Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter)
@joissummers.bsky.social
Setting this up as I gradually move over from the bird place. ‘X’ since Musk is a bit like the UK post Brexit. Lovely to see some familiar faces and look forward to getting to know new ones. Post mainly about politics and covid.
#FBPE #FBLC #PWLC
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Following her recent letter, CATA has written to the Minister respectfully advising her that, as per her predecessor (Gwynne), she’s been badly advised.
One can only speculate whether by DHSC, UK-HSA or the NHS/IPC “droplet, not airborne” dogmatists.
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1/11
Following her recent letter, CATA has written to the Minister respectfully advising her that, as per her predecessor (Gwynne), she’s been badly advised.
One can only speculate whether by DHSC, UK-HSA or the NHS/IPC “droplet, not airborne” dogmatists.
www.tridenthse.co.uk/2025_03_18_L...
1/11
This is such an important thread. Please read and share. Link to CATA’s letter is in the first post 👇
Just over a month into school.
Nits, chickenpox, conjunctivitis, vomiting, diarrhoea, heavy “colds”, excessive tiredness, appetite loss, hand foot and mouth, fever. That’s just what I know of in classes.
What % of kids are not learning due to illness - whether in school or off?
Nits, chickenpox, conjunctivitis, vomiting, diarrhoea, heavy “colds”, excessive tiredness, appetite loss, hand foot and mouth, fever. That’s just what I know of in classes.
What % of kids are not learning due to illness - whether in school or off?
October 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Just over a month into school.
Nits, chickenpox, conjunctivitis, vomiting, diarrhoea, heavy “colds”, excessive tiredness, appetite loss, hand foot and mouth, fever. That’s just what I know of in classes.
What % of kids are not learning due to illness - whether in school or off?
Nits, chickenpox, conjunctivitis, vomiting, diarrhoea, heavy “colds”, excessive tiredness, appetite loss, hand foot and mouth, fever. That’s just what I know of in classes.
What % of kids are not learning due to illness - whether in school or off?
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This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.
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Please read and share.
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Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?
Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It̵…
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October 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.
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Please read and share.
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I am angry.
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am angry.
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
I am angry.
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am angry.
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?
Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?
This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
Please read and share.
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?
Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It̵…
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
Please read and share.
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
Despite large numbers of adults and children with long covid, the devastating impact, people are encouraged to spread covid whilst contagious and wash their hands for an airborne virus. For many, this Christmas will be their first with long covid.
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
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The long Covid legacy: 'People don't want to think about us'
Around 2million people are still thought to be living with long Covid in the UK
metro.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Despite large numbers of adults and children with long covid, the devastating impact, people are encouraged to spread covid whilst contagious and wash their hands for an airborne virus. For many, this Christmas will be their first with long covid.
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...
Some schools seem to monitor everything to the nth degree. Imagine if they had a daily clickbox rating “how well do you feel today”?
Children are human - they learn better when they’re well. Their peers are human too. Their health & education shouldn’t be repeatedly compromised.
Children are human - they learn better when they’re well. Their peers are human too. Their health & education shouldn’t be repeatedly compromised.
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Some schools seem to monitor everything to the nth degree. Imagine if they had a daily clickbox rating “how well do you feel today”?
Children are human - they learn better when they’re well. Their peers are human too. Their health & education shouldn’t be repeatedly compromised.
Children are human - they learn better when they’re well. Their peers are human too. Their health & education shouldn’t be repeatedly compromised.
It’s morbidly fascinating how we now actually award people for spreading covid. There may be some tiny schools somewhere which don’t have pupils with long covid, but statistically the majority of schools will.
September 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It’s morbidly fascinating how we now actually award people for spreading covid. There may be some tiny schools somewhere which don’t have pupils with long covid, but statistically the majority of schools will.
A: It’s not 2020
B: Er, I know
A: So why mention covid?
B: Sorry, I didn’t realise you wanted to play the time-travel game again. Fine, let’s pretend it’s Summer 2019. Again
B: Er, I know
A: So why mention covid?
B: Sorry, I didn’t realise you wanted to play the time-travel game again. Fine, let’s pretend it’s Summer 2019. Again
September 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A: It’s not 2020
B: Er, I know
A: So why mention covid?
B: Sorry, I didn’t realise you wanted to play the time-travel game again. Fine, let’s pretend it’s Summer 2019. Again
B: Er, I know
A: So why mention covid?
B: Sorry, I didn’t realise you wanted to play the time-travel game again. Fine, let’s pretend it’s Summer 2019. Again
Attendance is important - especially in the first week.
