🧵/13 I’m a cleaner. I want talk to the left about covid. I clean for biz but mostly domestic homes. I like to do a good job & leave a place near spotless. That means tackling dust, grime, dirt, mould & mildew, bodily excretions, pet dander to name a few. It can be grim.
2/13 i was cleaning b4 covid so I have that as a comparison. I want to talk to the left (you’d typically be my allies right? I’m working a low status insecure relative poor pay job?) bcs I feel abandoned & let down-if you consider yourself an ally to low paid pls read on🙏🏼
3/13 1st up: 😷. Do you think they’re a symbol of authoritarian control & they don’t work? Why? Who told you that? Baggy cloth/surgical masks ≠no they don’t offer full protection against an airborne virus but a respirator like trades have worn for decades since before covid do
4/13 Do you think masks shouldn’t be worn by carers, drs, nurses, teachers, TA’s, cleaners, bus drivers, bar staff, shop workers bcs it hampers communication & they’ll pass out from mouth germs, spots & lack of oxygen? Really? & why wear 1 when covid is over/harmless?
5/13 If I told you I wear ffp3 😷 both at work & whenever anywhere indoors would you think I’m brainwashed? Paranoid? A sheep? Scared? Fell foul of fear mongers? How about a hard no on that. I’d say I’m informed & protected. Ask yourself do your paymasters like you well informed?
6/13 back to tweet 1, picture the scene; several hrs/day I’m in homes& workplaces. Most my customers are OAP’s, disabled in some way or folks working long hours Think of all the dust alone around me in a day nvm the goop🤢since I wear a mask I cough less. I have less 💩 in my 🫁
7/13 Masked me=healthier me. When you’re low paid & self employed that =££. I haven’t had covid. I’ve lost loads of work & had higher churn of custom since covid bcs my customers keep getting sick from C19 & #COL impacts. Bcs I’ve not had covid, I haven’t had #LongCovid . Yet
8/13 So I’m here to represent for #cleaners & say all this anti 😷BS is actively harming ppl like me in #GigEconomy there’s no #SickPay for me.If you have a job & get sick pay is it enough? (Obvs no). If you get that then pls be an ally not a hater think about your own health too
9/13 Aside from personal benefit from wearing a mask know what else is good? My vulnerable customers haven’t caught covid from me. So if you have a cleaner think about that. I’ve helped protect my community. I care about my customers & their well being & their families. Shocker!
10/13 So please if you’re a #SocialistSunday at heart , if you’ve been chewed up & spat out by 💩 T&C’s, if you support #EnoughIsEnough please get educated about covid. 🙏🏼 understand it’s not just about your health & safety but every1 around you. Be an ally to #LongCovid @cv_cev
11/13 @carolvorders @OwenJones84 @CarolineLucas @GaryLineker @BylineTimes @eiecampaign @unisontheunion pls RT & support my 🧵 👆🏼here to represent #Cleaners & #gigeconomy 🙏🏼
13/end Ps in🇬🇧covid is still killing 100’s/wk, infecting 10’s of 1,000’s everyday, causing #LongCovid ( 2 million ppl) & many other emerging long term health probs. If you know #ToryGaslighting you know telling yourself it’s over & NBD is just u being swept up in #InfoWar right?

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Oct 21, 2023
Rembering the small sense of relief in summer’20 that our collective sacrifices had brought infections down v low. Along with other parents I hoped schools might open *safely* with focus on #ventilation and #CleanAir but droplet dogma won. 🧵:-
Will #CovidInquiryUK question those that peddled the myths that still hurt us? I knew we were f*cked when Jenny harries made ridiculous comments about masks doing more harm than good clearly this was just a pathetic way of getting around supply shortage independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
3/ emphasis on droplet & fomite (contact) spread lead to ridiculous, arduous, time consuming tasks in classrooms- library books were quarantined, “fogging” , deep cleaning & I never did understand the point of one way systems but they were pretty universal in schools
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Apr 16, 2023
TW: my thread here talks about #Cancer #chemotherapy #Grief #Loss #COVID19 #forgotten500k #ClinicallyVulnerable if any of these topics are painful for you, this might not be a helpful thread to read. 🙏🏼 please sign this petition asking for #MasksInHealthcare
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Two years ago my mum died in hospital from v rare #chemo complications Bcs of covid rules we hadn’t been able to see her during her 3 wk hospital stay apart from briefly in her last 48 hrs on compassionate grounds. We had just come out of the horrific winter20/1 wave
2/Of course I wanted to see my mum prior to that though initially the gravity of her symptoms weren’t known. I WANTED her to be on a ward with restricted visits & mask mandates bcs I appreciated she & other patients on the oncology ward were very vulnerable…
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Jul 1, 2022
🧵on being covid aware & cautious when the world says no to that. I’m in a new minority in the UK as someone who hasn’t (knowingly) had a covid infection. Once I understood how contagious C19 was, I understood risks went beyond just me alone but was more about everyone else
2/ Then I considered it was a new unknown to medics & scientists. By March’20 in the uk it was clear too little too late had been done, unprecedented levels of infection, it was traumatic to learn how many were dying everyday at an increasing rate. Definitely something to avoid.
3/ still I thought, what does it do to the people who survive it? Understandably focus remained on levels of mortality. Then I learnt that epidemiologists were very concerned not only about all the visible impacts but also about virus mutation.
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Nov 14, 2021
Message from2019:Imagine a new deadly airborne virus swept across the world that without simple protection, would result in death & long term disability for millions. Imagine if powerful rich companies didn’t care, especially as
Affording the temporary protection meant disruption to cash flow. Would you believe it if I told you that the elite decide to dupe the population into thinking it was all a hoax, a bit like a cold, and normalised the idea that the most vulnerable weren’t worth saving,
That preventable death & disease wasn’t a thing? And that great chunks of society fell for it? That despite over 5 million deaths globally, mounting evidence of harm, vaccines, still the elite got their way? 2021 update: it happened
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Nov 13, 2021
Slept badly woke early spooked with the “only 6” headline. I don’t meditate but like to start each day in my garden with a cuppa & birdwatching. Mum loved birdwatching too & we shared little anecdotes & updates. Little reminders like this, that your loved one is gone…
is sad but still comforting. My youngest is whipping up cookies for my brothers birthday lunch tomorrow I’m browsing mums recipes for inspiration I’m the cook. Another sad/happy as mums birthday is a couple of days later & we usually got together for a posh meal out.
Not sure why I’m posting this really, just reflecting on grief and how as a nation we seem to have become numb to the daily figures, cruel & thoughtless for those who covid DOES pose a life/death threat. Just reaching out to anyone mourning, or whose life is forever changed
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Nov 11, 2021
🧵1/5 #UKchildren 💔I’ve lost track the number of times this kind of “but…”argument is used where (all ages) covid death figures are concerned- but they were old, but they had serious health problems, but they were obese… it feeds down the flow chart of u can ignore covid b’cos
..2/ at the results end of the flow chart we have personal choice trumps severe health risks, eugenics, getting told to f-off on SM when raising issues for CEV community, valid concerns dismissed as hysteria or anxiety, stay indoors & keep the hazmat suit on etc etc….
3/ the longer covid drags on thanks to these ignorant, hurtful,discriminatory takes, the gloomier the outlook gets, yet doom & gloom is what those wanting to suppress covid were accused of. Having #asthma, #chemotherapy #transplant pt, etc your risks are waaayyy higher
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