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1May 24, '24These videos of the queue up Everest and the aftermath of the cornice collapse that killed a couple of people... There's something about this that sums up so much of what's wrong w184×6.7M11k1.9k2.3k
2Feb 26, '25If you're old and slow like me, then that Trump Gaza video goes too quick to absorb its full insanity. So I took a few screenshots for you to digest at leisure. This is something g180×6.5M69k8k9.1k
3Jul 9, '24I met with a group of teenagers yesterday. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices an156×5.6M47k5.8k6.9k
4Mar 28, '25Genuinely horrific tweet. If this doesn't terrify you then you are lost.91.1×3.3M110k11k5.1k
5Mar 14, '25It will be the first company ever to lose one *trillion* dollars of value. Trillion. 1,000,000,000,000.90.3×3.3M73k8.4k2.2k
6Mar 5, '23Another massive holy cow huge piece of news, so this will probably get about ten likes and disappear into the twitterhole: CDC say this: "the virus that causes COVID-19, can have l86.9×3.2M18k7.3k2.8k
7Nov 28, '23A colleague has been complaining about his 'brutal cold' for a week that he swore wasn't covid. Someone just made him take a test before attending a meeting with some old folk, and78.8×2.9M45k3.2k1.1k
8Feb 20, '25Anyone noticed how Musk is getting more and more unstable with each passing day?46.2×1.7M55k3.1k703
9Jan 7, '23I'm old, so I used to work making buildings safe from airborne pathogens like Legionella. Do you know why you don't keep catching Legionella?45.9×1.7M15k2.3k674
10Apr 5, '25Do you know what narcissists do when they find out that they are spectacularly wrong? No? You're about to. And it's not pretty.44.6×1.6M51k3.5k1.9k
11Oct 12, '24I posted this this morning, then deleted it, then thought about posting it, then thought not... but here it is: This morning I arrived at my workplace early to set up for a meeting40.1×1.5M14k1.7k1.1k
12Jun 1, '25One of the brilliant things about the Ukrainian drone strikes on the Russian airbases by way of drones shipped close to the targets in shipping containers is that the only logical 38.6×1.4M19k1.6k722
13Feb 19, '23If mild Covid infections can damage your brain, you'd expect to see news stories about people acting aggressively, acting foolishly, acting recklessly, more anxiety, more anger, mo35.6×1.3M12k1.9k1.2k
14Jan 22, '25So... America... You're the current world centre of bird flu evolution with outbreaks in farmed mammals all across the country... And you've just turned off data reporting. That is32.2×1.2M69k9.2k2.3k
15Jan 15, '23Conversation with a cardiac ward clerk today. "It's like nothing I've experienced. People we would have expected to recover are dying all the time. I'm off for two days now and I j31.3×1.1M12k2.1k410
16Jan 17, '23I read a lot of Covid research. See my pinned tweet for the angle I view it from. I don't understand all the research, but here's what I do understand: Specialists representing eve31×1.1M9.1k2.6k1.3k
17Jan 18, '23If you've been following me for a while you'll know that I bang on and on and on about hepa filters. Turns out the world's richest and most influential use them. Also, I suspect, i30.9×1.1M6.9k2.3k664
18Jul 18, '23Grinning dinosaurs posing with the comet.28.5×1M20k3.5k255
19Jan 22, '23If you know that covid infects cartilage and persists in it, and you're not terrified, then you don't know what it means.27.7×1M7.4k1.1k652
20Feb 9, '23This is a brilliant segment by the @Todayshow about the direct connection between catching Covid and the raised risk of a heart attack. I had to keep pinching myself to check it wa26×944k6.5k3.3k1.4k
21Feb 5, '23When a parent says that their children were irrevocably damaged by spending two months at home with them, I think that says a lot about the parent, and not much about anything else24.8×901k15k1.5k209
22Dec 28, '22I am now more concerned about Covid than I have been at any point since April 2020.24.6×894k11k1.3k410
23Feb 8, '25Ten things every person in the world should know about airborne disease transmission *before* bird flu goes human to human:24.6×894k12k3.1k4.5k
24Jan 20, '23Today's hard conversation. Man in 50s. In the last six months he has had: Myocarditis Vertigo Intense tinnitus Intense waves of fatigue Narcolepsy He asked me: "Why is this happeni24.3×881k6k486239
25Jan 15, '23You should probably know in advance that when you develop Long Covid, there won't be a cure waiting for you at your doctor's. There won't even be much concern.24.1×875k12k2.3k512
26Feb 21, '23Wow. They're not messing around in Australia.22.9×829k13k3.8k644
27Jan 23, '23The good news is that there's no evidence that the effects of Covid last longer than 40 months.20.5×742k6.7k483139
28Apr 6, '25Former World Trade Organisation head: "Mr Trump learned to do business in the New York mafia-influenced real estate market and his tactics are based on extortion" Wow. That's blunt20×726k18k6.1k822
