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@AlanBixter @aus .social Immunologist. Tweets represent personal opinions. Suggestions do not constitute medical advice. I’m here live, and I’m not a cat.
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IT IS ***NOT*** OVER. NOT past the peak. NOT trending down. NOT fading away. NOT getting milder. NOT just like a cold. NOT just a flu. NOT only affecting old people. NOT only affecting people with a pre-existing condition. STOP LYING & START BUILDING A SAFER WORLD.
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Yesterday a member of the Hillsong congregation visited my home, and on seeing Australian Aboriginal paintings and hand crafts on my walls told me that they brought "bad spirit energy". "Perhaps just today," was my reply.
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New rule: Everyone who catches COVID should make an appointment to see their MP 5 days after the onset of symptoms.
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Just a reminder: The largest COVID super spreader event - possibly in the world - was when an Omicron-infected NSW man attended a rave party for 3 hours, in which he infected 200 people. But Morrison says if it's less than 4 hours, or only casual contact, no one needs testing.
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Frydenberg says he won't debate Dr Monique Ryan in his own electorate because "that's Dr Monique Ryan's home ground." If he believes that, he should resign now.
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The main lesson to be learned from 2021, is to never vote for someone who tries to kill you.
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My personal beliefs, which I hold very strongly, include the belief that Hillsong is neither a religion nor a charity and that my tax dollars should not be given to them.
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Avoiding preventable deaths is not called “left wing”. It is called “Medicine”.
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"At 12 months after infection, the risk of heart attacks, strokes, blood clots and other complications including sudden death are about double compared to people who were never infected." - C Raina MacIntyre, Brendan Crabb and Nancy Baxter
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Labor fronts with Uluru Statement from the Heart. I'm crying.
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The main lesson to be learned from 2021, is to never vote for someone who tries to kill you.
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This time last year, the 7 day average number of daily COVID deaths was 5.86. Today it is 33. It is not over.
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BREAKING: The gay dating app Grindr says if Florida doesn’t stop passing homophobic and transphobic laws, they’ll reveal every Republican legislator and party official who secretly uses the app.
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Probyn says it is a problem that Albanese is not the same age as Morrison. He doesn't mention that it is brilliant that Albanese's hand picked team isn't packed with alleged rapists, alleged sex abusers, alleged upskirters, or those who allegedly misappropriated money.
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Every time you hear that we can't afford HEPA filters, or isolation leave, or RATs, or vaccines, or aged people, or the disabled: Remember that Prime Monster Scott Morrison has $16B dollars of our money that he is withholding for electioneering.
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Christian Porter has been accused, in a letter sent to Mr Morrison, of raping a woman in 1988, but Mr Morrison has allowed him to remain as an MP without investigation.
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COVID damages the frontal lobes, particularly the dominant frontal lobe, which plays a key role in moderating socialisation. It tempers social impulses, like violent or sexual urges. But is there any evidence the ongoing COVID pandemic has changed social behaviours? /2
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If you are looking for RATs, keep in mind that millions of them have entered the country in the last 10 days, but have been intercepted by the federal govt and warehoused before they could be delivered to retailers. But you know - the government of the free market and all that.
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“It’s shameful that it is easier to catch COVID than it is to find a test kit.” - ACTU secretary Sally McManus
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Here's what needs to be done: The members of National Cabinet need to demonstrate their faith in their own decisions today, by working in a COVID ward (not their home) with no mask (as advised) for 3 hours and 59 minutes (not 4 hours) and then not get tested (as they insist).
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As one critic recently noted on Twitter, the world has divided into two groups of people: “Those who already realize that SARS-CoV-2 causes neurological, vascular and immune system damage… and that damage from reinfections is cumulative. 2) Those who are about to find out.”
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CAUTION: Never vote for people who have tried to kill you.
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Everyone deserves a workplace free from being infected with COVID.
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"No one outside of Australia would believe for a minute that it is fair or efficient for taxpayers to subsidise private schools that already have equestrian arenas and indoor pools while other public schools are so crowded that kids aren’t allowed to run in the playground."
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In case you weren't aware how badly the economy is doing under Frydenberg, he has helpfully stuck giant photos of himself on all the vacant shops.
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The Crikey Newsletter reports how Morrison siphoned millions of dollars out of the Health Department to a Hillsong "rehab" unit that defined rehabilitation by their numbers of “salvations” & baptisms. If God is omnipotent, omniscient & omnipresent, He doesn't need money.
