JB
@justmejb.bsky.social
Solid lefty dismayed by Labour and hostile environment.Lived exp of poverty and homelessness,never forget where I came from Immunosuppressed Living with autoimmune disease and Long Covid.
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It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
December 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It’s not a refusal to re-enter society.
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance.
It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward.
Mass death & disability is not normal
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What Steve said. There has never been a study in which high-quality, well-fitting masks were actually WORN that did not show a significant impact on disease transmission. Many mask studies failed to take account of post-allocation confounders (non-adherence + non-mask people choosing to mask).
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
December 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
What Steve said. There has never been a study in which high-quality, well-fitting masks were actually WORN that did not show a significant impact on disease transmission. Many mask studies failed to take account of post-allocation confounders (non-adherence + non-mask people choosing to mask).
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A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result of treating them as an “afterthought”
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
Inquiry report shows ‘horrific’ Covid death toll among disabled people was not inevitable, say DPOs
A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result o…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result of treating them as an “afterthought”
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...
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Just a reminder, as driven home by this medical study I am participating in: the expectation of people with suppressed immune systems is that they are *STILL* shielding most of the time. I am, basically. This never ended "after" Covid for some people (including me).
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just a reminder, as driven home by this medical study I am participating in: the expectation of people with suppressed immune systems is that they are *STILL* shielding most of the time. I am, basically. This never ended "after" Covid for some people (including me).
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Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Just appalling. Nurses and teachers do far more valuable jobs than almost anyone earning £125k.
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
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 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Just appalling. Nurses and teachers do far more valuable jobs than almost anyone earning £125k.
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Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
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#LongCovid: Government failure to recognise disease as occupational is “unconscionable,” say unions
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
Long covid: Government failure to recognise disease as occupational is “unconscionable,” say unions
Long covid and severe post-covid complications must be recognised as a prescribed industrial disease for health and social care workers, health unions have said.
The BMA and the Royal College of Nurs...
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#LongCovid: Government failure to recognise disease as occupational is “unconscionable,” say unions
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
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Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
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I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".
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890 people last week arrested for holding placard at Palestine Action demo.
Around 25 people arrested today in far-right demo for violently attacking the police.
Around 25 people arrested today in far-right demo for violently attacking the police.
September 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
890 people last week arrested for holding placard at Palestine Action demo.
Around 25 people arrested today in far-right demo for violently attacking the police.
Around 25 people arrested today in far-right demo for violently attacking the police.
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Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
September 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
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🚨 MILLIONS of people at higher risk from diseases will lose NHS Covid vaccines this autumn.
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
It won't grow enough without your help to find more people.
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
It won't grow enough without your help to find more people.
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
September 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🚨 MILLIONS of people at higher risk from diseases will lose NHS Covid vaccines this autumn.
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
It won't grow enough without your help to find more people.
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
Sign + share our petition (on next post)
It won't grow enough without your help to find more people.
1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
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This is what hurts me so much about those who refuse to be vaccinated on personal choice: my safety depends upon collective vaccination. As an immunocompromised patient, I get far less from a vaccine than regular folk. Hence, I need all others to be immunized to stop the viral spread reaching me.
As some politicians continue to emphasize personal choice when it comes to vaccinations, doctors and infectious disease specialists point out that getting vaccinated not only protects the individual, but also the community.
abcnews.go.com/Health/vacci...
abcnews.go.com/Health/vacci...
Why getting vaccinated protects more than just you
Health experts say vaccine-created herd immunity safeguards more people.
abcnews.go.com
September 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This is what hurts me so much about those who refuse to be vaccinated on personal choice: my safety depends upon collective vaccination. As an immunocompromised patient, I get far less from a vaccine than regular folk. Hence, I need all others to be immunized to stop the viral spread reaching me.
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This event has also been planned to coincide with Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride. I wonder what the Yarco MP Rupert Lowe has to say about community safety for his constituents?
The Home Office has the power to block the overseas bands from entering the UK, which will scupper the promoters plans.
But they won’t act unless we demand it.
Join us and email the Home Office now:
secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/176528/...
But they won’t act unless we demand it.
Join us and email the Home Office now:
secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/176528/...
STOP UK HATE FEST - email the Home Office
Over 5-6 September, Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. We’ve stopped gigs like this before, now we need to put pressure on the Home Office to block the...
secure.hopenothate.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This event has also been planned to coincide with Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride. I wonder what the Yarco MP Rupert Lowe has to say about community safety for his constituents?
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The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
August 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
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⚠️ Autumn Covid boosters will be denied for the first time to MILLIONS who are at higher risk of worse outcomes. ⚠️
We demand protection from infections!
#KeepCovidBoosters 💉
We demand protection from infections!
#KeepCovidBoosters 💉
August 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
⚠️ Autumn Covid boosters will be denied for the first time to MILLIONS who are at higher risk of worse outcomes. ⚠️
We demand protection from infections!
#KeepCovidBoosters 💉
We demand protection from infections!
#KeepCovidBoosters 💉
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Letter of the day (in the Times)
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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I'll believe this when I see it. We campaigned so hard for prophylactic covid care for the immunocompromised. We were ignored and many died as a consequence. Other countries managed it. The UK's bureaucracy could not.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Downing Street’s radical plan for the NHS: shifting it from treatment to prevention
Despite the evidence health prevention works, successive governments have done little in this area until now
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I'll believe this when I see it. We campaigned so hard for prophylactic covid care for the immunocompromised. We were ignored and many died as a consequence. Other countries managed it. The UK's bureaucracy could not.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Olivia Blake, one of the few Labour MPs with a disclosed disability, has accused the government of creating an “unethical two-tier system” by its welfare bill concessions - and urged rebels to stand firm.
My exclusive in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My exclusive in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’
Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Olivia Blake, one of the few Labour MPs with a disclosed disability, has accused the government of creating an “unethical two-tier system” by its welfare bill concessions - and urged rebels to stand firm.
My exclusive in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My exclusive in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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With so few MPs in the party having a disclosed disability, Blake is disappointed the leadership has sidelined their input. “It’s hugely frustrating especially when colleagues have been going on the media day after day [incorrectly] calling PIP an out of work benefit,” she told me.
June 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
With so few MPs in the party having a disclosed disability, Blake is disappointed the leadership has sidelined their input. “It’s hugely frustrating especially when colleagues have been going on the media day after day [incorrectly] calling PIP an out of work benefit,” she told me.
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Why. Don't. These. People. Listen?
You can be in-work and get PIP. It's a welfare payment for disability and the extra costs that incurs. Not an out-of-work benefit.
You can be in-work and get PIP. It's a welfare payment for disability and the extra costs that incurs. Not an out-of-work benefit.
With so few MPs in the party having a disclosed disability, Blake is disappointed the leadership has sidelined their input. “It’s hugely frustrating especially when colleagues have been going on the media day after day [incorrectly] calling PIP an out of work benefit,” she told me.
June 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Why. Don't. These. People. Listen?
You can be in-work and get PIP. It's a welfare payment for disability and the extra costs that incurs. Not an out-of-work benefit.
You can be in-work and get PIP. It's a welfare payment for disability and the extra costs that incurs. Not an out-of-work benefit.