Urgentiste / Disasterologist / Dissident. Handyman to the Human Body. Anti-Viral Agent. Bad typist. Twitter is to keep notes. All opinions are your own.
If you're in government, & asking people to get boosters that aren't available, & use rapid antigen tests that aren't free, & telling the public that we're facing a 'mild' disease, & that masks are some sort of optional fascinators, you're not governing.
You're gaslighting.
Out of The Lancet, one of the world's pre-eminent journals, from the brightest minds, only a fortnight ago.
They've even spelled out their interpretation, in case readers can't understand the findings.
After 5d isolation, 2/3 patients are still infectious.
“And now we turn to our Celtic cousins in Scotland, to see how <they> intend to approach the oath of allegiance to KC3…”
A singing lesson, for all Australians.
Dear God…Someone disprove this, quickly.
The prospect of it being true is monstrous.
Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection | Nature Medicine
Listening to the BBC at the moment, in which the commentator observes that the rest of the world will now be looking at Australia, and considering that most of the world will cease to consider us in any way ‘modern’…
The global reputational damage to Australia will be immense.
Australia is having its Brexit moment.
Deceived by liars, seduced by fear, only time will tell how we recover.
Some might think that everything will go back to normal next week.
But in the eyes of the rest of the world, a little piece of the mirage of ‘the fair go’ has died.
I find this quite extraordinary.
It was clear from when he first exhorted us to ‘go to the footy’, that our PM had no grasp of this issue.
Victoria achieved what it did despite our PMs efforts to sabotage it, not because of any leadership on his part.
@carolinemarcus
@Qantas
@AustralianJA
Ooooh…!
Spooky pin badge! 👻
Do you know who’s super-intimidated right now, with actual good reason?
Palestinians.
Their oppressors have just been referred to the ICJ on charges of GENOCIDE.
Now there’s a story that trumps pin badges…
There's something bothering me, and I just can't shake it...
What percentage of double vaccinated Australians have been immunised with AZ?
And how many of <them> have received a booster?
Because it's beginning to feel as if <this> should be our new denominator.
The “learning to live with COVID”, “new COVID normal/endemic” arguments require it to genuinely be a very mild disease to be ethically acceptable.
I suspect that this is why the ‘omicron is mild’ narrative has been pushed so hard, when all the evidence suggests that the ‘impact’
@RonniSalt
@NACCgovau
General David Hurley (who ignored televised war crimes allegations), Kathryn Campbell (who oversaw RoboDebt) and Paul Brereton (who, as head of the NACC and an IGADF Inquiry, investigated neither) on parade together.
@KerenZelwer
Oh Keren, there were multiple options.
They’ve been discussed widely, not just in military literature, but also in the general press.
The problem is that <Netanyahu’s> POLITICAL options were deeply curtailed by the coalition partners he’s chosen.
It’s politically-driven genocide.
@KatieAllenMP
I applaud the sentiment.
As a paediatrician, it might have been one ethically better expressed 1000 days earlier.
Or, not by voting to repeal the Medevac Bill.
As it is, it’s a tad like listening to an arsonist expecting applause for not setting their neighbourhood on fire.
The emergence of <Omicron> was predicted by literally everyone who understood the consequences of high income countries allowing low income countries to marinate, unvaccinated, in a tepid bath of unchecked, & rapidly evolving virus.
As a healthcare worker who has worked on 4 continents, I can absolutely guarantee that any healthcare system that describes itself as being "the best in the world" is 100% likely NOT to be "the best in the world"...
For me, the starkest numbers of this Dark Budget are these.
$16 million for indigenous health.
$61 million for school chaplains.
These are the priorities of this government, writ large.
I work in Emergency- I understand 'urgency'.
I've done my AUSMAT Training- I understand 'disasters'.
I have a degree in Microbiology- I know what infectious diseases can do.
What I don't get is why
#COVID19
clinics won't be open until May...
In a country as rich as AUS.
Anyone?
If COVID19 has taught us anything in Australia, it’s that we can judge real ‘experts’ by their tendency to serve Science, & get their predictions right, & ‘government anointed experts’ by their tendency to serve governments, with an associated tendency to be wrong.
Oh dear God, how good is
@louiseadler
…?!
This is a must watch interview, from start to finish, with one of the most impressive guests that I have ever seen on ABC.
It actually moved me to watch someone speak the truth to power in a way that neither media nor
#auspol
have done.❤️
The decision of three actors in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production of The Seagull to wear the keffiyeh during curtain call sparked a frenzy of condemnation from members of the Jewish community.
@latingle
spoke to
@louiseadler
.
#abc730
@spenderallegra
The actions of Hamas are reprehensible, Allegra.
But the protests are based in the treatment of ordinary Palestinians by Israel, not the Jewish faith.
The conflation of the two is often deliberate, and unhelpful.
As was the unnecessary illumination of the Opera House…
@DaveTaylorNews
@ANZ_Research
So-
What you're saying is that the effect of playing the 'let 'er rip' card, in the attempt to stimulate the economy, & at the cost of the entirety of the health care system, is ACTUALLY having a same or worse effect than an 'actual' lockdown- but with none of the benefits...?
There’s a long history of a certain side of politics piling on the
@BOM_au
..
(& make no mistake- this is political)
And it’s not exactly rocket science to see why…
It would be at this stage, where Israel starts killing Australians, that most other governments would consider expelling ambassadors.
Unless you’re owned.
If you’re owned, you just do as you’re told.
This is Zomi Frankcom from just over a week ago.
Zomi is the Australian aid worker who was just killed by Israeli forces. She was working for the
@WCKitchen
charity helping to feed people in Gaza.
She was killed helping people in need. Truly appalling.
Having considered it, the workers have a counter offer.
Why don’t we first tax the sweet living beejaysus out of the billionaires who gouged their way through the pandemic, and remove the subsidies that we are paying the fossil fuel companies?
I’m a little puzzled about legislation that is being aggressively pushed, ostensibly to protect religious ‘freedoms of speech’, by a government who’s members are enthusiastically suing the public for… exercising their rights to freedom of speech.
Twitter folk have hopped on to
#myocarditis
.
Just a friendly reminder that risk of getting
#myocarditis
from
#COVID19
has <always> been several orders of magnitude MORE likely than getting
#myocarditis
from the vaccine.
It’s possible that many Australians don’t understand the stakes of an unfettered conflict in the Middle East.
Why would they? It’s not as if they’re being well served by a neutral media at the moment.
So here’s one that’s being gamed- right now- by folk in the know. 💥 indicates
@SharnelleVella
@drvyom
This sounds awfully like a sitting member of a state parliament calling for a lethal act of violence against the premier of an Australian jurisdiction.
Presumably there are laws that concern such things in Victoria?
of
#COVID19
is FAR from mild…
For the former to be accepted, the latter has to be believed.
You don’t hear anyone ever suggesting that we should learn to live with measles, or other dangerous airborne pathogens, capable of pandemic outbreaks.
Is everyone paying attention yet?
It’s not ‘all fine’.
It’s not about ‘the economy’.
This has moved from a ‘State of Emergency’ to a ‘State of Disaster’ because too many Australians have downplayed the potential for harm from this pandemic.
The time for ‘focus’ is right now.
Who could have guessed that opening up a state in the middle of the holiday season, a time of gathering & reduced health services, would result in a surge of disease that relies on gatherings for transmission, & which requires the significantly more medical resources to manage…?
Imagine what could be achieved federally in Australia, if the Greens and Labor put aside their differences, and worked together- as they do in the ACT- to reverse the social vandalism inflicted upon us in recent years...?
This is repugnant.
A PM that thinks prayer and denial is somehow the solution to a species-ending crisis, decides to take money from the disabled and infirm, to look as if he is doing something.
While waving a Christian flag.
via
@smh
@haaretzcom
@amirtibon
Huh.
Israel applauding the rise of fascism in Europe, eh?
Didn't have <that> on my bingo card of things that'll Happen in my lifetime.
Proud moments for all involved, I'm sure.
@KatieAllenMP
Super, Katie!
Can you also confirm when the Australian Government will repatriate the 2 children being held- at enormous expense- in offshore detention?
The savings from that alone should enable dozens of further repatriation flights.
As well as stopping the abuse of 2 children.
@MrWinMarshall
@spectator
So, I’m an Irishman, living in Australia, with a whole tribe of kids- and this is tripe.
The lady being interviewed was laughed off the streets of Australia when she came to visit, and those facilitating this nonsense should be ashamed of themselves.
So this is becoming interesting now- I reckon
@RonniSalt
's olfactory nerves are better than most.
FTR, I receive no payments from Medicare.
A bizarre uncorroborated story, with no data, about 'greedy doctors' rorting the Medicare system is 'leaked' to the National Broadcaster
Fortunately, the delivery of modern medicine is based on the basis of clinical acumen, and many years of postgraduate training.
Not on the belief systems of a retired partisan politician.
And do you know what?
Everyone, on both sides of politics, is better off for that.
Sorry I simply do not believe the figures being quoted of those senior citizens dying because of COVID 19.
I am sure many are "dying with COVID but not of it"
The Israeli government lobbyists campaigned to have
@antoinette_news
sacked, not because she was reporting news incorrectly, but because she was reporting things that they didn’t want reported.
That’s normal for them.
It’s <not> normal to merely comply...
@AlexRyvchin
That’s pretty stirring stuff, Alex.
Except you’re conflating Judaism with a proto-fascist Israeli government.
People have a problem with the latter, not the former.
Trying to equate the two, with Israel in the dock at the
@ICJ_org
for ‘genocide’ is rejected by many Jews globally.
C'mon,
@TurnbullMalcolm
.
As a medical professional, with numerous international collaborators, I cannot begin to tell you how bad the optics are for Australia in this space.
The internal politics is irrelevant- this is not normal behaviour for a first world country.
We call on Papua New Guinea authorities to give our team access to the
#asylumseekers
and
#refugees
in transit centres on
#Manus
, to assess their conditions and provide essential
#medical
care as appropriate.
Called it, back in October.
The threats were already flying at that stage, and several colleagues reached out, seeking guidance.
Medical practitioners must NEVER allow themselves to be intimidated by political lobby groups, when it comes to speaking out
@Esqueer_
I love this story so much!
This is so on brand for all of the “self-proclaimed alpha males” out there, in 2022.
Start a fight with a teenager over nothing, lose the fight- and then in your comeback video, wander into a field of upturned rakes.
So with Labor now on course to win an outright majority, and a significantly increased cross bench, can we now finally agree that, given their lack of impact on the process, it now really doesn’t much matter what the Murdochracy thinks of the outcome?
@CollignonPeter
My view, as a emergency doctor treating patients with acute infections AND the chronic sequelae of infection, is that this would be a very effective way to harm both our healthcare capacity to deal with both
#COVID19
, AND non-
#COVID19
related illnesses.
22 years ago, I was the night Trauma Registrar in the ED at the old RAH in Adelaide.
Someone told about a plane & a skyscraper, & in my head, I was picturing a Cessna or something as I strolled to the tea room.
I watched the 2nd plane hit the South tower, in NYC, from Australia.
It’s been a good trot, playing hide & seek.
4 years & nary a +ve.
Ironically, not arriving to the tribe via Daddy’s place of work, but via daughter’s attendance at BBL in Manuka.
The transition of ‘public health’ to ‘private ownership’ is complete.
As you were, drones.
See, this is a problem for me.
Not that
@GladysB
has a poor taste in men. That’s just sad.
But that
@GladysB
felt happier to meet with criminal publicans, than to meet with any of the many healthcare providers who wanted to talk to her about
#pilltesting
.
Totally unconscionable.
Australia has mortifyingly suspended funding for an aid agency in desperate need, on the brink of collapse, on a whim- on the basis of hearsay, & political expediency.
The humanitarian credentials of Australia are in tatters.
God,
@FranceskAlbs
’ had the measure of the Australian 4th Estate- and you love to see it.
I am so <tired> of the laziness, of just repeating the talking points fed to them, without any critical analysis.
I WAS using the number ‘27’, as the limit on number of deaths/day from
#COVID19
in Australia, needed to keep annual deaths from
#COVID19
below 10,000.
We are now well on track for twice that.
That is 2 fully laden A380s crashing every month in Australia.
That’s Armidale.
The Victoria Racing Club wants a crowd of up to 50,000 people on course for the Melbourne Cup, with plans to rebrand the iconic event as “the race that restarts the nation”
@drhumki
Spot on, Kimberly.
Emergency departments all over the UK are in strife.
Imagine if the east coast of Australia was blanketed in a foot of snow- it might be a winter wonderland, but it would also be a catastrophe for transport and supply lines.
Francesca Albanese - United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories 🇵🇸 Illustrated after an avalanche of requests, and made with the utmost respect for this brilliant, powerful, courageous woman.
@CampbellNewman
@ProfPCDoherty
Actually Sir, the overwhelming body of scientific evidence stands against you.
It’s great to have ‘qualifications’, but if you’re consistently arriving at the wrong conclusions, maybe the ‘qualifications’ aren’t as helpful as you thought they were…?🤔
“Stop with your protesting nonsense about how ‘the world is becoming uninhabitable’, and learn to live with it, peasants.
Evolve faster.”
The next front in climate change argument, now that ‘denial’ is no longer an option…
Respect,
@AnnieLennox
.
What better way to memorialise Sinead O’Connor on a public platform, than by calling for Peace, & a
#Ceasefire_In_Gaza
.
It’s what she would’ve been doing, were she still with us.
Greatness shines, in The Dark.
It has to.
If one jurisdiction in Australia takes a course of action- let's say, decides to set itself on fire- against some fairly strident medical advice to NOT set itself on fire, and finds itself suffering the consequences of setting itself on fire ("Nobody told us it would hurt!")...
@KerenZelwer
Keren, if you were more interested in the substantive issues, and not simply justifying Israel's position, you would have already have found an answer on Google.
Israel had to do 'something'.
What <they chose> to do violates <dozens> of human rights laws.
This whole Pascoe/Cashman/Dutton thing... unedifying.
I have no interest in whether someone self-identifies as 'Indigenous', or even 'Irish'.
But history tells us that government registers of populations, based on their ethnicity or race, is not something that usually ends well.
Many thanks to all of the many cooker-y fans who were, & still are, prepared to share their unsought opinions with me on Twitter / X.
It is obviously invaluable to my research on plunging literacy rates in Australia, and the Trumpification of this platform.
Some obs so far (🧵):
I am puzzled by those members of the media, clearly not medically qualified (or even scientifically literate, by their questions) behaving aggressively towards PH officials behaving cautiously about even the whiff of 'fleeting transmission'.
It's medicine.
There are consequences.
This is the worst sort of revisionism, and needs to be called out.
Conflating ‘anti-vaxxers’ with those advocating for zero-COVID is a primary school debating tactic called ‘poisoning the well’.
At practically every step, those regretting ‘not rebuking’
A bunch of years ago, I waited two and a half hours in a bar in Adelaide for my future wife to show up for our first date.
She always runs late, but that was particularly spectacular.
Today, she beat me to the punch, and bought me flowers.
Now, I shall cook to celebrate.
@YouAreLobbyLud
@DamianTheAussie
…different having 20K deaths in 5YOs to 20K deaths in people over the age of 80… …Do we really want our elderly patients to be subject to carers in masks… …we want to take those masks off… …be cared for by people who are constantly masked… …I think that's got to change.
This was prosecuted with the intent to intimidate.
The antidote to intimidation is disobedience.
I have frequently been disappointed by governments, but rarely been so disillusioned with one that promised to be so different from its predecessor.
Glorious, brutal stuff from
@BernardKeane
again.
When 'the national interest' is rolled out as a phrase to merely protect a political party grandee, that party has lost it's way.
Nothing about this sordid court case occupies the moral high ground.
@drhumki
It's not like Australia is thriving in temperatures that many Northern Europeans would consider balmy.
It matters more what societies are used to coping with, rather than the range of temperatures in which humans can survive...
@Milliganreports
@PerpetualWinger
@nswpolice
Seems an un-Christian sort of a thing to do…
The theologically sound position would have been to have offered forgiveness, for any perceived infraction.
Yet more evidence, as if it’s needed, of the dissonances between some of modern manifestations of Christianity, & The Faith.
Blackmailing states into opening up, by withdrawing income support, is as medically justifiable as locating the potable water of a village on the other side of a minefield, in order to clear the minefield.
These people do not represent ‘citizens’- just corporations.
Australia is currently part of a very small coalition of countries, bombing one of the poorest countries in the world, that is disrupting shipping (while killing no-one) in protest of a country that is killing civilians at a rate that has it in front of the
@ICJ_org
for genocide.
So let me just get this straight in my head...
APHHC meetings are so confidential that the minutes can’t be released to medical practitioners, for the purposes of scrutinising decision making in a pandemic?
But they <can> be leaked to
#auspol
, for political leverage?
Got it.
Tend to agree with this.
The various duplicitous manifestations in presentation can be baffling.
This week alone, in 5 shifts, I’ve seen 3 major, imminently life-threatening cardiac cases in COVID+ve patients in their 30s, who had NO risk factors otherwise.
It’s changing medicine
@gemcarey
@DavidJoffe64
Most staff have hardly any idea about anything to do with COVID. It's a knowledge and discussion black hole. It's the oddest thing. I have never come across anything like it before.
There is a hard, HARD push from
#auspol
and their affiliated media outlets to sell the NSW
#COVID19
Schools report as definitive evidence to lift the boom gates.
This should be seen for what it is- a sales pitch.
It's not a 'considered interpretation' of the Science, nor even
@MsahWu
I can think of over a dozen seperate instances where I have treated RAT-ve patients, with a full house of
#COVID19
symptoms, who subsequently returned +ve PCRs.
Abandoning PCR testing is a fantastic way of artificially diminishing case numbers further.
Get better.
How good is
@DaveMilbo
...?
"The Year of The Dumpster Fire has highlighted a brutal chasm between the selflessness of ordinary people, and the petulant self-interest of those who would claim to lead us."
Cards on the table, guns from the holster.
@RonniSalt
There is only tragedy here.
Tragedy for the families who have lost loved ones.
And yes, tragedy for the family of the perpetrator.
We meet with these families all the time, desperate & exhausted in their attempts to get help for their loved ones, from a broken system.
It’s awful.
No one should be made to feel afraid at a library.
The price of democracy is to respect the right of some to hold opinions that we find repellent.
It is not to tolerate behaviour that scares kids.
Kids, enjoying story time.
At a library.
#IStandWithQueens
If I'm not mistaken, that appears to be evidence of the targeted assassination of aid workers from
@WCKitchen
, who've been trying to deliver aid to Northern Gaza.
And one of them was Australian.
I think I'd like to hear from
@SenatorWong
and
@AlboMP
about why 'this is OK'.
A very serious incident. .
Israeli military bombed three cars belonging to foreign nationals of the [
@WCKitchen
] south Deir Balah.
5 of them were murdered including a British, an australian and a polish
hey
@SydOperaHouse
, i’d like to take out an ad on the opera house sails — a video projection of kids detained on
#nauru
, one of our national pastimes.
i’m willing to pay the same as
@NSW_Racing
. serious offer — who do i speak with?
Not that it needs to be said- and the BBC has its own critics- but has anyone seen anything that even vaguely resembles this on Australian TV.
Because this getting close to ‘How to Journalism: 101’- and may help explain why
#auspol
is on the global fringe on this issue…
BBC: Israel has tampered with evidence, manipulated video, lied to the public and provided no evidence that al-Shifa Hospital was a command centre for Hamas
@KerenZelwer
It’s rather up to Israel to find a way that excludes ‘infanticide’, Keren- because that’s what international law demands- there being no mitigating features.
I’m sure you’d further denounce the formal intentions of Israel to expand the occupation of Gaza with illegal settlers?