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Spending lots of my time today telling people over 60 that they are safe to have AZ and watching them refuse and wait for Pfizer because they have high blood pressure or had an SCC removed or platelets of 120. So frustrating. Thanks to all the people that trashed AZ
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@drkerrynphelps
Have you got any concept of the harms caused by aiming for elimination of a virus that cannot be eliminated? Have you spent any time in general practice actually talking to real people in the last 20 months? Is your only measure of health absence of COVID??
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@jopuccini
@isobelroe
My 20 year old son is working in a community health vaccine clinic at reception. Has copped abuse mostly from older people wanting Pfizer, assisted lots of people access the vaccine who would otherwise struggle. He had AZ x 2 months ago. Thanks to them all.
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Just called a patient pos for COVID. Tested on 30/08 lives with negative person. Not heard from
@VicGovDHHS
yet. No contact tracing. No help in isolating neg housemate. We are never getting out of this lockdown unless something improves
@DrMukeshH
@NeelaJan
@eyerait58
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I dislike Scott Morrison as much as anyone but so called progressive women thinking it's ok to criticise a child's appearance on social media is a disgrace.
"Go stuff yourself" you nasty old boomer.
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@ketaminh
@GregDore2
@LaTrioli
Just presenting the facts. AZ is 92% effective against hospitalisation and death. Looking more effective than Pfizer in the over-60s. Blood clot risk small and treatable. It's our job as doctors to keep repeating this message.
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@PatsKarvelas
Bring her to me tomorrow. I'll give it to her. No appts needed. 98 Abbotsford St West Melbourne
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Can we get some more staff on the COVID vaccine booking hotline please? Hold times up to 5 hours and no call back. Frontline healthcare workers desperate for a vaccine.
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@PalmerReport
@nytimes
The woman failing. Yet again. Not due to any failure on the bloke's part???
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This is a disgraceful tweet from the minister in charge of a health dept that was not fit for purpose. I have refrained from criticising our health dept recently but I see on-going failings that make me despair. HCW are infected due to Govt failings. Look in the mirror minister
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@AlanBixter
@VictorianCHO
If you are in Melbourne, come to my clinic. Walk in, no appts needed. 98 Abbotsford St West Melbourne
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@PMGPSC
Is everyone aware this person is not a doctor and that having a pH of 6.5 is not compatible with life and that there is no evidence at all that ICU patients are spilling out onto wards?
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Hey
@VicGovDH
do you know the COVID hotline is telling asymptomatic COVID positive patients to get a day 13 day re-test (they dont need to) and then your dept thinks they are a new positive and sms to say isolate for ANOTHER 14 days? Pts getting clearance and sms on the same day.
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Victoria's COVID positive notification website has crashed. Might be a delay in numbers tomorrow if we can't enter data....
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This is an insult to our public health teams, hospitals, doctors, paramedics, GPs, nurses, community health organisations. And misinformation given we are isolating COVID cases, vaccinating at one of the highest rates in the world and providing effective treatments. Shameful
Australia is doing precisely nothing to control the pandemic. Nothing,
Senior health bureaucrats opened a recent webinar with the comment “Of course we have stopped trying to prevent transmission”.
It is now one of the leading causes of death.
#COVID19
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@normanswan
@StevenJMiles
Norman, today's tweets are seriously damaging. It's like you are trying to generate hysteria - unethical. Your numbers above are incorrect as Vic is on 92% 12 years and above. Vaccine supply is good. AZ still protects against hospitalisation/death against Omicron. Facts
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The naughty child narrative must end. Victorians were social distancing better than any state at the time of the second wave. There would be scenes like this and worse going on all over Sydney but NSW can put spot fires out and Vic cannot. From a Labor-voting Dr
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Hey
@Mon4Kooyong
Do you think this is an appropriate way to speak about female doctors?
I've shown my daughters this man's tweets about me and they are angry.
Why do you have anything to do with
@GeoffHanmer
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@joshuabadge
@imaanjoshi
I reckon the world is laughing at us now. We locked up for two years to prepare for COVID and to fund our health system adequately. And now look. It's like focussing on zero COVID meant we never actually prepared for COVID at all.
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OMG
@VicGovDHHS
have just announced an online system for notification of positive COVID19 cases! Throw away the pens and paper! 9months into a pandemic...
@NeelaJan
@migga
@Raf_Epstein
@MelissaLDavey
@Dana_Adele
@coopesdetat
@JennyEjlak
@normanswan
@eyerait58
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I've been providing medical abortion since it came on the PBS in 2013.
I have published research on the provision of abortion in general practice.
I've provided abortion to several thousand women.
Sam Maiden's response when I engage with her on abortion?
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@drkerrynphelps
It's not an "argument" Kerryn. Royal Children's Hospital long COVID clinic has yet to confirm a single case. It's just a fact. The studies trying to say it is common lack controls and scientific rigour.
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@GeoffHanmer
I'm really proud of my work in the COVID space. I've looked after hundreds of COVID positive people, supervised the vaccination of tens of thousands of people, integral to the Positive Pathways program which was adopted as the model of care for COVID patients in Vic. You?
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@k_eagar
Literally the opposite is true Kathy. Kids die from rare cancers (and common cancers) and it is not mentioned in the daily news or tweeted by the health department. COVID deaths are given way more attention currently than almost every other death. Maybe stop politicising it.
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@ranjitrao1
I agree Ranjit but given the Burnet modelling predicted higher hospital and ICU numbers and govts all accepted that as part of opening up, why the code brown? Was that also part of the plan? Or did we never actually prepare the hospitals adequately?
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@BallouxFrancois
The treatment of children in COVID is what shifted me to COVID centrist (minimiser if you prefer).
Children suffered a great deal to satisfy the anxieties of some adults and resulted in policies that lacked any sort of evidence base.
I hope to never see it again.
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This is why
@realozsage
should not be listened to on anything COVID related.
Their only agenda is lockdowns and restrictions at any cost.
To reply to a child with this venom after what young people have been through in the last two years is appalling.
You're a disgrace Geoff.
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Pfizer open at Prahran Town Hall for 40-49 and under 50s eligible. Book here.
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@RealAnitaWhite
Please don't do this.
Children are not vectors of disease.
They are young people who have sacrificed a huge amount in the last two and a half years.
They have lost social learning, academic learning and have increased mental health.
Shaming them on social media is awful.
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Where's the evidence Victoria can manage clusters any more efficiently now? Numbers are low and yet this one cluster is being used as a reason to potentially extend lockdown. DHHS seems as inefficient as ever from what I see.
@drvyom
Not certain it’s ‘everywhere’. I think it’s in the same places its been since May, and being transmitted in the same ways as its been since May. While a generalised lockdown has limited that transmission, it won’t get rid of the last of it unless we manage workplaces/clusters.
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Imagine thinking this is practical and sustainable for a developed nation like Australia, let alone the developing world.
These people are living in a strange privileged bubble and shouldn't be contributing to public health on any level.
Health is more than the absence of COVID
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@ranjitrao1
How about
- vaccinating teachers
- fund ventilation modifications
- fund CO2 monitors
- use of rapid antigen tests
Kids need to see that there is a plan for them. They are losing hope.
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@anchortohealth
Please don't let anyone do this to your baby. Or anyone for that matter.
It's unscientific nonsense.
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@drkerrynphelps
@normanswan
I can tell you from state vaccine clinics there's no supply issues
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Here's why Ozsage are being ignored by govt.
No empathy for children whatsoever. NAPLANs are not a measure of children's wellbeing.
Geoff, you're a rude, unintelligent man.
You get mostly laughed at here which is what you deserve. Enjoy fading back into obscurity.
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@KrauthBen
@Fiona_M_Russell
I have no doubt the hospital systems are stretched. They were stretched pre-COVID. We have had two years to improve things and squandered it. But fear-mongering is actually contributing to the problems now.
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@SandroDemaio
Stop calling us heroes. We hate it. Implies we are there to be sacrificed. We just want to do our job safely.
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Sadly, all the ridiculous claims about long COVID, particularly on this site, are really damaging the cause of the very real, genuine syndrome of Long COVID.
I feel very much for those patients when I see some of the posts made here.
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And what's your role in this Dr Swan?
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Children overall were more harmed by COVID restrictions than they were harmed by COVID infections.
Melbourne had the longest lockdown in the world-we have major problems with anxiety, behavioural disturbance & mental illness in children & adolescents with waits of up to 18 months for services. This is a crisis right now but will have lifelong consequences for some
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Here's the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and here's the Melbourne Youth Strings.
