Here is the interview with Arijit Chakravarty:

Because of that potential for rapid spread, the bar for airborne precautions isn't "is it known to be airborne?" - it's "is it plausible that it could be airborne?". That's where the ball was dropped for COVID, that's where the ball was dropped for SARS... bsky.app/profile/mark...

Professor Clive Beggs stated during his testimony to the UK COVID Inquiry that there is no situation where respiratory droplets could be produced without producing significant amounts of aerosols. [Courtesy of @catinthehat.bsky.social]

“Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce” theconversation.com/long-covid-w...

The government’s new assault on the right to challenge planning decisions is another example of its authoritarian reflex. We very much need a fast green transition, which means large-scale renewables. But instead of bringing people along, it goes straight for coercion.🧵1/8 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Until recently, Makerfield Reform candidate Robert Kenyon was a Facebook friend of Gary Raikes Raikes was leader of the BNP in Scotland and a leading member of Britain First He set up the New British Union for 'restoring faith in fascism' Spread the word searchlightmagazine.com/2026/05/refo...

Instead of banning private jet flights during the fuel crunch to protect people’s summer holidays, we’re doing this

We need to stop the transmission of COVID by implementing public health policies across society.

We need more Public support for action on outcomes of the covid inquiry. Please repost 🙏 This will impact everyone. pressat.co.uk/releases/cov...

The hantavirus outbreak isn't just about hantavirus. It's public health and IPC showing us that they have learned nothing from their mismanagement of COVID. Regardless of where hantavirus falls on the spectrum from "pandemic" to "dry run for the next pandemic", that is unacceptably sloppy.

I'm seeing multiple MDs, including those high up at the WHO, repeatedly say the public need not worry about hantavirus, you need close prolonged contact to get the illness, it's not airborne, and most worryingly, the WHO advising HCWs to use inadequate respiratory protection. Here's the problem. 1/

Farage was asked for a Cameo clip to “talk about how the world is going to shit and how secret societies are controlling everything”. He appears to have volunteered several Jewish conspiracy references himself to that request. Wouldn't all hell break out if Corbyn/Polanski did this on camera too?

An earlier me - privileged, white, wealthy - could not have imagined finding this stuff terrifying or understood why othered people - Black, Jewish, immigrants - did. But I listened, and I watched, and I learned. And they were right. I'm begging you to listen and watch and learn.

It would be good if the experience of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had resulted in an updated procedure for communicating about outbreaks. Brief thoughts on what still happens vs. what would be better for rebuilding trust in public health. 🧵

Preventing fear seems to be the #1 priority for a lot of public health people. Preventing disease is a distant #2.

For any new outbreak there is a lot of daylight between "Panic! It's COVID 2.0!" and "Nothing to worry about". 1) There's never a time to panic. 2) Mass panic is very improbable (didn't even happen with COVID -- unless you count hoarding toilet paper) 3) Minimizing infectious disease causes harm.

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If the mainstream press refuses to investigate Reform’s candidates and their scandalous backgrounds and attitudes, I guess @bylinetimes.bsky.social will have to do it. These are just some of our exclusives from the last couple of days Www.bylinetimes.com

I have no idea who is doing these but they are absolutely nailing it...

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Statement from Newcastle Green Party

Have we heard about this Reform corruption on the BBC? If not, why not? And please do your best to share it with people who might consider voting for these corrupt lackeys to the super-rich

Jo Platt MP, who lives with #MECFS and #LongCovid, told UK Parliament the COVID-19 Inquiry found Long Covid was repeatedly dismissed despite affecting nearly 2 million people. She asked the Government what steps it will take to act on the Inquiry’s findings, 23 April 2025.

It's a fact that the left contains a minority that is intentionally antisemitic, and that another minority can stray into that territory without necessarily realising it, and that any successful left-wing project has to banish the former and educate the latter

This is correct and @zackpolanski.bsky.social needs to do this as a matter of urgency. The Green Party must not become a home for antisemitism.

