates are climbing.
I'm sure that's all due to a set of random & unrelated factors and not because we're pretending a rapidly mutating virus that reinfects people frequently and damages brains, hearts and immune systems isn't continuing to spread.

#COVID19 😡 🙄 😷

Mar 22, 2023 at 9:34amWeb
Show threadBc Clarity Carlton-MartinMar 22, 2023
@augieray I am so glad you forgot fentanyl. We need a reserve terror trigger/anodyne for the ages. #Masking
Show threadAugie RayMar 22, 2023
@Clarity I'm sorry, but what does fentanyl have to do with COVID?
Show threadBc Clarity Carlton-MartinMar 22, 2023
@augieray Life It masks the 'excess deaths" that are Covid-related, making things worse. From a public health perspective any extra stressor adds a burden to our efforts to reduce entropy. Addictions/substance abuse cannot be excluded from the pandemic.
Show threadAugie RayMar 22, 2023
@Clarity Got it. True from the perspective of excess deaths and shortened lifespans. I'm not sure that's as relevant to the signs COVID damages our immune systems. Plenty of problems we should be striving to resolve, of course. I fear people are suffering from crisis fatigue, so we're simply allowing all the crises to just overwhelm and harm people.
Show threadBc Clarity Carlton-MartinMar 22, 2023
@augieray Immunity is a collective phenomena. In the human and scaled up, the community, is a fractal infection/reaction expanding through vectors from a single event/infection. The virus presented a novel technology and our immune systems lost a lot of ground in a very short period. I am hopeful stem cells will be a new approach to microbiological awareness and therapies. Thank You.
Show threadJedigal007Mar 22, 2023

@augieray

Interesting article about effect of Covid on immune system

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/sars-cov-2-infection-weakens-immune-cell-response-vaccination

SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination

NIH-funded study suggests need to boost CD8+ T cell response after infection.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Show threadAugie RayMar 22, 2023
@Jedigal007 Thanks. I shared that one yesterday!
Show threadJedigal007Mar 22, 2023

@augieray

I missed that. Quite interesting. Thanks for posting science!

Show threadTravlerMar 22, 2023

@augieray

Throw in Putin, Kim and Xi and a lot of those SciFi scenarios will come to fruition.

Ya reckon?

Show threadThe Polish DispatchMar 22, 2023
@augieray Augie, explanation for Candida Auris fungal infection is actually even worse:
https://mstdn.social/@ThePolishDispatch/110061693324485040
The Polish Dispatch (@[email protected])

CDC: alert about growing number of antimicrobial-resistant Candida Auris infections! Me, remembering @[email protected] episode from 2019, titled "Fungus Amongus": Yes, yes, yes! Looming climate catastrophe is happening, all warnings were known years ago, yet little we do/did. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0320-cauris.html [2] https://radiolab.org/episodes/fungus-amungus [3] https://jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/

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Show threadCGretMar 22, 2023
@augieray The anti-Vader’s are saying the vaccine is causing all these issues.
Show threadAugie RayMar 22, 2023
@CGret Of course they are, but why listen to people with no science behind their claims?
Show threadstephen judkinsMar 22, 2023
@augieray amazing
Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Mar 22, 2023
@augieray i despair at the thought of where we'll be after another 5 years of this
Show threadSteveBolognaMar 22, 2023
@augieray In a few million years, which is just a blip in time, humanity will be a razor thin line in geological terms.
Show threadRRBMar 22, 2023
@augieray You mean the dreaded "woke mind virus"?
Show threadGreySkiesMar 22, 2023

@augieray

I mean, some of these could indeed be attributed to other viral infections now thriving because people had no previous Antibodies/immunity to them anymore because of masks for 2 years, and/OR possibly reduced immunity due to previous Covid infections or a combination, but either way, the point is that public health is certainly not getting BETTER by letting Covid rip through the population :(

I mean, simply taking the fact that they COULD be related should ring alarm bells

Show threadEndlessMasonMar 23, 2023

@augieray How does COVID factor into airline near misses? It looks like they're mostly runway incursions / separation related

What's the mechanism?

Does covid make you less likely to follow radio clearances, or does it make you more likely to issue bad clearances?

Show threadDr. RebeccaMar 23, 2023
@augieray U.S maternal & newborn health outcomes stats are poor compared to other countries- we are getting current data now but it may take awhile to see COVID effects —since maternal & newborn health is often understudied.
Show threadJ.H.NoyesMar 23, 2023

@augieray

Immune resources are finite. Resources used to manage a chronic infection--particularly innate immune resources--can not be applied in defense vs pathogens acquired from the external environment. We see the same thing happen in HIV long before the disease progresses to AIDS.

@shayz0rz

Show threadYingtaiMar 23, 2023
Boosting the above for my followers. @augieray