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Maybe we should..😅

It literally used to drive me nuts!! Especially as I’m not overly keen on the whole Xmas thing anyway. Then I discovered catering clingfilm!!😆🤣 I just unwrap and add a few different bits to change it up a bit. Lots of sparkling, colourful birds added this year. Tbh it was a bit over the top😬🤣x

Tbh it nearly kills us dragging it up the stairs😆🤣 I’m seriously considering buying a shed for it instead😅🤣🤣

Happy New Year my Lovely🥂🎉 And YES!! Trust me, there’s nothing like the pure satisfaction of unwrapping your Xmas tree in literally seconds!!😆🤣🤣
#LoveClingfilm🥰

Last call for stories from patients (or caregivers) who had difficulty getting healthcare workers to mask.

If you had pushback, reduction in care, were infected with Covid, experienced retaliation or accusations of “anxiety”… I want to hear from you 👇🏼!

"you're more likely to catch Covid in hospital than almost in any other setting"

Where is Infection protection control today?

🚨Matt Hancock - Safety

No consideration was given to safety in healthcare settings for Clinically Vulnerable people.

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Hancock's evidence starts 10am at the COVID Inquiry tomorrow, but what time will he first pretend to cry? 😭

I asked for a copy of WhatsApp's between Matt Hancock, Lord Bethell + Dido Harding (remember them) regarding Covid Testing.

The DHSC has refused to release them on "security" grounds.

They claim publication "would, or would be likely to,
prejudice the prevention or detection of crime" 🤦‍♂️⤵️

More Than a Million Pallets of Unusable Covid PPE Costing £8 Billion Have So Far Gone Up in Smoke Billions of pounds were spent on unusable protective equipment, with priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers

The PPE scandal shows no sign of ending after it was revealed this week that over 1 million pallets laden with unusable Covid protective equipment have so far been destroyed by the Government.

1,049,700 pallets of PPE at a cost to the tax payer of £8.6b destroyed 🔥

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/m...

Milton Keynes children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes' More than one in three children in Milton Keynes are living in poverty, an organisation says.

This is awful & heartbreaking. Schoolchildren from struggling families have pretended to eat out of empty lunchboxes to save their embarrassment at having no food.

Ending child poverty must be a priority for the Government

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Part 1 in a 3 part series on masks in healthcare! I will be publishing the next 2 parts (patient stories and HCW stories) with Healthy Debate & on Disabled Ginger.

Never forget that you don’t need a mandate to do the right thing. Wear a mask and show you care about keeping patients safe from COVID.

Petition: Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration require...

Hospitals should be safe places for everyone. If you believe that, and are in the UK, here is a petition to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Reporters: do not forget to include this in every story you write about Jay Bhattacharya

A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients - Healthy Debate Health-care workers have a responsibility to protect their vulnerable patients. Our lives are in your hands.

"If you’re a health-care worker who sees a patient in a mask, put one on for them. Don’t make them ask. Don’t psychologize them. Don’t betray the trust they’ve shown you. They’ve put their lives in your hands. Don’t take that for granted, it’s not an easy thing for many of us to do"

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Pandemic linked to 16% rise in babies born with heart defects The proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16 per cent after the first year of the pandemic, according to research at City St George's, University of London and pub...

Concerning data showing spike in heart defects in babies born after pandemic- possibly links to growing evidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risks pose-Covid in unvaccinated children and adults 🧪

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The engagement on BlueSky is just incredible. I go to my news feed & find posts from all the accounts I followed on X but never saw over there. And best of all no dumb arse content from Elon Musk forced on me & no bots. It’s seriously looking like the dream platform we’ve all been waiting for

5 COVID skin rashes: Dermatologists share tips to identify and treat viral skin conditions Some viral illnesses are known to cause rashes, like hives.

Wow.
It's actually a great article on what Covid can do to your skin.

I know people with examples of all five of these during or post-covid rashes:

www.today.com/health/coron...

a baby wearing a bib that says christmas stocking on it ALT: a baby wearing a bib that says christmas stocking on it

Gammons and TERFs on BlueSky desperately trying to get in on the conversation but realising they can’t because we’ve already blocked them all.

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“Caravans, Airbnbs. We found a child in such bad accommodation with disabilities that there were rats eating through their feeding tubes every night,” De Souza said. “We’ve had children in tents. It’s absolutely shocking”

Hundreds of miles from family. Limited or no education

Appalling

Not, I’m not #COVIDconscious I’m a pathogen realist.

COVID, Avian flu, RSV, all of it.

The Xitter Exodus and What it Means for the Disability Community Disabled and chronically ill people have long used Twitter/X for community, fundraising, companionship and support. With folks leaving in droves - where will we go and how can we stick together?

If you know people still on twitter who WANT to leave but are struggling to make the leap - my latest article is designed to ease the transition.

It’s got tips and tricks as well as suggestions for how to ensure communities stick together.

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