The second week is clearly less important which is why we do nothing to curb infections in schools - even in the midst of a current covid wave.
How many will spend this Christmas as their first one with long covid?
The second week is clearly less important which is why we do nothing to curb infections in schools - even in the midst of a current covid wave.
How many will spend this Christmas as their first one with long covid?
September 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Attendance is important - especially in the first week.
The second week is clearly less important which is why we do nothing to curb infections in schools - even in the midst of a current covid wave.
How many will spend this Christmas as their first one with long covid?
The second week is clearly less important which is why we do nothing to curb infections in schools - even in the midst of a current covid wave.
How many will spend this Christmas as their first one with long covid?
A: You've had headache, fever, diarrhoea, but feeling a bit better this afternoon so popped over to me? 😡
B: Don't worry, its only covid
A: Phew. I don't mind me and my family having those symptoms if it's just from covid. Wait - you tested? WHY DID YOU TEST - COVID IS OVER?!
B: Don't worry, its only covid
A: Phew. I don't mind me and my family having those symptoms if it's just from covid. Wait - you tested? WHY DID YOU TEST - COVID IS OVER?!
August 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
A: You've had headache, fever, diarrhoea, but feeling a bit better this afternoon so popped over to me? 😡
B: Don't worry, its only covid
A: Phew. I don't mind me and my family having those symptoms if it's just from covid. Wait - you tested? WHY DID YOU TEST - COVID IS OVER?!
B: Don't worry, its only covid
A: Phew. I don't mind me and my family having those symptoms if it's just from covid. Wait - you tested? WHY DID YOU TEST - COVID IS OVER?!
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Many excellent points here on #LongCovid and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection 🔥 @winslowsp.bsky.social
For comrades in other countries, we translated this covid journalistic guide, which helps journalists report on covid without neglecting its chronic form.
👉If interested, don't hesitate to contact us : we can change the numbers (which are those of France for the moment).
👉If interested, don't hesitate to contact us : we can change the numbers (which are those of France for the moment).
July 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Many excellent points here on #LongCovid and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection 🔥 @winslowsp.bsky.social
I wonder if govt ditched drink-driving laws and there was an increase in accidents how much of this we’d see:
- it’s only a drink, most people survive
- accidents don’t exist
- sure, you can’t stop all accidents, so why stop any
- life limiting injuries mustn’t be acknowledged
- it’s only a drink, most people survive
- accidents don’t exist
- sure, you can’t stop all accidents, so why stop any
- life limiting injuries mustn’t be acknowledged
July 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I wonder if govt ditched drink-driving laws and there was an increase in accidents how much of this we’d see:
- it’s only a drink, most people survive
- accidents don’t exist
- sure, you can’t stop all accidents, so why stop any
- life limiting injuries mustn’t be acknowledged
- it’s only a drink, most people survive
- accidents don’t exist
- sure, you can’t stop all accidents, so why stop any
- life limiting injuries mustn’t be acknowledged
People who become disabled after an arbitrary date are unsustainable. Have I got that right?
June 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
People who become disabled after an arbitrary date are unsustainable. Have I got that right?
@TweetingCollins thank you for raising the issue of long covid in children & the desperate situation so many thousands of kids find themselves in. This is especially welcome in a week where @wesstreeting said we’d beaten covid, as though long covid, hospitalisations & deaths aren’t still happening.
“The government’s response to Long Covid in children and young people will be a test of our society’s commitment to protecting its most vulnerable members”, writes @victoria-collins.bsky.social MP
🗣️ Addressing Long Covid in children is an urgent moral imperative
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
🗣️ Addressing Long Covid in children is an urgent moral imperative
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
Victoria Collins: ‘Addressing Long Covid in children is an urgent moral imperative’ - Politics.co.uk
When twelve-year-old Anna sent me a heartfelt letter describing her three-year struggle with Long Covid, it opened my eyes to this debilitating condition in children and young people. Anna, diagnosed ...
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June 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
@TweetingCollins thank you for raising the issue of long covid in children & the desperate situation so many thousands of kids find themselves in. This is especially welcome in a week where @wesstreeting said we’d beaten covid, as though long covid, hospitalisations & deaths aren’t still happening.
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Either case estimates are astoundingly wrong or nearly everybody is being hospitalised with it. Which is it? Does the media question these oddities?
“947 patients admitted in the week up to May 31.”
“Cases have also risen by 6.9 per cent with 1,211 cases in the week up to June 4.”
“947 patients admitted in the week up to May 31.”
