"The danger is clear and present:
COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness;it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs...."
Small🧵
"There is a growing body of evidence, both anecdotal and now in several studies, that shingles seems to be occurring at a greater rate in people shorty after Covid-19 infection."
To the information sharers, the respirator wearers, the clean airers, thank you for being lighthouses in a dark sea of denial this year.
Wishing you all a safe and lighter 2024✨️💜✨️
@sinebrien
Firstly congratulations 💜👶
Secondly, your poor baby😔
How can a doctor not know conjunctivitis is one of the Arcturus variants symptoms? Especially in babies/small children.
I hope the expert is more informed.
Wishing your little one all the very best💛
UPDATE on
Group A Streptococcus 🇮🇪
🚩12 CHILDREN have DIED since October '22 + 13 Adults
305 cases notified in the first 5 months compared with an average of
67 cases pre-pandemic!
Why is this not on the news?
Heartbreaking,horrendous & unacceptable.
Where are you
@CMOIreland
?
Schools re-open in a few days. Where is the public health guidance?
SARS-CoV2 is circulating intensely. We all know what will happen when schools return🦠📈
We did not consent to mass infection. This must stop now.
#EnoughIsEnough
#ProtectOurChildren
@drPLeach
I would prefer to be frightened by the truth over being killed or disabled by a lie.
Maybe if more doctors stood up and pulled the emergency cord earlier, we wouldn't be in such a mess.
Speaking out saves lives.
Staying quiet on the other hand...
@fitterhappierAJ
You did & many families are grateful for it. I called it the slow kill in March 2020 & was laughed at. All I want is to protect my children as best I can & for that I am somehow the odd one.
Glad to have found your account
2yrs ago. Thanks
@fitterhappierAJ
🧵Dear
@WHO
I'm sick of reading endless pleas on here to global Goverments & Public Health bodies
All begging them to take Covid-19 seriously again &
it's falling on deaf ears.
I ask, what are
@WHO
doing?
Gov/PH will not act until YOU push them. They are hiding behind you.
"1,000 children without hospital beds in the first two weeks of September."
What does that tell us?
It tells us that schools/childcare settings are unsafe.
Since the pandemic began,the number of kids in need of medical attention continues to rise - not fall.
#CleanAir
+😷
#SARS2
🏥Hospitals 🇮🇪
"University Hospital Galway is currently under extreme pressure from a COVID-19 outbreak and very high attendance at the Emergency Department."
28 cases spread over five wards!
Disgraceful.
#SARS2IsAirborne
#CleanAir
#KeepMasksinHealthcare
🏥Hospital Overcrowding🇮🇪
@INMO_IRL
:
"A dynamic infection control plan is needed across all hospital sites as airborne viruses will no doubt play a major factor in hospital overcrowding in the months ahead."
#NPIs
#n95
#ffp3
#CleanAir
#SARS2IsAirborne
@ChildrensComm
"Children are facing new risks from disease that most of us did not have to grow up with."
"Research shows the risks of harm and disability from COVID infection are serious, and risks accumulate with additional reinfections."
#LongCovidKids
#SARS2Sequelae
"Shingles is caused by the reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox. After recovery from the pox, the virus enters the nervous system and remains dormant, usually kept at bay by the immune system- your T-cells in particular."
🚨!
I have sent an email to the complaints department of the Ombudsman for Children. Regarding the complete abandonment of safety measures necessary to protect children in yr3 of a global pandemic.
Children have a right to receive their education in the safest possible surroundings.
🧵Dear
@hpscireland
Please provide scientific evidence to back up your claim that the rise in iGAS cases may be due to;
"normal social mixing patterns" being interrupted by the pandemic.
Quite frankly,this is at best balderdash-
At worst disinformation
"Well researched article on dementia after COVID infection. The small cerebral vessels are often damaged. Therefore,COVID is not a cold or flu. Repeated infections are also a burden on the healthcare system."
- Prof. Karl Lauterbach
Min of Health 🇩🇪
@DonnellyStephen
@CMOIreland
Gut recherchierer Artikel zum Thema Demenz nach COVID Infektion. Die kleinen Gehirngefässe nehmen oft einen Schaden. Daher ist COVID keine Erkältung oder Grippe. Wiederholte Infektionen sind auch für unser Gesundheitssystem eine Hypothek.
What I find even more alarming is the blasé attitude towards shingles presently.
Conveniently forgetting the vascular/inflammatory links, leading to increased risk of heart attack and stroke following the illness.
