@michael_hoerger @vitacoreinc The FFP3s I wore until a recent upgrade to 3M Auras were ear-loop versions.. Just generic from Amazon. European certification.
Pretty good fit, except for slight gap under corners of eyes. I flattened the mask, then shaped the nosewire over my little finger, and applied a..👇1/ @michael_hoerger @vitacoreinc .. mask-tape strip under the nose-bridge.
To avoid chafing, I also wore a hairslide at the back of my head to hook the ear loops in. It pulled the loops away from the backs of the ears, and made for a comfortable and very secure seal on the face. 👇2/

A small rant.. Trolls are an irritant, like a small stone in your shoe, but everyone takes what they say with a bucketful of salt, and they are easily dealt with.
What ruffles my feathers, though, is not seeing eye to eye with others in our CC posse. Not about detail, but👇 .. about attitude. The old Nightingale-Conant cliché that “Attitude Determines Your Altitude” is true!

A lot of people struggling with mitigations.. and even the thought of HAVING to mitigate at all.. need encouragement, not to be told how ‘extremely difficult’ it all is, and👇

.@patcullen9
1/ Pat, I appreciate you’re busy, but as one of the patients you care about, I wanted to point something out that will have robbed your nurses of the sympathy & support of millions in the UK.
Many of your members are making a mockery of your protestations that👇 2/ you care about patient safety. Not talking about the strikes, but about most nurses (and doctors) opting out of masking in their every day duties to protect CEVs who are highly susceptible to Covid.
There are 1.2 million of us in the UK, and the last figure I saw for 👇

@JosephineCamel @AdamUnmasked @brownecfm We are in different countries, but our govts’ behaviours around Covid have been equally appalling.
I understand you’re angry.. I don’t blame you, but pls don’t blame those ppl around you who have equal need for a ‘normal’ life. They need just a little compassion from👇 @JosephineCamel @AdamUnmasked @brownecfm .. you. Not to be callously used as a whipping boy to soothe your bruised ego and score political points. How is that reasonable? We are just like you, and done nothing to hurt you personally. So why are you taking it out on us?👇

@LauraMiers @ELHopkins I don’t mean to be rude, but I don’t think you’ll like this.. It’s just a suggestion, though..
I am one of the many immuno suppressed people whose B cells are not able to create adequate antibodies, so we’ve lived with vaxes that barely work, if at all. Kind of similar to👇 @LauraMiers @ELHopkins .. the situation you find yourselves in. Over the past 3 yrs, we’ve learned strategies for dodging covid, as much as we can. Some of the time it works, so don’t give up hope.
1. Don’t share air. Covid spreads like smoke, indoors & out.
2. Wear well-fitted FFP2/N95 mask.👇

@AriPociask @ProfGThurston @RIBrandonFriars @Urban_Immerser I am way more rational than you, in my ooinion. And that’s what our differences are.. opinion. My survival instinct may ranke with you. That’s your problem, not mine. I have a blood cancer that disrupts my immune system. If I catch covid, it’s highly likely I’ll die,🧵👇 @AriPociask @ProfGThurston @RIBrandonFriars @Urban_Immerser * rankle

When my sister and I were fighting as children, my mum used to threaten to knock our heads together if we couldn’t sort it out. She didn’t mean it, of course, but she had a point!
Now, @theRCN and the @Conservatives each have stated specific objectives, and neither side🧵👇 .. willing to bend. Do you realise how pathetic and childish you look, and all at the expense of the British people, who you’re supposed to serve, @RishiSunak ?
If both parties could get into a room.. it doesn’t matter who takes the first grown-up step.. and if each could 🧵👇

Is the world disappearing up its own backside, in a rapidly accelerating vortex of perfidiousness and gaslighting*, with clouds of wilful ignorance and cognitive dissonance following?

