Real world experiment conducted in Swiss school.

"Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact."

--> WE NEED CLEAN AIR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

15 July, 2024 Date last updated: 15 July, 2024 • Print or save to PDF Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response https://www.england.nhs.uk/long:read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/ Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the @ National Risk Register 2023: "any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route". These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning: • it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so • the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual

Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social

"The government’s response? “We don’t believe a further independent review is required.”

Let that sink in. £560 million of public money disappeared into one freeport alone. And they don’t think we need to look into it."
@boldpolitics.bsky.social
This topic has a LOT of legs to it!

Looking forward to this evenings event. #MusicThatCleansTheAir

A photo of a mature King Alfred’s cake fungus. It is a deep, coal-black and is cracked slightly to reveal black concentric circles inside its flesh, taken on a macro lens

A photo of Hairy Stereum fungus growing on a log. They are deep orange, fading to white at their wavy tips

Some finds from Wytham Woods, on their fungi monitoring stations! There weren’t any oyster mushrooms but I did discover these:

King Alfred’s cakes (Daldinia concentrica)
Hairy stereum (Stereum hirsutum)
Thank you @wythamwoods.bsky.social for this exciting citizen science project!
#FungiFriday

Moggies looking for homes After hearing 50,000 times that we should put the available cats on the website, we’ve made a page! Hooray! However, it is still just me doing most of the work in the shelter. So there’…

I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰

In addition to the questionable wisdom of spraying PFAS on food crops, organisations like @paneurope.bsky.social highlight, many PFAS pesticides break down into TFA, a forever chemical German authorities class as reprotoxic - harmful to fertility + child development - which can get into groundwater.

Please come along to our online concert. Everyone welcome wherever you hail. #CleanAir #MusicThatCleansTheAir

Very excited! Please pop along and help bring clean air.

A sleepy looking tortie cat curled up inside a cat bed.

A half bengal chonk cat, stretched out in front of a window. He’s looking at the camera.

Same bengal chonk, sitting up and staring at something off camera.

A small tortie cat with green eyes sitting on a lap, staring at something off screen.

Seattle and Portland area folks:

These two sweeties need a new foster home by December 12th. One boy, one girl, both fixed. They’ll come with food, toys, and litter (also a cat playpen if you want it).

Would really appreciate any shares to cast a wider net.

A lone Cormorant perches on a ledge at dusk, silhouetted against a golden sky. In the background, a blurred view of Westminster’s clock tower and nearby bridge structure rises behind it: politics and power in soft focus, nature sharp in the foreground.

In today's Budget, the Chancellor spoke about building the economy “brick by brick” but left out the very foundation that underpins it all: nature.

The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.

Critical Update! The Guardian’s Failure: Questions Not Asked
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🥺 MELIA needed some quiet time from the noisy shelter. A volunteer took her to their car. Please adopt her. She needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. 3.5 years old. Around 50 lbs. Where's her hero

(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Adoption@hempsteadny.gov

NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment

What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Funding for air pollution cut 99%, campaigners raise alarm Mums for Lungs warned the cuts will significantly delay efforts to reduce emissions to levels recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). New research from the parent campaign group shows fund...

NEW: Our DEFRA FOI reveals the budget for local councils to tackle #AirPollution has gone from £225 million a year to just £1.5 million in the last five years.

Cutting air pollution budgets by 99% at a time when children are still breathing illegal & toxic levels of dirty air is indefensible.

I am very excited about the concert. It’s a coming together of many of us who are raising funds for clean air. Soprano Tamara Stein is performing a song we co wrote a while ago. It was commissioned by Spare Tyre (disability theatre company). The song is about invisible illness ME/CFS & autoimmune 🧵

Brown tabby cat with golden eyes looks off to the future and setting up shop in your lap

I have no idea why she’s still there but Taffy is still available at Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood OR…she’s an absolute doll! 🎁 #cats #catsofbluesky #adoptdontshop

Some purple jellydisc fungus are splotched against a background of a dark brown tree stump, with tendrils of pale green moss curling around them. Taken on a macro lens.

Some purple jellydisc fungi for #FungiFriday! This small,fleshy fungus has some secret superpowers to help forests thrive:
It uses the antibiotic compound ascorynin to deter invasive fungi, helping trees to stay healthy.
It is also a saprobic fungus and helps to decompose deciduous dead wood!

Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building

Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction.

First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.

So very stark and evocative - a really striking photo.

A new Photography Project. - Planning for Eryri

January Plans.......

Grateful for reposts....

open.substack.com/pub/intotheh...

Chicory, a sleek black cat with large round Halloween yellow eyes.

Satsuma, a handsome marmalade-colored orange tabby cat with long legs and pretty stripes.

Satsuma, a handsome marmalade-colored orange tabby cat with long legs and pretty stripes.

Chicory, a sleek black cat with large round Halloween yellow eyes.

I can’t believe I somehow still have the Nicest Boys You’ve Ever Met waiting for their forever home.
Chicory & Satsuma are so special. Chicory’s your cuddle buddy. Satsuma’s your “as close as physically possible without touching you but you can still reach to pet me” buddy. crits4cats.petfinder.com

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

Labour’s AI Growth Zones: The Corporate Land Grab Disguised as Innovation How Starmer’s government is carving up Britain into deregulated fiefdoms for Big Tech, without asking a single community

On 13 January 2025, Keir Starmer announced his flagship policy for Britain’s “AI revolution”: AI Growth Zones.
⚠️WARNING ⚠️
These zones are deregulated corporate playgrounds. Communities pay for soaring bills, environmental devastation, with zero democratic say.
open.substack.com/pub/european...

Beth(gray kitten - w/ approved adopter) is keeping Madi (white tabby kitten) company after she got spayed yesterday! Beth goes to her new home this weekend, let's find Madi a home to call her own!
#adopted #AdoptDontShop #kittens #Sweet #love

A pair of gray tabby cats in a box.

2 gray tabby cats together on a chair.

Miss Darcy Daggers PointedTail with her sister Miss Jakuta aka Jackie CinderSmoke Featherduster. These two are available as a bonded pair adoption in the general Phoenix area. They are so precious together. #Cats #Adoption #Phoenix #CatsOfBlueSky #TNR #FeralToFriendly #StreetLifeToSweetLife

Reeves poised to unveil Budget plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges Chancellor looks to offset a forecast sharp drop in government revenue from fuel duty

This really is poorly thought through.

If you are going to do a per mile charge it should be for all vehicles. Petrol is undercharged in comparison to its negative impacts.

And it's a phenomenally bad idea to create additional psychological barriers to owning EVs.

on.ft.com/4oxpaFs

Only a few hundred signatures to go. Can you help @europeanpowell.bsky.social reach the 10k signatures needed?

bsky.app/profile/euro...

Looks amazing - will buy some tickets!