Bowling Shane

If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

Thanks to Emily Dugan and the Sunday Times for exposing this aspect of how Maeve died from ME. A Devon County Council cover up. Maeve was taking them to judical review, dying in the attempt.
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
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Long COVID costs countries billions of dollars | Context by TRF An estimated 400 million people have suffered long COVID since the start of the pandemic

www.context.news/socioeconomi...

Wes Streeting’s donations are 80% related to private healthcare providers

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep!

Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications.

This should also be banned?

Influence being bought in Govt?

Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Long Covid: Almost one in 10 may have condition, research finds University of Southampton researchers say NHS England shows 9.1% of people think they may have the condition.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
A reminder that 1 in 10 and probably far higher than this, have long covid in the UK. How can this not get a mention on its economic impact on gdp. Far cheaper to prevent than torching our economy. 🧵

YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 12 September 2024 AM

It’s airborne and five years on the guidance is still completely incorrect. We are still being told to wash our hands for a predominantly airborne virus. The evidence on the Covid inquiry is consigned to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...

How to Protect Your Family and Community During a Measles Outbreak Learn about measles from Dr. Danielle Zerr. Understand symptoms, risks and vaccination importance to protect your family and community.

Seattle Children’s hospital recommends masking to reduce the spread of Measles is in your community. An n95 or higher will give you protection against airborne spread. www.seattlechildrens.org/healthy-tide...

The belief that you can fall ill without fear of long-term health issues is a luxury granted by decades of improving public health—while the belief was always false, now that public health is reversing, we will be forced to rediscover what our ancestors could not help but know

The scars of Long Covid What scientists are discovering about the mysterious long-term effects of coronavirus.

10/7/20, New Statesman: “The scars of Long Covid”

‘What scientists are discovering about the mysterious long-term effects of coronavirus’

“…US researchers aren’t sitting idle….”

www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...

Significant numbers are still dying from COVID. Please don't talk about COVID in the past tense.

More useless tinkering announced by the government today around the asylum system.

No one in their right mind thinks this latest tedious rehash is going to turn the dial. We need radical change.

COVID-19 re-infection doubles risk of long COVID in kids, young adults, data reveal The second infection was also tied to a 50% or greater increase in several specific long-COVID conditions, including myocarditis and fatigue.

Compared with after a first COVID infection, being re-infected with SARS-CoV-2 doubles the risk of later developing long COVID in children, teens, & young adults:

Via @longcovidfam.bsky.social

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

How Denial of Airborne COVID Transmission Broke the World As we mark five years since the emergence of SARS-COV-2, the most grievous error of the global pandemic response has become very clear.

goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
Read and weep. The failure to recognise airborne transmission of C-19 has impacted every corner of our society and lives. When will @ukhsa.bsky.social wake up?

Why are child vaccination rates the lowest they have been in more than a decade? The World Health Organisation sets a 95% target for routine childhood vaccinations to ensure herd immunity and protect the vulnerable who cannot have immunisations themselves - but uptake in England h...

Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting "immunity debt" own this.

news.sky.com/story/why-ar...

Long Covid Hits UK Economy Harder Than Most Other Countries Britain’s economy is still suffering from long Covid. The unmatched spike in public debt, the 1.2 million extra people on sickness benefits, the record postwar tax burden, the bulging size of the stat...

Bloomberg: 'Long Covid Hits UK Economy Harder Than Most Other Countries'

"...the 1.2 million extra people on sickness benefits..."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As I’ve said many times: the issue of airborne transmission and respiratory infection in healthcare isn’t a controversy. It’s a scandal.

Not 'just a cold' part 1,564.

UV technology zaps airborne viruses to protect the elderly A commercially available technology could help protect vulnerable older people against seasonal respiratory viral outbreaks, according to a new trial.

Why aren't we using this??
cosmosmagazine.com/news/uv-zaps...

Vaccines may reduce the severity of long COVID but they don't eliminate the risk of long COVID. There needs to be a focus on public health interventions that reduce the spread of COVID and other airborne diseases and more investment in treatment research. The vaccines aren't enough on their own.

Autoimmunity in Children Post-COVID: A Silent Risk New research reveals links between SARS-CoV-2 infections and autoimmune responses in children.

“A recent study has unveiled an association between SARS-CoV-2 infections and the development of autoantibodies in children, even among those who experienced mild or asymptomatic cases.”
johnsnowproject.org/primers/auto...

Vaccines, air purifiers and respirators: three miraculous life-saving technologies to which, increasingly, society is saying “nah, thanks, I prefer the viruses”

Infants and preschoolers show unique signs of long COVID Infants, toddlers and preschoolers exhibit symptoms of long COVID, but the symptoms can be different and more difficult to identify in these children, according to Rutgers Health research.

www.news-medical.net/news/2025072...
KEEP REPEATING
THIS IS CHILD ABUSE TO KEEP SPREADING SARS2
"Researchers said they can confirm that younger children can have long COVID."
KEEP REPEATING

EPA Testing Shows the Power of DIY Air Filters to Trap Viruses - UConn Today The results are in: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency research testing of do-it-yourself ‘Corsi-Rosenthal Box’ indoor air filters shows they are 99% effe ...

Look what we could have instead of constant sickness and absences and school closures. It’s wild ppl chose to ignore this problem instead of trying these incredibly cute mitigations.

So many of us are working on this, but we need the rest of you to join in.

We share air. Let’s clean it up.

YouTube video by Greens Against Covid and Long Covid Illness the MAIN reason for pupil absence, in ongoing global pandemic. Why is anyone surprised?

Not been on @LBC for a while, but had to call in when I heard @alimiraj.bsky.social talking about #attendance...

Listen to me having a bit of a rant about how ridiculous it is to ignore illness as the MAIN reason for pupil absence and what @departmentforedu.bsky.social can do: youtu.be/IWZ2MqKwl1A

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

Highlights Fatiguing syndromes affect millions of patients in the United States and globally, but are grossly underserved in the clinic and in the contemplative design of basic research. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex multisystem metabolic-immune-inflammatory disorder. Although research on this condition is in its infancy, it appears to involve the immune system and central nervous system malfunction, with cellular oxidative stress as a predominant feature. Approximately half of the cases of long-haul coronavirus disease 2019 meet the diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS, burgeoning the number of affected individuals. Recent strides in neurobiology have yet to transfer the understanding of the neurodegenerative aspects, and potential for neuroprotection, of ME/CFS. ME/CFS may represent a useful paradigm and research model for the study of the impact of sustained oxidative stress on the central nervous system and the body at large.

How pandemics reshape our brain: Common links and targets between long-haul COVID-19, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), oxidative stress, and neurodegeneration

Free:
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#LongCovid #MEcfs

The persistent false binary regarding schools suited the Johnson "govt" as it distracted from their reactionary, incompetent policies.

It was never kids in vs kids out, it SHOULD have been MAKE THE SMEGGING SCHOOLS SAFE, as @independentsage.bsky.social always said, but we still aren't 💔

Is anyone with any power or influence supportive of clean indoor air policies?

YouTube video by Long Covid Kids Long Covid & Me | Understanding Long Covid In Children And Young People

We know that explaining the impact of Long Covid can be exhausting.
Please share with anyone who may need more info.
Help us raise awareness that COVID infections can lead to complex health challenges.

🌟Avoiding infection is the best way to avoid risk.

youtu.be/e0U7K54RiSg
#LongCovidKids #CleanAir

Too hot to ride! Cool our buses As the climate crisis heats up, so do our buses!  Mayor Brabin is currently negotiating the bus franchising contracts for West Yorkshire’s soon to arrive publicly controlled bus system. She has ...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/co...