The BMJ has not published a rapid resopnse from Maeve Boothby O'Neill's mum, @swastrosarah.bsky.social‬, to its ME/CFS "hope" propaganda piece from members of the biopsychosocial ideological brigades. So I have posted it here. virology.ws/2025/07/23/t...

NEW: “Plans to speed up employment support for people affected by welfare cuts will be undeliverable, the BBC has been told.” DWP officials say the system is “a mess” with “only a handful of people” working on it. So the so-called concessions are LIES. tinyurl.com/ycujeexc

Disabled Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has described how she was left with “no choice” but to resign as a whip over government plans to cut billions of pounds a year from disability benefits. #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePIP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-mp-...

A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-fin...

Covid-19 is airborne. Poor indoor air quality in healthcare settings increases infection risks for staff, patients & visitors. We’re calling for urgent action. Read our second position statement: 🔗 shh-uk.org/shh-uk-posit... #SafeAir4All #ProtectHCWs #LongCovid

🚨🚨🚨We need 2446 signatures by midnight. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

💨 Everyone deserves clean air 🖊️ Sign the petition to make safe indoor air a legal right in healthcare settings: 👉 petition.parliament.... Let’s make sure buildings protect health, not harm it. #SafeAir4All #SafeAirNow #PetitionForCleanAir

Today, alongside DPAC, Scope and Rethink Mental Illness, we gave evidence at a Work and Pensions Select Committee on the impact of the proposed Green Paper cuts. We were unequivocal: these cuts will lead to more deaths. Watch clips of our evidence below 👇 youtu.be/wVW3Oud3zm0

NEW ANALYSIS: A rise in financial hardship is a key driver of the increase in benefit claims. These new figures cast serious doubts on the government’s justification for cutting disability and incapacity payments. 1/10

I am doing a survey to gather people’s experiences of receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Adult Disability Payment (ADP) to highlight the impact that disability benefits can have on the wellbeing of disabled people. forms.office.com/e/7Kda0UzP6G

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Catching COVID in hospital impacts survival rates, elongates stays, can cause blood clots, long covid, many have no vaccine protection, many have no pemgarda. This is really a very urgent matter and time is running out on our petition. Please sign and RT. 🙏

We need to be able to safely access healthcare. Hardly anyone wears a mask (even in healthcare settings) and the Labour Government are doing nothing about it. Please sign this petition. Thank you. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The DWP have responded to my FOI request. Their figures indicate that 87% of clamants currently receiving PIP daily living at the standard rate, and 13% of claimants receiving enhanced rate, are likely to lose their entitlement if the score 4 changes go ahead. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pers...

#PIP A freedom of information request re the daily living component scoring less than 4 points across the 10 daily living activities has been obtained 1,608,000 in receipt of enhanced rate daily living 13% didn’t get 4 points 1,283,000 standard rate 87% didn’t get 4 points

Today five years ago #apresJ20 was created. 12 April 2020. This important hashtag was one of the first terms Covid survivors used to connect, and speak about prolonged disease from SARS-CoV-2 infection: ApresJ20 means "after the 20th day" in French.

Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after #DWP removes his benefits, just as #Labour prepares to cut #PIP by £4.5 billion www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man...

If you’re suicidal about benefits changes, please remember nothing can change at all soon: 📞 Samaritans – 116 123 (24/7) 📞 CALM - 0800 58 58 58 (5pm-12) 📞 Mind – 0300 123 3393 (Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm) 📞 Papyrus – 0800 068 4141 (9am-midnight) 📞 Citizens Advice – 0800 144 8848 J💜

Disabled people and allies just came out in communities nationwide to fight the DWP cuts While the major #WelfareNotWarfare protest centred round Downing Street and Parliament Square, plenty turned out elsewhere in the country against Labour's disgraceful plans www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

@longcovidphysio.bsky.social is pleased to support this essential campaign by @longcovidkids.bsky.social Better assessment, care, funding and research are urgently needed for the millions of adults and children living with Long COVID and M.E. #LCandME #FundOurFuture #FundThePlan

This is a mural on one of the walls of Columbia’s medical center. Keep wearing your mask. It is an essential public health tool.

#WelfareNotWarfare 📢 Stop The Press @thecanaryuk.bsky.social Will be live-streaming the london protest from Downing Street london live from 11am on 26.03.25 So online join the action from your bed, living room wherever you are. Comment on the protest join in

🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨 Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions. On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths. Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.

🚫NO RETURN TO AUSTERITY! 🚫NO CUTS TO BENEFITS! There will be a protest in Manchester on Tuesday 1st April, 12 noon outside Boots, M1 1PL. Come and join us to resist government cuts to disabled people's benefits!

