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Greens Against Covid
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#GreenParty of England and Wales #covid and #longcovid campaign working group. Join us? https://linktr.ee/greensagainstcovid
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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · Nov 22
Action on Covid and Long covid We call on the government to protect us all from covid. Air quality improvements in public indoor spaces e.g.schools,hosoitals,public transport, workplaces NHS that is safe for patients and sraff Free lateral flow tests Sick pay for supported isolation Research into improved vaccines and therapeutics Post viral chronic illness research task force for better understanding of and treatment for Long Covid, ME and Chronic fatigue syndromes Comprehensive, safe, evidence bases vaccination and booster programme
greensagainstcovid.bsky.social
The Guardian : "What is the closest you’ve come to death?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Catching Covid. I don’t think any of us know what we’re messing with still to this day."
@greenparty.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#Covid #covid19UK #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #GreensAgainstCovid
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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jaxtait.bsky.social
They can't pretend "it isn't possible to control the spread of airborne infectious diseases" forever.

The cat is out of the bag!

The UK #CovidInquiry slams the Johnson Government for failing to communicate #CovidisAirborne
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
greensagainstcovid.bsky.social
These measures are not advised or adopted in most places in the world. Certainly not the UK and the USA.
orla-hegarty.bsky.social Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 1d
Flu is airborne, Covid is airborne, & clean air prevents the spread

Ventilation & masking are very effective protections - yet these simple scientific measure are *still* not advised or adopted by health services in Ireland 😷
irishtimes.com The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d
‘Challenging’ winter flu season expected to spike early around Christmas
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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susscrofa.bsky.social
The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.) The truth is we're still stuck there - and our collective denial is causing devastating harm. (Philip Hoover)
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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jaxtait.bsky.social
Of course it is possible to stop the spread of airborne pandemic diseases!

The #CovidInquiry suggests
✅ Better Government communication of airborne risks
✅ Lockdowns can be avoided with good leadership & adequate preparedness

UKHSA is asking everyone to
✅ Open windows for better ventilation
elhopkins.bsky.social Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 2d
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
15 July, 2024 Date last updated: 15 July, 2024 • Print or save to PDF Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response https://www.england.nhs.uk/long:read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/ Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the @ National Risk Register 2023: "any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route". These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning: • it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so • the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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By telling people to wear a mask when symptomatic, they're increasing the stigma of wearing a mask. The assumption will be that you're ill. We would like people to understand that you can wear #ffp3 to reduce the chance of spreading OR catching airborne diseases. Transmission can preceed symptoms.
thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3d
UK: "Brits told to 'wear a mask' as flu spreads across country"

Flu positive rate rose to 11.6% weekending Nov 25 (from 10.7%). Health chiefs said the highest positivity was in children aged 5–14.

“We haven’t seen a virus like this for a while… these dynamics are unusual,” said Prof Nicola Lewis.
A woman wearing a medical face mask sits on public transport, looking out the window. Other passengers in the background are also wearing masks. A headline on the image says: “Brits told to ‘wear a mask’ as flu spreads across country.” The source shown below is express.co.uk.
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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longcovidkids.bsky.social
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
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Reflections on Covid (so far...)
open.substack.com/pub/elephant...
Reflections on Covid (so far...)
Thoughts for Serina's play...
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
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
A portrait of cellist Joshua Roman. He stands against a softly lit beige background, casting a shadow to his left. He has short, curly dark hair and is looking calmly at the camera with a neutral expression. He wears a brown leather jacket over a light-colored shirt. At the bottom of the image is a caption . Across the bottom is the headline: “After a diagnosis of long COVID, cellist Joshua Roman builds community around Immunity”, with a link indicating the article is from chicagoreader.com.
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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tatianatrifan.bsky.social
This study below discussing platelets as immune cells helps understand why SARSCOV2 infections, via the hyperactivation of platelets, which is not rare (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), can be so problematic for people, even for apparently healthy people:

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Platelets as Immune Cells | Circulation Research
Beyond an eminent role in hemostasis and thrombosis, platelets are characterized by expert functions in assisting and modulating inflammatory reactions and immune responses. This is achieved by the re...
www.ahajournals.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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profaliceroberts.bsky.social Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 8d
Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….

