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Dec 10

🧵 we are living in an Orwell novel come to life but maybe it’s not 1984

These are Orwellian times, usually 1984 comes to mind with its doublethink & reframing of reality but this photo always gives me Animal Farm vibes

Let me explain

I’ll begin at the end

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Now replace pig with Labor and man with Lib

“The Australians outside looked from Labor to Lib, and from Lib to Labor, and from Labor to Lib again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

🤔 from Dom to Dan & Dan to Dom …

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Sue J

@SMpwrgr

Dec 9

@AlboMP

🧵 translating @AlboMP & Nat Cab’s

Strategic Framework for Transitioning COVID-19 Measures

It’s spinning so hard I’m getting dizzy 😵‍💫 just trying to read it

federation.gov.au/national-cabin…

“Proportionate” measures 😵‍💫

proportionate to what? Umm 🤔
To data we don’t collect?
Tests we don’t do?
Deaths we don’t acknowledge?
How much we smash hospitals/ HCWs?
% of workers chronically disabled by Long Covid?
Or our need to keep workers working? 🤔 ah, there it is ✅

“Promoting & creating an environment that mitigates pandemic fatigue”😵‍💫

Our creative tools 🧰 Minimisation, gaslighting, misinformation, absence of public health info, “Covid is over/mild/just like the flu/necessary” etc

Plus NO protections pls, remember you’re fatigued 🥱

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Sue J

@SMpwrgr

Dec 8

🧵 #IShareYourAir the medical edition

Two medical appointments to measure co2 & rebreathed air this week - in the middle of a surge 😬 one good result, one bad

Firstly, specialist appointment in office in St Vincent’s intensive care department.

Before we get to co2 reading, noting that on entry visitors to hospital are offering both trident n95/p2 masks & surgicals - last visit it was only surgicals

My uni age daughter on her own as we judged it too risky for me to accompany her this week. She’s asked to remove her n95 & replace it and asks the receptionist if she can layer it instead. Receptionist confused, insists she wants her to exchange.

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Sue J

@SMpwrgr

Dec 7

@NjbBari3

🧵FIP/Long Covid

Back in 2020 the wise & prescient @NjbBari3 posted about worrying similarities between Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) & Covid, I googled it, found the idea terrifying & never forgot it

What if Long Covid is the human version of FIP?
vet.cornell.edu/departments-ce…

FIP is a viral disease of cats caused by certain strains of a virus called the feline coronavirus (FeCV). Cats infected usually don’t show symptoms during the initial viral infection, but may occasionally experience brief bouts of diarrhea and/or mild upper respiratory symptoms

In approximately 10 percent of cats infected with FeCV, one or more mutations of the virus can alter its biological behavior, resulting in white blood cells becoming infected with virus and spreading it throughout the cat’s body. When this occurs, the virus is FIP.

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Sue J

@SMpwrgr

Dec 7

@DanielAndrewsMP

🧵 Are Vics aware they did a deal with @DanielAndrewsMP - vaccines for let it rip? 😳

“We had a fundamental agreement with people of our state & nation & that was if people went and got vaccinated …

THEN WE WOULD NOT NEED TO HAVE RULES ANYMORE”

“That’s a fundamental deal”

https://twitter.com/SofiaAnnieW/status/1600458228617596928

“At the end of the day, that was the deal that we did, that was the agreement that we had”

“And you also gotta .. you can’t have this discussion without at least some regard for what % of the community would follow rules today if they hadn’t come off or if they were reimposed”

@SofiaAnnieW

“.. you have to … this is not an academic exercise, people have thresholds, people have limits. There is now and previously a great hunger to get back to something like normal”

This answer raises more questions, but unfortunately they’d cut off @SofiaAnnieW by this point

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Sue J

@SMpwrgr

Dec 1

@AlboMP

🧵 open letter to @AlboMP and @DanielAndrewsMP

Cc: @Mon4Kooyong @michrajah @VictorianCHO

Dear Anthony & Dan

I am angry. Incandescent with rage.

I will try to remain civil and calm so I can explain why, but I feel shaky with fury right now

Why?

I am friends with some of the most precautious, at risk people in Australia

They don’t have luxury of pretending the pandemic is over as it’s an existential threat to them & their families

They’ve sacrificed much over the last nearly 3 years to protect their health & families

By learning everything they can about Covid transmission

By investing hard earned $ (none are rich) into every protection they can access - from hepa air filters to n95/p2 masks to co2 monitors to nasal sprays & CPC mouthwash

By giving up on things they love to do b/c unsafe

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