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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter)

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Setting this up as I gradually move over from the bird place. ‘X’ since Musk is a bit like the UK post Brexit. Lovely to see some familiar faces and look forward to getting to know new ones. Post mainly about politics and covid. #FBPE #FBLC #PWLC

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Mar 30

This is such an important thread. Please read and share. Link to CATA’s letter is in the first post 👇

David Osborn @safedavid3.bsky.social · Mar 30

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Following her recent letter, CATA has written to the Minister respectfully advising her that, as per her predecessor (Gwynne), she’s been badly advised.
One can only speculate whether by DHSC, UK-HSA or the NHS/IPC “droplet, not airborne” dogmatists.
www.tridenthse.co.uk/2025_03_18_L...

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 7h

Like a HEPA filter? I have at home too.

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 20h

They’ve always been germ pits, but the pressure to attend when unwell or contagious, plus addition of covid is having an impact.

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 1d

Just over a month into school.
Nits, chickenpox, conjunctivitis, vomiting, diarrhoea, heavy “colds”, excessive tiredness, appetite loss, hand foot and mouth, fever. That’s just what I know of in classes.
What % of kids are not learning due to illness - whether in school or off?

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 12d

This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.

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Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 7d

I am angry.

Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?

Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 7d

I am angry.

Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?

Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 12d

This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.

stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 24d

Despite large numbers of adults and children with long covid, the devastating impact, people are encouraged to spread covid whilst contagious and wash their hands for an airborne virus. For many, this Christmas will be their first with long covid.

metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...

The long Covid legacy: 'People don't want to think about us'

Around 2million people are still thought to be living with long Covid in the UK

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 26d

Some schools seem to monitor everything to the nth degree. Imagine if they had a daily clickbox rating “how well do you feel today”?

Children are human - they learn better when they’re well. Their peers are human too. Their health & education shouldn’t be repeatedly compromised.

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · 26d

It’s morbidly fascinating how we now actually award people for spreading covid. There may be some tiny schools somewhere which don’t have pupils with long covid, but statistically the majority of schools will.

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Sep 5

A: It’s not 2020

B: Er, I know

A: So why mention covid?

B: Sorry, I didn’t realise you wanted to play the time-travel game again. Fine, let’s pretend it’s Summer 2019. Again

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Sep 1

Attendance is important - especially in the first week.

The second week is clearly less important which is why we do nothing to curb infections in schools - even in the midst of a current covid wave.

How many will spend this Christmas as their first one with long covid?

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Aug 30

A: You've had headache, fever, diarrhoea, but feeling a bit better this afternoon so popped over to me? 😡

B: Don't worry, its only covid

A: Phew. I don't mind me and my family having those symptoms if it's just from covid. Wait - you tested? WHY DID YOU TEST - COVID IS OVER?!

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thanks.

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you. How does France measure prevalence of long covid and how has it changed over time? We used to have the ONS survey here.

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · Jul 1

Many excellent points here on #LongCovid and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection 🔥 @winslowsp.bsky.social

Winslow Santé Publique @winslowsp.bsky.social · Jul 1

For comrades in other countries, we translated this covid journalistic guide, which helps journalists report on covid without neglecting its chronic form.
👉If interested, don't hesitate to contact us : we can change the numbers (which are those of France for the moment).

Media coverage of COVID-19
Do not talk about COVID in the past tense, as if it were no longer circulating or causing damage, when it is still causing Long COVID, delayed deaths, reinfections, and direct deaths.
Do not describe Long COVID as a “mystery,” as its mechanisms (viral persistence, dysimmunity, thromboinflammation) are now known. Nor should the disease be disconnected from the virus that causes it.
Do not focus on the individual, depoliticizing aspects of the disease, when patients are organizing collectively and have demands to voice.
Do not reduce the disease to a few symptoms without explaining its mechanisms, which have a wide range of manifestations. Do not dismiss its potential life-threatening risks or potential for deterioration.
Do not dismiss prevention measures while the virus continues to cause new cases of Long COVID (the risk increases with each infection) and to worsen and endanger all chronically ill patients.
Do not invite the most controversial doctors, who psychologize and/or present rehabilitation as a treatment for patients, and/or reinforce the feeling that the illness is not physical.
Do not reduce the disease to a few symptoms without explaining its mechanisms, which have a wide range of manifestations. Do not dismiss its potential life-threatening risks or potential for deterioration.
Do not dismiss prevention measures while the virus continues to cause new cases of Long COVID (the risk increases with each infection) and to worsen and endanger all chronically ill patients.
Do not use any figure you find without sourcing the claim. In France, some media outlets have wrongly reported that 200,000 people are suffering from Long COVID: the latest census counted more than 2 million.
Avoid involving doctors instead of patients and researchers.
Do not present false prevention information: transmission does not occur through droplet or contact, but through aerosols.
Do not blame lockdown for the current health situation without taking into

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jul 1

I wonder if govt ditched drink-driving laws and there was an increase in accidents how much of this we’d see:

- it’s only a drink, most people survive
- accidents don’t exist
- sure, you can’t stop all accidents, so why stop any
- life limiting injuries mustn’t be acknowledged

Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jun 27

People who become disabled after an arbitrary date are unsustainable. Have I got that right?

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jun 18

@TweetingCollins thank you for raising the issue of long covid in children & the desperate situation so many thousands of kids find themselves in. This is especially welcome in a week where @wesstreeting said we’d beaten covid, as though long covid, hospitalisations & deaths aren’t still happening.

Politics.co.uk @politics.co.uk · Jun 17

“The government’s response to Long Covid in children and young people will be a test of our society’s commitment to protecting its most vulnerable members”, writes @victoria-collins.bsky.social MP

🗣️ Addressing Long Covid in children is an urgent moral imperative
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Victoria Collins: ‘Addressing Long Covid in children is an urgent moral imperative’ - Politics.co.uk

When twelve-year-old Anna sent me a heartfelt letter describing her three-year struggle with Long Covid, it opened my eyes to this debilitating condition in children and young people. Anna, diagnosed ...

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jun 16

Either case estimates are astoundingly wrong or nearly everybody is being hospitalised with it. Which is it? Does the media question these oddities?

“947 patients admitted in the week up to May 31.”

“Cases have also risen by 6.9 per cent with 1,211 cases in the week up to June 4.”

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jun 11

It’s a shame kids have to pick up the slack from so little resilience in schools.

“Hey Fred, just up your steroid inhaler even more to try to counteract the poor air in schools.”
Recommendations for classroom air remain unmet, despite poorer standards than comparable countries.

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Oct 11

Johnson said long covid was ‘bollocks’. Now everyone in a position of power acknowledges it’s obviously very real.
So can somebody please riddle me this….how does current covid policy differ from one that assumes long covid is ‘bollocks’? Thanks.

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Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter) @joissummers.bsky.social · Jun 6

3 million with long covid (UK, 2024).

Those responsible for public health and prevention “Hold my beer. In for a penny, in for a pound.”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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