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Peter Barlow, he/him #DavosSafe 313.7ppm
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ex-Contact Tracing Practitioner; Bauhäusler, Ecosocialist, feminist, musician, sailor, retired NHS nurse/dramatherapist, Drama teacher, #ProudAntiFa...
May post rhetorically.

I donate regularly to UNRWA; if you reply on a thread or dm asking for $, I 🚫.
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I'd delayed closing my XSCHwitter account because of the wisdom I've posted there. But - no more. So here is my pinned post from Twitter.
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Jeremy Corbyn suffered attacks for imaginary #ItWasAScam antisemitism for months across every newspaper & TV Channel

Nigel Farage's actual, real, proven antisemitism appears in a couple of newspapers, one or two news programmes, for a day or 2, then vanishes

If we let it

meme via Huddersfield TUC
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Huge thanks to @mikehoney.bsky.social for all the valuable COVID data he tracks. His work has become incredibly important for scientists and health professionals, and with so little data available now, it really matters for people who want to stay safe and informed.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Scientists rely on this COVID-19 data. It's made by a volunteer in Melbourne
Meet the Melbourne IT specialist who tracks "incredibly valuable" COVID-19 data in his spare time.
www.sbs.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
🙏Keep following the science, please.
Ignore JCVI & RFK Jr.

"COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds

A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children..."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds
A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children
www.scientificamerican.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery.
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom laid to rest with full military honors at W.Va. National Cemetery
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday in Grafton.
www.wvva.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I'm just over 100 days as the leader of the Green Party.

We've had several polls where we're in second place above Labour.

And today we found out we are closing in on overtaking Labours membership.

Then we're coming for Reform.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
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December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Hang on a second... Where are the epstein files?
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Keep music live!
c.org/48vq4BMrKC
Sign the Petition
Stop the Closure of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Music Department
c.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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But the newspaper coverage - and that of the BBC - ignores these basic facts in favour of 'enemies of the people' type coverage. And I can't pretend not to be very worried indeed about what this means for some very fragile norms, around human rights and the rule of law, in the UK.
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Germany invests €500M in long COVID and other post-infection syndromes

Germany is among many countries facing a growing burden from long COVID. Up to 1 in 5 Germans (2022) and 1 in 7 Americans (2023) had long COVID, and long COVID is estimated to cost the global economy about US$1 trillion annually
December 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Nice work by the authors of this MMWR with some good vaccine news!

The report found that the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccines provided significant protection against COVID-19 related emergency department and urgent care visits among U.S. children aged 9 months to 17 years.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children...
This report describes COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among children ages 9 months to 17 years.
www.cdc.gov
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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This is from a symposium of the Worlds leading long covid experts (August 2025) . H/t Charlos on X. This should tell everyone what you need to know. Not one long covid expert without a respirator, no non maskers or gappy surgicals in sight. Experts know it’s airborne and know the health risks.
December 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Nigel Farage is still bullying British school children about their family backgrounds, in case anyone is wondering if he is sorry for his behaviour at Dulwich College.
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Lots of news just now on the flu surge & the panic measures to wear masks/get vaccinated.

Could have slowed or reduced the outbreaks by wearing masks routinely, or at least earlier.

Still worth signing these:

petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Take action to protect people from airborne infections in health and social care settings
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to: * improve air quality in health and social care settings through addressing ventilation, air filtration and sterilisation; * ...
petitions.parliament.scot
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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When you're organising your gatherings, please give some consideration to the ongoing #Covid pandemic and the #Flu surge. Meeting in crowded, #unventilated spaces is a great way to spread #airborne diseases to your guests and it is #non-inclusive to anyone who does not want to run this risk.
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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This. People are contagious before symptoms start — masking protects everyone.

#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷

Source: x.com/haziethompso...
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Scientists at Yale say long COVID is part of a “long-established family of post-acute infection syndromes.” The biggest challenge is understanding its “underlying pathobiology.” They were “surprised” how often children are affected, noting kids are also vulnerable to “long-term effects.”
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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SHOCKING: 7 Palestine Action activists have been on HUNGER STRIKE for as long as 30 DAYS.

The activists have been denied bail, and could be held for over two years before their trial.

WHY is no one talking about this?!

#PalestineAction #RightToProtest #UK #news #politics
December 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Dear @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu EUROPE - ignore Starmer - he is a far right plant who is a former human rights lawyer who's lost his way.
The ECHR is fine as it is.
#RefugeesWelcome
Yet more “give them what they want so they don’t get what they want!”

How in the world are people not seeing what’s happening here?

Jenrick, Farage, Lowe and every other right winger is absolutely going to be celebrating this.
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.

There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.

This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Yes they are and worse than this is that how hard would it be for our health secretary to step up and say this and show the dates. It’s not hard and they aren’t doing this. So more and more believe this nonsense.
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I have campaigned for several years for access to vaccines for clinically vulnerable. Many children who shielded have died due to poor vaccine access! This goes unmentioned while the right wing press talk about long Covid being caused by vaccines. Total nonsense. It’s a verifiable fact that no child
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:

The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM