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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Sep 12

Getting Wild for Covid Awareness.

Want to help me stay in the advocacy game? $5 goes a long way.

I want helping people, and educating others to be more than a dream. That’s my goal.

gofund.me/f1f07602

#health #sick #kids #teacher #backtoschool #mentalhealth I

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 23h

Make. It. Stop!!!

Wear a respirator. This is all preventable. Breathe clean uncontaminated air. Wear a mask. You won’t drink contaminated water, why breathe dirty air?

There’s lots of equipment to help you.

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CO2 Radical
Ionmax Aire X
Air Fanta
Far UVC

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 23h

More and more young patients who were fit and well with long covid symptoms. They tell me
that something changed since the last Covid infection.

I have very rarely referred patients to immunology in the past. Now I refer at least once a month.

Covid kills and maims.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 23h

I am freaking tired and getting “charred” from seeing all these sick patients. I’m talking about fit and well young ones. Who now have immune dysfunction. Unwell. Even rhinovirus floors them and sent some to hospital and some was housebound for a week.

I’ve never seen this pre covid.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 23h

Just in case there’s a minute chance you are wondering why I’m missing for a while and if I have joined the masses and stopped masking and that I think Covid is a nothing burger.

WRONG!

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Aug 28

Going all in for Covid Awareness.

If you want to help get the word out please pitch in. $5 goes a long way. gofund.me/7817f5f5 If you’d like to help support my work, and more billboards please do so, we need to educate the public now. #covid19 #backtoschool #longcovid #mentalhealth #teacher

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 31

For the record, I absolutely hate masking. I hate the fact I have to wear a mask to protect myself from those who unmask and from getting sick and getting long covid.

I infinitely hate getting long covid more. So I will continue to wear my respirator and breathe clean air. I drink clean water!

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 31

He has been well and finally weaned off midodrine. He can walk 15000 steps. He is travelling. Still working. He feels so well. He doesn’t understand why people won’t mask. Neither do I.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 31

I told him to avoid getting sick and getting next Covid. He listened. He wears a P2 mask. He uses AirSpot air monitoring @airspotrob.bsky.social all the time. He uses far uvc.
He monitors the air he breathes and shares with others. He has a few Hepa machine and my favourite Ionmax aire x.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 31

Started midodrine. Slowly improved and took him about 8 months. Prominent public figure. Meets lots of people and attend regular meetings. Was off sick initially. Catches viruses from people regularly.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 31

My long Covid patient. 3 covid infections and 3 vaccinations- unable to have further mRNA due to myocarditis. Developed long covid after 3rd infection. POTS and PEM crashes. Limited to 2500 steps daily. Previously fit and well and gyms regularly. No meds prior to long covid.

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Aug 15

The next Covid Awareness billboard will be something to the effect of…

“Mask Up, Clean The Air, Protect the Kids, and Show We Care.”
#SafeSchoolsNow

If you like to help me continue my work and place some more billboards please share/donate. Every bit helps. YerAweSum!

gofund.me/b398a403

A collage of four pictures of Covid awareness billboards. The first one in the upper left corner is at night time in the winter. The long Covid billboard reads long Covid ruins lives mask up. And there is a graphic of a white N 95 mask. The billboard is on a brick pizza shop and it is brightly lit up in the nighttime.

The second billboard in the bottom left corner is on a large brown platform and is also in winter, but in the daytime and it is a clear blue sky day. The billboard also reads long Covid ruins lives mask up and there is a graphic of a white N 95 mask.

The third billboard is in the top right corner

There’s a rainbow coloured crosswalk at the intersection of two streets. There is a brown brick building with large glass window panes. On the side of the building, there is a very large billboard a digital one that reads. Bright green background. With words that read COVID-19 CAUSES...
BRAIN DAMAGE
DEMENTIA
IMMUNE DAMAGE
HEART PROBLEMS
DIABETES
CHRONIC ILLNESS
N95
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
ANYONE CAN GET LONG COVID, EVEN KIDS.
MASK UP AND STAY SAFE. On the left side of each symptom is a small graphic of a red virus particle. There is a large red virus particle in the upper right corner. There are two men and walking separately in different directions as well as two women walking the same direction as one of the men. The sky is clear. The women are wearing black and one of the r men is wearing jeans, and a blue shirt.

