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@1goodtern.bsky.social:
"It's time to talk about the vax and relax crowd again.

They got their shots, so the virus is now someone else's problem.
But vaccines *reduce* the risks of Covid's long-term harms *without* eliminating them.
The science never said that.
It is just what people chose to hear.

Thank you for sharing this stuff here.

I only have capacity for one site.
❤️

There's a tern and three ternlings eagerly (but patiently and considerately) awaiting the next page...

I've just loved the last couple of chapters.
🥰

Whooooooop

Yes, I think so.
The story is already online at the links that account publishes each week.
It's just now being released in book form.

One more sleep until it's out here! ❤️❤️

One more sleep until the UK edition is out...
😍

She had me at Vyvyan and Rik.

❤️

@1goodtern.bsky.social

Hey.
Absolutely loving this.

Work of scholarship and art and love.

ftw

A dérouler car c'est effrayant.
Ce sont les données pour le Royaume-Uni mais je suppose que c'est la même chose en France.

A horribly sobering thread from Tern.

From the NHS, which actually has comprehensive data.

Read this thread and weep. Then act as if airborne viruses matter 😷

For people who prefer solid numbers:
bsky.app/profile/1goo...

Or putting it another way:

Don't need urgent care, folks.

360 times as many people had to wait 12 hours to get admitted after someone had made the decision to admit them into hospital.

It's 360x.

It's not double, or triple, or quadruple...

Oh, and for those who want to know how much higher 2024/2025 was than the pre-pandemic average...

Please feel free to go and check the data.
It's all here:
www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/s...

NHS England » NHS Estates Technical Bulletin (NETB 2023/01A): application of HEPA filter devices for air cleaning in healthcare spaces: guidance and standards Applicability This NETB applies to all healthcare spaces with ventilation requirements. Objective To provide additional technical guidance and standards on the use of HEPA filter devices for air clean...

You know, the NHS even has *excellent* guidance on how to reduce the spread of airborne infection.
It is *truly excellent*.

But for some reason your government wants you sick.
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ap...

I am so hugely spectacularly angry with the collective ignorance in this country.

Letting it spread makes things worse.

Not testing for Covid doesn't make it go away.

Put it up alongside the staff sickness rate at the NHS.

That black line is the pre-pandemic average, and the red and the green are the worse and better points in the year.

IT'S GETTING WORSE.