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Clean Air for All! Ulster says no to repeat infections with preventable illness, allergies, sick buildings, concentration lapses.
Dec 28, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
ℹ️ Day One B (Supplementary): Wear your Mask Properly

Can’t believe I have 2 write this one, but experience tells me I do🙈

No matter which style or material of mask 😷u choose, u need 2 wear it properly. That means:
✅ it has to cover both your mouth 👄AND your nose 👃🏻
and ✅ there should be no gaps for air to escape around the edges

Covid can live in your mouth and your nose, and because it’s airborne in small particles, they can escape around the sides of your mask too.

How do you achieve no 2? 🤷🏼‍♀️Lots of ways:
Dec 28, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
ℹ️ Day One: Upgrade your Mask

All masks provide a level of protection for both wearer and those around them, however for the best protection for yourself, it’s recommended to wear a well-fitting respirator (FFP2/3). The executive has been keen to point out that you need only wear a ‘face covering’ but if you’re going to do it, why not do it right? Get yourself an FFP2 today and protect yourself never mind others.

These can be expensive tho, so if you’re just using for nipping in and out of the shop, as long as you store it properly (inside touching
Dec 25, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Watching #litlewomen

Seems appropriate & fair warning in this season.

Little Women harks back to a time previously unfamiliar to us, when it was commonplace to lose the odd family member to a seemingly innocuous disease.

Also concerning #longcovid - Beth is
permanently 1/5 affected (and ultimately dies) by a disease her sisters completely recovered from. We do not know the true mortality cost of Covid yet, but we have a fair idea of its morbidity, which includes heart problems like Beth’s … & it doesn’t look good. This is my Christmas present 2/5
Nov 20, 2021 16 tweets 21 min read
Today I am asking the @niexecutive, the @UKgovcomms who fund them and the @IRE_Govt who we have a leaky border with to consider my mental health. And that of many others. Almost two years now of no normal life. You may say ‘but we opened up, you can do everything’ - but do I want to do everything when it’s not safe? No. Therefore I’ve forgotten what it’s like to casually call into a friend’s house, to work in an office, to travel, to have hotel breaks, to nip into a shop without a mask and make a takeaway tea and sip through the lid without cleaning it!