The problem with electrons is they’re always so negative. - low cost COVID19 mitigation: Duronic fan + HEPA filter see link. Image ht
@DocJon55
: 1. WFH
@fascinatorfun
@CMO_England
Used a bus earlier on.. at the back, someone closed one of the 4 windows, making a loud bump noise. We’re at a bus stop: driver gets up, walks to the back, opens windows - “that has got to stay open” he says, unequivocally.
This is leadership. This is how it is done. No messing.
@ShadowLady___
@Theholisticpsyc
Indeed, don’t worry too much of the black sheep in a family..
Worry for the scapegoat.. that’s a toxic position to attain.
@Marggramb
@KSchnickelfritz
To clarify: the Dyson units are technically quite good, with latest having fancy catalyst addition.. trouble is that the volume of air filtered per hour, the rate of delivery of cleaned air, is low.. the value for money is poor.
— it’s a luxury product for people with spare £££
@1goodtern
Toddler on a bus, on seeing my facemask starts conversation with her mum.. she wants her mask too! Shortly she's wearing a baggy blue - too large/straps not tied to adjust smaller - and I felt that small person's solidarity. She also had a cough.
@JamesJWYork
You have looked at the Tories desired voter ID.. no?
Why would an ID be permitted for over 60s, but the same form of ID be disallowed for younger citizens?
You don’t think that is an attempt to prevent fair elections?
Legality of this is properly being challenged.
@EvieBreese
You have to wonder how many 10 Downing Street support staff caught COVID SARS2 (it was rife for a time there..) and how many suffered notable lasting harms from that infection.. not that sufficient time has elapsed to know the longterm harms of a COVID infection.. 5 years worse..
@JMPSimor
And keep in mind your local elected Conservative councillors and local Tory Association members — can you hear any of them speaking out?
(I’m detecting near silence.)
@Kit_Yates_Maths
It is certainly not a normal public health approach to handling a pandemic nor any epidemic/novel virus..
Politicians should not be centre stage of public health matters — we always need the experts to do their stuff.
@SusanlLawson
@covidinquiryuk
I smell fear, loathing, and arrogance, with a weak man's hatred of authority figures.. largest chip on shoulder?
He has no respect for professionals (experts) in good standing, especially those with power to rule over him.. no respect for their expertise, their success in life..
@fascinatorfun
@alexhallhall
..one (more) little thing required of new MP to show party loyalty, to get support.. etc etc etc
This is a Government run by ex privileged public school boys.. nothing unusual for such to dictate required actions/public statements, these as basis for punishment or reward.
@BrianUkulele
@Tesco
@Tesco
are not insisting on masks. Their own staff are doing as they choose..
The full benefit of mask-wearing comes, alike with vaccination, when everyone wears a mask..
I prefer shops that are clear:
“You need to wear a mask to enter this shop” - no ifs or buts..
@WriterJackWhite
@lukeharding1968
The same Portland that appears as an interest, alongside University of York, on Charlotte Owen's LinkedIn?
That Portland?
@AlanRamsay10
Your poor parents going through this outrageous, unnecessary, unforgivable, wholly avoidable, ordeal.. 🙏
..and you no doubt shared in much of their distress.
@soniasodha
How does this observation help people understand the truth today?
Try to be responsible yourself, yes?
The Lancet was horribly wrong about the unscientific Wakefield paper.. must have been embarrassing.. 12yrs too long..
But Richard Horton is 100% correct right now.
@peakaustria
France is wise to increase solarPV urgently, as many of their nuclear plants will suffer reduced cooling water availability as alpine glaciers shrink to zero.
@paullewismoney
@MoniqueCherrie
Local Government guidelines circa 1993, gave £30 as a minimum debt amount for pursuing, else write-off, not worth the admin.
This figure increased over the years..
£40 after 27 years? That’s a joke of maladministration - aka not economic to pursue.
@ShadowLady___
@Theholisticpsyc
..and when I say “attain” of the family scapegoat role, I don’t mean “to achieve” nor “to reach as an end” .. I mean, simple, to gain or be given..
Family scapegoats typically have zero choice or influence on acquisition of this previously vacant role. Family dysfunction.. 🤦♂️
@zenxv
Monkeypox: where you got it?
It looks very likely that this infection spreads via exhaled/coughed/sneezed/spoken/shouted/sung ..aerosols.. —
#MonkeypoxIsAirborne
But also via surfaces..
