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Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing...

//"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino//

so fun watching the Official Five Year Empirical Science quoting back to me word for word what I've been saying since 2020 to friends and family who all just stare silently in response

A nurse protecting the skin just under their chin Headline: Covid Is Surging, So Remember To Protect That Important Bit Of Your Neck Just Under Your Chin. Story by Pivvi Swarthyboost and Dink Nerfdom Photo from Adobe

Covid Is Surging, So Remember To Protect That Important Bit Of Your Neck Just Under Your Chin.

Mary-Ann Stephenson was very active in feminist politics in Coventry during the 2010s. I can confirm she is extremely transphobic, although she always kept her nastiest comments behind closed doors.

This proposed appointment should be resisted in the strongest possible terms.

would actually read a proper piece on conspiratorial thinking around health issues from health professionals, a (thankfully quite distant) relative who's a doctor is now quite convinced the COVID vaccine did more harm than good and.....?????

The NHS has a vaccine problem: staff don’t want the jab Almost 90 per cent of employees at one health trust rejected the offer of a flu vaccination last winter, putting patients at greater risk of infection

NHS frontline staff are refusing the flu jab in ever-greater numbers and putting patients at risk. Almost 9 in 10 at one of England’s largest hospital trusts were unvaccinated last winter.

Appalling selfishness towards disabled patients that’s sadly not surprising. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Disability News Service the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues

Please read this harrowing story 👇 A minister telling a disabled women the cuts will help her, and stepping around her collapsed body to leave the room. These are the mental gymnastics needed to justify decimating disability benefits.

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

Want to repeat that if folks even wore masks just where it’s easy—in the grocery store, on the subway, sitting at your desk at work—we could likely knock down community transmission substantially, and make life a lot safer in places where mitigation is harder—like nursing homes.

BREAKING: Thailand reports over 53,000 new Covid-19 cases in a week, school shifts to online learning.

Whenever I go to the hospital in my N95, people back away from me

They sanitize their hands. Some use their sleeve to open a door I’ve touched

Many won’t share the elevator with me

They all share two things in common:

None are masked
They don’t want to get sick

Public health has failed.

It's never too late to start wearing a mask again! Wear them in public, in almost any context but especially when you're indoors, when 50%+ others present aren't masking, if you're in close physical proximity with others, and/or if there's scant ventilation (including lack of wind outdoors).

You do not have to accept repeat Covid infections as inevitable.

Mitigations work. Layers work best.

Get your booster. Clean & ventilate the air. Test and stay home when sick.

Perhaps most important of all, wear a well fitted N95.

It protects you & those around you. Community care can save us!

What the inside of an ADHD person's brain looks like:

Wind turbines power 'surprising' tourism boom A tourism industry is growing around windfarms in south-east England, including Rampion in Brighton.

I think we can put to rest the notion that offshore wind turbines spoil views and economies. The fact is that they can make coastal sites far more interesting and boost tourism as people travel to experience them, sometimes even up close.

Boat tours to see the turbines are "surprisingly popular."

Much of Europe will probably see a summer wave starting soon, with both XFG and NB.1.8.1 growing at similar rates, and the combination is already probably in the 30% prevalence range.

Go transes

And if they class us legally male, then they shouldn't be able to do fuck all about this.

"Topless trans protest outside Holyrood a ‘public act of grief, resistance and solidarity’"
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/s...

‘Much-needed grit’ to be fostered in England’s schoolchildren, say ministers Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretaries

@guardian You might want to publish an article about the true ‘grit’ of clinically vulnerable children left at risk from covid for 5 years or the tens of thousands suffering with long covid while the government fails them by not rolling out clean air! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Children to be taught 'Much-needed grit' in order to tackle school mental health crisis

In other news, people who depend on food banks for survival to be taught to photosynthesise

Imagine the government had not only listened to Wakefield but picked him from a pool of 1 to produce his report into vaccines. Imagine they had banned the MMR vaccine on the back of what he 'found'.

That's Cass and puberty blockers.

In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital.

During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.

Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19 For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value only is shown. For comparison, cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths are shown.

The excess deaths are stunning, and ongoing

The morbidity isn’t captured here

Grateful to everyone who is still working to mitigate transmission

ourworldindata.org/g...

Nobody should be facing this.

Finally got around to writing to my mp

And it's reinforced with the other rhetoric: "squalid", "incalculable damage". Starmer made a choice not to go with "balancing" language. Whether he's an actual Powellite or just cosplaying as one, it's unconvincing and unpleasant. The "hygiene" issue for politicians works both ways.

I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt.

And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.

Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️

Perhaps more significant, the revolting word here - "squalid" - used in Starmer's speech today seems as provocative and as significant as Thatcher's notorious comment about Britain being "rather swamped" by migrants in 1978. Then, as now, it was a Powellite dog whistle. We are truly in hell.

All of us.... every single last one of us... are descended from immigrants. And without it, this country would just be a bunch of uninhabited islands on the edge of the world. Everything that built this country... and everything it is... springs from that. And we should embrace it, not decry it.