Neil Forsyth

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[tern @1goodtern]

I've not really had any reason to comment on the death of Henry Nowak, until I had a conversation with a local retired policeman that changed my view of the incident.
He gave me permission to share this.

He's a reform voter. He voted for brexit. I've found him to be casually racist at times. So hold that in mind while you read this:

He said he had put handcuffs on a thousand people and most would say absolutely anything to get you to take them off.
He said he must have heard hundreds of people in handcuffs say that they were injured and even dying.
Only one was actually injured, and yes, they were dying.

Exactly like Henry Nowak, they were wearing a dark top at night and bleeding abdominally both internally and externally.
Exactly like with Henry Nowak, he and a fellow officer called for emergency support and started first aid as soon as they knew there was a problem.
Exactly like with Henry Nowak the first aid wasn't enough and the young man died.
Unlike Henry Nowak, that young man was both a perpetrator of knife violence and a victim of it. His assailant also needed emergency care.

The policeman telling me all this stepped down from active duty two weeks later due to 'stress' and retired months later.
I knew about the death and the stress years ago, but didn't know about the details until yesterday.

He said he still has nightmares about pulling up the young man's shirt to see the sucking bubbling knife wound.

When he started talking to me yesterday, I thought he was going to complain about two tier policing and wokeness and reverse discrimination, but instead we just cried a lot.

I'm crying again as I write this too.

Sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy, and that's all it is.

[tern @1goodtern]

Scottish covid wastewater confirming every other metric - there is very little covid in the UK at the moment.
Long may this last.

[tern @1goodtern]

Honestly, you've got to have balls of steel to publish this graph and say without evidence that Covid has nothing to do with this fall.

Especially since the press release the article is based on *doesn't even say that*.

[Neil Forsyth @oakowl]

I will miss the goldfinches (and the occasional greenfinch) in the summer, but I will follow the RSPB's advice.
https://t.co/fBbMJSKkdQ

[Neil Forsyth @oakowl]

@_CatintheHat @rwjdingwall @SafeDavid3 A relative was asked to wear a surgical mask when visiting hospital because of an RSV outbreak. She has now caught RSV.

[Cathy Finnis @cathy_finnis]

The Covid Inquiry Healthcare module found ‘no good reason to prevent patients from wearing their own masks’. @NHSE_WTE please help the NHS workforce to implement this after recent reports of people in Kent being asked to remove their FFP2/3 masks for surgical masks #MenB

[Cathy Finnis @cathy_finnis]

Covid inquiry Module 3 report. One of the most important recommendations, to my mind, to emerge, is this. We, CVF fought for HEPA in the inquiry hearing room and I was the first person to wear a mask to give evidence in the inquiry. Now the work to get this implemented!

[Neil Forsyth @oakowl]

@1goodtern I'm looking forward to seeing the finches bringing their children to my feeders later in the year.

[tern @1goodtern]

I'm seeing the word 'unprecedented' in the papers a lot today about the meningitis outbreak.

It may be unprecedented, but it was not unpredicted.

https://t.co/xtIh89sdS5

[Neil Forsyth @oakowl]

@1goodtern A friend has just had her third infection in quick succession.

[tern @1goodtern]

And then into your bloodstream... and brain...
I sincerely hope that this one isn't this winter's breakout bacterium.
Neisseria Meningitidis.

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

@BBCBreakfast @CovidSolidarit1 Given how rapidly this is spreading & how deadly the consequences can be, please warn about the risk of AIRBORNE (AEROSOL) transmission.

Below is the guidance from both the UK Green Book & the World Health Organisation.

🔗 https://t.co/V9ZU1srn3H

🔗 https://t.co/axt5cQa442

[tern @1goodtern]

Before Covid came along, England was doing pretty well with meningococcal disease.

Which is great because it's a disease that can *kill a healthy teenager within hours*...

... or leave them alive without limbs, hearing, or memory...

But... and it's a really big but...
🧵

[Neil Forsyth @oakowl]

@PeteUK7 I don't live near Kent, but I might top up my stock of FFP2s, just in case...

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

@Telegraph Robert Dingwall, the guy who argued against interventions to stop Covid spreading back in 2020 & said we should just let it rip. 🤔

Meanwhile, in case anyone is interested, here’s what the UK Green Book & WHO have to say about how Meningitis transmits.

Note the word “aerosols”.

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

📣 SANOFI TO SUPPLY NOVAVAX COVID VACCINE FOR UK SPRING 2026 BOOSTERS

This will be the first availability of the Novavax Covid vaccine in the UK since early 2024.

This is great news, especially for those who cannot tolerate mRNA vax.

https://t.co/enclPVZgMi

(H/t @Biff234523)

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Nothing has been investigated MORE as a possible link to autism than vaccines

And the data is clear

Vaccines are NOT the cause of autism.

[tern @1goodtern]

"‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks"

"“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,”"

https://t.co/LzDDDdHB5F

[Neil Forsyth @oakowl]

@brownecfm I didn't know this.

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

This feels like an important breakthrough moment…

On the BBC News this evening, Medical Editor @BBCFergusWalsh clearly stated:

“As for facemasks, simple surgical masks are *not* good at stopping viruses. You really need a properly fitted tight respirator mask for that”…

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