I’d say that the estimate of 0.6-1% is very conservative. The national UK figures have been around 2-5% of the population and achieving full recovery is still relatively rare. This is apart from counting in new future cases.

News clip from @bmj.com
#LongCovid
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More and more I see ‘economic growth’ pitched by major health & science players as an ultimate outcome & population health as a vehicle to achieve it. This is ideology. Specifically capitalist ideology. You may agree or disagree but it’s important to acknowledge this is an ideological standpoint.

More and more I see ‘economic growth’ pitched by major health & science players as an ultimate outcome & population health as a vehicle to achieve it. This is ideology. Specifically capitalist ideology. You may agree or disagree but it’s important to acknowledge this is an ideological standpoint.

Channel 4 News reported from the site of an airstrike in Lebanon that struck near a hospital shortly after paramedics had attended the funeral of a colleague in Nabatieh.

This comes as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, announced by President Trump, has now gone into effect.

'Inequality is soaring' due to capitalism - explain economist YouTube video by Channel 4 News

This is Clara Mattei, Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa and founding president of the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation (FREE),
The whole podcast is definitely worth a listen.
@krishgm.bsky.social Ways to Change the World.
youtube.com/shorts/kBXpA...

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞

It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞

A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl

#War
#PasteurInstituteIran

I’m so used to people confusing Iraq with Iran when they ask me how things are over there. I’m used to myself politely pointing it out & to them apologising & to me saying it’s alright there’s only 1 letter difference hehe. So here’s my chance to point out it’s actually not only 1 letter. See below:

This is the middle east. Syrians to Lebanon. Lebanese to Syria. Iraqis to Syria then Syrians to Iraq. Iraqis to Iran, we might have Iranians to Iraq. All refugees from these cycles of Western backed conflicts. And then the loud anti-refugee rhetoric in the West. Have a shred of mercy.

Yes Arabic is entirely cursive but I was separating the letters to explain :)

Further clarification:)

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Thanks.

Because ع has no English equivalent in pronunciation. So translated I here but it’s a different sound (at least when speaking Arabic rather than some other languages that use Arabic script). Comes from the throat. It can also be translated as A depending on sound after eg the name Ali ع ل ي

*known

Government should cut rail and bus fares PERIOD. War or no war. We’re more than quarter into the 21st century. We’ve know that active travel is so much better for both human health and the planet for ages, yet our societies are still shaped by shortsighted profiteering. It’s dumb & depressing.

Iraq is عراق in Arabic. That’s 4 letters: ع ر ا ق

Iran is ايران in Arabic letters (same as Persian). That’s 5 letters: ا ي ر ا ن

So they don’t start with the same letter & have only two letters in common between them. One is a vowel.

I know this doesn’t matter to most but I got it off my chest!

I’m so used to people confusing Iraq with Iran when they ask me how things are over there. I’m used to myself politely pointing it out & to them apologising & to me saying it’s alright there’s only 1 letter difference hehe. So here’s my chance to point out it’s actually not only 1 letter. See below:

Good morning ☀️
A thought for today:

Acceptance is not submission. Accepting negative emotions and experiences is freedom from resisting them. Giving up resisting is not giving up hope or action. We’re socially conditioned to get those concepts muddled up. Start by defining what each means for you.

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This being human is a guest house…

A wonderful poem by Jalaluddin Rumi.

The language in this X post is horrendous.
Other than the obvious cruel nature of such rhetoric, student visa ‘crackdown’ is an act of self-destruction. The UK higher education sector is suffering because of this mindless mimicking of Reform.

The language in this X post is horrendous.
Other than the obvious cruel nature of such rhetoric, student visa ‘crackdown’ is an act of self-destruction. The UK higher education sector is suffering because of this mindless mimicking of Reform.

Story behind a paywall so can’t read but let me make the point that worrying about UPF only becomes relevant if you can afford it. The basics of healthier diets aren’t affordable by many in our society. How can you replace cheap UPF foods with more expensive fresh ones if you simply can’t afford it?

Story behind a paywall so can’t read but let me make the point that worrying about UPF only becomes relevant if you can afford it. The basics of healthier diets aren’t affordable by many in our society. How can you replace cheap UPF foods with more expensive fresh ones if you simply can’t afford it?

Work from home is here to stay. Benefits of countering climate change & infection transmission are clear. But disbenefits of social isolation, excessive screen time & blurred work-personal boundaries need mitigation. The obvious thing is investing in local community hubs of different shapes & forms.

US Treasury Sec Scott Bessent’s decision to lift sanctions on Iranian oil at sea shows just how badly Trump’s war has failed.

Iran will get $14 billion from the deal, the first time the US is buying Iranian oil since 1996.

Trump’s Omnishambles: lives lost, billions wasted, now he’s paying Iran.

To my Persian friends and all who celebrate it, thinking of you on this Nowruz day and wishing for peace and joy for you and your families. So hard for this special time to come while you’re under war and oppression.
Sending you love 🙏🩷

Work from home is here to stay. Benefits of countering climate change & infection transmission are clear. But disbenefits of social isolation, excessive screen time & blurred work-personal boundaries need mitigation. The obvious thing is investing in local community hubs of different shapes & forms.

Oh NOW the elite want people to work from home again

Racism in the UK has reached a completely new level.

It probably was always there but it's now fully out in the open and is getting more and more normalised by the far-right and even the not-so-far-right.

The fact that racists have lost all inhibitions and don't hide any more is truly worrying.

If you’re an overthinker & find it difficult to unlatch the burdensome thoughts there’s one thing I found the works more than meditation, breathing & other things. That’s humming. Sing or hum a song or a tune. Impossible for worrying thoughts to maintain their possession of you while humming.

Today is Eid. I don’t know whether a celebratory post is appropriate given the circumstances but Eid is a time for sharing love, togetherness, smiles and food. We need more of all of this especially during these hard times.