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Who could have foreseen.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Chaotic, messed up, self contradictory. They are making it up as they go along, and ordinary workers are at the brunt of the vindictive, irrational, unpredictable mess up. It’s impossible to watch and not feel anguished disbelief that democracy can have lurched into malfunction so rapidly.

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He is a treacherous backstabber, a traitor with no basic decency. Untrustworthy, unworthy of office and undeniably a very nasty piece of work. People like that make it to the top too frequently, and the enablers are as much to blame for the carnage and suffering that results.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you are interested in #patientSafety and #StaffSafety and can’t figure out why the #NHS culture doesn’t deliver - this is a useful vignette of the realities faced by goodies just trying to do their jobs in the face of powerful nasties

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

There's a lot more going on in our air—aerobiology—than I'd previously been aware of, no less the long history of study with many missed lessons along the way. My podcast w/ @carlzimmer.com on his new book AIR-BORNE w/ transcript, video, all open-access, no ads erictopol.substack.com/p/carl-zimme...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Anything other than deep respect and compassion for bereaved families in their moment of grief is a sure sign that staff should not be employed in healthcare. It’s as simple as that.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The lights have gone out haven’t they ?

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submitted 10 days ago • 1953 comments

American “masculinity” looks strikingly shrunken and insecure. Pathetic to compensate for your inadequacies by bullying, performative rudeness and selfish cruelty. Who on earth values this crass barbarism?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and Vance -pathetic aren’t they ?They just rolled out petty bully bread and butter - tone police, outnumber, intimidate physically, interrupt , insult, DARVO, mock. Tedious little men with zero to recommend them. You see their kind every day. Yawn.🥱

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Ignorant numpties in the White House …. Watching that space is gut wrenching There is no virtue in what is going on. Just unadulterated vice.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We have the know how to stop infections of many kinds. What we lack is a philosophy that cares or can be arsed to save someone else’s suffering.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We all recognise what Trump is. We know lots of them but in a sane society they don’t get to have power. When you let these types hold power and no one stands up to them- the proverbial hits the fan.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

submitted 10 days ago • 1042 comments

Weird. These people are just bizarre spoofs - who cares about suits when your country is being blown up? Tacky snark.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

NIH just canceled the Respiratory Virus Transmission Meeting scheduled for early April - Great timing as H5N1 may be only one mutation away from rapid spread between humans. @carlzimmer.com @carlbergstrom.com @publichealthumd.bsky.social @linseymarr.bsky.social #public-health #h5n1

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to Jad Abumrad for helping me launch AIR-BORNE! (And thanks to @randihutterepstein.bsky.social for the photo.)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Half of Covid-19 patients emitted infectious virus in respiratory particles smaller than 5 microns (>30 min to settle out). Culturability of aerosols was associated with lower neutralizing antibody titers, so immune response matters for transmission potential. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

In this era especially, having power is pointless if you don’t know how to lend it to others. Annoy people that others can’t. Elevate voices that others won’t. Pick the fights that matter.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

“It’s normal” Classic non progressive attitude. Helpless in the face of nature ? Natural selection? Survival of the fittest? This leads nowhere good at the micro or the macro level. Every attempt to excuse infection deaths is callous fatalism.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

There is a vast chasm between what is shared in personal stories that are heartbreaking, and what makes it through the despicable quagmire that is the NHS HR formal complaint systems to ever see the light of day. Let’s all sit with pretendy pretty policies and slap down reality checks #Racism

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

All those mini-Trumps in your life - stand up to them. When no one does, you get the grotesque mega Trumps untrammelled and unabashedly ego driven.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Tribunal where BMA backed a whistleblower and won.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Why do we insist on doing urban?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The building industry needs to consider its role as a crucial component of public health. Good housing for good health. Any thing less is derogation of responsibility never mind ethically debased.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Measles is a thoroughly horrible disease. Vaccines have transformed childhood experience for the better. If you stop vaccinating you create the devastating opportunity to relearn the hard way. And it will be the kids that pay the price.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Gloopy but yummy . Have a lovely chocolate filled weekend

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.

submitted 26 days ago • 587 comments

Terrifying but essential reading from @chrischirp.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️ www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Serious study in Nature Medicine. More evidence of COVID's impact on cognition/memory/accelerated dementia, with a recurring theme - accelerated ageing of organs (kidney, heart, lungs immune system) that @zalaly.bsky.social & others have described. A good reason to reduce infection rates.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Correct. They wanted schools open so kids and teachers would be infected. sciencebasedmedicine.org/pro-infectio...

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

All that good terminated in ugly fits of avarice

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Since when has unanimity been required for conclusions to be drawn? Surely the lack of is a pre requisite for an inquiry? Big disagreements need plenty thought though. And astute cognisance of the sources of evidence interpretation in terms of implications of conclusions. #UKCovidInquiry

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

When we set up #FreshAirNHS we knew it was more than physical fresh air that was needed, it was the culture to allow thoughts and attitudes to thrive outwith the inner circles of power Not sure the dial has moved at all - but when you find pockets of truly #FreshAir it revives the flagging spirit.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Pneumonia remains a leading killer and responsible for significant patient harm in hospitals. 👉Diagnostic advances and availability of effective oral hygiene toolkits have overcome long-standing barriers to addressing pneumonia prevention in hospitals. www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/hiding-...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

“Accurate information on how many people in a community die from COVID, or any other cause—is essential for making decisions about public health. It is also important for families. Everyone deserves to know why a loved one died.”

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

Look what CAN be done www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Inspired by @angharadruttley.bsky.social and team to work from ground up to implement sustainable change by putting in HEPA filtration in wards. #Ventilation #IAQ matter

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Some days you get an uplift ! An NHS trust that works across teams in an inspiring healthy way for the good of staff and patients alike. So fantastic when IAQ is delivered and valued

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments