Julia Doubleday: Yall need to understand that a SMALL percentage of a LARGE number is still a LARGE number. Rn most ppl are getting covid 1-2 times a year. No other virus does that. Most ppl get flu 1-2x per DECADE. And EVERY infection causes damage. Heart, organ, brain. This is unsustainable

2023 COVID deaths were higher than if we’d reintroduced polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, measles & mumps combined. 75k vs 43k, adjusted for population. This is bc of CASE load. Other viruses are deadlier, but none reinfect like Covid. Read: t.co/NnFCppkF5C

COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deathst.co Celebrating a COVID lull years into the Biden Administration's utter abandonment is woefully out of touch with the science

Yall need to understand that a SMALL percentage of a LARGE number is still a LARGE number. Rn most ppl are getting covid 1-2 times a year. No other virus does that. Most ppl get flu 1-2x per DECADE. And EVERY infection causes damage. Heart, organ, brain. This is unsustainable

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No they aren't. No it doesn't.

Sources linked throughout the piece, newsflash constantly getting diseases is bad for you and it’s absurd that that’s being treated as controversial bc politicians wanted you back at work

publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-a...

COVID and the Heart: It Spares No One | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healthpublichealth.jhu.edu New evidence suggests anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—a risk that persists even in relatively healthy people long after the illness has passed.

theconversation.com/mounting-res...

Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scorestheconversation.com Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.

fortune.com/2022/05/25/h...

You're probably going to get COVID at least once a yearfortune.com As it turns out, "breakthrough" infections are far from rare.

www.news-medical.net/news/2023010...

Study suggests COVID-19 can cause diabeteswww.news-medical.net The authors of a new study under review at Nature Portfolio and currently posted to the Research Square preprint* server showed the clinical possibility that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) he...

Come on mate, deploy some of the rationality you claim to promote. You can't respond to cited sources with "nuh uh", that's not intellectually honest. Go pull your sources, and we can all review methodologies and statistics like rational adults.

The world would look very different if the things she claims are true. It would not be something that was hidden and only revealed through statistical studies. Importantly, she does not cite anything reliable that support those two specific claims.

I guess whether or not you can see it depends on who you talk to and how closely you're paying attention? Ime, people have all sorts of little new problems that don't seem to be going away. Statistics are how we quantify that sort of change.

I would love to have robust data on reinfection rates, but unfortunately it's just not available. From death rates we can extrapolate some assumptions, putting reinfections on a several-year cycle. Anecdotally a lot of people seem to be getting it every couple of years, but we lack good data.

As for permanent damage with each infection, that's very straightforward: we know that SarS-COV2 can and does infect cardiac cells, and we know that cardiac cells don't fully replace after injury. It stands to reason that after any infection that kills more than a handful of cells, there's damage.

We can't really make frequency claims about the steady state over the next twenty-plus years when the major pandemic phase was still ongoing within the last two.

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