Dear
@NormaFoleyTD1
Children will be back in hepa-less,maskless,overcrowded classrooms up and down the country in 3 short weeks.
What is your plan to keep children,teachers & the whole school community safe from airborne,notifiable diseases; Covid19 and Monkeypox?
@mayodweller
I bloody knew it.
Instructed not to broadcast it! That's the problem far too many parents willing to comply with that sort of thing. Then there's the others that stay quiet to save face.
Hope you're friends little one is alright..💛
🚩Misinformation🚩
I can't and won't let this drop.
I implore
@WHO
@mvankerkhove
to intervene.
This👇quote is from one of
Ireland's so-called experts,
Prof.McConkey.
"It's not about Covid-19 because that particular phenomenon has essentially disappeared."
@CMOIreland
Parents.
Please do not wait until your child is "seriously unwell"
As the CMO states.
With Strep A/Scarlet Fever timely treatment is key.
A child has died in Ireland
9 children have died in the UK.
The cases are lower. Severity is not.
This is no time to minimise.
Congratulations
@NormaFoleyTD1
You've made sure children & school staff will be as unsafe as possible this year.
A whole suite of measures are place to assist the spread of airborne notifiable pathogens.
Overcrowded classrooms ✅
No FFP2/N95s ✅
No Hepa Filters✅
Packed buses✅
The influx of Public Health sponsored TV ads over the last couple of years normalising shingles in Ireland, UK & ROW is both alarming & no coincidence.
Just another 'nothing to see here. It's perfectly normal for your immune system to be on the floor' conditioning exercise imo.
🧵Highlighting HSE 🇮🇪 testing policy again because it
BLOWS MY MIND that people can't see what's going on here.
📣They don't want you to test because they don't want you to count the number of times you've caught SARS-CoV2 over the past 3 years & counting...
So, a child heading back into class at the start of another new school year during an ONGOING pandemic will face exposure to AIRBORNE☣️ pathogens such as:
SARS-CoV-2 🦠
Strep A 🦠
RSV🦠
Measles 🦠
Influenza 🦠
TB🦠
CLEAN THE AIR IN SCHOOLS
@NormaFoleyTD1
@Education_Ire
🇮🇪"unusual upsurge" in invasive Strep A cases, particularly in children under 18.
"The
@hpscireland
warned that iGAS case numbers have skyrocketed higher than expected"
Yeah,try way higher than the previous 5 yrs put together
@IrishSunOnline
#SARS2Effect
At what point will
@CMOIreland
share information such as
1 IN 5 people could experience:
🚩CARDIOVASCULAR Conditions
🚩BLOOD CLOTS and VASCULAR issues
🚩NEUROLOGICAL & Mental Health Conditions
🚩KIDNEY Failure
🚩MUSCULOSKELETAL conditions
#COVID19
🇮🇪 COVID-19 outbreaks in hospitals, nursing homes, community/long stay and other healthcare locations DOUBLED in the past 2 Weeks🚩
105 Outbreaks in wks[31 & 32]
Where's MSM/Gov/Public health?
Too busy telling the public;
'EG.5.
"Not as severe"
"No cause for concern" etc
Physicians and healthcare institutions can be held responsible for hospital acquired COVID infections.
Please bring this lawsuit outcome to the attention of healthcare organizations in Europe, and around the world.
Schools were not safe to open in 2020
Schools were not safe to open in 2021
Schools were not safe to open in 2022
Schools are not safe to open in 2023
Children are not supposed to develop organ damage+disability from attending school
#LongCovid
MAKE SCHOOLS SAFE
Watch+RT⬇️
WHO Technical Lead
@mvankerkhove
Failed to mention masks as one of the 'tools'.
This shouldn't be happening 3yrs in!
Going round in circles picking up new variants like a giant snowball.
Transmission suppression is vital.
Ventilation & testing mentioned.
We need to use ALL tools.
Circulation of
#COVID19
is high & all countries need to:
➡️Absorb & care for patients
➡️Adjust strategies to reduce spread &
➡️Accelerate access & use of life saving tools to save lives now & prevent
#LongCovid
Critical to fully vaccinate people most at risk in ALL countries⬇️
🏫 Absenteeism up to 25% in some schools and not one mention of the fact children are being repeatedly infected with SARS-CoV2.
I'll say that again,
📢SARS-CoV2!
As Dr. Rae Duncan said,
"What are we doing to our children?"
Link in next tweet..
Norma Foley will not be sitting in The Dáil until the 14th September...
