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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Apr 10

There’s an elephant in the room

Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Apr 8

I honestly don’t think I’ve anything left to say about COVID-19.

Whatever we say, it’s ignored by the authorities.

It’s also being ignored large numbers of people who should know better.

For me, this ⬇️ post sums up one big reason why we’re not getting anywhere.

Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 30

Large sections of the left started ignoring the pandemic in 2022 and they now have nothing to say about increasing levels of sickness and disability.

They (rightly) criticise welfare benefit cuts but offer no critique on how we got here.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Apr 6

The Government should be addressing the causes of sickness and disability

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Apr 6

The Government should be addressing the causes of sickness and disability

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rjf1.bsky.social @rjf1.bsky.social · Mar 30

They don't want to admit there are so many people with long Covid. If they did they wouldn't be able to cut benefits.

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Rob Bryn Taylor @robbryntaylor.bsky.social · Apr 6

I will repeat this again. COVID isn't over. The Neoliberals decided their wealth was better than your health. 😷☮️✌️✊

Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Apr 6

COVID-19 isn’t over.

An estimated one in ten people have long Covid in the U.K.

Infection control isn’t being taken seriously by the Government or the NHS.

COVID-19 affects the brain, so is bad for your mental health.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · Apr 6

Tired of half a story.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Apr 6

COVID-19 isn’t over.

An estimated one in ten people have long Covid in the U.K.

Infection control isn’t being taken seriously by the Government or the NHS.

COVID-19 affects the brain, so is bad for your mental health.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Apr 6

COVID-19 isn’t over.

An estimated one in ten people have long Covid in the U.K.

Infection control isn’t being taken seriously by the Government or the NHS.

COVID-19 affects the brain, so is bad for your mental health.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 31

Yes, this is a global crisis. It’s not just the US who have a problem.

Most of the public are oblivious though as the authorities don’t talk about it. For example, the authorities are happy to let COVID-19 harms get blamed on everything else.

It’s getting worse.

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Endless Revolt @endlessrevolt.bsky.social · Mar 30

That’s because the « left » you are referring to is actually the pseudo left, working hand in hand with capitalist governments to dismantle public health.

Here’s scientifically grounded coverage of the COVID pandemic:

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The response of the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em>

The WSWS’ record stands as an irrefutable indictment of the capitalist response to the pandemic and a testament to the necessity for a global socialist public health program to save lives.

www.wsws.org

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · Mar 30

I have repeatedly run into leftists of all stripes that call me a “covid dead ender” for not wanting to ignore this.

But how is never ending increases of death and disability not a dead end to them is what I’d like to know.

Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 30

Large sections of the left started ignoring the pandemic in 2022 and they now have nothing to say about increasing levels of sickness and disability.

They (rightly) criticise welfare benefit cuts but offer no critique on how we got here.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 30

They’re no longer left, unfortunately. But even if they were, I’m not sure they’d do anything.

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Adrenalynn (she/her) @adrenalyn.bsky.social · Mar 30

I'm thinking of the leftist content creators I follow who never mention Covid. They go to conferences, travel, no masks. Then they get sick, no testing, "just a cold". They disappear for a while or work sick. Over & over. They talk endlessly about social justice issues but never this one.

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Adrenalynn (she/her) @adrenalyn.bsky.social · Mar 30

Nope, the left. The right obviously don't care & liberals think they care but there are self-proclaimed leftists who support marginalized groups but are silent when it comes to masking & otherwise protecting disabled & immunocompromised people (& all of us tbh because Covid does not discriminate.)

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Ant_Slug @antslug.bsky.social · Mar 30

Labour arguably stopped being left leaning since Blair.

This government is just as much as a disgrace to this entire nation as much as the Tories are.

Starmer's father was a toolmaker and he made a tool in his son

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His Royal Huwness @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · Mar 30

Not that we can call Labour left any more but the total absence of divergence from Tory policies on Covid is making me very angry being CEV and not having been told by anyone that I am not any more.

A picture of my lungs damaged by an auto-immune disease.
Normally X-rays would show dark spaces. Instead my lungs look as though someone has prepared them for an old black and white horror movie with those fake spider webs.

SOCIAL MURDER is a term coined by Friedrich Engels in 1845 to describe when the political and social elite knowingly permit conditions to exist where the poorest and most vulnerable in society are deprived of the necessities of life and ate thus place in a position in which they cannot reasonably be expected to live and will inevitably meet and early and unnatural death.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 30

Large sections of the left started ignoring the pandemic in 2022 and they now have nothing to say about increasing levels of sickness and disability.

They (rightly) criticise welfare benefit cuts but offer no critique on how we got here.

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Rob Bryn Taylor @robbryntaylor.bsky.social · Mar 29

Yes it's fucking disgraceful. Labour are cutting funds for the disabled. Keep on masking beautiful people 😷. The government seem intent on mass democide.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 29

The infected blood scandal is claiming the lives of 2 people a week. They’re still waiting for compensation. Disgraceful.

How many are dying under our ‘living with Covid’ policies?

How many are being disabled by our ‘living with Covid’ policies?

Will they get compensation?

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 29

The number of long term sick & disabled has skyrocketed since 2020.
Growth in the economy is virtually non-existent.
Welfare cuts are being made.

Yet how many journalists have joined the dots to the huge impact the pandemic & Covid has had & is still having?

It’s pathetic.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 22

“Two million people in the UK have long Covid, according to the Office for National Statistics”.

Estimates vary.

According to another survey published recently by the BBC, it may be 1 in 10 people (or more) in the U.K. with long Covid.

Article;

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Long Covid: Young people describe 'battle' to access NHS care

Kaylee, 17, who experiences dizziness and shortness of breath, says she has not seen an NHS specialist for two years.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 22

‘Young people living with debilitating symptoms caused by long Covid feel abandoned. Kaylee, 17, a once promising gymnast, developed the virus on her 12th birthday & experiences dizziness & shortness of breath, causing her to miss school & give up the sport she loves’.

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Gina @gina25.bsky.social · Mar 18

Long Covid is a massive issue.

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