Kids in masks while in a learning environment, when kids under 18 are not the drivers of this pandemic.
#melbourneyouthorchestra
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@96mitchclarke
@theheraldsun
None of my patients diagnosed in the last 48 hours have had any contact from Dept Health. No contact tracing so how would you know that Jereon?
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@DrEricLevi
Last year many of the people I looked after were stigmatised by their COVID diagnosis. Some were kicked out of home. Told they were dirty and had brought shame to their community. It was very sad. Not surprised to see it happening in Sydney.
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@SandroDemaio
Only people who have booked first dose AZ will be offered Pfizer - do not change booking. If you have booked second dose AZ you will get AZ. I have this in writing from Dept.
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@ketaminh
@GregDore2
I tried this morning on ABC Melb with
@LaTrioli
to present the good news re AZ against Delta esp in the over 60s. It's our way out, get your vaccines everyone!!
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The Burnet Institute is calling for increased restrictions including indoor masks. And yet they post a maskless photo of staff celebrating indoors. When called out, they delete the tweet.
@BurnetInstitute
doesn't want to do what it is demanding we do. Hypocrisy
@MStoove
@DeeCee451
@Unmaksedzeros
@BurnetInstitute
@WEHI_research
@_jason_asselin
School kids are being tested twice a week and have HEPA filters installed (in Vic) so why are some of your staff calling for masks in schools? Why are children being held to higher restrictions than Burnett staff when they are at lower risk of serious disease?
It's hypocrisy
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@Pammieoz
Do you know over 65s get a different flu vaccine? I hope you demand choice for that too? And what is your preferred tetanus booster? What about your preferred shingles Vax? Only 70-79 years get that free. Demand choice!!!!
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@LiangRhea
Even in light of the Cochrane level evidence that they don't preven transmission?
I want to keep my patients safe too and in certain settings I would choose to wear a mask but around all patients forever? No I'm not.
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@jillastark
Unless we can manage clusters and healthcare, we are unlikely to get to av of 5 anytime soon. Cluster management is key once numbers are low. Chadstone makes me worry that contact tracing is still not fast enough
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@sammons_vanessa
@GeoffHanmer
I'm a GP and COVID is very low on my list of worries for my kids. Having them back at school face to face has been the best thing for their health, learning and mental health. I don't want to be schooled in children's health by an architect.
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@HumanHeadline
@VicGovDHs1
Kids are struggling. They feel like no-one is listening to them and there is no plan for them to get back to school. They are sick of COVID being the only measure of health for them. We need to consider their whole wellbeing. Health is more than just not getting COVID.
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@Caro_Dew_
My kids didn't find not going to school a protection.
It was a huge restriction on their lives. They lost sport, music, theatre, friendship and learning. The effects are likely to be long lasting.
Don't minimise the harms of restrictions.
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@joegarra61
I respect your opinion far more Joe. You know more about COVID than Kerryn and have worked in the hardest hit area of Melbourne. We should be listening to you, not Kerryn.
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Walk in COVID-19 vaccination all week at cohealth 98 Abbotsford st West Melbourne. Pfizer and AZ.
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You say something completely reasonable on X and a whole lot of people lose their minds.
I'm not sure what they think almost all the rest of the world is doing in 2024.
We are living normal lives.
Melbourne now - AO, Midsumma, cricket. It's fantastic.
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@Hayley_Gleeson
I'm all for people living life like that if they choose but for the rest of us, including my elderly and vulnerable relatives, we want to return to normal socialising.
It's 2024 and vaccines plus infection means COVID is mild for most people.
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Walk in to cohealth vaccine clinic this week. No appt needed. 98 Abbotsford Rd West Melbourne
Pfizer and Astra Zeneca. 12 years and above
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@yaleHFdoc
@Cigna
In Australia we get the healthcare we need in an urgent situation like this free because we all contribute to Medicare.
Your system is the anomaly in the developed world.
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@Fiona_M_Russell
Thank you so much for your sensible voice Fiona. Keep talking the facts and moderating the alarmist noise in the media. Lots of guilty doctors unfortunately.
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A reminder that if you test positive, please fill out the survey that comes with your positive notification or RAT notification. If you are immunocompromised or at risk you will be linked into care usually within 24 hours in Melbourne. 7 days a week.
2. I tested positive on Saturday. I have chronic lung disease and an high risk of complications. My GP was closed. Other GP clinics I have attended would not offer me telehealth appointments as I have not physically attended their premises within the last 12 months
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@kimlovemyboys
@DrJenGunter
Oops Kim. I'm a sexual health doctor in Australia and that's exactly how the morning after pill (as we call it here) works.
I reckon Jen knows a thing or two about it.
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@BrentHodgson
@rpcounat
Back in the good old days when you could work from home and all those essential workers had to go to work to provide you with the above services and expose themselves to Delta with no vaccines to protect. Yeah, the good old days.
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@drPLeach
@MatthewBevan
Best response from a young person wanting AZ after I discussed the risk was "Well I did crack cocaine in Belarus so I think I'll be fine with that"
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@ZoeMcLaren
I reckon we are going to look at our failure to achieve vaccine equity in the developing world before vaccinating children of wealthy nations as our greatest failure. Especially if the next variant is worse than Delta which wouldn't exist if we had vaccinated India.
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Where's the plan for Melbourne kids who haven't had a full term of school since 2019
@JamesMerlinoMP
??
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@drkerrynphelps
That's not death rate Kerryn. It's percentage of tests that are positive. You need to know the denominator. Most PCRs now are on symptomatic people or confirming POS RATs. Previously there was widespread testing of asymptomatic people to cross borders and in workplaces.
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@joshburnsmp
@rajah_mich
@RichardMarlesMP
That's the vaccine clinic I set up and worked so hard in. Hey
@joshburnsmp
& Michelle, We have vaccinated close to 30,000 people there, mostly AZ, the vaccine you trashed. I reckon I have done more to protect your electorate from COVID than you have. How about unblocking me??
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This is what we should be asking our governments. We have take up vaccines in huge numbers, stayed at home, worn masks so you could prepare the health system. Yet we have fewer ICU beds than at the start of the pandemic. We can't protect the health system if you don't fund it.
COVID-19 testing crisis a result of failure to invest in public health
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Failure to address the needs of children during the pandemic was a huge mistake. We knew as early as May 2020 that most children were not at risk from COVID yet we continued to disrupt their lives for nearly two more years.
It's our shame. Never again.
Schools that prioritise wellbeing over academic instruction could ultimately be doing a disservice to students, an expert specialising in analysis of concerning behaviour in education says.
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@profsarahj
I don't get this at all. The transmissions are largely occurring in essential workplaces, schools and homes. Not in pubs selling takeaway drinks. Why aren't we indignant about not making workplaces and schools safer with good ventilation, CO2 monitors and vaccine access?
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How ridiculous is this image in 2024?
There's no sane person that would advocate putting a surgical mask on a baby.
@Starlight_star
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@ranjitrao1
Let's hope the next pandemic is not gastrointestinal as I'm not looking forward to hearing daily update on symptoms 🤢
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This is an extraordinary take from anyone commenting on COVID deaths. Boosting the elderly is the most useful strategy we have. Anyone who describes it as "pretty irrelevant" should not be listened to.
@discoball2000
Because I didn't? Low coverage in the elderly is pretty irrelevant, but the poor quality vaccine I explicitly mention and link to an article that talks about it in depth.
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@SParnis
Why is this though Stephen? We have had 18 months warning. Why did we not focus on funding and staffing our hospitals in that time? Have we squandered all the goodwill of people for nothing?
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We begged to be involved right from the beginning. As soon as the mistakes were being made, we asked again. GPs were actively shut out and excluded on a "privacy" basis. COVID positive families were desperate for us to help them but DHHS would not share any information with us.
Excluding GP’s from the official system of contact tracing and the testing regime “led to a less effective, less responsive and potentially more costly response to COVID-19” & “GP’s should be embedded into the system of management of contact tracing and testing”!
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@thatsferntastic
@peacewithme2
@Dom_Perrottet
Try an independent grocer or small business. Here was my local IGA. Plenty of meat in the fridge too
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@DALupton
@aussieavidread
@AlboMP
I have a Masters in Public Health, I've been vaccinating actual people for 25 years and played an integral part in Victoria's COVID testing, vaccination and positive pathways program and I'm thankfully not a member of OzSage.
Maybe, stay in your lane, sociologist.
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@NeelaJan
@Vic_Rollison
@catrollison
@PercyKaren
@KArandjelovic
You'll be blocked. I got blocked within minutes of saying I'm a doctor. In Melb. Actively managing COVID patients. So yes I know a bit about what's going on. They are awful trolls.
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Hey
@VicGovDH
my husband applied for an permit to do a anaesthetic locum in a border town. Never heard back. Surgical list cancelled. Response today. The surgery was AUGUST 1st. Letter says, the date has passed so he has to re-apply
@CraigUnderhill
@bordermail
Rural ppl forgotten
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@JaneyGodley
Hi Janey, I am a doctor working in Melbourne, haven't seen my husband and kids in months. When I am having a bad day, I just watch all your voice-overs. They make me laugh and have kept me sane throughout these months. Thank you. Don't let the f***ers get you down xxx
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@GeoffHanmer
@Beefman26
You're a seriously nasty unpleasant man.
Young people should be able to express their distress at the last two years without being mocked by the very generation they protected.
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@stef_from
@normanswan
Totally agree. When the story doesn't add up, re-check the story. Don't invent a wildly infectious new strain of the virus and send an entire state into Wuhan-style lockdown. AND don't vilify a teenager for being too frightened to tell the truth. Disgraceful
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@DrKate_Miller
@JoshuaPotash
I agree.
Total disregard for the animals that gave that milk and the supermarket workers who have to clean up the mess.
Losing a few supporters along the way
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@AstroAugusto
Germany mandated N95 masks everywhere for months. Had the same Omicron waves as countries with no mask mandates.
It's over. Masks didn't work on a population level. Anywhere.
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Even if I wanted to do this to a child, which I don't, this is ultimate in rich, white privilege. If this is how children should be raised, who is funding this for ALL children, all over the world? Or is it just children of wealthy doctors who deserve this?
Utter madness.
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@demant_daniel
@fee_bee_63
One unvaccinated person in ICU. Hope the vaccine hesitancy created by anti-vax doctors didn't contribute to their decision not to be vaccinated. Suddenly advising people to take the vaccine mid-outbreak is evidence of a lack of basic vaccine science.
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Hey
@RadioNational
@normanswan
This is the opposite of what you said this morning.
You said cases are younger and sicker and that BA5 is as infectious as measles.
Head of ICU at St Vincents Hospital in Sydney tells me there are just one or two COVID patients in her ICU at the moment, and not necessarily there for that reason. She says recent cases are less severe and expects ICUs won't be strained like in previous waves.
#covidnsw
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The classic privileged wealthy person zero COVID virtue signalling.
"Everything is delivered".
By whom? The magic fairies?
No, by those people who can't afford to live like that.
They were not prioritised fir vaccination and caught COVID in huge numbers in 2020 pre-vaccine.
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@drphiliplee1
We are always thrilled when we vaccinate someone for the first time. We did four first doses at a small pop up site. Staff were so pleased. Four potential lives saved. You are so welcome first dose people.
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@aussieavidread
@GregDore2
Melb has just banned families from going for a walk together. Two people only. My two teenage girls haven't had a term of school since 2019, all sport, music, drama, school production, camps this year plus year 11 formal cancelled. This has become cruel.
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@migga
Until everyone freaks out about the equally rare myocarditis risk with mRNA then we lockdown waiting for ??????
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@jackisaacwise
@joegarra61
The problem is anytime we try to talk about the adverse effects of lockdown, you can be accused of wanting a 'let it rip strategy". I think there is a middle ground and it probably is what NSW is doing.
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@Fiona_M_Russell
This is the harm that is created by anonymous healthcare workers reporting that large numbers of young people are seriously unwell and dying of COVID. Tweets such as these by someone who is not a doctor but claiming to have patients in her care overnight.
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This is embarrassing for Australia.
A Danish scientist makes a thoughtful, reasoned response to a very biased ABC article, one which promotes a particular product and he gets this abuse.
Not surprising is the immature response from the seller of said product.
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@Suzeme
@ScottMorrisonMP
Bring him to my clinic tomorrow. Walk in. No appointment needed. Plenty of vaccine. 98 Abbotsford St West Melbourne
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@DrKGregorevic
I've just seen what it did to all my kids.
Children of doctors and in a very privileged position.
The damage to vulnerable kids will be huge and irreparable in many cases.
It's heartbreaking and was clearly predictable at the time.
Forgivable early in 2020 but not 2021
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