“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!
“Immunity debt doesn’t exist, but immune damage does.”
Brilliant piece in @independent.ie today, especially following Violet Affleck’s address to the UN yesterday.
m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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1. Trying a second competition but with different ways to enter as the last attempt resulted in only a few (but very generous!) entries
Please share & you can share on other platforms too - links in my bio
Details and links to campaigns in the next post
Photo of a blue tit garden bird with the text win this painting raffle for Gaza
1. Win this painting by donating to one of the three Gaza fundraising campaigns listed in this thread, as fundraisers are their ONLY form of income now and the ONLY way they can get food and water.
#SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Palestine #Gaza
Locked Out of the Market Summary of Findings: 32 properties available under HAP limits out of 978 total properties available to rent. 8 of 16 areas have zero HAP properties to rent through HAP limits.
The findings of our second Locked Out of the Market report must act as a wake-up call for policymakers 📄
Only 32 properties were available to rent within HAP limits. This is a 22% reduction since March 2025 📉
Read the report: www.simon.ie/e-publicatio...
FACT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LCAI’s @jcorey.bsky.social and Claudia O’Brien presenting on our advocacy efforts in Ireland and giving tips on how best to manage #LongCovid in the Irish
healthcare setting. 👏👏👏
#LongCovidawareness #SpeirGorm #SpéirGorm #LongCovidKids #pwLC #Ireland #Irish #Disability
@cleanairie.bsky.social
Great to have this coverage today and hearing the voices of those impacted. The current system is failing thousands of people and families reliant on HAP, essentially locking them out of the market and forcing them to enter homelessness.
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️
Header text on image is Long Covid; 5 years on. Other Text on image; Chloe, 29 years old Life on hold for 1095 days -730 days relying on my mom as my carer -€3000 spent on health care. -8 moments of wanting to end my life -2 failed attempts at working again. Alt text additional image info: The image includes a photo of a young woman, dark hair, slight smile. LCAI logo appears on bottom right corner of the image.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay2025
#LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovid #Ireland #LongCovidAwarenessMonth
Are RPZs (rent pressure zones) killing apartment supply?
Good analysis from @mickbyrne.bsky.social
Always look past the spin theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/are-rpzs-k...
Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.
Ed Yong is such a real one <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
I swear there’s few things better than a sunny day in Dublin ☀️
It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
Trayvon Martin would have been 30 today. Trayvon Martin should be 30 today.
They're eating the checks!
They're eating the balances!
Just did ♥️🫂
Flag protocol requires all flags to be flown at half-mast for 30 days after the passing of a president. This means flags will be at half-mast for Trump's inauguration.
Thank you for your final act of service, President Carter.
Jimmy Carter visited Palestine in 2010 with Mary Robinson and others.
Their bluntly worded report is here www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_re...
Sooo excited for gorse season!! Soon 💛
A photo of a Corsi Rosenthal box with very grey filters full of dust.
A photo of a corsi rosenthal box with brand new filters that are clean and bright white
Home for the holidays = time to replace the filters on my parents’ Corsi Rosenthal Box! Added a 5th filter on the bottom this time (instead of cardboard) for an even higher clean air delivery rate.
So glad all of this dust and dirt is in the filters and not in their lungs.
A huge amount of work went into this from Long COVID Advocacy Ireland
With 16% of the population affected, Government must respond urgently to review the 2021 Model of Care and reduce reinfections through clean air & other NPIs - both very welcome recommendations
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Just to specify - looking at a health system level!
I know this is a bit of a long shot but are there any GOOD models of care for Long Covid out there? Anywhere that can be used as an example of best practice?
4 lads spent 36 days ROWING NON-STOP across the Atlantic
They’re NOT professional rowers
They’ve raised 86% of their target for youth mental health so let’s get them to 100% 🤩
Donate www.gofundme.com/f/team-out-o...
Interview www.virginmediatelevision.ie/player/show/...
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“Sick of your kids being sick. Clean air in schools may be the answer” @jcorey.bsky.social
🧵 So here’s the thread that links to the sources & research in the article 1/
