🦠Covid is Airborne 😷 Clean the Air ⚙️

I do bang on about fibromyalgia a lot. After >20 years I feel i’m a veteran with experience and want to explain it to the outside world, largely to warn against complacency with regard to postviral consequences, esp Long Covid.

@HillsBekki15323 @medicalmodelbri @AneurinBevanUHB @CEOabuhb @BBCWales @ITVWales @NewyddionS4C Need a register so an individual can be held liable and struck off.

@medicalmodelbri @AneurinBevanUHB @CEOabuhb @BBCWales @ITVWales @NewyddionS4C Hideously dangerous health board, they haven't got a leg to stand on, but take accountability? Fat chance, these management failures just move around & inflict their misery elsewhere in a cycle of toxic failures

In July 2025 I warned @AneurinBevanUHB that this PA job was unsafe for pts. They didn’t listen. Natalie Dyke has been harmed as a result . Will @CEOabuhb @AneurinBevanUHB the PA and supervisor be held to account ? @BBCWales @ITVWales @NewyddionS4C x.com/medicalmodelbr…

@COVID19_disease Whether it is or isn’t airborne, another mutation will arise that is. We should be spending this time since covid arose retrofitting our lives with good air filtration and ventilation by design, And educating ourselves against misinformation re disease, mitigation and treatment.

🚨 JUST IN: Scientists who warned about airborne COVID are now urging WHO to treat Andes hantavirus as airborne by default warning the world not to repeat past mistakes

Give me Starmer over Streeting any day

@outbreakupdates By quarantining, Not taking risks therefore that this in fact more likely to human to human transmit that being stated currently. Meanwhile in USA, quarantining not required. 40% fatality rate with no treatment and no vaccine. Rolling the dice.

Staff at a Dutch hospital that treated a patient infected with hantavirus have been placed in quarantine after several procedural errors. (AFP)

Can’t believe it’s been a week. Time has lost meaning for us just now. How did it not stop entirely?

RIP Dad 💔

@Oxfordite More than enough. i hadn’t ask you to explain your meaning but your purpose. Pseudo as it may have been, i withdrew til your comment. What is it you want here?

@MaplePonds There were zero insults. Fake deference and pseudo/fake defensiveness. Enough yet?

But also a specialty which is happy to allow non-doctors (physician assistants, ANPs, ACPs) replace actual psychiatrist doctors

@Oxfordite Deference or defensiveness? You’re muddling your insults.

@MaplePonds Communication isn't your thing? 🙏 'My bad' 'I'll crawl back under my rock' If you intend a retraction, simple English is far easier.. 'Sorry. I jumped in, likely misjudged that in a thread of doctors about medicine..' Now, maybe I misinterpreted your abject deference. Enough?

@Oxfordite Not how i believed i meant it. Now questioning. People took the time to explain. I apologised. Sincerely. I walked away. Your intention with this comment?

@MaplePonds Getting pseudo defensive isn't a winner either.

@Oxfordite @ClearThinker66 @Molly2323232323 (Above withdrawn, and apologised)

@Oxfordite @ClearThinker66 @Molly2323232323 This being IN ADDITION to, and in fact she says “too”. Anyway, far be it from me to waltz into a private conversation on twitter (that is snark) and try to be helpful. Lesson learned (it’s not, that was also snark).

@Molly2323232323 @Oxfordite @ClearThinker66 @rcpsych Well, i take it all back then. Unreserved apologies all around. because that is exactly why i wanted (poorly and inexpertly but sincerely) to say that you can’t roll up with good “communication skills” and have a nice chat. I’ll shut up now.

@MaplePonds @Oxfordite @ClearThinker66 There is But the point we're making is that this statement is at odds with her previous actions as president @rcpsych when she led on the replacement of psychiatrist doctors with non-doctors...

@Oxfordite @ClearThinker66 @Molly2323232323 My bad. Will crawl back under my rock. Thanks for refereeing (not snark).

@MaplePonds @ClearThinker66 @Molly2323232323 You set off on wrong foot, put 'talking therapy' (aka psychotherapy) into thread, out of context.. suggested psychiatry "isn't talking therapy" 🤷‍♂️ You are correct: psychiatry requires excellent communication skills (including listening.. where active/reflected may be best).

@ClearThinker66 @lascapigliata8 @Molly2323232323 In fact, what i said even more precisely they are absolutely needed in order to make a diagnosis. (Like, how else ?? ) If you seriously want to get all indignant by misunderstanding someone on twitter, don’t do it while going on about communication.

@ClearThinker66 @lascapigliata8 @Molly2323232323 And where i said “absolutely needed” you read “aren’t necessary “ but you’re an expert in communication?

@lascapigliata8 @Molly2323232323 Feel better.

What you did wrong is waltz in on a conversatoon between doctors and assumed I don't know something about my own field. Communication is not "talking therapies" it is far broader, and yes psychiatrists do counsel their patients all the time, in hospital and outpatient settings. I certainly did so. Anyway, I've been very ill for a week and I'm too annoyed to stay polite so have nice weekend.

@lascapigliata8 @Molly2323232323 Lying on a couch, and pouring your soul out is rarely for therapy in NHS psychiatry. But done by others.

@lascapigliata8 @Molly2323232323 They train for (7?) years in neuropsychiatry, neuroimmunology, drug actions, diagnoses, genetics, developmental issues, legalities and I’m sure much more medicine and science.