Marc Veldhoen

Opportunistic Infection

These are infections that occur more often or are more severe in people with weakened immune systems than in people with healthy immune systems.

This is most well-known from HIV infections and immunocompromised subjects, but NOT SARS-CoV-2.
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Feb 25, 2024 at 9:32pmWeb
Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
These infections are frequently caused by microorganisms that we carry with us, but our immune system keeps them under control. This includes Candidiasis, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, Klebsiella, Salmonella, Coccidioidomycosis, toxoplasmosis, HSV and tuberculosis.
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024

It has been shown that HIV weakens the immune system and that as a result, opportunistic infections specifically occur in those infected with HIV, now it is AIDS.

Some keep claiming SARS-CoV-2 causes immune damage or dysfunction. There is no data for this.
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
They may bamboozle you with acute infection data, when there are very active processes ongoing, or with data from longer-term infections where there is still immune activity measurable and pretend this is "exhaustion". None of this is true for those with immune knowledge.
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
To substantiate their point they cherry-pick data from often small local outbreaks of infectious diseases. These outbreaks happen, they happened before SARS-CoV-2 and will continue to happen. Importantly, these infections are not associated with only those infected with
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
SARS-CoV-2. These infections show characteristic starts and ends, they do not linger in those infected, which they would if there was immune damage. They are often regional, like hot spots of Measles outbreaks, mainly in those not vaccinated against measles.
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
The accounts spreading such messages, at seemingly every opportunity, do enormous damage. They do something very similar as those nasty accounts trying to connect every death (even those that have not died) with the COVID-19 vaccines to spread fear and sell supplements.
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
Both these movements, anti-vax and zeroCOVID, are unscientific. They operate from a pre-conceived conclusion and cherry-pick data to try and substantiate their incorrect stance. This does incredible damage to public health and science, and will damage society: all of us.
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
Try and look beyond such accounts and their scaremongering, think about your mental health, from those around you and the society you wish to live in. SARS-CoV-2 is a nasty virus, but it is not special. Our immune systems deal with it, especially now we have gained immunity
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Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 25, 2024
To my colleagues: please be aware of how anti-vax and zeroCovid terms and jargon enter our vocabulary. Try and avoid using its terms and, however tempting to loosely write an introduction and spice it up a bit; please do not include pseudoscience and make it seem legit.
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Show threaddushy911Feb 26, 2024
@marc_veld On that screen shot you highlighted the account is only asking for respirators & HEPA filters in schools. I think that's a good thing regardless of what's going on with COVID, no? Less pollution, less already stressed/sick people in hospital getting any virus etc.
Show threadMarc VeldhoenFeb 26, 2024
@dushy911 yes, better air is always a good thing.
Show threaddushy911Feb 26, 2024
@marc_veld Thanks for highlighting this - it's so hard figuring out if these outbreaks are something new. The news is obviously sensitized to it so we hear about it more. Do you have any scientific lit you can link to doing any comparisons between pre 2019 & now?