We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Wondering why everyone is sick all the time? Maybe it’s not just a cold and some active mitigation is warranted.

And here I was wondering why the world seems to have gone mad…

Fixing ventilation in schools is long overdue. In a six-week longitudinal study in a Swiss secondary school (67 students, aged 14–15) they detected 87 respiratory infections! And then they wonder why abscence rates are so high.

In a time when governments need to learn, they continually demonstrate that they have learned exactly nothing. Government is about being the custodian of the well-being of 26 million people - this is not custodianship, it's incompetence bordering on negligence.

Finally! A benefit to AI

Yes one lesson is to allow everyone access to COVID booster shots every six months like they do in NZ

'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

How many of us have had that conversation… telling someone that they have a disease that will progressively cause cognitive decline? Or loss of mobility? The fear and sadness this provokes? That’s why I’m gentle with “the masses” wrt C19.

“Immune dysregulation mimicking immunosenescence for up to three years post-COVID-19”. So maybe not immunity debt after all.

🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello

Thank me. My @smh @theage cartoon.

I really die a little inside each time hospital administrators and management scratch their heads re: high sick calls for nurses, too. This is so obvious.

The elephant in the room is that any effective defence against COVID and other airborne pathogens will end the careers of today's public health and IPC leaders - their only hope to beat charges of negligence is the lie that it was never possible to do better. They cannot afford a success.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The Director of the National Institutes of Health thinks doctors like Rachel hallucinated 2020, and infecting millions of unvaccinated Brits with a new SARS virus in 2020 would have somehow magically saved lives. Repulsive, unprofessional misogyny.

US to sever ties with civilization.

"Maybe they know that, despite the strong case for upgrading air filtration & establishing indoor air quality requirements, this has not been done, & masks are an easy-to-implement, effective layer of protection against pathogens": Via @bcschoolcovid.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/misfitme...

Western democracy is at a crossroad. 40 years of toxic neoliberalism gutted public utilities & govt service delivery, created unprecedented inequality & concentrated obscene wealth in hands of a few…corrupting the democratic process. Yet deeply institutionalised old white men still prevail #auspol

Massive cost of long COVID quantified. It is curious that the massive hit to productivity is being so comprehensively ignored.

They are laughing about this Wtf????

The epstein files is only the tip of the shitberg

Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming: Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS > Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

I’m honestly surprised it isn’t higher. But then it probably would be, if people had more sick days to use. Instead, they just show up to infect their coworkers.

I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.

To quote Tony Benn "The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it" #WATO

Because he can’t rein in spending on AUKUS

When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die

Another acquaintance died only middle aged from a sudden heart attack last week. This is the third person I know who has had a heart attack in the last two years. All had one thing in common, they had just had COVID again. 🧵

Very, very disturbing data. The kids are ok with unmitigated COVID though.

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Public Health officials and infectious disease experts in Canada: Take a bow. You did it. You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud. You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.

I have been in the ER full of sick people for hours with my N95, and not caught anything. My family member with shit lungs on two immunosuppressants? Has been in an airport, an ER, a house with someone with an active COVID infection. And not caught those infections due to their N95.

The cognitive dissonance is off the scale.

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

As a doctor, I have been really angry about this!

Amazing that cops have powers to arrest and prosecute anti-genocide protesters, but don't have powers to stop Nazis doing Nazism on the steps of the NSW parliament.

That’s why we’re so pleased to welcome the International WELL Building Institute to the Making the invisible visible campaign - a global call to action to treat indoor air quality like the public health priority it is, and make the air safer for everyone to breathe.

Hopefully this won’t end like the infamous Australian Emu War.

I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes: 'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.

Racist attacks on clinical staff have become socially acceptable because it has become politically acceptable to attack people based on race.

Two more people have been killed as Hegseth carried out another boat strike in the Eastern Pacific. He said: “Protecting the homeland is our TOP priority” No trial No due process No evidence Just murder. This is at least the 16th strike and 66 people have been killed.

Prof Deborah Lupton "The hardest thing for me these days about wearing a mask is that you make others around you feel uncomfortable. You are reminding them that C19 is still a risk and that they should be doing the same. Clinicians and public health experts in particular do not like this reminder"

The world learned a painful lesson during COVID; respiratory infections are airborne. This changes a great deal - especially the need for better indoor air quality and high quality masks. If there was a single most important person responsible it was Prof Morawska. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

American Journal of Managed Care:'COVID-19 Vaccination Linked to Lower Risk of Long COVID in Adolescents' 'Given the profound impact [long COVID] can have on the health & well-being of adolescents & the lack of available treatments, these findings support vaccination' www.ajmc.com/view/covid-1...

Spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about what DEWR's job numbers continue to quietly reveal: that the main purpose of employment services is to outsource billions of dollars to punish people, rather than help them into meaningful opportunities www.theguardian.com/business/202...