I can forgive errors at the beginning of the pandemic, but we're years into this now.
Imo public health should
😷provide free FFP3 masks + education on face fitting & face fit centres
💨ventilate public buildings/transport, mandating companies to do the same, & supporting the public eg free hepa filters
📈test & track
🤒provide proper support for those off sick
👩🏫educating on acute covid, #longcovid, post covid, and vaccine complications
👩🔬funding biomedical research to understand pathophysiology and treatments
📝creating clear clinical guidelines based on emerging evidence
📣lobbying the government to take this seriously
Instead, all they seem to be doing is burying their head in the sand, agreeing with unevidenced government decisions, leaving the public to fend for themselves without informed consent, hoping vaccines fix everything
I will start by saying the *published* evidence is limited. Therefore going off published evidence alone is (by definition) incomplete (same for any research: the active researchers have a knowledge advantage)
1. This was first reported in the mainstream in Jan 2022 by Science mag: science.org/content/articl…
Importantly, there are a handful of such cases in the trials that were excluded from final analysis, one is described in the Science article
this thread sums up #academia so well. i hated so much of it, but kept telling myself the 10 % i love (the research) made up for the 90 % of shit the majority of the time.
Got too excited seeing people, this 1 hour at a picket has been the most socialising and energetic thing ive done in 20 months. Already feeling the effects, but so nice to see folk and show solidarity to the first #union i ever joined (even though im no longer a member)
The work unions do benefit all of us. Employers want your labour, workers want to have a life outside of work.
If you like your holiday pay, sick pay, parental leave, maximum work hours, minimum wage, pensions, safety at work etc, then you support unions.
Yes there are perks working in academia, and it can be a cushy job, but guess who hogs those?
Hint: the predominantly white abled upper middle class older guys
The kinda people who think they can relate cos they "did some teaching during my PhD too" (near verbatim words from ex @UniofBath VC to me when discussing casualisation in a meeting with her)
I now take: ketotifen, sodium, statins, anticoagulants, antiplatelets, H1 and H2 antihistamines, plus vits/mins to address deficiencies and high needs, and some supplements
These meds address:
😞Mast cell activation syndrome
😞My inability to produce aldosterone (endocrine dysfunction)
😞Endothelial damage
😞Clotting
😞Platelet activation
😞Unexplained hyperhomocysteinaemia (i.e. no MTHFR variant)
Luckily for me, people believe me. But some only seem to believe me because I agree with them about other things, because i take issue with the same people they take issue with, because i havent gone on media they dislike