I have been saying for so long, a 'tactical' vote for Labour is a vote to keep FPTP and 🟥↔️🟦 duopoly. People keep saying "first vote Lab & then we'll campaign for PR". One even swore blind Starmer hadn't ruled it out. How about this then... 🥀
At a time when trust in politics is at a record low and it’s clear to millions of people that Westminster isn’t working,
@Keir_Starmer
has come out to defend our broken electoral system.
🧵 1/5
Client "What are those box things?"
Me "HEPA air filters."
C "There's a lot of Covid about at the moment isn't there! But, they say we have to learn to live with it now."
Me "Personally, I'm planning to continue living without it."
C "Haven't you had it yet?!"
Me "No. AFAIK."
@adstanleyUK
@fitterhappierAJ
I'd rather have a life limited by caution and mitigations than a life limited by organ damage, disabling fatigue, cognitive problems, etc, or impacted by the death of a loved one who got the virus from me.
@BlondeHistorian
@u_keik
Friend of mine, Deaf, gets phonecalls from the Audiology appointment, despite having it on her notes not to do that.
Yes. Deaf. Audiology. Phonecall.
Proud to stand today on Lancaster Town Hall steps, next to
@NorthLancsGreen
party banner: "Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here."
We vastly outnumbered the racists who think "Stop the boats" is the answer to everything wrong with this country.
#antiracist
@julia_doubleday
@NPR
Its really problematic that so many therapists are invested in Covid-denial and pathologising avoiding infection as 'anxiety'. Even when framed sympathetically, the solution offered is 'compromise' - ie surely u can sometimes play Russian roulette with your health?
@flownaway10
@m3l4tonin
@VintageRed11
@fenney_ian
@MrMcEnaney
And doesn't believe in treating kids with autism, ADHD or dyslexia any differently to other children. No extra help, support, child-centred teaching, or understanding, just an expectation to change how their brains function by effort of will, or be punished. Its abuse.
Help!
@SafeEdForAll_UK
School Headteacher has decided that there will be no facemasks worn from September, "for communication". "Ok to be a bit anxious" 😏 but expectation is of compliance. What can be done??
#SafeEdForAll
😷
#WearAMask
@1goodtern
Oh wow. See, this might be the kind of thing people tell themselves to convince themselves they are good people, despite secretly suspecting they are wrong. But when the authorities & nearly everyone they know is either not talking about it at all, or coming out with similar...
@drseanmullen
Beautifully said Dr. Mullen. That article seems to me to boil down to: lets fail pwLC like we've failed pwME/CFS by conflating them + not putting enough resources into understanding biomedical markers, causes, *actual* treatments. Which risks increased psychologising of both. 🤨
@up_learn
Trying asking your AI "Is Ms Katherine Birbalsingh a respected figure? Who by? What controversies has she been involved in? What are her views on girls and maths and science? Disability accomodations? Autism? ADHD? Poverty? Multi-culturalism ?"
Blocked.
@1goodtern
Here's a graphic from when there were efforts to get people to understand their responsibility in the chain of Covid transmission, and how their infection could lead to much suffering and death down the time line.
@COVIDnewsfast
@EnemyInAState
Human civilisation already threatened by the Climate & Ecological Emergency. Instead of 'building back better' to tackle it, we are doubling down on pretending we can & should return to a status quo which is an existential threat. + Covid induced cognitive and physical decline.
@MikScarlet
Well said, but its not all political parties targetting people who cannot work. Green Party policy would be for a Citizens Income (UBI) for all, plus for disabled adults, free personal care and support and independent living services including therapy.
@nycbarkeep
@LongCovidHell
@JulieKaplow
May the love, understanding, compassion, and well wishes you feel for this little girl also, in time, find its way into your own heart, and start to ease your pain. ♥️
@dieworkwear
@lawrencelkso
Also, guys who don't realise that talking about finding the right partner for you as a competition with winners & losers and high and low status entries is such a 🚩.
Like, if it was a competition, you already failed to even enter.
@DrEricDing
Djokovic attended a tennis event on Dec. 17 in Belgrade, where he presented awards to children, having taken a test for Covid at 1:05 p.m. on Dec. 16 and received the positive result seven hours later. Thats the worst part for me. Putting a load of children at risk.
