Nevertheless, a significant proportion of the scientific and medical establishment is still trying to maintain that this illness is now “just a seasonal cold”, while the evidence is clearly otherwise. It’s not seasonal (unless seasonal now means ‘every season’), and it certainly isn’t a cold. The cost of Long Covid in Australia alone runs into the multi billions of dollars a year and most affects the 30-49 year old age group. Just published in Nature is a study which shows subjective and objective cognitive deficits at one year post moderate and severe COVID, associated with measurable brain damage.
This is a multi-system disorder with severe acute symptoms and a staggering death rate - twelve times higher than flu in the period January to April 2024 - and a multitude of severe long-term symptoms.
Opinion columnists in major newspapers are now becoming increasingly annoyed with getting repeatedly infected all the time and especially getting infected on aircraft (non-paywall link here). Research continues to pour in on Long Covid in kids: “The results of the new study should reframe how parents think about the risks the virus poses to their children”.
We must not keep reinfecting ourselves and our kids with this harmful virus!
The pandemic has certainly opened my eyes to the overwhelming importance of clean air for our health and the fact that it’s not just airborne transmission of infectious agents we need to consider.
Mould, bush fire smoke, air pollution, industrial exposure and the equity aspects of clean air - once you know this stuff, you can’t ‘unknow’ it, especially the equity aspects. By failing to provide safe public indoor air, our societies are discriminating against those with vulnerabilities, which is… not just immoral, but illegal. And yet it continues.
In my mission to expand that Overton Window ever further, therefore, I am putting together a conference in Canberra next year, which will bring together people from medicine, public health, aerosol science, building engineering, social sciences and politics to try and tackle this problem in the only way it can be tackled - by everyone from different disciplines working together. The conference is called “Every Breath You Take” (of course!). Stay tuned for further details in upcoming newsletters.
And that’s it from me for now, folks. If you need N95s, you know where to go to get them: Auras, Tridents, ReadiMasks, Stealth Claritys and especially our new bestsellers, the black Canadian Vitacore N99s.
As ever, send me your most interesting CO2 traces and I will post them on Twitter for the general education of all of us.
Stay persistent, friends, and keep the faith that the arc of history will, eventually, tortuously, ploddingly, and with many reverses and false dawns, come to point towards a reality where dirty indoor air is as unacceptable as dirty drinking water.
Cheers! 🥂
David
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