I used to stream full time but now I'm full time sick.
Joined March 2020
- Tweets3.6K
- Following746
- Followers10.5K
- Likes39.5K
Pinned Tweet
I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes and I'm going to use this tweet as a springboard.
PACO retweeted
If the quality of the bots here are any indication, no way AI is going to help cure any diseases
PACO retweeted
6 months in Germany! 🇩🇪🔬❤️
Months of hard work & new challenges! And next week, I'll be presenting our first results at a conference!
What if SARS-CoV-2 leaves more behind than we think?
Millions of people are still living with #LongCOVID, and we keep fighting to understand why.
PACO retweeted
So YLE put this graph on the newsletter today.
Notice the "sick season cutoff" at 2.9?
For context (and why 2.9 gives a misleading impression):
-The peak ILI in 2018-2019 was 5.1% and that was the 3rd highest in the 2010s
-The "baseline" (aka sick season cut off) was only 2.2%
PACO retweeted
Praying for some miracles. More debts are coming due on the 13th (Friday the 13th at that!) And I am still firmly in the red. Won't get paid till after this job is done. My SNAP is only 74 and done for the month. Im screaming into the void hoping someone hears. Times are tight.
Really doing bad financially guys, could use a boost because my account is so overdrafted, my debt is maxed out (and coming due very soon), storage is due before I get paid, and I dont get any SNAP till the 1st. Ko-fi.com/mxkittie
We have been ignoring the four humors for too long and it's costing us our health.
Algorithms are subtly and not so subtly suppressing covid posts. Some of my videos are also being flagged as adult content.
Twitter is labeling people wearing PPE as age-restricted adult content.
ALT Marvin The Martian reposted Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu · 21h I'm the only person on the plane wearing a mask. Person behind me has spent the past 4.5 hours in this tin can absolutely hacking and sneezing everywhere. Everyone's staring... she gives zero fucks. Airlines should really force you to mask if you are actively sick. Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for everyone. To view this media, you’ll need to verify your age to your profile. X also uses your age to show more relevant content, including ads, as explained in our Privacy Policy.
PACO retweeted
New paper out in Lancet Regional Health Americas, with Alicia Grima, Natalie Wilson, Simran Mann, Ashleigh Tuite and Clara Lee. How many Ontario deaths are attributable to respiratory viruses, and how does SARS-CoV-2 compare to flu? 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2026.…
PACO retweeted
This "study" is dangerous and misleading. Here's why:
They compared people who tested positive for COVID early in the pandemic (2020–21) with people who tested negative, then followed both groups for two years.
The problem: the people who tested negative didn't stay uninfected. Follow-up ran through Delta and Omicron. The authors themselves report 20% of controls had a positive PCR within two years, and that only counts recorded tests. By Feb 2022, CDC blood surveys estimated ~58% of Americans had been infected.
So by year two, they're comparing people infected early with people infected later. Of course the difference shrinks toward zero. That's control group catching up, not long COVID resolving.
The obvious check is to compare against similar people in the years before the pandemic. They had the data: everyone in the study needed claims from 2019, and they used four years of prior medical history. They didn't run it.
Not sure if this guy is just really stupid, or actively evil.
PACO retweeted
So this probably won't reach any of the people that need to hear this, but the covid vaccine conspiracy theorists have been wrong about everything. They don't care if you live or die or develop lasting illness. There is a family down the block from me that lost their father
This is something I think about whenever I'm presenting information. I've also taken on the mindset that if someone doesn't understand something I said, then it's my fault, even if it's not.
I find it helpful because it reminds me there are always better ways to communicate.
PACO retweeted
"you're never gonna convince people to take covid precautions if you're judgy & angry on xitter"
meh. people only care about your tone if they already don't want to believe what you're saying.
PACO retweeted
i would like to live in a society where it would be unthinkable - utterly inconceivable - for people to go to work/ school while sick
PACO retweeted
In new study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 has evolved decreased inherent antigenicity in humans, as quantified by a ~3-fold decrease in the number of naïve human B cells that can bind the spike RBD.
doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.15.…
PACO retweeted
i am asking if u follow me or even see this to r3post at the bare min, copy from "lay..." to qt to b3wst, and if u can s3nd anything then do so. if u cant do any of these things then unfollow me.
I've had a few people privately concede that they know that repeat COVID infections are harmful but they try not to think about it because it's too overwhelming.
I think a decent amount of people understand this but they are stuck.
PACO retweeted
when i started masking again in 2024 things got very grim for me socially, and i remember a friend telling me that it was clear to him i wanted to live because i was masking to save what health i had left. 180'd my perspective
PACO retweeted
Our study on virus-specific T cell activation in Long COVID (LC) is up on bioRxiv! We identify a subset of people with LC with persistently elevated activation of CD8 T cells targeting spike and/or EBV lytic antigens, consistent with viral persistence.
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
PACO retweeted
The on/off revolving door of mask guidance in health care seems bizarre to me
😷 should be a fixture of patient care, just as gloves & hand hygiene are: not a seasonal precaution, but a fundamental part of our commitment to infection prevention, patient safety, and doing no harm.
Masks encouraged at all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 16
Masks will be available at entrances to Health P.E.I. facilities
cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-ed…
