Lyndal Parker-Newlyn
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Associate Professor: Medical Education, University of Wollongong. Educator, researcher, rural GP (retired) happiness is sewing, baking & dogs ❤️ #COVIDisNotOver
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Hi, I’m Lyndal. I live on the South Coast of NSW and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue to do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
#COVIDisAirborne
#WearAMask
Hi. I’m Barry. I live in Canada and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue to do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
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We have not gone back to the “old normal”. The pandemic is not over. We are now in the transition to a “new normal” where COVID is everywhere (even if we ignore it) and the health system is under strain even when “at rest” and at high risk during outbreaks.
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One of my friends has a suspicion that certain words are being downplayed by the algorithm here so I’m replicating their experiment as well to gather more data. Basically if we use the word Covid, do we get sidelined ?
Please reply and let me know if you saw this post ❤️ thanks
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Three conversations this week.
Friend 1 came back from Europe, caught Covid on the way home.
Friend 2’s elderly mum had a fall, was in hospital for a few days and caught Covid.
Friend 3,had Covid a month ago, still sick and breathless.
Why are we considering this normal? ☹️
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Meanwhile in Australia ….
Between huge stadium concerts & World Pride, the past few weeks have apparently seen the largest crowds since Sydney 2000 Olympics.
A quick key word search of Twitter this morning 🫤 Are we at all surprised the next wave is starting?
#CovidIsNotOver
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Seeing a specialist immunologist in Sydney today. By definition many of us here will be immunosuppressed or immunocompromised. Yet I’m the only one in the waiting room wearing a mask. Sigh. 😷
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My son works in medical administration. In February working in GP he caught COVID. When he told his boss, he was instructed to get back to work straight away and just wear a mask. 😞 (FYI he didn’t follow boss’ instructions and instead isolated at home until no longer infectious)
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One of my friends has a suspicion that certain words are being downplayed by the algorithm here so I’m replicating their experiment as well to gather more data. Basically if we swap the word eg kov!d, do we still get sidelined
? Please reply and let me know if you saw this ❤️
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My husband and I just got home from a lovely ten day holiday. The only time I had been “away” in the last 3.5 yrs was hospital 😞so we packed the car, masked up, and drove a 3,300 km loop to Adelaide and back, lots of sightseeing, outdoor dining, food and wine, staying safe 😷
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Yesterday in our coastal town (busy and full of long weekend visitors) we saw literally hundreds of people but only 1 other masked. When I expressed concern in my Covid cautious FB group I got LOTS of pushback saying I was fear mongering and to move on. What have we become? 😬😢
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Waiting outside for my turn for a blood test at the pathology collection centre. I’m watching everyone come in and out of the crowded waiting room, all dutifully using the supplied hand santisier at the door, all without masks on. 🙄😷
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDisAirborne
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I’m currently in the waiting room for an imaging procedure, wearing a P2/N95 mask. There’s 8 other patients in the waiting room, 4 staff on reception, radiographers and radiologists coming in and out calling people….
And I’m the only one in any kind of mask. 😞
#CovidIsNotOver
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A grim milestone :
We have today surpassed 20,000 Australians officially reported dead from COVID since the pandemic began. The real number is much higher. 😢 Some estimates also suggest 500,000 + people are still unwell or with long term disability since their last infection /1
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That’s what we’re seeing with Covid. Big tsunami like waves that everyone talks about, and the background rising sea level of deaths, cases and hospital admissions that we prefer to ignore until it’s too great and society & services start being impacted. 🤨
/end
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Flu shot done ✅ Went to the pharmacy - staff all unmasked, but when the pharmacist saw my mask said “would you prefer I wore a mask?” I said “yes please, thank you for asking” and he popped one on with a smile and proceeded to vaccinate us. Very happy with the interaction. 😷
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This lies squarely on Govt + media. When half a million people have been lulled into the false sense of security required to blithely attend unmasked super spreader events, vulnerable people can’t be expected to be “personally responsible” for the consequences.
