Denis - The COVID info guy -

Repeatedly getting Covid doesn’t build immunity, ‘it’s more like accumulating damage’

Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of Covid-19 on overall health.

"What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.

Source: https://archive.md/Qsv13

Mar 9 at 10:11pmWeb
Show threadMaxi 12x 💉Mar 9

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy »She says anyone over 30 is eligible for free booster vaccines. Ideally, these should be taken every six months.
"That protection is real, but it fades, so staying up-to-date matters."«

Rare informed recommendation!

Show threadNazoMar 10

@frumble @DenisCOVIDinfoguy Sadly that's *very* dependent on where you live...

Over here in 'Murka we believe everyone should have the "personal choice" to get sick and spread disease everywhere but no one should have the "personal choice" to not have to get sick because of someone else forcing disease on us. (Kinda feels one-sided if you put it that way...)

We also have a nutcase in charge of the FDA who may eliminate vaccines because... who even know what's going through his addled brain.

🤦

Show threadBroGleMar 9
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy exactly
Show threadKeithMar 9
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy They said boosters were best defense? Nothing about masking. Groovy.
Show threadRobynMar 9
@invadersil
Sadly Aotearoa has fallen victim to that culture war too, and it encourages those whose job it is to promote vaccination to stay in their lane.
Most of us are too polite to say anything directly to the few who do wear respirators in public. Online is a bit of a mess, with vitriol from those who still feel aggrieved by our successful response very much appearing in comments sections. The people who don't want to mask in public just seem to be quiet and it's hard to tell the difference between those who think you are clearly medically anxious and those who know it's possibly a good idea but don't feel confident doing it. Some of them maybe feel a bit defensive.
And no matter how low key I am in words there is a pretty clear implication that I think people should wear a mask when that's what I am doing
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
Show threadBeldarakMar 9

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Got it once. It fucked up my lungs forever. Nothing too bad but still annoying every single day :/

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 9

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Let's remember the names of the billionaires that funded covid disinformation like "herd immunity".

Koch Network
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/18/covid-herd-immunity-funding-bad-science-anti-lockdown

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/climate-science-denial-network-behind-great-barrington-declaration/

https://www.desmog.com/2020/10/26/american-institute-economic-research-great-barrington-declaration-herd-immunity-covid-19/

https://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/29/great-barrington/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/

The same billionaires brought cabinet positions in public health for kooks, Qrazies, & wingnuts.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/timothy-mellon-maga-millions-donor-trump-robert-kennedy-jr-1235058295/

Eugenics
https://www.ms.now/news/epstein-emailed-with-silicon-valley-elites-about-racist-eugenicist-ideas

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/how-epstein-channelled-race-science-and-climate-culling-into-silicon-valleys-ai-elite/

The pursuit of herd immunity is a folly – so who's funding this bad science?

Links between an anti-lockdown declaration and a libertarian thinktank suggest a hidden agenda, say scientists Trish Greenhalgh, Martin McKee and Michelle Kelly-Irving

The Guardian
Show threadbouriquetMar 10
@Npars01 Yes, we know all this and more.
I’m just impatient that we’re letting these guys continue to screw the country over with the help of the demented orange shitgibbon who thinks he’s in charge because the guy with the nuclear codes follows him around everywhere!
When does the insanity stop?
I’m serious!
It just keeps getting worse every week!
Do we finally wake up when he opens the Pandora’s Box of nuclear weapons? When it’s too late even to say “woulda, shoulda, coulda”?
Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 10

@bouriquet

When the oligarchs stop listening...

... follow Ukraine & Syria's example, mass protests & make the corrupt fly to Moscow.

https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-yanukovych-luggage/6741496.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/02/ukraines-president-voted-out-flees-kiev/100686/

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-880692

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/sheikh-hasina-gotabaya-rajapaksa-bashar-assad-viktor-yanukovych-russia-b2846383.html

Yanukovych Fled Ukraine With Only 'Hand Luggage'

However, video evidence shows that Yanukovych fled with many bags in two helicopters. CCTV footage from Yanukovych’s expansive estate in Kyiv shows that he began to remove truckloads of expensive items from Kyiv several days before he ultimately fled the country. Ukrainian Prosecutors accuse the ousted leader of having stolen perhaps tens of billions of dollars from Ukraine, and he currently lives an extravagant lifestyle in Russia.

Voice of America
Show threaddiana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Mar 10

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Repeatedly getting Covid is like repeatedly getting compound bone fractures of the pelvis.

Show threadNazoMar 10

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy I wish people could understand this. They have this belief that immunity works like exercise, but it generally doesn't and COVID-19 is not only no exception, but a very extreme opposite — every time you catch it it wrecks your immune system. Catching COVID-19 not only doesn't "work the immune muscles" it actually degrades them so to speak.

I don't think there's anything where catching it over and over has any positive benefits to the immune system? Definitely not COVID-19.

Show threadpinkmoonMar 10

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

The term “vaccine” is incorrect. Nanoparticles that produce a foreign protein is more accurate.

Show threadRobinMar 10
@pinkmoon If you have to be uselessly reductionist, at least do it right - the "nanoparticles" aren't producing anything themselves, they're hijacking our own cells to do it instead.
That being said, what's the point of your comment? Why was this important to point out on a post that isn't even primarily about vaccines? Also, what definition of "vaccine" are you using that would make the mRNA vaccines not fall into that?
Show threadpinkmoonMar 10

@das_robin

Yes, that's correct. This mRNA is packaged in nanoparticles as a means of transport. In principle, a virus does the same job. The cell produces a synthetic foreign protein.

https://hackenberg-hm.de/c-downloads/en/Post-Vac-Orientation-guide.pdf

Show threadRobinMar 10
@pinkmoon That doesn't answer why that makes it not a vaccine nor why you thought that would be relevant to bring up here.
Show threadFelis_Catus_DomesticusMar 10
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
Show threadChristos Argyropoulos MD PhDMar 10
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy I am being schooled on X and labeled as more rational by those who attend conference maskless
Show threadXCondEMar 10
@ChristosArgyrop if you’re still on Twitter, you kind of deserve it.
Show threadChristos Argyropoulos MD PhDMar 11
@xconde BDSM is a lifestyle choice
Show thread@iveylineMar 10
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy Sounds a bit like Dengue which has a cumulative imlact ultimately leading to death for some with multiple infections.
Show threadkosureMar 10
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy One of the best jokes from high covid times was "Each minute 300 men contract covid, 1/2 of them are Jair Bolsonaro."
Show threadCosmic LibrarianMar 10

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

My partner and I haven't gotten COVID. Got the vaccine as soon as it was available...gotten all the boosters and will get another updated COVID vaccine in the Fall, along with the flu vaccine. We still mask at the doctor's office and in crowded settings. I used to work with vaccines. I wish most people would get a clue about disease prevention and vaccines. It was a battle then, but worse now. Ignorant leaders don't help...at all.

Show threadquiligus 🇵🇸6d ago
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy Sorry guys but that is bullshit.