Notices by Normal for '24 😷🇪🇺🍸 (jbond@mastodon.social)

@glynmoody What about AR?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/why-garbage-time-lying-flat-are-trending-in-dragon-land-china-where-the-youth-are-just-giving-up-on-their-future/articleshow/113653839.cms?from=mdr

In "The Garbage Time of History", one reaction from the young is "Lying Flat". Just opt out.

Beware the fnords in this one. Criticising China for running out of success can look awfully like projection.

How did it end up like this?
UK: Red Left Wing, Blue Right Wing
USA: Blue Left Wing, Red Right Wing

Obvs. All 4 examples are actually right wing. ;)

Now we're well into 3rd Qtr, what are Labour, NHS, UKHSA and JVCI plans for the autumn covid vaccination programme?

It's all very well telling people to keep up to date with boosters. But the kids never got the first vax and most of the UK hasn't had a booster for years.

UK Covid

How long would it take Labour to resurrect the mitigations, test and trace we had in 2022?
- Free (limited number) of LFT
- NHS Reporting for all tests
- The Covid app
- ONS data analysis
- Free Vax for everyone > 6 months, twice a year
- Mask-vax mandates in health care
- Scrap UKHSA, resurrect PHE
- Rebuild JVCI and SAGE
- Wastewater testing
- Variant reporting

Then work on Indoor Air Quality and hygiene. Standards and public information.

@br00t4c Very sad. I miss them. And the greenfinches and chaffinches. Feels like less song birds every year.

Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/25/another-pandemic-is-absolutely-inevitable-says-patrick-vallance-covid

So many diseases are spread via the respiratory system. Air hygiene should be a big thing now. It works against all of them. Even before there's a vax.

If only we'd done these, we'd be totally ready.
Clean air in schools ✅
Respirators being worn widely ✅
Good infection control in hospitals ✅

#CovidIsNotOver and yet we're talking about the "next" pandemic.

We finally found the Brexit Benefit. It's destroying the Tory Party.

#ToryZero

Huge & important thread on the effect of Long Covid on children in the UK.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1783789111582638210.html

ONS release Long Covid Report

> 2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID [most of whom, longer than 2 years]

> Long COVID symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities of 1.5 million people (74.7% of those with self-reported long COVID).

> 381,000 (19.2%) reported that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.

https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1783418864954417185

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/selfreportedcoronaviruscovid19infectionsandassociatedsymptomsenglandandscotland/november2023tomarch2024

@aral It worked the first time, so just repeat it, right?

The "Modest Proposal" is satire. Was that not obvious?

A modest proposal.

Find a country of around the right size. Displace and clear out the people who already live there. Allow any person of Palestinian heritage free passage to move to this new country. Provide whatever aid is necessary to help them make a new start.

Like say, Northern Cyprus.

@CloudyMrs @KimSJ @HighlandLawyer @Yoshi @ChrisMayLA6

Pretty much the only fundamental change that might work is PR. That way a coalition of minority Labour+LibDem+SNP might be able to steer a course back to sanity. The way to get that is 1) utterly destroy the Conservative Party and 2) don't vote for the Labour candidate if another party is more likely to stop the Tory candidate.

All over the world.

It can't be Covid or disease caused or made worse by Long/Post Covid, because we don't test for Covid any more.

And if we do test we don't report it.

And if we do report it, it doesn't make it into any official figures.

And if it is in official data we hide them and don't report them publicly or globally.

So it can't be covid because the covid stats are going down.

@pluralistic @WIRED

17 years ago

UK Covid Stats

I don't believe any of the official stats so there's not much to say.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2023-to-2024-season

Autumn Covid Vax is slowing down, nearly done with ~65% uptake
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/

JVCI, and especially Dr Adam Finn need to be censured and maybe disbarred. "Most under 65s will end up boosting immunity not by vax but by multiple infections". When enough vax is already paid for and in stock for the 50-65s. Just not delivered.

Seeing increasing numbers of articles about the effects of lockdowns and home schooling on attendance and behaviour in schools. But nothing about the effects of Covid infections on pupils, staff & parents around schooling. Am I just missing something here?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/nov/23/school-leaders-england-feel-lockdown-broke-spell-bond-with-parents

I wonder about the state of mind now of those who leapt in after the 7 Oct Hamas atrocity with unconditional support for Netanyahu and the Israeli Government. After the last month, do they still think the Israeli Government deserve that unconditional support? Is there no room for criticism in their minds?

Post in haste. Repent at leisure.

@ChrisMayLA6 @RussCheshire

Every single privatisation:

Turn a natural monopoly into an artificial market. Quick win incentives to first investors. Fail to regulate or control the artificial market. Instead of investing in infrastructure, the private companies sell out to foreign investors, who borrow debt to give to execs and shareholders. Then want the customers to pay for the infrastructure upgrades. Gov props up failure. Worse, expensive service for more gov cost.

It's a long con.

Sorry, not UK. England and Wales. Although Scotland and N Ireland are not much better.

Now we're in denial. and have deliberately forgotten all the lessons from the previous 4 years of Covid and the years of planning before that. Now we've given up on the most basic Public Health as PHE has been replaced by UKHSA and that's been captured by the minimisers.

Will we ever learn from our mistakes, learn from 4 years of Covid, and actually pro-actively fix this?