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Lindsay Skipper @lindsayskipper.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New article from the team of @profmarkfaghy.bsky.social highlighting how lived experience should be part of all stages of research and not simply tokenistic. Patients are the expert in their condition and there is always more to hear and learn from them. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Very moving video from Long Covid Physio ❤️👇

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Long COVID Physio @longcovidphysio.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Before infection, our members chose how to use each heartbeat. Now #LongCovid limits what each beat can be used for. Turn your phone landscape for the best viewing experience. #LCAD26 #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay #LongCovidHeartbeats #EveryHeartbeatCounts

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Dr Barry Jones @barryjmjones.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

CATA has found via FoI requests that government bodies did not fully disclose vital evidence to COVID Inquiry. They ignored views of PHE that airborne precautions should have been available to all HCWs. WHY?

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We are insane. Our species is insane.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?" Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉 It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“People used to be getting healthier year on year. Now we're getting sicker year on year. The difference is Covid.”

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🚨 Are people sicker now than in 2019? Civil servants in England are. Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*. Are things getting worse? It certainly looks like it. This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

*Reminds me I still think with some work this could possibly serve as a good TV show or mini-series premise. Pastor by day, virus/disease hunter at night, with a family. Or perhaps an animated version with an actual seabird. All proceeds would go towards COVID & Long COVID awareness, etc.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I find it really really hard to keep up with more than one social media site... I have a full time job, a family, and, you know, a life, so I don't post here much... but I'm going to try to share a bit more. Also posting here too: youtu.be/8cJggmt_CB4

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Sickness Absence Rates in *Young* Doctors

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff The three graphs that *every person* needs to see. The question that every single person needs to ask their government: What are you doing to protect me from Covid infection?

Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff

All three rising significantly from the point that covid infections started.

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Saskboy from Saskatchewan @saskboy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

@1goodtern.bsky.social: "It's time to talk about the vax and relax crowd again. They got their shots, so the virus is now someone else's problem. But vaccines *reduce* the risks of Covid's long-term harms *without* eliminating them. The science never said that. It is just what people chose to hear.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

One more sleep until the UK edition is out... 😍

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

She had me at Vyvyan and Rik.

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🍉 Cassis Blue 🍉 @bluecassis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A dérouler car c'est effrayant. Ce sont les données pour le Royaume-Uni mais je suppose que c'est la même chose en France.

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The Skylark @theskylark.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A horribly sobering thread from Tern.

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

From the NHS, which actually has comprehensive data.

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Susan Board, PhD @suseboard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Read this thread and weep. Then act as if airborne viruses matter 😷

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*. It's hard to comprehend. It's hard to get your head round it. You need to see it to believe it. 👀

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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There seems to be a bipartisan agreement in the UK to let the NHS fall to pieces through neglect and underfunding. Or am I missing something?

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital. During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.

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Catherine Clase @catherineclase.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The idea that 'cloth masks are good only for droplets' still circulates. Many have said this, but it is wrong. Recommendations about cloth masks, from spring 2020, were based on aerosol evidence www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... #WearTheBestMaskAvailable 1/14

Cloth can block droplets and aerosols, and layers add efficiency. Filtration efficiency for single layers of different types of cotton cloth in a bioaerosol (0.2 µm) experiment was between 43% and 94%, compared with 98% to 99% for fabric from disposable medical masks (2). In a summary of similar observations, single layers of scarfs, sweatshirts, T-shirts, and towels were associated with filtration efficiency of 10% to 40% in experiments using NaCl aerosol (0.075 µm) (3). For tea towel fabric, studied with aerosol-sized particles, filtration efficiency in experiments using a bacterial marker was 83% with 1 layer and 97% with 2 layers, compared with 96% for a medical mask (4). In experiments using virus, 1 layer of tea towel had 72% efficiency and 1 layer of T-shirt fabric 51%, compared with 90% for a medical mask (4). A 2020 study confirms that some fabrics block clinically useful percentages of transmission, even for aerosols and even in single layers; multiple layers improve efficiency (5).

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We are living in such a state of denial that people are seriously debating whether or not Musk's Nazi salute should be seen as a Nazi salute. If that's where you are, you will be in the digestive tract of the monster long before you've managed to convince yourself that it is, in fact, a monster.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The whole thing about buying Greenland is because Republicans *believe* in climate change. I mean like really believe in it. They want it. They love the idea of it. They're excited about the world burning and the north melting. They're practically counting on it.

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xfuereinuplan.bsky.social @xfuereinuplan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

the crowd did yesterday....

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colonvalbert.bsky.social @colonvalbert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

They are all birds of same feather

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This podcast, Sergei and The Westminster Spy Ring is just so epic. Short episodes told well. If you want to understand the last fifteen years, this story is key. 🔑🔥 Listen and share. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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Digital Barbecues

Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP3 · 37m

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Lee Richardson @leeincapetown.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I’m one episode in and it’s great!

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It must hurt so hard for all the people who are defending Musk's Nazi salute when what they really want to do is scream "hell yeah" and join in.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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Digital Barbecues

Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP3 · 37m

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I've visited six hospitals this week. I've actually seen more people in masks than I have in 18 months. But most of the masks have been ones that aren't designed to protect against spread of airborne disease. They're not the solution. We need to use the right tools for the job.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I am shocked and stunned and shocked that Boris Johnson might have misled us about this. "Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for decades" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I just mentioned to the ternlings that it takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to get to the earth from the sun, which is exactly 500 seconds, and one of them said "that's a suspiciously round number".

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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A couple of years ago, I ended up in the hospital with an infection that started in my mouth that moved to my lungs and brain. It wasn't long after having COVID. I still wonder. It was a horrendous experience. I'm glad I beat the odds and have suffered no long-term damage from it.

Me in the hospital hooked up to a ventilator.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"...sexual abuse is overwhelmingly likely to be carried out by someone you know, who you may be related to or in a relationship with, and who is pretty nice to you some of the time. These are complex and inconvenient truths, but they are truths." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It would cost over £1800 for a family of 5 to get vaccinated for the tripledemic illnesses you ignorant loofah. The government aren't offering them. <screams> "This could be the toughest winter in NHS history. Here’s a simple way we can all help: Get vaccinated" 🤬

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Why do people who catch covid catch so many secondary infections afterwards? It's because of the immunity dent.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Economic growth could fall 50% over 20 years from climate shocks, say actuaries" Story: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I was today years old when I realised that bovril is called bovril because it's made from cows.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Ha... I know this is going to be a strange recommendation that will apply only to a small number of people... but do you ever spend a day in a mask and it ends up smelling of sweat? This fragrance free hypoallergenic stuff works on your face too: superdeodorant.com/yxckkn

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

One of the things that's easy to forget about the bots and trolls used to sway influence on social media is that the controllers **play both sides against each other**. Some of the accounts that seem to support you or back you up, but do so aggressively, will be there to poison the well.

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Dominoes Nabisco @swerdferger.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, behind only China and the US. If air conditioning were a country, it would be the fourth largest emitter, right behind cement.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here's what gets me about the outrage at Farage and Truss being at the climate denying Heartland UK launch... The Heartland Institute is intimately linked through funding, personnel, and policy with the Covid denying Brownstone Institute...

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