Esther
@elhopkins.bsky.social
Composer who is currently working on a Song Cycle.
Posting about: Music, COVID safety, Clean Air, Climate Change & wildlife.
#Covidisairborne #FBCV
#Vaccinessavelives
#WearARespie ffp2/3
❌ to mask bans
#TransparencyCovid
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Posting about: Music, COVID safety, Clean Air, Climate Change & wildlife.
#Covidisairborne #FBCV
#Vaccinessavelives
#WearARespie ffp2/3
❌ to mask bans
#TransparencyCovid
Vote Green Party 💚
Imagine having such a sense of instability in your future. How will this help settle people into work? I remember when Labour were left wing.
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Imagine having such a sense of instability in your future. How will this help settle people into work? I remember when Labour were left wing.
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I love clean hands, only had food poisoning once in many decades, from eating out. But clean air is required to survive hour to hour, day to day. And it is still impossible to ensure in public spaces. Hard to fathom we will soon enter 7th year of this pandemic with disinformation even more common
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I love clean hands, only had food poisoning once in many decades, from eating out. But clean air is required to survive hour to hour, day to day. And it is still impossible to ensure in public spaces. Hard to fathom we will soon enter 7th year of this pandemic with disinformation even more common
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Protect yourselves from airborne transmission of COVID which can cause vascular & neurological damage amongst other things.
Wear an ffp2/3 respirator
Open windows
Clean the Air
Vaccinate
Vaccines were designed to reduce disease severity. They do not fully protect against infection at this point.
Wear an ffp2/3 respirator
Open windows
Clean the Air
Vaccinate
Vaccines were designed to reduce disease severity. They do not fully protect against infection at this point.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Protect yourselves from airborne transmission of COVID which can cause vascular & neurological damage amongst other things.
Wear an ffp2/3 respirator
Open windows
Clean the Air
Vaccinate
Vaccines were designed to reduce disease severity. They do not fully protect against infection at this point.
Wear an ffp2/3 respirator
Open windows
Clean the Air
Vaccinate
Vaccines were designed to reduce disease severity. They do not fully protect against infection at this point.
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What is long COVID? This is not the messaging in the media. We are seeing ‘no worse than the last infection’ etc but these are the risks!
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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You can transmit to others for as long as you remain covid positive. Many still testing are aware this is far longer generally than the government recommended 5 days. A friend recently tested positive for 14 days and immunocompromised can last even longer.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
You can transmit to others for as long as you remain covid positive. Many still testing are aware this is far longer generally than the government recommended 5 days. A friend recently tested positive for 14 days and immunocompromised can last even longer.
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Remember the Covid vaccines were designed to reduce severity, not necessarily block infections and any breakthrough infection can lead to long covid, including asymptomatic though a lower risk. Risk is still cumulative.
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Remember the Covid vaccines were designed to reduce severity, not necessarily block infections and any breakthrough infection can lead to long covid, including asymptomatic though a lower risk. Risk is still cumulative.
The risk from surfaces is less than 1 in 10,000 of catching COVID. We should handwash for many reasons but this alone WILL NOT protect you from COVID. 🧵
Here is Dr Barry Jones explaining that they knew from ‘day 1’ it was airborne and a virus of some consequence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 12 September 2024 AM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The risk from surfaces is less than 1 in 10,000 of catching COVID. We should handwash for many reasons but this alone WILL NOT protect you from COVID. 🧵
I don’t know what the future will hold. I used to plan things but now I live from day to day. Maybe this is a good thing, a realisation that life is incredibly fragile. I am disappointed that we have a government looking away from airborne risk and inclusion. That for five years I have been
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I don’t know what the future will hold. I used to plan things but now I live from day to day. Maybe this is a good thing, a realisation that life is incredibly fragile. I am disappointed that we have a government looking away from airborne risk and inclusion. That for five years I have been
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Our expectations of the Inquiry & those mandated for it by law are set out in section 2 of CATA’s closing statement: tinyurl.com/4dx6yd24.
See especially sections 2.3,2.8 which explain its investigative duty under Article 2 European Convention on Human Rights (Right to Life)
See especially sections 2.3,2.8 which explain its investigative duty under Article 2 European Convention on Human Rights (Right to Life)
INQ000532408 - Module 3 Closing submissions on behalf of Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA), undated. UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives
Module 3 Closing submissions on behalf of Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance (CATA), undated.
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The House of Lords library online has many documents you can view on Climate change and mass displacement which is occurring from weather events. You can also see how concerning it is that we are totally underprepared. In fact the only provision seems to be to protect the financial sector.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The House of Lords library online has many documents you can view on Climate change and mass displacement which is occurring from weather events. You can also see how concerning it is that we are totally underprepared. In fact the only provision seems to be to protect the financial sector.
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lordslibrary.parliament.uk/climate-chan...
An important read from the House of Lords Library. Why aren’t Labour talking about mass displacement from climate change. We have so much more to worry about than wasting time on small boats. Tackle the core issue!!
An important read from the House of Lords Library. Why aren’t Labour talking about mass displacement from climate change. We have so much more to worry about than wasting time on small boats. Tackle the core issue!!
Climate change-induced migration: UK collaboration with international partners
Climate change is likely to increase migration flows over the coming decades. Increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events are expected to increase “forcible displacements”, and the “slow-o...
lordslibrary.parliament.uk
August 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/climate-chan...