* Perfidy and gaslighting ‘borrowed’ from Dr David Berger @YouAreLobbyLud
🧵👇 .. The immuno compromised ppl seem to be the only ones taking this seriously, and bothering with mitigating anything. We are probably the safest on the planet. Until we are needed to care for everybody else.
Better hope we are inclined to forget how we were treated.
🧵👇

@NickyMorgan01 All references to the pandemic in your consultation documents refer to the pandemic in past tense. This is offensive in the extreme to those who are still at high risk of severe outcomes, because COVID IS NOT OVER, and affects us on a daily basis. 🧵👇 @NickyMorgan01 As an immuno compromised person shielding alone continuously for 32 mths, one of 500,000 ppl totally abandoned by the govt, the attitude that Covid is over whilst we are still suffering is disgusting. Our lives have not moved on, nor our prospects improved at all, because 🧵👇

.@RobertJenrick
Here’s a plan for your ‘trial’ of #Evusheld .. Buy it for the #Forgotten500k NOW, and observe what happens. You’ll soon see how effective it is with Omicron. I’ll sign any release you want.. any disclaimer. You can have all the glory. But an RCT?👇 How long would it take? How many would sign up for it? Do you think ppl who’ve been shielding for so long to protect themselves would be willing to risk being given a placebo, knowing they risk death? Be serious.
What you’re proposing is unethical and makes no sense. Wake up!👇

Evusheld.. the cost argument doesn’t make sense. In August, @drlennardlee shared data that only 13.2% of eligible were successfully accessing the emergency post-infection anti-virals/antibodies within the 5 day window. This explains why about a third of ICUs were occupied with👇 our dying, leading up to the July wave. (Source: ICNARC. Likely to be worse as the new wave crests). 👇

#Evusheld4Everyone
An appeal for your help. Not £££, just a few moments of your time.
Immune compromised need Evusheld. We’re not paid to tell you that.. we’re just desperate, b/c covid wld be much more serious for us than you. We’re not able to fight it, and can’t
👇 respond well, if at all, to our vaccines. Evusheld would bridge that gap. 34 other countries use it to protect their CEVs, and it’s working well. For reasons that don’t add up, our govt has not granted it to the #Forgotten500k in the UK. 👇

#Forgotten500k
I’m one of them. One of the 500k with low immunity, so I can’t make many (if any) antibodies to fight Covid in response to the 5 💉 I’ve had. I’ve shielded alone, continuously, for 2.5 yrs, but there are many of us who’ve had family shielding with us, so.. .. many more than 500k are affected.. lost jobs, businesses, education and social lives. For me, the most painful part has been feeling abandoned, of no value, dismissed and expendable. It’s heartbreaking.
We desperately need EVUSHELD, and we turn every angle..

@Martin24051921 @theresecoffey Thank you! I will read that with my morning coffee! ☕️ @Martin24051921 @theresecoffey Have read it now, and thoroughly applaud your draft response, both in style and depth. Exemplary work.
My only question is about the reference to the option of withholding Evusheld being cheaper? So many of us are reaching/have reached their mental health limit for shielding👇

@devisridhar Trade-offs should not include the social murder that has taken place in this country. Since the MHRA approved Evusheld in March, 500 immuno compromised died in the first 3 mths, only 13.2% eligible patients had access to Sotrovimab, 27% of ICU beds are occupied by CEVs👇 @devisridhar We are 26 times more likely to die from Covid, our best chance of survival is to continue shielding.. 2.5 years now, and counting. Many of us cannot avoid the now terrifying prospect of attending hospital appts, using public transport, and as for using a dentist or optician? 👇

The only tweeps I see talking about Evusheld are the usual suspects.. my campaign buddies from @evusheld4theuk , talking about how awful our immuno compromised lives are in solitary confinement, behind our masks, b/c our broken immunity interferes with our ability to👇 respond to the million vaccines we’ve had. What we need is EVUSHELD. Govt says no. Wait. 34 other countries already have it, so as you can imagine, we’re (all 500,000 of us) all pretty miffed. Not to mention dying before our time, 26 times as much as your average person.
Now..👇

Heard of Evusheld? Why is it important to you if you’re not immune compromised? If you’re not bothered that the govt’s refusal to supply it affects you, too, scroll on by. Otoh, if you want to know why you are at risk, grab a brew and settle in for a bit of a thread👇 There are three ways that I can think of in which you could be put at risk if immuno compromised ppl are not given Evusheld now..
Firstly, if you, or anyone you care about, needs emergency medical help this winter, you need to be aware of this, and joining our fight👇