SocialSafeKids

Social Safe Kids is a UK Facebook Group facilitating social meet-ups for families who are trying to stay safe from Covid 🇬🇧. We are Social & Safe

[SocialSafeKids @SocialSafeKids]

If you are still masking, for yourself and for those around you, KEEP GOING.
Defy social pressures with scientific logic. Wear FFP2 grade or above.

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#maskup #LongCovid #mecfs #longcovidkids #COVIDisAirborne

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

#LongCovid has not decreased from 2020-2024.

Prevalence is 13-23% of US population, increasing 0.4%-1.5% every 3 months.

Incidence was 10-29%, but began increasing in 2023.

"These findings indicate an accumulating rather than resolving disease burden." https://t.co/SZGm2NFkg0

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

There are now more than half a million scientific publications related to COVID-19 and a rapidly growing body of evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 infection to immune dysregulation, microvascular injury, autonomic dysfunction, clotting abnormalities, viral persistence, and measurable cognitive changes.

And to the people constantly sick, exhausted, dizzy, forgetful, exercise intolerant, waking up to feeling like you got hit by a truck on the daily or suddenly developing strange inflammation, heart issues, GI problems, or “mystery” symptoms after repeated infections…

At some point you and society as a whole must confront the reality that repeated infection with a vascular and neurotropic virus was never as harmless as everyone wanted it to be.

I choose to live in reality.

That virus is still here. It is still spreading through the air. And it is still associated with long-term vascular, immune, and neurological consequences for many people.

Protecting yourself from that threat — through cleaner air, better ventilation, filtration, vaccination, and high-quality masks in high-risk settings — also reduces your risk from many of the other respiratory pathogens constantly circulating around us.

And if you are tired of watching people suffer while being told this is “normal,” then start demanding urgency.

Ask why Long Covid clinics are closing instead of expanding.
Ask why immunologists, virologists, neurologists, vascular scientists, and pathologists are not being funded at Manhattan Project scale to investigate viral persistence, immune dysfunction, clotting, mitochondrial damage, and cognitive impairment.
Ask why billions can appear overnight for almost anything else, but millions living with chronic illness are told to “pace themselves” and move on.

Support researchers (the ones who are still focused on Long Covid that don’t conflate the disease)
Support clean air initiatives (two strong efforts happening in Illinois right now! Help us!!).
Support disability advocacy.
Pressure institutions to improve indoor air quality.
Stop mocking people for protecting themselves.
And stop accepting “everyone is sick all the time now” as a normal feature of modern life.

[Deborah Holloway 😷 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @DebHolloway]

Did you know that there is a toolbox that contains resources about SARS-CoV-2 with sections such as Masking/Respirators and Clean the Air that are helpful for other airborne pathogens? Well, there is:
https://t.co/OfKvfRLPAN

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Scientists Baffled Why More Kids Are Off Sick During Pandemic That Makes Kids More Likely To Be Off Sick

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

Incredible speech delivered by Baroness Linforth in the House of Lords today calling for clean indoor air in schools.

“It would cost less than a tenner per child per year to provide pupils and staff with clean air - about the same cost as a coffee and a cake.”

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[tern @1goodtern]

As soon as I read the word ectoderm, every one of my alarms went off loud.

<exhausted angry sigh>

[Association Winslow Santé Publique @winslow_la]

NON-VIOLENT PROTEST DURING A CONFERENCE ON #LongCovid.

We are people living with Long Covid and we are sick.

We want real care, not cognitive behavioral therapy or meditation.

We need medications for our lungs, hearts, stomachs, immune systems, brains damaged by #Covid.

[tern @1goodtern]

I'm a bit embarrassed about posting this because I recorded it in a hurry during a busy week, and did it off the cuff without notes to reproduce that live spaces feel, but I know some people missed it and wanted to hear it, so here it is with subs.

[tern @1goodtern]

"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?"

Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉

It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

Experimental Intranasal COVID-19 Vaccine Eliminates Virus in Mice Single Dose 60%, Two Doses 100% Protection

Scientists at the Spanish National Research Council developed a new intranasal vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 that protected mice from recent variants in preclinical trials.

