Bombardment, hunger & genocide for the children of Gaza & Sudan this Christmas

Tried & failed to publish articles about the genocidal campaigns in Sudan & Gaza recently. Will keep trying. Silence & apathy in the face of humanitarian and human rights violations is not an option. 

This from Banksy💔😢

 

Nollaig shona gach duine, Feliz navidad, eid milad saeid,عيد ميلاد سعيد joyeux Noel....

Spread joy not diseases this festive season🎅🎄

Lit a candle tonight for a loved one lost this year. Strength & virtual hugs to others isolated in grief. You're not alone💜

Baking mince pies with my real life angel is one of the highlights of Christmas every year💓

They look scrummy but I won't lie, they'd break your teeth😬

Happy Winter Solstice (belated)

 Hauntingly beautiful Wales💓

We cannot handwash our way out of an airborne pandemic. Pretending otherwise is futile, and cruel

Excerpts from my article in today's article in Indo👇

Read full article here: https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/tess-finch-lees-covid-and-other-respiratory-illnesses-are-surging-and-its-a-nightmare-for-hospitals/a2120593308.html.

Germany’s health minister, Professor Lauterbach, warned that the increased incidence throughout Europe of cardiovascular disease in 25-50 year olds is associated with covid infections. “It’s not a cold” he said. “Colds don’t cause autoimmune disease or brain damage/inflammation, potentially increasing the risk of major long term neurogenerative diseases”. “Long-covid”, he warned, “is a debilitating disease, for which there’s no cure, the burden increases with every wave”. He’s advising working from home, boosters, testing and avoiding indoor Christmas parties.

I'm invariably over word count so not everything makes the cut. Such as this full para👇

Meanwhile, our Chief Medical Officer, Professor Smyth, has re-launched her Hello Again World Campaign, nudging our elderly to socialise indoors, unmasked, unventilated in the midst of an airborne pandemic. Novavax and antivirals are being withheld. Hospitalisations doubled four weeks after Smyth’s last campaign ahead of Paddy’s day. It’s the greatest public health heist since Camels got doctors to endorse cigarettes with the slogan, “smoke your anxiety away”, except worse: It’s sponsored by Ireland’s CMO.

SARS-CoV-2 is a vascular disease that can damage blood vessels, potentially causing cardiovascular disease, strokes, neuropsychiatric disorders, organ damage etc, which may present months later. Reinfections increase these risks and that of developing long-covid. It’s often asymptomatic. Everyone is vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 – the clinically vulnerable disproportionately so. SARS-CoV-2, RSV and other airborne diseases can be prevented with snug ffp2/3 masks, testing, isolating when sick, ventilation and HEPA filtration. Boosters help reduce severity.

These last 2 paras pushed word count but is available exclusively here for my lovely blog readers!👇💞😎

Our government and CMO have abdicated public health to individuals whilst withholding data and information necessary to assess risk. Jess’ mother pleaded with medics to mask, they refused. Children did not consent to being harmed by those entrusted to heal them.

With warnings of healthcare collapse over Christmas, health minister, Stephen Donnelly’s failure to reinstate masks and clean the air in hospitals now, will lead to countless preventable disease, disability and death: for staff and patients. We cannot handwash our way out of an airborne pandemic. Pretending otherwise is futile, and cruel.

Ceasefire now: Keep learning & speaking about Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. Evil thrives when good people do nothing

Confused about how we got here? I recommend this compassionate, empathetic interview with holocaust survivor, Dr. Gabor Maté, and his daughter, Hannah. 👇💔