@lacoureuse.bsky.social
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"Why doesn't she want strangers' personal mouth juices up her nose — like a normal person?"
Ah yes, pathological behaviour, to be sure to be sure.
Ah yes, pathological behaviour, to be sure to be sure.
What a weird time to be alive.
Even if everybody grew a magical moustache of tiny enchanted gnomes with magical wee push-brooms sweeping all the viruses off of aspirated saliva as it left their mouths and noses, I would *STILL* prefer not to inhale strangers' hot flying spit.
Hey, call me crazy.
Even if everybody grew a magical moustache of tiny enchanted gnomes with magical wee push-brooms sweeping all the viruses off of aspirated saliva as it left their mouths and noses, I would *STILL* prefer not to inhale strangers' hot flying spit.
Hey, call me crazy.
I should also add...her office is in a house, there was no air conditioning, no air circulation at all, it was so hot and stale in the exam room that we opened the door while we waited for her return after the examination. It was the perfect combo of ingredients for exposure to COVID.
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Why doesn't she want strangers' personal mouth juices up her nose — like a normal person?"
Ah yes, pathological behaviour, to be sure to be sure.
Ah yes, pathological behaviour, to be sure to be sure.
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I agree with Kelly.
From someone specializing in mental health: an anxiety disorder is defined as overreacting to a threat.
Many rationally choose to protect ourselves from an airborne virus by the simple act of wearing a mask when needed. Just like wearing seatbelts makes sense.
#NotAnxious
From someone specializing in mental health: an anxiety disorder is defined as overreacting to a threat.
Many rationally choose to protect ourselves from an airborne virus by the simple act of wearing a mask when needed. Just like wearing seatbelts makes sense.
#NotAnxious
Shame on the Daily Mail for psychologizing Violet Affleck.
Being a lone masker is hard.
It takes courage, confidence and a commitment to protecting your health & the health of those around you.
It’s not “anxiety” to want to avoid a multi system vascular virus.
It’s adaptation.
Being a lone masker is hard.
It takes courage, confidence and a commitment to protecting your health & the health of those around you.
It’s not “anxiety” to want to avoid a multi system vascular virus.
It’s adaptation.
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I agree with Kelly.
From someone specializing in mental health: an anxiety disorder is defined as overreacting to a threat.
Many rationally choose to protect ourselves from an airborne virus by the simple act of wearing a mask when needed. Just like wearing seatbelts makes sense.
#NotAnxious
From someone specializing in mental health: an anxiety disorder is defined as overreacting to a threat.
Many rationally choose to protect ourselves from an airborne virus by the simple act of wearing a mask when needed. Just like wearing seatbelts makes sense.
#NotAnxious
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Please mask up in public indoor spaces. Even if you stopped masking, it's worth resuming it until we have guaranteed healthy indoor air for all. You don't want to get even one more #COVID19 infection, as every infection makes it more likely you'll be affected by #LongCOVID, like Kelly has been.
This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne.
It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people.
It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging.
Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.
Protect one another.
It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people.
It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging.
Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.
Protect one another.
September 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Please mask up in public indoor spaces. Even if you stopped masking, it's worth resuming it until we have guaranteed healthy indoor air for all. You don't want to get even one more #COVID19 infection, as every infection makes it more likely you'll be affected by #LongCOVID, like Kelly has been.
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Lunchtime walk. Kingfisher over the River Adur at Upper Beeding.
More to follow.
#birds #nature #wildlife #sussexbirds
More to follow.
#birds #nature #wildlife #sussexbirds
September 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Lunchtime walk. Kingfisher over the River Adur at Upper Beeding.
More to follow.
#birds #nature #wildlife #sussexbirds
More to follow.
#birds #nature #wildlife #sussexbirds
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Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.
How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon
Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.
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Who is telling the Labour Party that the way to blunt Reform's momentum is to fundamentally agree with them but propose alternate bureaucratically nightmarish forms of nativism?
September 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Who is telling the Labour Party that the way to blunt Reform's momentum is to fundamentally agree with them but propose alternate bureaucratically nightmarish forms of nativism?
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This is spot on, and it’s shameful to see a government under the ‘Labour’ name falling this far. Spineless authoritarian bootlickers
how long before organisations rely on the unpaid labour of people seeking indefinite leave to remain as their business model?
September 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This is spot on, and it’s shameful to see a government under the ‘Labour’ name falling this far. Spineless authoritarian bootlickers
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My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
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The Media is run by the richest, for the richest, and it will always blame everyone and everything except the richest for all the problems.
You cannot expect the problem to ever blame the problem.
You cannot expect the problem to ever blame the problem.
September 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Media is run by the richest, for the richest, and it will always blame everyone and everything except the richest for all the problems.
You cannot expect the problem to ever blame the problem.
You cannot expect the problem to ever blame the problem.
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got to hear from @loosewomen: an all-woman UK chat show that heard a young woman effectively communicating consensus science about the dangers of COVID, and so naturally decided to talk about health anxiety. Nothing like an all-woman panel dismissing a strong woman's science
6/
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September 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
got to hear from @loosewomen: an all-woman UK chat show that heard a young woman effectively communicating consensus science about the dangers of COVID, and so naturally decided to talk about health anxiety. Nothing like an all-woman panel dismissing a strong woman's science
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Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
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People are still dying and being disabled by long covid. bsky.app/profile/cati...
[27 Jun 2025] @DrTedros at WHO media briefing:
“We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains.
It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition or long COVID.”
“We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains.
It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition or long COVID.”
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
People are still dying and being disabled by long covid. bsky.app/profile/cati...
