Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid

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Was: Facilitation & organisational culture nerd for do-gooders; climate & sustainability. Healthy, athletic; MTB, ski, mountaineering, outdoors. Everything on pause: Long Covid is brutal. A lot funnier IRL Lancaster, North West England (Plague Island) ⓥ🇨🇭

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· 1d

A screenshot of the introduction summary if the paper referred to in this thread, published in Cell Journal.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· 8d

See also: Dudley Moore.

A photo from the late 80's showing much loved British comedian and underappreciated jazz pianist Dudley Moore, famously short, not classically handsome, but whom many women would agree would charm their clothes off with his sweet face and eyes, and infectious humour. He's holding hands with Brogan Lane, one of many of his very attractive wives and girlfriends, who is much taller than him. An unlikely heart throb.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jul 9

For anyone interested in the paper that included the image of people's capillaries after Covid above, it's been located. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... With thanks to @drannemurphy.bsky.social @lizziec.bsky.social #LongCovid

A screenshot of the title and first introduction paragraph of the paper on blood and capillary abnormalities after Covid.

The title is "Multicentre retrospective detection of nailfold videocapillaroscopy abnormalities in long covid patients"
by Emanuele Gotelli et al published in April 2025, and it is linked to in this post above.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jul 8

This purple bridleway sign is I think new to me, you can take a horse + cart up & down this one apparently. It's the Walna Scar 'Road', and if you know this classic mountain pass in the Lake District, Cumbria it's hard to imagine, presumably it would be treacherous and terrifying.

A photo of a wooden post in front of an old stone wall covered in lichen. On the post are two circular signs, one is the classic blue and yellow 'bridleway' sign which is an archaic legal classification that desperately needs upgrading to match Scotland's best practice responsible access laws. It shows that you can walk, cycle or ride a horse on the path, although this would be for serious mountain biking only, as it's a high, steep and rocky place in the mountains. The other purple and yellow sign has the same symbols but with an added 'horse and cart' icon, which I don't remember seeing before.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jul 4

These images show the capillaries of 4 people. 1st is a healthy control (no Covid), the 2nd someone 'recovered' from Covid, the last two patients with Long Covid. Thousands of examples like this. Possibly everyone is on a spectrum of post-Covid damage from asymptomatic to symptomatic Long Covid.

A group of four images from a research paper - I don't remember which but probably published around or before May 2025. The first shows healthy capillaries (long and narrow tubes), the second damaged, dilated and distorted capillaries, the third and fourth images from Long Covid patients show even more damaged, dilated and distorted capillaries.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jul 3

Ah I just came across the graphic on presenteeism vs absentism, and it is roughly 6 times greater days lost due to working through illness. Presumably it can be used as rule of thumb for school absences too. It's harmful to the individual - especially if or after Covid - and also to everyone else.

A grahic from a Financial Times article and study which shows a graph of estimated cost to businesses of working through sickness, which far outweighs the cost taking time off sick. The most recent figures shown for 2023 give £5bn for 'absenteeism' vs £30bn for 'presenteeism'. This is a five fold increase in cost compared to 2019, before the pandemic.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· May 27

Great Mullein: roughly 50cm tall with wide, soft leaves, unfurling like a velvet flower. ...And pretty rocks, south Cumbria, NW England

A photo of the plant Great Mullein emerging from grass, roughly 50cm tall with green, wide, soft leaves, unfurling like a velvet flower.

A photo of some pretty rocks, undulating and rippling above a sand and mud beach. The stone is either limestone or sandstone I think, and full of textures and shapes. At the far end of the photo, to the right of the picture, a face emerges looking perhaps a little like an angry turtle's. The more one looks, the more other faces and forms start to appear.

