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Clean Air Where @cleanairwhere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🧵 1/7 Last week we posted about the common misconception that cold air makes you sick. As the weather cools, we all head indoors more, just as virus season gets going. That means more shared air, more infections and more disruption.
Light blue Clean Air Where graphic reading: “Handwashing is great. But it’s not the whole story. How many illnesses are linked to pathogens we can inhale from shared air?” Illustrated hands being washed appear at the top right, with stylised airborne particles and virus icons moving through shared air below. Clean Air Where written at the bottom.
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Chloé de Canson @chloedecanson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.
Screenshot of the header of a published paper: 

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Patient's knowledge, doctor's ignorance: The production of knowledge about myalgic encephalomyelitis

Chloé de Canson

Department of of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, Groningen, 9712 GL, the Netherlands
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My aunt, the doctor, told me a new joke. She asked: How would a death from the plague get covered here? I said I did not know. So she answered: They didn’t die from the plague but with the plague, and besides they had a pre-existing condition. Neither of us laughed.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watch the full video (24 mins) David Tuller interview with George Monbiot: youtu.be/MaaeQ7crLz4?... George Monbiot’s recent article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS
YouTube video by David M Tuller
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 19h
Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald MD
@jfitzgeraldMD

It has to be said that gaslighting a woman that her symptoms are "just anxiety or stress" is a modern day hysteria diagnosis
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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 18h
It's 2026 and doctors are recommending handwashing as a way to prevent inhaling airborne viruses.
three panel comic:

panel 1: guy on bike with stick in his hand and the caption says: I'm a doctor

panel 2: guy on bike putting stick into his wheel spokes with the caption: Protect yourself from airborne viruses with lasting health consequences by washing your hands 

panel 3: guy on ground in pain holding his knee because his bike crashed with the caption: Why is my ER full
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Long Covid exposes critical gaps in traditional security thinking, particularly in addressing slow-onset, mass-disabling threats.”
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My #MECFS Scandal explainer has just hit half a million views on YouTube. I remember worrying that 27 minutes was too long and nobody would watch it. I never expected it to get so many. Thank you to everyone who shared it! Here’s the trailer 👇
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The BCNDP & Eby are campaigning hard on healthcare right now but it seems they are missing something - protecting patients & staff from airborne infections is needed for safe/accessible care
Jeopardy puzzle 
M_asks in healthcare

Clue: How do we fix this?
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
July 2020, Cleveland: 'A mild case of COVID-19 is not a mild case of the flu: Long-haulers’ symptoms linger for months, and lasting effects are still a mystery' “Anyone can be a long hauler...we don’t know why this is happening.” - Dr. Christopher Babiuch www.cleveland.com/coronavirus/...
cleveland.com
A mild case of COVID-19 is not a mild case of the flu: Long-haulers’ symptoms linger for months, and lasting effects are still a mystery
COVID-19 patients who call themselves “long haulers" are defined as patients with persistent symptoms that last more than two weeks.Symptoms include extreme fatigues, shortness of breath and brain fog...
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Surprising message of the day! Eliminating infectious children from the classroom helps the individual child to recover, and it protects everyone else from infections. Well done this preschool! 👏👏👏
Burgoyne Heights Preschool.

10h.

Follow

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X

Good morning

Due to the ongoing flu like symptoms going through the school we cannot rule out Covid even though tests may come back negative. There is a new variant going around the UK and the symptoms include:

High Temperature

Cough

Runny Nose

Body Aches

Headache

Loss of taste and smell

We have had so many poorly children and staff with these symptoms and we don't want it spread. Please keep your child at home if they present with any of these symptoms and do not bring them back until they are better.

Staff will be checking temperatures and if they think your child has any of these symptom's they will be sending your child home to recover.
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is obviously a worrying development, especially considering the fact that air travel was involved. I am considerably more concerned by the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in this region than I am by current events in Russia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Kenya confirms first case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus
The patient had been living in DR Congo, where more than 4,000 people have died from the disease this year.
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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pandemic isn't over and Covid isn't "endemic". It's still a pandemic disease with waves across the globe. It can still make you sick, kill you, hospitalize you
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you. Please know you’re not alone. Many of us still mask, test and isolate when sick. Being the lone masker can be difficult, but your long term health is worth it. As a high risk, immunocompromised person… I see and appreciate you.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick. N95 respirators and air cleaning stop the aerosols that plague, COVID, etc transmit in. If you need advice on protecting yourself, talk to someone #Covid / #longCOVID aware. Even if you think we're nuts, we're pretty 🤬 good at this by now.
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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow, this interview with Guardian columnist @georgemonbiot.bsky.social about the mistreatment of people with ME/CFS has racked up 13,000 views in the last few days...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaeQ7crLz4
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The troubling paradox is that women experience more pain, yet their pain is also more likely to be dismissed, diagnosed late or undertreated ... This enormous study shows that the higher burden of pain in women is remarkably consistent across the body and in a remarkably diverse global population."
theguardian.com
Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds
Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55
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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“This ongoing pandemic has irrevocably changed my life…I hope everyone can understand that the best and only way to truly prevent Long COVID is to prevent catching and spreading COVID!” Lily (@amanai_chains on IG) Read story: www.instagram.com/p/DeIpjJrR7V...
Lily (@amanai_chains), wearing a Kimberly-Clark Kleenguard N95 duckbill respirator and a mask chain she made, which reads "MAKE MASKING CUTE AGAIN".  
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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it's weird how fixated a lot of you are on people who are covid conscious..
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
brief reminder because a TikTok video of an asshole is going around, disabled people trying to avoid illnesses that could make them more disabled is not OCD, it is lived experience with a disability that you do not have, and thus should have your stupid mouth closed and stupid ears open about.
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r #FreeŁink @rifka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When are you going to figure out alt text 😔♿️
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Artist: @momokakkoii.bsky.social
Panel 1: The pink axolotl looks curioius and asks, "what are your saturday plans?"

Panel 2: The green frog, wrapped cozy in a purple-and-white polka dot blanket and holding a chocolate chip cookie, replies simply, "nothing".

Panel 3: The axolotl narrows its eyes in slight disbelief and asks, "nothing at all?"

Panel 4: A close-up of the frog with a fiercely determined expression, wrapped in its blanket, stating: "i've fought for this nothing all week. i've earned this nothing. do not put anything in my nothing."

@momokakkoii featuring a pink axolotl and a green frog against a light blue background.
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Angela Davis MPR @angeladavismpr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did you know that for some people the symptoms of COVID-19 never went away? Years later many folks are still dealing with severe fatigue, brain fog, joint pain & loss of taste or smell. On MPR News I talked with a doctor & a public health leader about Long COVID. . www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
mprnews.org
Long COVID affects many Minnesotans years after the pandemic
It’s been six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but many Minnesotans are still suffering its aftermath. MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the extreme fatigue, brain fog and other sy...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...
smithsonianmag.com
This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution
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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Such a bad take, JCO. All books count! Also, “machine-made” clothes are still very much made by humans. Fast fashion workers are paid a pittance for skilled labour. Even JCO’s metaphor here is flawed.
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Probably Prowerfox @prowerfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Screen door on a submarine level of helpful to wash hands for airborne precautions. I mean yeah, definitely *also* wash your hands but that isn't the vector "airborne" describes...
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recent photo at the NHS. Over 6 years into #COVID, and we still have “wash your hands” under “AIRBORNE PRECAUTIONS.” We are failing hard to communicate one of the most basic lessons of this pandemic: Airborne means spread through the AIR. Clean air is infection control. #Airborne #PublicHealth #NHS
Photo shows a sign at NHS that says: Airborne precaution
Please wash your hands before entering the training room. Thank you
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my colleague: I have a question me: MC: yk period blood & stem cells? is it true no one has researched it because it is icky? me: OK WELL, Menstrual-blood stromal cells were first found in 2007, but the science way to say "icky" is "research is limited due to gender bias & sociocultural stigma"
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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Many men would rather engage in violent fantasy about what they WOULD do instead of doing what they easily COULD.
Threads post from @protextor


“I'd kill for my daughter."

