#DuvetKnowItsChristmas My poor son and daughter-in-law have been relegated to the study this year because the room they normally sleep in is full (literally) of my other daughter-in-law-to-be’s wedding dress hanging up and I don’t dare touch it!

“While some argue that COVID-19 could act as a compounding factor in [people susceptible to Parkinson’s], others suggest the possibility of Parkinsonian features emerging as a consequence of viral infection.”

The Lib Dem group leader, @antonyhook.bsky.social accused Reform of “wanting to spend public money on a political apparatchik to tell them what to do. KCC is in a worsening financial state under Reform with the projected overspend now at £46m and rising” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity www.nature.com/articles/d41...

25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study. Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...

Read the study and think about population level implications, remembering that the vast majority of people have been infected multiple times. What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae? What are the implications for societies now? news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...

Generative AI. Eats its young.

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

The shape of things to come? Excellent analysis of what happens when Reform take the reins. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

2. Watching the current scrambling response of many healthcare systems to H3N2 K, combined with the firmly embedded political and ideological resistance to masking, I can assure you all that if H5N1 goes human to human with a high CFR, we're in deep trouble as a species. /end

YES YES YES thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🙏 😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!! "In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️ It's. that. simple.

What Steve said. There has never been a study in which high-quality, well-fitting masks were actually WORN that did not show a significant impact on disease transmission. Many mask studies failed to take account of post-allocation confounders (non-adherence + non-mask people choosing to mask).

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.

The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history www.cell.com/trends/immun...

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #Publichealth This study found that the accelerated #epigenetic aging in #COVID patients is primarily driven by immune dysregulation rather than the body's intrinsic aging processes.

“Children of COVID-infected mothers were diagnosed with neurodevelopmental conditions by age 3 at nearly twice the rate of those born to moms who did not get COVID, the study found. Boys were also more likely to be diagnosed than girls.” www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...

🔴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

Little reminder of Farage's pro Putin tendencies.... Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this. Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲 #ReleaseTheRussiaReport

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Before I see one more post saying we shouldn’t have had a lockdown and behaved like Sweden, a reminder how that worked out. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

There's a very very very simple reason why nothing Labour do ever moves the needle on the parlous state of the UK economy. They have deliberately and repeatedly chosen to ignore the elephant filling every nook and cranny of the room. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The truth lies here, only we are in a time of post truth and particularly on COVID. Over 250k now have lost their lives. How many would still be here had we the proper guidance for covid is airborne. Yet again fobbed off with the lockdown narrative.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Gosh. What a surprise.

“She said more work was being done to pinpoint specific causes… Efforts need to be promoted to “give kids that hope, connection and future vision of themselves…” Sure, but clean indoor air & acknowledging that COVID is the #1 chronic illness in kids would probably also help absenteeism rates.

Can we put the 'confiscating jewellery' thong to bed now? It is something brought up by the media in a question. It is likely an attempt by someone with a long memory to create a story based on a comment about jewellery from a government minister 26 years ago. 1/3

On Thurs 20th, Lady Hallett publishes her module 2 report. We wait with interest to see how it covers the deception wrought upon HCWs that: a) Covid is droplet/fomite, but not airborne b) Flimsy Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks are 'PPE' and will keep you safe.

#LongCovid in The Independent today about the new #teamclots paper that shows clear biological abnormalities involving microclots + immune activation. Let's unpack the findings 👇 1/

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

Johns Hopkins researchers studied over 2,600 people and found that those with long COVID who were boosted before infection reported significantly less mental fatigue than unvaccinated peers. No effect was seen in those who never had long COVID. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

In Brazil 105 Alzheimer patients were tracked for 5 years. Those who survived COVID had nearly 5 times the risk of rapid disease progression and were more likely to die compared to those who never got infected. journals.lww.com/alzheimerjou...

From neuropathologist @jamesthrot.bsky.social. #MaskUp & protect your long term health. #COVID

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

PAHO meets this week to decide if we’ve lost measles elimination status. I warned in this interview that we’re marching toward that threshold—and getting this close signals widening vaccination gaps and eroding public health capacity. 🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas... #Vaccines #Measles

Reached for comment, a leading authority said, “We were hoping for a bit more time before the onset of serious health outcomes so the connection might not be as obvious. But since no one seems to care, fuck it I guess.” #COVID

The wonderful Marie Tidball has won The Spectator Parliamentarian of the year award. Here she talks about what it means to represent the constituency she grew up in & the values it gave her. And I really connect, having grown up in the same town with the same education, just the year ahead of her.

So finally the media are breaking the story… New York Times are leading with.

The Trump administration will soon be releasing two Medicaid rules that would ban medicaid funding for gender affirming care for trans youth and any Medicaid reimbursements to any organization that provides care to trans youth. This would be a de facto national ban www.npr.org/sections/sho...

🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

NHS under pressure to expand Covid jab rollout after hidden benefits revealed trib.al/dv0eDsJ

Some good news 🥳 The first phase of installing air filters in all London schools is underway. 🙏 Thank you to @london.gov.uk & all campaigners involved #cleanair is possible! More info 👇 www.london.gov.uk/media-centre...

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

“U.K. Consultant Neuropathologist @JamesThrot ties it all together: “the virus is…an architect of cognitive collapse. Its target: empathy, conscience, foresight.” In simpler terms, he explains in another post that “billions are silently losing the part of their brain that makes them human.”

New study shows that 'receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in *ALL* age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.' @sarafnovak.bsky.social @laurenjyoung.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...