BD
@bdunsmore.bsky.social
More observer than commentator. Here to absorb and pass on. Long covid/CFS has altered my life dramatically. It sucks.
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I’m a nobody here. But this platform was/is built on reposting. Big Accounts - please help? #LosAngeles
🔥 IT’S HAPPENING NOW. Respectfully asking to PLEASE FOCUS attention on the ICE raids and the revolution in LA that is NOT being covered by MSM. We need your help! THANK YOU 📣
🔥 IT’S HAPPENING NOW. Respectfully asking to PLEASE FOCUS attention on the ICE raids and the revolution in LA that is NOT being covered by MSM. We need your help! THANK YOU 📣
June 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I’m a nobody here. But this platform was/is built on reposting. Big Accounts - please help? #LosAngeles
🔥 IT’S HAPPENING NOW. Respectfully asking to PLEASE FOCUS attention on the ICE raids and the revolution in LA that is NOT being covered by MSM. We need your help! THANK YOU 📣
🔥 IT’S HAPPENING NOW. Respectfully asking to PLEASE FOCUS attention on the ICE raids and the revolution in LA that is NOT being covered by MSM. We need your help! THANK YOU 📣
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The fact that this horrible behavior came from a nurse just demonstrates why us chronically ill folks also have a hard time getting safe and effective healthcare treatment.
Just the sheer amount of bullshit we have to deal with.
Just the sheer amount of bullshit we have to deal with.
Got into a fight with a NURSE who we asked to give us a little distance when we were at a picnic table eating. We told her we’re were trying to be Covid safe because I’m at risk. She said I should have just stayed home. I said at risk people should be socially isolated and lonely AND SHE SAID YES
May 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The fact that this horrible behavior came from a nurse just demonstrates why us chronically ill folks also have a hard time getting safe and effective healthcare treatment.
Just the sheer amount of bullshit we have to deal with.
Just the sheer amount of bullshit we have to deal with.
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So the UK now has a "Labour" government that is simultaneously supporting a genocide in Palestine, bombing Yemen, imprisoning climate protestors, and imposing austerity on their own citizens. Got it 👍
May 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
So the UK now has a "Labour" government that is simultaneously supporting a genocide in Palestine, bombing Yemen, imprisoning climate protestors, and imposing austerity on their own citizens. Got it 👍
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Please don’t tell someone clinically vulnerable to get on with your life. It’s ableist and upsetting when many of us are struggling to find protection from vaccines and antivirals. Our government doesn’t care about vulnerable people. Not vaccinating me means I’m much more likely to end up 🧵
April 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Please don’t tell someone clinically vulnerable to get on with your life. It’s ableist and upsetting when many of us are struggling to find protection from vaccines and antivirals. Our government doesn’t care about vulnerable people. Not vaccinating me means I’m much more likely to end up 🧵
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The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work.
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink its cruel, shameful & completely irresponsible plan to cut benefits which will plunge 250,000 people, including 50,000 children into poverty - on its own impact analysis
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the Gov’t to rethink its cruel & shameful plan to cut benefits
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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April 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work.
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
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Keir Starmer's Government's welfare cuts will push 250,000 more people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the DWP's own impact assessment
March 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Keir Starmer's Government's welfare cuts will push 250,000 more people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the DWP's own impact assessment
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We are in the midst of what many consider the most promising pancreatic cancer cure research in decades. This is literally joining the War on Cancer on the side of cancer. It's happening in multiple departments. They're also attacking mRNA fax science which is the heart of the possible breakthrough.
They just cut $20M of pancreatic cancer research from DoD. Who the hell could be thinking they won’t be targeted?
March 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We are in the midst of what many consider the most promising pancreatic cancer cure research in decades. This is literally joining the War on Cancer on the side of cancer. It's happening in multiple departments. They're also attacking mRNA fax science which is the heart of the possible breakthrough.
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Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch.
Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
March 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch.
Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
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For years, folks looked the other way as millions died or became disabled by Covid. They shouted “your health is not my responsibility” or “only the vulnerable” were at risk.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
March 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
For years, folks looked the other way as millions died or became disabled by Covid. They shouted “your health is not my responsibility” or “only the vulnerable” were at risk.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
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Well done France!
UK next please!
UK next please!
February 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Well done France!
UK next please!
UK next please!
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This nurse’s description of life with Long Covid is spot on for me and many other long haulers I know.
“Utterly exhausted just by being alive”: Bradford community nurse shares heartbreaking long Covid journey and calls for urgent action
Bradford nurse shares devastating impact of long Covid
“Utterly exhausted just by being alive”: Bradford community nurse shares heartbreaking long Covid journey and calls for urgent action
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This nurse’s description of life with Long Covid is spot on for me and many other long haulers I know.
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Maybe it’s because I’m not a newspaper columnist but I genuinely cannot fathom how you can actually think “this guy is a misogynist, racist, and a sexual predator, but he’s right about trans people” without any self-reflection on whether you might be wrong about us
January 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Maybe it’s because I’m not a newspaper columnist but I genuinely cannot fathom how you can actually think “this guy is a misogynist, racist, and a sexual predator, but he’s right about trans people” without any self-reflection on whether you might be wrong about us
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Hi @jonathandaviesmp.bsky.social I’m one of your constituents & I’d really like you to watch this please. Like Darren, I’m stuck with Long Covid & would like to be able to discuss the challenges we’re facing at a surgery if that’s possible? You’re also welcome to attend our Derby LC patient group.
Darren is one of about 2 million people living with #LongCovid in England and Scotland, he is too ill too work and talks about losing his job, and the lack of investment into research for treatments to help people back to work.
January 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hi @jonathandaviesmp.bsky.social I’m one of your constituents & I’d really like you to watch this please. Like Darren, I’m stuck with Long Covid & would like to be able to discuss the challenges we’re facing at a surgery if that’s possible? You’re also welcome to attend our Derby LC patient group.
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It's impossible not to respect the huge time, effort, creativity and fun that go into the Wallace & Gromit films.
youtu.be/u5JHDAs_RrA?...
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Behind the scenes of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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January 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It's impossible not to respect the huge time, effort, creativity and fun that go into the Wallace & Gromit films.
youtu.be/u5JHDAs_RrA?...
youtu.be/u5JHDAs_RrA?...
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It’s time! After 23 years of marriage, the in-laws are still putting us in the Peach Room of Doom, with the Formica Stool of Chastity, and new for this year, an ironing board for a splash of colour. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas #XmasAtTheInlaws and donate to Centrepoint via @rhodri.biz
December 24, 2024 at 8:07 PM
It’s time! After 23 years of marriage, the in-laws are still putting us in the Peach Room of Doom, with the Formica Stool of Chastity, and new for this year, an ironing board for a splash of colour. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas #XmasAtTheInlaws and donate to Centrepoint via @rhodri.biz
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Yesterday #LongCovid cost me my job.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
December 19, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Yesterday #LongCovid cost me my job.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
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Take a moment in your day and listen to an excellent interview with an Australian global expert on Long Covid:
soundcloud.com/user-5879035...
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Dr. David Joffe with Matt - December 19 2024
Research Interests and Collaborations:
● Sleep behaviour and impact on driving ability
● The genesis of respiratory failure in Motor Neuron Disease
● The Pathophysiology of sleep in Parkinson’s Diseas
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December 20, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Take a moment in your day and listen to an excellent interview with an Australian global expert on Long Covid:
soundcloud.com/user-5879035...
soundcloud.com/user-5879035...
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Excellent summary, noting the baseline is no longer “assuming no pandemic”.
December 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Excellent summary, noting the baseline is no longer “assuming no pandemic”.
