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Kaz @lottieplot9.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting following my comment about struggling to find even a private covid vaccination option within a 20 mile radius.

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 9d

New study shows COVID vaccines:
💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29%
💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39%
💉Reduced the risk of death by 64%
💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 2d

Worth a try, rely on mother nature's healing & in this case hopefully preventing 🤞🏻I follow Nancy on Instagram & a couple of Apothecary type people. Medicines seem to be less effective but natural remedies have been around for centuries.

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 2d

That's good to hear people are testing

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to make a batch of this & try it - just whizz it all together in a blender (no cooking first) then freeze in ice cube trays & have one when needed or daily as a hot drink.

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 2d

I still test if I think I have signs of it but know of very few people who do as they're told it's ok to go into work with it 🤷🏻 My nxt door neighbours had it quite badly twice after going on a cruise & she now has enlarged heart & recently had a procedure for it,makes me think now if covid caused it

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 2d

Totally agree, they're behaving like it never happened. I think they're scared to mention it now because they got so much grief over the lockdowns! The whole thing was totally mismanaged but now they're not managing it at all !!
I hope your OH is ok, must be scary.

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 2d

OMG! If that's a new thing surely they're investigating it?

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 2d

It's madness not doing as many covid jabs now as I hear this latest strain can be a nasty one. My sister has previously had it as celiac but can't get it now & our neighbours (both with health issues) can't get it as over 70 but under 75

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Nathan Young @nydeafswimmer.bsky.social · 4d

An incredible day on DAY 1510 #MyChallenge to the Govt @DCMS @Lisanandy @TNLUK

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

MPs warned over ‘shameful’ lack of funding for GB athletes at Deaflympics

It is shameful and discriminatory that deaf people are the only disabled community that does not receive any government funding in elite sport, MPs have been told

www.theguardian.com

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful 😍

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Another update 🙈 when I collected him the vet said the teeth came out really easily so she was only changing the lower price 🥳 final total £517 😅
They also cut his claws & drew fluid from a lump behind his ear which looks ok 🤞🏻 then gave me 3 tins of the gentle on the tummy food for him 🐾

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely ❤️ he can be a pain but only since he had toxoplasmosis a few years ago & we nearly lost him. Since then personality has changed, apparently the parasites get into the spinal fluid & up to the brain so we're lucky it's just that. I know of one that has epilepsy because of it.

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Love it 😍

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Yep we get them here, our gate post has been driven into twice "sorry it's a tight corner"
Funny the sainsburys delivery van & even builders dropping off skips never have a problem!

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

@lottieplot9.bsky.social
Ozzy update 6 teeth out so no refund.
He's ok which is the main thing ❤️🐾

"He's SO sweet, we're having cuddles and he's really snuggling in, he's adorable"

Yes he is, until another dog walks past then he's like a Gremlin that's been fed after midnight 🙈🙈🙈

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

a dog is sitting on a couch with its head on a woman 's lap .

ALT: a dog is sitting on a couch with its head on a woman 's lap .

media.tenor.com

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Ours used to be a small local vet but they sold to a nationwide chain and didn't tell anyone. The vets move between 4 surgeries in the area & everything out of hours is done by a different company.

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Hope all goes well for Elsie 🤞🏻
A Lurcher I look after has to have anaesthetic for claws to be cut & his grow really fast but they won't do it too often then he rips his claws when running 🙈

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

He said if it's less I'll get a refund but his teeth don't line up so it could be more. They don't charge per tooth but have price brackets so if he has 5 out it's the same price as 9.
Even had to sign to say if his heart stops I'll pay for them to revive him! It's just a business now.

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Just dropped Ozzy off at the vets for teeth clean and some out. Had to pay the estimate before I left £700 that's already £200 more than Merlin (1 yr older & 12kg heavier) only 7 months ago!!!! Somebody pour me a Brandy 🐾

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Good luck Nathan I hope all goes well 🤞🏻

Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 5d

I've never known a year with SO many Apples! Everyone is putting them out free to take as they have so many, these are huge 😲🍏

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 7d

Ouch,my biggest problem with that would be getting up off the floor which would not be helped by alcohol 🙈😂

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 7d

It would appear that to be successful in my garden you need to be orange 😂🌱

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Kim @merlinthelab on Twitter @kimscrafts.bsky.social · 9d

Very clever, a few years ago squirrels came & did that with my sunflower heads - no idea how he carried it because they were huge. Nature is amazing & pound for pound animals are amazingly strong - we're the weaker species in many ways.

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