The CSA in Canada put forth a recommendation that respirators be used in healthcare to prevent COVID and other airborne diseases. It’s a recommendation that would save lives. Yet managers of hospital infection control programs are fighting back on it. Disgusting.

This list—predominantly managers of hospital infection control programs—are undermining revisions to a Canadian standard for workplace respirator personal protective equipment (PPE) that would improve safety grounded in science and engineering. /1

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Today's Private Eye magazine: Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance, "CATA believes the government is guilty of downplaying the airborne transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 virus, and other airborne pathogens, therefore not providing the correct protective equipment for staff". FFP3s needed.

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🎯 running water through a Brita pitcher-filter isn't as good as reverse osmosis, so I guess we will just give the kids water from the creek

I'm fed up with hearing Government responses saying that air filters are no substitute for ventilation whilst providing neither good ventilation nor air filters to school classrooms. I say in reply: Lies are no substitute for the truth. Ineptitude is no substitute for knowledge.

A lot of news from Covid inquiry blaming lockdown for people not being able to see relatives in care settings. The truth is; airborne transmission was covered up & Gov't hadn't properly prepared for an airborne pandemic. People could have done this entirely safely with the right mitigations. 1/2

@keithedwards.bsky.social hey Keith… I’m the person who’s post you put on X in an attempt to dunk on maskers & Bluesky. I wanted to let you know I make no money for my advocacy. I’ve been talking about mask bans for well over a year in an attempt to save lives. My post was 100% genuine.

Poor air quality is an invisible workplace hazard. Let’s stop pretending it’s not there. Support #SafeAir4All and make indoor air a health priority: 🌐 shh-uk.org/making-th...#SafeAir4All#ProtectWorkers #CleanAir4All

Every breath we take at work should be safe. This petition demands the UK government take airborne viruses seriously—by putting legal duties on employers. 👉 petition.parliament.... #CleanAir4All #WorkplaceHealth #LegalChange

So today is Day 9 of Gerry's walk along the Camino de Santiago to raise money for Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK. The weather is appalling and he's got some decisions to make. Find out more here: youtu.be/F-9wrffdIRI Sponsor Gerry already here: bit.ly/42cys0R

If you're in the UK and still care about #LongCovid and #DisabilityJustice, please get this SIGNED AND SHARED

Please help! You’ll have seen this UK govt petition before, but if you’re resident here & haven’t signed it yet, please do this time.. it’s so quick.. then put your own words behind it.. share it, and not let parliament off the hook! DEADLINE: 11th May petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

UK friends, there's a petition that I'd really like to see supported so that it gets discussed in Parliament. It demands better air quality & PPE standards in health & social care. It would help every one of us but needs more signatures before May 11th. Link in replies ✍️ ⤵️ 1/thread

Let’s say this loud and clear: Exercise is not the goal, recovery is the goal so one can exercise. Listen to this man - he’s a world leading expert on PEM/PENE #ME #Longcovid

COVID-conscious people don't think that they've abandoned science; they’ve come to think that science has abandoned them. @engber.bsky.social reports:

Still not wrong, just early. Ignoring Covid infections is a giant mistake. We should be preventing them. Long Covid is very real & very serious and still a significant risk to all. The pandemic is continuing whether you ignore it or not. It's not lockdowns; it's infections. FAFO.

I did a bit more digging about a recent BBC news article about how installing air quality monitors had a 'dramatic' effect on health. It is an initiative by @sthelenscouncil (X a/c) and @WarringtonBC (X a/c) called the Healthy Air for Healthy Lungs project. So what's it all about?... 1/thread

'Dramatic' effect of air quality monitors "It's clearly having a dramatic & positive impact on the health of young children, with reduced need for inhalers and fewer hospital visits recorded by parents and guardians." Clean air indoors benefits everyone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎯🧵 by @peteuk7.bsky.social earlier today: "Latest UKHSA blog: With tuberculosis (TB) on the rise again, how can we prevent further spread?" Pete: Well guys it's airborne so airborne precautions, right? threadreaderapp.com/thread/19042...

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Most folk understand that HIV is very harmful long after the acute infection. Most people think that Covid does nothing at all after acute infection. The difference in understanding, I fear, could just be time. It took many years for this to be widely acknowledged for HIV. 1/thread

Most folk understand that HIV is very harmful long after the acute infection. Most people think that Covid does nothing at all after acute infection. The difference in understanding, I fear, could just be time. It took many years for this to be widely acknowledged for HIV. 1/thread

This was me and @sunny-rae1.bsky.social talking about how #COVID can affect the heart and the brain by damaging blood vessels. As a result, #LongCovid also manifests as a vascular disease for many people. Thank you for covering, @peteuk7.bsky.social!

Just for the record all the clear air mitigations would be limiting the measles too..... Why don't we want clean air? Do you enjoy the flu? Do you want your kids to get sent home from daycare 5 days a month with some illness or another?

Listening to a neuroscientist explaining that it's worrying seeing how covid affects vessels, cells & neurons in the brain; long term effects unknown. A cardiologist talking about heart, blood vessel & endothelium damage. Are you personally sure that Covid can be ignored? 1/Thread

This is a very important thread. The most difficult job is getting air filters Into school. It is a huge mistake then to fail to select the best - highest CADR, quietest, value for £, no added UV, ionisation etc It leads to poor air cleaning results and undermines the evidence base..

I wish folk could see the significance of this post. A UK Council invested in air filters for schools but made a really terrible choice of machine. Default auto mode, noisy, big, power hungry, useless added tech; zero plus points. Upshot; they're unlikely to provide much protection against Covid. 1/

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We couldn’t agree more Michelle. Here’s a piece on indoor air quality in classrooms that we published during the pandemic, which compares monitoring results of a typical school, an early eco school with natural ventilation and two certified passive schools: passivehouseplus.ie/magazine/fea...

Great IAQ info (from a conference) shared by @peteuk7.bsky.social on Twitter: "In Jan there was a conference: Breathing achievement into every classroom This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/18974...

Seeing parents step-up as leaders & champions for improving indoor air quality in schools is wonderful; filling the void left by Gov't. In this video, @annemarie1.bsky.social gives a brilliant presentation for parents & teachers to learn more. I enjoyed watching! www.earlyyears.tv/episode/free...

"UK Health Security Agency is urging people to help prevent the spread of norovirus in NW England as their latest data shows that people who've already had the virus could be at risk of catching it again." Weren't we told getting ill is supposed to strengthen your immunity 🙃 1/

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” — Helder Camara People always prefer treatment to prevention. Bringing up prevention makes one think maybe we need to change the way we live. That makes people uncomfortable.

"I want to put air filters in schools to help stop kids getting sick." Public: where's the money coming from, we can't afford it, yeah who's paying? "We need to properly fund the NHS to treat sick people." Public: too right, tax the billionaires, tax us more, I'll chip in extra. Go figure.

The Covid Cover Up - part 3 "It's not mild" It's absolutely exceptional. I hope people can see that the politicians know how harmful this is and yet they are saying & doing absolutely nothing. Gwynne knows first hand how severe Long Covid is. Full thread on X. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4Q...

Here’s what I think U.K. politicians, journalists and scientists should be doing URGENTLY. Calling out the flawed NHS IPC guidance. This impacts all airborne viruses including the next airborne pandemic.

Key Recommendations Include... Ensuring provision of adequate ventilation through hybrid /mechanical systems ... Use of air cleaners In Naturally ventilated buildings Implement.... existing research findings in terms of practice...e.g working with relevant stakeholders such as local authorities

3 important petitions but the 1 w the least signatures more so for a sustainable future: we must prioritise #CleanAir. 63,140 have signed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700036?s=09 4,335 have signed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700304 54,050 have signed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317

Thread; There are no excuses: Health minister Andrew Gwynne got sacked. He was useless on Covid anyway. Some say he has been badly advised by 'experts'. I think those experts were selected because they tenaciously defend flawed science. Govs hide behind these 'experts' to limit costs & liability. 1/

Thread: Clean air roadmap. We demand clear air in school, hospitals & other public spaces. But what exactly could be done? Firstly, the foundation of any change like this has to come from Gov. It starts with being truthful about the risk of infection & why it's essential to try to control it. 1/

When Andrew Gwynne was put in charge of public health & prevention in the UK… Covid activists & Long COVID patients believed they finally found an ally. He had previously said he knew Covid was airborne. Believed we needed masks in healthcare. Then he did nothing: youtu.be/yawhg9werrg?...

The Covid Cover up Part 2 The truth about masks. Brilliant to hear a health minister saying masks are needed in healthcare against a backdrop of the PM and Health Sec walking around hospitals unmasked. Genius! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yawh...

None of us are. We'd like things to change & so we educate and campaign for that. It's very dear to us to protect people. What is odd is that you have no interest (or knowledge) about it at all and yet keep pestering; you prey on & bully my pals. Creepy. Sure, keep bothering me - leave Kelly alone.

For those interested and #COVID interested, here’s the PPM CO2 on a 2H flight from PDX to ONT. Real red during boarding, not great during flight and betting better once close to landing. This is one reason I wear a kf95/n95 on planes … lots of lovely wet coughs on this trip. Yay.

Since autumn last year, the UK has experienced successive waves of airborne respiratory viruses, which have made tens of millions of people sick. That's because indoor air is laden with viruses because there aren't standards in place to require indoor air to be virus free.

Everyone should watch this important video. Labour are currently saying that they agree with Lisa Ritchie in the covid inquiry that Covid isn’t airborne but Bridget Phillipson was chastising the Tories in Parliament for not mitigating in 2022. Now they are in, apparently it’s not longer airborne 🤷‍♀️🧵