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"When Tony Blair tried to launch ID cards in the early 2000s, it cost £4.6bn at 2010 prices, and never even got off the ground." goodlaw.social/j17w
Starmer’s desperate rush for digital IDs is a recipe for repression
ID cards won’t reduce migration and will put trans rights at risk. But that’s not the biggest cost of Starmer’s half-baked scheme, says Cat MacLean.
goodlaw.social
September 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"When Tony Blair tried to launch ID cards in the early 2000s, it cost £4.6bn at 2010 prices, and never even got off the ground." goodlaw.social/j17w
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We need clean air in schools urgently @neunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @nasuwt-official.bsky.social
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...
Cardiac experts are saying that heart complaints are common after COVID infections and that Covid vaccines are needed to protect people. @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social Why isn’t that happening? Why are even 13 million CV not getting them. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Cardiac experts are saying that heart complaints are common after COVID infections and that Covid vaccines are needed to protect people. @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social Why isn’t that happening? Why are even 13 million CV not getting them. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Regular Covid vaccinations needed to reduce cardiac risks
Regular Covid vaccinations are needed to reduce associated cardiac risks, experts at the European Cardiology Society have concluded.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We need clean air in schools urgently @neunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @nasuwt-official.bsky.social
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We were never told to wear ffp2/3 respirators. We were told to wear gappy surgical FRSM masks, for an airborne virus. We were also told we could remove them to dine out in a shared air space, of course people caught COVID. We should have been told to wear ffp2/N95 masks and medical staff wear ffp3.🧵
It clarifies the legal status both of Surgical Masks and Respiratory Protective Equipment (eg FFP3, reusables, powered hoods). It blows away the myth contained in IPC Manuals and many other places by people who would have us believe FRSMs protect us against Covid-19, flu (etc)
September 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
We were never told to wear ffp2/3 respirators. We were told to wear gappy surgical FRSM masks, for an airborne virus. We were also told we could remove them to dine out in a shared air space, of course people caught COVID. We should have been told to wear ffp2/N95 masks and medical staff wear ffp3.🧵
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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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I love how rightwingers keep saying you can’t recognize a Palestinian state because it doesn’t even have any agreed-upon borders.
Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?
Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?
September 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I love how rightwingers keep saying you can’t recognize a Palestinian state because it doesn’t even have any agreed-upon borders.
Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?
Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?
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More research💔on what Covid infections do to kids...
"Children don’t just bounce back after COVID.
A Bavarian study shows deep neurocognitive and emotional impacts in kids & teens - fatigue, loss of motivation, attention problems, mood disorders."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19700...
"Children don’t just bounce back after COVID.
A Bavarian study shows deep neurocognitive and emotional impacts in kids & teens - fatigue, loss of motivation, attention problems, mood disorders."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19700...
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
More research💔on what Covid infections do to kids...
"Children don’t just bounce back after COVID.
A Bavarian study shows deep neurocognitive and emotional impacts in kids & teens - fatigue, loss of motivation, attention problems, mood disorders."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19700...
"Children don’t just bounce back after COVID.
A Bavarian study shows deep neurocognitive and emotional impacts in kids & teens - fatigue, loss of motivation, attention problems, mood disorders."
Full 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19700...
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Unit investigating £1.9bn of Covid loan fraud recovered only £7m.
Tories handed out money through VIP lanes, without any checks, competitive tenders: employee support given without staff NationaI Insurance numbers; loans to newly formed companies.
archive.ph/54e7y
Tories handed out money through VIP lanes, without any checks, competitive tenders: employee support given without staff NationaI Insurance numbers; loans to newly formed companies.
archive.ph/54e7y
Unit investigating £1.9bn of Covid loan fraud recovered only £7m
Natis received £38m from taxpayers to pursue widespread abuse of pandemic business loans and had previously claimed it recovered £23m
www.thetimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Unit investigating £1.9bn of Covid loan fraud recovered only £7m.
Tories handed out money through VIP lanes, without any checks, competitive tenders: employee support given without staff NationaI Insurance numbers; loans to newly formed companies.
archive.ph/54e7y
Tories handed out money through VIP lanes, without any checks, competitive tenders: employee support given without staff NationaI Insurance numbers; loans to newly formed companies.
archive.ph/54e7y
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I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
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'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol
2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children
In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...
news.ki.se
September 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol
2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
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One thing that would address the chronic disease epidemic would be not getting COVID 5 or 10 times
Sen. Roger Marshall on what he wants to ask RFK Jr: "How do we build up our own immunity, so when we do get viruses like covid - and we've probably each had had covid 5 or 10 times, we're developing natural immunity - but what can we do to address the chronic disease epidemic?"
September 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One thing that would address the chronic disease epidemic would be not getting COVID 5 or 10 times
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social
DfE have just released attendance data for last school year.
In England:
Overall absence: 6.9%
Authorised absence: 4.5%
Illness absence: 3.2%
So 71.1% of authorised absence was due to illness.
(How much unauthorised absence was also illness?)
www.gov.uk/government/s...
DfE have just released attendance data for last school year.
In England:
Overall absence: 6.9%
Authorised absence: 4.5%
Illness absence: 3.2%
So 71.1% of authorised absence was due to illness.
(How much unauthorised absence was also illness?)
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Pupil attendance in schools
Data on the levels of attendance and overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools.
www.gov.uk
August 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
DfE have just released attendance data for last school year.
In England:
Overall absence: 6.9%
Authorised absence: 4.5%
Illness absence: 3.2%
So 71.1% of authorised absence was due to illness.
(How much unauthorised absence was also illness?)
www.gov.uk/government/s...
DfE have just released attendance data for last school year.
In England:
Overall absence: 6.9%
Authorised absence: 4.5%
Illness absence: 3.2%
So 71.1% of authorised absence was due to illness.
(How much unauthorised absence was also illness?)
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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The Green Party now has 78,000 members.
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Green Party now has 78,000 members.
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk