A lot of very amazing people are devoting their careers to understanding and hopefully one day treating Covid. Covid isn’t a mystery anymore, but neither is it what you are being told it is.
If you care about your own health or the health of your children and grandchildren, you might want to hear what they are saying. There is nothing technical on this page, just a few things that convey the situation we are in with great clarity.
The first item is an incredibly powerful short film (about 15 mins) made by a young woman with Long Covid and her father, but interwoven with a crystal clear explanation of Long Covid by Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, one of the world’s leading Covid experts.
These next two messages were posted in October 2024 by Rae Duncan (Dr Rae Duncan MBChB,BSc(HONS), MSc,MD,FRCP, SCMR3,BSE TTE/TOE Accr. Consultant Cardiologist & Long Covid Researcher.) a true hero to the UK Long Covid community, a cardiologist who never stops trying to communicate the danger Covid represents and tirelessly advocating that we start protecting children.
Here is Dr Duncan, showing solidarity with someone who had been criticised for constantly talking about Covid – because it is traumatising people …..
“I run a long Covid medical clinic. I’ve been seeing LC patients since mid 2020 before it had a name.The stories are absolutely heartbreaking. And generally have a common theme. So many young previously fit & healthy people who are severely disabled now, often bedridden some in almost permanent PEM, many in constant pain, all in a living hell. The vast majority had no real idea of the dangers they were putting themselves in because the lack of honest Public Health messaging & the volume of misinformation out there made them believe because they were young and fit and healthy that they were safe & couldn’t get long covid, and if they did it was just a bit of fatigue right?
The utter disbelief that this could have happened to them, destroyed their life, ruined their future & no immediate prospects for a cure….the dawning realisation on their faces when they realise NONE of that misinformation is correct & now it’s too late to go back & change their habits. The different decisions they would have made had they known the truth & the very real risks. I see & hear all of these thought processes on a regular basis as shell shocked young people try to get their heads around WTH just happened to them.
Without fail, for those that took no precautions, if they had truly understood the Russian roulette & fragility of health they would have made different choices. And now would give anything to have the chance to go back and make different choices. But they can’t. And it’s totally utterly heartbreaking to witness.
So @CovidSolidarit1 – I don’t think you are selfish AT ALL. I think you are brave for having the courage to stand up and speak the truth to people who may not be ready to hear it yet, who wish to live believing the comforting lie that Covid is “just a cold” now or is “over” (it’s neither), or to those that simply do not understand the risks because of poor Public Health messaging.”
and here is Dr Duncan again responding to an article reporting a study that shows a doubling in risk of heart attack and stroke for three years after any COVID infection as if this is some new discovery that we should look into. (Spoiler, this is not a new discovery…)
“We predicted this & have been shouting about this publicly trying to get Government and Public Health to put in Public Health protections FOR YEARS to prevent this. And honestly, given that endothelial dysfunction & atherosclerosis are largely silent progressive diseases for several years – I think what we are seeing now is still only the tip of the Iceberg of the cardiovascular disease to come. We know SARS2 reinfections increases the risk of Cardiovascular disease cumulatively yet We are allowing our citizens to get repeatedly reinfected with a vasculotropic virus! We are allowing our CHILDREN to get repeatedly reinfected at schools and we are STILL DOING NOTHING TO PROTECT THEM. And cardiovascular disease in kids has almost doubled in those who have been infected with Covid
…..Covid damages our blood vessels (endothelium), endothelial damage is the precursor to atherosclerosis (cholesterol plaque disease and hardening of the arteries), atherosclerosis causes heart attacks and strokes several years or decades later. Covid also activates fibrin and platelets, this makes our blood more likely to clot, blood clots in the coronary and cerebral arteries causing heart attacks and strokes. Covid also increases the risk of heart failure.
We are allowing our children to get repeatedly reinfected with a vascular virus that damages our blood vessels and increases blood clotting….we have no effective prevention’s in place….children can and are getting repeatedly infected multiple times a year…..COVID is not gone and not seasonal…if our kids are catching it multiple times a year what will their blood vessels look like by the time they are 20….25…..30…..35…..40?…..what age will they start having their heart attacks and strokes?…..WHAT IS THE PLAN PUBLIC HEALTH @UKHSA? Are we expected to just sit back and watch this mass disabling event happen for another 5yrs……..or another 10yrs?……while our PH & IPC still argue droplet dogma and “respirators don’t work” in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? Is our media still going to protest this is still “just a cold” despite us already knowing the highest relative rise in excess death in 2022 was in the 25-44year and 45-64yr age groups?
is our Department of Education still going to try and address our schools attendance crisis by pushing parents to send children with respiratory infections into unmitigated classrooms of 30 with poor ventilation to spread a virus we know is damaging brains and blood vessels? is this REALLY THE LONG TERM PLAN?
How do you think that’s going to work out?
What are we doing to our children…..?
Our job is to protect our kids
We should have been doing that from the start
We need to start doing it now.”
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and finally, some short quotes from a few of the world’s most respected scientists specialising in Long Covid
David Putrino Phd, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation, Mount Sinai Health System – “There is no such thing as a safe Covid infection”
Danielle Beckman Phd, Neuroscientist, Researcher at CNPRC research – “I changed my career path after seeing what SARS-Cov-2 does in the brain using a microscope. I still haven’t seen any other virus doing such bad damage so fast in the brain.”
Ziyad Al-Aly MD, Physician-Scientist – Studying Long Covid – TIME100 Health – “The idea that Covid is just like the flu, it just has no grounding in reality”
Stephen Griffin, Professor of Cancer Virology,Viroporins, Antivirals, Viral Oncology, Immunotherapy, University of Leeds – “SARSCoV2 is showing no signs of becoming predictable, so YET another reason why a vaccine only, “flu-like” plan isn’t working.”