1/ Smoking: first big lung-cancer links in 1950. The 1964 U.S. Surgeon General needed >7,000 articles to say “cigarettes cause cancer.” Warning labels finally hit in 1966. Fourteen–sixteen years from signal to action. Sources: CDC, NLM, FTC. cdc.gov/tobacco-surgeo…

A quick poll, who else would like to see urgent change in JCVI vaccine policy, so that we can all access the vaccines we need to help protect against post infection risks? Vaccines are not mandatory and clinically vulnerable/long covid sufferers should get access.

📣 INVITATION FOR ORGANISATIONS TO SIGN OPEN LETTER TO UKHSA Letter calls for IPC guidelines in healthcare to be updated to reflect the overwhelming scientific consensus that SARS-CoV-2 is primarily airborne. To sign on behalf of your org, click here: forms.office.com/pages/response…

Israeli settlers are burning down the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank The village is known for its uniquely all-Christian population. Cars, lands and home all attacked in a series of violent pogroms aimed at uprooting Palestinian communities

I haven’t seen a single evidence based infection control policy for Covid in the last 4 years in the NHS. I’ve seen the opposite. I’ve seen the wish for Covid to be over adopted into policy & mitigations stripped away, with resulting harms to all. Despite these harms it persists.

Israel just destroyed a 1,900-year-old mausoleum of Simon Peter the Apostle of Christ in southern Lebanon. So what do you have to say about the Christians in Palestine and Lebanon? Do they not count?

I’ve rethought my post below… I do think the health agencies are telling politicians what they want to hear, which is that Covid is ‘just a cold’, nothing to worry about, and droplet-spread. And the health agencies etc know that what they are telling the politicians is wrong.

We warned. We have been warning in private meetings, public briefings, in PP presentations, backed by science since early 2022 that if Government’s don’t employ PH measures to prevent reinfections global ill -health will continue to rise with massive economic consequences….

I cannot understand why governments ignore the data and play at wishful thinking - thereby increasing the damage. This isn't sustainable. And how will our kids judge us? Prof Sir Gregor Smith Scot Gov Health Fiona Hyslop Ross Greer Gillian Mackay MSP

A stunning (ly horrifying) video, from 3 years ago, on the harms we are NOW causing to children - because we aren't cleaning the air. These scientists have been right for 5 years - why are they (still) being ignored?

Star Radcliffe Academy Have posted online instructing parents to send sick children to school to win prizes & boost attendance in the middle of a Covid/flu/RSV wave.Hundreds of replies respectfully pointing out disability discrimination, failure of IPC & breaches of H&SAW legislation 1/

Which one is more English?

I think that in our current climate, this is actually the most important point about covid infection risk reduction.

They want you infected. That's why they tell you to wash your hands to protect against airborne diseases you catch by inhalation.

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Scottish public "health" is now an international embarrassment.

We are clearly drifting towards some form of right wing authoritarianism. That will be built by ideologues, opportunists, grifters, naive idiots and cowards. All will be held to account when the authoritarian edifice finally implodes, which it will.

Covid is “just a flu” But also “don’t get flu” But also get Covid it’s ok But also Covid is “just a flu” Yeah. UK Health Security Agency policy is entirely illogical, incoherent & antiscience. They treat Covid “like flu” yet restricted vaccine access & all NHS mitigations. But also Covid isn’t flu.