2 full weeks after schools reopen.
Alot can and will happen in the first 2 weeks.
This is not good enough.
#WhatsThePlan
#ProtectOurChildren
@Education_Ire
“It’s shocking that we’re heading into the Christmas period with levels of patients who are obviously sick enough to be admitted to hospital but don’t actually have a bed”
-
@INMO_IRL
Not "shocking"-100% expected
#ThePandemicIsntOver
💡Respirators+CleanAir
🧵Dear
@_IHREC
As autumn/winter approaches & Ireland prepares to phase out Covid testing, just as Gov phased out the mention of its existence...People are at risk.
Removing all safety measures during a global pandemic was not the advice of
@WHO
This is a human rights issue.
"Currently,the danger posed by COVID is being underestimated.
Nothing is worse than infecting someone at Christmas who then becomes seriously ill and may not fully recover"
- Prof Karl Lauterbach,
Health Minister, Germany.
Where's
@CMOIreland
?
@roinnslainte
?
@DonnellyStephen
?
@mayodweller
I'm really struggling not to break my don't 🤬on twitter rule with this one
@mayodweller
Absolutely horrendous.
She's breaking the hse
'stay at home for 5 days' guidelines
(Inadequate as they are)
We can't normalise this.
"Data from 2023 show the number of iGAS cases remains elevated, with 306 cases notified in the first five months of the year. This is almost five times the level recorded in 2017-2019."
Fives times🚩
iGAS[invasive Group A Strep]🇮🇪
This horrifies me.
Take a look at the reports⬇️
iGAS Cases(so far) 2023 = 432
iGAS Cases between
2018 - 2022 = 420
420 cases in total..IN TOTAL!
2023 exceeded this in 37weeks 🚩
#JoinTheDots
@NormaFoleyTD1
PLEASE provide remote learning for those who seek it. Be it for a child at 'Very High Risk', 'High Risk', for vulnerable family members or parental choice. This would reduce the 30+ class sizes and give at risk teachers themselves an opportunity to continue teaching remotely.
🏥🇮🇪
Healthcare workers brace for busy weekend as COVID-19 cases rise
"In the past week, there was an increase in COVID-19 cases nationally (22% increase in cases and 19% increase in hospitalised cases."
#MaskUp
#CleanAir
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
@mvankerkhove
@WHO
Dr. Van Kerkhove, we can't
"Take care" in Ireland as there's;
No communication from PH
No testing(unless you end up in hospital)
No ventilation improvements
No masking/IPC in healthcare
(COVID-19 Outbreaks rife)⬇️
"An estimated 1 in 10 infections results in post
#COVID19
condition, suggesting that hundreds of millions of people will need longer-term care."
-
@DrTedros
1/Covid is a vascular disease. Even in children. 🩸
Why are the Sun&the mirror today reporting a warning about children&Covid from a paper from December 2020??
@Sunny_Rae1
and I talked about thrombotic microangiopathy a YEAR ago on Twitter space
So, a child heading back into class at the start of another new school year during an ONGOING pandemic will face exposure to AIRBORNE☣️ pathogens such as:
SARS-CoV-2 🦠
Strep A 🦠
RSV🦠
Measles 🦠
Influenza 🦠
TB🦠
CLEAN THE AIR IN SCHOOLS
@NormaFoleyTD1
@Education_Ire
CMO Ireland today [18/08/23]
🔸️"We shouldn't be alarmed" by new variants
🔸️We should wash our hands & cough into elbow
No advice on how to reduce transmission:
(
#Masks
+
#CleanAir
)
SARS2 goes well beyond the respiratory phase.
#LongCovid
#LongCovidKids
COVID-19 continues to evolve like any other virus, and
#Eris
is one of around 50 sublineages of the Omicron variant.
Vaccines protect us, and we should continue to practice protective behaviours such as hand cleaning, respiratory etiquette and staying home when sick.
'We expect sanitary food,clean water,road safety measures,and more to keep our kids safe. So why do we not demand that they get clean air too?
Especially when we know it reduces short and long-term illnesses'
Excellent piece by
Julia Corey & Orla Hegarty
#CleanAir
@Education_Ire
@1goodtern
2021🇮🇪 we had a professor
smiling from ear to ear on TV at the prospect of all the kids getting infected with SARS-CoV-2.
I recall standing in my kitchen shouting, "Let's see how their hearts and brains are in 5 years time , you sick ####"
I hate this world.
@RobOHanrahan
@Independent_ie
Dr Lambert spelt out the damage SARS-CoV2 has on the brain at the Oireachtas meeting back in July.
Government don't want to know, since they have mass infected the entire country multiple times now. Leaving adults & children with immune damage & more susceptible to
#LongCovid
@NjbBari3
Ireland's health service has been trying to convince parents/public that the rise in iGAS cases was due to
"mixing more together" after COVID 'restrictions'
(Schools reopened Sept '20) Strep A wasn't sealed in tupperware until Oct '22🤦🏻♀️
(99 iGAS cases in '22..
498 so far '23🚩)
8,480 COVID-19 reported* cases in over 65s in 2023 🇮🇪
5,198 Over 65s hospitalised this year thus far.
So much for the dept of health+CMO
#HelloAgainWorld
campaign.
* This'll be an underestimate since testing is discouraged
#Covid19IsNotOver
#MaskUp
@RobOHanrahan
For over 2yrs we have made this known to Minister Foley.
Email after email 'noted' or now ignored entirely.
Schools are super spreaders. FACT.
We're not asking for the big scary 'lockdowns' we're asking for simple measures...Clean the air by mechanical filtration & FFP2/N95.
Reminder:
🔺️The pandemic is ongoing.
🔺️The Public Health Emergency of International Concern remains in place.
🔺️People are STILL dying & becoming disabled because they've caught SARS-CoV2 in a country where
Gov/Public Health/Media talk about Covid-19 in the past tense.
The former chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan has said that there was no pandemic plan that could have predicted what was witnessed over the last two or more years
'Teachers are learning about air quality and want more transparency about how it's monitored in school'
Teachers in 🇮🇪
What are the CO2 levels in your workplace?
Are they up to the new HSA IAQ Code of practice?
@INTOnews
@TUIunion
@IPPN_Education
iGAS🇮🇪
HPSC Weekly Infectious Disease Report has been published..
In weeks:
[1-27] of 2022 ➡️ 18 Cases
[1-27] of 2023 ➡️ 370 Cases🚩
That is an astronomical increase.
I've said it before and I'll say it again and again.
This is not sustainable.
🔗in nxt tweet ⬇️
Dear
@Independent_ie
Please share Proffessor Luke O'Neill's edited article correcting the misquotation from Eric Topol, MD
@EricTopol
Having searched your website the original article falsely claiming the "pandemic is over" still remains. Furthermore the amended piece is buried.
@mvankerkhove
@WHO
Dr. Van Kerkhove, can you please emphasise the importance of respirator masks & urge governments to implement air filtration ASAP.. especially in hospitals & schools where SARS-CoV2 is circulating intensely & unchecked.
Patients aren't safe in maskless🏥
Children not safe in🏫
"Many of the patients are very sick and need to be admitted for treatment...
The hospital is also dealing with a significant increase in COVID-19 presentations and admissions."
(And no doubt barely a mask in sight)
#KeepMasksinHealthcare
#WearARespirator
@SGriffin_Lab
Not only is it unconscionable to send an infectious child to school with no thought for others,but it's also incredibly cruel. Chickenpox is no walk in the park. Kids need lots of care, love&attention
(Now more than ever,since their immune systems have been scrambled by SARS2😔)
@FergalBowers
@rtenews
We've been telling you this for years.
Even WHO warned SARS2 is not a 'respiratory disease'
Maybe someone should question
@CMOIreland
why she's never mentioned
#LongCovid
& told us not to be "afraid" of Covid.
Ask
@NormaFoleyTD1
why schools remain unsafe.
This is misinformation, and you know it
@rtenews
1) We are not "Post COVID"
far from it. The pandemic is NOT over & SARS-CoV-2 continues to evole & mutate.
2)CMO encourages vaccine;
"To make sure Covid stays away"
Vaccine can reduce the risks,
but it won't "Stay away"
#Misinfo
Excellent
John Snow Project Insights
How I wish they could take over from WHO.
The public would know the truth.
Lives would be saved.
Children would be protected in school.
Patients could access care safely.
LongCovid research,treatment & prevention would be top priority.
Let's recap what
@DrTedros
said last week shall we?
Since journalists/MSM seem to have the impression the pandemic itself is over.
Exhibit 1️⃣⬇️
"Last week COVID-19 Claimed a life every three minutes"
#CovidIsNotOver
@FergalBowers
@rtenews
"The hospital is also dealing with a significant increase in COVID-19 presentations and admissions. There are currently 24 Covid positive patients being treated at LUH with four wards in outbreak."
