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MiftyJackson

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Living in North Wales 2 cat household . Worrying about our NHS 💙 😷 Covid CC. Love nature

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🎯 post by @1goodtern.bsky.social: "When governments told people that they were ill because they hadn't been ill enough, the wheels fell off modern medicine." OP: x.com/1goodtern/st...
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Numerous studies have demonstrated using animal models that even mild COVID-19 infections can lead to sustained microglial activation, which disrupts neural networks and impairs cognitive function.” www.news-medical.net/health/The-S...
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The Science Behind Long COVID Brain Fog
Cognitive impairments from Long COVID, including brain fog, affect quality of life. This article reviews research on its causes and potential interventions.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
13/ With public health messaging like this, it's no surprise that a petition to get masking reinstated in Yukon healthcare settings, only garnered 149 signatures in 16 months, out of a Yukon population of nearly 47K - www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
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Sign the Petition
Reinstate masks in Yukon healthcare
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
12/ It's worth noting too, that this otherwise excellent appraisal of Long COVID in Canada ("What we know, what we don’t know, and a framework for action"), by Canada's Chief Science Advisor - does not feature a single mention of masking or respirators: science.gc.ca/site/science...
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
11/ ...who just the previous year, and in a pandemic, had infamously fretted about masks causing acne - rather than advocating for the protective role of masks in preventing infections of an airborne, neurotropic, vascular virus - www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5994889
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Top Canadian WHO adviser under fire after downplaying airborne threat of COVID-19
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
10/ The writing was on the wall when, in 2022, @cmadocs.bsky.social awarded its highest honour to Dr. John Conly - www.cma.ca/get-involved...
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2022 CMA Awards Recipients
The 2022 CMA Award winners are doctors Conly, Lemaire, Rashid, Wieman, Ogunyemi, Ruzycki, Arsenault, Persad & Smith, as well as Army Alam, Angela Huynh & Mehul Gupta.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
9/ ...in the 6th year of an ongoing pandemic that continues to kill & disable Canadians - has yet to advocate for masking, N95s, or ventilation & filtration to mitigate against COVID & Long COVID in healthcare/hospital settings.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
8/ That Dr. Filiatrault had to write an article like this, more than 2 decades later, shows that no lessons were learnt. This is also reflected in the current adherence to Droplet Dogma by @cmadocs.bsky.social, which -
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
7/ Herewith a recent caution by Dr. Lyne Filiatrault, the doctor who successfully contained SARS in BC - while Dr. Bonnie Henry (now BC's incompetent Provincial Officer of Health) failed to contain airborne SARS in Toronto, which led to the 🇨🇦 SARS Inquiry - www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/o...
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Opinion: Gambling with bird flu is asking for trouble — and another pandemic
It's time for preventive action, four health experts write.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
6/ ...Targeted N95 use might be a cost saving measure, rather than evidence based policy, but all health systems must adequately cost occupational safety measures for their staff".
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
5/ ...The evidence from healthcare supports N95 use, but continuously rather than occasionally in self-identified situations of risk. This will require a major paradigm shift because guidelines to date recommend targeted use of respirators in very select situations.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
4/ ...Unfortunately, that lesson was not learnt during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic 17 years later, where the same disagreements about masks and respirators occurred and many healthcare workers died.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
3/ ...By contrast, Vancouver, where healthcare workers were provided N95s, did not have an outbreak, despite Toronto and Vancouver having their first SARS case at the same time.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
2/ Drawing on Canada's history with SARS, they write - "The precautionary principle should be used during serious epidemics, a key lesson articulated in the aftermath of SARS in Canada, where a large, fatal outbreak occurred in Toronto, with healthcare workers refused N95 respirators.
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
1/ An excellent paper on "The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings", notably authored by, among others, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & Dr. Raina MacIntyre (@globalbiosec on Twitter/X) - www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings
The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Some of the authors of this research are here on Bluesky. Links in Tania's post below: bsky.app/profile/tani...
