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Cllr Oliver Patrick 🔶 🇬🇧 🍏 🕊

@LibDemPatrick

2 months

Overheard at the bus stop today. “My daughter has this awful cough. They’re calling it the 100-day cough. She’s had it for EVER” “OMG my little boy too. Also my husband has been ill constantly since Christmas.” Do you think people are joining dots yet?

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

🗳 WE WON! @YeovilLibDems took the seat of the former Con Group Leader who held the seat for 19 years: 🔶 390 🔵 315 🟢 19 🔴 15 #NerocheWard #SouthSomerset

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

I have 3 children (I know: yawn 🥱). But they’ve all been ill over the last month. Vomiting. Fevers. Headaches. All = time off school (naturally). Our youngest (6 weeks) was admitted to hospital 2 days ago with a fever. It was, frankly, terrifying - and I can’t help feel… 1/

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@LibDemPatrick

7 months

Overheard a bunch of doctors talking today. “So they have to take FIVE days off now because of a Covid test” “ARE PEOPLE STILL TESTING?!” “Ridiculous. Anyone who tests should be fined!” “Yeah it’s just like a cold now - no need to test” We’re in for a hard winter.

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

Great question from woman on @bbcquestiontime just now Woman: I work in wine and Brexit is killing our industry Fiona Bruce: George Eustice..? George: leaving the EU gives us regulatory freedom… Audience: laughter

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@LibDemPatrick

8 months

First time flying in quite some time, cramped up with 200 other people in very close proximity. I was the only person wearing a mask. Good to hear regular airport announcements about the importance of wearing a mask - but… no one is listening.

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

I’m no Labour apologist but Keir is a man of honour and decency. It’s no surprise he didn’t receive a FPN Thoughts and prayers with the Daily Mail at this difficult time #GeneralElectionNow

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

‘Every classroom in the country should be fitted with specialist devices that cleanse the air and help stem the spread of infections like Covid, strep A and flu.’ “It should be a no-brainer” says @Ian_Watkinson1 @NEU_SAFETY @Robin_Neu2

'Every Lancs classroom needs air cleaning units to stop Strep A and Covid'

It should be a “no-brainer” for the government to kit out classes and other communal school spaces, says education boss

www.lancs.live

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Has anyone else noticed that the UK is the ONLY G7 nation NOT vaccinating children against Covid? As well as the ONLY G7 nation that has STOPPED the Covid booster programme? Why isn't this getting any media coverage?

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@LibDemPatrick

6 months

After all, if the school is concerned about actual illness spreading from child to child (and to teacher)… and if they’re really concerned about attendance… they should put an air filter in every classroom and reduce absence by 20%. I won’t get a reply. 2/2

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

“Belgium and France have already legislated for safe CO₂ levels indoors. In summary, those responsible for [public] indoor spaces have to ensure CO₂ levels don’t exceed 800ppm. They are taking indoor air quality very seriously, and so should we.”

Open the windows to shut the door on Covid-19

Oliver Patrick, Somerset County Councillor (Coker Division) explains why clean air, indoors and out, should be a priority for legislators. This week I built my 20th Corsi-Rosenthal Box (below) using...

westcountryvoices.co.uk

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Cllr Oliver Patrick 🔶 🇬🇧 🍏 🕊

@LibDemPatrick

2 years

⚠️ Covid-19 is evolving to beat vaccines 📢 Covid-19 cannot evolve to beat air filters and masks

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@LibDemPatrick

2 months

It’s disturbingly Orwellian that, on #InternationalLongCovidDay , there is a concerted effort across the press to downplay the condition. How awful for anyone struggling with #LongCovid .

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

A school in #Somerset just contacted me: “We’ve heard about your #cleanair campaign. The DfE turned us down for air filters last winter. Can we please have one of yours?” “Absolutely. I can do more than 1. How many do you want?” “How many can you do?” CHALLENGE ACCEPTED ✅

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@LibDemPatrick

4 months

🧯“Fire extinguishers have reduced the spread of fire. We thank everyone for their help containing fires. Now, we’re pleased to say we’ve reviewed the need for fire extinguishers in our buildings and will be removing them because they’ve done their job.”

