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[Em @embournemouth]

@Feargal_Sharkey @EnvAgency I would recommend boiling your tap water before drinking - companies like Anglian Water have boil notices to cover themselves if you get sick from drinking their water: https://t.co/2dyPL1iZ4G

[Em @embournemouth]

@Feargal_Sharkey I've boiled then filtered my tap water for years - you can't trust the water companies if they say it's safe to drink. Most have boil notices permanently on their websites to cover themselves legally if you get ill at any time from drinking tap water: https://t.co/2dyPL1iZ4G

[Em @embournemouth]

@1goodtern We had students flying in from Wuhan to the University in December 2019 and our whole office (except maybe 2 people who managed to avoid it) then got very sick with the "flu" that winter holiday - certainly the worst flu I ever had. Who knows??

[Em @embournemouth]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch Ex-colleague told us in a meeting that her 8 -year-old daughter had been sick EVERY MONTH over the last year. Mum didn't seem too bothered and said the doctor kept dosing her up with antibiotics each time and she sent her back to school. Is this the new normal?

[Em @embournemouth]

@LauraMiers In what other profession would we accept a so-called (and highly paid) "expert" or specialist who completely ignores recent research in their field, to the detriment of their clients? It's like having a lawyer who lands you in prison because they hadn't bothered to read the law.

[Em @embournemouth]

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[Em @embournemouth]

@1goodtern It's literally become "the virus which must not be named" - the Voldemort of viruses.

[Em @embournemouth]

@broadwaybabyto Interestingly, here in the UK, people who were originally diagnosed with Long COVID are now having their diagnoses changed to things like "chronic fatigue". It's a handy way to hide the fact that COVID caused the problems in the first place.

[Em @embournemouth]

@brownecfm The other interesting situation is:

Person: Describes what sounds like COVID symptoms and how sick they feel.

Me: Have you tested?

Person (suddenly very angry and defensive): No, it's not COVID.

Me: How do you know if you haven't tested?

Person: Because it won't be COVID!!

[Em @embournemouth]

@KristieDeGaris Had the COVID vaccine recently and sat in a waiting room opposite massive wall display of NHS posters warning you what you might catch this winter - RSV, flu, whooping cough - about 20 posters. ANY mention of COVID? Of course not. The omission is becoming dystopian.

[Em @embournemouth]

@brownecfm Had the COVID vaccine recently and sat in a waiting room opposite massive wall display of NHS posters warning you what you might catch this winter - RSV, flu, whooping cough - about 20 posters. ANY mention of COVID? Of course not. The omission is becoming dystopian.

[Em @embournemouth]

@Haggis_UK Frost: "Which comes off worse, Rachel Reeves or Liz Truss's budget?"

Davies: "Rachel Reeves'".

Frost: Gives some actual facts about both budgets. "So you still think Rachel Reeves' comes off worse?"

Davies: "That's not what I said."

You literally just did!! 👆👆👆👆👆

[Em @embournemouth]

@Sheep_in_fog I've also noticed that some senior managers are putting in Annual Leave days for days when they were actually off sick, which I don't think happened that much before and will mask the overall sickness figures. I'm not sure where the pressure to do this is coming from, though.

[Em @embournemouth]

@Sheep_in_fog Pre-2020, if you were absent from work due to sickness more than 3 times in a 6-month period, HR would get involved. Now they don't pursue this at all (as they'd be talking to the vast majority of the workforce all the time).

[Em @embournemouth]

@1goodtern What did he reply to this? Did he accept, by his logic, that he must have had multiple asymptomatic COVID infections?

[Em @embournemouth]

@bmay He's one step away from "They're EATING their PETS."

[Em @embournemouth]

@AdamBienkov https://t.co/NKbubiypZ4

[Em @embournemouth]

@a_lil_bow I'm SO TIRED of work colleagues who go on and on now about how they're constantly sick, fatigued, have a cough but if you even mention COVID, they shut you down and say it's a "mild cold". Major cross-organisation meetings cancelled every week due to "sickness". Not before 2020!

[Em @embournemouth]

@wesstreeting Take. COVID. Seriously.

[Em @embournemouth]

@drseanmullen I think that "Long COVID" is another very problematic term. It suggests just someone who has acute COVID for longer than normal, when it is, in fact, SARS-2 damage, which appears to be permanent (according to recent heart studies).