Judy Hamilton

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

@kidneycareuk: Nurse of 44 years, and co-leader of an infectious disease study group with actual scientists. Your astounding recommendation to not use masks is frankly at the level of criminal negligence. Meningitis is an airborne pathogen. N95 masks save lives. Fix it, NOW.

I never imagined I could live like this but I do. I have carers who treat me with respect and it allows me to live a good life that I value. I worry that people will choose assisted dying before realising it’s not as bad as they thought. Give life a chance!

@1goodtern Please explain it to him. He has a huge audience and it could help.

Sigh. I love Michael to bits. But when it's wildfire season does the whole forest burst instantly into flames? No. You get local wildfires. Everywhere is vulnerable, but it still only manifests locally.

@VaselineInMyBag Wear an FFP3 mask!

back in ldn and now i’m worried abt getting meningitis😔

College in Wigan says student has suspected meningitis but the risk to others is 'very low' itv.com/news/granada/2…

The UK COVID Inquiry Module 3 report largely records what happened but not why. The recommendations? Healthcare 101 - basic principles long established. I'm bereft that after all my time & analysis on a module so personal to me, this reads as a statement of the bleedin' obvious🧵

Perhaps, instead, we need to open our minds to the fact that science changes, infectious diseases change, our response to them changes and that we need to not simply agree with the status quo that suits those in charge because them they don't have to make difficult decisions

And then add in stating that we almost certainly have a more susceptible population due to the effects of a novel pandemic virus - well, I am surprised I haven't been put on the ducking stool in Canterbury!

There is something very wrong with the scientific/medical community when pointing out the *bloody obvious* about the handling of a meningitis outbreak can end up making you sound like a weird conspiracy theorist. I would love "close contact" to be the only way of contacting it, but clearly it isn't given UKHSA response.

Wes Streeting: “To parents, students & carers in Canterbury…Please attend school, university & continue life as normal” Cases are rising. Anyone born before 2015 has never had an MenB vaccine. So how dare a health secretary minimise legitimate concerns? kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/new…

Spoke to the BBC this morning as part of their coverage of 6 yrs since the first lockdown. ➡️ #LongCovid devastates lives ➡️ Government have covid amnesia ➡️ Need urgent research into treatments ➡️ Need prevention to be taken seriously Look/listen out for it on Monday.

@piersmorgan Trump is wrecking the world.

A must-read for anyone in UK who doesn’t understand the very serious consequences of what’s happening in the Middle East for this country’s energy.

This is what top-notch analysis looks like.

Everyone's watching oil but Nobody's watching helium ⚠️ That's a mistake Qatar just lost 33% of global helium supply overnight. Most people think helium = balloons🎈 Here's what it actually powers: 🧠 MRI scanners, liquid helium is irreplaceable for cooling 💻 Chip fabrication , every semiconductor needs it 🚀 Aerospace & rocket systems 🔬 Quantum computers and research labs There is no alternative to helium Now look at who's exposed: 🇰🇷 South Korea: 40% Samsung, SK Hynix sweating 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 35% TSMC quietly concerned 🇯🇵 Japan: 30% 60 days before shortages bite 🇸🇬 Singapore: 25% regional chip hub at risk 🇩🇪 Germany: 18% prices already doubled 🇨🇳 China: 22% stockpiling accelerating 🇺🇸 USA: 10% price spikes incoming The hard truth is that No substitute exists. Restart takes years not months. Some capacity may never come back. The Iran war didn't just attack energy. It attacked the hardware layer of the global economy. ⚡💻 Next AI chip. Next MRI. Next satellite. All running on a commodity most people couldn't name yesterday. The invisible resources are always the most dangerous to lose♟️ Do not forget to subscribe to my newsletter, link in my bio image source: Dr. JiHoon Park

BBC's Kuenssberg agreed with Richard Tice that there were 'dozens and dozens of Labour MPs' who were 'antisemitic', and said further, 'We [BBC] spent years covering it'. I asked for a list of the names: BBC have no such list, of course, but find 'due accuracy' doesn't require it.

On collecting kids from school yesterday I saw a teen boy in uniform walking down street in a black respirator 😷 I mentioned it to kids - ‘oh it’s probably because of meningitis, all the kids are worried about not being able to sit exams if it spreads’. UKHSA are a disgrace.

@Ed_Miliband @MumsnetTowers Gas? (Heating, cooking) Electricity? (Lighting, machinery, charging phone, iPads, stairlifts, medical equipment etc? Short-life Medication for things like Cancer? (Treatment compromised) Fertiliser for crops? (Fresh food shortages) Components for MRI machines? (Even longer waits)

We will not allow conflict abroad to be an opportunity to rip families off. My piece for @MumsnetTowers on how we are protecting the British people, including over £50 million to support vulnerable households with heating oil costs 👇 mumsnet.com/talk/guest_pos…

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

A war to weaken Iran ends up with the US having to dilute sanctions on Iran. A mark of how blundering this whole endeavour has been.