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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 5h

They reduce the risk, but they don’t completely eliminate it. Just like an umbrella reduces the risk of getting wet in a rainstorm, but doesn’t eliminate it completely. You’d still get even wetter if you didn’t have the umbrella.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 5h

Oi! Don’t quote tweet me to back up your misinformation!

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 5h

He is now. The UK decided only to give two vaccines to his age group. Then we had to wait for him to hit 12 before he could get a private vaccine. Vaccines help a bit against infection but the effects wear off over time. Fortunately they also reduce the risk of long covid.

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As people around me are getting covid for the 5th + time, I’m just going to say that this is a slow-moving crisis and we are not reacting appropriately

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I Love Animals @petsanimals.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wondered why my dog wouldn't come when I called him. Then I found this.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I suspect that viral load has a huge impact, and that it may be almost as much of an explanation for the higher proportion of female sufferers than male as the differences in our intrinsic biology.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

looking after my kids when they were sick and I didn’t know they had Covid. I do know a very small number of people who have developed similar problems where the vaccine was the trigger, but those of us with a covid trigger hugely outnumber them, as you’d expect by the size of immune insult.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

system, mast cell activation, regulatory T-cell depletion and neuroinflammation. Those pathological mechanisms are more likely to have been triggered by the virus than the vaccine because it is usually a far bigger immunological insult. Especially the three high viral load infections I had from

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Four more infections, two made me much worse, one slightly worse, one slightly better (?!), and five vaccines so far, none of which had any impact on long covid symptoms. For what it’s worth, I suspect that my symptoms result from a combination of microclots, autoantibodies to my autonomic nervous

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/10/2026

feels like we should make a larger talking point out of the fact that AI is just another attempt to consolidate wealth for billionaires

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Tatiana Trifan #FBLC @tatianatrifan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oopsie for the 6th year in a row. Because why do serious prevention when you can overwhelm health care each year. "The figures show there were 950 hospital admissions for Covid in August and the total jumped to 4,939 in September, up by around 420 per cent." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

independent.co.uk

What is the XFG Covid variant? UK hospitalisations up more than 400% in a month

More than half of the positive tests were found to be a variant of XFG

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sorry love, your theory is not consistent with my case, or with known science. I’ve had long Covid since Feb 2020, long before any vaccines were available. Disinformation/misinformation actually makes it worse for the few sufferers who did actually get long covid like illness from the vaccine.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mog is “helping” me make the bed!

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I Love Animals @petsanimals.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Came home to this today. I only own the dog.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow! If only I’d realised it was George who gave me the long Covid all along! 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s quite remarkable how persistent the “it’s all in your head” brigade are. Imagine being so arrogant, that you can’t believe there could be pathological processes you don’t understand, so it Must be psychological.

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Deadly betrayal of essential workers, Society forgetting children with Long Covid, Clean air eliminating Covid, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/deadly-bet...

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Deadly betrayal of essential workers, Society forgetting children with Long Covid, Clean air eliminating Covid, and more

Bonus Covid is still bad for you

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you for sharing this. And since the Covid pandemic a greater proportion of sufferers are, like me, also doctors. I’ve been fortunate to have suffered relatively little gaslighting, but I know plenty of other Dr-patients who have. The culture is slowly shifting, though. Very slowly!

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interesting. I’d not read that one, and I feel like they’re coming at it all sideways, if what they want is a diagnostic test. It’s useful additional information, though, for sure.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, I’m not sure what to do with that one. It rather makes me wonder whether we’re all going to get Parkinson’s in a few years. Here’s hoping the disease modifying treatments come before too many of us start to find out!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd have more respect for racists if they just said "I am a racist." All this dancing around "they won't integrate" and "legitimate concerns" is mealy-mouthed bollocks. Just grow a spine. Have the courage of you fucking awful convictions, and stop assuming we're all as stupid as you are.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, and it certainly rings true to me!

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, I rarely encounter that sort of situation! That’s interesting, though, and makes sense that it’s the internet thing. Is it an internal pressure, or do you sense people losing interest after a shorter time too?

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is it just the internet, though? Or is it also the fact that we’re all working two jobs to pay our housing costs and can’t afford a minute of extra childcare so actually having time to listen to another person feels like an unachievable luxury?

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I remember watching the wall come down on Newsround! (Kids News programme) and feeling very excited about it.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rubbish! You won’t persuade anyone to vaccinate their child (or give them a preventative vitamin K injection) by calling them names. I hope you’re not a doctor. Or in public health.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently it’s because rich people would rather sell at a loss than have to pay tax.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Similar to the feeling of walking on fresh snow!

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah, a threat! How delightful of you! Even most lifesaving medical interventions have potential risks as well. Life is not black and white, however much your thinking might be.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh yes, I’m in the UK and we have a problem with misunderstanding about nature, too. It’s not really a Christian thing here, but our cultures are linked. And we’re quite spoilt, too. People forget that death is natural!

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What reasons would you suppose? Any evidence base? I can only speak about my experience from talking to friends and patients.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As humans we have an intrinsic bias towards not acting, in case that action causes harm. Even when harm is more probable if we don’t act, we can’t compute, because the idea that we DID the action that then caused the (less probable) harm is so much harder to live with.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m just saying what I see. People go round in circles worrying about doing the right thing for their kids.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s not a “lifesaving medical intervention”. It’s a preventative injection, to reduce the risk of bleeding. Some babies who have the injection may still have a brain bleed, because it’s a thing that can happen, & most babies who don’t have the injection won’t have a bleed, because it’s uncommon.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, they don’t. They lost their child already. The child they cared about so much that they were too scared to allow them to have an injection just in case it harmed them. The people who spread the disinformation are the ones who should be held responsible.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like he’s played a wiser political hand than Corbyn, and he’s clearly not the same kind of slimy creature as Blair. I’m modestly optimistic that we may see some modest improvements. And the shift in the Overton window is enormously welcome.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He’s removed the child benefit cap and lifted 150,000 children out of poverty already. That tells me he cares and he’s got sensible priorities. He’s got a lot to do. Wrecking infrastructure is much easier and quicker than building it afresh.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is this weird feeling I’m having; could it be Hope? No, no, surely not, that’s far too dangerous!

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’

PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Came back to try again - still can’t find him! 😂

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lovely photo! How tiny is the stag, though? Maybe he’s wandered off!

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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

EXC: An estimated 150,000 children have been lifted out of poverty in the six months since Labour scrapped the two-child benefit limit. Labour party chair Bridget Phillipson will reveal the scale of change delivered by scrapping the cap in her speech today. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

mirror.co.uk

Scrapping two-child benefit cap has lifted 150,000 children out of poverty

EXCLUSIVE: Labour party chair Bridget Phillipson MP will reveal the scale of change delivered by scrapping the cap, as she warns the next election will be a choice between hope and fear.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hear immigrant children also have heartbeats.

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Dr Louise Hyde @seasidegp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Give me your best vegan recipes, please! I seem to have become allergic/intolerant to cheese. 😢 Bonus points if your kids will eat them!

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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If Parliament fails to pass immediate donation caps to stop billionaires buying UK elections, MPs are directly complicit in the collapse of our democracy. Allowing uncapped mega-cash to dictate policy erodes public trust. Why let dark money win? 🤔 #FBPE

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UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge

Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Of Course The Virus That Has Killed Millions Doesn’t Disable People

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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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