Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂

Retired heritage railway general manager, former historian and central banker
I don't like the world as it is but it's the best we've got & worth making better.

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

I have cancelled my subscription to @washingtonpost . The "failing" @nytimes will do me just fine for my US news perspective.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

@bphillipsonMP @wesstreeting Perhaps you should consider the possibility that it’s not a very good idea to allow our children to be repeatedly infected with a virus known to cause neurological damage & trigger the onset of mental health disorders.

Please take action to clean the air & stop the spread.

🧵⬇️

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

This thread: why I still wear a mask. And it would help if you did too, but I'll look after me and my family in the meantime. #CovidIsNotOver

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

“How long are you going to wear a mask?”

“We didn’t mask before Covid so we aren’t going to now!”

These are two of the most common refrains covid aware people hear. They suggest that the pandemic is over & that precautions no longer make sense.

They’re wrong 🧵 /1

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

#COVIDIsNotOver

[Gwladwr @gwladwr]

@red_loeb @CoronaHeadsUp @SGriffin_Lab https://t.co/aTsBiQJMcC

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Please listen to @PutrinoLab:
1 - There is no such thing as mild Covid-19.
2 - We still don't know the long-term consequences of a Covid-19 infection.
3 - We still don't understand what is #LongCovid.
4 - We still don't know why some people don't recover.
@LongCovidSOS

[John Dupuis @dupuisj]

Think you have a summer cold? There's a good chance it's COVID: experts https://t.co/ALOVSeJvY7

[Keith @keetmuise]

Smoking isn’t going anywhere, we can’t fully eliminate it from the earth, so I guess we should just let people smoke in schools, daycares, long term care, and hospitals right? Because if we can’t fully eliminate something we may as well just make sure it’s everywhere? #CovidLogic

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

https://t.co/OMtl0NatBf

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

@namesoog @ApricotTreeCaf1 Our airport was closed this morning -- all the available air traffic controllers off with Covid. I'm now sitting on a ferry, the only one masked, surrounded by sneezing. I have never had Covid. #CovidIsNotOver

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If we want to reduce immigration we have to do it by stopping wars and poverty in the countries that they come from.

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

@adampileUK @GeorgeTrefgarne @CPA_Secretariat @SarahDicksonUK What about the Isle of Man? Since 979 CE afaik

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

@gemmagould @fascinatorfun She should have done horn fingers over his head

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

@Ninawildflower I'm not offering a selfie but I now wear nothing but Aura FFP3s . No, that came out wrong: I go out fully clothed PLUS an Aura. I have a few FFP2s that I wear in situations where communication is important (the FFP3 is slightly muffling). And it feels very lonely where I live.

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

@toby_n @resfoundation 8qxw 21 q qs

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

@JohnJCrace Get well soon - your country needs you. (St. George's, eh? Will we see you on an up-coming episode of 24 hours in A&E?)

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

There was something very odd in the PM’s speech last night - something which infuses RE in the primary school curriculum too: the idea that everyone in this country is religious in one way or another, when we know from polls that over half the population is not religious. 1/7

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

One in four has Long Covid.

Ths is U.S. data, but can you assume it's any different here?

Wear a mask. Insist on clean air.

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

1 in 4 long Covid
https://t.co/MVOwZNOGvt

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

We are still in the Covid pandemic.

Know people getting sicker? Know businesses without enough staff to operate? Persistently unwell yourself?

That's why.

Government will deny, others won't protect you. You're on your own.

Mask up. Stay in clean air.

[Noha Aboelata, MD @NohaAboelataMD]

For those who missed the memo: "The virus is rampant. We’re still in a pandemic. There’s a lot of complacency at the individual level, and...at the government level...using masks for respiratory pathogens that transmit through the air is a no-brainer..."
https://t.co/DFTcAEPjRb

[Charles Spencer 🇨🇦 🇮🇲🚂 @Charles2cpr]

‘I detest bullies’: Dr Rachel Clarke on Jeremy Hunt, government lies and the long legacy of Covid https://t.co/J6dC2FKt89