Update about my legal challenge in relation to right to wear a mask indoors when voting, a thread. #MyMaskMyVote 🧵⤵️ 1/12

Yesterday, our members met MPs and ministers in Parliament to talk about what needs to change to make health and social care safer before the next pandemic. Thank you to everyone who came and made the event such a success. 1/3 🧵

Went to Parliament today, to attend a patient advocacy event by CBFFJ. Lobbied my MP & got a meeting as had update to ongoing dialogue. And made attending safely an advocacy thing in itself. For all the talk of HEPA & good ventilation there, my CO2 monitor was often in the red.

I’ve learned that physically healthy, able-bodied people think they can “earn” their health. That if they eat right, exercise, and “don’t be lazy,” they’ll be able-bodied forever. This belief is the insidious underbelly of every piece of disability or healthcare legislation.

The thing about “I know other high risk/immunocompromised people & they don’t mask!” is that all of us, but specifically high risk ppl, have been abandoned by public health/gov. “The vulnerable will fall by the wayside” includes informationally. Many don’t know the actual risks.

Liberal democracy cannot bring justice, equality, human or planetary thriving, but it can be used as a tool to create useful or even destructive tension, opening up fissures that move us closer to revolutionary futures. That's what the Green party motion did, and why it's good

It seems as though Labour are effectively going to decree that everyone under the age of 25 (apart from those who have met the severe conditions criteria) will effectively be deemed to be capable of work-related activity, with the health element not being accessible to them before then. An entirely ridiculous suggestion. I don't know who came up with such an idea but I can tell you one thing, it wasn't a disabled person. Of course this could be a media spin, whereby they put out something completely outrageous and then they announce the actual policy and it's a slightly watered down version, but either way, effectively forcing thousands of disabled people to compete for jobs they won't be able to do is completely nonsensical proposition.

RT @ratherbeinpisa: if sick people are having their money taken away and disabled people are having their money taken away and elderly peop…

The government is quietly engineering a lethal trap for disabled people, and they are disguising it as "welfare reform." ​Abolishing the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) to make PIP the single, exclusive gateway for health-related Universal Credit by 2028/29 is not a policy tweak. It is a calculated, malicious act of state cruelty designed to eradicate the safety net entirely. ​Look at the sheer scale of the cliff-edge being manufactured: There are currently over 1.1 million people receiving LCW, LCWRA, or ESA who do not have the Daily Living component of PIP. Crucially, nearly half a million (469,920) of those exact claimants have already been dragged through a humiliating PIP assessment and failed it. ​PIP and the WCA measure two entirely different realities. PIP assesses if you need financial help to wash, dress, or navigate your home etc. The WCA assesses if your health legally prevents you from holding down a job. ​By aggressively insisting PIP serves as the solitary threshold for both benefits, the DWP is maliciously deciding that over a million profoundly sick, neurodivergent, and disabled citizens are suddenly "fit for work" by default. ​Let us be absolutely clear about what this actually means: ​1. Total Financial Blackout: People enduring severe, fluctuating chronic illnesses, neurodivergence, or disabling mental health crises who fail the notoriously rigged, adversarial PIP process will have their health-related uplifts instantly severed. ​2. Punitive Harassment: Stripped of their protected status, hundreds of thousands of sick people will be violently shoved into standard Universal Credit conditionality. Imagine being in a rolling, debilitating physical crash, and being legally mandated to spend 35 hours a week job hunting and attending arbitrary Jobcentre interrogations. ​3. Weaponised Starvation: When our bodies inevitably give out, and we fail to meet their impossible, ableist demands, the DWP will sanction us. They will freeze our basic subsistence allowance and starve us out. ​4. State-Sanctioned Deaths: Let’s stop sugarcoating the reality of these policies. We already know the devastating, blood-stained correlation between aggressive DWP conditionality, financial starvation, and suicides. Forcing deeply vulnerable people through this punitive meat grinder will directly cause severe psychological collapse and a catastrophic, preventable loss of life. ​Advocacy groups are already warning that over 900,000 people will be hit by this exact "double whammy" of losing both benefits simultaneously. And this is those who are currently in power. ​This is not about "getting Britain working." This is about wiping disabled people off the ledger by starving us into submission or into the grave. ​We are not your scapegoats, and we are not expendable. ​#ChangingTheNarrative #PunchDownMedia #TakingThePip

Forcing disabled young people the DWP has already declared unfit for work into employment whilst cutting Access to Work and spreading propaganda about how disabled benefit claimants are all faking scroungers, wheres this "hope" you speak of @UKLabour @andyburnham?

📻 YouTube recording of Natasha Devon's LBC radio show (broadcast last night) in which guest George Monbiot articulates many of the talking points from his article about #MECFS in the Guardian earlier this week. Thanks to Adam for making the whole interview available so quickly.

When Trump officials take steps to restrict COVID vaccines for children, it makes headlines… …but here in the UK, kids haven’t been able to get a COVID booster for YEARS. There is NO choice, not even privately for kids under 12. theguardian.com/us-news/2026… (H/t @karamballes)

For those asking if this shocking new COVID testing guidance from N. Ireland can possibly be real… …yes, I’m afraid it is real. SYMPTOMATIC healthcare staff caring for IMMUNOCOMPROMISED patients are no longer recommended to test. Here’s the link ⬇️ publichealth.hscni.net/covid…

RT @LurgeeLife: I know the Work Capability Assessment is horrendous But what Labour plan to do is *much worse* Their plan is to "decouple…

Back to this hellscape after a long hiatus. Wondering how the algorithm, bots and trolls have changed in the last year. Great to be back in contact with mutuals where limited interactions elsewhere. So, is it time for the four horsemen of apocalypse yet?

The CDC says to wear an "N95 respirator or higher" against Andes virus. It's #airborne.

The DWP is an absolute clusterfuck. This time they've been miscalculating payments, issuing overpayments, and demanding “repayment” from claimants who they blame. Sound familiar? @RachelCDailey_ writes. thecanary.co/uk/2026/05/11/d…

A study suggests that many older adults who died of COVID-19 weren’t close to death before infection. In fact, 28% would likely have lived at least another 5 years if they hadn't contracted the virus. Read more: ow.ly/j4V150YXREy

A leaked document reveals Palantir staff are being granted “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data. Join us demanding this spy-tech firm gets out of our NHS 👇 goodlaw.social/ac5995

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