We’ve just started watching Last One Laughing on Amazon Prime, which basically features almost the entire A-list of current British comedians. And it’s hilarious. If the BBC had commissioned even a handful of them to write and perform on the show, it would have been infinitely better.

NYC Mayor Wants to Ban Masks in the Wake of Shooting Death of CEO Brian Thompson A look at how the shooting death of Brian Thompson is being used to re-ignite interest in banning masks in New York City - a move which would be a devastating blow to the disabled community.

This isn’t the first time New York has tried to ban masks. Both Hochul and Mayor Adams have previously said they want to ban masks, with Adams using Luigi Mangione as an excuse to push for them a few months ago.

Mask bans don’t stop crime. They just stop people from safely accessing public spaces:

Petition: Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration require...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
It would be great to see this reach the 5k mark. Please sign & Repost. 🙏 We really need the government to take airborne infections seriously and improve safety for all.

Haven’t significantly improved? It’s far more bleak these days. Thatcherism didn’t die with Thatcher. It’s just gained momentum.

Extreme poverty increases as billionaires' fortunes balloon by $2.7bn-a-day (£2bn) The richest 1% of Britons hold more wealth than 70 per cent of Britons The richest 1% have pocketed $26 trillion (£21 trillion) in new wealth since 2020, nearly twice as much as the other 99 per cent of the world's population, an Oxfam report reveals today (article is from 2023)

Look after the poorest & most vulnerable in your society & country.

Those that can look after themselves will do so.

Those 1% that are wealthier than all of the rest of us, if they live in this country, should WANT the best for it, right?

Why is this controversial?

*Oxfam article 2023

‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights

If you believe it's now safe to fly without a protective mask, you might want to think again. New research shows the COVID-19 virus has been found on nearly every flight tested.

airspothealth.com/a/blog/coron...

What specifically is Donold distracting everyone from by calling for war on Canada and Greenland

Once again, getting infected with multiple pathogens does not help your innate immune system, it harms it.

The small potential benefit of an adaptive immune response to a specific pathogen is not worth the risk of an infection.

#LongCovid

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are nouns when you stress the first syllable but verbs when you stress the second.

"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”

COVID‐19 Infection Risk Assessment in a Kindergarten Utilizing Continuous Air Quality Monitoring Data Researchers and transnational public health organizations have recognized aerosol transmission as an essential route of COVID-19 transmission. Therefore, improving ventilation systems is now adopted ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Photo of my work ID badge with my name and photo. "Darren Parkinson, community nurse, CAMHS, Calderdale." Blue NHS lanyard is attached.

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.

I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself

Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃

Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’

“While some Conservative and Reform politicians suggest UK should lean politically towards a Trump presidency at the expense of Europe, this did not seem to be a view shared by many voters”

“Will of the people”, lads. Remember?
We’re all sick of your Brexit mess.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Dangerous Attack NOBODY Can Stop YouTube video by Premier League

The #premierleague Breakfown: #BrentfordFC

youtu.be/XZab_2A0X3c?...

1. For obvious reasons, there is currently a considerable amount of discussion regarding the efficacy of lockdowns as public health measures. It's very important to be mindful of a few points regarding this media discourse.

Bizarre thing happened to me yesterday that my teenage self would not believe. I was playing at the gig to celebrate the life of the genius that was Neil Innes. Whilst waiting backstage to go on, Michael Palin sang the lumberjack song to me, in German.

Petition: Commission a public inquiry into the impact of the UK exiting the European Union Given that it has stated its aim of growing the UK economy, we think the Government needs to quantify the effects of exiting the European Union as soon as possible by setting up an inquiry.

Convincing folk to sign petitions is sometimes hard work, especially when the prize is not always obvious

The prize, in this instance, is a way back to rejoining

I implore you to sign

bit.ly/4eq3c17

Robust antiviral humoral immunity induced by JN.1 monovalent mRNA vaccines against a broad range of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants including JN.1, KP.3.1.1 and XEC As of November 2024, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron JN.1 subvariants, such as KP.2 (JN.1.11.1.2), KP.3 (JN.1.11.1.3), KP.3.1.1 (JN.1.11.1.3.1.1), and XEC, a recombinant lineage between KS.1.1 (JN.13.1.1.1) and KP...

Super interesting- be good to see this in a larger study. Compared antibody responses of infection and mrna vaccines. The JN.1 vaccine more robustly induced antibodies against recent JN.1 subvariants than natural infection of JN.1 subvariants 🧵🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Vaccines save children’s lives Vaccines save the lives of millions of children every year and also prevent needless suffering and permanent disability caused by some childhood diseases.

“Vaccines save the lives of millions of children every year and also prevent needless suffering and permanent disability caused by some childhood diseases.”

Vaccines save children’s lives | The Kingston Whig Standard

www.thewhig.com/opinion/vacc...

I am off to the covid inquiry to hear Matt Hancock give his module 3 evidence. #CovidInquiry

An Idaho health department isn't allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it's a first A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...
It’s so awful to see this happening. The right to protect your own body being denied.

This is essential. Please sign.

I think the only public figure with a high enough profile, who can converse on the intellectual level Trump voters will understand is Barney the Dinosaur.

I rarely challenge the decisions of JCVI but I really struggle to see the logic of stopping the antenatal vaccine offer with Autumn COVID 💉 campaign.

There is good evidence of protection against infection from maternally derived vaccine-induced antibodies in the first 6 months of an infant’s life.

When things feel hopeless look to those who are helping 🙏🏼👇🏽👏🏽

#Children #Education #Teachers #CleanAir

go.bsky.app/GW8cj7d

a man in a tuxedo is standing in front of a sign that says first aid Alt: a man in a dinner jacket and top hat is bowing in a posh manner

128K? Ooh, la dee da!

Welcome to Bluesky, where the block function actually works the way it should. Bye 👋 👋👋

Sander van der Linden (@profsander.vanderlinden) on Threads New computational analyses from the University of Queensland on algorithmic bias suggest that the X algorithm substantially boosted Republican accounts right after Elon Musk's endorsement of Donald Tr...

There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries?
www.threads.net/@profsander....