Language is so important when minimising a pandemic.

Mini-wave 🟰 wave. Shed loads of illness

Covid 🟰 SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Brain fog 🟰 Brain damage

Live with it 🟰 let people die with it

Mild 🟰 millions dead, hospitalised or left with health problems

There are LOADS of unclaimed #buyastrangerabook day offers.

I've just retweeted them, but check the hashtag out and don't be afraid to ask for a book if you'd like one.

The high rates of masking at university encampments is so inspiring! It's also a great opportunity to help people connect the dots between the liberation of Palestine and disability justice.

Link below to print and distribute a flyer we made ⛺️ 🇵🇸

bit.ly/maskflyer

How many revolutions of thought are waiting in the wings, stifled by the day-to-day battle to simply exist? Unconditional Basic Income is the key that unlocks a future where innovation isn't a luxury, but a common reality for all. Let's bet on humanity's boundless potential.

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This trilogy is just so brilliant!! For your chance to win this set please RT! Ends 1.5.24! UK only Pushkin Press Dr Daisy May Johnson

Peru – Lima High Court declares COVID-19 an occupational disease for all workers | Covid-19 Litigation

Workers and children in schools deserve protection! #Longcovid #DemandCleanAirNow covid19litigation.org/news/2023/09/p…

My webinar on helping children with severe anxiety is tomorrow lunchtime. It’s aimed parents of those young people who have completely withdrawn and who may not be leaving their homes or bedrooms. It is recorded if you can’t make the time.

Please share if you know families who…

Lord Cameron has hired a £42m jet to fly round Central Asia, for 5 days in ridiculous luxury.

When James Cleverly hired the same plane last year it cost you £422,000 a day.

That's 105 people's benefits for an entire year, every single day.

It's crooks that cost you.

If you see these vans in your area, make like Glasgow, surround them and stop them.

Don't let them break up families, deport our friends, our neighbours, our colleagues.

Don't let the Tories pretend that this is anything other than an election stunt.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

🦊🌿Competition time! To celebrate May Day and the longed-for coming of summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my 'Reynard the Fox', a copy of the accompanying gold-tipped 'A Fox for All Seasons' journal, both with map endpapers & fine ribbons, packets of Dorset red butter…

COVID + THE BRAIN 🧠

There’s been a flurry of new studies published in recent weeks about Covid’s detrimental impact on the brain.

This is the aspect of Covid which concerns me most, but which many people seem to be blissfully unaware of.

So let’s dig into what we know… 🧵

Long Covid does not have one specific set of symptoms.

It can affect any organ in your child’s body.

There are now hundreds of studies about Covid’s serious long-term effects on the lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, immune system… the list goes on & on.

publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art…

We keep seeing headlines like this and it's ridiculous. Our environment is saturated in synthetic chemicals. We have plastic in our blood. Plastic in our brains. Fossil fuel pollution fills the air and the seas. It is more than alarming. But it is not baffling

Arielle Samuelson Duflo's research has shown the effectiveness of direct cash transfers to individuals.

Ex: In Bangladesh, individuals were given $53 before a huge flood

They were able to evacuate, save livestock & equipment, and reported less post-flood health problems anticipation-hub.org/news/does-cash…

They of course don’t have a clue how to do that, nor any actual intent to do it. As we’ve seen.

It’s like you trying to ‘run’ your own blood pressure, heart rate, digestion etc. You’d be dead in minutes. /13

And this is where populism is so lethal. Its main enemy is these institutions.

It’s social dysautonomia. It’s leaders saying they should run things like pandemics, not their public health institutions. /12

I was part of a Climate Week event last night and promised to repost this free download and here it is: my endeavor to help everyone and anyone find a way to be a climate activist in ways that work for their resources, limits, and proclivities.

Facing the climate and nature emergency can mean sadness, loss and a disturbing sense of unreality.
Something I wrote a while back with my children in mind for Letters to the Earth read here by Benedict Cumberbatch Letters Live
NB other emotions - defiance, hope - are also available.

THE CHAMBER giveaway. RT & Follow by May 1st. I’ll give away TWO signed & dedicated proof copies. Open: worldwide. Winners announced: May 2nd.

🤿 Good luck

Epigraph to Orwell's Roses, because it's such a brilliant reminder that warnings are not prophesies of doom: their premise is that we are deciding the future with what we do or fail to do in the present. That we have choices.