Elise Mason

The Covid Inquiry Healthcare module found ‘no good reason to prevent patients from wearing their own masks’. @NHSE_WTE please help the NHS workforce to implement this after recent reports of people in Kent being asked to remove their FFP2/3 masks for surgical masks #MenB

🤬 Why no mention of spreading by coughs & sneezes? 🤬 Why no mention of aerosol transmission? 🤬 Why are you holding back critical information that would allow people to protect themselves? 🤬 Why aren’t you explaining the difference between surgical masks & FFP masks?

And here’s a scientific article which describes practices for safe handling of Neisseria meningitidis in labs: “Transmission of Neisseria meningitidis mainly occurs by formation of AEROSOLS generated in the nasopharynx.” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In 2023, the British Council for Offices (BCO) updated the ventilation guidance for offices: 💨 The *minimum* recommended ventilation rate was increased from 12 to 14 litres of outdoor air per sec per person. Now guess what the ventilation rate is in a typical UK classroom…❓

The sewage crisis laid bare As we’ve been having a wet winter, sewage has been cascading into the River Roding from outfalls everywhere. But one has been discharging for so long (550 hours, or over three weeks) that I thought it was an error with the sensor. I decided to spend my free time on a Saturday night checking it out. It was not hard to find, as the loud noise of rushing water instantly drew me towards the right part of the site. Climbing a fence, I found that the outfall was covered in brambles & fallen trees and hadn’t been inspected in years. There was clearly a fault in the storm tanks which was causing them to spill huge amounts of sewage, even when it wasn’t raining. Even worse, the outfall itself had become clogged with years of debris, so the whole site had been flooded & become a lake of sewage, literally acres in extent. The flow was so intense that it was not possible to fully measure it, but I would estimate it was at least 100 litres a second, likely more. I checked the ammonia levels & it maxed out my checker, so I used a higher range checker which gave an ammonia reading of 27ppm: ie very concentrated sewage. Doing some quick calculations, I discovered that this one spill had poured at least 180,000,000 million litres of concentrated raw sewage straight into the River Roding, putting the health of local people at risk and causing huge ecological damage to the river. It frankly beggars belief that I, as a volunteer in my spare time, was able to discover this serious illegal sewage spill, but at no point has anyone from either Thames Water or the Environment Agency thought to go and investigate the outfall that has apparently been flowing for weeks. The time for talking has ended: we now need change and real action.

Long COVID hasn’t disappeared. People continue to develop it after new infections—yet the myth that it’s “over” still persists. Bára’s story shows the reality: after her 3rd COVID‑19 infection in 2025, she became house‑bound with severe fatigue and heart issues.

If they’re genuinely concerned about missed learning and missed work for parents, why haven’t we got clean air in schools? That would reduce ALL airborne diseases in kids and in the wider community.

If you’re an expert on health but you’re baffled, puzzled or confused by the rising illness and disability over the past 5 years, then you’re not an expert on health. You’re an expert in denial. #LongCovid

COVID could cost the UK economy £7 BILLION a year without Autumn boosters. “Pressure on the healthcare system would be almost evenly shared between working-age adults & older adults”. Please can JCVI urgently rethink their irresponsible vax strategy. openaccessgovernment.org/covid-19-could…

Before 2020, do you remember those “really bad colds” that were constantly going around, leaving ‘even’ young and healthy people with severe fatigue, breathing problems, headaches, hearing and sight loss, organ damage and immune dysfunction? No. Me neither. 😵‍💫 #LongCovid

So we need the government to take this disease seriously. It's still staggering to me that the government has such covid amnesia. Where is the research? Where are the treatments? Where are the mitigations? It's as if Covid never even existed. It's long past time for action.

Covid is airborne. Chicken pox is airborne. Measles is airborne. Whooping cough is airborne. Four contagious, dangerous conditions. All airborne. There are many others too. We could reduce the transmission of all of these by cleaning the air. Why wouldn't we try?

There is absolutely no point in spending money on installing air filtration and ventilation systems to stop a virus that is spread by droplets. It's only beneficial in stopping an airborne virus. And yet the WHO, the UN, the American, French, Spanish, Australian, Canadian, British, and many other countries installed filtration and ventilation systems in their key government buildings in the *spring and summer* of 2020. They KNEW covid was airborne. They cleaned THEIR OWN air. And then they lied to you that Covid was NOT airborne and that it was only carried by droplets. And then they made you work and live in dirty covid air. Don't let a single one of them ever pretend that covid isn't airborne.

The % of people aged 16–74 who’ve ever self-harmed (non-suicidal): 📈 2007: 3.8% 📈 2014: 6.4% 📈 2023/24: 10.3% This is a warning siren. Life is becoming more unbearable. The answer isn’t depriving people of benefits nor a fetishisation of work.

“infections are the 2nd leading cause of death in cancer patients.. hospitalized cancer patients are also 1.5-2x more likely to have infections.. resistant to multiple antibiotics, than hospitalized patients without cancer.” Masking should be mandated in healthcare. Do no harm.

Interesting graphic in today’s Observer.

Employers that ensure good indoor air quality, provide test kits for their employees, and support staying home when sick are likely to see multiple benefits in safer workplaces with reduced levels of sickness absence and Long Covid. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Why Are So Many Children Getting Long Covid? What Could Possibly Have Caused This? Lockdowns? Vaccines? Gluten? Screentime? Anxiety? Fortnite? Face Masks? What?

Excellent overview of Long COVID in children from JAMA pediatrics. Long COVID impacts almost 6 million kids, which is "higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children."