Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid
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Was: Facilitation & organisational culture nerd for do-gooders; climate & sustainability. Healthy, athletic; MTB, ski, mountaineering, outdoors. Everything on pause: Long Covid is brutal. A lot funnier IRL Lancaster, North West England (Plague Island). ⓥ
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thrivingplanet.bsky.social
In Sep '23 this John Snow Project* article drew together the science on Covid viral persistence, advancing a hypothesis with implications so great most prefer to pretend it's not happening*.

🚨 There is only Long Covid & asymptomatic #LongCovid 🚨

🧵 1/23

johnsnowproject.org/insights/a-n...
COVID-19: A NEW DISEASE PARADIGM
What if SARS-CoV-2 continues to infect us even after the initial symptoms fade?
johnsnowproject.org
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beansproutsmom.bsky.social
"The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission." #COVIDisAirborne #nspoli
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nicwilson.bsky.social
Lyme, ME/CFS, endometriosis, long COVID, coeliac disease, adenomyosis, fibromyalgia & all the other conditions where there's actually nothing wrong with us, but we just enjoy pretending to be ill. For fuck's sake. It's like we've regressed to the 1960s when my mum was accused of being a malingerer.
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?
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longcovidkids.bsky.social
‘Our children are owed a significant debt by this country - a debt that demands urgent action to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing educational neglect.’

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/debt...

#Education
thrivingplanet.bsky.social
Many thanks @longcovidadvoc.com & @cvcev.bsky.social
The definition of vulnerable here is critical. Will this pressure on JCVI to urgently review include automatic inclusion for #pwLC?

I asked my GP to be officially recognised as immunocompromised (and at particular risk from Covid) & got nowhere.
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oceanauk.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING: Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited

🐟 We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable

⚠️ #Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice

📩 Tell PM Keir Starmer to act: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
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kjcharleswriter.com
/adds to lexicon/
estherschindler.bsky.social
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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barristersecret.bsky.social
This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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buds-disability.bsky.social
People are right to be angry. It is absolutely shameful that the Government have restricted Covid boosters to such a small group. This is a huge gamble with the nation's health purely to save money. Here is how their argument runs: a thread 🧵
A headline reading "Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion". Below it is an image of a nurse drawing up a vaccine into a syringe from a vial.
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guitarmoog.bsky.social
For the actual fucking love of god.

The person responsible for the gaslighting of thousands of people with ME/CFS with CBT and torturing them with graded exercise therapy, both of which were then tried again on Long Covid patients.

An absolute menace to the sick or vulnerable.
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melissafehrtrade.bsky.social
Sooooo the BBC’s message here is “learn how to protect yourself from Lyme disease” while completely ignoring that it was a Covid infection that triggered her latent Lyme?

How about tips on protecting yourself from Covid & Long Covid as well?? 😵‍💫

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lyme disease: 'My independence is gone completely' after tick bite
Maia Pavey was left bedridden after Covid-19 reactivated an infection from a tick bite as a teenager.
www.bbc.com
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thrivingplanet.bsky.social
"The evidence has been building for years and has been consistent; COVID causes brain damage.

Despite the clear evidence, we’ve continued to infect the population, not once, but repeatedly, with no plan to end the onslaught of reinfections."

#LongCovid
juliadoubleday.bsky.social
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
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buds-disability.bsky.social
To put those numbers into perspective, around 500,000 people will have Covid this week, which means that by Bonfire Night (5 November), 200,000 people will still be experiencing persistent fatigue. By Christmas, 100,000 people will still be feeling exhausted and ill. (4/5)
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buds-disability.bsky.social
In studies, around 40% of people reported persistent fatigue more than 30 days after their Covid infection. Over a fifth of people reported persistent fatigue 3 months after their Covid infection, and around 10% report it a year after their infection. (2/5)
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buds-disability.bsky.social
The Covid wave in England continues to grow, with infection levels up 11% in the last week. The risk level is hovering just below Very High. If you do not wish to catch Covid, please take precautions including getting boosted now.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 5 October 2025
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 5 October 2025
buds.org.uk
thrivingplanet.bsky.social
Yeah, a very long time overdue. I remember well the excitement some years back when it was discovered that in several areas where they were long thought extinct, tiny populations had survived and were still hiding out.

Yet to see one IRL.
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aninewforest.bsky.social
Scottish pine martins are being reintroduced all over England and Wales.

We've even had sightings here in the New Forest, about as far south from Scotland as you can get:

www.forestryengland.uk/news/pine-ma...
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fascinatorfun.bsky.social
Blair is godfather to the oldest of Murdoch & Deng’s daughters.

His TB Institute is swimming in Larry Ellison / Oracle 💰 …to the tune of £half a BILLION

Ellison is best mates with Netanyahu

Oracle & its partner company Rafael Systems are deep in Israeli defence and intelligence industry.
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
What will the takeover of TikTok by Tony Blair’s funder - Larry Ellison - & his new business partner, Rupert Murdoch, mean?

Well watch & learn.

Here’s Bibi Netanyahu spelling it out. Social meds is a ‘weapon’ he says. And the most consequential one of all? TikTok.
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thrivingplanet.bsky.social
IFL Pine Martens. We need more Pine Martens in Britain.
worldwildlife.bsky.social
European Pine Marten (Martes martes): This mammal has retractable claws which enable it to climb trees & run along tree branches in the arboreal habitats of Northern Europe. Cracking photo taken by Danny Green in Scotland. #PineMarten #marten #mammal #forest #nature #wildlife #scotland #MartesMartes
thrivingplanet.bsky.social
"The evidence has been building for years and has been consistent; COVID causes brain damage.

Despite the clear evidence, we’ve continued to infect the population, not once, but repeatedly, with no plan to end the onslaught of reinfections."

#LongCovid
juliadoubleday.bsky.social
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news