Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
@jaxtait.bsky.social
PhD in Natural Law Theory, not a medical doctor. #SSCE
Green Party (views are my own & don't necessarily represent GPEW policy)
#CRPS
Aka Jax
Green Party (views are my own & don't necessarily represent GPEW policy)
#CRPS
Aka Jax
Pinned
Well the slope from “let the elderly and disabled die of COVID” to “let’s trash all the rest of our ethics, morals and laws” was basically a short walk on a flat path wasn’t it?
This exactly how fascism always works. They make you feel threatened. They tell you the solution is to stop caring about a particular group of people. They strip those people of their rights. They manufacture another crisis to make you feel threatened. Rinse & repeat. In the end they come for you.
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Chronic kidney disease & 7 other chronic conditions still make some people disproportionately vulnerable to hospitalisation & severe outcomes from #Covid.
It's cruel to mock or stigmatise clinically vulnerable people & their families, friends & carers who are still masking.
#Oneofthetwo.
It's cruel to mock or stigmatise clinically vulnerable people & their families, friends & carers who are still masking.
#Oneofthetwo.
Chronic Kidney Disease Linked to Severe COVID-19 Outcomes: Study
A multi-state cross-sectional analysis across 13 states and 98 counties has found that chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains strongly associated with increased COVID-19 hospitalizations and severe...
share.google
January 2, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Chronic kidney disease & 7 other chronic conditions still make some people disproportionately vulnerable to hospitalisation & severe outcomes from #Covid.
It's cruel to mock or stigmatise clinically vulnerable people & their families, friends & carers who are still masking.
#Oneofthetwo.
It's cruel to mock or stigmatise clinically vulnerable people & their families, friends & carers who are still masking.
#Oneofthetwo.
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
🎉 Happy New Year!
Here's to a hopeful 2026 💚
Here's to a hopeful 2026 💚
January 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM
🎉 Happy New Year!
Here's to a hopeful 2026 💚
Here's to a hopeful 2026 💚
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
December 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Fascinating! Who knew the Roman Empire had a "universal basic income"?!
I talked to the lovely Dan Snow about how the Roman Empire never fell - but evolved - and my book, Domination:
youtu.be/HynJ2_9_Rmk?...
youtu.be/HynJ2_9_Rmk?...
How Did Ancient Romans Become Christians?
YouTube video by Dan Snow's History Hit
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Fascinating! Who knew the Roman Empire had a "universal basic income"?!
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
FUN FACT:
Only 2️⃣ people have given evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry wearing a mask.
I was #OneOfTheTwo, and the other was Dr Cathy Finnis.
We both spoke on behalf of people managing health risks in Clinically Vulnerable Families.
@jonstewartshow.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social @timodc.bsky.social
Only 2️⃣ people have given evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry wearing a mask.
I was #OneOfTheTwo, and the other was Dr Cathy Finnis.
We both spoke on behalf of people managing health risks in Clinically Vulnerable Families.
@jonstewartshow.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social @timodc.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
FUN FACT:
Only 2️⃣ people have given evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry wearing a mask.
I was #OneOfTheTwo, and the other was Dr Cathy Finnis.
We both spoke on behalf of people managing health risks in Clinically Vulnerable Families.
@jonstewartshow.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social @timodc.bsky.social
Only 2️⃣ people have given evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry wearing a mask.
I was #OneOfTheTwo, and the other was Dr Cathy Finnis.
We both spoke on behalf of people managing health risks in Clinically Vulnerable Families.
@jonstewartshow.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social @timodc.bsky.social
We all have a right to a safe working environment, our kids have a right to safe schools, our elderly relatives have a right to safe healthcare. Our government thinks our rights don't matter. Masking is a brave act of resistance.
#Oneofthetwo
#Oneofthetwo
Jon welcomes @jonfavs.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social to ask how many years has 2025 been? The last new pod of 2025 drops tomorrow!
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 PM
We all have a right to a safe working environment, our kids have a right to safe schools, our elderly relatives have a right to safe healthcare. Our government thinks our rights don't matter. Masking is a brave act of resistance.
#Oneofthetwo
#Oneofthetwo
What's on your wishlist for 2026?
✅ Workers' Rights
✅ Safe Schools
✅ A Compassionate Society
✅ Clean Air
Join The Green Party & help us fight back against Fascism!
✅ Workers' Rights
✅ Safe Schools
✅ A Compassionate Society
✅ Clean Air
Join The Green Party & help us fight back against Fascism!
December 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What's on your wishlist for 2026?
✅ Workers' Rights
✅ Safe Schools
✅ A Compassionate Society
✅ Clean Air
Join The Green Party & help us fight back against Fascism!
✅ Workers' Rights
✅ Safe Schools
✅ A Compassionate Society
✅ Clean Air
Join The Green Party & help us fight back against Fascism!
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
This might be true if it really was now just one of the respiratory pathogens, & we actually had basic measures in place to stop them. Surely by now everyone knows someone who's life has been wrecked by #LongCovid?
3) Will public health interventions be needed? No, SARS-CoV-2 is now just one of the respiratory pathogens and basic measures will be enough like countries take in winter wave of Flu
December 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This might be true if it really was now just one of the respiratory pathogens, & we actually had basic measures in place to stop them. Surely by now everyone knows someone who's life has been wrecked by #LongCovid?
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
Why is it assumed every variant will be less dangerous? Surely the only way to slow it down, in the absence of herd immunity via sterilising vaccines, would be stringent public health measures to stop the spread?
December 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Why is it assumed every variant will be less dangerous? Surely the only way to slow it down, in the absence of herd immunity via sterilising vaccines, would be stringent public health measures to stop the spread?
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
Good morning and happy New Year's Eve to everyone. Time zones are so weird. Australia is already in 2026. Europe is still in 2025. And the United States is in 1933.
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Good morning and happy New Year's Eve to everyone. Time zones are so weird. Australia is already in 2026. Europe is still in 2025. And the United States is in 1933.
The kids are not OK.
Study Reveals Symptoms Of Long COVID In Young Kids – Here's What To Look Out For
The authors say it’s proof a “one-size-fits-all” approach doesn’t work with this condition.
www.iflscience.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The kids are not OK.
"September brought Zack Polanski as the elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, finally giving some hope to those disillusioned on the left, especially after the complete farce of the Sultana/Corbyn experiment kept flailing from crisis to crisis."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
2025: The Year We Got Used To It
A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce - and how 2026 will need us all to be much noisier.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"September brought Zack Polanski as the elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, finally giving some hope to those disillusioned on the left, especially after the complete farce of the Sultana/Corbyn experiment kept flailing from crisis to crisis."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
Labour aren't even pretending to be a socialist government fighting for equality & social justice. I suppose that explains why they aren't fighting for public health either...
"A socialist reorganization of society is not an abstraction, but a practical necessity if humanity is to confront a pandemic that has not ended but been politically obscured."
"The fight for public health is inseparable from the fight for social equality.. "
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"The fight for public health is inseparable from the fight for social equality.. "
2/2
December 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Labour aren't even pretending to be a socialist government fighting for equality & social justice. I suppose that explains why they aren't fighting for public health either...
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
"Governments have dismantled surveillance, narrowed definitions of COVID death & promoted the fiction of a post-pandemic “normal,” even as millions remain chronically ill & excess mortality persists."
"Where data remain robust, as in Finland, the scale of ongoing harm becomes visible.."
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"Where data remain robust, as in Finland, the scale of ongoing harm becomes visible.."
1/2
#LongCovid is a mass disabling event that disproportionately impacts working class people. It's astonishing that our Labour government is completely failing to address this.
Long COVID and the concealment of pandemic harm
As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal the pandemic’s continuing public health consequences as well as the impact o...
www.wsws.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Governments have dismantled surveillance, narrowed definitions of COVID death & promoted the fiction of a post-pandemic “normal,” even as millions remain chronically ill & excess mortality persists."
"Where data remain robust, as in Finland, the scale of ongoing harm becomes visible.."
1/2
"Where data remain robust, as in Finland, the scale of ongoing harm becomes visible.."
1/2
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
If you don’t care about long covid you don’t care about the working class. Also—- note how small that important long covid drug study is. Our government is not investing in treatments at the scale needed to keep society functioning.
🚌 Two recent studies state that Long COVID is an occupational disease
👩🏽⚕️ Vanderbilt researchers are conducting an immune profiling study on Long COVID and POTS
💊 A new phase two remote clinical trial for ME will assess low-dose naltrexone
This week's #LongCOVID research: bit.ly/49bWgnJ
👩🏽⚕️ Vanderbilt researchers are conducting an immune profiling study on Long COVID and POTS
💊 A new phase two remote clinical trial for ME will assess low-dose naltrexone
This week's #LongCOVID research: bit.ly/49bWgnJ
![Vanderbilt researchers are conducting an immune profiling study on people with Long COVID and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). In the cross-sectional study, researchers are comparing three inflammatory markers in 150 people with POTS, Long COVID, and those with a history of SARS-C0V-2 infections who did not develop long-term symptoms. The researchers are evaluating a hypothesis that “post-COVID-19 POTS is caused by reduced [parasympathetic] activity, which in turn, contributes to persistent inflammation [and] orthostatic intolerance.” Contact: Marwa Mohamed, marwa.mohamed@vumc.org.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:age5xvis2s2vy5qiz2tjxoc6/bafkreigcdjuadbbervdk6vz2ig7a7mwwvy47piyzxu7xjqtop767fsubnq@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you don’t care about long covid you don’t care about the working class. Also—- note how small that important long covid drug study is. Our government is not investing in treatments at the scale needed to keep society functioning.