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Direct link to the article mentioned in the post above: The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings | The BMJ (Feb 27, 2025) www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings
The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🎯🧵by @prognosticchats.bsky.social on Twitter: "This State of the Art Review on the role of masks & respirators in preventing respiratory infection coming out in the BMJ is worth a deep dive. So I've done that for you..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/18954... #Masks #Respirators #Airborne
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My mind drifts back to the people who told me that "all politicians are the same" and that it made "no difference" whether Harris or Trump won.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
One thing about the Starmer and Macron visits, and what just happened. They gave every opportunity to Trump to be the good guy. We saw what happened next, but that just clarifies the manner of this White House. A friend to dictators.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/02/2025
"Maybe Hegseth will have enough respect for those still in uniform to at least give them a smooth reintegration into civilian live as he musters them out. I have more sincere doubts about the draft-dodging felon who gives him orders." New from Will Selber:
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Transgender Service Members Aren’t the Problem
The problem is people in high office who can’t recognize bravery, patriotism, and sacrifice.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The US has been taken over by private equity run ostensibly by a man-baby.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 01/03/2025
Why pour so much technological effort into developing a human-shaped robot when it could be any shape at all, asks Leah Crane.
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Why humanoid robots are missing the point
Why pour so much technological effort into developing a human-shaped robot when it could be any shape at all, asks Leah Crane
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A piece from 2018 showing the alleged links between Trump and Putin nymag.com/intelligence... Would love to see someone create a Miro board of the updated connections Especially with Musk, Thiel, Vance and Rumble media network
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
No Elon Musk you have destroyed any illusion of independence you had. All 3 of you are just puppets for Netanyahu and Putin.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'm coming at this late. Just seen this. It might be the single worst moment in intentional politics that I have ever witnessed.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yes
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/03/2025
Trump can’t fulfil his promise to fix the economy, so he’s blaming workers instead
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Trump can’t fulfil his promise to fix the economy, so he’s blaming workers instead
Forget about inflation. Now it’s all about cutting ‘waste’ in the form of jobs and our already paltry social safety net
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just posted by President Zelenskyy
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
For all the horror, something potentially positive is happening. We seem to be witnessing the birth of an independent Europe before our very eyes inews.co.uk/opinion/a-ne...
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A new, independent Europe is being born – and the UK is at the heart of it
This could be one of the most important political developments of our lifetime
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Frustrating that the problem “the worst people in the world are obsessed with going to space and hate basic safety regulations” hasn’t solved itself
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Banning your writers from arguing against free speech is a hell of a look.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I'm often critical of the British lobby but when Cummings tried this stunt against left wing outlets the whole lobby boycotted until they backed down. The US press are pathetic.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Are we starting to see now? He's a madman. He's an idiot. An old man pissing himself in the corner of a room, muttering paranoid fantasies about his imaginary enemies. Ignore it until it happens. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’
President says at first cabinet meeting that levies would be applied ‘generally’ and that more details would come soon
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Braverman should be asked in every interview: do you believe a black person can be English. The clear implication of what she is saying is no. She should be made to say this publicly and repeatedly. The reaction to her doing so will reveal the consensus she finds so elusive.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The full article is here. It is a truly staggering thing to have written.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Cutting aid to fund defence, Mr Starmer, is both cruel and self-defeating. I agree we need to defend ourselves. But creating a less stable, less humane world is no way to do it.
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Pete #COVIDisAirborne @peteuk7.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Covid Cover Up - part 3 "It's not mild" It's absolutely exceptional. I hope people can see that the politicians know how harmful this is and yet they are saying & doing absolutely nothing. Gwynne knows first hand how severe Long Covid is. Full thread on X. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4Q...
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Mild RC4
YouTube video by The Covid Cover Up
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OCNJ @ocnj.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzce... @ukhadds.bsky.social
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DIY Test for Home Ventilation: Simple CO2 Tracking Process by Al Haddrell
YouTube video by Home Performance
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I’ll still make the long form, lecture style, videos to discuss broader topics as I feel these are important. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be making short clips from my previous videos that discuss specific topics. These will be focused, easy to both digest and share.
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
To celebrate reaching 500 subscribers on my YouTube channel, I decided to do a “Ask Me Anything About Aerosol, eh” #AMAAAeh. I received a lot of great questions. bsky.app/profile/ukha...
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
And with that, here’s the first #AMAAAeh video! In it I discuss the how exhaled aerosol is produced, and how that affects its size: youtu.be/2JXa4UvqQt8
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What is the distribution of aerosol sizes during breathing, singing and exercising? #AMAAAeh
YouTube video by Al Haddrell
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is an excerpt from an explainer video where I discuss how humidity affects airborne disease transmission. youtu.be/_6MfWES3aAw
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How Does Relative Humidity Affect SARS-CoV-2 Transmission?
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Children are not invincible. This was so easily avoidable. Tragic. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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Child is first death reported in major measles outbreak
The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 124 cases across nine counties, the state health department said Tuesday. There are also nine cases in eastern New Mexico.
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