Thread by @DrWilliams

1/ My heart is broken. Tonight I found out my friends cancer has returned. Could have caught it earlier, except they cancelled his biopsy, because of COVID. This is what living wt COVID looks like. This is what living in a 1st world country looks like, where govt fails to ensure

2/ adequate vaccine supply, fails to educate its people about the importance of vaccines, a govt that utterly fails at gaining the respect of its people by treating them respectfully & honestly.

3/ a government that sees no value in the truth. No value in accurate & frank answers. No value in acknowledging what they know & don’t know. This is what the loss of a friend, a son, a brother looks like

4/ a young medical student - a man always willing to fight for the rights of women, children, disabled & other vulnerable members of our community. I am absolutely sick to think this will shorten his life. This is someone I know who would have cared for

5/every single one of us, including those who would dismiss him as someone with an ‘underlying condition’ if needed.
We need to stop thinking a choice not to vaccinate is personal. It is not. This is your community. And we won’t get through this if we don’t begin to act like one

6/I started a group for drs treating women & children experiencing abuse. It was him, a young man who contacted me, asking to create a website, it was him who helped us become an NGO, it was him who’s been tirelessly fighting to help us become a charity. All because he wanted to.

7/ we need more men like this in the world. There are no words to describe my grief hearing that his doctor told him “cancer patients won’t be getting surgery” just yesterday. It’s 2021. I cannot believe it. @NSWHealth @COVID_Australia @Covid19NSW

Thank you…everyone for your warmth, kindness & compassion. I feel we are the proverbial frogs…the water slowly starting to boil around us. We’re getting used to not caring about each other, about what we do to our earth..& to each other. I am happy to see humanity exists here🙏