And then there is issue of protection for healthcare workers. The guidance for hospitals, NHS trusts and so on was for almost all healthcare workers to wear a basic surgical mask (except if were involved in an aerosol generating procedure).
The next election has to be about intergenerational inequity, and what we have to do to leave the world a better place than we found it.
I know my generation deeply cares about our children and grandchildren.
Our political parties just need to get a backbone.
By cause of death, in 2023 YTD we see:
- around 4,200 deaths from Covid. I estimate this will be around 4,600 by year-end
- significantly fewer deaths from respiratory disease and dementia
- significantly more deaths from all other causes
Sick School Air is Unfair. Kids returned to classrooms alongside a whole new way to get sick. The solution to US K-12 absenteeism is not to blame families or send kids to school sick; we must #DemandCleanAir
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🚨 In 2023, when Covid was "over":
2.9% of ALL deaths in children aged 5 to 9 clinically involved Covid-19
And 2.1% of all deaths in children aged 10 to 14
Only those deaths aged 65+ had a higher Covid% rate.
#BREATHTAKING
Source: ONS England & Wales
https://t.co/i3vznlHN8P
@YouAreLobbyLud HCW here. Can’t get it. 7 months since last dose, 13 months since only infection, but Terry white says ATAGI says no cos no updated to 2023 advice, so only a booster a year….. I’ll either get infected first so won’t be eligible or get XBB too late… slow clap @ausgov
I know many of you have seen this, but yesterday after watching I had to put down phone for the rest of the night.
I’ve read this stuff, but the huge emotional response to this was overwhelming. She got so much of this right. It was so clear and well communicated.
“Surviving under capitalism also means resisting its imperatives towards selfishness, greed and indifference to others' needs. Capitalism wants everyone to give up thinking about Covid, to veil the trauma of mass death and lockdowns and carry on https://t.co/qzPKVkxewI
It feels awful and exhausting to wake up every day and perform normalcy because this culture insists you have to. Consider, for just a moment, the primal wave of relief and release you’d feel if you could just stop the fucking charade and say, “I’m actually someone else now…