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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.

Reminder that there hasn't been a lockdown for 5 years, strict lockdowns lasted for a total of around 6/7 months and there was a significant meningitis outbreak at my university in 1997.

What is the @greenparty.org.uk policy offering those with Long Covid that other parties aren’t? - research - access to better treatments - prevention - following the science - hope not abandonment #LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovid #EveryHeartbeatCounts #LongCovidStandUp #fundlongcovidresearch

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Today is the UK’s COVID-19 Day of Reflection. In 2020, we held a National Memorial Ceremony to help people mourn, reflect, and find connection while many were separated from loved ones in lockdown. We remember those we lost. Watch our ceremony online.

6 years on from Covid, BBC Look North highlights the ongoing impact of #LongCovid. Reporter Cathy Minton says it’s personal, her husband Tom hasn’t improved in a year. He still can’t care for his toddler or go for walks. @franhaddock.bsky.social says new people continue to get long Covid.

Clip 3 BBC Politics North: Luke Akehurst MP says it’s “shocking” that #LongCovid services are being closed when ~2 million people live with the condition and about half consider themselves disabled. Covid is “not yesterday’s problem”, it is still causing events to be cancelled.

🚸 New ventilation & air quality guidance for schools & nurseries just published. Indoor air matters. We wouldn’t share water bottles. Shared air deserves the same thought. Clean air belongs in every classroom. 💨🏫 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Today @thesicktimes.org: Elizabeth Yuko examines why people with Long COVID struggle to get appropriate mental health care. One big issue, she found, is that professional associations haven't offered guidance on the disease. thesicktimes.org/2026/02/24/s...

Yesterday, the WHO European Region said people continue to develop Long COVID after new COVID-19 infections. “In the lab, COVID is a Level 3 biohazard. In schools, it's no big deal. I don't think you can reconcile those two statements” - Colin Furness, infection control epidemiologist

Another virus that public health authorities can ignore. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Farage's fossil-fuel-financed gang of privately-educated former Tories wants to scrap the Equality Act, halt action on the climate crisis and frack the UK. A vote for Farage is a vote for Trumpist politics in the UK: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

On “BBC health check” Apparently we are “post pandemic” and “health anxious” because we are noticing things like the recent hMPV outbreaks… 1) bugs are behaving differently for various reasons, so we should notice that, & 2) The repetition of saying we have health anxiety can’t be good for us.

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one. Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

Invisible changes

Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament. But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Don't worry. We are campaigning on your behalf too. And frankly on behalf of everyone. We know that #Covid is harming health and the economy and we object to giving it free reign to infect people multiple times.

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Out in the Lancet today. There are tens of thousands of #children in England living with the consequences of #Covid — direct, like #LongCovidKids, or through clinical vulnerability or bereavement and hardship. There is no Children's Commissioner listening to them. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Long COVID is global, fast growing, with new cases daily. “An endemic disease is one that is consistently present throughout a specific region or population. A pandemic occurs when a disease spreads across countries or continents at a fast rate with new cases appearing every day.” [PHO, 2022]

Labour are putting clinically vulnerable & long Covid sufferers in the middle of their culture war with Reform. It’s total hypocrisy that you cancelled 13 million vaccines to clinically vulnerable before Christmas and then state ‘vaccines save lives’.

The Conservatives and Reform are currently saying that UK free speech laws are so draconian that people are routinely jailed for bad takes, and yet also the only way to deal with Alaa’s social posts is to extra-judicially strip him of citizenship. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

Dear Jon Stewart, No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.

Respectfully Jon Stewart, you were wrong on the @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social to mock people who mask. ICYMI: there are tens of millions of Americans who have been disabled by #LongCOVID and must do everything in their power to prevent further infections that make them vulnerable to further 1/

A testament to elite, institutional cowardice and enabling. sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...

We must learn hard lessons @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social. To protect people now and in the next pandemic, the UK should focus on core safeguards: correct use of high‑filtration face coverings in healthcare, crowded public settings, and during surges, clean indoor air, and access to trusted vaccine.

Good ventilation and air filtration are critical tools in preventing respiratory infections. The Government must assess current standards in hospitals and schools — and act where they fall short. #Flu #Covid #Ventilation Full response 👉 hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...

🧵1/ Flu is surging again, & patterns look uncomfortably familiar. The lesson from covid remains unchanged: individual responsibility isn’t enough. We need systemic measures that make protective behaviours easy. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Stephen Reicher & I offer some thoughts @bmj.com

There is a century of data from scientists and engineers showing masks work, and a century of science denial by physicians who deliberately design studies that ignore the known fact of aerosol spread. It's long past time to be done with aerosol science denial in health care.

For those up the back?? Immune dysregulation is a considerable and unpleasant consequence of Cövid doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

~2,660 people are being treated for flu daily in English hospitals right now. Help us spread the word about clean indoor air and reduce the spread of flu. go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/76TBlzW #AirForSchools #CleanAir #FluSeason