“Cases have also risen by 6.9 per cent with 1,211 cases in the week up to June 4.”
June 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Either case estimates are astoundingly wrong or nearly everybody is being hospitalised with it. Which is it? Does the media question these oddities?
“947 patients admitted in the week up to May 31.”
“Cases have also risen by 6.9 per cent with 1,211 cases in the week up to June 4.”
“947 patients admitted in the week up to May 31.”
“Cases have also risen by 6.9 per cent with 1,211 cases in the week up to June 4.”
It’s a shame kids have to pick up the slack from so little resilience in schools.
“Hey Fred, just up your steroid inhaler even more to try to counteract the poor air in schools.”
Recommendations for classroom air remain unmet, despite poorer standards than comparable countries.
“Hey Fred, just up your steroid inhaler even more to try to counteract the poor air in schools.”
Recommendations for classroom air remain unmet, despite poorer standards than comparable countries.
June 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s a shame kids have to pick up the slack from so little resilience in schools.
“Hey Fred, just up your steroid inhaler even more to try to counteract the poor air in schools.”
Recommendations for classroom air remain unmet, despite poorer standards than comparable countries.
“Hey Fred, just up your steroid inhaler even more to try to counteract the poor air in schools.”
Recommendations for classroom air remain unmet, despite poorer standards than comparable countries.
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Johnson said long covid was ‘bollocks’. Now everyone in a position of power acknowledges it’s obviously very real.
So can somebody please riddle me this….how does current covid policy differ from one that assumes long covid is ‘bollocks’? Thanks.
So can somebody please riddle me this….how does current covid policy differ from one that assumes long covid is ‘bollocks’? Thanks.
October 11, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Johnson said long covid was ‘bollocks’. Now everyone in a position of power acknowledges it’s obviously very real.
So can somebody please riddle me this….how does current covid policy differ from one that assumes long covid is ‘bollocks’? Thanks.
So can somebody please riddle me this….how does current covid policy differ from one that assumes long covid is ‘bollocks’? Thanks.
3 million with long covid (UK, 2024).
Those responsible for public health and prevention “Hold my beer. In for a penny, in for a pound.”
Those responsible for public health and prevention “Hold my beer. In for a penny, in for a pound.”
June 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
3 million with long covid (UK, 2024).
Those responsible for public health and prevention “Hold my beer. In for a penny, in for a pound.”
Those responsible for public health and prevention “Hold my beer. In for a penny, in for a pound.”
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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⭐Excited to share this article I wrote for @TeachPrimary magazine! ⭐
I ask WHY #Teachers and #Pupils are STILL left to repeatedly catch airborne diseases in schools when we KNOW that #HEPA filters would reduce sickness and improve #attendance?
Full magazine here: cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
I ask WHY #Teachers and #Pupils are STILL left to repeatedly catch airborne diseases in schools when we KNOW that #HEPA filters would reduce sickness and improve #attendance?
Full magazine here: cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
May 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
⭐Excited to share this article I wrote for @TeachPrimary magazine! ⭐
I ask WHY #Teachers and #Pupils are STILL left to repeatedly catch airborne diseases in schools when we KNOW that #HEPA filters would reduce sickness and improve #attendance?
Full magazine here: cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
I ask WHY #Teachers and #Pupils are STILL left to repeatedly catch airborne diseases in schools when we KNOW that #HEPA filters would reduce sickness and improve #attendance?
Full magazine here: cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Last chance to get this petition through.
Last chance to get this petition through.
Petition: Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings
We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration require...
petition.parliament.uk
May 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Last chance to get this petition through.
Last chance to get this petition through.
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If you’re in the UK, please sign this petition to force the government to respond to requests for increased protection against airborne viruses.
May 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you’re in the UK, please sign this petition to force the government to respond to requests for increased protection against airborne viruses.
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Please sign and share. Today is the last day. Let’s help reduce risk to health outcomes in the short and long term.
There are c.95,000 inpatients. A proportion of people in hospital whether staff, patient or visitor will catch something there. A proportion of those will have long term health issues as a direct result of poor infection control. That proportion could be lower.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings
We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration require...
petition.parliament.uk
May 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Please sign and share. Today is the last day. Let’s help reduce risk to health outcomes in the short and long term.
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Please sign. Please ask those in your households to sign. Please share with your networks. Please help drag infection control into the 21st century.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings
We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration require...
petition.parliament.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Please sign. Please ask those in your households to sign. Please share with your networks. Please help drag infection control into the 21st century.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...