Sue in Cornwall

Farage: epic grifter

Hi from West Cornwall nearly 4 years with Long-COVID

Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.

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The Dry Tree, Goonhilly Downs.

Chart: U.S. adults reporting a disability The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog.” Source: Census Here, adults refer to people older than 16.

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering

I see that those much-vaunted 'Western values' and 'Christian beliefs' at the heart of the Trump administration have been in action again. They're going to try to destroy Europe, to tear it apart from within. That's all there is to it. www.ft.com/content/3f95...

Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings. Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...

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With this message:
'Healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) are not only a serious issue in terms of the wellbeing of patients, staff, and visitors, but also pose a significant financial burden on the NHS.'
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

It's all so damaging. I'm fighting with my assigned psychiatrist that graded exercise is damaging for me as a Long Covid patient.

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Done

Thank you

@cornishbirdblog.com
can you help?

Ski season is about to start. Do you have figures for France and Switzerland? Just trying to understand what Christmas will look like in UK since there is inadequate data collection here.

@longcovidadvoc.bsky.social has an excellent analysis of this paper.

Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals Healthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found

“When hospital staff began masking again, the rates of hospital-onset respiratory viral infections decreased by 33%”

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Porthtowan beach, Cornwall UK

As we point out in the paper, functional signs and symptoms can be real, too. We don’t think there should be any stigma against them.

Pointing out Long Covid isn’t FND doesn’t perpetuate a stigma. It advocates for accurate diagnosis and treatment for people with Long Covid *and* people with FND.

this screenshot says: "Every year in England and Wales, a cynic1 might describe a process like this: Around spring, the incumbent government / devolved government promises that they are working hard to fix NHS capacity before next winter. In summer, the relevant NHS bodies warn that nothing meaningful is happening on the ground and/or everything’s much worse, and they are in no way ready for the winter. Through October and November we watch nervously as ripples of seasonal respiratory infections (e.g., RSV, flu and now COVID) grow into waves. The NHS know what’s coming and try vaccinate as many of the old, young and vulnerable as possible. As winter progresses, wards fill up with patients, so A&E is unable to admit patients to the hospital, so A&E fills up, so ambulances are unable to transfer patients safely to A&E, and queue at the front door, and are unable to respond to new calls. Patients suffering from heart attacks and strokes wait hours for help, and incur enormous harms - enough to show up in excess death indicators. In late December or early January, the waves of RSV, flu and COVID peak. If they all are high and peak at the same time, you get the winter of 2022 - average response time to stroke/heart attack symptoms of 1 hour 32 minutes. If, by luck, the peaks of infection are lower, or offset, you get the winter of 2023 - average response time 45 minutes. The target response time is 18 minutes. The waves recede in January and February, the NHS cares for the survivors and we bury the dead. Go to 1. "

It is however nuts that for literally the most predictable NHS crisis we still rely on the luck of the disease draw (and the weather) every winter.

@paulmainwood.bsky.social put it brilliantly a few weeks ago in his substack (which I recommend). 5/6

Me: "Excuse me, did I just hear you say you have whooping cough?"

Her: "Yes. The doctor has just prescribed me antibiotics."

Me: "Did he say anything about not mixing until the antibiotics have taken effect?"

Her: "I don't think so."

Me: <cries>

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Ginger, golden Guernsey goat in barn

Hi from Cornwall

Don't they read the research and see the data? Children, carers, impact of #longcovid on economy, protecting #pwLC from further infection.

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Golden retriever puppy sits surrounded by toys

I've forgotten just how exhausting puppies are. One more day to go

So glad you're here!

£5.7 billion economic and healthcare cost of #pwLC 2022-2023 considered a conservative estimate in the report.

Why is this not a surprise? Covid is still here disabling HCWs, but where is the ventilation, HEPA filters and N95 masks?

Your work is stunning😍

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Good lunch!

This is such an impressive achievement 👏