Erykah

Pissing in the wind

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🎵I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes… a weather front is now here; the inflammation grows… 🎵

Denial of Airborne Infection: A Review “Is no one interested in understanding the dynamics of airborne infection?” Explore the compelling history of airborne contagion and the latest study to confirm it.

“The 1918 influenza pandemic helped expose droplet guidance as incapable of preventing airborne infection.

Aerobiology emerged in the 1930s from the failure of droplet dogma to protect public health.”

Do people who have a disability need more support from the benefits system? Thinking about the different groups who the benefit system supports, for each of the following groups do you think it offers too much support, too little support, or about the right amount? People who...

Heartening to see that a majority of YouGov responses want a better world for the UK’s disabled.

How ‘revenge of the Covid contrarians’ unleashed by RFK Jr puts broader vaccine advances at risk The health secretary has pledged to fight chronic illness, but experts say he risks increasing it with department cuts

“The health secretary has pledged to fight chronic illness, but experts say he risks increasing it with department cuts”

First harvest of the year!

Join the NHS bloc on the People's Assembly National Demonstration aginst Austerity!

Assemble 11:30AM - exact location to be announced!

WELFARE NOT WARFARE | STOP NHS JOB CUTS | END NHS PRIVATISATON

Green shoots coming through soil, and the caption "If the situation was hopeless their propaganda would be unnecessary"

Remember

The role of carbon dioxide in airborne disease transmission: a hidden key to safer indoor spaces The concentration of CO2 in the air directly affects how long a virus remains infectious.

“While CO₂ doesn’t transmit viruses itself, it acts as a proxy for indoor crowding and poor ventilation. When there isn’t enough ventilation, these levels stay high as do the chances that airborne viruses can linger longer and infect others.”

“Benefits and Work has created a brief, anonymous questionnaire about the PIP cuts in which your answers will immediately be published online. The one page survey is for anyone who currently gets PIP daily living without scoring any 4 point or higher descriptors.”

Covid, Learning, and Rights Lara Wong, Founder: Clinically Vulnerable Families Three years ago, the UK entered what was supposed to be a new era one where we had learned from the pandemic, adapted, and built a future where health and safety coexisted with normal life. Instead, 'Learning to Live with Covid' became a euphemism for abandoning any real learning at all. And for those who were (and remain) Clinically Vulnerable, this failure to 'learn' has developed into a glaring equality issue, creating systemic disadvantages in work, education, healthcare, and often basic participation in society. From the beginning, we knew that having 'underlying conditions' (clinical vulnerability) meant a higher risk of severe illness and death from Covid. But this recognition never led to protections. Instead, as the world moved on, Clinically Vulnerable (CV) people were left behind - stripped of recognition, access to accommodations, and more broadly the right to participate in society safely. This is an equality issue, yet it has been treated as an afterthought. The consequences can be stark: Employment discrimination: Without legal protections, CV people have been forced out of jobs or denied 'reasonable adjustments' to work remotely or with personal safety. Unequal access to education: By not addressing ventilation or supporting individual masking those who are most at risk have found themselves excluded from schools and universities without ventilation improvements or remote alternatives. Mask discrimination and abuse: Those who continue to wear masks face harassment and exclusion. Unequal access to justice: For no clear reason, courts require people to unmask, forcing CV people to choose between their safety and their right to participate or advocate in legal proceedings. Barriers to healthcare: Masking has been dropped in hospitals and GP practices, making medical settings less safe for those at high risk. Many CV people are now challenged by healthcare prof…

'Covid, Learning, and Rights'

In her new article, @larawong.bsky.social highlights the UK's neglect of those at-risk and calls for equitable policies.

Link to full magazine below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Mask For Pleasure: COVID-impacted Artists Raise Awareness at George Clooney's Broadway Opening On the opening weekend of the Broadway debut of George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck, a small group of COVID-impacted NY artists offered a gesture of collective care in Manhattan's theatre distri...

“a small group of COVID-impacted NY artists offered a gesture of collective care in Manhattan's theatre district, asking a question no one else seemed willing to: what if the pandemic isn't over-and what if it's stealing our joy?”

Is COVID quietly sabotaging our immune systems? Experts are increasingly coalescing around the view that COVID has weakened our immune systems, leaving us vulnerable to other infections

Not doing it that quietly!

The cuts proposed to disability support are a disgraceful attack on some of the poorest people in our society.

They need to be stopped — and together we can stop them. And we can win a Wealth Tax as a progressive alternative.

My new article 👇

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-c...

COVID didn’t end. Its story just stopped being told. A new story, rooted in the way we live now, would necessitate the telling of present-day truths.

“The idea that public health is not a collective responsibility but an unpaid contract gig for you and me should be put to bed in 2025. ”

A man and his child Headline: Why Do Covid Conscious People Still Try To Stay Well And Healthy Despite All The Evidence That Their Actions Work? Story by Scorch Nerfelt and Darnelle Booger Picture from Unsplash

Why Do Covid Conscious People Still Try To Stay Well And Healthy Despite All The Evidence That Their Actions Work?

Oh the urge to grab a pen and write #covidisairborne on this sign!

Appt today is at far end of hospital. Not a single person masked (apart from me) anywhere that I could see. :(

“This is because the overwhelming majority of the increase is due to the fact that new claims for employment and support allowance (ESA) had been replaced by UC claims. So, as the number of ESA awards shrank, the number of UC awards rose.”

The bar is so low. This pandemic has demonstrated for some the question "hey, could you give up brunch for just one Sunday in a year so I can see you safely?" is too much to ask.

“The guy who gleefully
took food and medicine away from poor kids thinks mocking his company’s stock price is evil.

What a little bitch.” Jon Favreau

Still not wrong, just early.
Ignoring Covid infections is a giant mistake.
We should be preventing them.
Long Covid is very real & very serious and still a significant risk to all.
The pandemic is continuing whether you ignore it or not.
It's not lockdowns; it's infections.
FAFO.

Who’s eligible for the 2025 COVID-19 vaccine, or ‘Spring Booster’? Details of who is eligible to book a free NHS COVID-19 vaccination this spring.

We take a look at who is eligible for the spring COVID-19 vaccine, now that booking has opened 📆

Those who receive a vaccine are around 45% less likely to be admitted to hospital with COVID-19 compared to those who remain unvaccinated.

More details: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/25/w...

My tiny orchard is coming alive in the sunshine.

HHS’s Long COVID Office Is Closing. What Will This Mean for Future Research and Treatments? The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice was instrumental in coordinating the U.S. government’s initiatives to treat, diagnose and prevent the mysterious postviral condition that affects millio...

HHS Long Covid Office closing

www.scientificamerican.com/article/hhss...

‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.

Neurocognitive symptoms of long covid are among the most common, affecting 18 to 36 percent of patients — and among the most devastating. Many people have reported cognitive disabilities, with some having to stop working.

Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 23 March 2025 The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 23 March 2025

For the first time in 18 weeks, Covid infection levels in England have risen slightly higher. As of the week ending 23 March, around 1 in every 293 people were infected. The Covid risk remains Moderately High, but we are tentatively predicting a Covid wave in April/May.

buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

BOOK NOW! Spring Boosters 75+ yrs 6 mths - 74 yrs with a weakened immune system Elderly care home residents Clinically Vulnerable Families LOGO Images dusty pink and pale blue flowers, cream background, purple flower outlines.

The NHS Covid Vaccine Bookings Service is now available.

If you are in an eligible group, book now!

www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...

Revisiting Covid and Class Politics It's been five years since the government put the country into lockdown as the first wave of the Covid pandemic hit, and on cue the last wee...

“There were two moments to the Tory response, and both of them were united by the same thing. Regardless of how many succumbed to Covid, what had to be preserved at great cost was the preservation of class relations and ensuring the outcome of the disease did not alter them in any way. ”