I have said it before, and I will say it again: COVID is only just beginning. The reaping of the vulnerable, the crisis of ventilator shortages and mobile refrigeration units was just the prelude to a crisis of chronic disease unleashed by recurrent infections. It's like everyone took up smoking - ThreadSky

toshiakima.bsky.social • 133 days ago

I have said it before, and I will say it again: COVID is only just beginning. The reaping of the vulnerable, the crisis of ventilator shortages and mobile refrigeration units was just the prelude to a crisis of chronic disease unleashed by recurrent infections. It's like everyone took up smoking

Reposted from Dr Noor Bari

When we said this years ago on Twitter… based on maths… they said it was ridiculous.

Slowly, slowly… this train is pulling out of the station.

We’ll see what full speed looks like.

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

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mariewalsh18.bsky.social•132 days ago

Thankfully - I never got it..
Mainly because of the Vaccines &
Becoming a Recluse...

tuneberryjam.bsky.social•132 days ago

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amanda182.bsky.social•132 days ago

Excellent comparison to smoking, long term, incremental and devastating harms. If we are not going to do anything about it now, we should start taxing the indoor air polluters and disease spreaders for the inevitable coming enormous cost,just like we do smoking

amanda182.bsky.social•132 days ago

It was also fallacious and offensive to propose that reaping would only lead to the removal of vulnerable “useless eaters” which we are somehow meant to accept😡
it’s a genocidal term and we must reject it and its purveyors

andrebn.bsky.social•132 days ago

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toshiakima.bsky.social•132 days ago

It was a mistake to think that once the vulnerable with underlying illnesses ("useless eaters") had been reaped ("the price paid for progress"), the problem would burn itself out without impacting economic productivity.

toshiakima.bsky.social•132 days ago

We forcibly exposed workers and future workers to a debilitating chronic illness in the name of opening up the economy to forcibly generate capital. This was the greatest occupational health and safety catastrophe of the century.

amanda182.bsky.social•132 days ago

It should be a scandal. The unions meant to represent us everywhere need replacement, they have sat on their hands and said almost nothing about this anywhere that I am aware of. There has been almost no pushback😡

stathiosb.bsky.social•132 days ago

Yes and *let none of us forget* the refrigerator trucks at hospitals globally because people were dying by the thousands with nowhere to keep their bodies until funeral homes etc could process them. For US citizens: Trump knew the mode of transmission & the lethality but kept that secret.

paulbriley.bsky.social•132 days ago

Of the human race. People in the Spanish Flu pandemic and Black Death had more sense.

alvelda.bsky.social•132 days ago

Worse than smoking, really. Smoking mostly damages your lungs. COVID damages most of your organs, your blood vessels, your immune system, and your brain!

andersarmchairhero.bsky.social•131 days ago

The messaging around Covid has been dysmal.

My country, Sweden, is quite health conscious with the notable exception for respiratory infections.

If the message had been that catching Covid is similar to eating chips on the sofa while chain smoking the outcome would've been different.

archie-dermott.bsky.social•131 days ago

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rickjemmett.bsky.social•132 days ago

Just this week a good friend, or so I thought, described me as paranoid and self-righteous re my approach to COVID. I’m so very done with people.

a-better-world2.bsky.social•132 days ago

And yet still no one listens and their poor choices sadly affect those who are doing everything they can to protect themselves and others 💔 Thank you for your continued advocacy.

nbcovidinfo.bsky.social•133 days ago

I am devastated that we will never again experience the relative good health in society that I grew up with. It is going to be a brutal second half of my life.

a-dobbie11.bsky.social•79 days ago

Initially I thought the same. COVID will disable an entire generation of humans.
It will likely be MUCH worse.
We will likely see many medical atrocities never before seen in human history.
Heart attacks & strokes in children, health teens & middle-aged will be more prevalent in the near future.

a-dobbie11.bsky.social•79 days ago

I'm not being all doomsday. This is the reality we will face if COVID infection is not PREVENTED.
We must treat a COVID infection like a stroke or heart attack because it is. It just takes a little more time to happen.
A COVID infection is like fast-forwarded atherosclerosis.

a-dobbie11.bsky.social•79 days ago

Major difference is that COVID is the driver of inflammation and vascular damage, not poor diet and lifestyle.
This is why every COVID infection, regardless of age or stage of life, is deadly.

a-dobbie11.bsky.social•79 days ago

A COVID infection interacts with LDL radicals for sure.
You may think this only happens to someone with high cholesterol.
Not true.
I have never had high cholesterol and COVID plaques formed very quickly (months-4 yrs)
I'd been taking anti-inflammatory meds/diet the entire time too.

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