Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social (@SteveFifield3) profile picture

Informed decisions from verifiable truth & facts please. Avoid unsubstantiated opinions / beliefs. #Equality #justbe #inclusion #LGBT+ ally. ME/CFS 😢 #pwme

Twickenham, England
Joined June 2019
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
I've come to the heartbreaking conclusion after the last 5 years that my daughter's decimated life due to very severe ME triggered by Covid Pneumonia appears to be viewed as colateral damage by those in power.
"That is the sort of funding that Britain's world-leading researchers on ME deserve." Tessa Munt MP, chair of the APPG on ME, on Germany's €500m investment over 10 years to find a cure for ME and long Covid, in today's Times. #MECFS
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
This is hilarious.
In case anyone is wondering what kind of Senator James Talarico will be, here’s him challenging the author of the Ten Commandments bill in the Texas house. He’s been fighting extremism and hypocrisy for a long time
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Response to the recent criticism of my work with @resiapretorius on #microclots for the benefit of #pwLC and #pwME dbkgroup.org/a-misdirected-a…
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
The guy who was arrested yesterday outside the Palestine Action court case for pausing too long while singing ā€œIn the UK it’s illegal to say I support Palestine Actionā€ has predictably been released without charge.
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
A Black woman, an Indigenous woman, and a Latina walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What can I get you, Governors?ā€
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She is the lying media.
Karoline Leavitt Says Democrats Won the Midterms because Americans don’t know how much money they have: Leavitt: ā€œThey listened to the lying mediaā€. Reporter: ā€œBut they know how much money they haveā€. Leavitt: ā€œNo they don’tā€.
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
Trump giving a speech on ummm the ballroom??????
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I’m in awe of Beth Dobbins tbh. Putting herself on the line AGAIN in a few days. Nobody should have to do this!
Hello #TheLastLeg @Channel4 šŸ‘‹ #IsItOk that Olympic athlete #BethDobbin went from fit, competing at the top of her game, to being housebound and bedridden - and that there's little to no research funded into her condition?! She has Myalgic Encephalomelitis #ME #MECFS 🧵
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
Thank you @BethDobbin for sharing your story on @GMB. Our group is made up of physios &other HCWs whose lives & health have been devastated by covid infections. Like you, they used to love their careers. Now many of them are bedbound or housebound & unable to work.
Six years ago, Beth Dobbin was competing at the highest level of international sport, representing Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics. Now, she is bedbound for up to 22 hours a day after being diagnosed with ME. Commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, the condition has been described by Dobbin as ā€œlife-decimatingā€. She has written a letter calling on the Prime Minister to meet with her and commit to more funding for research. Dobbin’s fellow athletes Keely Hodgkinson, Tom Daley and Dina Asher-Smith have also signed the letter. #ME #illness #Olympics
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
What Democrats should do: draft and pass an Affordability Bill, focused on the "economics of essentials" (healthcare, housing, food, etc). Dare the President to veto it; if he does, dare Republicans to make it veto-proof. If it passes, so much the better; if it doesn't, it becomes a Blueprint for 2028. The substance of the bill should be pricing reforms (eg, banning of 21st-century price-fixing) and structural reforms (eg changes to merger review for essential industries; private-equity accountability). Core stuff that the majority of Americans agree on.
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
Replying to @JamesFrith
@JamesFrith your comments this morning on @GMB need to be corrected, failure to do so perpetuates continued harm being inflicted on #pwME The Delivery Plan for #ME currently falls very short of meeting the requirements which #ME patients need urgently.
1/4 šŸ“¢ A short statement from ThereForME: We wanted to be very clear, following the health minister @JamesFrith's comments on @GMB this morning that we do not agree that the Final Delivery Plan for ME was co-produced with orgs representing people with ME.
