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YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel What's happened in America this week?

3.5 minute overview of what's happened in Trump's America this week from corruption to demolishing parts of the White House to undermining democracy...

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You can significantly reduce your chances of all airborne diseases by some simple sensible measures. Avoid breathing in pathogens: don't spend time unmasked in indoor, unventilated, shared spaces.

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

I don't know what pathogen will cause the next pandemic - Disease X - but what I do know is that the combination of the immune dysregulation effect of SARS-CoV-2 and the political legacy of our response to Covid means this pandemic makes us much more vulnerable to the next one.

Poster by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) titled “Let’s stand together against the winter bugs!” featuring a smiling young person and a doctor. On the left, a red speech bubble labeled MYTH reads: “I’m young and healthy so I don’t need to bother about flu, RSV or COVID-19.” On the right, green boxes labeled FACT explain that protecting yourself also protects newborns, older adults, and people with chronic conditions, and that immunisation, staying home when ill, coughing into your elbow, and washing your hands help stop winter viruses from spreading. The design uses soft blue and green tones with a friendly, cartoon-style layout.

Good message, but still a fail. No mention of clean air, ventilation, or masks — which are far more effective at preventing respiratory virus transmission. 😷

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

"Mythbusting: Protect yourself against the flu, RSV and COVID-19"

🤔 It’ll return.
In the timeline between The Reckoning and The Clean Air Industrial Revolution, widespread masking will return.

Just like bell bottoms—
what’s old will be new and cool again.

#MaskUp #CleanAirRevolution

So true.

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Transmission via the air was not taken seriously.

Q - Is it your view in the context of airborne transmission in schools that this hampered mitigations being applied in a timely manor?

A - It is my view that it hampered mitigations being applied everywhere.
Prof @cathnoakes.bsky.social

Prof Catherine Noakes
On the route of transmission

"So we know it is a respiratory transmission at the early days of the pandemic the specific mechanisms were unclear, but it was still early days"

" respiratory transmission means the virus is emitted from people's exhalation"

#CleanAir

#TransparencyOnCOVID

Smart Air UK Our mission is to improve human health by supplying and promoting the use of air purifiers to clean indoor air.

Clean indoor air isn’t a luxury. It’s public health.

This October we’re making that a reality — and we’re now in the final 10 days of the campaign.

🌍 go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/76TBlzW
#CleanAirForAll #SmartAirUK

I'm not poor at all. I have spent thousands of pounds on dentists who will not treat but just find excuses! How do you find a dentist who will actually do something with your rotting teeth?

For more Covid information and help, or if you’d like to know more about how we calculate risk, please contact BuDS and we will be happy to help.

BuDS Covid Information | Substack Up to date, expert analysis of the Covid situation in England, UK. Click to read BuDS Covid Information, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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BuDS wants to help people avoid catching Covid. Our risk assessment system looks at the likelihood of meeting a Covid infected person in the community, in your everyday life. When the risk of meeting someone is Very High, we say so. (6/9)

We feel that UKHSA should not use descriptions for these mathematical bands which have completely different everyday meanings. By doing this, the UK Health Security Agency is helping to minimise Covid and confuse people, rather than help them to understand risk & what to do to keep healthy. (5/9)

This is technical information relevant only to epidemiologists. For practical purposes, for example whether you are likely to meet a Covid infected person in the supermarket, these thresholds are useless, and worse, grossly misleading. (4/9)

These thresholds are very misleadingly labelled as if they related to absolute levels of Covid in the community – for example, the ‘medium’ threshold means that Covid infection levels are one standard deviation above the mean level of Covid over the whole pandemic. (3/9)

The long answer is that UKHSA has adapted an international model designed to help epidemiologists set thresholds based on historical infection levels. The thresholds tell epidemiologists how much the Covid infection level differs from a historical mathematical average. (2/9)

The NHS and UKHSA say that Covid infection levels in England are currently ‘medium’, while we say that they are at Very High levels. The short answer is that UKHSA descriptions are grossly misleading as a guide to risk, while BuDS risk levels are based entirely on the risk of catching Covid. (1/9)

Also, reducing the risk level in what is most likely only a blip between rising infection levels gives a misleading impression. (4/4)

We have decided not to reduce the risk level from Very High to High, despite current infection levels falling into the ‘High’ band. This is because the data we use is often revised upward after first publication, so it is entirely possible that infection levels remain in the Very High band. (3/4)

Our assessment is that we have not yet reached the peak of the current Covid wave, and we will see further increases in the weeks to come. Please continue to take maximum precautions. (2/4)

Do not be misled by people suggesting that England has ‘passed the peak’ of the current Covid wave. All three major Covid waves in England in 2024 built in stages, with small declines followed by large increases. (1/4)

Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 19 October 2025 The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 19 October 2025

Covid infection levels in England remain around the Very High level, although there has been a recent small decline. We continue to recommend taking maximum precautions against catching Covid, as around 1 in every 112 people in England were infected as of 19 October.

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I'm not poor at all. I have spent thousands of pounds on dentists who will not treat but just find excuses! How do you find a dentist who will actually do something with your rotting teeth?

Boris Johnson says at the inquiry "it was slow to dawn on government generally about the full horror of of Covid."

Why? Why was it so slow to dawn on the government what could happen?

That slowness cost lives and livelihoods at a grand scale.

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel What's happened in America this weekend? Top things you might have missed!

What happened in America over the weekend that you might have missed...

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6. As such, ensuring that every single person living with HIV has access to ART is not only an a priori good, but also would reduce the rate at which new variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge. Understanding this interaction is key.

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