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Esther
@elhopkins.bsky.social
Composer who is currently working on a Song Cycle.

Posting about: Music, COVID safety, Clean Air, Climate Change & wildlife.

#Covidisairborne #FBCV
#Vaccinessavelives
#WearARespie ffp2/3
❌ to mask bans
#TransparencyCovid
Vote Green Party 💚
Or alternatively they could be saying wear an ffp2/3 to protect yourself, open windows & ventilate. Stay home if sick. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Wear a face mask if unwell to help stem flu ‘tidal wave’, say health officials
This year’s flu season started earlier than usual and is yet to reach a peak
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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IT IS NOT LIKE THE COUNTRY IS ON. FIRE 🔥 EVERY SUMMER OH MY GOD
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Mark Carney, making Wildfires, Flood, Droughts, & Heatwaves great again for fossil fuel companies' profits
#cdnpoli
December 6, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This is continuing to put so much at risk
December 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Here is Dr Barry Jones explaining that they knew from ‘day 1’ it was airborne and a virus of some consequence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 12 September 2024 AM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Here's the link without the ":5037" portion of the URL (dunno why Science Direct is including this unusual port # in their URLs):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined Winter Reflections.
We’ll replay the concert next weekend, and the recording will stay online for 72 hours so you can watch whenever suits you.
Exact times to follow by email.
Thank you for your patience.
#AirMadeAudible
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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[ see quote in next post ]

Long COVID: Urgent Findings, Including Brain Alterations, Call for Renewed Public Health Focus (Oct 2024)
www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/long-co...
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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🚨 Paging Dr Leonardi 🚨

@fitterhappieraj.bsky.social

You were saying? 🧐🧐

#Leonardi_Effect.....

Still the yardstick by which Cövid immune dysregulation should be remembered 🙏🏻
This study found that within 7 days of a COVID-19 infection:

•rapid increase in aged and exhausted CD4 and CD8 T cells
•accelerated “immune aging”
•this occurred in all cases regardless of illness severity
•this is specifically a SARS-CoV-2 effect not seen in other infections
Rapid progression of CD8 and CD4 T cells to cellular exhaustion and senescence during SARS-CoV2 infection
Mild to severe COVID-19, but not other respiratory infections, increased cellular senescence and exhaustion in CD4 and CD8 T cells over a 7-d period of inf
academic.oup.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:10 PM
We need action now on Clean air & layered mitigations.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
COVID infections are causing widespread immune damage and we need urgent action on preventions, good messaging, clean air, layered approach. We can’t afford to wait any longer.
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Thank you to everyone who joined Winter Reflections.
We’ll replay the concert next weekend, and the recording will stay online for 72 hours so you can watch whenever suits you.
Exact times to follow by email.
Thank you for your patience.
#AirMadeAudible
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Yep. Leaving the E.U. was always going to mean being less able to negotiate effectively, less well defended and having fewer freedoms (less freedom of movement for young U.K. people for one).

I feel sorry for the people who voted to stay: the people who voted leave - not so much tbh.
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We are being exploited by the Trump deal. Our struggling NHS will struggle some more thanks to Trump. Labour have been disastrous for our NHS with this deal and Palantir.
UK–US drug pricing deal to cost NHS £3 billion as NICE increases new medicines threshold
The UK has agreed a deal with the USA for a 0% tariff on pharmaceuticals in return for a 25% increase to the threshold at which the National Health Service (NHS) deems medicines to be cost-effective.
www.thelancet.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The UK deal with the US is a disaster for patients with the drug prices now being so much higher. Brexit has left us in this position. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
NHS to pay 25% more for innovative drugs after UK–US zero-tariff deal
Agreement could cost NHS an extra £3bn a year, industry sources estimate
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Trump just can’t stop interfering in other countries. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump administration says Europe faces 'civilisational erasure'
European politicians have begun to react, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need "outside advice".
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Nothing has been learned.
Cleaning air, masks?
Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Please folks mask up at concerts. We need clean air everywhere and young people shouldn’t be having their careers cut short by long Covid. It’s absolutely heartbreaking.

#Covidisairborne
Joshua Roman, 41, is an American cellist who once practiced 10hrs a day and toured the world performing standard and original works. After getting COVID in 2021, he developed Long COVID with severe brain fog and fatigue, becoming too weak to play his instrument or even climb stairs

archive.md/Wpg33
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Joshua Roman, 41, is an American cellist who once practiced 10hrs a day and toured the world performing standard and original works. After getting COVID in 2021, he developed Long COVID with severe brain fog and fatigue, becoming too weak to play his instrument or even climb stairs

archive.md/Wpg33
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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We woke up to this beautiful message today. 🧡
Help us keep supporting families:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Thanks to Clara for the cheerful festive artwork, we love the #penguin.

@biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge #LongCovid #LongCovidKids
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM