Five years of Long Covid
2025-03-10 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London)
In the run up to 15 March, International Long Covid Awareness Day, we will hear from Dr Margaret O’Hara. Margaret is a founding trustee of Long Covid Support and leads the research involvement workstream. Long Covid Support is a UK registered charity which formed out of grassroots activism to respond to the crisis of Long Covid.
Register at https://bit.ly/mohcamarch

(NB this replaces previously advertised meeting which has had to be cancelled as the speaker is no longer available)

Are NHS and social care safe under this Labour government?
2025-04-14 18:00 - 19:30
with Tony O’Sullivan, co-chair of Keep Our NHS Publi (KONP)
Tony O’Sullivan retired as NHS consultant paediatrician in 2016. He played a key role in the successful campaign against Jeremy Hunt’s decision to close Lewisham Hospital, successfully overturned by Judicial Review in 2013. He was one of the organisers of KONP’s People’s Covid Inquiry in 2021 and has been co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public since 2015. There will be plenty of time for your thoughts and contributions after Tony’s contribution

Register at https://bit.ly/catosapr

Five years on: unmasking the pandemic
2025-05-12 18:00 - 19:30
Register at: https://bit.ly/5yearsca
Covid has been with us for more than 5 years.
The failure of government and systems ended the lives of many who we mourn
It has deeply affected the lives of many of us who are reading this.
Some of us are shielding, others have Long Covid.
Some of us see parallels between campaigns over Covid and other issues that have affected us from the way older and disabled people are viewed to organizing around HIV/AIDS
Some of us came into activity for the first time during this pandemic
Most of us are infuriated that even when the anniversaries have been marked mainstream media treat this as a history lesson not an ongoing fight for accountability over disastrous policies and practices together with clean air and other protections for today and the future.
We continue to assert that Covid isn’t over – as well as that improvements now are likely to useful for other similar, and inevitable pandemics
That’s why the campaign call we are organizing on May 12 is so important. Joan Twelves will lead a discussion on these issues and more.
We want to hear the voices of everyone on this list.
What should be our priorities for the Future?
How can we be more effective?
If you cant make it email your thoughts to: info@covidaction.uk ideally before the meeting

SARS2 Pandemic: Shining a spotlight in a media blackout
2025-06-09 18:00 - 19:30
Discussion led by Tess Finch-Lees, truth mongerer in a world of alternative facts

Tess is an award-winning Irish journalist specialising in human rights. She has been reporting the scientific facts relating to the ongoing SARS2 pandemic – in the mainstream media – since 2020, one of the only journalists globally to do so, consistently. Tess is also a therapist with experience working with adults and children experiencing grief and trauma and the cycle of harm associated with living in denial. She also studied social anthropology and learned that, when the village well is poisoned or the environment is no longer safe, the tribe moves to a safer place.
You can find out more about Tess and read her article/access radio/TV interviews by visiting her website (including her blog): http://tessfinchlees.com/
Background reading (optional)
https://archive.ph/OYefm: Children: “Our children are at grave risk of Covid as State puts profit ahead of public health”
https://archive.ph/Dngo1: Clean air & masks in healthcare: The Covid pandemic isn’t fully over and we’ve been too quick to ignore the continuing risks”
https://archive.ph/Lk0yY: “If parents don’t fight to protect children from Covid in schools, nobody else will”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41605363.html: “Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school”

Register at: https://bit.ly/tflca

July campaign call
2025-07-14 18:00 - 19:30
Dr Stephen Griffin from @IndependentSage will be speaking about #Viruses and #Vaccines on Monday 14 July at 6pm
Dr Griffin is Professor of Cancer Virology at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds He is co-chair of Independent Sage and featured on various government committees at the height of the covid crisis as well as the All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus
https://bit.ly/julycacc
Not to be missed #Science #Covidisnotover

Let's clear the (indoor) air
2025-09-08 18:00 - 19:30
Unsafe indoor air is a workplace health and safety issue; an access and inclusion issue. Failure to act is seriously damaging public health, the economy and education. So, what can we do?
Sally Witcher, founder of Inclusive New Normal, discusses safe-indoor-air activism.
Come and share ideas and opportunities.
Register here

Campaign call: January 12 6pm
2026-01-12 18:00 - 19:30
Setting up a local community initiative: Clean Air Hampshire

Discussion led by Andrea Barrett
Andrea is a campaigner, patient advocate and artist. She is the founder of Clean Air Hampshire and involved in campaigns such as the ones run by Protect The Heart Of The Arts; and CVF’s #MyMaskMyVote & took legal action to challenge disenfranchisement connected to mask wearing.

Register at: https://bit.ly/zcabjan26

Campaign call: Pandemic (un)preparadness
2026-02-09 18:00 - 19:30
Discussion led by Dr Joe Vipond
Monday 9 February 6pm GMT
Joe has been an emergency physician for 25 years, currently practising in Calgary. He co-founded the organizations Masks4Canada, Protect Our Province Alberta, and the Canadian Covid Society. He is currently an advisor to the World Health Network in its infection prevention team.
Joe will introduce his thoughts on The Big One – a book by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshake; a gripping, comprehensive, and urgent wake-up call. Because Covid-19 was just a taste of what’s to come.
If we’re going to survive the next big pandemic, we need to be better prepared.
Register here: https://bit.ly/cafebjv

April campaign call with David Osborn
2026-04-13 18:00 - 19:30
Discussion led by David Osborn
David, a health and safety practitioner and former Emergency Planning Manager will discuss the fundamental flaws in the thinking of the pandemic planners, as evidenced by NERTAG member Robert Dingwall’s post on X: ‘ There was insufficient evidence before 2020 to justify spending large sums of taxpayers money on masks. the evidence remains uncertain. HSE did not consider FFP2 maks suitable for protection against viruses.’!

Register at: https://tinyurl.com/3t976nft
