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Vicky C IOM

@vickyciom.bsky.social
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Wife, mother, grandmother. Retired primary school teacher, now pursuing second career as Humanist Celebrant.

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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Service of remembrance to take place for 'the babies who did not grow up'
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is terrifying
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Few people have done more to undermine trust in vaccines than Bhattacharya so quite frankly using the line the mrna vax have not earned public trust so must be gotten rid of is bs
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Experts condemn NIH director’s defense of cut to vaccine research
Critics say Jay Bhattacharya’s comments on so-called failure of mRNA vaccines to ‘earn public trust’ are ‘astounding’
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The fact that WHO's "very big mistake" is still destroying lives half a decade on, but the top priority of public health leaders everywhere is to cover it up by spreading the same old misinformation denying that COVID is airborne, illustrates just how profoundly corrupt the profession has become.
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The longer the panzootic continues out of control, the more opportunities #H5N1 will explore to expand its host range. Mutation is random, selection and evolution are not. Yes, the "risk remains low" for humans at present, but it won't be the current strains that we deal with. x.com/BNOFeed/stat...
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Strong stuff from Caroline Kennedy - RFK jr profits via his charities on vax disinformation and is one of the biggest purveyors of this disinformation on the planet. However I fear the GOP are too in Trump’s pocket to reject his nomination and he will downplay at the hearing his anti-vax stance
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Caroline Kennedy calls cousin RFK Jr a predator ahead of confirmation hearing
Scathing letter warns senators about danger her relative poses if confirmed as health secretary
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This lovely service takes place tomorrow afternoon. I am pleased to be able to offer words from the Humanist, non/religious perspective.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Last year 4,360 killowat hours of electricity came off my roof. Yet we still have new homes being built without solar and huge areas of roofs on schools, warehouses, hospitals, and factories going to waste.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Another reminder: Respiratory infections spread mainly through the air. That’s why they affect the lungs. Masks, worn correctly and consistently, reduce the spread of respiratory infections. Respirators work better than masks. Washing hands isn’t wrong, but it won’t stop airborne transmission.
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year from the Isle of Man! Wishing everyone a healthy and happy 2025.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year everyone. You’re all great, in some way. Each one of you has a weirdness - a superpower if you want to see it that way - that no-one else has. There’s no perfect, archetypal human. A species is the sum of its parts. And yet, as just one human, you are: special.
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
No one is an exception to becoming disabled. No one is immune to disability. Your health is not a guarantee. Even when you age, disability is almost inevitable at some point. Advocating for disabled people is advocating for your inevitable future.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This.
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Them: "Let's infect everyone with Covid endlessly and repeatedly despite the fact it's known to cause long term illness and disability" Also them: "TWENTY THREE PERCENT OF THE MILITARY ARE NOW MEDICALLY UNFIT TO SERVE"
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
It literally falls from the sky for free. Everyone needs it. Only a handful of businesses are allowed to sell it. All they have to do is clean it and put it through the right SMEGGING pipe. ...and yet... BBC News - Water boss defends 41% price rise and £371k bonus www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Yorkshire Water boss defends 41% price rise and £371k bonus
Nicola Shaw says the six-figure bonus was to "incentivise" her and would be paid by shareholders.
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Nathalie Pearson @natpearson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
🎄x
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Another 50% rise on flu A cases in England this week. I wonder how many more weeks growth this wave has in it. Just a reminder: An ffp2+ mask will help you avoid catching and spreading flu, covid, rsv, noro...
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
And to you Alice, from a dedicated Humanist celebrant in the Isle of Man.
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy Solstice to everyone I follow here, especially all you wonderful Independent Sage folk who try so hard to keep us informed and safe. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social and all! Hoping this next year is healthy and satisfying @drmk.link
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Uber drivers better learn CPR.
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StayingCovidSafe @starlightshelling.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This!!!😡
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
this is an outstanding and truly shocking story that has emerged from the current Inquiry module on infection control in hospitals. read it and weep. and demand better.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
⚠️ BREAKING: Expert Warns H5N1 Virus "Poised to Explode" Into Global Pandemic, Urges Immediate Action THE world could be on the brink of a “disastrous” bird flu outbreak, a top epidemiologist has warned.
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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
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Long Covid could cost the economy billions every year
Working days lost to long Covid could be costing the economy billions of pounds every year as patients struggle to cope with symptoms and return to work, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Failures in IPC decision-making have been laid bare for all to see in the COVID Inquiry - but is it too late to change culture? We are still making the same mistakes. www.bohs.org/media-resour...
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UK COVID-19 Inquiry Evidence shows a leadership culture that cares even less for science than it does for healthcare worker’s lives. - British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS)
The COVID-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance or CATA came together early in the pandemic to provide scientific evidence which challenge officials’ stated view that the virus was not capable of being sp...
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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
JCVI is the UK committee responsible for advising Government on immunisation policy. Many have questioned its advice & its basis. For example, Long Covid considerations omitted in some cases.
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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Children are poor because mothers are poor. If we don't address the drivers of women's poverty and earnings - including barriers to flexible well paid work, transport and unaffordable childcare - it's harder to tackle children's poverty. An astonishing 5.2 million children in poverty in UK.
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Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just to be clear. Every time anyone blames anything on the lockdown, they are deluded or dishonest. Blaming the lockdown is denying the seriousness of the virus. The COVID virus, not lockdowns, is to blame for economic, social & health upheavals since 2020 & for ongoing damage
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
NHS never really recovered from the pandemic - just look at any of the NHS indicators: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/qualitywatch... As a nation, we seem intent on a communal forgetting of how bad it was. I'm reposting this thread of testimony on the reality of the NHS during first two waves. Pls watch.
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We also have to bear in mind that we are still in a pandemic, without mitigations! Where are the infection control measures we need? Where are our air quality regulations for schools and hospitals?
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Isabella Eckerle @eckerleisabella.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Europe has a lot to do to make sure we will handle the next pandemic well. With the situation in the US, we have to rely on ourselves: to grasp the first signals of something spreading in time, react quickly to them, have diagnostics ready (and reagents), develop drugs and vaccines….it won’t be easy
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m getting tired of all of this narrative. You look after yourself when you’re looked after by others & when you’re not struggling with poverty, social isolation & discrimination. The state has a pivotal role in preparing the soil. Whether that’s NHS or beyond. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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NHS ‘will be overwhelmed unless patients look after themselves’
The public must be motivated to take charge of their own health, a Labour adviser has said
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
open.substack.com/pub/nannyogg...
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Revealed: ‘Grassroots’ campaigns opposed to assisted dying financed by conservative Christian pressure groups
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
youtu.be/xN5y7YrLIzs
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Congratulations!
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Chambermaid!
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Enjoy!
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
really important work showing a plausible physiological mechanism behind the brain fog many with Long Covid experience theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Long Covid ‘brain fog’ may be due to leaky blood-brain barrier, study finds
If barrier controlling substances entering and exiting brain is off balance, it can drive changes in neural function
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Listening to the charts & we desperately need more science in pop lyrics. "Time is passing like a solar eclipse". Passes same as any other time. "Loving you is in my DNA". No it isn't. "If heaven had a phone line..." Don't even get me started...
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Sallyoo @sallyoo.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Also in Italy, you just nip into the farmacia and ask for a Covid shot. Initially the offer was for over 65s, but the take up was slow, so for a month or so anybody can take up the offer.
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Vicky C IOM @vickyciom.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Happy New Year from the Isle of Man
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
“I am concerned that without proper protections sickness will continue to rise in nursing staff and impact on their ability to deliver safe and effective patient care, (and) the increased risks to patients from hospital-acquired respiratory infections.”
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U.K. Nurses Ask For Masks And Respirators As Covid Cases Rise
Nursing union leaders want the country to update its guidance on personal protective equipment in line with updates from the World Health Organisation.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
My latest take on the covid situation in England, covering the new ONS winter survey raw data, hospital admissions and the growth of variant JN.1 ! TLDR: just on the upswing from a trough in prevalence. Likely to see a wave over Xmas and into Jan. tinyurl.com/3kcszn49
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The return of the ONS infection survey and a likely Christmas wave
The ONS infection survey, which PCR tested tens of thousands of people each week for 3 years, was the crowning jewel of global Covid surveillance. Participants were randomly selected to be representat...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Johnson was never morally fit to hold any kind of public office.
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