#CovidIsNotOver
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Just having refreshments in an outdoor cafe after a medical specialist appointment in Sydney. Immunosuppressed me in my N95 mask, immunologist in a surgical mask, reception staff in the specialist rooms unmasked. Sigh.
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@AndrewMeffan
I explained to someone the other day - Facebook is where you share photos with your auntie and your friends from high school. Twitter is where you listen to discussions by experts.
I’m a GP/ university academic and the best conversations about medicine and education happen here
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It’s a bit like the impact of climate change on sea levels. Yes, we know it causes sudden bad storms, tsunamis, weather events etc. that make the news but in the background there is a gradual constant rise in sea levels which is also highly dangerous as the baseline is reset. /2
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When it’s 35 degrees C outside and your electric sewing machines are set up out in the sunroom - time to stay inside where it’s cooler and put the old girl to work instead 😍😍😍 she turned 123 last month ❤️
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RIP Professor McLaws.
Thank you for all your wisdom and service. ❤️
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Just as an update now that we are four weeks since this post, that we managed to keep COVID contained in the household and my son is now feeling much better, and my husband and I remain COVID free. ❤️
Home mitigation plans in place with Covid now in our immediate family. Fans on, air filters running at full tilt, windows open. Close contact loved one masked in shared spaces. Lots of cleaning. So far so good. ❤️
#COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
@CO2RadicalAus
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We expect clean water to our homes, garbage disposal, effective sewerage clearance, we wear seatbelts and wash our hands. Why do we as a society demand those public health measures and completely reject these ones? 🙄
Wise words from
@stephenjduckett
shared by
@AlanBixter
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@DGlaucomflecken
Had a long conversation with an academic at the University of Colorado once about medical students who were unsuccessful on rotations and how we would have to FAIL them. He was very confused by my Australian accent and was trying to figure out why we were trying to FILE them 🤣
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@lisa_iannattone
It’s aggression, no doubt, but I’m not sure there’s anything micro about such blatant disregard for someone else’s life 🤔
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I am VERY pleased to see the hashtag
#CovidIsNotOver
is trending on twitter.
At least people are talking about it somewhere!🤷♀️
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@YouAreLobbyLud
I spent 9 days in hospital over New year and felt like leaving hospital COVID free was a bit of an accomplishment. I was “fortunate” enough to be sick enough to be in a single room in ICU which was probably the safest place to be. But it’s just everywhere now.
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Blood test today. Pathology waiting room packed, only 1/2 patients in masks, despite being requested. Not sure if lab policy changed or if staff are sick of abuse so not enforcing 🙄
Either way, spent my 20 minutes wait outside in fresh air ☀️☀️
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDIsAirborne
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Home mitigation plans in place with Covid now in our immediate family. Fans on, air filters running at full tilt, windows open. Close contact loved one masked in shared spaces. Lots of cleaning. So far so good. ❤️
#COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
@CO2RadicalAus
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I’m being a patient and seeing the ophthalmologist today.
17 other people in the waiting room and I’m the youngest by 20+ years.
I’m also the only one in a mask. 😷
Sigh.
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My son’s lovely fiancée tested + to COVID last night. 😞 poor thing is now sick in bed at home at her parents. Son is so far testing negative and home with us. Our home mitigation plan is in place. 😷 A few days of watchful waiting ahead - wish us all luck 🤞
#CovidIsNotOver
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I have edited out names of individuals tweeters as this is not about vilifying them - we all make our own risk decisions… more that it should never have gotten to this “it’s all about personal responsibility” nonsense.
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@DGBassani
What was fascinating was seeing regulars that I know, and seeing the same person wearing an N95 when everyone else was and yet at the other meeting completely unmasked when only a handful of people were wearing them. Humans are silly.
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@KashPrime
Good for you. And sadly, the other people in the room where completely unaware that your steps were keeping them safer as well.
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Just to clarify for the Twitterverse who seem confused.
Modelling safe infection control behaviours is not virtue signalling. It's public health promotion.
Thank you.
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That moment when someone tries to insult you for your views on COVID prevention, but their phone autocorrects their tweet 😂😂😂
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Excellent article from Prof Raina McIntyre and the team at the Kirby Institute about the paediatric respiratory infection outbreak in China
Thanks
@Globalbiosec
as always for your wisdom and expertise.
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Sorry to tweet without news, but I’ve received some calls today from worried applicants asking about MD offers. I absolutely understand how stressful it is, and we will release them as soon as we possibly can. I will notify you, as usual, as soon as UOW offers are ready to go. ❤️
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There’s a significant increase in influenza in NSW as well as the usual colds (eg rhinovirus). But also increased COVID and the current variants aren’t testing + on RATs in early days of symptoms (if at all). Best assume you have COVID and get a PCR if you can. 🦠
#CovidIsNotOver
Just about everyone I know who went to the last weekend of WorldPride is currently dealing with something like a cold that doesn't test as covid 🤒
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@1goodtern
COVID can cause serious longterm illness & death - anyone can be affected. The best way to avoid Covid complications is to avoid catching Covid.
Please get vaccinated & boosted. Wear a respirator mask around other people. Open the windows. Stay home if sick.
Covid is NOT over.
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I have been a bit quiet on social media this week, unfortunately I became unwell overnight on the 30th and have been in Shoalhaven Hospital since New Year’s Eve. (Not COVID!) I am very grateful to be going home today after 9 days in hospital (7 of those in intensive care). /1
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Mark Butler has announced all adults >18 who have not had a booster or a confirmed case of Covid-19 in the past six months will be eligible for a 5th vaccine dose from 20 February, after the government accepted the advice of the ATAGI
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Over the past few weeks, despite almost complete silence from media and politicians, COVID case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths are starting to climb again across Australia. New variants are rising. Yet, everywhere I go, I see very few people taking precautions. /2
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This random thread in Aus Reddit. Everyone is in the comments discussing alternative chocolate brands and the price of cocoa and here’s me thinking “covid anyone ?” 🙄🤷♀️
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Masks all round at home this week as my husband developed respiratory tract symptoms so we spent a day on high precautions awaiting PCR results.
It came back Covid negative fortunately.
He still feels terrible but at least it’s a regular old rhinovirus. 🤧😷🦠
#CovidIsNotOver
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A lovely work friend has now caught COVID for the first time - she had managed to avoid it until now. So my list of friends that have never had Covid is getting shorter and shorter 😢 Sigh.
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@DGlaucomflecken
Putting your head over the ball = taking a risk, playing hard.
So… “Blokes having a crack wouldn’t put their head over a bowl of soup” means that people criticizing the players (having a crack) wouldn’t put their head over soup, let alone ball. AKA random critics know nothing
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UOW MD application processing and campus allocation is now complete and place offers for UOW medicine 2024 will be released later today. Emails will be sent via GEMSAS system, please read carefully and respond quickly. Good luck everyone. 🤞
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Had a GP visit today.
The waiting room was exactly as peopley as I like it. 🤣🤣🤣
#CovidIsNotOver
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In Sydney tonight - it seems that everyone went to see the lights at Vivid, leaving the restaurants all empty for us ! So rather than getting takeaway as planned, we went out for a lovely dinner, for the first time since early 2020 😍😍
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDisAirborne
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Everyone’s improving slowly, none of us had Covid before now.
At our home it’s now Saturday AM and husband & I are continuing to watch for symptoms but remain well and hoping we may have dodged the bullet with our careful isolation. Wish us luck ! 🤞
#CovidIsNotOver
/end
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The best part about chilly autumn mornings is no one else wants to sit in the outdoor dining area 🤣🤣😷 Cheers, dears!
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDisAirborne
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Today in Lyndal’s bakery - a pat of fresh butter, a loaf of banana bread with toasted almonds, two loaves of white garlic and herb bread, and a big batch of vegemite dog biscuits. Orange and poppy seed mini syrup Bundt cakes in progress … then I guess I’d better cook dinner!! 🤣
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Having a procedure in hospital shortly. Relieved to get this SMS - it seems some facilities still have at least the basic COVID precautions in place. But seeking medical care shouldn’t be risky. I’d like to remain a NOVID unicorn as long as possible, thanks 😉
#CovidIsNotOver
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My family has a “cold” (we know from PCR that it’s rhinovirus not Covid) and we all are feeling rubbish. This is only the second cold we’ve had since 2019 due to our Covid precautions 😷. I’ve almost forgotten how miserable they are. Relieved to remain a NOVID unicorn though!
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PS By the way, fiancées dad is also still remaining -ve, holding the fort and caring for all the patients at their house - legend 😍 he’s a chef so they’re eating well at least 🤣 I’m immunosuppressed so I’m very grateful for everyone especially trying to keep me safe. ❤️
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Are you eating vegemite toast ? I like vegemite toast. I will just stand here and quietly mind meld, staring at you, drooling on your feet until you share 🤣🤣🤣
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@pxnzischemes
I tend to hang out with the "homesteaders" rather than the "preppers" - less guns, more sensible day to day survival strategies.
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@YouAreLobbyLud
No idea how it happens. It’s as if you were doing something different to protect yourself ? 🤷♀️🤣
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In my house even the dogs understand the importance of clean air 🤣🤣🤣
#CovidIsAirborne
(She was asleep like this before I laughed and woke her up lol)
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Right now, an Australian is dying of COVID every 25 minutes.
500+ died last week.
1500+ died this year.
More people died of COVID in the first 27 days of January than died of COVID in the whole of 2021. More than died on the roads for the whole of 2022.
Many more are sick.
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As you may be aware I was unwell recently with complications from my chronic illness and spent a week in ICU. Here’s some COVID related things I noticed:
🧵
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDIsAirborne
#WearAMask
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But please remember that we all work hard to ensure everything in this complex process is correct and multiple applicants calling multiple schools to check potentially just slows things down. The guide says late Oct/early Nov - we are not that far away folks, hang in there. ❤️
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Busy times at our local fish shop at 7am this morning. 🐟 🦞
In other news, it’s a VERY good idea to be wearing a mask in crowded areas and indoors.
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I'm often the only one masked, and being medically vulnerable my mask wearing habits won't be changing in a hurry. If you are also in a mask - I see you. I support you. ❤️
I stand with the sole mask wearer at school, on the train or in the office, of those concerned about COVID's ongoing enormous death & morbidity toll, & of those looking for sustainable solutions through boosting, clean air & testing. Ignore the ridicule. Stay strong. You'll win.
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He now works for NSW Health and started developing URTI symptoms yesterday (husband and I both currently have rhinovirus). He was sent home immediately to RAT test and test again Sunday and told not to return to work if he has any URTI symptoms left OR if RAT +ve. Much better. 👍
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Hope you’re all having a relaxing afternoon doing whatever brings you joy. For me it is tea, pastries, sewing and a trip to Bunnings 🤣
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Spent Saturday afternoon cooking - my happy place is my kitchen and my sewing room, if I’m not working I’m usually in one or the other 🤣 We had lasagne and salad for dinner, with garlic bread made with fresh butter & home baked baguettes. Anyone like a slice of cake ? 😍😍😍
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@dontwantadothis
In 2019-2020 catastrophic bushfires in Australia, people were widely using filters and N95 masks due to smoke and ash, just a month before COVID hit. How quickly they changed their tune😕
(Photos from our neighbourhood at 3pm on NYE 2020, just before we were evacuated)
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Our son’s lovely fiancée started feeling unwell Saturday PM and tested rapid antigen (RAT) +ve for Covid Sunday PM. Our son was at home with us but isolating + hygiene measures from Monday AM. He tested RAT and PCR -ve on Monday. But, he started getting symptoms Tuesday. 1/3
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Apple, strawberry and rhubarbb strudel fresh out of the oven. Well, yum 😍😍😍😍😍
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This week is my fourth week since discharge from ICU. Time to start getting *gently* moving again. Hooray for lovely public pools, beautiful summer weather and school holidays being over 🤣🤣
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And do they really think anyone reads past the headlines of image 1 to get to the message on image 2? 🙄
This announcement makes it one more bit harder for those of us trying to avoid COVID. 😷
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Please get a COVID booster (and a flu vax) if you’re eligible, wear a mask when you’re around others, wash your hands, avoid crowded places, and open doors and windows abd ventilate spaces as much as you can. We could be in for a rough winter. /end 🧵
#RIP
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Todays brooch of the day is a beautiful delicate Australian zebra finch from Eliza Rose ❤️ Eliza really does make the prettiest birdies!
