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Alan Baxter ♛ Profile picture
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Sep 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
A story about Kennett's Melbourne. In 1993, I was working at Cambridge Uni, but my father was sick, so I flew back into Tullamarine Airport, catching the airbus to the top end of Elizabeth St, where I waited for a tram to take me & my baggage down to Flinders Street Station. /2
I waited for over 30 minutes and a single tram passed me. I looked around for a time table, but there wasn't one at the tram stop. And them I had a moment on panic: Had I arrived on a Sunday morning? Not only no trams, but virtually no cars either. /3
I pulled out my itinerary and checked the arrival date. I standing in the middle of the CBD on a Monday morning at a little after 9am, and the city was as dead as if hit by a pandemic. That was what Kennett did to Melbourne.
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I have been made aware of a major risk factor some people have that makes COVID a more serious risk for them than for others. As far as I know, there has not been a systematic study to quantify this risk, nor been any public health attempt to warn this group. /2
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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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