Linn Jarte ☀️

I knew I loved you when...You rescheduled our date because you were sick and wanted to protect me

I knew I loved you when...You told me you wanted to use protection

I knew I loved you when...You wore a mask on our date

I knew I loved you when... You used a thermometer to cook our dinner to a safe internal temperature

Looking for a Valentine for that special someone? We made you a few to choose from. We can’t tell you who to love, but we think these are all green flags.

Re: Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

It is time that the medical profession recognised this emerging paradigm shift and moved on from the surrender narrative to a broader perspective that includes the control of such airborne diseases."
4/4

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

"This is not a question of going back to 2019; we have an unprecedented opportunity to move forward into a new era of public health protection.
3/4

* The unspoken assumption that infection is inevitable; the surrender narrative
(No - mitigation of airborne transmission is wholly possible)
2/4

Mini-🧵
Excellent response to the BMJ article 'Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”'!

Highlights two fundamental misconceptions:
* Vaccination is the best prevention
(No - avoiding infection is)
1/4

Let this be the culture we foster for our future.

A world founded on compassion, care, joy, and where everyone matters. Including our next generation.

We didn’t need foresight. We just needed to recall our existing knowledge.

It was all there in black and white.
5/5

It is astounding how works like this could be written - how humans could have this much prescience and predictions of our behaviours - yet the parallels weren’t able to be drawn when 2020 kicked off.
4/5

Hyper-focus on illogical theories (Elizabeth vs immunity debt).

The disabled falling by the wayside (Frank vs Fauci).

Counting the years starting from zero (we’re in year 7 now).
3/5

Misguided actions during the initial emergency phase (riots outside hospitals vs buying all the loo rolls).

Denial until it was too late (cities evacuated too late vs Freedom Day and countless repeat infections until chronically ill or dead).
2/5

🧵 I’ve just read Station Eleven. Considering when it was written the parallels with our current pandemic are eerie.

The reactions towards those rapidly realising the severity of the situation and taking the correct actions (stockpiling food and water vs 😷).
1/5

Small display with scented bottles. Sales sign reading “Aroma - masks paint odour. Suitable only for use with oil-based paints and varnishes”

Doing some DIY and spotted this at the paint store.

So…if the air is full of bad stuff let’s just add some more stuff to cover up that the bad stuff is still there? 🤔

I think I generally prefer my HEPAs.
#cleanair

Photo of a smiling woman getting a hair cut, wearing a blue FFP2 mask and with three round hair brushes hanging from her hair.

Might be my favourite masked photo yet 😂

Someone I’ve known for many years, and who deeply respected my covid knowledge, recently assumed I don’t fly. Despite them being aware of many flights I’ve taken since the pandemic started. Despite them knowing that my fit tested mask protect. I asked why they thought so…

Mini🧵 shared by @linnj.bsky.social on XTwitter yesterday:

"Someone I’ve known for many years, and who deeply respected my covid knowledge, recently assumed I don’t fly.

Despite them being aware of many flights I’ve taken since the pandemic started..."

🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20133...

Why the WHO respirator revolt could reshape global health governance - Business Upturn Trade & Policy When a group of senior clinicians and public health scientists formally urged the World Health Organization in January 2026 to...

“If surgical masks remain the default in hospitals while airborne pathogens circulate[…],courts will eventually ask a simple question.

Why was safer protection available,yet not required?

In law, that question rarely ends comfortably for those who ignored it”
www.businessupturn.com/trade-policy...

I of course don’t agree, but I can understand why being in complete covid denial is easier. It’s only a cold, right…
9/9

For them to consider this sequence of events would ultimately lead to them realising that they take risks they actually do not accept.

Shutting us out therefore becomes the only option to successfully ignore their internal inconsistencies.
8/

And this is where cognitive dissonance comes in, and where some people choose to - wholly without providing any logical arguments - simply refuse to test for us.
7/

But without testing them this hypothetically covid positive person would attend wholly unmitigated. And this is in effect what everyone else at the event will be doing.

By mentioning the possibility of a positive test I would have brought this principle to their awareness.
6/

Knowing their partial mitigations against covid, they probably would have wanted to do some of the above - but most of all they would have felt enormously uncomfortable being faced with this situation.
5/

Exclude them from the event? Ask them to mask? But what about the dinner? Or wear masks themselves when around this person? Ask them not to be around their child?
4/

But what I didn’t bring up is the Pandora’s box testing these select people could potentially open.

What would the host have done if one of them tests positive?
3/

I politely declined with the reasoning that it’s not practically feasible due to the time of running the test and other event plans.
2/

Complexities of having partial cognitive dissonance around covid 🧵

Someone who is covid aware but chooses to only take occasional mitigations invited me to an event that includes a dinner, and suggested that the people I’m sat next to do a pluslife test.
1/

Experts Call For N95s Over Surgical Masks As Flu, Covid Viruses Spread World Health Network experts urge WHO to make N95, KN95, or FFP2 respirators the standard for protection for healthcare workers, not inferior surgical masks.

Experts Call For N95s Over Surgical Masks As Flu, Covid Viruses Spread, @DrJudyStone writes in @forbes
"WHN sent a letter to the WHO urging them to declare respirators as the default protection for healthcare workers, rather than surgical masks."
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Open Letter to WHO: A Call for the Universal use of Respirators in Healthcare - WHN January 7, 2026 The letter below (a button to download it as a .pdf file is at the bottom of this page) was sent to seven top officials at the World Health Organization on Wednesday 7 January. Press c...

SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT PROTECT

So encouraging to see the sheer strength of feeling amongst so many highly-respected scientists & medical practitioners from across the world making representations to WHO

This letter from World Health Network is a must-read
tinyurl.com/WHN-Letter-t...

Vivid sunrise at a harbour with mirror-like water reflecting the beautiful sky.

Finding the glimmers in a chaotic world.

Huge congratulations Shaun!

My thoughts on wider masking… 🧵 Many, including those who are covid-aware, are of the opinion that we’ll never be able to get masking to become widely adopted in society. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some of us who invariably mask in shared air tend to hold a different view. 1/21

🎯🧵 by @linnj.bsky.social on Twitter earlier today:

"My thoughts on wider masking… 🧵
Many, including those who are covid-aware, are of the opinion that we’ll never be able to get masking to become widely adopted in society. Perhaps unsurprisingly..."

Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19755...

If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.