If you wear a N95 facemask, do hand hygiene, avoid crowded spaces indoors.. likely risk is low
@Lins_Oz
@1goodtern
The other good strategy: doctor surgeries that don’t open their windows, despite having opening windows..🤦♂️
Just for their own safety you’d expect surgeries to have acquired HEPA air filter devices by this stage, 3yrs of pandemic. Ikea unit £60 = cheap
@1goodtern
..and each infection making it likely they become less able to think clearly about the relatively complicated Mitigations of risk that would be wise at home..
Such as? Buying and running HEPA air filter devices.. trying to see that if one gets infected, they don’t all catch it.
@acweyand
After chemo treatment, with my immune system on the floor..
I caught RSV.
It nearly killed me.
Wear a well fitting n95 (or similar grade) face mask. This prevents much of infection transmission.. slows epidemics and pandemics alike. Cheap. Simple. Responsible. Respectful. Easy.
@jdpoc
To all those who don’t understand what ‘gaslighting’ means..
Sarah Vine’s quoted article is gaslighting: a dishonest statement of reality that leaves the reader (one who trusts newspapers) doubting/questioning their own reality, memory or perceptions.
It is a nasty behaviour.
@JerryHicksUnite
@makinghappyme
Hats off to that junior doctor - for doing her job and for presence of mind to challenge Johnson..
Hats off to staff at Addenbrookes to indicate to Johnson just how unwelcome his visit is..
@tricyclemayor
A kind friend died nearly two years ago. Complicated history. Wise from learning variously - study and Uni of life. Recovered from alcohol. Something of an eating disorder / excuses for not eating reliably.
I’d much rather he’d had a feeding tube than die so soon. I miss him.
@g_gosden
Steve Baker’s language: of how Truss “is completely behind what we are doing”
..err? You thought Truss was Prime Minister, but baker speaks of ‘we’ the unelected, no mandate ‘team’/cult pulling Liz Truss’ levers..
UK population is subject to a ghastly cult experiment.
@danielgoyal
What are the hospital directors/CEO’s doing?
Waiting for this Tory Government to do the right thing isn’t going to work.
They need to equip all wards, all areas, with HEPA filter air purifiers.
They need require ALL staff and patients and visitors to wear good masks.
+ventilation
@GoldenC688
@fitterhappierAJ
Yes. Essentially the only magic is not inhaling the virus.. primary mitigations of MERV/HEPA air filtering, wearing of N95 or equivalent face masks of good fit, and minimising close proximity to others.
Vaccination helps to some extent only once the virus enters the body..
@Shiwon_NZ_Ao
@EmergMedDr
@wagamama_uk
That’s a fact to flag against Wagamama via Google Map Review and other online review sites.. TripAdvisor.. etc etc
..just your (each readers) local Wagamama of course.
@mudlarklives
@JMPSimor
It has a strong vibe of ghastly, ‘it’s all mine’ sense of entitlement, attention seeking, spoilt child .. out of some unattractive version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory..
Which of the characters in that story? You tell me.
@Bunglenubbin
@MelaKatie
@PhotonicPunk
As a bot, you are somewhat gifted. ie. really lame
As a human, you are in the dark, not listening to reality.. South African data from 2021 is a LONG TIME AGO. And I suspect that your interpretation (or reading) of it was really poor.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
I listened to bbc radio news..
"..killing a Hamas leader and some Palestinians.."
Nil reference to just how many Palestinians were likely killed.
It appears that Israel has considerable leverage over any chance of authentic journalism by the BBC.
Netanyahu's propaganda efforts?
@KSchnickelfritz
@Marggramb
It’s mostly a value for money issue.. also, to some extent, a noise issue; to get the modest air throughput requires highest fan setting, which is noisy.
Simply, Dyson air filter fans are poor value for money, much as they look nice..
A bad choice for schools.
@artaylors
@GabrielScally
@Twitter
@bbcquestiontime
@Channel4News
Johnson Government needs to be called out.
A policy based on mathematical modelling (guesswork and approximations) with no real World, practical experiential input, one that puts as many as 500,000 unnecessary deaths forward as a ‘life-saving option’ - is irresponsible madness..
@meralhece
@neighbour_kx
@BBCNews
They are still, as did
@itvnews
last night, referring to..
..falsehoods:
1. ‘illegal’ migrants
WRONG: there are no illegal asylum seekers
2. ‘processing’ in Rwanda
WRONG: Rwanda is intended destiny
3. ‘deportation’ ..
