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As I have been inundated with requests for advice on how to do these i thought i would put this guide up. The HEPA filters i created with the children are based on the CorsiRosethal Box. @CorsIAQ 👍 These have to be adapted for UK. (Fans only use 110v) (1)
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This sounds familiar…
An immunocompromised teen was fully-vaccinated for measles, & she still tested positive for measles, pneumonia, COVID, & Haemophilus influenzae. To recap: Covid is quietly causing immunodeficiency, & our society completely ignores this fact. This is becoming more & more common.
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🚨BOMBSHELL: Jon Ossoff says Trump’s son-in-law is negotiating with PUTIN to sell Russian oil assets to Trump family allies, and they’ve already “poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump family businesses.” The entire Trump family belongs in PRISON! Where is the media??
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
Wales is not England, nor a region of it. Our institutions are different. Our communities are different. Our geography is different. Where power can sit as closely to the people it affects, it should. That’s the case I’ll be setting out tonight.
The First Minister will today call on Andy Burnham to agree a new ‘partnership for growth’ when the two leaders meet at the National Economic Council later this month wp.me/p8Mk4U-1vtG
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
!Mask Monday! 🎭 This week: the JedX FFP3 5482 - a Finnish valved FFP3 for people who find the usual shapes a struggle. It’s a fish-type mask, which is the horizontal fold that opens into a pouch rather than a cup or a three-panel. The upside is room: it sits off the mouth, so there’s less fabric on your lips when you talk and less heat build-up on a long shift. Headband straps, an adjustable nose clip over a foam nose seal, and an exhalation valve on the front. It also comes in sand rather than the usual white or black, which some people prefer: it doesn’t show dust the way white does and reads less clinical than either. The number worth knowing. EN 149 allows an FFP3 up to 3.0 mbar of exhalation resistance. JedX test theirs at 1.68. Combined with the valve, that’s why people who find other FFP3s hard going for more than an hour tend to get on with this one. Filtration is quoted at 99.76% against the 99% the class requires, tested at VTT, the Finnish national research centre. It’s FFP3 NR: one shift, then bin it. Made in Finland, which matters to some buyers for supply-chain reasons and to others because it means EN 149 testing happened where the mask was made, not a continent away. What it isn’t for: the valve means your exhaled breath leaves unfiltered. Dust, fume, solo work: fine. Anywhere the person next to you matters, or anywhere a sterile field is involved, the same mask comes unvalved (the 5141), and both shapes are also made in FFP2 if the job doesn’t need the top class. And as with any tight-fitting mask, the rating only holds with a fit test passed in this make and model; a fish-type seals differently from a cup, so don’t assume one passes because the other did. Find it on our store - link below 👇
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
From wilful ignorance to premeditated. In late 2026, adults still refusing to act in best interests of children's health, education & future need to be questioned, thoroughly. Where is the budget for IAQ & EIP upgrades like Westminster? @karamballes @GAHargan @OborneTweets
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
I doubt that this is widely known by American voters.
Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: "Since January of last year, the U.S. has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it, Europe."
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Appears to be absolutely MASSIVE protests all across the US yesterday and this platform is so skewed to the Trump/Putin side that this is the first I've seen or heard of it.
Community note
The montage uses recycled footage from larger 2025 and March 2026 No Kings protests, not Oct 17 2026 Vote Early events. Those were smaller localized gatherings (hundreds to thousands per city) focused on early voting, not the massive crowds shown. nytimes.com/2026/10/17/us/… abc7ny.com/post/no-kings-… minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/17/hun… npr.org/2026/10/17/nx-
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Agreed..wilful and deliberate.👇 The evidence is clear.
intentional, wilful, calculated, planned, deliberate, in essence #premeditated. Why would politicians & @hmtreasury & media still wish to ignore IAQ, effective IPC, EIP in 2026? A question for #PMQ's. @10DowningStreet should also be asked by political & health journalists.
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
Whatever you may think about Monbiot, every word he said is a fact, As Cordell wrote, "Plundered is my country, violated, raped..."
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Leaked emails expose rift at scandal-hit @nottmhospitals as desperate A&E staff whistleblew to CQC over dangerous A&E overcrowding and false reporting of waiting times data. Insiders warn of unsafe care being normalised. ​ Full story: thetimes.com/article/867ac5c…
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What’s it like being a European? Well, here’s a Welsh speaker happily doing an interview in English which she then translates live into French for a Basque who just conversed with an Italian referee for 80 minutes in English but is happy to be spoken to in his language by a person who is speaking her second language oh and also she can speak Spanish too Being a European is wonderful
🟣 @laurenemmaj, acting as an interviewer and translator, gets the thoughts of Bordeaux Bègles' Maxime Lucu following tonight's draw "We knew what we were coming up against" 🗣️ #InvestecChampionsCup
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
Viruses don't evolve to be "mild" - they evolve to persist. SARS-CoV-2 wins by spreading before you feel sick and reinfecting you again and again, not by sparing you. And here's the part we forget: our immune systems only evolved to survive the acute infection - to keep us alive long enough to reproduce. They were never selected to fully clear a virus that lingers. So the virus keeps its foothold, and our bodies keep fighting it - quietly, for years. That's not peaceful coexistence. That's chronic illness.
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It’s a stunning display of the incompetence of the authors of Scotland’s IPC guidance that they failed to explain the difference between valved & unvalved respirators. I’m so grateful to @InclusiveNew for raising a formal query on this - and delighted to see it’s been corrected.
This sentence in NHS Scotland’s new IPC guidance is a damning illustration of the sheer incompetence & ignorance of those who wrote it: “RPE should never be worn by an infectious person as the respirator filters incoming air & not the air being expelled by the wearer” ❌ WRONG!
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The cycle 🔄 continues.
WOW! Diagnosed with ADHD previously, his income protection insurance claim for Long Covid has been turned down." "Long Covid is not a mental health disorder, but a post-viral syndrome with physical symptoms that can be verified..." thepress.co.nz/business/3610…
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
He just wants to bypass the institutions he doesn't control. As see through as tracing paper.
"My message to John is simple, I want to push economic power out into the regions of Scotland, do you?" Andy Burnham challenges Scotland's First Minister John Swinney to "push power" out from Westminster and Holyrood "into the hands of local people" bbc.in/4yl7lNX
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
George Monbiot absolutely correct about the devolved nations and Brexit 5 and half years ago on #PoliticsLive
“If I lived in Scotland I'd want to get out of this chaotic, dysfunctional, corrupt union” Columnist George Monbiot says Scotland, Wales & NI would be better off in the EU “Frankly I think that's nonsense” says Conservative MP Andrew Bowie #politicslive bbc.in/2Z4VAN8
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
Can't be that difficult for medical schools, govt agencies/ organisations, media & education to follow such a simple instruction. P'haps history teachers & students, engineers & ex military, farmers, paint sprayers, tradespeople & @dstlmod need to lead on respirator science.
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The Welsh have been far too quiet about their real history
Clywch Clywch!!!!! Unionists have always held Cymru back. #bbcqt
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Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA retweeted
The most dangerous doctor isn't necessarily the one who questions established medicine. It's the one who hasn't questioned anything in 20 years.
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“You can tell the economic character of a nation by the way its infrastructure works.” Powerful words from George Monbiot on BBC Question Time explaining how Wales’s economy was built to extract wealth rather than enrich its own people, and why we need the powers to put that right. #Annibyniaeth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #indyWales
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