#sars2 — Public Fediverse posts

Hospitals are dangerous places. Air purification would mitigate the risk. Too bad most infection control professionals have voted for job security over patient safety, as I recently experienced up close and personally.

This is by no means the first paper to make these points.

> Despite good air quality (mean CO2 614 ppm), 39% of air samples had SARS-CoV-2 RNA.

> Hot spots for risk in the emergency ward include the acute care and waiting area.

> In critical care, hot spots include the tearoom and corridors near infected rooms.

> The risk of nosocomial outbreaks may be mitigated through air purifiers and masks.

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosol and surface samples in high acuity hospital settings during community epidemic waves – implications for risk-based infection control

https://www.resmedjournal.com/article/S0954-6111%2826%2900080-6/fulltext

#CovidIsAirborne #sars2 #covid19 #infectioncontrol

2025_8_19 The symptoms are coming from inside the house.

2026-3-9 edit: A previous version of this page held steps you can take during the acute infection to lower your risk of Long Covid, or lower the severity of how a reinfection will worsen your existing Long Covid.

Information on supporting a FULL recovery from SARS-CoV-2 is now more accessible on its own permalink page here, or from the top bar: Information > Got a Covid Infection?

https://www.illmarks.com/symptoms-are-coming-long-covid-prevention-tips/

#allergy #art #backToSchool #backtoschool #besafe #bodyHorror #bodyMapping #cdc #chronicIllness #covid #covidIsAirborne #covidIsNotOver #covid19 #covid19 #covidcompetent #CovidIsntOver #environmental #health #healthcare #longCovid #longcovid #maskUp #maskup #mastCell #mastCellActivationSyndrome #mastCellDisease #mastcell #mcas #medArt #medart #medblog #medicalArt #MillionsMissing #pwme #SaltingTheVibes #SaltingTheVibes #sarsCov2 #sars2 #sciArt #SciArt #WearAMask #WearARespirator

Learn from history. HISTORY INCLUDES THE PAST FIVE YEARS.

Statistics Canada is not falsifying huge datasets. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231208/dq231208a-eng.htm?HPA=1

The Tyee is not falsifying long form reporting. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/07/02/What-We-Can-Do-Long-COVID/

McMaster researchers are chasing health, not grants. https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/long-covid-what-you-need-to-know-about-post-covid-19-condition/ (though "can last months" should read "can last months, years, or perhaps never end.")

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #SARS2 #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #CovidCompetent #COVID #StatisticsCanada #statistics #history #publicHealth

BRAIN SHRINKAGE found after covid infection. Participants had brain scans prior to the pandemic as part of an unrelated study. Those who had been infected with #SARS2 showed a distinctive pattern of shrinkage on their scan results.

The orbitalfrontal cortex & parahippocampal were diminished, shrunk, in people who had experienced a #covid infection, compared to their pre-pandemic #brain scan. Harm to these areas is associated with:

⬇️ empathy
⬆️ aggression
⬆️ risky behavior
⬆️ Alzheimer’s
⬆️ schizophrenia
⬆️ memory issues
⬇️ navigation skill
⬇️ smell/taste acuity

🧵⬆️ more detail in this thread

Video explainer: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/iSQdBk4P-SEwM0BSG.mp4

#Samara #SamaraSARS

New: #Video explains #brain scans of those who’ve had #SARS2 vs never #infected

People who had covid showed BRAIN SHRINKAGE - usually in the orbital frontal cortex & parahippocampal gyrus (#memory #smell)

#Samara #SamaraHealth #SamaraSARS

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/brain-shrinkage-linked-to-covid-19/vi-AA1wLy7H

get air filters. Don't like masks? Can't wear respirators? Filter your air!

Push your local school(s) to fundraise for air filters.

https://medium.com/@carlvank/luchtreiniging-air-purification-hepa-5dd2c728ef8f

https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/can-we-clean-covid-from-the-air-around-us/4016017.article/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/01/11/Revolution-Clean-Indoor-Air/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7027e1-H.pdf

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.12968

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/em/d4em00114a

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/33/3/033321/1064105/Transmission-and-reduction-of-aerosols-in#_i33

https://www.bfmmagazine.co.uk/air-purifiers-for-schools-study-results-pave-the-way-for-long-term-corona-strategy

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00086-22

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02786826.2021.1877257

https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(23)00078-6/pdf

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/1/e97/6414657?guestAccessKey=248e14cc-d920-4782-99b7-634e47cdaa0e

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/air-filter-significantly-reduces-presence-of-airborne-sars-cov-2-in-covid-19-wards

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8314194/

#covid #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongHaulers #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #coronavirus #SarsCoV2 #SARS2 #air #Filter #AirPurifiers #IndoorAirQuality #CO2 #AirQuality

If the Canadian COVID-19 Forecast has helped you, *please* help them get funding by filling in an an anonymous survey, and spreading the link:

https://zeroes.ca/@[email protected]keup/112770267603270742

And if you don't know about their work, check out https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index/ - at this point I think they're the only modelling group still doing Canadian forecasting.

#CovidIsNotOver #COVD19 #COVID #SARS2 #Pandemic

We should stop caring about whether or not the #LabLeak hypothesis is true.

This is NOT like the fight around #airborne transmission. Knowing will NOT change what protections work and should be used, nor help us assess risk.

It is both wise to ban gain-of-function research on human-transmissible pathogens AND it is wise to ban large wildlife markets.

#MaskUp, #CleanTheAir, layer more #swissCheeseModel defenses, and look to the future.

1/🧵

#SARS2 #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #LabLeak

"If You Love Being Alone, There's Nothing Wrong with You." rising on zeroes.ca

But it's all relative

I just hate being alone less than I hate being around reality deniers

Dangerous, unceasing reality deniers

Hissss

#SARS2 #COVID #COVD19 #CovidIsNotOver

Reminder: a housecat that can bite through your skin is unlike a tiger that can puncture any organ!

SARS-CoV-2 is unlike all common colds, because it can infect almost every organ in the body (through ACE2 and synctia) unlike every common cold.

"Vaccines have not turned covid into a common cold."

"Multiple infections will not turn covid into a common cold."

https://www.donotpanic.news/p/why-covid-can-never-be-just-a-cold

#ACE2 #SARS2 #COVID #COVID19 #maskUp #CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver

I can see why https://www.donotpanic.news/p/why-covid-can-never-be-just-a-cold is rising on the #zeroes list.

Accessible and packing citations, it might help people who are on the fence to understand and risk model.

Takeaways:

"Vaccines have not turned covid into a common cold."

"Multiple infections will not turn covid into a common cold."

SARS-CoV-2 is unlike all common colds, because it can effectively infect almost every organ in the body (through ACE2) unlike every common cold.

But like SARS1.

#ACE2 #SARS2 #COVID #COVID19 #maskup #CovidIsNotOver

Waiting until a #virus is #chronic before doing anything about it doesn't make sense to me.
Not #mandating #masks in #medical setting until there's already a high-level of #infections in a #pandemic doesn't either. When #SARS2 #covid creates extra pressure, they only suggest #medicalmasks & not more effective #FFP2 & #FFP3.
#WHO said it's not an #emergency now but people saw this as it being over.
https://onthewight.com/mandatory-face-masks-return-to-university-hospital-southampton-to-protect-against-high-levels-of-viruses/?mc_cid=9a5b3cd8ea
#CovidIsNotOver #longcovid
#health #NHS #vaccines #COVIDisAirborne

This is an exceptional article about #COVID #risk #minimization techniques. I wish I had written it. I recommend it to anyone who takes #SARS2 #RiskManagement seriously.

tl;dr? Here is a brief summary🧵

https://howtohideapandemic.substack.com/p/how-to-hide-a-pandemic

The article summaries the techniques of #risk #mininizers, who while telling you to do your own #riskAssessment are also engaged in *propaganda* (and I choose that word advisedly) to establish a different narrative with the objective of manufacturing consent for #massInfection

You cannot #RiskManage what you do not see, think about, talk about or measure. If you want to manage your COVID risk, you need to understand, think around & through the minimization techniques.

I wrote about this recently in my Raven Rock post, where similar techniques were used during the cold war. As a society, we have done this before, with the risk of nuclear war. And currently, with the risk of climate change.

Thank you @anarchademic for highlighting it. I have subscribed.

@EricCarroll
The trick is to wear a properly fitted mask that doesn't fog up your glasses. Which I do.

#Ocular #transmission #SARS2 #CovidIsAirborne #CO2 #SARSCOV2 #ACE2 #COVID19 #transmission #Virus #COVID19 #riskManagement #COVID

I used to have a sail boat. One of the most important #safety rules in sailing is "don't sail on a schedule".

What this means is that if you have a destination & a deadline, you will override safety signals (like weather) & travel in unsafe conditions due to deadline pressure. This is how serious accidents happen while sailing.

Planning for sailing puts an emphasis on having a checklist that includes having situational awareness of issues like boat condition, charts, & weather by explicitly checking the marine weather forecasts.

Also you have to be prepared to bail on your destination & schedule if the safety signals change. You have to know where your closest port is to seek shelter if a storm arises.

It occurred to me that the #airbornePrecautions equivalent is "don't be task focused on a deadline".

The need to get a task done by a deadline causes you to lose situational awareness, & accept risk that you would not otherwise accept if you thought your safety plan through ahead of time.

This is exacerbated by the total lack of a danger signal in society right now. No mitigations visible. Out of sight, out of mind.

This bit me yesterday getting a vaccination from an unmasked pharmacist in a small room. I took a risk I should not have, because I lost situational awareness under the drive to get the task done. I never would have accepted that risk in my pre-thought out safety plan. But it just popped up in the middle of the task, & I let it slide because I wasn't situationally aware.

Now, ofc I was wearing #P100 #elastomeric so the risk here is relative due to #DefenceInDepth. My event was ocular exposure during high water mark for community transmission, not being maskless. But it is not a risk I would have taken in a pre-thought through safety plan.
And that's the big deal now. Every little ordinary task needs a safety plan.

It's frustrating. It's exhausting.

When it goes wrong, when the safety signals change, when you get off plan, you have to be prepared to "bail". Halt a task, walk out, cancel, reschedule. Find a safe port in the new storm.

I should have refused entry with a maskless pharmacist. Cancelled, requested accommodation & rescheduled.

This is a kind of risk "velocitization" that happens. I am getting velocitized into one-way masking even during high #community #transmission periods. Everyone else but me unmasked is the new normal.

This is how accidents happen - a bunch of little issues leading to an unwanted, unplanned outcome.

#SARS2 #sarscov2 #COVID19 #riskManagement #risk

Striche zählen genügt leider nicht!

Wenn nur ein Strich im #Schnelltest zu sehen ist, muss er bei C (Kontrolle) sein. Ist er bei T (Test), ist der Test defekt und tendenziell positiv.

Dieser Test war nach dem Verfallsdatum. Leider mit tatsächlich positiver Probe.

#Corona #RAT #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2

Slide 13, Quest of the Virosols

Clustering is a key element for superspreading events

Commonalities among superspreading events include indoor settings, crowds, exposure durations of 1 hour or more, poor ventilation, vocalization, and lack of proper mask-wearing.

Source: http://aerosol.nsysu.edu.tw/en/scopes/108

#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisOngoing #SARSCoV2 #COVID #SARS2 #superspreading #superspreader #superspreaders

🤯 Wow.

#SARS2 invading the whole (mouse) body in visualized form.

Compelling visual evidence that this is not a respiratory restricted virus, but in fact a whole body #vasculitis

Why vasculitis?

Because #SARS2 binds to the ACE2 receptor, which is *everywhere* in your body.

Especially your blood vessels.

Check this out, & consider what it might be doing to your body.

#COVID19 #LongCovid #sarscov2

Great overview of the #AAIDS pandemic.

"COVID-19 causes turnover and aging of the immune cells responsible for responding to both COVID-19 and other pathogens"

[...]

"This immune dysfunction or aging is at least one of the most likely scenarios explaining the recent surges in diseases like RSV, influenza, Strep A, and other infections"

https://whn.global/covid-19-and-immune-dysregulation-a-summary-and-resource/?fbclid=IwAR3QO7-ZKMJtjaoZG1yN6uERQADXDebqUcUTZaPrCYlM8Vz6AlFJCLCbjlM

#covid #SARS2 #RS #ifluenza #StrepA

"data trends and patterns suggest that COVID-19 may act as a disease accelerator, amplifying the risk of an illness that may have come later in life. "So, it could be that instead of being diagnosed with diabetes by age 65, a person with preexisting risk for diabetes might—after a COVID-19 infection—be more likely to develop diabetes by age 45 or 55.""

#diabetes #AAIDS #covid #SARS2 #immunocompromised #ImmunityTheft

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-19-omicron-infection-linked-new-onset-diabetes

Birdflu - meet immunocompromised population!

"at least 585 sea lions and 55,000 wild birds have been found dead in seven of the country's coastal nature preserves, likely due to avian flu."

#H5N1 #AvianFlu #AAIDS #covid #SARS2 #immunocompromised #ImmunityTheft

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/peru-confirms-h5n1-avian-flu-marine-mammals-part-southward-spread

So what happens when birdflu - 'normally' killing 56% - meets a population of immunocompromised people? There are vaccines (mostly grown in hens' eggs ironically, and dangerously), but apart from the time it takes to manufacture enough - what if they don't work; what if peoples' immune systems are too weak to adapt to the vaccines and - thus - the virus? What if the virus has mutated?

#AAIDS #BirdFlu #covid #SARS2 #immunocompromised #ImmunityTheft

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR10NRIBoDDqPCkbDLHSTqgeoIJLJG5cfgr6w4ztymYJM85Q7egvSx1WyFM

Flu rising again in Sweden, and RS will too.

After a steep drop flu hardly went below 19/20 flu season PEAK, and is now rising again.

RS also went down, is still going down, but slower now, and I predict it will rise again soon. Even after falling it is still at 18/19 PEAK!

Covid is low, relatively speaking, but seems on the up too.

This is how it is going to be now. Forever. Until something is done. So, yeah, forever.

#AAIDS #RS #covid #SARS2 #immunocompromised #ImmunityTheft