@namott
@Mandoline_Blue
UK Long Covid:
1.8m, 2.8% of pop., symptoms for 4 wks+
1.3m, symptoms for over 12 weeks.
1.2m affected in day to day activities.
- 51% have fatigue
- 33% shortness of breath - - 26% loss of sense of smell
- 23% difficulty concentrating
A lot of people outside the Green Party have great respect for our sole MP to date, Caroline Lucas. Less people are aware of the huge difference made by our 2 parliamentarians in the Lords. Jenny Jones here, leading on the protection of our waters, and given no credit by the BBC!
Greens led and
#LabourParty
(thankfully) followed
@GreenJennyJones
decribes how she engineered Lords rejection of government's attempt to scrap the water pollution rules for new housing. Why we need a group of Green Party MPs after the general election
I rarely buy clothes, and mostly from charity shops (environment, cost... ). With Covid, only see people at work (uniform) or with a coat on, and £24 is a lot, & I don't even usually like message tees, but I am SO tempted by this! 😍 Bloody love Jack Monroe, absolute legend. 🤩
@1goodtern
Yup, I already knew this. But as always, you've explained it really well!
The saboteur analogy is good & also, the best saboteurs undermine the functioning of their target without ever being detected. Like asymptomatic infection leading to all sorts later & person doesn't know.
@andrewgregory
The Science Editor of your paper published 8 months ago a study showing "The risk.... 80% higher for diabetes, during the month after infection." Perhaps the Diabetes UK report that was the basis for this article failed to cover the impact of Sars-Cov-2, but you should have.
@crimsonartist
@brownecfm
Absolutely. So many objectors to any mitigation seem to think if it doesn't work 100% then its pointless. Like I've seen several times, "If you wear a mask you don't think vaccines work then?" and "If there's any gap round a mask it doesn't do anything". Etc.
@LeonorForSussex
Thats lovely. 🙂
My preference would be for no King at all, and a written, secular, constitution for *citizens* of the UK - not subjects of the Crown.
I do wish Harry & Meghan well, I am sure their family will be happier & healthier away from the toxic 'family firm'.
@BallouxFrancois
Wow. Its much more than a respiratory virus. You must know its neurotropic, affecting the brain and nervous system? You must know its a heart and cardiovascular disease? You must know that there are ACE2 receptors throughout the body and its been shown to damage multiple organs?
@brownecfm
Its sad that despite all that experience and understanding, he didn't feel able to protect his health and ability to keep working by just arriving in a mask.
@SolihullNasuwt
@biscuitsgod
"medical issues are nobody elses business"? What on earth are you talking about? Being infectious with an airborne disease is everyones business. This teacher was not just breaking guidelines, with their immoral, dangerous behaviour, but the law!
@UKHSA
Still absolutely no consideration given to the benefits of vaccination in reducing rates of Long Covid I see. If you don't care about health per se, perhaps you might factor in the economic cost of adding to the > 2 million people currently affected?
Thread on our new state of the science review on
#LongCovid
. Commissioned by
@TheLancet
, peer-reviewed, coauthored with
@sivanmanoj
,
@calirunnerdoc
and Janko Nikolich. Link for free access is here (after 50 days that won’t work, then you’ll have to
@Sandyboots2020
Making your kids wear a hat to prevent sunburn and an increased risk of skin cancer is child abuse. Thats your psychological problem with sun anxiety. Don't inflict hats on your kids. How many people die of skin cancer every day? Only 6. Thats only 1% of cancer deaths.
#COVIDIOTS
Mathew Parris, urging us towards a future where society not just enables euthanasia out of compassion in rare, careful circumstances but actively encourages the old and infirm towards death because they are a drain on society. What an absolute ghoul.
🧵 Whatever your views on assisted dying, one thing I’d hoped we’d all agree on is that the topic is ethically fraught & complex.
Not so Matthew Parris.
For him, it’s simple. Old & frail people *should* be killed - to save society the cost of looking after them. 1/n
@fitterhappierAJ
Wait, what, Jeremy Kamil said Sars-Cov-2 doesn't breach the bloodstream in... January 2023? What is his hypothesis for how it has been causing all that vascular damage, microclots, heart attacks & strokes evidenced since 2020 & with increasing amounts of data ever since then?!