29Mar 20, '24You know the social group who the nazis executed first, don't you?17.8×645k7.5k1.5k1.2k
30Feb 9, '24The Spanish Flu comparison is an insidious one that I keep coming across. A woman in her late 50s said it to me yesterday. "do you know when the Spanish Flu ended?... It didn't!"17.5×634k7.4k1.2k1.1k
31Nov 23, '23I had an extremely weird conversation this morning with an aeronautical engineer who is wrestling with designing the next generation of planes and part of his focus is in strengthe16.9×614k7.8k1.5k1.1k
32Feb 6, '25When you read about the coastguard admiral being *evicted* from her home with 3 hours notice, bear in mind that 'ordinary Americans' followed the order to carry out that eviction. 16.1×584k19k3.7k659
33Jul 22, '23I'm going to say it again. People in the UK are catching Covid, not being tested for it, and dying within days. How do I know? Because I'm taking their funerals.15.4×560k6.5k1.8k394
34Feb 7, '25It is going to be heartbreaking watching Americans slowly realise what they have done to their country.13.7×497k18k1.5k392
35Jan 1, '23Message from surgeon friend today saying that he's beginning to suspect that repeat Covid infections are causing cumulative damage and that covid is harming immunity.13.3×483k6.9k1.1k245
36Mar 16, '25Have none of these people even seen The Omen.12.6×457k20k2.4k236
37Feb 27, '25Thank you, New York Times. But I think 'alarmists' might be the wrong word then?12.1×440k8k1.1k781
38Oct 28, '24I just passed a builder doing work on a house on our street. He was wearing an ffp2+ (n95+) mask because of airborne particulates from construction. I asked him if it worked. He sa12×436k10k1k551
40Jan 3, '23It's not "living in fear" to take sensible precautions to avoid a virus that doubles your risk of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease, and dementia, each time you catc11.4×415k12k2.5k360
41Feb 1, '23OK. So a huge problem here is that most people are looking at acute covid from an individual viewpoint and seeing low risk, when they should be looking at long covid from a societa11.3×409k6.5k1.4k346
42Mar 23, '25There's something I'm not understanding about the <deporting Venezuelans to an El Salvador supermax prison> thing. Well, several things, in no particular order. You don't deport so10.5×383k12k2.7k634
43Jan 6, '23I genuinely think that the next generation will not forgive us for what we have done to them and the world they will have to live in.10.5×382k9.2k1.1k112
44Sep 5, '24One of the strangest amateur diagnoses I have heard of was when a friend's teenage son came home from school and uncharacteristically swore at his mum. She put one hand on his fore10.3×375k6.5k688499
45Jun 9, '24Every day is a good day to remind yourself that King Charles has hepa filters in the reception rooms of his palace, and the economic forums require pcr testing, and the powerful ma10.2×371k9.1k2.7k606
46Nov 8, '24My first dissertation was on the causes of the second world war. Yes. I am qualified to tell you what times we are in now.10.0×363k12k9971.1k
47Aug 16, '23A friend was told by a doctor that they were being paranoid and threatened them with a referral for psychiatric care because they thought that they had ongoing symptoms after their9.8×357k8.3k907299
50Mar 12, '25I think it's worth saying this again: If you're an American general today and you're being asked to work on invasion plans for any other country -Canada Mexico Panama Greenland- yo9.5×343k15k3.1k244
51May 8, '24Reading this morning that the World Health Organisation quietly CLEANED THE AIR in their head office in 2020 while telling everyone that covid wasn't airborne. I was stunned for 309.4×342k6.6k1.7k647
57Jul 13, '23Him: "Why are you wearing a mask still?" Me: "You don't want what I've got." Him: "What's that?" Me: "A full and thorough understanding of how Covid is transmitted and what repeat 8.3×300k7.1k1.5k297
58Sep 2, '24I don't often push in conversations, but yesterday I pushed. Him: "Why don't we see T so much any more?" Me: "He has Long Covid." Him: "No, he doesn't, he has a post-viral conditio8.2×299k9.7k759419
59Jul 27, '24No f***ing kidding. 🤬 "Stricter Covid mask rules could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives, new study finds"8.2×297k11k2.5k522
60Apr 21, '25You're going to find it very hard to convince me that JD Vance did not kill the pope.7.6×276k19k1.6k205
61Dec 31, '22I know it will get me eventually, but here's to another year without catching Covid. 🥂*7.6×275k7.5k34228
63Nov 15, '24Ahead of a potential bird flu pandemic, I would give one specific warning: Be *very careful* about whom you trust for information.7.3×265k7.8k1.1k754
65Oct 6, '24Talking to a family of five who described their most recent round of Covid infection as 'asymptomatic'. Me: "Oh, so why did you test?" The Mum: "Because my mum was coming round and6.9×249k9.4k701325
66Dec 16, '24He's just a straight up liar.6.8×247k8.9k817161
67Jan 19, '23I have been genuinely gobsmacked this week by the widespread use of HEPA in government buildings and at events like Davos. I've been campaigning fruitlessly for HEPA in schools for6.8×247k6.8k1.7k136
68Jul 28, '24So it turns out that Covid is becoming like a cold in that you'll be able to catch it five times a year. But it's keeping the feature where it can infect your brain and heart and l6.8×247k8.4k1.9k704
69Jan 23, '25For two years I've been screaming this into an empty void: H5N1 bird flu does not need to go human to human for it to cause incalculable damage to the way humans live. 300 million 6.3×229k13k3.5k736
70May 20, '24People now: "Spanish Flu just went away on its own" People in Spanish Flu:6.3×228k8.2k1.8k416
71Jan 5, '23It drives me nuts that people in 2023 can understand that we need to filter and sanitise swimming pools, but can't see that we need to do the same for shared indoor air in virtuall6.2×227k7.9k1.2k100
74Apr 13, '25Yeah. Right here. Lovely folk. My Muslim nextdoor neighbours water my plants when I'm away. I'm a Christian priest, by the way, and when one of them had to go into hospital for a k5.6×202k12k1.1k129
75Jan 22, '25If bird flu goes human to human in America next week there will be no way to find out until it's too late. America is in a new dark age that will lead to disease and disaster.4.9×178k12k2.6k470
76Oct 7, '22Ten things twitter folks know about Covid that people on the streets don't.4.2×016k5.8k3.5k
77Oct 6, '24People now: "Spanish Flu just went away on its own" People in Spanish Flu:4.0×146k8.9k1.7k397
79Dec 7, '22Apparently there's a nasty mystery virus going around that is a bit like flu in the early stages, but can cause strokes and heart attacks and kidney failure and trigger diabetes an3.6×022k3.5k1.2k
80Jul 25, '24It's strange how masks work when it's billionaires' chauffeurs, and rock stars' personal assistants, and the doctors treating olympic athletes, and hollywood movie sets, but they d3.6×129k6.9k2k283
81Mar 19, '25People don't seem to grasp that 3° of global warming doesn't mean everything will be 3° warmer. It means that the extreme peaks will be 10-15° warmer.3.4×124k7.9k1.3k413
82Oct 9, '22They asked us to make personal decisions about risk based on the data then lied about the risk and removed the data.3.4×019k4.6k598
83Jan 6, '25This works for me.3.4×122k8k90482
84May 4, '24Hands up if you think there should be universal masking in healthcare.3.3×122k6.5k79856
85Sep 20, '22We've now had more admissions for Covid in the UK in the first nine months of 2022 than we had in the whole of 2021 or 2020, and, again, NOBODY KNOWS. That is INSANE.3.1×016k4.6k495
86Oct 14, '24Don't ever forget that your government upgraded the air filtration in its main government buildings during an airborne pandemic, but not the hospital you attend or your mum's care 2.9×104k7.1k2k269
88Apr 6, '25The two biggest acts of economic self harm in modern history have been Brexit and Trump. And both have been brought about by Russian misinformation campaigns.2.6×94k7.7k1.9k176
89Jan 22, '25If you hear "Please have compassion and mercy on the vulnerable" and think it's nasty, then you're an asshole.2.6×94k10k1.5k115
91Mar 12, '2281 people were beheaded in Saudi Arabia today. Saudi Arabia owns Newcastle United Football Club.2.0×09.5k3.5k48
92Dec 3, '22"How on earth could Covid infection cause kids to die of Strep A? What a ridiculous claim!" I'm begging you to read and share this reply to that question. The important point is in1.8×07k2.8k1.5k
93Oct 15, '22It is no accident or coincidence that the general public in many countries came to believe the lie that it's fine to catch and spread Covid.1.7×08.3k2.1k793
94Oct 8, '22Once more slowly for those at the back: Covid will be able to mutate past our immunity Covid will not be able to mutate past hepa filters1.5×08.8k1.8k228
95Aug 14, '22I think: a) there's a lot more Covid brain damage around than people realise b) people don't know what brain damage looks like c) it's cumulative1.1×07.2k922354
96Sep 2, '22Pilot friend has just admitted to himself, his family, and his employer that he has long covid and is no longer safe to fly. 😔1.1×06.5k1.2k262
97Nov 29, '22Why are some of the people who have gone 'back to normal' so angry with people who are still being cautious?1.1×07.2k797176
98Feb 18, '22Four deaths from Storm Eunice is a tragedy, and is rightly being reported on news headlines. 254 deaths from Covid today and every day barely even mentioned. There's something wron1.0×06k1.5k23
99Oct 22, '22I think: a) there's a lot more Covid brain damage around than most people realise b) most people don't know what brain damage looks like c) it's cumulative1.0×06.4k913345
101Oct 7This is going to be a big and significant thread. Maybe read this first part, then bookmark it, and come back and check it next week.0.4×13k16431120

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