Sarah Flude

Art/photography lover. Cat person. Always out walking. Proud owner of a witch’s cackle. She/her.

[Sarah Flude @sleepylaugh]

@seatsixtyone Your website says to buy an interrail pass from thetrainline if you live in the UK, but they don’t appear to be offering the 25% discount. Are there issues ordering direct from https://t.co/GGjt7AJ1oL if you’re based in the UK?

[Steve B @75ThunderRoad]

I've written an open letter to the Education Secretary.

School attendance is often in the news. But politicians simply don't want to talk about illness, the biggest cause of absence for pupils & teachers. It's absurd.

"Please Can We Talk About Health?"

https://t.co/LFKEA2SYLV

[@ 𝒱𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑅𝑜𝓌𝓁𝒶𝓉𝓉. (𝒫𝑒𝒶𝓈𝒶𝓃𝓉) @VincentRowlatt]

A few years back, unemployed, I applied for a job at Tescos, I didn't get it. A week later a Job Centre mandatory work placement at Tescos doing the very same job that I'd applied for, one month, no pay other than JSA. Made to work someplace for free.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I felt compelled to make this point.

After the breakneck, remarkable transformation of the NHS – unprecedented in its 70 year history – it astounds me that basic lessons about managing airborne infectious diseases like Covid are *still*, today, not being acted upon by the NHS:

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

Absolutely worth a read. Here's one: "Maybe they have a healthy distrust of authority and question that the move to reduce COVID isolation guidelines from the original 10 days to 5 days came after pressure from executives, and not because the risks or infectiousness changed."

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

🚨Please add your ‘NO’ at the link below.

We need to send a clear message that ignoring AIRBORNE infection controls in hospitals is completely unacceptable.

[Sarah Flude @sleepylaugh]

@_Chris_Coghlan @AshleyDalton_MP @wesstreeting if you only do one thing today, please make it reading @_CatintheHat’s extremely informative 🧵on why the transmission of covid & other airborne viruses in the #NHS desperately needs to be dealt with ⬇️

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

⚠️ IPC GUIDANCE

Newly-appointed Health Minister @AshleyDalton_MP has just responded to a question from MP @_Chris_Coghlan.

Chris asks when the NHS IPC manual will be updated to reflect the latest science on AIRBORNE transmission.

Let’s take a closer look at Ashley’s reply…

[Sarah Flude @sleepylaugh]

Extremely important 🧵about airborne viruses (COVID19, H5N1 etc.) & the inadequate measures UK hospitals have in place to prevent the spread of hospital acquired infections, which can be fatal. @cammaynard - please read & help hold our govt to account

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

⚠️ IPC GUIDANCE

Newly-appointed Health Minister @AshleyDalton_MP has just responded to a question from MP @_Chris_Coghlan.

Chris asks when the NHS IPC manual will be updated to reflect the latest science on AIRBORNE transmission.

Let’s take a closer look at Ashley’s reply…

[Sarah Flude @sleepylaugh]

And thank you @_Chris_Coghlan for raising the issue in the first place

[Dan White : Disability Campaigner / Author / ♿️ @Danwhite1972]

Gentle pre-budget reminder.

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

I felt every single word of this post. 😢

My son is often one of those kids in the waiting room at the children’s hospital.

He’ll never win an attendance award.

And the kids who come in sick striving to win their own attendance award are the reason my son will never win one.

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

We owe it to them: all our female ancestors who were denied that democratic right. Patriarchal forces still attempt to hold us back by pushing apathy, telling us that “politicians are all the same”. They’re not - and you have the right to choose, to vote from the heart, for our future, for all our children - and to make your voice and your vote count.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

One more sleep ❤️
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[Cassetteboy @Cassetteboy]

With luck this should be our last anti-Tory video for a long long time

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Don’t forget to register to vote. Whoever you put the ❎ for, you have to register first. 👍🏻 https://t.co/bviP1PsUUU

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

You have until midnight tonight to register to vote in the general election on July 4.

Head to https://t.co/kgHqOWijWv and get on the register.

[tern @1goodtern]

The second of the guardian's excellent Long Covid interview trilogy:

Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid

The sentence that got me crying "They tell me he has had a big crash since our interview".
❤️😔
https://t.co/KvMjXQMpFl

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Key deadlines for the GE on 4 July

⏲️ Register to vote: Tuesday 18 June at 23.59

⏲️ Applying for a Voter ID: Wednesday 26 June at 17:00

⏲️ Applying for a postal vote: Wednesday 19 June at 17.00

⏲��� Applying for a proxy vote: Wednesday 26 June at 17.00

[Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag]

The signs of total collapse are now overt - in the disaster literature this is called the incubation phase - without rapid and brave action next inevitable step is mass casualty incident inside multiple hospital settings.