Remove Palantir from our NHS. Get Palantir out of our country. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Six years of being ignored. Yesterday that changed... Four CVF members set the record straight. Starting with @larawong.bsky.social sharing our official statement: 1/

I just wrote a @galba.uk.bsky.social letter: Tell your councillors to stop unlimited night flights at Leeds Bradford Airport. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

💯 this 👇 Public health screwed up - that's the bottom line for everything related to the pandemic. 👉Public health screwed up 👈 Now they're trying to bury the consequences by stirring up a moral panic about "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment", and making up anything-but-COVID just so stories.

Children are catching an airborne virus that causes vascular damage in our schools & most don’t even have vaccine access. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social Nothing can be achieved without good health. world-heart-federation.org/news/covid-1...

@sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social “Our study estimates that Long Covid is costing the UK economy approximately £8 billion per year, including both direct healthcare costs and indirect economic impacts such as reduced productivity and workforce absence.” lnkd.in/grz6tbFv www.elaros.com/elaros-featu...

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024 Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

We were told to only wash our hands and wear inadequate gappy masks and sing happy birthday for a predominantly airborne virus. Think about what this means. It explains fully why masks didn’t work and how we should have been advised to wear ones that seal to the face (ffp2/3). Knowing this should 🧵

New feature: Which nextgen Covid vaxes are advancing the most? I highlight 3 in mid- to late-stage trials with manufacturers—including a "universal" Covid vax & a mucosal one—and another 6 vaccines. Plus more trial results & 10 preclinical reports: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/04/02/a...

Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today

The new UK pandemic paper gets one big thing right: future pandemics are a certainty, and respiratory spread matters. Good start. But preparedness has to mean cleaner indoor air too. go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/jdiajRW #CleanAir #PandemicPreparedness

The BA.3.2 is already in the UK. It’s looking much more immune evasive and this means that our vaccines will not be as effective. Also very tired of the press inference that most people have vaccine access, which is a very long way from reality. We have: 1. A narrow band of Cev that JCVI are 🧵

The WHO told the world 6 years ago today that "COVID-19 is NOT airborne." This is disinformation. They have not deleted the post and have not apologized for the tens of millions of lives lost and hundreds of millions of people now with #LongCOVID because of their misguidance.

Instead of telling people *not* to wear masks, public health officials should be educating people about the right types of masks to protect against AEROSOL transmission. 😷 Surgical masks do not protect against aerosols. 😷 Only FFP2/3 masks provide adequate protection. whn.global/a-call-for-t...

I know we all say it a lot but it is REALLY recent that numbers like this were close to unimaginable, for a grid the size of Britain and its current level of interconnection elsewhere. This is important because pretending we can't exist without fossil fuels is a big lie designed to stop us trying

Similarly sections 1.56 - 1.58 find a "failure to appreciate and guard against the risk" and that today's clinical infection control paradigms based on droplet as distinct from aerosol transmission "were and are wrong" and "should no longer be relied on". covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu....

Millions of people in the UK including myself have had their long term health impacted by COVID infections and @zackpolanski.bsky.social is the only political leader talking about it. We need treatments and indoor clean air policies to protect the public's health.

"Prevention measures were fundamentally flawed, chair says" "... failed to recognise the virus could also be spread in the air in tiny particles known as aerosols that can stay suspended for much longer periods."

OK, I'll start. Here is a Sky report talking about the flawed guidance that excluded aerosol transmission. But what PPE😷 was in short supply? Not said here, but it is said (with pictures) in the #CovidInquiry report: Airborne = FFP3 respirators (N100). Still not used in NHS. bsky.app/profile/long...

The way we abandoned everyone to death and debilitating illness and then got mad at anyone who brought up the ongoing disease spread and suffering will never stop leaving me seething in rage. An act of mass cruelty and turning our back on a real and ongoing danger.

What to know? Heres 4 more: 1. #LongCovid is still happening !! We’re screaming into the void trying to warn people and we still see stories like this every week. The more people talk about it, the closer we will get to real solutions for treatment and better prevention!

Students and others, we don’t know if meningococcal disease can spread through the air. I see some of you in the outbreak zone are wearing masks. If you want to maximise your protection against a *possible* airborne threat, wear a *respirator* (FFP2 or - better - FFP3). These are ~N95/N99 in USA.