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Thank you, I really do appreciate that.

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My deepest condolences on the loss of your mum.

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I am so, so sorry for your loss.

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Thank you so much Lauren, that really means a lot to me.

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Why are Americans so tired? CDC report highlights who’s feeling it most

Articles like these are emblematic of the institutional amnesia surrounding Covid-19. A pathogen that emerged less than seven years ago, which can cause fatigue during the acute infection and as a common long-term effect, not even mentioned. Conspicuously absent. www.nbcnews.com/health/menta...

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Fatigue is one of the most common concerns reported in primary care visits, yet not much attention is given to how often adults in the U.S. are coping with it.

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8. The vision I have of a world where infectious diseases are things of the past, no longer threats, started in the simplest of ways: a son, in 2020, wanting to visit his desperately frail mum. Who I now miss desperately. /end

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7. This is why I work with and connect companies, organisations, and people that are all working to solve parts of this problem: biosurveillance, biodetection, infection control and mitigation, screening and diagnostics, and therapeutics. It is now my life's work.

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6. No-one should have to go through what I did, engaged in a constant calculus of avoiding infection so I could visit my dying mother right up until the end.

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5. No-one should have to go through what my mother did, isolated for long periods at the start of the pandemic when visiting was banned during outbreaks of the virus.

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4. Because I didn't want to get infected and be unable to visit my mother, who could have passed away at any time from mid-2021. Three years have passed now, and my mother - my indomitable mother - would want me to express the following to you all:

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3. Because I didn't want to be responsible for bringing the virus into a nursing home, where every resident was, by definition, clinically extremely vulnerable. Because I didn't want to inadvertently infect my mother.

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2. I visited my mother almost every day, testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection every single time. Wearing a respirator, every single time. Why?

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

1. My mother passed away three years ago today. She died in the early hours of the morning in the nursing home she had lived in from late 2019. The nursing home was, at that point, in a Covid-19 outbreak, the eleventh outbreak in the facility since the pandemic began.

A selfie photograph of my mother and I. We are both smiling. My mother's hair is blond and she is wearing glasses. The chairs of a theatre can be seen behind us.

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The disconnect between the frenetic discourse regarding the potential risk of AIxBio enabled biological weapons being developed and the political reality in the US, where antivaxx ideology is being institutionalised and masking near-demonised is stark.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2. While the potential for AIxBio weapons are a risk we must contend with, and mitigate to the greatest extent possible, we must not become so focussed on this potential risk that we forget or somehow diminish the risk that *already exists*. /end

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1. I am concerned by the very real threat of AI-enabled biological weapons, but also by the current hyper-fixation on their potential development and use. It is vital to remember that highly effective biological weapons could be developed right now with absolutely no AI involved.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The strange dissonance of sitting in the main entrance foyer of a major hospital in Northern Ireland, with SARS-CoV-2 prevalence increasing here to boot, and seeing hundreds of people walk past, all unmasked, and realising that some of those people are going to get Long Covid.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

'Our findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection can activate an immune program that closely resembles those involved in established autoimmune disorders...'. I have seen this so many times now. New-onset autoimmune disease following COVID-19.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is very concerning. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I agree - the problem is that in the UK, the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) makes that decision. Their decision making process is based on a very flawed calculation of cost-benefit, and lobbying for change is extraordinarily difficult.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

'Vaccination against COVID appeared to have a dose-response protective effect. The more doses workers received before infection, the less likely they were to report prolonged symptoms'. This dose-response effect is why I get vaccinated every six months.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not diagnosed, but both fully attribute their current health issues to a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I dislike sharing anecdotes, but I genuinely feel compelled to inform you all that in the past week I have found out that two more people I know have Long Covid, and that a family friend is still shielding. As you all know already, 'normality' is fundamentally a veneer.

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3. ... protect my sobriety. This is why I accept the small risk of outdoor infection through outdoor socialising; because *for me* it mitigates the ongoing and larger risk to me of drinking alcohol. Risk is often complex, multi-faceted, and personal. /end

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2. ... to me than my sobriety. Nothing. I would sooner deliberately be infected with SARS-CoV-2 than drink a single alcoholic drink. Way back in 2020, I determined that maintaining an outdoor social life - predominantly having coffee with friends in outdoor settings - was a necessity in order to...

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1. These are good points, and deserve an honest and transparent answer. The reason I stressed 'for me' is because SARS-CoV-2 infection is *not* the primary risk I face on a day-to-day basis; the primary risk I face is drinking alcohol. I am now over 19 years sober and nothing is more important...

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