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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War

3 years - if you're earning £125k+

15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher

Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Tern makes a good point — years of COVID infections have weakened immunity for many, which could explain why recent flu seasons are hitting harder than before.

Tern’s reply: "Perhaps there's so much flu now because Covid infections make people vulnerable to flu."

Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
A pair of posts on X from the user @1goodtern. The first post lists explanations given each year for high flu levels: 2022: “There’s so much flu because you didn’t catch it last year.” 2023: “There is so much flu because the season started earlier than expected.” 2024: “There is so much flu because circulation patterns are unusual this year.” 2025: “There is so much flu because it is a worse strain.” The second post is tern’s reply, which reads: “Perhaps there’s so much flu now because Covid infections make people vulnerable to flu.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Herd immunity by infection wasn’t protection. It drove immune dysfunction and chronic illness. It’s a tragedy that this was allowed to happen — and still is.

Source: x.com/mysteriousro...
SARS2 is a Biohazard @mysteriousrona I'll never forget the fact that children were and still are being purposefully exposed to SARS-CoV-2 as a method of facilitating herd immunity, which has proven to be ineffective. 11:59 AM · Oct 28, 2025 · 1,091 Views
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Boris Johnson trying to rewrite history suggesting that he didn't have advice of long covid in children, when he had - disgraceful

➡️ Currently 110,000 children in the UK have long covid (and 1.9 million adults)

➡️The NHS has set up over 100 specialized Long COVID services costing £314 million
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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femi-oluwole.bsky.social
Farage is applying for a job.

That job is Prime Minister.

The only thing on his CV is Brexit.

He campaigned for it for 27 years.

So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS.

If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.
September 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
‘Some doctors swear blind it does not exist’: Why this leading specialist is still focused on long COVID.

"Professor Anthony Byrne says the difficulty with long COVID is the phenotypes can fall into various specialties."

Source: www.ausdoc.com.au/news/some-do...
‘Some doctors swear blind it does not exist’: Why this leading specialist is still focused on long COVID By Bella Rough | 25 September 2025 | AusDoc Associate Professor Anthony Byrne gets that some doctors are sick of COVID-19 and its sequelae. “People probably have a bit of PTSD about it,” he says. “It changed so many facets of everyone’s life that lots of people want to put that behind them, in the community, the media and, to some degree, medically. “But it was also an amazing opportunity to learn about a new illness and discover, in real time, how to investigate and manage it.” The Sydney respiratory physician has specialised in long COVID for five years. He was part of a long COVID clinic at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney from its inception until this month, when hospital management decided to close it. A hospital spokesperson said patients would transition to specialist respiratory and rehabilitation services. Professor Byrne also plans to keep seeing patients with long COVID privately. However, he worries about patients with long COVID struggling to find doctors with the skills, suitable appointment length and inclination to treat them. “Unfortunately, some doctors will swear blind that long COVID does not exist, but this is not a made-up disease,” said Professor Byrne, convenor of the Respiratory Infectious Diseases special interest group at the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. He said governments were failing to properly fund multidisciplinary clinics, which meant patients were often defaulted to being treated by whichever specialists were available to them. “Hopefully, the specialists have an interest in listening to patients and identifying what their problems are, doing appropriate assessments to “Hopefully, the specialists have an interest in listening to patients and identifying what their problems are, doing appropriate assessments to identify things they can treat: the person with undiagnosed diabetes, the person with undiagnosed ischaemia. “That’ll be important and will help a lot of people. “But for a certain percentage, it’s very difficult in a 30-minute specialist consultation to deal with the psychiatric aspect, the psychosocial aspect, the disability aspect, that they haven’t worked in six months, the can-you-fill-in-these-forms-for-six months, the can-you-fill-in-these-forms-for-me.” He said the multidisciplinary approach at the St Vincent’s clinic involved different specialists reviewing the patient’s symptoms and trying to establish a phenotype for each patient. “In people with an asthma-type phenotype, we found that when we prescribed them medications essentially for asthma, which had not been previously diagnosed or treated, they seemed to have an improvement in symptoms and trajectory. “That’s one example. “Another is when we have someone with poor sleep hygiene because one of the symptoms of long COVID is fatigue. “People sleep when they’re tired during the day, but it puts out the circadian rhythm. “So we give them advice on sleep hygiene and maybe prescribe melatonin where appropriate, and look to identify other sleep disorders. “People with obstructive sleep apnoea are much more likely to have severe COVID disease, and there’s also an association with long COVID. “As you can imagine, if people are fatigued and have severe sleep apnoea and don’t know about it, people get better if that’s diagnosed and treated.” Without a multidisciplinary team, patients risked bouncing between expensive specialist appointments until they found the right path, Professor Byrne said. For example, patients with long COVID could have chest pain and be referred to a cardiologist when the cause lies in other organ systems. “No offence to my cardiologist colleagues, because the cardiologist would appropriately do investigations — ECG, maybe a stress test, “No offence to my cardiologist colleagues, because the cardiologist would appropriately do investigations — ECG, maybe a stress test, maybe a CT coronary angiogram — and exclude important diagnoses like critical ischaemia, cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia,” Professor Byrne said. “But the patient has spent their money, had two or three appointments with the specialist, lightened their wallet a lot, and still has this symptom of chest pain. “So you look at the other contributing factors or organ systems: the brain, the respiratory system, the gastrointestinal system.” Ultimately, the approach to long COVID was “just good medicine”, he said. “You listen to patients, you do no harm, you look to identify those conditions that you know about and provide treatment for, then you reassess and follow up.”
September 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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natashadevon.bsky.social
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.

Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Covid is a social justice issue, especially now that governments have abandoned us in favour of “you do you” policies that leave the vulnerable by the wayside

Wearing a mask is a form of resistance

It protects your health & the health of your community

It says you don’t view others as expendable
September 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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lnr.bsky.social
I'd probably go further and fund boosters for children too, everyone eligible for flu vaccination on the NHS should be able to get a covid booster too. Despite type 2 diabetes, a heart condition and being nearly 70 my mum is no longer eligible. This is shameful.

Please sign.

I've paid my 100 quid.
September 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Surrey long Covid patients gaslit by medical professionals, study finds
The University of Surrey study says patients faced "gatekeeping" of treatment from medical professionals.
www.bbc.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
"Sublineage of Omicron" is as meaningful as simply referring to both blue whales and fruit bats as "sublineages of mammals".
Phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 variant lineages.
August 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
"What do we know about the Covid-19 virus 5 years on?"

"The growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."

#COVIDisNotOVER
What do we know about the Covid-19 virus five years on?
As the virus continues to evolve, experts assess its latest variants, seasonal prevalence and levels of vaccine uptake
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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ronhacker.bsky.social
This about covers it.
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Scotland: 2 wards at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary have been shut down following a COVID outbreak.

Statement on social media: “Due to cases of COVID, wards 110 and 308 at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary are closed to all but ESSENTIAL visitors"

Source: archive.md/YjPFp
Covid-19 outbreak closes two wards at major Scots hospital The major hospital has closed the wards to all but essential visitors. News Gemma Ryder Reporter 19:02, 27 Jul 2025
July 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
'Disabling' Chronic Illness in Children Not Taken Seriously

“It was found that... 15%, who had previously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection were identified as likely having long COVID... Suggesting it has become one of the most common chronic illnesses in children.”

Source: archive.md/XewA8
'Disabling' Chronic Illness in Children Not Taken Seriously: Experts Published Jul 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM EDT Updated Jul 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM EDT
July 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Miriam Margolyes names her current big issue. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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groovyshelly.bsky.social
This says it all, cleanly & clearly. Please share.
July 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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mistyswoman.bsky.social
Well - would you look at that!?

Rees-Mogg will be apoplectic. Good.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Businesses ‘thriving’ after adopting four-day working week
Nearly 1,000 workers at 17 different companies adopted a four-day working week for a six-month trial
www.independent.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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‘Let every man know that citizenship is a privilege – not a right!’ – Judge Dredd, ‘Punks Rule!’ (1979) ‘British citizenship is a privilege, not a right.’ – Home Office statement, November 2021
June 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Left: Louise Haigh, "I will support the government on Tuesday in recognition they've made significant progress, and protecting the incomes of 400,000 disabled people across the country"

Right: Rosie Jones, "They're not thinking about the millions of people who will become disabled in the future"
June 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM