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Irish Dad @amusedashell.bsky.social · Dec 16
m.independent.ie/irish-news/w...
Women and an unusually healthy cohort at greater risk of long-Covid, HSE study suggests
Long-Covid is more common in ­Ireland among women and people who reported doing regular exercise before their illness, according to a new report.
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durhamhealthnc.bsky.social
Respiratory virus season is here, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, flu, RSV, and more! Masks, vaccines, good handwashing, and maintaining clean indoor air can help keep you safe and protect your short-term and long-term health.
Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Wear Masks. Wearing masks helps protect you from multiple illnesses, including COVID-19, flu, common colds, and more, by blocking virus particles from entering your body! High-quality masks like N95s and KN95s work best, but if you don’t have those, wear the best quality available to you. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Get Vaccinated Getting vaccinated helps reduce your chances of getting sick, and if you do get sick, vaccines help reduce your chances of serious illness or death. All people age 6 months and older should be vaccinated against COVID-19 and flu. Ask your doctor about RSV vaccines if you are age 50 or older, pregnant, or have an infant. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Wash Your Hands It’s important to wash your hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Although handwashing cannot prevent infection from virus particles in the air, it can lower the risk of infection from viruses like RSV that can also spread by touching contaminated surfaces then getting virus particles into your eyes, nose, or mouth. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Maintain Clean Indoor Air By maintaining good ventilation and clean indoor air, you can lower the amount of viral particles in the air and reduce your risk of exposure. Help keep the air ventilated and clean by opening windows or using a portable HEPA air purifier if you’ll be indoors around others.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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sickandtiredaus.bsky.social
@cleanairie.bsky.social #FridayAirDay
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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airspotrob.bsky.social
Red spikes coincide with driving through Sydney harbour tunnel on way to work and back.

Usually have windows open when driving car except for in tunnels.

It was only me in car yet it still fascinates me how quickly CO2 levels rise in the car with air con recirculating.

#FridayAirDay #CleanTheAir
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
We thought it would be fun to run a campaign to share your air quality readings using #FridayAirday on Fridays! Help us create awareness of the importance of indoor/outdoor air quality by capturing an image of your CO2 monitor in whatever contexts you want to share. Some examples below. #CleanTheAir
Pale text on blue background: Share your air with us using #FridayAirday Let's Clean Our Air Screenshot of Airspot CO2 monitor readings show peaks of 2322ppm at a conference Airspot CO2 monitor reading showing readings ~ 800ppm in a workplace setting with open windows and hepa Airspot CO2 monitor readings showing readings of ~1100 ppm while cooking dinner.
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
We thought it would be fun to run a campaign to share your air quality readings using #FridayAirday on Fridays! Help us create awareness of the importance of indoor/outdoor air quality by capturing an image of your CO2 monitor in whatever contexts you want to share. Some examples below. #CleanTheAir
Pale text on blue background: Share your air with us using #FridayAirday Let's Clean Our Air
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
We thought it would be fun to start a campaign to share your air quality measurements using #FridayAirday on Fridays! Help us create awareness of the importance of indoor and outdoor air quality by capturing an image of your CO2 monitor in whatever contexts you want to share.

#CleanTheAir
Pale text on blue background: Share your air with us using #FridayAirday Let's Clean Our Air
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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airspothealth.bsky.social
Sharing a reading from the home office to get in on @cleanairie.bsky.social #FridayAirDay
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
CO2 readings have come in already all the way from Australia! This is excellent air quality 🙌. The higher the CO2, the harder it is to concentrate and focus. The air quality in this office is conducive to being able to concentrate and get work done! ☺️ #FridayAirday #CleanTheAir
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Sharing a reading from the home office to get in on @cleanairie.bsky.social #FridayAirDay
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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04cile.bsky.social
Various indoor readings -from the readings in the first example it looks like more windows need to be opened.

Ventilation can reduce CO2 levels and insure healthier air.

#FridayAirDay
#CleanTheAir
@cleanairie.bsky.social
Photograph of an air spot wearable air quality monitors showing CO2 PPM1031 Similar air spot wearable air quality monitoring device with CO2 readings of 728ppm
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
Our letter about poor indoor air quality in schools was published in the @irishtimes.com today.

Illness is the leading cause of school absence: To reduce the number of school-acquired infections, we must address indoor air quality as an absolute priority.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Poor air quality in classrooms
‘Illness continues to be the leading cause of school absences’
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
"We have the tools to reduce the number of infections in schools, but we are simply not using them properly, or at all."

We have issued this press release in response to the "highly alarming" school absence figures (from 2022-23) released yesterday by the Minister for Education.
Page one of the press release reads as follows: PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ISSUED 19/5/2025 by CLEAN AIR ADVOCACY IRELAND ~ BEGINS ~ Clean Air in Schools could boost Attendance ● Illness is the leading cause of School Absence in Ireland ● Fall in Attendance Shows Need for Urgent Action on Clean Air in Schools The recent School Attendance report from Tusla shows a dramatic increase in school absence, and is an urgent warning sign which should not be ignored by the Department of Education. The high level of absenteeism is being driven by illness, and this should trigger immediate action to improve indoor air quality in schools to reduce the spread of common airborne infections such as flu, RSV, and Covid-19. Illness consistently accounts for around 60% of absences in schools, and that remains the case in the latest report for the 2022/23 school year, with illness accounting for 61% of known absences from Primary Schools and 59% of known absences from Secondary Schools. In the 2022/23 school year, absences from Primary Schools were 46% higher than the 18-year average from 2003 to 2019. Absences of longer than 20 days are 128% higher than the same 18-year average in Primary Schools, and 43% higher in Post-Primary Schools. Clean Air Advocacy Ireland is calling on the Department of Education to implement guidelines for schools to manage the air quality in indoor spaces such as classrooms, canteens, staff rooms, and toilets. Improving indoor air quality through monitoring, ventilation and filtration has been shown to effectively reduce the transmission of common airborne Page 2 of the press release reads as follows: ...illnesses. We have the tools to minimise airborne pathogens and reduce the number of infections, through mechanical ventilation and air filtration, but we are simply not using them properly, or at all. There is also existing legislation in Ireland which governs indoor air quality in workplaces, and schools are places of work for teachers, assistants, and other support staff. Employers, including school boards, have a legal obligation to monitor indoor air quality and to implement changes where the air quality is below acceptable levels. Kieran Ryan, a member of Clean Air Advocacy Ireland, says the Tusla school attendance report indicates that something is going badly wrong in terms of sickness levels in Irish schools. “If we’re talking about increased absences in schools then we need to address the elephant in the room, which is an overall increase in illness at a population level. As well as common illnesses such as RSV and seasonal flu, Covid-19 has now added to the burden of illness faced by students, parents, and teachers.” “We know that many of these illnesses are spread via airborne transmission, so when children are packed into poorly-ventilated classrooms sickness spreads like wildfire. Infected children then bring the illness back to their own homes, and this seeds the further spread of illness within the community. If we can reduce transmission in schools, then we can reduce the overall burden of disease within our communities. It’s a win-win.” “It is not the duty of school principals or teachers to be their own public health experts or ventilation engineers: They must be given effective guidance & resources by the Department of Education to ensure that the indoor air quality in schools is safe. The Department is failing school employees and students by not issuing such guidance or resources.” ~ ENDS ~
May 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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amusedashell.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Please help get this Clean Air in Healthcare petition to 10000 signatures by tomorrow

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
May 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
amusedashell.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Please help get this Clean Air in Healthcare petition to 10000 signatures by tomorrow

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
May 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ngotheworld.bsky.social
Had a great visit to our @flomask.bsky.social Ireland warehouse this week! In less than a year since launching, they're already achieving incredible turnaround times, typically shipping out orders across Europe within 48 hours. Huge credit to the amazing team making it all happen!
Image of a large warehouse holding Flo Mask inventory.
April 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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cathnoakes.bsky.social
Dammit, that wasn’t in this weeks game plan
Positive Covid test
April 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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cidrap.bsky.social
US flu levels drop below baseline, but kids' deaths approach 200

The CDC confirms 20 new pediatric flu deaths, bringing the season's total to 188

www.cidrap.umn.edu/u...
April 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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molesen.bsky.social
I wish I knew how to get people to protect themselves, and especially their kids from COVID. Invasive Group A strep is no laughing matter. The immune damage is handicapping them for life.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Pediatric Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections
The case series describes the epidemiology of pediatric invasive group A streptococcal infections in Toronto and Peel region of Canada from 1992 to 2023.
jamanetwork.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
Monitoring the levels of 6 indoor air pollutants and sharing them on a public dashboard:
The Boston public schools clean indoor air project is reproducible here and should be implemented with urgency, improving health and performance reducing absences.
#cleantheair

www.bu.edu/articles/202...
Can Cleaner Classroom Air Help Kids Do Better at School?
In a collaborative project with Boston Public Schools, a BU environmental health researcher is studying ways to improve indoor air quality in classrooms
www.bu.edu
April 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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toshiakima.bsky.social
An increase in infectious disease mortality and morbidity due to population-wide COVID-induced, mostly low-grade immunosuppression caused by immune damage was predicted a long time ago, and it is almost certainly adding to our excess workload. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
COVID-19 may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year
www.cidrap.umn.edu
April 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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toshiakima.bsky.social
The patients present sicker with more complex problems than I can ever remember, with an alarming growth of strange infectious disease related complications like bizarre Mycoplasma encephalitis. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
New research reveals long-term health impact of COVID-19
A study of hundreds of thousands of people hospitalised from COVID has shown increased risk of death more than two years after infection.
www.abc.net.au
April 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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protectthekids.bsky.social
"Die anhaltenden Auswirkungen einer Covid-Infektion sind sehr real, aber wir haben es immer noch nicht geschafft, die einfachsten Maßnahmen zum Schutz unserer Kinder zu ergreifen", kritisiert Tess Finch-Lees heute im "Irish Examiner":
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school
The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children
www.irishexaminer.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
‘The proportion of children chronically absent from school has doubled since we removed airborne protections and pretended the pandemic was over.’

Another thoroughly researched article by Tess Finch-Lees.Tá an t-am anois.

#Speirgorm #CleanAirIreland #LongCovid #LongCovidKids

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Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school
The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children
www.irishexaminer.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Outstanding article from Tess Finch-Lees.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school
The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children
www.irishexaminer.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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lcaireland.bsky.social
Tess Finch-Lees

Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school

"The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children."

Pls share
#LongCovidKids #CleanTheAir #LongCovid #SpeirGorm #CleanAirIreland
Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school
The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children
www.irishexaminer.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
amusedashell.bsky.social
A thing I wrote in October

The HSE FADA report we were supposed to wait for has since been quietly released.

It confirms what we knew.

Women in 40s at greatest risk. But ineligible for boosters.

Risks increase with each infection

Where is the rage?

amusedashell.blogspot.com/2024/09/unfa...
Unfathomable isn't it?
What COVID inquiry can unravel the enormity of the deception? "The original sin of the pandemic was the failure to recognize air...
amusedashell.blogspot.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM