Children and young people with long COVID: overlooked and neglected We are two young people aged 19 and 20 years in the UK who both developed long COVID more than 2 years ago. This resulted in us being housebound for over a year, essentially taking a year out of our l...

Cell phone bans are the security blanket politicians and public health authorities hide under when the harm they've done to kids by giving them #longCOVID gets too immense to bury.

Children and young people with long COVID: overlooked and neglected We are two young people aged 19 and 20 years in the UK who both developed long COVID more than 2 years ago. This resulted in us being housebound for over a year, essentially taking a year out of our l...

Cell phone bans are the security blanket politicians and public health authorities hide under when the harm they've done to kids by giving them #longCOVID gets too immense to bury.

From the UK COVID Inquiry, but reflective of similar failures in Canada, at the WHO, and the many other jurisdictions where arrogant medical leaders with little or no scientific expertise engaged in a lethal turf war rejected the advice of scientific experts. Fundamental flaws in the UK’s approach 1.44 Despite knowledge accumulating of how Covid-19 may have been transmitted as the pandemic progressed (as set out above), insufficient steps were taken to adapt the infection prevention and control guidance for healthcare settings across the UK. This placed healthcare workers and patients at greater risk. 1.45 The UK’s approach to infection prevention and control in healthcare settings during the Covid-19 pandemic suffered from three fundamental flaws: Assumptions about respiratory viruses: There was an over-reliance on historical assumptions about how to distinguish between modes of transmission for respiratory viruses. This led to an initial misunderstanding of the level of risk posed by aerosol transmission and a failure to recommend sufficient protections against it. Insufficient caution: Alternative routes of transmission other than droplet or contact were prematurely ruled out. This meant that pre-existing assumptions that Covid-19 was not ordinarily spread by aerosols became the received wisdom until the contrary was proved. Lack of structure and expertise of the UK IPC Cell: In reality, the UK IPC Cell acted as the decision-maker as to the content of guidance. However, its remit was insufficiently defined, leading to uncertainty over its role and a lack of accountability. The backgrounds of its experts were also insufficiently broad. These factors created a bias towards maintaining the status quo, rather than responding to emerging evidence dynamically. 1.46 The combined effect of these interconnected flaws led to a failure to properly protect patients and healthcare workers against the risks posed by Covid-19.

Enough with the tone policing - that's the classic IPC response to losing an argument, and we're all sick of it

If you have evidence to back up your opinion that the IPC response to COVID wasn't the "clear failure" the UK Inquiry found it to be, let's hear it.

But cut the manipulative games.

What we lost when we lost Self magazine The almost 50-year-old publication was a lifeline for chronically ill readers.

After Condé Nast's decision to close SELF, I spoke to chronically ill women about what the women's health site meant to them.

"We have to acknowledge chronic illness as a politically, culturally, and socially marginalized category"

Latest for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Is Doug Ford corporatizing #Ontario's education system? In a new Act tabled by #Education Minister Calandra, school boards would see a number of changes, including the appointment of a CEO and the tying of attendance to grades. Education policy expert Kelly Gallagher-Mackay joins us lnk.to/bigstory

Just remember that there is no such thing as an informed, good-faith discussion of student absences that does not face up to the issue of #longCOVID among children.

Punishing sick kids to protect politicians and public health leaders from accountability for their mistakes is evil.

UCP government’s electoral map move undemocratic: commission member - Red Deer Advocate Electoral Boundaries Commission majority report rejected by government

“The UCP government’s plan to dismiss an independent electoral boundary commission riding map recommendations and undertake a redo is a “stab in the heart for democracy,” said one commission member.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

reddeeradvocate.com/2026/04/20/u...

A picture of a cat pushing a wineglass off a shelf to see if it will bounce, and then repeating the action.

Vice Presidents too...

Please, tell me this headline isn't true. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Coverage of the UK COVID Inquiry Module 3 report.

Seriously, it will blow the bad guys' tiny minds, and best of all it's non-partisan, and will actually start building bridges between all the people they've harmed.

Thread:

Give him a rifle and a parachute and send him on his way then.

Every President is air-droppable at least once.

Give him a rifle and a parachute and send him on his way then.

Every President is air-droppable at least once.

👀

Bad Press — Public Health is Dead How the media has helped manufacture consent for COVID to be "over" and contributed to the decline of public health

This is one of the best resources I've come across that explains the reasons why people no longer trust public health officials.

From @sharpflower.bsky.social and featuring @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

#CovidIsntOver #MedSky #IDSky #CleanTheAir

It's happening in Canada too. Our RFK types are members of the country club in good standing so there's no fuss about it, but the quality of decision making is not really any better.

They've declared *having subject matter expertise* is a disqualifying conflict of interest for making guidance.

🤡🌎

So it is a war now? Not just a three-day special military operation anymore?

As bad as this looks right now, the reality is *even worse* - a hostile takeover of science by well-connected science cosplayers from inside medicine's management class.

They're grabbing for control over *everything* - not just health but climate, poverty, incarceration, social media, etc etc etc.

An image of a person holding a syringe and inserting the syringe into a COVID vaccine vial.

COVID vaccines are tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden.

A large study in Germany shows lower hospitalization, all-cause death rates, and health care costs in vaccinated people.

Read more: ow.ly/XG0E50YMTht

Public health's cost-benefit model for COVID vaccines in Canada 👉forgot to include the fact that you can get #longCOVID without seeking medical care for the acute COVID👈, so it assumes *total* annual COVID incidence is 7.5%.

This is why it's not covered.

These are not remotely serious people.

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Public health's cost-benefit model for COVID vaccines in Canada 👉forgot to include the fact that you can get #longCOVID without seeking medical care for the acute COVID👈, so it assumes *total* annual COVID incidence is 7.5%.

This is why it's not covered.

These are not remotely serious people.

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Precautionary principle: everything politics touches must be assumed to involve as much corruption as is compatible with the publicly available evidence.

Doesn't matter which party.

A trustworthy politician is the one who ensures there is lots of publicly available evidence.

No free passes.

Smith’s Meddling In Electoral Boundaries Is Part of a Grim Pattern | The Tyee The goal is power for the UCP, not democracy.

With stakes this high, it’s hard to imagine electoral boundaries in Alberta becoming boring any time soon, writes Lisa Young. #abpoli

Precautionary principle: everything politics touches must be assumed to involve as much corruption as is compatible with the publicly available evidence.

Doesn't matter which party.

A trustworthy politician is the one who ensures there is lots of publicly available evidence.

No free passes.

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

#DontSayCovid is the real life Don't Look Up.

A response to a public health conference talking about the need to influence public search behaviour - after a screening of "Don't Look Up" to talk about obstacles to scientific communication from public health.

Ironically, not on the topic of #COVIDisairborne...

🤔

I don't think I've ever encountered an institution as outstandingly good at unaware self-satire as public health. Using "Don't Look Up" as a teaching tool for science communication and then *not* having it be about #longCOVID and aerosol transmission of diseases is just...exactly who they are.

From the UK COVID Inquiry, but reflective of similar failures in Canada, at the WHO, and the many other jurisdictions where arrogant medical leaders with little or no scientific expertise engaged in a lethal turf war rejected the advice of scientific experts. Fundamental flaws in the UK’s approach 1.44 Despite knowledge accumulating of how Covid-19 may have been transmitted as the pandemic progressed (as set out above), insufficient steps were taken to adapt the infection prevention and control guidance for healthcare settings across the UK. This placed healthcare workers and patients at greater risk. 1.45 The UK’s approach to infection prevention and control in healthcare settings during the Covid-19 pandemic suffered from three fundamental flaws: Assumptions about respiratory viruses: There was an over-reliance on historical assumptions about how to distinguish between modes of transmission for respiratory viruses. This led to an initial misunderstanding of the level of risk posed by aerosol transmission and a failure to recommend sufficient protections against it. Insufficient caution: Alternative routes of transmission other than droplet or contact were prematurely ruled out. This meant that pre-existing assumptions that Covid-19 was not ordinarily spread by aerosols became the received wisdom until the contrary was proved. Lack of structure and expertise of the UK IPC Cell: In reality, the UK IPC Cell acted as the decision-maker as to the content of guidance. However, its remit was insufficiently defined, leading to uncertainty over its role and a lack of accountability. The backgrounds of its experts were also insufficiently broad. These factors created a bias towards maintaining the status quo, rather than responding to emerging evidence dynamically. 1.46 The combined effect of these interconnected flaws led to a failure to properly protect patients and healthcare workers against the risks posed by Covid-19.

The cover of THE LANCET, bearing the quote: "The level of criminal incompetence exposed by recent witnesses to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry...has proven that many, if not most, of over 230 000 deaths were preventable."

Have they covered the fact that the UK COVID Inquiry found the whole nominally-scientific (meaning "the beliefs of senior clinicians cosplaying as scientists") basis for infection control policy in the UK to be a "clear failure"?

Hundreds of thousands of lives wasted out of hubris feels important.