If you ever took a PM2.5 monitor on a car journey you might consider wearing an ffp2 mask as well. Especially if you have asthma or COPD. I'd recommend upgrading your cabin filters to HEPA. There's more than one reason to wear a mask.
And by the way Covid is a massive ongoing bloody problem NOW.
If you don't think so, you've been had. You've been utterly had by Leo Varadkar and Stephen Donnelly and Micheál Martin and Philip Nolan and Martin Cormican and Luke O'Neill. All the people who told you we can live this like flu and children aren't affected. The people like Colm Henry who told you the best way to fight an airborne virus is by washing your hands. But really they just want us all infected especially children to build "natural immunity". But this virus damages your immune system and your cardiovascular system and your brain. It persists throughout the body and ages your organs.
Every extremely concerning study on the cardiovascular and neurological impacts have been totally ignored in Irish media. Many got plenty of coverage in international media.. Sky news, the guardian, CNN etc.. totally ignored here.
The research was carried out by Betty Raman, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine , at the University of Oxford.
news.sky.com
See recent US Senate hearing.
"Recovery rates for many of the components of Long Covid are low. Some conditions that
develop after COVID (e.g. heart disease, diabetes, etc.) are chronic conditions that last a lifetime. Some conditions including fatigue and brain fog seem to improve in a small fraction of people with Long Covid.
Between low rate of recovery and new cases from reinfection and breakthrough infection, Long Covid will continue to increase until we find better ways to prevent it and treat it.
The best way to prevent Long Covid is to prevent COVID in the first place."
Prof. Ziyad Al-Aly
US Senate hearing 18/01/24
See the German Health Minister's recent comments
"Long Covid is a disease that stays with us and that we cannot yet cure. And we are seeing an increasing number of cases as the waves of infection continue to affect us"
German Health Minister & immunologist
Prof. Karl Lauterbach
4/12/23
See WHO's Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove's recent comments 31/12/23:
COVID19 and where we are. I’m worried.
"We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic...
it’s still a global health threat and it’s still a pandemic causing far too many (re)infections, hospitalisations, deaths and long covid when tools exist to prevent them."
"Covid is still a global health threat, and it's causing far too much burden when we can prevent it
Five, ten, years from now, what are we going to see in terms of cardiac impairment, of pulmonary impairment of neurologic impairment? We don't know"
A year ago Luke O'Neill told us on Pat Kenny that one of the "top world experts" Prof Eric Topol had declared that the pandemic was over.
Prof. Topol immediately demanded a retraction and said this was misinformation.
Of course, all Irish people heard was that the pandemic is over. Which they all thought it was anyway. So had no idea what Luke was on about. And that's what the media narrative went with.
Prof. Eric Topol. Jan '24
"We continue to make-believe that the pandemic is over, that infections have been transformed to common cold status by prior exposure(s), and that life has returned to normal. Sadly, none of this is true."
Thanks to the newly dominant strain JN.1, about 2 million Americans are getting infected each day.
www.latimes.com
It's at contantly high levels since omicron hit. Surging with a new variant roughly every 3 months. Never going down to a low level between surges. Everyone is at risk. Cardiovascular harm, neurological harm, immune system harm.
Why do you think 12 kids died of Strep-A last school year?
Number of deaths has doubled since March and cases are up almost five-fold this year
www.irishtimes.com
Sophie Lanigan, 12, had to have her hands and feet amputated after she went into septic shock
www.irishmirror.ie
A couple from Drogheda has thanked the staff of the Lourdes Hospital for saving their little daughter’s life, and their entire community for supporting the family in the difficult aftermath.
m.sundayworld.com
If you think it's got nothing to do with the immune system damaging SARS virus we've been infecting all the kids with then I've got a bridge to sell you.
They told us last year it was "Immunity debt". Which was debunked as dangerous nonsense by experts around the world.
RSV even WORSE again this year. And it had been bad 2021 so it made no sense in 2022 either.
Stephen Donnelly must have believed it to be a real phenomenon because he never bothered with the "game changing" RSV shots that were rolled out in other countries months before the winter surge.
He's still weighing up whether they would be cost effective or not for next year. I guess he's just planning on cancelling more scoliosis surgeries and airlifting more babies to Sweden for ECMO.
We also never bothered with the updated covid vaccine which are recommended for ALL 6 months plus in the US and Canada since September because the CDC have made clear that everyone is at risk.
We prefered to just march everyone U50 and still healthy into near certain Eris infection, followed by near certain JN.1 infection. Ignoring all the science on long Covid in children. Type 1 diabetes, epilepsy, neurological, cardiovascular harm etc.
Why do you think measles, TB, RSV, Scarlet fever, scabies etc are all on the rise?
They chose pestilence instead of the protections that would only have improved life and health generally. Clean indoor air. Still no hepa filters despite €62m announcement, to glowing headlines in Dec '21.
It is actually the law now under the HSA code of practice on Indoor Air Quality which has been in force since May and was massive breakthrough for those of us campaigning for it but then they just never told anyone about it. Literally no politician ever mentioned it. No public awareness campaign. Thousands of lives would be saved it was actually put into practice. It would solve the unending hospital crisis.
Strep, RSV, flu, measles, TB etc and many other pathogens would also have been reduced by the HEPA filters we were promised but never bothered with.
In 2019, we had the 4th highest rate of asthma in the world and were an outlier in that we had rising deaths. It would always have been a good idea to put HEPA filters in all classrooms as standard. Experts like Prof John Wenger (UCC) and Prof. Orla Hegarty (UCD) on what the best solutions are. It would be entirely affordable within the €62m Norma Foley promised.
But they prefer to handover €90m+ every year, increasing every year, of our taxpayers money to the horse and greyhound racing industries.
We've been repeatedly infecting the entire population with a brain, cardiovascular system and immune system damaging SARS virus.
Our hospitals have been overcrowded, every month while we ignored each surging new variant and ignored all the science on long Covid and airborne mitigations
Limerick broke new records again last week. It's even worse than when Aoife Johnston died.
They said CUH was operating at 300% capacity a couple of weeks ago.
Leo Varadkar's decision in Feb '22 to "live with Covid like the flu" is having and will continue to have a disproportionate effect on women and girls who are at greater risk of long Covid.
Who cares right?
Not to mention the immunocompromised clinically vulnerable who everyone is apparently perfectly happy to let "fall by the wayside"
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