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@steve_cureton Sure here is a thread of articles to help persuade other parents, MPs, teachers, school governors, MATs, LAs, local councillors. HEPA is cheaper than staff absence & may boost a school's exam results on top of reduced covid, asthma, flu reuters.com/world/europe/i…

This means that airborne precautions should be taken until proven otherwise. Excellent thread related to how this outbreak is suggestive of different characteristics to previous outbreaks: x.com/drmcdonnellygm… 5/7

WHO Says Best Way To Prevent Airborne Infections Is To Delete Guidance From Website

Must watch #BBCQT Caroline Lucas, "I think this is an illegal reckless war with Iran that is being waged by Trump and Netanyahu" "They have massively underestimated their enemy" "Trump is a bully and a blackmailer" "He has no plan for an exit strategy, says he will exit when he feels it in his bones" "This is a President said who said he would bomb Kharg island just for fun" "He suggested he might attack Cuba as well" "The type of language Trump and Hegseth are using is just so disgusting" "I've got their words: watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today, what a great honour to kill them" "This is not Grand Theft Auto, this is real people real lives" "And yet you get the sense from the White House that this is some big game" "And all of us are suffering from it"

The Green MPs and Peers have written to Keir Starmer to urge for an end to the UK's involvement in the US and Israel's illegal war. Under international law, the UK is obliged to have no involvement in illegal military action, including the use of UK bases and UK-made weapons.

This is such a dangerous escalation by Starmer, taking us further into an illegal & reckless war and demonstrating exactly the risk of mission creep that many have warned about, making us all less safe

Opinion: you can't say a pathogen requires prolonged close contact for transmission, but at the same time describe an outbreak as a super spreader. Once in super spreader territory, for a respiratory pathogen, it's got to have an airborne component *until proven otherwise.*🤷

This encapsulates all that is wrong with IPC & PH messaging in relation to masking post 2020. - Do not mask! - It’ll “cause panic” - It’ll “remind ppl of covid”. - “Its not the same as covid” Public health should be about HEALTH not politics nor feelings nor revisionism.

Nightclub owner at centre of meningitis outbreak says “something isn’t making sense” - as TWO staff in hospital. “There's been a lot of talk about how hard it is to transmit… …but actually, it was transmitted a LOT more easily, by the looks of it, than they're suggesting” 🧵

See below tweet… My guess is that either the nightclub staff snogged all the customers, or perhaps it’s spread through other means - aerosol, perhaps? I’m sure @DHSCgovuk and @UKHSA have learnt lessons from M3 of the Covid Inquiry and all transmission possibilities are covered

@NHSuk Be honest poor indoor air quality in nightclubs, universities, schools, healthcare & public transport increases risk of transmitting infections. The WHO conveniently removed the references to aerosol transmission of meningitis this week just like NI public health agency website

MenB needs close and prolonged contact to spread, such as living in the same household or intimate contact such as kissing or sharing drinks and vapes. It is not as contagious as other infections like measles or COVID-19. Learn more ➡️ ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/18/men…

@LazarusLong13 @UKHSA @ukhadds @EvonneTCurran boy are they stretching & cruel to deflect & victim blame young individuals when 1) indoor air in nightclubs, schools & universities is unregulated & dirty & full of bacteria & viruses 2) menB vax isn't free for teens 3) repeat covid infections messes up immune systems

My head hurts just a little bit from this one. @UKHSA is evidently going with aerosols for the meningitis. Sound pretty good, right, @ukhadds @EvonneTCurran? Except they are evidently looking at vaping aerosols. Not talking, coughing or sneezing respiratory aerosols. Vaping.

@_CatintheHat @LucyGoBag It's deliberate. It's very deliberate not a mistake. It's easier & cheaper for government etc to deflect blame to individuals (vaping, kissing, overweight etc) than admit they have a responsibility to invest in cleaner indoor air in all public buildings & they'd rather lie more

@LucyGoBag …and now they’re making the same mistake all over again with the MenB outbreak. Seems to be a complete failure to even consider that there might be an element of AEROSOL transmission at play (despite the green book, WHO, NICE & ECDC all stating aerosol is a transmission route).

If the children’s module does the same as this one, and simply vindicates what we already knew and planned to deliver, I will require veterinarian levels of sedation to get through it

Scientists at Bristol Uni have been investigating airborne transmission of meningococcus bacteria for the past few years. Their work is shedding new light on how meningococcus can survive in aerosol droplets due to the protective effect of human saliva. meningitisnow.org/meningitis-exp…

MENINGITIS TRANSMISSION Below is the UK Green Book & WHO info about transmission of the meningococcus bacteria which is responsible for the current Meningitis outbreak in Kent. Note use of the word “AEROSOL” in both. 🔗 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6849adb8… 🔗 who.int/teams/health-p…

@AndrewSoppitt1 @LongCovidHell Majority of Dr's don't wear masks for covid and we know that's very airborne & in my experience there's a common, self-protective, self-reassuring culture of ableism & patient blaming so it doesn't surprise me that no one wore masks but doesn't mean that's the safe thing to do

@LongCovidHell It’s not an airborne disease like Covid. That’s misinformation. I was an ICU physician for 30 years and no one wore masks dealing with patients with bacterial meningitis. It’s spread by close (& prolonged) contact. If good evidence emerges I would consider changing my view.

Meningitis is contagious, airborne and this strain is spreading fast. So why oh why isn’t anyone in this photo - medical staff and the British health secretary no less - wearing a flipping mask? WTF happened to infection control in healthcare?!

So in the last week: - UKHSA halts publishing disease outbreak data - Efforts to play down respiratory spread of MenB in the media & rando social media accounts - Government health agencies scrub 'aerosol' from meningitis pages - The WHO now delete 'airborne' nature of MenB 😬

@cv_cev Exactly!!!

⚠️Our culture is of presenteeism - instilled from a young age - with 100% school attendance targets. If we teach young people to battle through symptoms (which may be serious) and suddenly nobody is there to look out for them... is it a surprise when they don't seek urgent help?

@1goodtern If i was a corrupt system, still covering up mass failure to save lives in covid through honest airborne mitigations I'd blame individual student behaviour for meningitis rather than risk parental anger for unis, schools & nightclubs having indoor air full of bacteria & viruses

These guys gave out 10,000 doses of antibiotics to people including some who just went into a nightclub. And then they share this bullshit. It's just not true. No, it's not as transmissible as covid or measles, but *almost nothing is*. But it doesn't need *prolonged contact*.