4 wards in outbreak! But let's pretend it's over
@HSELive
Small 🧵
HPSC Infectious Disease Weekly Report 🇮🇪
First, take a closer look at Streptococcus
Group A Infection (invasive)
on the table below ⬇️
Week [1-24]
2022 ➡️ 16 (reported cases)
2023 ➡️329 (reported cases)🚩
Alarm bells, anyone?
No.
Don't attempt to 'normalise' catastrophic Government &
Public Health failures.
'The new normal' is conditioning the public to accept dilapidated healthcare systems, excess deaths, organ damage, disability & immune dysregulation as standard.
A member of the Irish Medical Organisation's Consultant Committee has said the current overcrowding in Irish hospitals is 'no longer a surge' but the 'new normal'
@wastelessme
The MSM will never make the link.
They'll keep up the
ABC(Anything But Covid)until the bitter end,I fear.
My mother comments on all the shingles ads these days, drives her up the wall.
I've always maintained that we're weakening the pop,she's the only 1 who'll listen to me tho🤷🏻♀️
@Ninawildflower
I'd love to think somewhere in the world these courageous, thoughtful, strong children are seen & appreciated.
Definitely not in Ireland though.
My son is solo in his ffp3 in school.
He's my hero💛
"COVID’s Damage Lingers in the Heart
Researchers increasingly find that the effects of infection by
#SARSCoV2
extend to the cardiovascular system"
Am I shocked by this?No
Am I angry we are trapped in a perpetual cycle of mass infection?YES!
📢
@CMOIreland
Small🧵
I'm going to be perfectly honest. This article published by
@Independent_ie
🇮🇪
@Independent
🇬🇧
brought me to tears.
"Air treatment technologies can be expensive. So it’s reasonable to weigh up the benefits against costs"1/
🏥Hospital Overcrowding🇮🇪
[14/08/23]
481 patients admitted to hospital with NO beds available.
I've said it before. I'll say it again.
This is unsustainable.
It's August.
What will September look like when schools reopen?
What about winter?
#HeedlessHSE
Cases of 100-day cough rising.
Then there's:
Tuberculosis
Pneumonia
RSV
Strep A..etc
What year is this again?
The world didn't just open the door to SARS2..the majority then took the 🤬hinges off.
This beast is trashing the place whilst msm normalises it
Small🧵
🏥Hospital Overcrowding🇮🇪
Children admitted to hospital,left waiting for a bed due to overcrowding during the ongoing pandemic.
(We've little else to go on)
Looking at hospitalisations over a school year
SEPT - JUNE
'20/21 ➡️ 518
'21/22 ➡️ 1,868
'22/23➡️ 3,688🚩
According to our new Chief Medical Officer,via the article for rte. Covid19 will be handled like other respiratory infectious diseases by a GP!...
@WHO
disagree see below video of Maria Van Kerkhove of WHO.
Might be of interest to you..
@jlamber55605930
🧵"Many people think that Cov19 is a respiratory disease, but this disease affects the brain,it affects the lungs,its affects the circulatory system,the heart."-
@mvankerkhove
@CMOIreland
..
@WHO
have never advised treating Cov19 "Similar to other respiratory infectious diseases."
This is Ireland.
@mvankerkhove
@WHO
My local🏥had 4 wards in active COVID-19 outbreak this wk. Hundreds attending ED daily. Maskless. Adults & children on trolleys.
Countries playing Pick 'n' Choose Pandemic Policy is contributing to unnecessary loss of life.
Streptococcus A
(Strep A/Scarlet Fever/IGAS)
Should NOT be
KILLING CHILDREN in
2023!
Children have had NO say in mass infecting them with SARS-CoV2.
Immune systems are dysregulated,dysfunctioning,
ABSOLUTELY FLOORED
What will it take to stop this madness?
One of the people 'monitoring' the mycoplasma pneumoniae situation in Ireland is,
Prof Mary Horgan, the new emerging health threats agency lead.
(The same person who welcomed the removal of masks in April is in charge of pandemic preparedness..🚩)
Why do I not feel reassured?
Dr Henry,
May I ask,
how this unconscionable
decision fits in with
@WHO
latest COVID-19 Policy Brief, clearly stating
"First reduce the circulation of SARS-CoV2 by protecting individuals, especially vulnerable individuals...."
Link
Face masks are no longer mandatory in all settings in healthcare facilities and hospitals from today. However, in some scenarios or settings, they will still be clinically appropriate. Healthcare staff can read guidance on our website