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
ā€œit’s not a little issue. It’s impacting the masses and it’s just gonna get bigger and bigger now Covid is causing ME. I think it’s about 50% of people that get LongCovid go on to develop ME. It is a mega issue… we have no approved treatments - I can’t stress that enough.ā€
ā€œThis health issue has nothing out there for you… There are specialist clinics, but they don’t have any doctors… It’s life decimating. I’m in bed 22 hours of the dayā€ Former Olympic sprinter @BethDobbin on her letter calling on PM Andy Burnham for more #MECFS research funding.
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It's a new day in America
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Liz Truss posting from Mar-a-Lago on the night MAGA imploded. She's just too good.
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For the MAGA shidiots in the back… some facts: No, Trump didn’t ā€œgetā€ Greenland. Denmark didn’t ā€œgiveā€ us Greenland. We’re never going to ā€œhaveā€ Greenland, much like how we don’t ā€œhaveā€ Venezuela or ā€œhaveā€ control over the Strait of Hormuz. He didn’t ā€œsolve inflationā€ and the war he started 8 months ago, that isn’t a war, isn’t ā€œwonā€. Gas prices aren’t lower than they were when Biden left office and neither is diesel. We’re not the ā€œhottest countryā€ in the world. This isn’t the ā€œGolden Ageā€. We aren’t ā€œrespected againā€. We are a global laughing stock, and at this point most people in other countries just want to know if we’re ok. Affordability isn’t a ā€œhoaxā€, data centers aren’t popular, vaccines and Tylenol don’t ā€œcauseā€ autism and the Epstein files, much like the creepy ass birthday card Trump sent his best friend Jeff, are very, very real. It’s still Lake Ontario, it’s still the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s still very fucking much, called AI. He doesn’t have a ā€œhealthcare planā€, you’re not getting your Doge check, your tariff check or your $5,000. The ballroom you’ll never see and the golf course you’ll never use aren’t ā€œfreeā€. The reflecting pool wasn’t ā€œvandalizedā€, January 6th wasn’t ā€œpeacefulā€, and the 2020 election wasn’t ā€œstolenā€. No one is changing your child’s gender at school, no one is eating your cats or your dogs, and no one is coming here from Africa or anywhere else for that matter, to steal your shitty minimum wage job. Mexico and Canada aren’t our enemies, and Russia and China are not our friends. Losing your Medicaid, your SNAP, and your healthcare plan isn’t ā€œwinningā€ and it sure as shit doesn’t ā€œown the Libsā€. The word ā€œdumbā€ has always had a B in it, and the word ā€œincumbentā€ has nothing to do with something you might have worn to your prom. Now, I know that facts are about as useful to you as a cousin-less dating pool, a sheep that’s not in the mood, and a book with no pictures, but that doesn’t make them any less true. You’re poorer, sicker and less safe than you were 2 years ago. Trump didn’t make America ā€œgreatā€ again, he’s actively destroying it, while lining his own pockets, and the pockets of the Epstein class at the very same time. Now I know that he still hates who you hate, and maybe that really is enough, but the truth is that he lied to you about everything else. He lied about lowering prices, lied to you about no new foreign wars and lied about accountability for pedophiles. And I’m sure you stopped reading when you met the first word with more than two syllables, but in the event that you’re still here, all I want, all I ask, is that you sit this one out. If you’re not going to vote to stop him, then don’t vote at all. Stay home and brush your tooth. Let the grownups with still firing synapses handle this one. I think we can all agree that you’ve done more than enough.
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
Farage: Never knowingly correct about a single thing.
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Full Interview šŸ”„ @BethDobbin's fantastic advocacy on GMB calling for more ME funding. And comment by Health Minister @JamesFrith Ed Balls, husband of Health Secretary Yvette Cooper, predicts a meeting with @10DowningStreet šŸ¤ž
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Steve Fifield @stevefifield.šŸ¦‹.social retweeted
4/4 That was our view before the Final Delivery Plan for ME was published and we stand by it. If the plan had genuinely been co-produced we believe it would have been a very different plan.
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3/4 "While the [draft] foreword frames the plan as "co-produced" most of the major suggestions that have been made by the Task & Finish Group members, and through the public consultation [...] have not been taken forward"
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