OK. Will you risk social inconvenience by calling out your peers loudly and to their face? Or is that bare minimum real-life scenario scarier than your hypothetical one? 1/2
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's funny because if I get my covid protocols really wrong there's solid odds I end up dead or debilitated (thanks, genetic condition!) but even far too many radical spaces are really shitty about the very topic. Then they wonder why their support networks crumble and "everyone's sick all the time"
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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the thing that drives me nuts as a normie with an immunosuppressed partner is that no one will speak up for, like, the benefits of "80/20" protection — wearing a mask on the elevator, on the subway, at the grocery store, the places where like 30 minutes a day cuts overall exposure & spread the most…
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Colleen Steckel @colleensteckel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Research about replacing bone marrow to bring in healthy mitochondria. As #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis & some with #LongCovid deal with malfunctioning mitochondria this may be worth watching. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu
Bone marrow transplants offer surprising way to treat mitochondrial disease, Stanford Medicine study shows
Healthy cells can transfer mitochondria to unhealthy neighbors, offering a possible treatment for a group of rare genetic diseases, a Stanford Medicine study shows.
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The most insane thing about this #MECFS scandal, beyond all the suffering and neglect, is that it costs hundreds of times more in economic losses every year than it would to fund the research that could eventually decrease this burden. The degree of short-sightedness involved is astounding.
theguardian.com
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Public Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We've all gone on a journey with being the only mask-wearing person in the room or store. What's your journey with wearing a mask been like? Let us know in the comments.  #stillmasking #stillneedcleanhealthyindoorair #COVIDisntover #measlesishere
PHAN (Public Health Action Network) logo at the top. Large text reads “The Emotions of Being the Only Masked Person.” A teal pill-shaped banner repeats the phrase. A simple line graph traces five emotions: “confident,” “awkward,” “reassured,” “questioning myself,” and “proud.” A teal footer asks, “What has your journey been like? Let us know in comments.”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I live with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. MECFS imposes severe energy limitations that interfere with any form of exertion, including mental. At its most severe, it feels as though your body is shutting down, like a living death. Thank you, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Prior infection doesn’t guarantee protection from getting COVID again. Reinfections can happen, and every new infection is another opportunity to develop Long COVID. Reducing the number of times we’re infected still matters. #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir
World Health Network graphic on a black background with white and bright pink text. Large headline reads: “More exposure doesn’t equal better protection.” Supporting text reads: “Getting COVID doesn’t protect you from getting it again. Repeated COVID infections create repeated opportunities for developing Long COVID.” The top includes “whn.global” and the World Health Network tagline, “Science for a safer, healthier world.”
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Examples of researchers talking about how many people volunteering for studies as healthy controls turn out to have Long Covid:
Tweet from Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab

Of all the "COVID-recovered" people who are kindly emailing us to participate in our study (meaning they had COVID >12 weeks ago and feel recovered), only about 1 in 5 are actually passing our screening questionnaire. The rest actually have persistent symptoms. #LongCOVID

1:18 PM • 2/23/22 From EarthScreenshot from CNN Health

Putrino said they had the most difficult time, in some respects, recruiting people to their control groups. "We had all of these people saying, 'I had Covid, and I'm fully recovered. Can I be in your study?' "

Upon further questioning, however, Putrino says they'd tell him things that would suggest they weren't really back to normal. "They'd say, I'm fully recovered. I just don't go to the gym anymore.' " Why don't you go to the gym anymore? 'Well, when I exercise, I feel really terrible," he said. Disabling fatigue after exercise is a common symptom of long Covid called post-exertional malaise.

He says that ultimately, about 50% of participants who were screened to be part of the control group couldn't be included because of continuing symptoms.Tweet from Alba Azola, MD
@AzolaAlba

For those doing LC research... around you having trouble finding controls? We are experiencing that most of our "HC" volunteers, when further assessed, end up having post COVID symptoms

9:56 AM • 8/8/24 From Earth • 6.2K Views
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Ande[']s Candies @abobandrea.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026
leavesubstack.com
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You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We've seen a distinct drop in interest in these conditions as people have memory-holed COVID; they'd like to forget infection-associated chronic conditions, but they're impacting everyone, including kids. I'm the Scientific Director at #MEAction, and I advocate for #MECFS, #LongCOVID, & other IACCs.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I heard someone say that “Extremely covid-cautious people are probably objectively correct,” and while I will admit that I do not consider my caution extreme, I will also admit that more than anything I hope that I’m wrong.
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Probably Prowerfox @prowerfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Now cough"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh hey where did they get the idea the public wouldn’t care about that, I wonder?
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