@JrRawnsley
V good article let down by "During the pandemic, Covid infection among teachers was 1.9 times higher than the general population." - could you edit to correct this error of implying the pandemic is over? People continue to get Long Covid- in children its doubled in last year!
To clarify, this is about a pupil at the School in question, a Secondary School, who has been wearing a Cambridge mask (FFP2 equivalent), one of perhaps 10 pupils who are doing so, and the School wants to make them stop.
@lindzmcleod
Yes. And did you know, it was based on the name of the dolls used to practice CPR (rescucitation) "Resusci Annie" , which were modelled on a real teenage girl found dead in the Seine river in Paris in the late 19th century whose body was never identified...
The
@ONS
Winter Survey has finally - after a year with no figures - issued an update on prevalence of Long Covid. Not for UK, but for England and Scotland.
It has increased.
There are now 2million people in England & Scotland, compared with 1.9m in the whole of UK in Mar 23.
🧵
@JaneJohnsonBakr
Oh no! So many Covid cautious people coming down with it at the mo, some for the first time. 😔
Please get plenty of rest, don't exercise at all for 6 - 8 weeks, avoid stress & mental / emotional exhaustion & continue to be careful till 12 weeks to reduce L ong Covid risk. 🙏🏻
@SangitaMyska
If you only tested once, as soon as you got symptoms, thats not reliable. It often takes 5 or 6 days for an LFT to be +ve, can be up to 8, even 10. Also, try swabbing cheek, tonsils & deep nostrils even if test says front of nose. Even then, could be false -ve but less likely.
@DrNeenaJha
There are a lot of reasons why the UK is an unsafe place to be if you are poor or unwell. Many of them would take time, money, and / or a lot of work to fix. An easy one - bring back masking for everyone in all Healthcare facilities, and make it FFP2 & 3 for hospital staff.
@dgurdasani1
@HA_GaryHickey
I don't believe there is any good reason to have a whole School Assembley like this right now. Appallingly bad judgement and cavalier attitude to health and safety of pupils, staff and community.
@Saffiya_Khan1
@danielgoyal
Have you seen this?
I think its a really good resource for supporting conversations with Health Care workers about Covid safety, including your own actions as a patient (such as masking) and requests for adjustments (such as opening the window).
@trineor
@jonathancoe
@Pari_menagere
Yes, and that was actually fiction. Staff from the hospital he visited that day said they didn't have any coronavirus cases (though there might have been unknown cases to be fair).
@Buckiemohawk
@maosbot
@iva_hadenuff
Surgical masks are in fact designed so that they can be worn safely by Health Care Workers for a whole 12 hour shift.
However, what you are looking at, is not a surgical mask. Its a particulate-filtering facepiece respirator.
@todayistommorr1
@vlamers
Anything is better than nothing, even for the wearer. Even the gappiest of face coverings may have a significant effect in reducing the viral load inflicted upon all those in their vicinity.
@Sandyboots2020
Fabulous. I've been meaning to find out which UK brands have CPC in for ages thanks Lisa!! For those who want evidence - Colgate Total & Meridol toothpaste neutralised 99.9% 🦠 after 2 mins contact. Colgate Plax, Total & Zero mouthwashes took 30 seconds.👇🏻
@tmprowell
This section is very interesting, how participants who couldn't draw the figure well when it was right in front of them, did better 5 mins and 30 minutes later!
Now we have official recognition that the numbers of people affected by Long Covid is continually increasing, and is serious in severity for most - how about our politicians talking seriously about TREATMENT and PREVENTION.
Ie - public health measures to reduce infections!
And how about our media stops putting out ridiculous articles about 'Mysterious / blame the lockdowns / blame everything else' articles about School absences, workplace absences, people leaving the workforce that talk about ANYTHING BUT COVID?
🦠🐘
@Ride4Truth
As a Green I am very proud of our peers in the House of Lords, Baronesses Natalie Bennett and Jenny Jones, for their resistance to this. Eg,
Feeling slightly grumpy as I prepare to spend the night at the House of Lords opposing the
#PolicingBill
altho I doubt I'll have much time to sleep.
#ProtestIsNotACrime
hey Covid Conscious Community
us lovely people in
@TheGreenParty
have been working on a Policy for
#COVID
,
#LongCovid
and Clean Air. It will benefit other infectious diseases too. How does it feel to be given a voice?
@TheformerD
@MeddygLou
Icelandic women didn't stay home, they had a big fabulous day out together in solidarity. Those with husbands left them to look after the kids. Lots of men having to stay home, or take kids to work with them. Which would be appropriate for this issue - having kids foisted on you.
@BrianUkulele
@BritainElects
As, apparently, a Councillor yourself, you will be all to aware that local Councils do not make decisions about national defence. Suggesting people vote on issues which cannot be effected by their vote, is not my idea of democracy.
@jaffathecake
@adamgarriereal
No no, thats ok, thats blood shed from manly violence, suffering and death. Thats fine. Menstrual blood is from women being fertile, and so associated with sex and babies - and did I mention, with women! Women's bodies!! The horror!!!
@BionicBirdAnna
@dgurdasani1
A client asked me recently when I thought I might get rid of my Covid precautions. Me: "Last time I checked, cases locally were about the level of the peak of Delta wave, + Omicron only peaked in early Feb so hard to say, but not for the forseeable future." Got quite a😮
@AshClar30484002
@dgurdasani1
Perhaps you haven't been following Dr Gurdasani - multilayered mitigations. Only one the UK government did well was vaccines, until they failed to vac children over 2021 summer holiday & removed multiple protective policies in English Schools ➡️surge in kids ➡️ parents, staff.
@SalvMattera
💯. It really reminds me of what has happened for decades with the climate crisis. A science journalist would report on climate change, then, the same paper- article on freak weather events with a headline line 'once in a century flood levels' as if things aren't changing.
@GeorgeMonbiot
Vote Green everywhere. But *especially* if you want PR and are sick of being manipulated into supporting parties (like Labour) who are benefiting so much from our unfair voting system they won't change it.
The Tories are toast anyway.
@danielgoyal
@DebbieKeatley
@Saffiya_Khan1
But its known that Covid increases incidence of heart attacks & strokes. Eg, w repeated infection, people are 3 times as likely to develop a heart condition. Increased cancer incidence is speculative but Covids inflammatory & immune dysregulating effect..
@lisa_iannattone
Yes absolutely, but also in the same way that understanding of cholera created a revolutionary investment in infrastructure for hygiene / sanitation of water, we need the same for
#CleanAir
.
@BBCNewsnight
@vicderbyshire
So, if a war crime is being committed, when it is being committed is not the right time to challenge it? If you support a state's right to defend itself, you shouldn't expect it to always stay within International law? I am sure many leaders around the world will be taking note.
@WCountryVoices
@janestevenson68
Spot on analysis. The 'Casualty' episode was propaganda to pathologise those who act to protect ourselves against Covid as deluded; while implying falsehoods like the vaccinated don't transmit it, and that masks aren't necessary. Thank you for publishing the letter.
@jubunnies
B4 Covid, there were a lot of concerns expressed in the media (esp right wing newspapers) about Muslim women covering their faces, & how it harmed security, communication & social cohesion. I often think that anti-mask sentiment has built on that hostile & suspicious narrative.
@AzorInfo
@piper4missouri
🐻 being dangerous doesn't make men cuddly. Most 🐻 will leave you alone if you leave them alone. Many women have experiences ➡️ feel the same's not true of men. Yes, women are more likely to be attacked by men they know (incl family). This is not the reassurance you think it is!
@1goodtern
Here's another from the early days to try and explain exponential increases in numbers infected, and how those couple of people who catch it from you can lead to hundreds a month later.
@DevPat4
@tristanpw1
@lorrainemking
Michael said its an insult to the Welsh and once Charles doesn't have the title any more they should stop the practice. He returned his OBE because of his feelings about treatment of Wales by England and royals.
@lauraboerman
@CraigCaplan
When the secular group Fatah were most popular in Gaza, Israel helped fund Hamas. There has been ongoing strategy to support Hamas, to thwart Palestinian unity between Gaza and the PLO in the West Bank to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Our
@TheGreenParty
leadership team have been brilliant. Principled, passionate, articulate. Calm under hostile questionning, fast to counter frequent interuption.
@carla_denyer
,
@AdrianRamsay
,
@ZackPolanski
- you've surpassed my hopes when I voted for you to lead the party. 🙌🏻💚
@1goodtern
I'd rather be brave socially than be 'brave' to take risks with my health, and potentially put at risk everyone else I come into contact with. 😷
@nickiykwim
@DGBassani
@drajm
Wow, thats a hell of an assumption to make, on top of the fact that assumptions should not be written in medical notes, ever.
@1goodtern
I did a course on Oncology massage last year & trainer casually mentioned mask wearing wasn't necessary. Shocked & disappointed. No explanation. Guess? Was emphasis on how distressing many people find the clinical aspect of their treatment, & how they long for a bit of normality
@dgurdasani1
Having 'just' delayed infection for the last 2 1/2 years, while others have been infected 1-4 times and/or have Long Covid, or are dead, I think I'll carry on 'just' delaying infection thanks dude. 😏
@danielgoyal
Yes, and then the government convinced most of you still left in the NHS not to even wear the paper masks any more, to stop testing, and that its your responsibility to go in work sick to infect your colleagues and your patients.
@THemingford
Caroline Lucas. Bringing in democratic reform including PR & leading a coalition government for a just transition to tackle the climate & ecological crisis, with big investment in fair pay, insulated affordable homes, public transport, public services, food security, biodiversity
@joannekarma
@BlondeHistorian
Nurse clearly needs help understanding how to treat *anyone*. Eg 'read patients notes,' and 'don't touch people without consent, let alone to suddenly do something forceful and unpleasant'
@BlueScareBot
@chrischirp
I don't personally know anyone who has died of heart disease, nor of Alzheimers or dementia. So I refuse to believe any of them are leading causes of death in the UK.
@CRobertson_LD
Ah, I see, you're Libdem & trying to justify why your Conference decided to not even hear
@LibDemPatrick
's amendment on the fact that most School absence is due to illness &
#CleanAir
is the solution.
There's loads of media articles pretending its due to anything-but-Covid. 🙄
@PrognosticChats
@BenAffleck
I am really hoping that Violet Affleck has an anon account here & has seen how v valued she is by people here for her visibility & advocacy. Its sad that she feels alone & unsupported with this but not unexpected as so many of us do. But she'll get amped up ridicule.
@runner_ana
@1goodtern
With the original strain, about 1/3 of infections were asymptomatic. Most people don't know of all the symptoms. Few people test twice weekly or more now. Most never test. Some test once or twice if they think they may have it, not daily for a week.
@LauraMiers
Has anyone else noticed that when you are wearing a mask outdoors, more people keep a bit of a distance from you, despite it being less needed, but if you aren't wearing one, they don't? So I have ended up putting my mask on despite there being plenty of room to distance.
@satoforma
@dieworkwear
Is this design harmonious? .. evoke a sense of balance and unity? .. create a sense of emotional resonance?.. truly beautiful—aesthetically & philosophically? Yes! Though not as keen on shoes as clothes. Gorgeous. Would've loved it even more if it WAS made from upcycled bin bags.
The 1918 flu epidemic gave a generation of infants later on x2 or x3 Parkinsons Disease. Sars-CoV-2 (
#Covid
) may also cause neuro-degenerative diseases. Also discusses Diabetes, Guillain–Barré Syndrome, and Auto-immunity.
@1goodtern
Yes, and I am a massage therapist, I see this happening with my clients too. I don't want to see them when they have these symptoms, coughing, etc, so I don't see them for weeks.
@arxhiiie
@Davinci23638919
Yes, that would still be wierd if it happened after the pandemic is over. Terrible thing to do while that pandemic is still with us, still killing people, and causing various long term health problems (Long Covid) after around 1 in 10 infections, affecting millions globally.
@PeterG4NES2019
@MichaelRosenYes
Nah, the party will want a new leader in place in the run up to the next GE. Not too soon, so they can blame Johnson for everything & pitch the new person as an exciting fresh start (trustworthy etc). Soon enough to do a promo campaign on them & why they are better than Starmer.