In today's Green Paper, the government has announced cuts to #disability benefits targeting some of the most vulnerable people in society. Law Centres believe this is cruel and unnecessary.

I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site. If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.

Today Saturday 15 March 2025 is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. Today, people living with Long Covid and allies come together to raise awareness about Long Covid For some of us, the Day has already started, depending on the time zone. Seeing already the first advocacy initiatives ongoing, like in Australia!

We follow the advice. We pace, we rest. We try supplements. We meditate. We seek tests and trials... But none of this is enough. We can't do this on our own. On #LongCovidAwarenessDay the government must commit to properly investing in finding treatments for #LongCovid.

📢Pauline 💔 "#CovidLong depuis 5 ans et en galère médicale et administrative, abandonnée par l'état français." #ApresJ20 #LongCOVIDAwareness #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay

5 years have passed and millions are affected globally All are still waiting for a cure #LongCovidAwarenessDay

Tell your MP: No to Disability Benefit Cuts! no2disabilitybenefitcuts.good.do/notodisabili...

🎥 GMCDP is 40! 🎉 We want YOU to be part of it! Send a 30-sec video sharing one change you want for disabled people in the UK. We'll feature 40 videos this July! 📅 Deadline: 15 April More info: gmcdp.com/call-videos-... #GMCDP40 #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Andy Burnham @mayorofgm.bsky.social: "what I would say to ministers is listen to what's being said. Great care is needed here for people who can't work. There is no case for reducing their benefits because that will just push people into punishing poverty and I couldn't myself accept that."

💔 1/3. We are devastated to learn of Ondine's passing. A shining light has gone out in the #LongCovid Community. An absolute force for good and powerful speaker, she selflessly campaigned for recognition, research & rehabilitation for those affected./ #LongCovidCommunity

We are heartbroken to share the loss of our co-founder, CEO, and beloved friend, Ondine, who passed away on Tuesday 11th March. Longcovidsos.org/post/ondine-sherwood

📢 CVF's 4TH COVID INQUIRY MEETING 6-7pm, 18th March 2025 CVF's legal team, led by Kim Harrison, will update you on our work, and our lead barrister @adamwagner1.bsky.social will address your questions. CVF's founder, @larawong.bsky.social, is looking forward to welcoming you! 1/2

Labour are sending out an unequivocal message: you matter if you work, you don’t otherwise. This is morally wrong as argued by every major philosopher, every spiritual tradition or religion, every admired society current or past. We all matter. We all contribute.

Disability isn't rare. It isn't a niche issue. If you live long enough, it will affect you or someone you love. These cuts aren't just an attack on us-they're a warning to everyone.

New research from disabled activists has shown the huge variety of ways in which mental health impairments can cause significant extra daily living costs, just as the government appears set to announce fresh cuts to disability benefits.

Expansion of physician and anaesthetic associates should be informed by solid empirical research. We simply do not have data to support claims that these roles improve efficiency or maintain patient safety. Yet unregulated expansion took place. @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social

GP working 30 yrs in a mixed urban area, rich & poor Rarely seen people abuse the benefits system Seen lots of the health, social & wealth systems fail those in most need The healthy & wealthy always making the decisions Compare how the UK spends with similar nations @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks? #healthpolicy 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

#5 - Emma 'You have to rest because if you're not emotionally and physically well, you will struggle to work. If you work in case, you would definitely struggle to look after others if you weren't well. You have to look after yourself'. - Emma #Disability #Rest

Hey, all, I’ve just joined bsky. I have multiple sclerosis and long Covid and would love some followers, please. Also recommendations on what groups to follow.Thank you all

On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

The PCR positivity map has updated. This week's data shows us where the increase in positivity is focused. All the hotspots correlate with rising hospital admissions. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6

🚨PRESS RELEASE🚨 Long COVID-suffering performers sounded the alarm on the Long COVID emergency in the arts outside #EEBAFTAs. One protestor chanted “Silence=Death” echoing the estimated 27m people who have died from COVID. Share/tag news + big accounts to get the word out⬇️⬇️

The Covid Inquiry has revealed systemic failures that left Clinically Vulnerable families unprotected during the pandemic. Our latest update delves into these oversights and their lasting impact. Read more: www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/covid-i...

Great update on the latest for nasal and inhaled vaccines in States from @erictopol.bsky.social . These are also known as mucosal vaccines and because they target the places where bugs get in/try to live there is hope (and evidence) they will give more durable immunity. 🧪 🧵