“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Today in @lemonde.fr "The symptoms of Long Covid only make sense when they are linked to their cause"—i.e. the ongoing Covid pandemic and the proven damage that *preventable* covid infections do to several organ systems

Je suis fière d'être membre de @winslowsp.bsky.social !
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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jaxtait.bsky.social
Everyone knows #CovidIsAirborne
martinmckee.bsky.social Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 9d
My hotel in Hong Kong, where people understand airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, has HEPA filters everywhere
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social
“… coerced infection—the complete lack of mitigation and the normalization of mass and repeated infection of a debilitating virus—is ubiquitous throughout society.“
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
Our Culture of Coerced Infection
“You Do You”—unless you are trying to protect yourself from Covid
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Protect yourselves and others from #covid and other respiratory diseases. Think about your event. Is it ideal conditions for transmission? Are you making your followers/actors/musicians sick? #cleanair #ventilation @heartofthearts.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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amorvincitomnia.bsky.social
A Google Software Engineer won his long term disability case against MetLife after a California judge found his LongCOVID symptoms credible and supported by labs. He was no longer able to perform reliably due to brain fog and cognitive impairment after being infected twice. h/t @acrossthemersery
MetLife Owes Disability Pay to Software Engineer With Long Covid
A Google LLC software engineer suffering from long Covid won his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
greensagainstcovid.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk is the one UK party in England and Wales that has policy on #Covid and #LongCovid and recognises the science of #transmission. We realise that more needs to be done. We're working on it.
A pale green background. Top left the Greens Against Covid logo: the Green Party of England and Wales logo, a green suflower, with a white coronavirus crossed out. Top right, a dark green thought bubble with the words, Why did you want to join Greens Against Covid? Below this, a dark green banner with a light green speech bubble. The title L at the top. Inside, the words I recognise we are still in the COVID pandemic and action needs to be taken to protect public health. I want to help develop Green policy on this. GREENSAGAINSTCOVID below the banner. In small writing at the bottom, Promoted by Covid and Long Covid Campaign Working Group (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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No, #LongCovid is not AIDS.

But…

Musings from a patient’s perspective.

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Covid is not HIV, and Long Covid is not AIDS. These are facts. But... LC patients can experience debilitating, life-changing symptoms that healthy people just cannot imagine. Many people are oblivious to that. They think that Covid won't affect them as they have survived previous Covid infections ‚unscathed' (we don't actually know that yet - virus consequences can take time to reveal themselves). In the early phase of the AIDS epidemic most people believed that only ‚other' people (men who have sex with men) would get it - nothing to do with them. It was only later that HIV infection was recognised to be serious for everyone who got it, and everyone could get it. The function of the comparison to AIDS relates to how societies react to those viral threats, to get people to understand that this is serious. Not just for us, but likely for you, too.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Thank you to our Chair @nigelrothband.bsky.social & Trustee @joda.bsky.social for attending @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social on this important day.
Even bigger thanks to our Member Mike Ormerod for all his work and all the effort it will take giving evidence this afternoon. 🙏
#LongCovid
#CovidInquiry
Photograph of our Founding Trustee Jo Dainow and Chair Nigel Rothband standing either side of a sign that says UK Covid-19 Inquiry Hearing Centre. Both are wearing face masks, ready to go in to the Inquiry building.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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And young people and adults. It's not only children who get repeatedly infected in classrooms.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
greensagainstcovid.bsky.social
Many of our members have suffered long term harm from #viral infections and they recognise that the threat from #Covid is ongoing. To prevent widespread damage, we need to mitigate against infection. #ffp3, #ventilate #cleanair is a human right.
A pale green background. Top left the Greens Against Covid logo: the Green Party of England and Wales logo, a green suflower, with a white coronavirus crossed out. Top right, a dark green thought bubble with the words, Why did you want to join Greens Against Covid? Below this, a dark green banner with a light green speech bubble. The title L at the top. Inside, the words I joined Greens Against Covid because as someone who was disabled by M.E, prior to Covid, I’ve been appalled to watch people with Long Covid be similarly abandoned, neglected and stigmatised by the government, the NHS and the wider public. I want people to be aware that we are living through a mass disabling event and that we must continue to put pressure on the government to make people aware of the risks, and to implement mitigation measures to reduce the spread of this deadly, disabling virus. GREENSAGAINSTCOVID below the banner. In small writing at the bottom, Promoted by Covid and Long Covid Campaign Working Group (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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COVID KILLS AND #CovidHasNotGoneAway
We need action not the pretence of governments content to ignore it while the bomb ticks away in the background waiting for the moment to return DEADLIER and from government including the UK Westmonster one content to let it's citizens DIE
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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jaxtait.bsky.social
Please sign & share this petition!
@greensagainstcovid.bsky.social 💚
Petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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@greensagainstcovid.bsky.social this seems like something to get behind
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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We're going to discover that pathogens are implicated in way more than we ever believed. It looks like one of the 'wider determinants of health' is prior infection.
atranscendedman.bsky.social thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 12d
Researchers from Guangzhou University reviewed evidence linking viruses to gut cancers.

At least 25% of people with HIV develop cancer, with higher risk across the GI tract.

SARS-CoV-2 may also raise long-term risk, but evidence is still emerging.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Viruses in gastrointestinal cancers: Molecular pathogenesis, oncogenic mechanisms, and translational perspectives
Viral pathogens are one of the most significant causes of human carcinogenesis, contributing to up to 15–20 % of worldwide cancers. The gastrointestin…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM