Speaking to families this week struggling with every variety of -itis. Conjunctivitis & tonsillitis are…

Speaking to families this week struggling with every variety of -itis. Conjunctivitis & tonsillitis are biggies. They say ‘lockdowns reduced our immunity’, to rationalise their suffering. So I asked them ‘when was the last time you had conjunctivitis, and tonsillitis?’ /1

Given that the parents are being infected too. Um, often they can’t remember having these infections in 20+ years. And their kids also either may never have had them, or it’s been years. I asked why a few months of lockdown , when they didn’t have these infections,…/2

…was somehow different to years of not having these infections? No answer. They also weren’t even aware that infections with these bugs doesn’t usually create immunity anyway. The whole thing is farcical, it’s difficult to think of any regular infection at all that leads to…/3

…meaningful immunity, rather than just sickness. Not colds, not flu. Not conjunctivitis, not tonsillitis. Hand, foot and mouth disease (also prevalent now) yes, but then earlier infections are supposed to confer some immunity, but now they’re not. Some see it, others…/4

…don’t want to. This constant propaganda of infection to stop infections, with almost zero empirical examples of it actually working, anywhere at any time, for any pathogen. And where it does work, it’s now not working. Basic questions that journalists again don’t ask. /end