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"Mild" Omicron is causing the highest death rates amongst working aged people ever seen in the history of insurance.
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In my opinion: There has never been in Australia's history a more wilfully corrupt, more violently abusive, more self serving, group of violently depraved politicians. They should stand down and let a caretaker government establish a fully powered ICAC to salvage what can be.
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Who knew? A kind, considerate, empathetic, helpful politician could get re-elected?
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COVID has made it most apparent that aged care should not be in private hands, and that the welfare of elderly, compromised and disabled people should not be regulated by Liberal Party MPs.
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Schools should not reopen until children are vaccinated.
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Why is the ABC giving hours and hours of time to the losers and none at all to the winners?
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COVID test positivity in NSW is 6.5%. That is a disaster.
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Last August, the ABS recorded more than one million “workers” counted as “employed” who were on zero hours per month. I'm starting to see how "unemployment" can be 4%.
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One thing COVID-19 has done for Australia, is bring out, in a very obvious way, what a pack of arseholes our ultra-rich are. A more disgusting, self serving bunch of pricks I've never seen.
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How about this? Every appointment in the public service, incl ABC, SBS and Aust Post, should be reviewed. Any appointment made without an open, transparent and appropriately documented process should be invited to resign and reapply. Any who refuse should be referred to the ICAC.
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I've just heard that the story of the Liberal Party Government's attempt at a boat people scare being set up by them is now all over the Sri Lankan Newspapers. Dutton is under a cloud.
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I've always thought that Porter's statement, "I was only seventeen," answered the question, "Did he do it?"
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Stop the idiot experiment. Omicron is demonstrably not mild. Coronavirus immunity is not long lived. Children are not magical. Schools must not return to F2F until children are vaccinated.
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Labor did not cause these problems: They exposed them. The ICAC will dissect them. The ex-Government will regret them.
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NEWSFLASH: 6,358,800 Victorians did not march in the COVIDIOT protest today.
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The MSM seems to have overlooked the fact that China already had a military base in our region. It is called the Port of Darwin and a 100 year lease was sold to them by the Liberal Party.
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"Qantas to phase out passengers, in new plan to improve service." - The Shovel
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It seems that the Prime Minister has surrounded himself with people accused of rape, sexual assault, abuse and discrimination.
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I've finally rumbled Morrison. It isn't that he hates socialists, or kindness or foreigners. What he hates is competence; what he abhors is excellence. Look at the people he attacks - all bright, successful, quick witted, inspiring, hard working, productive. It drives him nuts.
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Looking back on the last two years, it occurs to me that when I failed to successfully predict the government's response to COVID, it was because I overestimated their intelligence.
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Let's talk about Post-acute Viral Syndromes like Long COVID and ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). These are highly debilitating conditions that follow an acute viral illness, but are chronic and in many cases poorly understood. /2
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Australia will reach a total of 10,000 COVID deaths this weekend, a little over 2 years since the pandemic hit Australia. By comparison, a bad flu year would have ~1,000 deaths.
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I think it will take forensic accountants many years to work out how this federal government spent a trillion dollars on nothing at all...
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A quiet reminder of good things: The pointlessly cruel Indue card will be scrapped.
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If you want to know how really bad things are now, consider this: SCIENCE - the discipline of discerning reality by forming hypotheses and testing them, is now considered by most people to be "left wing."
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I am so embarrassed to live in a country with a Prime Minister who thinks a virus can play cricket.
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So who was it in the Government who told Gerry Harvey that they were about to push almost every COVID test across to RATs? How did Harvey know to order big when others were cutting stock? How did he manage to exhaust local supplies?
#MorrisonDoesntGiveaRats
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@Peter_Fitz
The Vic second wave was almost completely created by outbreaks in federally regulated aged care. The state didn't know, because the cases and deaths were reported to Colbeck, who didn't pass the data on to the state. The coroner alerted the govt to the issue./2
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Today, 21 July 2022, Australia had the largest number of COVID deaths reported for the country in a single day. Ever. 89 deaths. And the pollies said nothing.
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Dutton is alleged to have breached the The National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004. So arrest the bugger. What are the AFP up to?
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Malcolm Turnbull told journalists in Paris Albanese would have an easier time mending relations with the French “because he is not Scott Morrison and that’s a big advantage.”
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I'll believe NSW is reacting strongly to their COVID outbreak when Harvey Norman stores are closed to limit spread.
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"Throughout this, [Albanese] has had to operate in the context of two sycophantic media empires, namely Murdoch and Nine, that seem blindly supportive of Morrison and his government.” - John Hewson
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Whenever a political leader says "we must learn to live with COVID," they are admitting incompetence, failure, and a refusal to do the work they are paid for.
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"Finland, which is widely regarded as having the best schools in the world, has no private schools and spends less per person on education than we do." - Richard Denniss, The Saturday Paper
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I long for the day when we have a boring government and a kind, healthy and prosperous country.
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You might be wondering why the federal election hasn't been called. It is because the Liberal Party hasn't selected its candidates yet, because the Party members don't want Morrison's "captain's picks." Think about that: Not even Liberal Party members think their MPs are any good
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115 COVID deaths in Australia yesterday - that puts COVID not just the
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This is a tricky post. This time, 4 years ago, I was contacted by a person in a major government scientific organization. They said that they (pleural) had tried to warn the (then Morrison) government of an outbreak of a SARS-like virus in China. /2
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I think it is very important that I join my Indigenous friends and custodians of the land in voting yes in the referendum. Thank you
@AlboMP
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This thing that the Liberal Party does, where they take money out of Medicare, hospitals, public schools and the homeless and give it to their donors... I'm pretty sure that is called corruption.
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These photos were taken at the same spot in the Arctic. The first was taken in 1917, while the second was taken in 2020.
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I'm going to call it. Sydney COVID cases will exceed 700/day.
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@1goodtern
Just to clarify: There is now a large literature on COVID infection causing long term immunosuppression (at least 8 months), which has contributed to the major outbreaks of other pathogens and (normally) non-pathogenic outbreaks. COVID is causing this.
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I too see
#IStandWithDan
is trending number one. He needs our support right now.
#IStandWithDan
#IStandWithDan
#IStandWithDan
@PRGuy17
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News of the Day: Josh Frydenberg, the first treasurer in Australia's history to get a budget wrong by $60B, is now giving medical advice without being registered by AHPRA.
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Found on Twitter: "A mask is not a political statement. It's an IQ test."
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YouGov poll finds that "I LOVE COVID Party" leader Craig Kelly is unlikely to hold onto his southern Sydney seat of Hughes.
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Re-nationalise the gas industry. We don't need racketeers tearing this country apart.
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I had an GP appointment today. At the end of it, he asked me what I thought that we were experiencing outbreaks of unusual infections - his example was adults with childhood infections, mine was infections normally restricted to those immunocompromised, like monkey pox. /2
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I heard an interesting story yesterday. I was told about a GP who is currently doing a RAT on every patient she sends for a COVID PCR test. Of the people with positive PCR tests, 56% tested negative by RAT. Suggestion: If you have symptoms, get a PCR test.
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Many people have wondered what changed between the end of Gladys Berejiklian's presser at 1pm and the lockdown 1.5 hours later. There is one obvious answer: By 2.30pm, they had 18.5 hours of the case numbers they will be announcing tomorrow.
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Politicians keep saying we have to live with COVID. That is just their way of saying they want their salaries but not their duties.
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“Something is deeply broken when the governor general tells the world that he has awarded a sash to a champion sheep dog but says nothing when he appoints the former prime minister to five new ministries.” - David Shoebridge
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@PeterDutton_MP
Why don't you spend some of that $16 Billion you guys are saving to fund your election campaign?
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"Morrison wasn’t a campaign genius but a deluded fuckwit." Liberal Party MP
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COUNT EVERY COVID DEATH. MAKE COLBECK ACCOUNTABLE FOR DEATHS IN THE AGED CARE FACILITIES HE REGULATES.
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To those who ask me to stop warning about the risks of COVID infection because it makes them anxious, it is my duty to do this. You should have seen me when cigarettes were being advertised!
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If for no other reason, this is why you must not vote the Liberal Party back into power:
“In a single line item [in the latest budget], the Morrison government defunded Australia’s national prescribing service, NPS MedicineWise (NPS). /2
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"I fear this is the election that permanently breaks apart any trust between the consuming public and large parts of the media, such has been the corrosion of faith between those charged with the task of accountability and those who crave it." - Virginia Trioli
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Why is a man credibly accused of rape still a cabinet minister in the Liberal Federal Government, without even a cursory investigation into the accusation?
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How did we get to the point that if you plan not to vote for corrupt fascists, you are called "left wing"?
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Long rant: What is a Parliamentary "Researcher"?
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