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Thémis 😷 Covid is not over ≽(•⩊ •マ≼ @themis2023.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hausse de la circulation du Covid en Angleterre (taux de positivité) et en Écosse (eaux usées). 👉 masques FFP2 en lieux clos et en extérieur si proximité, symptômes ou pas 👉 filtration de l'air/aération 👉 vaccination (bientôt le début de la campagne d'automne) H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social

2 graphiques côte à côte: le graphique de gauche montre la hausse du taux de positivité en Angleterre (tests PCR Covid) ; le graphique de droite montre la hausse de SarsCov2 dans les eaux usées en Écosse.

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

During the Covid inquiry, one of the independent expert witnesses was asked: “Is there any scenario or situation where someone could produce a droplet without also generating significant amounts of aerosols?” Professor Clive Beggs clearly replied: “NO”.

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Professor Clive Beggs stated during his testimony to the UK COVID Inquiry that there is no situation where respiratory droplets could be produced without producing significant amounts of aerosols. [Courtesy of @catinthehat.bsky.social]

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David Eldredge @citlan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Really important thread 🧵 HT: @catinthehat.bsky.social There were so many BIG wins in the Covid Inquiry M3 report. So many of the things CATA & other core participants fought for were completely vindicated: 🚨aerosol transmission 🚨ventilation 🚨AGPs dead in the water …BUT some big omissions too…"

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

And here’s a scientific article which describes practices for safe handling of Neisseria meningitidis in labs: “Transmission of Neisseria meningitidis MAINLY occurs by formation of AEROSOLS generated in the nasopharynx.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Surely UKHSA should at least be considering the possibility of AEROSOL transmission? Many official public health websites (the UK Green Book, NICE, ECDC, and, until a day ago when it was suddenly deleted, the WHO) all mention aerosol as a mode of transmission for meningococcal bacteria…

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

By Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social "Health officials are even actively telling people NOT to wear a mask to protect themselves because they can “create the wrong message” and “spread panic”. "If there is even a chance of AEROSOL transmission, this could be extremely dangerous advice."

Screenshot of a social media post by Cat in the Hat (@_CatintheHat) discussing mask guidance. Below is a Kidney Care UK article titled “Should face masks be worn?” with highlighted text stating: “The UKHSA do not advise wearing face masks as they have no role in controlling meningococcal disease outbreaks.” It also quotes that masks can “create the wrong message” and “spread panic,” and concludes that “for the public there is no need to wear a mask,” noting meningococcal disease spreads differently from COVID-19.

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This whole thread. It’s criminal that the UK, in the middle of a meningitis outbreak that has killed 2 students, put many in hospital and still a danger, is repeating the same droplet dogma mistake they did with Covid, which has been admitted in a long-drawn out Covid Inquiry was a colossal mistake👇

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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It looks like they're repeating the same mistakes as with covid. "Oh no it's not spread by aerosols. Just wash your hands. No need for masks." Why do they do this? People will die.

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Nightclub owner at centre of meningitis outbreak says “something isn’t making sense”. “There's been a lot of talk about how hard it is to transmit… …but actually, it was transmitted a LOT more easily, by the looks of it, than they're suggesting.” www.lbc.co.uk/article/meni... 🧵

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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

On this day, 13 March 2020, six years ago, the UK government made a "pragmatic" decision to downgrade Covid from High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) due to the shortage of FFP3 masks. This left NHS workers unprotected from Covid since. Thanks to @catinthehat.bsky.social for the reminder & 👇

Letter by Prof. Tom Evans, chair of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) to the UK Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van Tamm on 13 March 2020 recommending that Covid-19 should NOT be classified as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID). The letter is juxtaposed with an extract from 6 February 2021 article by the BBC science editor David Shukman about the consequences of that decision. The subheader says 'A "pragmatic" decision. Highlighted text reads: 'A member of ACDP, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the decision was indeed "pragmatic", not because of pressure from government but because everyone knew the stockpile of PPE was limited'. Images from an X thread by Cat In The Hat @Catinthehat, 13 March 2026.

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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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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🎯🎯🎯🧵by @catinthehat.bsky.social on XTwitter, presenting "... some important data from the latest [NHS] GP-Patient survey. This is a HUGE survey with a sample size of ~700K people in England (5x bigger than ONS’s Covid survey)..." 23-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20333...

"In honour of #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay, I’d like to present some important data from the latest GP-Patient survey.

This is a HUGE survey with a sample size of ~700K people in England (5x bigger than ONS’s Covid survey).

In this thread, I’ll walk you through some key findings…"

Followed by a partial screenshot of a chart visualizing the results of Question #40:
"Q40. Would you describe yourself as having Long COVID?
Source: GP-Patient Survey National Results, July 2025"

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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

❗The #CovidInquiry Module 3 report (healthcare, a catalogue of failures and evidence suppression) is out today, shortly. X is suppressing MedTwitter posts,and has put @catinthehat.bsky.social in twitter jail. Please give Cat's account some love (follow, like, share) if you follow #Covid #LongCovid 💙

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🚨🧵by @catinthehat.bsky.social over on XTwitter: COVID INQUIRY: MODULE 3 REPORT “Fundamental flaws in the UK’s approach to IPC [infection prevention & control] guidance, for example in relation to the use of PPE, put patients and healthcare workers at risk.” 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20346...

COVID INQUIRY: MODULE 3 REPORT

“Fundamental flaws in the UK’s approach to IPC [infection prevention & control] guidance, for example in relation to the use of PPE, put patients and healthcare workers at risk.”

— Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Covid Inquiry

Read more here… ⬇️

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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

WHO just removed the word "AEROSOL" from the modes of transmission of Meningococcal Meningitis from its website. 1/x @catinthehat.bsky.social

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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Many countries dealt with Covid 19 very effectively. The UK pursued the wrong strategies and failed miserably, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. Rather than learn the obvious lessons, the plan is to pretend there is no solution, and bestow honours on the architects of our negligent disaster.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

UK response these days to problems: "we give up in advance".

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kaijabat @kaijabat.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

wow. so, let’s not even try, then! /s how about we automatically use respirator masks when there’s an airborne pandemic, and improve the air quality controls of all buildings NOW?

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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The GBD libertarians declare victory

Man to firemen. “No thanks I'm a libertarian”

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Daniel McLaughlin @thedenial.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Since they've no intention of halting the spread of the current pandemic it's hardly surprising they would care about a future one.

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Misha (entrepreneurial clown) @mishacopyninja.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Remember when I said that the decision to simply ignore the fact that COVID was still spreading then opened a can of worms of public health crisis and governments are now mishandling multiple old and new pathogens? This is exactly the type of thing I was talking about.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 07/12/2025

This is incredible

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Not quite sure what "public health resources" are supposed to be used for, if not attempts to ensure public health. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Make no mistake, this is also clearly Australia's attitude. #COVID #SARS-CoV-2 #Pandemic We are on our own.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Well. Certainly not with that attitude.

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meshell @meshell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

“You do you“ policy outcomes are working out great.

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🚨🚨🫨👇

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"What, are we supposed to go 'round stripping the handles of *all* the neighbourhood pumps? Are we to invest *millions* in pipes and pumps to keep sewage and drinking water separate? Preposterous! No, I'm afraid cholera is here to stay." ~ Bizarro John Snow

John "The Father of Modern Epidemiology" Snow, seated quite sternly with an elbow on the table next to him.

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

In case you were wondering how far the "it's not airborne aerosol transmission" denial in healthcare would go. Let's not forget asymptomatic transmission, something that terrifies them so much it's rarely ever mentioned.

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The Skylark @theskylark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

🚨🚨🧵by @catinthehat.bsky.social on Twitter about the trends regarding % of adults in the US & UK who... Full 🎯🧵 (10 tweets): threadreaderapp.com/thread/19922... #Covid #LongCovid #Workforce #Disability

Two countries.

Two charts.

A very similar (and concerning) trend.

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Can you think of anything that happened in 2020 which is still affecting huge swathes of people on an ongoing basis and which may help explain this worrying trend?

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.” This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social

15 July, 2024
Date last updated: 15 July, 2024
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Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long:read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/
Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases
Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the @ National Risk Register 2023: "any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route". These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning:
• it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so
• the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual

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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is actually real. It’s the result of neofascist evisceration of the basic state function to serve the public interest and work for the collective good. Covid contrarians were always political operatives working toward this exact goal. via @catinthehat.bsky.social

NHS England: "It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.
This has got to be one of the most things I've
ever seen written down in an official document.
england.nhs.uk
Date published: 15 July, 2024
Date last updated: 15 July, 2024
© Print or save to PDF
Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/
Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases
Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the @ National Risk Register 2023: "any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route". These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning:
it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so
• the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual impact could be very different to that predicted
• response plans must have a degree of agility and scalability to cope with a range of possibilities and adapt to a wide range of scenarios
• despite the origin of the pandemic, it is likely to reach the UK very quickly, with sporadic cases and small clusters of the disease occurring around the country after only one or t…

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

So why is there no public health messaging about this ongoing #pandemic? That #COVID is caused by a fully airborne virus that can infect and disable anyone at any age, vaxxed or not? I'll tell you why. Because politics. Because capitalism. #disability #healthcare #MillionsMissing #MECFS #maskup

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Clean Air in BC Schools @iaqinbcschools.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

👏🎩 H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social ! Healthy Air People: Time to rally around Montenegro 👏😷🪽 Better Schools = Better Kids = Better Future for Everyone 💫 🪟💨🥰 (📽 1/2)

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Eligibility for an NHS Covid booster has been HUGELY restricted this Autumn. Studies show that both acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... So why are the government offering so much LESS protection for Covid?

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

[27 Jun 2025] @DrTedros at WHO media briefing: “We cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains. It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition or long COVID.”

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This is your regular reminder that COVID is *not* seasonal. Many of the biggest waves in previous years have fallen in the summer… …and, as we head into summer once more, there are definite signs of an uptick. Will this become another full-blown wave? Only time will tell…

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Long Covid UK @longcoviduk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Our friend Ondine was a powerful advocate for all with #LongCovid. Working with her in various arenas was a privilege, including with the NHS Long Covid Taskforce, Covid Inquiry, with Parliamentarians & policy makers. She spoke truth to power & championed the hidden. We miss you.

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Alan Barnard @alanbarnard1.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @eleanorwalsh.bsky.social Please have a look at this info below. 'Grit' isn't going to fix these harms. The info comes from a twitter thread of research about cognitive harms caused by repeated Covid. Here is a threadreader summary of it: threadreaderapp.com/thread/17638...

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Thread by @_CatintheHat on Thread Reader App

@_CatintheHat: COVID + THE BRAIN 🧠 There’s been a flurry of new studies published in recent weeks about Covid’s detrimental impact on the brain. This is the aspect of Covid which concerns me most, but...

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Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social I’d like to know how Bridget Phillipson thinks that teaching children the value of grit is going to help them overcome the neurological damage caused by multiple COVID infections. The science is clear that this is a major contributor to the mental health crisis in kids.

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James Neill - 🇺🇦💙 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶 @jneill.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And I'd be interested to know if ONS will revise prior years with any new method? In particular the current model's estimate for 2024 proved to be simply wrong (the data point in red, highlighted). Fyi @catinthehat.bsky.social

Deaths registered and expected per year
Data points in red are from the latest ONS model

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Dr Barry Jones @barryjmjones.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This BBC piece 24/2/21 shows we knew then but still UK IPC guidance does not reflect airborne transmission with RPE such as FFP3 respirators.

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