WRONG: UK Govt is *transporting* or *human trafficking*
@RichardBentall
@peterjukes
@PointlessBrexit
The lack of Johnson Government remains worrying; will we move forward to a testing and infected person contact tracing and isolation regime alike that being used with success in Singapore, S Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan? I doubt it.. this Conservative Government are damn fools.
@mistlewood
@EmergMedDr
Have you got a good mask? Some independent pharmacies sell N95/KN95 for £1 each .. if hospital want you in a surgical (not so effective) mask, wear it over the top of a good mask.
#mitigation
of risks.
@RossWoodall1
@AllanRankine
@BBCRealityCheck
@BorisJohnson
Of course they factcheck Johnson - he lies every time he opens his mouth..
..the others tend towards the truth; they only publish corrections via FactCheck: fewer lies results in fewer FactCheck comments..
Johnson gets a LOT of FactCheck comments: 1 for every lie.
@LaurenceCombyne
@Yash25571056
Surely some non sequitur dear fellow?
He did not make a prediction, just stated some simple aspects about our lack of knowledge around long term COVID outcomes/sequelae.
@beansprouts_mom
Fatalism. “Everyone will catch COVID”
They fail to grasp that we don’t yet know the longer term outcomes after infection: at 5yrs? ..at 8yrs? ..at 10yrs?
They assume that catching COVID is no huge risk to the average healthy person. Theirs is a terrible misjudgement.
@Peston
Ffs Robert
State things clearly and unambiguously in your posts! Please?
You mean that Rishi Sunak is telling lies again;
Unfunded pay rises mean that school and other budgets are stretched further - schools will pay higher wages, but have to reduce staffing to afford it.
@Amoxicologist
@joelycett
Laura Von Kuenssberg, to give her full name.. swallowed a wasp, much?
The Tories / Powers that be / Establishment must be worried if they cannot cope with a little mild satire..
What have they got to hide / lose / regret / fear?
@lisa_iannattone
Preventing infection is a higher priority than vaccination..
Yet vaccination is still a high priority — ergo, methods to prevent infection are a very high priority.
Why do UK politicians want to ditch mitigations? It’s not scientific.
@TurdFur58439807
@fitterhappierAJ
Huh?
How is ventilation, HEPA air filtering, and n95 face mask wearing, avoidance of/limiting indoor time.. how is that unrealistic??
@JimBethell
What "massive contribution" do AAs and PAs make?
Supervising medical students takes up the time of a doctor.
Patients appreciate this part of their learning.
AAs + PAs are (should be) supervised.
A cost to doctors time, for a 40hr week salary higher than many doctors. 🙃
@dawnashley13
@NTeesHpoolNHSFT
@MADEinHEENE
You'll be deleting this tweet and making sure you encourage your PAs appropriately -without confusing them- by awarding *PA* of the week.. yes?
She's not a doctor.. not then, not today.
@Dr_Done_
..and Dawn is Director of training..
Those PA's will quickly imagine they are doctors.. it only gets worse (more confused and conflicted) from there..
@Hopesaxons
@1goodtern
Lateral Flow Test (LFT) for covid
It has *always* been the case: ignore an LFT negative.. they often give false -ve
Also, never ignore an LFT positive: they rarely or never give false +ve.
@MichaelRosenYes
@BBCNewsnight
Kevin Saunders mouth flapped and words fell out indicating that he has zero clue/insight in to how history, how war, how international ‘politics’ involving bombing/funding bombing/arming bombing power to blow cities of dwellings apart.. leads to migration.. causes asylum seeking.
@HylandIan
He also had one foot in a closed fridge at the time..
..and it was with Johnson, not of Johnson..
..and he wasn’t there at the time..
..and he didn’t realise it was a joke when he said it.. err.. well.. 😆
@Azeem_Majeed
I read that USA had 400 paediatric deaths from COVID19 Delta up to 19th August..
Also, that some damage from COVID19 may appear months after recovery, such as lung fibrosis and kidney damage.
@AmandaB55744931
@JacquieK20
That'll be a PA
Also:
*Can't prescribe :: *Won't prescribe
An embarrassed PA, of their invidious position, within a failing GP practise that is obviously lacking the essential minimum number of GPs..
Too few to supervise the PA
Too few to prescribe medicines
Unsafe
@Zen_Brenda5
@fitterhappierAJ
We could sit around and pray to our chosen deity.. but with such high infection rates, the virus has vast opportunity to mutate.. a bad bet.
We can all reduce transmission rate: avoid crowded spaces; wear n95/FFP2 face masks; ventilate; HEPA air filter; test/isolate if ill. 👍
@doctorsaluja
@Gab_H_R
The lessons of SARS1 and MERS were rather clear.. don’t mess with novel viruses of these types — they really hurt people, if not immediately, then within months or a few years..
And this has lessons for the larger economy beyond impact on individual lives. Think
#exponential
..
@Dr_Done_
..and Dawn is Director of training..
Those PA's will quickly imagine they are doctors.. it only gets worse (more confused and conflicted) from there..
@RichardJMurphy
And yet, if those 7,000 HEPA filtration units are from their list of preferred (over-priced) manufacturers, incl Dyson, the same budget could likely cover 3-4x more filtration units of the
#CorsiRosenthalBox
easy DIY assembly variety..
See
@PlasticFull
for DIY + device comparison
@lvlewitinn
@UnitedAgents
What's the current rate..
How many dead Palestinians for each Israeli?
.. what's the tariff currently?
"Not cheap" is much too vague, don't you think?
@BryceElder
Huh? Farage gin is actually Essex gin made by a convicted clothing counterfeiter?
It’s hardly a great sales pitch - who’d want to drink this fake poteen?
@ISID_org
@WHO
You have posted the same misinformation on LinkedIn..
We are still amidst the Sars-cov-2 pandemic.
@WHO
declared, confusingly, the *emergency phase* to be over..
Please correct your significant social media errors of fact and attribution.
@DrRupaMarya
🤦♂️ Where? Who organised it? Did the organiser implement any mitigations (Ventilation / HEPA air filtering..) ?
Doctors may be more weary than the rest of us.. easy to get complacent..
Disinformation of normal and ‘mild’ impacts all minds.
@doctor_oxford
@marcuschown
Yet we know that the American model is both much much more expensive and, simultaneously, less medically effective.. The NHS delivers some of the best value for money in healthcare; best health outcomes for money spent.. Only corrupt investor MPs would wish to privatise the NHS.
@mattprescott
Prescription fulfilment is not a profitable business for pharmacies these days.
However..
I wish people would:
1. Support the independent and local pharmacies
2. Avoid supporting US company Walgreens = ‘Boots pharmacy/retail’
3. Don’t use online pharmacy unless essential to do so
@CathNoakes
Where do they mention the wisdom of preventing infection with other measures.. face-masks, ventilation, HEPA air filtration?
Where is the precautionary principle in this?
Have they collectively learned nothing during this airborne Cov2 pandemic?
@sailoremily
The owner/seller doesn't understand that concrete gets hot in a heatwave..
..plants keep things far cooler
Concreting has taken £thousands from that property's true value.. needs concrete removing, garden reinstatement.. huge ££££
@acemsdavis1
@JimMFelton
That’s a bit misleading, using the term ‘Immune’ as though immunity is..
- simple
- guaranteed outcome
- proven for COVID19
People are getting COVID twice.. there are 10 main mutation groups so far..
Evidence of immunity acquired after infection is unclear and/or complex topic.
@Femi_Sorry
Also:
Laura Von Kuennssberg: the nurses want to talk about this years pay settlement. Will you do that?
Rishi v rich Sunak: We are about to talk about *next years* the new settlement..”
Laura.. : ..but what about this years, 2022, settlement? You are talking about 2023..
🤷♂️
@fascinatorfun
@grantshapps
In fact, this form of lying is termed gaslighting — Grant Shapps, if that is his name of choice today, has been guided to tell these exact lies.. he knows he is lying.. he knows it is gaslighting.. he knows what the strategy is..
- to confuse the public of fact / fiction..
@GrumpyOldDoc
He has all the physicians looking at his complexity.. Here he seeks more opinion/thoughts whilst sharing what might prove to be one of many ‘mild’ COVIDs with immune derangement resulting.. easier for others to spot patterns if cases are shared here. It is brave/bold not foolish.
@Ellie_spaniel
@doctor_oxford
@ucas_online
@ucas_corporate
You have a bogus term amongst your course descriptors.
Please correct/remove this at your earliest convenience.
GP : General Practitioner
Highest trained generalist doctor.
PA: not a doctor
Should/must not confuse applicants with use of GP Dr terms,
@cmcgovern
@w90kent
@GuitarMoog
Theresa May has acted in a fashion to which it is is impossible to ascribe any positive interpretation..
If she were to act in a manner that placed UK's national interest as priority, then we would not find ourselves here.
Leadership of nation so absent. More
#unicorns
anyone?
During the same 2010-2022 period, MPs have agreed to pay themselves a 33% pay rise.. and to remove the requirement for evidence for many expenses claims (receipts for smaller sums)
@dgurdasani1
Hopium = false hope / false optimism
It is also a case of gaslighting = telling manipulative lies; here the Government hopes people will lose sight of many people suffering delayed severe harms from COVID19, such as disablement with multiple complex, v hard to treat, bodily harms
@TRyanGregory
Immune dysfunction is a thing..
Vitamin A deficiency is a thing..
Both can lead people to suffer prolonged infections, and slow/delayed virus clearance and/or recovery.
COVID19 causes vascular inflammation throughout body, harmfully impacts immune function, and more besides..
@PICSociety
@NHSEngland
What is the UK leadership of
#paediatric
medicine doing to reduce infection transmission in schools and communities to benefit this critical situation?
I can name names.. You can name names, tag the relevant people.. but they all fail to promote mitigation to reduce transmission.
Jesus! £3.3m mortgage with HSBC <=> huge conflict of interest when responsible for judging them on their financial misdeeds. Holy crapola! <jaw hits floor> Exactly how corrupt is this? Whom oversees head of SFO? They too ain't doing their job.
Let me spell it out for MSM journos. The head of the SFO took out a mortgage with HSBC in Oct 17 while she was monitoring their compliance for deferred prosecution for crimes in US. She gave them clean bill of health in Dec 17. Do your thing - ignore it.
@Saffiya_Khan1
@chrischirp
@UKHSA
..and it may reduce chances of successful legal actions against them for their failure at, and culpability via, poor public health decisions/leadership.
It protects the insurers from claims that cannot be proven.
@doctor_oxford
@LibDemPatrick
@PeterStefanovi2
@JoFroggatt
@ITV
You aren't making any sense..
"I don’t believe the risk/benefit last night required us to insist that the audience all wore masks, when individual protection is so high with an FFP3/2."
Huh?
You didn't wear a respirator.. not FFP2 nor FFP3 ..you had zero individual protection.
@NorthernLife23
@kelcsimpkins
A wise investment in your health safety, but pharmacies should know better.. all should mask, require customers to mask, use HEPA air filtration..
This is simple stuff for highly educated pharmacists.
@OborneTweets
Eton boy Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury), after call for prayer..
..finally gets around to showing a little leadership with a call for a ceasefire and de-escalation of Israel's attacks on Gaza and the West Bank..
Corbyn did far better.
The late Desmond Tutu is missed
@WaznyRichard
@YouAreLobbyLud
Who decided on that strategy? Politicians.. not public health professionals.
It was known to be the wrong strategy, that the vaccines were a best effort, beneficial immune stimulus, but no lasting immunity..
Highest priority measures? face masks, ventilation, air filtering..
@MaryRay555
@fitterhappierAJ
You might want to wait for a miraculously effective vaccine to arise, but that’s unlikely to happen any time soon based on history of vaccines, even with new mRNA approaches.
Other measures still work well:
N95 face masks; ventilation; HEPA air filtration; avoid crowded indoors..
@CarolAnneGraha4
@SandyHorne61
COVID = Vascular disease - blood vessels throughout the body, thus any and every organ (highest concentrations of smallest vessels)
Mode of infection?
Airborne (most of all): we inhale it.
@kerfufflei
@lisa_iannattone
Expected: most people maintain optimism, and struggle, even after a long interval, with accepting decreased competence/capacity/health.. just such a pity the precautionary approach is hard to grasp;
The only ‘game’ with SARS2 COVID is to avoid catching it.
antivirals ≠ cure
@PaulLomax
Sounds like a panic is on to free up beds..
Timely to remind people:
Avoiding leaning back in an armchair or lying on back if struggling to breathe.. it squeeze/reduces lung volume; aim to sit upright or lie down on side or somewhat on front..
@Botanygeek
@BarclaysUK
I suspect they use 3rd party face recognition software.. possibly SAAS style, else licensed and integrated with their systems.
The problem is not software insufficiencies, it's system design: no provision to escalate to manual checks by a human.. followed by authorisation.