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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Or Enid Blyton! Both equally jingoistic and patriarchal. But hey- they wove good yarns…

Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I’ve been wearing FFP3 masks in all indoor places for 5 years and haven’t been sick in all that time- does that count as evidence?

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

There is as a song by a band called The The in the 1980’s called “Armageddon Days are here” which made exactly this claim- “if the real Jesus Christ were to come back today, he’d be gunned down cold by the CIA”

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It’s crucial to get ventilation and air filtration in every public space. Thank you for speaking out about this. 🙏

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Thank you for pointing this out. It’s still a very real risk which needs some serious consideration.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

📢 BIG NEWS!!! For the first time, the Electoral Commission has recognised the voting access needs of Clinically Vulnerable people - thanks to CVF! But we’re not done. They are running a public consultation, and we need your help! 1/🧵 #MyMaskMyVote

WIN for CVF!

Clinically Vulnerability Recognised by the Electoral Commission

Understanding the barriers to voting for disabled people

By identifying and understanding the physical, psychological and information barriers disabled people may face when voting, you will be better able to make appropriate arrangements to help support them.

Some of the barriers and challenges disabled voters face include:

polling station staff not having awareness of health risks when asking a clinically vulnerable voter to remove a face mask in order to check photographic ID

#MyMaskMyVote

Clinically Vulnerable Families

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Thank you so much for continuing to highlight the issues 🙏@profstevegriffin.bsky.social

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Yes that’s exactly it- the pandemic and its ongoing sequalea have been expunged from conscious memory for most. But it’s still there, and will return as symptoms and inter generational trauma.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

There’s only so long the Government and NHS can keep these lies hidden.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Thank you for carrying out this vital work. Let’s hope we see some change/action on this soon.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When I posted on FB about Long Covid awareness on Sunday, citing between 3-4% of the population may have it, someone honestly commented “well I was fine after I had Covid so I can’t really take in this as a fact”. In other words, if it doesn’t affect me, it’s not happening!

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Not only is it farcical that this issue continues to be ignored, but the journalist or editor here seem to be struggling with some level of cognitive dysfunction as they repeatedly call PIP( Personal Independence Payment) Pips…

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

How long does the effect last I wonder? Given that most people in the UK have not been vaccinated for about 2 years

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It’s so refreshing to see this. I’m so grateful for @independentsage.bsky.social

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

No, SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a little bit airborne. It’s not “situationally” airborne. It’s an AIRBORNE VIRUS, spreads via the air. I’m granting an amnesty on people who said (5y ago) that it wasn’t. I won’t say I told you so if you finally acknowledge the evidence. Let’s just get this right and move on.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It’s infuriating and depressing

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I still miss your briefings. Such an important source of information, inspiration and hope in such a chaotic and stressful time. Thank you 🙏

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It’s good to see someone in the MSM calling this out. Something needs to shift on this!

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🚨𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗩𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 This is urgent. I am in my 5th year of dedicating myself to supporting Clinically Vulnerable families, I need your help continue to grow what we’ve built💕 We have achieved so much, but there’s more to do! 1/

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

No it’s not. I’m genuinely curious, I think I know it’s to do with the prevalence of Covid? But I wanted to get your thoughts.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This paper says that flu and RSV cause similar issues. What makes Covid exceptional?

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I just love it when I hear of protests actually making change happen!

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Or on the other hand “well I had Covid and I’m fine!” (apart from every virus I’ve picked up since then has been much worse, and I seem to be getting them more often, oh and there was that time I ended up at A&E with SOB and suspected pulmonary embolism). But other than that- I’m fiiiiinnnneeee!

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Thank you! I look forward to reading it. I’ve emailed you my details.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Exactly this. People so want to believe everything is ‘normal’ and this denial is a defence against intense anxiety. The anxiety then gets located in ‘the other’, in this case- people who mask, who then become the mad ones.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

An article I contributed to. ‘We need psychologists, but please don’t psychologise Long Covid’

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So sorry, I hope you get some relief

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

An acknowledgment the pandemic is ongoing, and society needs to be doing more to prevent the spread of infection.

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 02/12/2024

High quality advocacy from Matt ✊💙 "If we’re only focused on individual change and not on the systemic issues that actually have a larger impact on health, like poverty and lack of access to medical care, then what we’re doing is not really about health." www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

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‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid

Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder star speaks about the disease and another way of looking at health

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think it’s a question of capacity and internal feelings of deprivation ( for rich as much as poor) that leads to the former- the struggle for survival. But given how interdependent we are, the latter is not actually mutually exclusive to the former. Looking out for others=looking out for yourself.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think the initial phase of the pandemic, and more importantly *how it was managed * caused a lot of trauma, and laid the groundwork for where we are now. Plus, when society has been operating on such an individualistic basis for half a century, the sudden necessity of collective action was doomed.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’m not immunocompromised, but I still mask to protect myself as well as others from an incredibly dangerous virus.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hm…possibly. I may reconsider in time.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’m keeping both for now. It’s still an important source of information and community

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Please stop referring to pandemic in the past tense 🚨Our #LongCovid Groups’ Barrister Ms Sarah Hannett KC is giving our closing statement for UK #CovidInquiry mod. 3: “Witnesses to the Inquiry have suggested that the pandemic is historic. This is both incorrect and dangerous.” #CovidIsNotOver

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

‘We must help people to embrace their stubbornness…’ An extract from ‘Why Psychosis is Not So Crazy’, by Stijn Vanheule. Repost for your chance to win a copy! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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‘We must help people to embrace their stubbornness’ | BPS

An extract from ‘Why Psychosis is Not So Crazy’, by Stijn Vanheule.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The pandemic is ongoing and everyone is at risk.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I’m also ‘sporting’ a crochet hexagon cardi if you look closely. 🙂

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Not sports team support. Just me in my crochet beanie! Which is keeping me lovely and warm in this cold weather.

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Nina 🐝 @ninabrad5678.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It’s like saying we need to test the life belts while people are drowning.

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