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The British Occupational Hygiene Society, the country’s leading workplace health protection body, has issued technical guidance on how healthcare employers make decisions about the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment to protect against airborne risks.
 
MEA Facebook:
Wales: Severe ME Difrifol Cymru need your support!

A couple of months ago, Severe ME Difrifol Cymru ran a stall at Y Farchnad (The Marketplace) where they were able to meet with many Senedd Members (MSs) about the issues facing people with severe ME.

Now they need MSs to make their support official – by actually signing up to give their backing to Adam Price’s Motion for a debate about Severe/Very Severe ME in Wales - https://record.senedd.wales/Motion/8884

If you live in Wales and would like to see this debate happen in the Senedd, then now is the time to help! Write to your MSs and encourage them to show their support to ensure the debate gets the backing it needs to take place.

Write to your MS: https://www.500milesfor.me/

#MECFS #pwME #SevereME #Senedd #Wales #WriteToYourMS
 


Post from user Hip_Ill on r/cfs:
The 1955 ME/CFS outbreak at the Royal Free Hospital in London was once erroneously claimed to be mass hysteria by disgraced psychiatrists McEvedy & Beard.

Now the mass psychogenic illness quacks have struck again, irresponsibly jumping to the conclusion that when 21 people suddenly fell ill at London Heathrow Airport on 8 September 2025, this was caused by mass hysteria.

In the Guardian newspaper, Dr Robert Bartholomew, a University of Auckland sociologist said: "what happened at Heathrow is almost certainly an episode of mass psychogenic illness that is anxiety-based".

Professor Simon Wessely was more guarded, and said that it was "a bit early" to come to judgments about the Heathrow event and it was unclear whether there was an unusual odour or what investigations were done to eliminate other causes. But he added: "If all these come to nothing, then yes, this may be an episode of what we now call mass sociogenic illness."

And in his Conversation article, Kit Yates, Professor of Mathematical Biology and Public Engagement at the University of Bath, goes with the mass psychogenic illness explanation for the Heathrow event.

Well it turns out that the Heathrow event was likely caused by someone spraying CS gas, and this person has now been arrested.

So these psychogenic illness quacks, who so quickly jumped to a conclusion about psychogenic causes, once again have egg on their faces.

Simon Wessely is of course famous for saying back in 1994 that: "ME is simply a belief, the belief that one has an illness called ME". Ref: here.
 
https://worcsmegroup.weebly.com/blog/yawn-a-play-during-mecfs-awareness-month

YAWN a play during ME/CFS AWARENESS MONTH
11/3/2025




YAWN will debut at the Cheltenham Fringe Festival, at 5.00 pm, on Tuesday 27 May.
Hollie Christian-Brookes, an actor-singer, with puppetry and stage combat experience has written original play 'YAWN' about living with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

BBC: 'Play explores life with a hidden chronic illness'

'YAWN, written and performed by Hollie Christian-Brookes, a former Bath University student, charts the emotional and physical toll of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).'

'Having played at the The Mission Theatre in Bath, YAWN will now travel to the Golden Goose theatre in London for the Lambeth Fringe on the 8 and 9 October.'
 
Tomorrow, Tue 7 Oct, the Welsh Senedd Business Committee will consider allocating 15 Oct to a Severe/Very Severe ME debate.
It has a good chance of being selected.
#pwME in Wales please help, email your MS and ask them to back MS Adam Price’s Motion.
Find your
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local Constituency/Regional MSs: https://senedd.wales/find-a-member-of-the-senedd/

Personalise the template: https://www.500milesfor.me

Tell us: SevereME.Cymru@gmail.com

Diolch yn fawr / Thank you

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Tomorrow, Tue 7 Oct, the Welsh Senedd Business Committee will consider allocating 15 Oct to a Severe/Very Severe ME debate.
It has a good chance of being selected.
#pwME in Wales please help, email your MS and ask them to back MS Adam Price’s Motion.
Find your
1/2
local Constituency/Regional MSs: https://senedd.wales/find-a-member-of-the-senedd/

Personalise the template: https://www.500milesfor.me

Tell us: SevereME.Cymru@gmail.com

Diolch yn fawr / Thank you

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Worth its own thread in the advocacy forum, to get people to notice it and take action?
 
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