#BroochOfTheDay
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There’s nothing much happier in this world than a dog who has successfully hunted down and captured a wild newspaper 🤣🤣🤣
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@ObservingAngel
Our son had Covid four weeks ago. Due to taking these kind of protection steps, we did not catch it. It’s not impossible. Wishing you all the best. ❤️😷
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The joy of working from home. Whipped up a cake while my computer was busy running mailnerge macro code today 😋
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Hooray for a long weekend.
If you need me, I’ll be sewing 😉
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Appointment with the cardiologist yesterday. Staff all masked 👍 but of the 10 people in the waiting room only 3 of us masked, and only me in a P2. And I was the youngest patient in the waiting room by at least 20 years. 😷
Sigh.
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Mary (my old treadle) and I have finished piecing a quilt top this weekend - just need to put the borders on 🤩 This is a gift for a friend of mine and is her favourite colours. I’ll be hand quilting it with purple perle cotton. 💜💜💜
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ADMISSIONS UPDATE: Invitations to interview for UOW Medicine 2025 will be released tomorrow morning. Emails will be sent via GEMSAS system, please read carefully and respond by 2 Sep. Interviews held live on zoom from 23-27 Sept. Thanks to all 2,260 applicants and good luck 🤞
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Had a lovely catch up lunch with a work friend last week. Beautiful sunny day. The cafe’s indoor dining was packed with everyone inside in the air conditioning. We enjoyed the outdoor space and fresh air on the deck all to ourselves 🤣☀️😷
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDisAirborne
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@DrMLivingston
@RealAnitaWhite
Oh goodness. I’m so sorry to hear that. My most recent immunosuppressant infusion was two weeks ago and the staff were all masked as usual, and they give it to me in a private space whenever they can. I’m sorry she’s not getting the same protection, that must be such a worry 😢
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@NjbBari3
That happened to me once and it sounded like a person - I went out the back door to look and there was a huge wedge tailed eagle walking up my roof with a rabbit it had caught in its claws, basically getting to the peak of the roof to get height for a good take off 😱
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An experiment based on one
@1goodtern
did yesterday. Two tweets, posted at the same time. Worded almost identically except for one important word. Neither pinned or boosted in anyway. They had the same reach for an hour but now at 8 hours VERY different. Algorithm or luck? 🤔
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Made these last weekend. Forgot to show you. What will this weekend bring? 🤣
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COVID booster time for me today. The brooch choice was easy 😀 Please have your boosters if you’re eligible, folks. ❤️😷💉
#broochoftheday
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Just back from the fruit shop and everything is cut up and in the fridge YUM 😋 Mask count on other people at the shops = ZERO. 😷 Took the big bowl of leftover fruit scraps to my hens and we bartered for eggs. I think I did well out of this deal.
Thanks, girls 🤣🐓
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Todays brooch of the day is a jar of marmalade from Erstwilder 🥪 Because every day is a good day for marmalade, am I right? 🤩
#nroochoftheday
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That’s all my observations for now, but may add others later. I’m glad to be home now recovering, and glad to have navigated the system again avoiding COVID 👍 I’ve also restricted replies to this thread to limit trolls. 🙄🤷♀️
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@Globalbiosec
Extra protein 🤣 a little moth heated at 180 for 20 minutes won’t hurt anyone 👍👍
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Thinking of all my current and past Defence force friends and colleagues on ANZAC day. Thank you for your service. ❤️
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
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Blood test this morning ( 2-3 x weekly for me at the moment). Today there are zero masks on the waiting room crowd and all the mask signs are gone. Sigh. Guess I’ll be waiting my turn out in the carpark. 😷
Of course the hand sanitizer bottle is still there 🙄
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