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT

@royalhospital

4 months

Clinical update: Masks - Recently we re-introduced mask wearing for everyone in clinical areas. We are pleased to say that we have had no outbreaks during this time and sickness and respiratory illness rates have now dropped significantly…

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@LibDemPatrick

3 years

Q: We didn’t need to raise taxes to “fund” the £27 billion failed test and trace, or the £67 billion cost of furlough So why do we need a 1% NI tax increase to “raise” £10 billion for NHS social care? A: Politics. Taxes don’t fund anything. Taxes are just politics.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

And so the point of this thread is, I think, to (a) share with you my lived XP of serious sickness and (b) my growing sense of dread that we are in the midst of something really horrible in the UK and no one… really seems to be doing anything about it 🤷‍♂️ Mask, anyone? 8/8

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@LibDemPatrick

6 months

Two letters from my child’s school this week: (1) head lice outbreak and (2) the importance of arriving to school on time because being late 5mins every day adds up to 3 whole school days in an academic year! Needless to say I wrote back… 1/

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

Today I welcomed my newborn son into the world at the outstanding @YeovilHospital . We don’t have medical insurance but thankfully we have socialised medicine in the UK. My only bill was the parking. How much would our bill be in the USA? #ProtectOurNHS

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

Out canvassing in #Colyton for @RichardFoordLD today. One self-professed lifelong Conservative voter said to me, “I’m voting Lib Dem, and you know what did it for me? That vile Rwanda plan for asylum seekers. It’s just not British. Where’s the compassion?”

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

…maybe we should be doing something to reduce the levels of illness we’re seeing? Is anyone doing anything about this? There are schools moving to virtual teaching due to staff absence! Anyway here are a few things I learned following a trip to hospital with our 6-week old… 2/

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Oh and as terrifying as it was, our youngest is fine now. We’re out of hospital. Doctors tested for everything to find a cause - all came back negative. “Just a nasty virus - probably picked up via older siblings.” I can only hope none of us has a hospital acquired infection 9/9

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@LibDemPatrick

7 months

On the train to beautiful #Bath today. All carriage windows closed and inoperable. Surrounded by a chorus of coughing! Obviously the only one in a respirator.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

A&E is heaving. Doctors at their wits’ end. Completely overwhelmed. We had to sit in a corridor because there were no seats in A&E. Everyone crammed together. Coughing. Crying. Barely any pandemic lessons learned, it seems. 3/

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Happy Friday! If Covid has made you a clean air zealot like me then I’d love to hear from you. I’m campaigning for clean air - a human right. Give me a follow and I’ll follow you back. #FollowBackFriday #CleanAir #corsirosenthalbox

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Cllr Oliver Patrick 🔶 🇬🇧 🍏 🕊

@LibDemPatrick

2 years

@nicktolhurst How long until the financiers behind Vote Leave are revealed?

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@LibDemPatrick

4 months

You think we as a society would’ve jumped up and down and demanded clean air following this finding, right? Instead, people threw up barriers. I’m not sure I’ll ever understand why.

Antonio Caramia

@Antonio_Caramia

4 months

👉Air filters on wards remove almost all airborne Covid virus. 1/

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

My analogy with Covid and Plague has hit home with a few people. It won’t surprise you to learn that SARS-CoV-2 and Yersinia pestis are classified together as Bio Safety Level 3 pathogens. Want to see what scientists wear when working with BSL3 pathogens in a laboratory…? 1/2

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Cllr Oliver Patrick 🔶 🇬🇧 🍏 🕊

@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Professor Greenhalgh of Oxford University is advising caution as a new immune-evasive Covid variant spreads. #XBB15 🚨 We had months to prepare for this. No variant of Covid can get around an air filter. Or a mask. No variant of Covid can spread in a Zoom meeting. We failed.

Trisha Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh

1 year

Tweeps, the expert WhatsApp groups are kicking off. Kraken (XBB.1.5) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 that you wouldn't want to catch. Cases are rising. It's time to ratchet up precautions. High-quality, close-fitting masks work. Avoiding crowds helps. Being outdoors helps. Stay safe.

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Cllr Oliver Patrick 🔶 🇬🇧 🍏 🕊

@LibDemPatrick

2 years

So, out in #Tiverton & #Honiton last week I knocked on the door of someone who has “always voted Conservative” (his words). He said some interesting things, which made me reflect on where rabid right wing politics has got us. A thread… *paraphrased* 1/

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

This week I dropped a leaflet at a resident's house. They chased me down the road to ask for a stakeboard. They now deliver leaflets for us, and have just asked how to join the @LibDems . Still think leaflets don't work? Read this Tweet again

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

It’s very rare to read this much sense with regards to Covid 😯 Which newspaper published this? Top work, @DrZoeHyde 👏🏻

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Why don’t scientists just wear blue surgical masks when they work with pathogens in the lab?

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Although to give the hospital credit - there were lots of lovely signs saying “please wear a mask”, along with plenty of free masks on offer. Barely anyone bothering though. Lots of staff wearing masks. Some not. No consistency. 4/

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

MASKS OPTIONAL IN CARE HOMES 🤦🏼‍♂️ From today, carers don’t have to wear masks. Is this supported by any science? Of course not. It’s so that people can see their carer smiling. Don’t believe me? Read the press release👇

Mask and outbreak guidance updated in care settings

Guidance on the use of face masks in all care settings and on outbreaks in care homes has been updated.

www.gov.uk

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@LibDemPatrick

4 months

Anyone else’s social media filling up with stories of people dropping like flies and testing +ve for Covid after Christmas family gatherings? We are sleepwalking into a public health catastrophe.

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@LibDemPatrick

4 months

Many will look back on this period in history aghast. ✅ I raised £thousands to offer FREE air filters to schools. ✅ I explained to HTs the benefits of clean air. ✅ Some HTs accepted my offer. ❌ Most refused. They REFUSED to filter viruses out of the air for FREE.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Imagine if the Houses of Parliament purified their drinking water whilst the rest of the country was drinking water like this👇 (Now swap “drinking water” for “breathing air” - because that’s what’s happening right now in the UK 🇬🇧)

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@LibDemPatrick

1 month

2.7m adults unable to work are just “lazy”, the children are “pulling sickies”, and the parents are “hypochondriacs”. In a pandemic. I had hoped we were smarter than this.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Then this morning I got a message from a former teaching colleague. They said “you won’t believe how many children are off sick at the moment. School is like a ghost town. We’ve had to cancel the Nativity play.” 6/

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Once admitted: excellent care. Nurses and doctors really on top form. However, very evident everyone is incredibly stressed. At one point we were confused with another family who told us our child wrongly had RSV (oops wrong cubicle) 5/

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

And then of course you’ve got the HORRIFIC news that 15 children have died of invasive strep A 7/

Strep A child death toll in UK rises to 15

Data shows 13 under-15s in England, one in Northern Ireland and one in Wales have died since September

www.theguardian.com

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Can anyone tell me where this idea came from that you have to get sick to have a strong immune system? It just sounds bogus to me.

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@LibDemPatrick

3 months

@PeterStefanovi2 @doctor_oxford @JoFroggatt @ITV This is wonderful and I’m very much looking forward to #Breathtaking shifting the dial What takes my breath away, though, is people crowding into a room to watch this premier apparently with no thought to ventilation. Or wearing N95s, like medical staff should’ve been all along

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@LibDemPatrick

1 month

THIS is why I will not stop talking about Covid. You ignore it if you like. I won’t. Who’s with me? 🙋

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

@zalaly

1 month

Thanks to @people magazine for covering my piece on the Covid-19 and brain health COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level Link here:

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

So, it got me wondering - WWACD? What Would a Conservative Do? Deep, deep shame on any Conservative canvasser who goes to his door and says “well we have a plan - we’re sending them all back to #Rwanda !” But of course that is literally what they’re doing 🤷‍♂️ 7/7

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@LibDemPatrick

2 months

Reels and TikTok is full of posts like this. I wonder what is going on? 🤔

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

In my experience schools that have children and staff disabled by Covid are taking ventilation and air cleaning seriously. Schools that haven’t had that experience are not. 🚨 My message to school leaders: don’t wait until one of your students is disabled - act now.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

🔎 What do you notice about this picture? That’s right, a HEPA filter. The world’s richest and most powerful people are currently meeting at #Davos in #Switzerland . They are taking Covid seriously. They’re not just using HEPA filters… 1/2

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

🚨HEADLINE FIXED 🚨 You can’t blame “lockdowns” for surging flu/RSV/Strep A in children. Some media is banking on us having forgotten that over the last 141 weeks, schools were only partially closed for *19 weeks*. Children have been mixing aplenty 1/2 #CovidIsntOver

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@LibDemPatrick

5 months

I have today come to the conclusion that hardly anyone is interested in clean air. It doesn’t matter how you explain it. Most people are quite happy breathing in air that is making them sick.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

And because no variant, not even the Kraken #XBB15 , can evolve to beat an air filter. Or a well-fitting respirator. No variant can spread via Zoom. There are many things we can do to stop Covid causing more death and disability. We should be doing more of them. Happy 2023!

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

3 years ago today, at midnight, the UK turned its back on one of the world’s most successful peace and cooperation projects, believing that we can go it alone. It was an act of national self-harm that future generations will look back on, aghast.

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@LibDemPatrick

8 months

So, a meme going round on Instagram shows a young (20s?) chap comparing clips of the difference between his bench press pre and post-C-vid. The comments are incredible. I think people are waking up to what C-vid is doing to their bodies.

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Cllr Oliver Patrick 🔶 🇬🇧 🍏 🕊

@LibDemPatrick

3 months

My clinically vulnerable mum has been battling the worst bout of Covid she’s had so far during this pandemic. Struggling to breathe, paramedics have been out, anosmia, brain fog, you name it. Keep my lovely mum Rita in your thoughts please ❤️❤️❤️

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

I refuse to fail to learn the lessons from Covid. I will wear a respirator at large meetings until #cleanair is taken seriously. I recently sat in a meeting where CO2 reached 1,000ppm after 30mins, then climbed to ⚠️ 1,991ppm ⚠️ At that level, 1 in 40 breaths is rebreathed air 🤢

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@LibDemPatrick

3 months

We’re quite happy to look back and criticise the Government’s response to Covid during 2020, but why do we accept their response to it in 2024? We’ve an increasingly disabled population getting infected over and over again with no air filtration and next to no vaccine coverage🤷‍♂️

Carol Vorderman

@carolvorders

3 months

#Breathtaking on @ITV Extraordinary @doctor_oxford I give my eternal thanks to all in the NHS for their courage And my utter contempt for those in governmemt Partying, loathsome, lying, grubby politicians who handed billions of pounds to donors & cronies for faulty PPE

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@LibDemPatrick

7 months

Is the press asleep? Is anyone paying attention?

Kit Yates

@Kit_Yates_Maths

7 months

Not sure why these comments from John Edmunds yesterday were not more widely publicised. “We could have avoided much of the autumn wave… As it was we let it go. 20-25K people died… There was no reason for that number of people to have died - at all”

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

Warm hubs are opening up across the UK, which fills me with 2 emotions: joy that people are looking out for each other, and sadness that this is even necessary 🚨 But I fear that without good ventilation and air filtration, warm hubs will need a Covid inquiry all of their own

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

🚨 VENTILATION ADVICE DROPPED FROM NHS WEBSITE 🚨 Meanwhile, hand-washing comes in at no.2 on the list of things to do to stop spreading an ***airborne virus***... An honest mistake? @NHSuk please put ventilation back on the menu. ℹ️

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

BREAKING: In response to my campaign for clean air in schools to reduce Covid infections this winter I have just received an amazing offer from a company in #Crewkerne who wants to provide 🚨 FREE 🚨 HEPA air filters for a small primary school in #Somerset @SomersetDPH

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@LibDemPatrick

7 months

📣 Did you know, C•vid is airborne? As we get deeper into autumn, windows are closing, heating is going on… and “that horrible cold” is *EVERYWHERE*, isn’t it? 🤔

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

I’m staggered that the world’s richest & most powerful at @Davos get portable HEPA everywhere as standard, whilst I get funny looks for taking an air filter to meetings. Clean air is the latest inequality, & yet most of us seem to think clean air campaigners are nutters. Genius

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

What joy! 2nd time round in 2 years. Maybe I’ll have immunity the 3rd time I get it?

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@LibDemPatrick

4 months

Wait a minute. They *filter* swimming pool water? No wonder everyone's sick. The immunity debt must be off the charts.

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@LibDemPatrick

8 months

👀 What’s this? Just ventilation and air purification standards being adhered to at the Covid-19 Public Inquiry. But I’m just an odd-ball asking for this in schools and public buildings, right? ℹ️ Source:

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@LibDemPatrick

2 months

What I’m learning, and suspect, is that a significant number of people have Long Covid but don’t realise it. The next couple of decades will be interesting.

Cllr Oliver Patrick 🔶 🇬🇧 🍏 🕊

@LibDemPatrick

2 months

Reels and TikTok is full of posts like this. I wonder what is going on? 🤔

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

I would be delighted to get my eldest (now aged 5) vaccinated against Covid. Unfortunately the Government has ended the vaccination programme for children that turned 5 after September 2022. Does anyone know why?

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

You have got to be kidding me… purified air for MPs whilst it’s “open the window” and “wash your hands” for schools 😳

Gina 😷 SARS2 is Airborne 💚

@Saffiya_Khan1

1 year

What’s this? The Houses of Parliament get purified air but our children don’t?? This is an f*cking outrage ⁦ @SteveBarclay ⁩ ⁦ @wesstreeting ⁩ #CovidIsntOver #HEPA Houses of Parliament | Purified Air

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@LibDemPatrick

3 months

Ah that’s nice. Got a letter from the UKHSA today (as a parent of school-aged children) just to remind us all that Flu, measles, Covid, whooping cough, scarlet fever, chickenpox etc are all spreading and we all need to do our bit by… washing our hands 🙌😊 #freshairfail

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@LibDemPatrick

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Filters and fans have just arrived! These are going straight to a team of parents who are ready to build 5 more #corsirosenthalboxes for their school. That means All Saints Primary in #Montacute will be the first school in #Somerset to have air filters in every classroom 💪

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

How it started (2017) How it’s going (2022) #Somerset #LocalElections2022 @ALDC @LibDems

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@LibDemPatrick

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I was told today of a parent who emailed their school to ask about installing air filters at their child’s school. No reply. 4 days later. “Sorry for the slow reply. All our office staff have been off with 👑 🦠”

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@LibDemPatrick

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🚨 Did you know… employees have a legal right to work in well-ventilated workspaces (Regulation 6 of the Workplace Regulations Act 1992). Ventilation can be measured using a CO₂ monitor and action should be taken when levels are over 1,500ppm. @H_S_E

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@LibDemPatrick

2 months

Apparently students are absent from school because they’re “pulling sickies”. Astonishingly there is no evidence for this. Anywhere. However there’s plenty of evidence that children are enduring waves of Measles, Strep, Covid, diarrhoea & vomiting.

Callum Robertson 🔸

@CRobertson_LD

2 months

In the persistent absence debate, there is a inconvenient truth that we seem reticent to mention. It does not affect all, but certainly has an effect on pupil attendance. People do pull sickies. If schools and parents enable this behaviour then they’re doing a disservice to the

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My child had their routine 2yo health check the other day. We’ve been struggling to get dentist appointments for our 2yo & 5yo, so I asked the nurse if they knew of any dentists seeing children. Their answer? “No. The service is gone & probably isn’t coming back.” 🚨 UK 2023 🚨

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@LibDemPatrick

7 months

Talk to anyone in the NHS and you’ll learn anecdotally how rife Covid is atm. Now read this article about a hospital trust explicitly ordering staff not to test because it might mean staff have to stay away from work (where vulnerable patients are). Link in next Tweet. 1/

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@LibDemPatrick

4 months

Today, someone who described themselves to me as an “infectious disease scientist” said to me “if we start talking about ventilation now, then that takes the focus away from a critical infection control measure: hand-washing” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

@BinitaKane Schools were closed for 10 weeks in 2020. That’s just 2 weeks longer than the usual summer holiday of an independent school. Yet some act like schools were closed for 3 years.

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

Great to see this in the news. We the people have the tools to reduce Covid transmission in indoor spaces. Let’s do it 💪🏻

Ex-teacher calls for classroom Covid air filters

Oliver Patrick hopes the filters will reduce the risk of school pupils catching Covid in winter.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@LibDemPatrick

3 months

Maybe letting it rip (“Freedom Day”) really was one of the worst public health policies we’ve ever pursued as a nation. Deeply illiberal, highly libertarian, with scant regard for individual health outcomes on a micro scale and damaging for economic outcomes on a macro scale.

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@JimBethell

3 months

Gobsmacked by huge 200k upward revision of long-term sickness numbers by @ONS . Overall picture is emphatic. Britain is too sick to work productively. The economic hit will be HARD. @hmtreasury will be gutted. Mandarins! We need to address our underlying health! Urgently! 1 of 5

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@LibDemPatrick

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The nihilistic “you have to get sick” crowd is turning up the volume. But, if getting sick is good for you why do we… 📌 dedicate any time at all to food hygiene? 📌 filter and clean drinking-water? 📌 remove and treat sewage from our houses? 🤔 1/

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@LibDemPatrick

2 months

“FFP3s stop you getting Covid” 👏 👏 👏 Yesterday I was wearing an FFP3 in a meeting. Someone asked me “do you feel safer in that?” I don’t just FEEL safer. I AM!

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

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'Not only is the government not prepared for a next pandemic, they're still failing staff now.' @ITV 's new drama 'Breathtaking' is based on the book by palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke. It's a harrowing account of the real-life emergencies NHS staff faced in the pandemic.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

I’m just curious. Has there been a Randomised Controlled Trial to prove that handwashing inhibits the spread of Covid?

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

Look at this map on eve of poll in #Tiverton & #Honiton . This represents all the places liberals have come from to help win this by-election. None of them paid. All of them prepared to work tirelessly for a better country 🇬🇧 💛

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

The gift that keeps on giving! #Brexitisntworking

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

@mumwhocares For years we’ve been told prevention is better than cure, but I see very little attempt at prevention of anything anywhere I go.

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

📢 FREE XMAS AIR FILTER! All the schools who wanted air filters in my area now have them ✅ Schools are now closed for Xmas so I’m giving away the left over air filters to families who need one at home. They’re no use sat in my garage unplugged!🔌 If you live nr #Yeovil DM me* 1/

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Hairdresser this morning: “I’ve never known it like this. It’s a big problem - so many of my clients keep cancelling because they’re ill!” Vicar this afternoon: “so many of my flock has been constantly sick this winter. Really unwell.” #CovidIsNotOver 🤷‍♂️

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

So it seems Pelé died of Covid, which hospitalised him in early December. Maybe 2023 will be the year we realise what a dreadful mistake it was to ignore Covid simply because we’re bored of it 🤷‍♂️

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@LibDemPatrick

2 years

👀 👇 Here’s the most important graph from the @ucdavis study into #CorsiRosenthalBoxes . Their Clean Air Delivery Rate (CADR) outperforms some commercial HEPA air filters. It’s not rocket science. It’s aerosol science, backed up by aerosol scientists like @adsquires at @UniofBath

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

This is what 1,000 excess deaths per week looks like. Is this the new normal now we're "post-Covid"?

Dead bodies stored in make-shift morgues with hospital mortuaries overflowing

BODIES are being stored at a council gritting yard as hospital mortuaries reach full capacity. The refrigeration unit, tucked away in a corner of the site, is under 24-hour guard. Hospital vehicles…

www.thesun.co.uk

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

It’s good to see the BBC recognising the long-term effects of Covid, such as post-Covid strokes and heart attacks. It even links to scientific papers in support. Top work, BBC! 👀 Covid minimisers take note 👀 ℹ️

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@LibDemPatrick

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Can someone explain to me why the UK isn’t offering the Covid booster to everyone aged 6months and over, like in other countries? Is a stiff upper lip sufficient defence against death and disease?

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@LibDemPatrick

1 year

Delighted to donate 2 air filters to a medical conference in #Somerset this morning. Dr Linda is hoping to raise awareness about the need for safer air in medical settings given the HAI rates. Linda plans to deploy these filters in her consultation rooms after today 💪 #Cleanair

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@LibDemPatrick

7 months

Public Health failure in one picture

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@LibDemPatrick

3 years

@dgurdasani1 @mm_tw9 I’m a governor at a local school. 10% of total pupil numbers have covid and are isolating. PHE says no need to worry as it’s all community transmission and there’s no proof it’s spreading in the actual school 🤦🏼‍♂️

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@LibDemPatrick

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Don't get me wrong. It's great that vaping is front and centre of @Rachel_deSouza 's campaign to improve child health. But, just for info, in 2022: Covid hospitalised 16,061 children and killed 86. Vaping hospitalised 32 children and killed 0.

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@LibDemPatrick

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Today, I took delivery of @PeteUK7 ’s DIY air filter parts. I made a cup of tea and in 2 hours I’d constructed a highly effective air purifier at a cost of ~£160. An off the shelf comparator costs £400+ 🧵 1/

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