janiceplant.bsky.social

Thank you for really listening to caller @annemarie1.bsky.social & as you succinctly said: "The short termism of prioritising the economy has led to the economy suffering because there have been so many people infected (w Covid) & are now unable to work".

@zackpolanski.bsky.social
#BoldPolitics

Frustratingly this data is a year old now & we don’t have more recent data for prevalence of Long Covid in kids because ONS has axed the Covid/Long Covid survey.

If prevalence has continued to rise at the same rate as before, there could be as many as 240K children in the UK with Long Covid by now.

Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social,

Thanks for discussing Long Covid in children on your show today.

As of March 2024, ONS reported that over 111K kids had Long Covid.

And that’s just 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. If you extrapolate across the UK, it’s over 120K.

The number nearly DOUBLED in a year between Mar 2023 & Mar 2024.

Might some of the “people with missing or damaged limbs” lost them while fighting for their country, or whilst at work? 🤔

2. After all, the ground has already been prepared on both sides of the Atlantic, as people with disabilities are accused of being workshy shirkers and subjected to brutal regimes of assessment and coercion. A target has already been put on their backs.

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...

Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X.
1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

Health officials downplayed COVID risk by overemphasizing "underlying health conditions," leading many to drop their guard.

Most people have "underlying health conditions." Anyone can be vulnerable. Everyone should take precautions.

It's malpractice that they are minimizing bird flu the same way.

What did we learn from our experiences with Independent SAGE? We recently published an article in Nature Protocols about our experiences communicating science. This article summarises the part of the article relating to the learning points from our development.

Following on from yesterday's summary of the organisation and establishment of @independentsage.bsky.social in our @natprot.bsky.social article, here is the summary of the learning points we took from the process.
kityates.substack.com/p/what-did-w...

Jay Bhattachyra tweet saying step 1 pandemic preparedness will be too sack all the people with expertise in this field and then spouts pseudoscience to justify this

This does not bode well at all. Thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing.🧪

When I was 18 and I gave my mother the excuse I didn’t know what time it was,
she bought me a watch ⌚️

As someone who works in the NHS, I wasn’t offered a COVID booster through work. Flu - yes, had that early on.

These statistics do not surprise me in the least as the NHS seems to have gone backwards in infection prevention and control for airborne viruses. It’s really sad.

Do vaccines cause Long COVID? Tweeps, the overwhelmingly most important cause of Long COVID is *catching COVID-19*. Vaccines protect you against this! [contd]. 17a/

In addition, the balance between ‘friendly’ and ‘unfriendly’ bacteria in the gut can change, with the latter getting the upper hand. 13/

So who’s at risk? Well, all of us. But this graphic summarises the things that make you *more likely* to get Long COVID. In sum: don’t catch COVID-19. Top up your vaccines. If you do catch COVID-19, get it mildly. [contd] 5/

Long COVID can make you unable to do your job. 6% of people who are “inactive, not looking for work” have Long COVID (see purple bars in chart above). This *inability to work* represents a huge human & societal burden. We need to prevent it affecting more people and help those already suffering. 9/

I agree entirely.

And what about ‘honourable’ as in the right honourable?

That someone should value her life enough to buy her a HEPA filter as a way to try to protect her health - and she finds it the most disappointing Christmas present she’s ever had - speaks volumes about the true meaning of Christmas.

NHS never really recovered from the pandemic - just look at any of the NHS indicators:
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/qualitywatch...

As a nation, we seem intent on a communal forgetting of how bad it was. I'm reposting this thread of testimony on the reality of the NHS during first two waves. Pls watch.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Ollie’s story is heartbreaking 💔 Thank you so much to Jacob Collier for speaking on behalf of him and the thousands like him suffering.

Real Impact of COVID-19 Infection and Why We Should Care

The web version of this article with a nice table of contents and easy to share with others can be found here ( tinyurl.com/COVIDrealImp... ) and ( docs.google.com/document/d/1... ). 2/

99.8% survival rate would still mean 670,000 dead Americans if everyone were infected. In fact, the actual number is >1.2 million so far, more than all combat deaths in every American war since 1775 combined.

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For anyone commenting with appreciation for our masks, of course we’re masked! We’ve all been through airports and aeroplanes, it’s winter and lots of viruses circulating. There are clinically vulnerable people here, and many with CV kids. It’s right thing to do.

“Mark Faghy (needs to sign up)
and David Putrino (needs to be searchable!)”

I’ve been wondering if the deaths we are seeing every week are in part to save the hospital-ity industry? You can do most everything else if you #WearARespirator.
But you can’t eat inside with people, the majority of who believe the #SARSCoV2 pandemic to be over so don’t partake in #vaccineplus ??

Is the answer Oligarchs?