The fourth billboard is in the Bottom right There is a large green digital billboard display with the words COVID-19 CAUSES...
BRAIN DAMAGE
DEMENTIA
IMMUNE DAMAGE
HEART PROBLEMS
DIABETES
CHRONIC ILLNESS
N95
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
ANYONE CAN GET LONG COVID, EVEN KIDS.
MASK UP AND STAY SAFE. On it. There is also a graphic of a purplish virus particle, and a white n95 mask. There are also 3 vehicles in the picture, two are dark blue suvs and the other is a white car. There are buildings in the background.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 13

Not in US, so I have Pluslife. That’s so sad, I’m sorry. Not sure what your options are. Maybe just lab PCR and a good RAT brand?

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 11

Bad flu? Bad RSV? Bad norovirus? Not me. My N95 works very well. And I get it fit tested. It is worth it.

Annual quantitative fit testing.

Your health matters. And health is truly wealth. My long Covid patients suffer and it is sad that I’m seeing more unwell kids.

Do the right thing. 😷

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 11

I have HEPA, I mask when I’m out of my house. I monitor CO2. I use UV. I am up to date with vaccinations. I follow and understand science.

Respirators work. That’s first line to avoid catching and AIRBORNE virus.

I was last ill in 2019. And I’m immunocompromised. Not caught anything since 2019.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 11

I have not caught Covid yet and I actively test with plus life and then when indicated- lab PCR. My colleagues who are sick rely on RAT and don’t even do it properly. Refuse to do PCR.

When doing RAT, please swab your throat- under tongue, gum lines, inner cheeks and back of throat.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 11

I offer them a mask, they decline. Some rudely decline. They said they are well. I will say how people with no symptoms can have Covid. And I don’t know what pathogens my room harbour because most don’t mask.
I’m protected because I wear my N95.

You do you. I’m tired of ignorant people.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 11

My patients don’t mask anymore when they come in.
My room has a big Ionmax Aire X on number 3 setting with UV on.

Two windows opened. CO2 around 500+.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 10

Continued…

4. RAT stays positive for weeks.
5. If asymptomatic, people can go to work, no need to test RAT to ensure it is negative and maybe wear surgical mask intermittently.

No wonder we are where we are now. Thanks to those who are living life “normally”.

Wear a respirator!

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 10

What I heard drs say:

1. Low positive Covid-19 PCR: no need to isolate as unsure of significance.
2. URTI and unwell patients are not requested to do a PCR for Covid or respiratory viral panel.
3. Right sided facial and limb weakness in a young long covid patient- nah, it is nothing.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 10

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We can stop the spread by wearing a respirator.

I’m seeing more and more sick young patients.
Long covid is affecting the young ones. Think of our future generations!!!

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 10

I cover RACF and most of the residents on the “Covid-19 highway” corridor were positive. I had to go into these rooms to examine the residents. All with windows shut!

I didn’t catch Covid. Checked with Pluslife and lab PCR. No symptoms. I wear my N95 at all times. Fit tested.

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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · Aug 10

First and foremost. Treat Covid-19 virus as a virus. It is a pathogen. It is bad for our health. There’s no benefit in catching a virus. Especially this virus. It causes multi organ damage.

It is an AIRBORNE virus. To avoid catching it, wear N95 respirator.
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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Aug 9

It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.

Aerosol leak (left) from a mask is substantial, whereas with an N95 respirator (right), there is complete block of aerosol escape. That means zero transmission.

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · Jun 28

Of course, given that we know SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the tumour suppressor effects of p53, COVID is a putative cancer risk factor in its own right. www.oncotarget.com/article/2858...

Transfected SARS-CoV-2 spike DNA for mammalian cell expression inhibits p53 activation of p21(WAF1), TRAIL Death Receptor DR5 and MDM2 proteins in cancer... | Oncotarget

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28582 Shengliang Zhang, Wafik S. El-Deiry

www.oncotarget.com

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