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Covid mortality 70% higher than predicted to Aug in 2024. Note higher than the baseline of ongoing expected deaths. Do we have any reliable stats about Long Covid yet @markbutlermp.bsky.social? If you won't contemplate the human cost, can you at least look at the economic cost? #covid #LongCovid
Excellent summary, noting the baseline is no longer “assuming no pandemic”.
December 17, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Covid mortality 70% higher than predicted to Aug in 2024. Note higher than the baseline of ongoing expected deaths. Do we have any reliable stats about Long Covid yet @markbutlermp.bsky.social? If you won't contemplate the human cost, can you at least look at the economic cost? #covid #LongCovid
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As the father of a daughter with Long Covid I plead that we change direction and offer vaccination to all who wish to have it - including children.
Let’s vaccinate against COVID. It reduces the risk of long COVID. This should be a no-brainer.
Vaccination significantly reduced #LongCovid in children and adolescents among ~300,000 kids and teens
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
December 8, 2024 at 10:16 AM
As the father of a daughter with Long Covid I plead that we change direction and offer vaccination to all who wish to have it - including children.
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When will Labour properly support people with #LongCovid and invest what is needed into research for treatments?
The Green Party have a plan, why haven't the government?
The Green Party have a plan, why haven't the government?
Dec 8: It’s Adrian Ramsay! @adrianramsay.bsky.social is Co-Leader of the @greenparty.org.uk, the first party to develop a Covid & Long Covid policy 🙌
His message: “My Christmas wish for people with ME and Long Covid is that they get the medical and financial support they need.”
#PatientSafety
His message: “My Christmas wish for people with ME and Long Covid is that they get the medical and financial support they need.”
#PatientSafety
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 AM
When will Labour properly support people with #LongCovid and invest what is needed into research for treatments?
The Green Party have a plan, why haven't the government?
The Green Party have a plan, why haven't the government?
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The House of Commons had 16 people in attendance for a debate about disability rights.
Yet people will wonder why disabled people feel ignored.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/just-16-mps-...
Yet people will wonder why disabled people feel ignored.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/just-16-mps-...
Just 16 MPs attend debate on disability rights, days after hundreds vote for assisted suicide
Just a handful of MPs attended a debate to mark the international day of disabled people, four days after the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted suicide. More t…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:37 PM
The House of Commons had 16 people in attendance for a debate about disability rights.
Yet people will wonder why disabled people feel ignored.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/just-16-mps-...
Yet people will wonder why disabled people feel ignored.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/just-16-mps-...
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🧵 #MaeveInquest update. A world first is promised.
NHS England's response states (where they were refusing to discuss commissioning of a specialist service for ME to prevent starvation, which is the best metaphor for #ME and #LongCovid during the inquest) NHS Executive is currently in talks with NHS
NHS England's response states (where they were refusing to discuss commissioning of a specialist service for ME to prevent starvation, which is the best metaphor for #ME and #LongCovid during the inquest) NHS Executive is currently in talks with NHS
December 6, 2024 at 8:15 AM
🧵 #MaeveInquest update. A world first is promised.
NHS England's response states (where they were refusing to discuss commissioning of a specialist service for ME to prevent starvation, which is the best metaphor for #ME and #LongCovid during the inquest) NHS Executive is currently in talks with NHS
NHS England's response states (where they were refusing to discuss commissioning of a specialist service for ME to prevent starvation, which is the best metaphor for #ME and #LongCovid during the inquest) NHS Executive is currently in talks with NHS
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Last year, my health insurance company stopped paying for my Humira. Humira is a type of immunosuppressive drug called a biologic, and I take a pretty high dose of it to control my severe Crohn's Disease. Without it, I will have a bowel obstruction, and then I will die.
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December 5, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Last year, my health insurance company stopped paying for my Humira. Humira is a type of immunosuppressive drug called a biologic, and I take a pretty high dose of it to control my severe Crohn's Disease. Without it, I will have a bowel obstruction, and then I will die.
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