An important read from the House of Lords Library. Why aren’t Labour talking about mass displacement from climate change. We have so much more to worry about than wasting time on small boats. Tackle the core issue!!
An important read from the House of Lords Library. Why aren’t Labour talking about mass displacement from climate change. We have so much more to worry about than wasting time on small boats. Tackle the core issue!!
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We have far more important problems to be dealing with like the growing millions disabled by long covid. Climate change which is going to cause parts of the country to disappear underwater, a shortage of drinking water. People will be going without water.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We have far more important problems to be dealing with like the growing millions disabled by long covid. Climate change which is going to cause parts of the country to disappear underwater, a shortage of drinking water. People will be going without water.
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Rejoining the EU would end the less than 5% of people who come here as illegal migrants. More people are actually leaving each year because they now feel unwelcome living in Britain. People who have contributed their whole lives, nurses, doctors, musicians.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Rejoining the EU would end the less than 5% of people who come here as illegal migrants. More people are actually leaving each year because they now feel unwelcome living in Britain. People who have contributed their whole lives, nurses, doctors, musicians.
I disagree, small boats is a distraction from climate change mass migration. More people are now displaced globally in their millions by weather events than war but it never makes the media. Brexit caused this problem. We have bigger problems which are being ignored in favour of pandering to Reform
What will Labour do when its asylum reforms don’t work?
James Baggaley: There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
James Baggaley: There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
What will Labour do when its asylum reforms don't work?
www.newstatesman.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I disagree, small boats is a distraction from climate change mass migration. More people are now displaced globally in their millions by weather events than war but it never makes the media. Brexit caused this problem. We have bigger problems which are being ignored in favour of pandering to Reform
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"A 25-person startup" should not be allowed to "disrupt" fundamental inputs to the Earth's ecosystem, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Like, what are we even thinking here?
Like, what are we even thinking here?
This is a VERY long piece about solar geoengineering that starts, scientifically speaking, badly, but gets better, but still has a few issues.
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"A 25-person startup" should not be allowed to "disrupt" fundamental inputs to the Earth's ecosystem, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Like, what are we even thinking here?
Like, what are we even thinking here?
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covid causes neuroinflammation.
long covid is more common in kids than asthma now.
this is why we shouldn’t have stopped trying to stop the spread until we had sterilizing vaccines that actually prevent transmission and infection, not just keep people out of the hospital/morgue during infection.
long covid is more common in kids than asthma now.
this is why we shouldn’t have stopped trying to stop the spread until we had sterilizing vaccines that actually prevent transmission and infection, not just keep people out of the hospital/morgue during infection.
Is Your Child’s Behavior Actually a Sign of Neuroinflammation?
https://www.bhnet.org/24275/is-your-childs-behavior-actually-a-sign-of-neuroinflammation-2/
Our children are sitting in therapy offices with inflamed brains. Psychiatrists are prescribing medications for immune-driven symptoms. …
https://www.bhnet.org/24275/is-your-childs-behavior-actually-a-sign-of-neuroinflammation-2/
Our children are sitting in therapy offices with inflamed brains. Psychiatrists are prescribing medications for immune-driven symptoms. …
Is Your Child's Behavior Actually a Sign of Neuroinflammation?
Our children are sitting in therapy offices with inflamed brains. Psychiatrists are prescribing medications for immune-driven symptoms. Parents are being counseled on behavior while their child’s immune system attacks the brain. This is not rare. This is systematic. The mental health system is structurally designed to miss neuroimmune disease, not because clinicians are incompetent, but because the diagnostic framework itself cannot see what it was never built to recognize. Every intake form, every assessment protocol, every treatment algorithm moves a child with brain inflammation directly into psychiatric care without ever asking if the brain itself is diseased. For example, a
www.bhnet.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
covid causes neuroinflammation.
long covid is more common in kids than asthma now.
this is why we shouldn’t have stopped trying to stop the spread until we had sterilizing vaccines that actually prevent transmission and infection, not just keep people out of the hospital/morgue during infection.
long covid is more common in kids than asthma now.
this is why we shouldn’t have stopped trying to stop the spread until we had sterilizing vaccines that actually prevent transmission and infection, not just keep people out of the hospital/morgue during infection.
This is exactly what’s happening. Well said Mark. Not the Covid causing neurological damage that is well documented www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-08...
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is exactly what’s happening. Well said Mark. Not the Covid causing neurological damage that is well documented www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-08...
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But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...
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“Illnesses increased over five years at all ages in 11 out of 12 districts that measured it independently.”
You add a new disease… you can’t expect any other outcome.
You add a new disease… you can’t expect any other outcome.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Illnesses increased over five years at all ages in 11 out of 12 districts that measured it independently.”
You add a new disease… you can’t expect any other outcome.
You add a new disease… you can’t expect any other outcome.
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There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
If you have seen the movie war games you will understand that ‘the only way to win is not to play’. COVID is like that. The only way to protect ourselves is to push against the flow wear an ffp2, open windows and clean the air.
a map of the world is displayed on a monitor
ALT: a map of the world is displayed on a monitor
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you have seen the movie war games you will understand that ‘the only way to win is not to play’. COVID is like that. The only way to protect ourselves is to push against the flow wear an ffp2, open windows and clean the air.