Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

🐝 Mainly tweet about covid, the government and Brexit. Happy to stop once they follow a less destructive path. Politically homeless #FBPE #FBLC

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

There have been numerous posts on social media from parents aghast at the revolving door of school and nursery acquired illness. Sometimes there’ll be a parent posting who has children with a wide age gap saying it’s worse now. 🧵

[Adam @ABrokenBattery]

Post exertional malaise (PEM) is the hallmark symptom of #MECFS

It’s not fatigue following activity. It is a dramatic deterioration and worsening of symptoms.

Short video explainer - triggers, symptoms, and management.

Repost for the last day of #MEAwarenessMonth

[Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne @PeteUK7]

I've been sorting through my late Mum's items; paperwork, photos and stuff and I came across this booklet from mid 1960s issued by the British Medical Association @TheBMA called 'Doctors Orders'.
I wondered if it had advice on air quality & links to disease transmission.
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[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

@annesmithmcc @Dave_it_up I’ve thought that too

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

@1goodtern Does feel a bit like that bit in the book ‘the beach’ where they don’t want to be reminded how much suffering the injured guy is going through.

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

I’m not sure how much more evidence is required to finally update infection protection and control guidance, but here’s hoping…

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

COVID INQUIRY: MODULE 3 REPORT

“Fundamental flaws in the UK’s approach to IPC [infection prevention & control] guidance, for example in relation to the use of PPE, put patients and healthcare workers at risk.”

— Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Covid Inquiry

Read more here… ⬇️

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

But it wasn’t just the “initial guidance” that was flawed!

To this very day, the IPC guidance STILL does not reflect the latest science on AIRBORNE transmission.

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

This resonates and I’m ‘only’ four years in.

[Guus @guustweet]

I’d really like to become a little less aware.

I find myself not really having much to say today. #LongCovidAwarenessDay. Six years in, it feels like we’re still having to repeat the same things over and over, with little tangible change in day to day to life for most of us. 🧵

[Guus @guustweet]

Each year more and more people enter our world in the shadows. Each year the list of lives we have lost grows longer.

Today there will probably be a lot of new faces raising awareness with sort of the same spirit many of us had in the early days.

[Guus @guustweet]

I’d really like to become a little less aware.

I find myself not really having much to say today. #LongCovidAwarenessDay. Six years in, it feels like we’re still having to repeat the same things over and over, with little tangible change in day to day to life for most of us. 🧵

[Erin M @ErinAPN1]

Today, on Long Covid awareness day I’d like to call out the prejudice delivered against long covid kids.

My daughter is severely impaired by long Covid. She is attached to tubes 21 hours a day to keep her alive, and has 3x stomas as well as a permanent line into her heart for iv fluids. She has encountered sepsis repeatedly, all manner of acute life threatening secondary issues due to her condition, and is malnourished. She spends much of her time in hospitals.

She missed 3+ years of schooling, but this year is attempting to do (with very minimal support from her teacher) Grade 12 English. She zooms into classes from the adult oncology ward she’s housed in. She reschedules treatments around lesson times to try and make them. But, she is acutely unwell and often this is impossible.

That she even continues with education is remarkable. But, she loves learning and in spite of all she suffers, she is performing very well.

This is the comment from her English teacher.

Imagine this being said about a child in these health circumstances with ANY other illness…….
#longcovidkids #LongCovidAwareness
#longcovid

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

Thousands upon thousands of studies.
Thousands upon thousands of anecdotes.
Millions and millions of people with long covid.
£billions to economies.

Together, it’s like Italy sending alarms early in the pandemic to a shrugging Johnson as the toll keeps climbing.

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

@PeteUK7 I’m sorry for your loss.

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

@ABrokenBattery Similar vibes to Boris Johnson vows to address gaslighting over parties held at number ten.

[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

Seeing this clip has melted my brain.

[Adam @ABrokenBattery]

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya says patients with ME/CFS, long COVID, vaccine injury and chronic Lyme are often gaslit and told their symptoms are psychological, making them feel crazy. He’s told NIH staff he wants to invest in finding real answers for these conditions.

[Christine 🌻 Guenter @ChristineGuent8]

What is the roadblock to clean, indoor air? Why are politicians & PH so allergic to the idea of this?

“Measles, flu, COVID-19, norovirus—most infectious diseases spread through the air we breathe. We just accept that everyone gets sick indoors. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.”

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @CovidBereaved Cymru
Sam Smith-Higgins

👏👏👏 The need for better air quality in healthcare to protect everyone.

Recognition for CVF💙💜💗
"It's a point Mr @AdamWagner1 has beeen making ever since I started this inquiry"
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[Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky) @JoIsSummer]

120 people a week catch covid in hospitals in Wales. They’re just the ones we know about, the ones they bother to test

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

Clinically Vulnerable Families want safe environments. To quote @lara_wong from last week:

"When it is safe enough for the most vulnerable, it is safe enough for everyone."

Sam explains that even bereaved wouldn't adhere to 'restrictions' in another pandemic.

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[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

Clinically Vulnerable Families want safe environments. To quote @lara_wong from last week:

"When it is safe enough for the most vulnerable, it is safe enough for everyone."

Sam explains that even bereaved wouldn't adhere to 'restrictions' in another pandemic.

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[Envidreamz @envidreamz]

-The Silence After I Said It-

Today a member asked me
in front of the entire room at my workplace why I no longer teach many exercise classes.
She remembered when I taught more.

I told them the truth.
Covid destroyed my health years ago. I have suffered without end since and just survived heart surgery.

The room froze. Could hear a pin drop.

These people stared at the athletic woman in her 30s
as if my story was the most horrifying thing they had ever heard.

Some stared in disbelief as if they refused to accept what I said was true.

And others looked like they wished I hadn’t said it at all.

The world collectively decided that young, athletic women are not allowed to be permanently altered by Covid.

So when one of us says it out loud it feels like the kind of ending the story had no place for.

That silence in the room was denial colliding with reality.

They didn’t ask anything else.

[Gwladwr @gwladwr]

Covid in Scotland

'Proportions of hospital admissions by age due to COVID-19, week 40 2023 to week 7 2026'

Something unusual is happening to the age distribution of Covid hospital admissions in Scotland.

In Week 07 2026 children aged ≤14 were 52.6%
of all COVID-19 admissions:

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

This ⬇️ is a must-read thread from @1goodtern.

The sickness trends are VERY worrying.

Importantly:
▪️The charts are for newly-qualified doctors. Aging population is not playing a role.
▪️These are sickness rates per 100k so account for changing numbers of NHS staff over time.