#LongCovid is a mass disabling event that disproportionately impacts working class people. It's astonishing that our Labour government is completely failing to address this.
Long COVID and the concealment of pandemic harm
As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal the pandemic’s continuing public health consequences as well as the impact o...
www.wsws.org
December 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#LongCovid is a mass disabling event that disproportionately impacts working class people. It's astonishing that our Labour government is completely failing to address this.
"Andor understands that resistance is hard, messy, boring, and comes with as many irritating setbacks as it does great personal risks... the frustrating work of building an alliance."
(From May 2025)
(From May 2025)
"In 'Andor,' Cassian, Mon, Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård), and the rest are trying to organize a rebellion — and find that doing so sucks. But then, the only thing worse than fighting fascism is accepting it."
sojo.net/articles/cul...
sojo.net/articles/cul...
‘Andor’: The ‘Star Wars’ Show That Knows What Fascism Really Looks Like
In its second season, 'Andor' explores the complications of resisting quiet authoritarianism.
sojo.net
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Andor understands that resistance is hard, messy, boring, and comes with as many irritating setbacks as it does great personal risks... the frustrating work of building an alliance."
(From May 2025)
(From May 2025)
“The British public deserves better than conspiracy theories, snake oil and misinformation from those in positions of power.”
People should know what they are voting for.
“A third of Reform UK’s council leaders across the country have expressed vaccine-sceptic views, openly questioning public health measures that keep millions safe.”
“A third of Reform UK’s council leaders across the country have expressed vaccine-sceptic views, openly questioning public health measures that keep millions safe.”
Third of Reform UK’s council leaders have expressed vaccine-sceptic views
Health minister decries criticism of vaccinations by heads of four authorities as ‘dangerous and utterly irresponsible’
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“The British public deserves better than conspiracy theories, snake oil and misinformation from those in positions of power.”
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
Ed Miliband to announce billions in green investment to create 'zero bill homes' in Labour bid to win back voters
www.lbc.co.uk/article/zero...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/zero...
Ed Miliband to announce billions in green investment to create 'zero bill homes' in Labour bid to win back voters | LBC
Millions of Brits will reportedly be eligible for cash to install solar panels, heat pumps and other environmentally friendly devices in a government attempt to create new “zero bill” homes.
www.lbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Ed Miliband to announce billions in green investment to create 'zero bill homes' in Labour bid to win back voters
www.lbc.co.uk/article/zero...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/zero...
“This is a government agency, & I don’t think its website should be hijacked by liberals to brainwash people into thinking that all men are created equal, or that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.”
DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
WASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump’s highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its webs...
theonion.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“This is a government agency, & I don’t think its website should be hijacked by liberals to brainwash people into thinking that all men are created equal, or that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.”
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
Totally agree with Zack Polanski. We need to make society, and our politics, fairer, more compassionate, and more equitable. Give people hope. That’s what Polanski offers, hope in the future, hope we can be better.
December 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Totally agree with Zack Polanski. We need to make society, and our politics, fairer, more compassionate, and more equitable. Give people hope. That’s what Polanski offers, hope in the future, hope we can be better.
Not really. To a British audience it reads like his entire Presidency has been one long crime spree, & the only hope for America is that his incompetence, corruption, cognitive decline & batshit social media is fatally damaging his popularity before he can consolidate authoritarianism.
After reading this I totally understand why people outside America read our politics and think it’s totally batshit.
This reads like he made some unusually bad errors but is basically a normal president.
This reads like he made some unusually bad errors but is basically a normal president.
Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing
As Americans tire of Donald Trump, a Democratic midterm ‘tsunami’ could sweep the GOP out of power
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Not really. To a British audience it reads like his entire Presidency has been one long crime spree, & the only hope for America is that his incompetence, corruption, cognitive decline & batshit social media is fatally damaging his popularity before he can consolidate authoritarianism.
Reposted by Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
This gives me real hope. In the last 24 hours you've donated over £20k to @calaisappeal.bsky.social
Please do watch my Christmas message here:
youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...
and donate here:
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please do watch my Christmas message here:
youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...
and donate here:
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Zack Polanski's Christmas Message
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This gives me real hope. In the last 24 hours you've donated over £20k to @calaisappeal.bsky.social
Please do watch my Christmas message here:
youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...
and donate here:
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please do watch my Christmas message here:
youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...
and donate here:
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
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OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062