[Anne Marie 💜 @annesmithmcc]

Spoke to Iain Dale at @LBC about cleaning the indoor air and the spread of measles...
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[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

More than 700,000 university graduates are claiming benefits saying they're too sick to work.

Analysis by the Centre for Social Justice has found there has been a 46% rise in claimants since 2019, with one in three saying health problems are the reason they can't get a job.

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[MaskTogetherAmerica @TogetherWeMask]

Taekwondoin @TinaSugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID — why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica & @pubhealthaction. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

Damm it....Children who have had COVID-19—even a mild case—may face a future shadowed by persistent subclinical heart muscle damage and Long-COVID symptoms like chronic fatigue, raising serious concerns that repeated reinfections could compound these hidden cardiovascular risks and impair their long-term health.
I've been warning you!!🧵👇

[tern @1goodtern]

Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff

The three graphs that *every person* needs to see.

The question that every single person needs to ask their government:
What are you doing to protect me from Covid infection?

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure

😡A USA study that really frightens me!

In-utero COVID-19 exposure associates with early brain alterations and toddler developmental delays, warranting long-term monitoring of these children.

➡️They conducted a prospective longitudinal study with 142 mother-baby dyads(mother-infant pairs): 39 exposed to COVID-19 in utero (2020–2022) vs. 103 pre-pandemic controls (2016–2019).

➡️Neonatal brain imaging used quantitative 3D volumetric MRI (2 weeks corrected age).

➡️Toddler assessments (2 years) included Bayley Scales (BSID-III) for cognition/social-emotion and ITSEA for behaviours.

➡️Exposure linked to reduced neonatal brain volumes in cortical/subcortical gray matter, cerebral white matter, and left hippocampus (all significant after FDR correction).

➡️At age 2, exposed toddlers showed lower cognition and social-emotional scores (BSID-III), plus higher internalizing behaviours (ITSEA).

➡️Reduced cortical gray matter partially explained lower cognition (21.9%); lower cognition mediated increased internalizing behaviours (61.0%).

➡️Conclusion:
1. “Children exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in utero display lower cognitive abilities than children who had not been exposed, mediated in part by the neonatal cortical gray matter volumes.”

2. “Cognitive ability in toddlers also mediated the association between in utero SARS-CoV-2 exposure and their early social-emotional development.”

3. “These findings highlight the need for continued surveillance to best identify and provide early interventions for at-risk children and provide new insights regarding prenatal exposures on early fetal programming."

4. “Further studies into the longitudinal effects of this exposure are currently ongoing.”

So, frightening and making me angry:
In-utero exposure to COVID-19 is associated with reduced neonatal brain volumes and persistent neurodevelopmental delays in cognition and social-emotional functioning by age 2.

‼️Please mothers, get vaccinated and AVOID sarscov2!
https://t.co/OGjwDlTNQG

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

In utero #COVID exposure linked to brain changes, developmental delays, anxiety, and depression

At 2 years, 14% of toddlers in the prepandemic group were at high risk for developmental delays, compared with 51.6% in the COVID-19 group.

https://t.co/Y6iRL3mCDH

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, MPH, PhD @fitterhappierAJ]

Key finding: Post-COVID patients show markedly reduced T cell reactivity to common pathogens (influenza, Staph, VCZ) which is evidence of lasting immune dysregulation favoring secondary infections and viral reactivation

Link:
https://t.co/MmnUbzcDWV

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[Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA @N95Anaesthetist]

Thanks, Paco. I wish everyone understood this - but most of all, I wish doctors understood it.

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, MPH, PhD @fitterhappierAJ]

This is on the people that overhyped immunity to covid

In 2021 I was asked by a high up market person what the future of long covid and disability in the US was.

I told them it would continue to get worse and reinfections would accumulate harm and disability

In 2022 a journalist for an MIT publication interviewed me. I said covid would cause disability and wear at immunity via T cell death at a population level to cause other diseases to increase. I did not pull punches in that video recorded interview with them. That was now published last month in eLife.

In 2022/2023 an MIT working group was scheduling me to ask about the future of Long Covid and what it would do. They never followed up, but now you have it clearly, in late 2025/2026

There is no treatment for Long Covid

It is a valid and real disability and the greatest irony is that the people who qualify as “normal” and the “average” will be touched by T cell loss as published recently