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Things judged worth investigating:

🔴Angela Rayner selling her council house

Things judged not worth investigating

🔵Tory donors receiving knighthoods, peerages and multimillion £ contracts for unusable PPE
🔵The PM's WhatsApp's mysteriously vanishing before the Covid Inquiry

tern Seatbelt in a car, helmet on a bike, respirator in a shop. Mitigation for life.

Cleaning the air in healthcare settings with better ventilation, added filtration, UV, FFP3 respirators as source and PPE control, isolation of sick workers with pay, shown to reduce number+ impact of airborne infections.
HAI should be prevented.
IPC, UK Health Security Agency Health and Safety Executive all failing.

tern There are too many cases of Long Ignorance going around, -people / organizations / media ignorant of Long Covid and its effects on those directly affected, as well as Covid and Long Covid's impact on society as a whole in the short and the longer term.

7. Kakistocracy

A state ruled and run by the least competent.

Or a political system which seems to reward and promote the people who are least qualified.

Oh.

55/ Laugh at those who teach comms if you like—who the hell cares? But for now comms-born thinking is more powerful than science, than history, than art, than geopolitics. Those who know how to communicate have the rudder and in 2024 far-right demagogues do it best.

God help us.

Today marks the anniversary of the Siege of Sarajevo. The “official” start of the Bosnian Genocide.

Almost 4 years of being cut off from the world, from food and water and electricity. 4 years of daily shelling, bombing, and terrorising campaigns of the city and its residents.

The history of #LongCovid is being rewritten: by policymakers, prize-winning journalists adjacent to power, medical professionals, science journals, and health bodies: facts and names are being erased, knowledge we had in 2020 is being hidden, patient-driven contributions omitted

Neil Stone A lesson in PH messaging: When you use the term 'minor' people believe it's ok to get repeatedly infected. Repeat infections is known to compound risk of long term damage. Ask yourself if you want this minimizing msg to be on your public record when cumulative damage is realized.

Rich and powerful people are cleaning their air and making their servants mask and test and get vaccinated.
And they're paying people to encourage you to get infected.
How do you feel about that?

That's what 'profits before people' means, after all: sacrificing human lives to make yourself richer. It's the foundational tenet of the conservative movement, though that impulse is often checked by other factors, like human decency.

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I’m a keen proponent of lifestyle interventions. But they shouldn’t replace medical management, when it is clearly needed.

Imagine if we did this for cancer? Type 1 diabetes? Once upon a time we lacked knowledge of & treatment for these diseases, too.

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Imo, the Charity Commission cannot properly be understood as a regulator. Its purposes include the channelling of public money to organisations friendly to the Tory party. And the regulatory harassment of those whose activities are inconvenient to the Tory Party.

🧵 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

Four lost years and millions of lives later, World Health Organization (WHO) finally goes airborne.

“Indoor airborne risk assessment in the context of SARS-CoV-2: description of airborne transmission mechanism and method to develop a new standardized model for risk assessment” iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

I see the ‘we don’t need the NHS, there are excellent insurance-based models in Europe we could follow’ stuff is doing the rounds again

Yes

But

We have predatory US corporations circling around us & politicians canoodling with them

We wouldn’t get a European model. Not a hope

**paints spotted rash on body before seeking healthcare so HCWs wear an N95 around me**