Taken on Morecambe Bay, south Cumbria, NW England.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· May 8

Waterfall, Lake District, Northern England.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Apr 28

'Definitely not Covid'. Reporting on new research of an alarming drop in healthy life expectancy in the UK has emphasised 'everything but Covid'. Yes 14 years of Tory austerity, widening inequality, kneecapping the NHS, the 'Economic Murder' of 330,000. Yes Brexit... 🧵1/3 #LongCovid #MedSky

A graphic of a graph from the research by The Health Foundation published this week and widely reported this week 'as not due to Covid'. The graph shows UK healthy life expectancy from 2010, slowly and slightly declining. Then in 2020 the line suddenly plunges dramatically.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Apr 7

Also the majority of people missing the point - whoosh! - and talking about the first 4, riding motor bikes etc. They're good basic risk / safety advice, but only to set up for the punchline - Covid causes brain damage and damage is cumulative with repeat infections.

An image of an enlarged emoji, showing the common 'face palm' symbol, in which a person is covering their face and forehead with their hand. The version shown is a masculine person with yellow skin and blue jumper.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jan 13

Ok looks like I'm over the technical glitch, here's the screenshot I took from the article with #AltText that failed to load properly above.

A screenshot from the article linked to here, showing a graph and which makes the point that most major countries did much worse after the end of the Keynesian economic period after the second world war, and the shift to neo-liberal market capitalism. In other words the economic reforms led by Thatcher and Reagan have completely failed and countries were more successful when they invested and created employments and social infrastructure.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jan 12

TL;DR - Post war Keynesian economics worked, its 'failure' was a myth, and the market capitalism that followed as championed by Thatcher & Reagan has been a complete failure by comparison. bsky.app/profile/mrma...

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jan 12

TL;DR - Post war Keynesian economics worked, its 'failure' was a myth, and the market capitalism that followed as championed by Thatcher & Reagan has been a complete failure by comparison.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jan 8

Here you go @elisaperego78.bsky.social www.maedica.ro/articles/202...

A screenshot of the heading of the science paper referred and linked to here, giving the title, publication source and lead author

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jan 4

Important thread by @1goodtern.bsky.social at the bad place: We're missing the combined effect of endothelial & epithelial damage from our understanding of Covid & #LongCovid Damage to membranes, linings, barriers and walls throughout the body, and cumulative. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...

An image of the orginal thread posted on Twitter by the well respected @1GoodTern. All the text is repeated in the thread reader page linked to in my post here, but includes: "Covid itself may be getting better at infecting linings, membranes, barriers and walls (throughout the body)... ...this damage happens in every infection, vaccinated or unvaccinated, first infection or tenth."

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Jan 3

Fairy cave, north Lancashire. #FungiFriends #Ecology #AltText

A photo of an opening formed by an upturned tree trunk, between the wood and soil. Surrounding the entrance of this 'cave' and covering it's walls are dozens of small brown mushrooms, with the area around the entrance further decorated by various small green plants. I wonder if this 'cave' would make an idyllic home for a small creature who'd love to wake up and nibble the walls.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Dec 18

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Dec 16

This gives a good sense of the scale of ice loss. An image of the new Montenvers, Chamonix cable car down to what's left of the Mer De Glace. Everything below used to be glacial ice. [Alamy stock photo by Simona Abbondio]

A photo of a cable car plummeting down to the bottom of the valley, far below. It is sunny and summer; green trees and vegetation start half way up the valley, below which is just grey exposed rock and scree, all of thich used to be ice in the glacier.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Dec 16

To compare to the article photo, this early C20th postcard shows Montenvers train station was just above the glacier. Access ladders down got longer and longer as the distance to the ice increased. In 2024 a new cable car was opened from the valley floor up to the station. bsky.app/profile/jhau...

A black and white photo with a sepia, slightly yellowish tint from an early 20th Century postcard showing the Montenvers train station (Chamonix, France), perched just above a vast sea of ice, called the Mer De Glace. Much of this ice has now gone forever.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Dec 6

Flash back to a ski descent of the Valle Blanche, Mer De Glace / Glacier Du Tacul glacier, Mt Blanc. The huge volume of ice already lost and rock collapse in this area is mind bending and terrifying. I didn't fly there because I gave up flying for #ClimateChange 20 years ago. #FlightFree

A photo of a stationary skier, dwarfed by seracs and near the lip of a cavernous crevasse. Between the snow, ice and sky everything is in shades of white and blue.

A photo of two mountaineers standing inside an ice cave, it's walls a glistening blue-white, and below an opening with blue sky above and sunlight streaming in.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Dec 5

From the article, this is a really damning graphic. A total failure of Public Health and mishandling of the pandemic.

A graphic showing the takeup in England of the flu jab over time. Fewer vulnerable people have received the flu jab in recent years, but there has been a dramatic and steep decline in healthcare workers getting vaccinated for flu since 2020.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Dec 5

If only there was something we could do!

A graphic of a large emoji, showing the 'face palm' - a man with hand to his forehead, denoting despair at the general 'what the fuckery is this?', which I am writing as separate words because I'm guessing a speech reader might have trouble pronouncing whatthefuckery.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Dec 2

BMX Bandits!

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Nov 23

Cumbrian Alps in full winter splendour a few days back. I actually got a little sunburn, believe it or not. Grisedale Pike circular, Lake District.

A photo of a group of trees laden with snow, with a blue sky and sunlight illuminating the scene.

A photo of a figure ascending a snow covered mountain. High clouds give a flat light, giving the scene a monochrome feel with the person walking ahead almost a silhouette.

A sunny view from a distance of a range of mountains (the Skiddaw massif, northern Lake District, with the Blencathra range behind), covered in snow. In the foreground is snow covered ground and forest, with some of the trees dusted white.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Nov 23

Ghosts of Halloween, their haunted screams begging to be released from this horror. 21st November, Cumbria.

A photo of a Halloween display still not removed three weeks later. Six squashes of various varieties sit around a plant pot in a pub garden at night, illuminated by the street lights. Two are intact but four are in stages of complete collapse, one has a gaping hole which could be a screaming mouth, two are just a flat pile of orange goo.

A photo of a another Halloween display still not removed three weeks later. Six squashes of various varieties sit around a plant pot in a pub garden at night, illuminated by the street lights. One is intact but the rest are in stages of complete collapse, one has a monstrous deteriorating face, three are just a flat pile of orange goo.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Nov 22

Oh God, I've already failed at #Whamaggedon and it's still only November. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamage...

An image taken from the early 80s music video for Last Christmas by Wham, in which an amazingly coiffured George Michael sits at the dinner table with friends in a chalet in Saas Fe. He's looking sultry holding a wine glass as he ignores the conversation to gaze across to Andrew Ridgeley's girlfriend, who he confessed to be in love with last Christmas.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Nov 16

Flashback to a stroll through the upper slopes of Mt Blanc, in the Alps. Me & my Dad climbed it for his 70th birthday. Bit of a mountain adventure. Glaciers and seracs blow my mind every time. #Mountaineering #Nature

A photo of a white snow slope punctuated by towering seracs - ice cliffs. Below them three small figures walk. Above a blue sky with faint clouds at altitude.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Nov 15

I've always been fascinated by root systems. These photos were taken by me this summer in the South Downs, Sussex. Here the soil, geology and steep slope revealed an impressive and huge network around a family of mature beech. #Ecology #Nature

A photo of an impressive system of tree roots that are visible protruding from the ground, emanating from the base of trunks and connecting the trees together and firmly to a steep slope. Green moss covers some of the wood, red brown leaves and soil carpet the ground and verdant trees are visible in the background.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Nov 8

This was me before #LongCovid. I appreciate what I've lived, but I've lost so much. bsky.app/profile/kinl...

A photo of 2 ski-mountaineers paused perpendicular to and looking down a terrifying looking steep and narrow slope, walled in by towering snow covered rock buttresses. Due to the light and conditions, the 2 skiers stand out in full colour in a landscape that looks monochrome with the light snow and dark rock. Picture taken in La Grave, French Alps.

Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid@thrivingplanet· Oct 17

I was surprised to find a load of stunning, colourful mushrooms in Surrey Hills #woodland in the middle of the August heatwave. #FallenTrunkFriday ?? #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Ecology