🧵 transcribed excerpts from exceptional democracy sausage podcast with @markgkenny interviewing @CrabbBrendan & the “adroit analyst of politics and policy” herself @c_s_wallace
This podcast should be obligatory listening for @AlboMP@Mark_Butler_MP & all the Premiers & CHOs
PH abandoned
“Current public health policy is a steaming wreck”
“This is not the last pandemic”
More listening please
The good old days when vaccines weren’t politicised
CMO Paul Kelly’s fringe views
Wrong advice can kill
Let’s talk frankly
Breathe #CleanAir & if there’s no Clean Air, put on a mask
The seductive fallacy dangled before the traumatised
How to make friends with infections, a Christmas story
Morrison’s hybrid immunity = “really immune” 🙄
Morrison & Kelly’s hybrid immunity idea is just not working and the failure is lethal
Nat Cab is a blood pact
Less talk, more infections
Holding out for a leader
Just put @c_s_wallace in charge of political pivoting strategy already
Suits
Health Minister Ryan has a nice ring about it
Who’s doing/saying less - nothing-burger Butler or SFA journos?
Straight talking about failure of govt from @markgkenny
Saving lives by codesign with the gay community - a successful blueprint they are studiously ignoring 🤦♀️
Hollowed out & fearful - the tragic state of the public sector
“This Labor govt has fully signed up for the libertarian, let it rip, Dom Perrottet recommended course of action”
🔥 from @c_s_wallace
Call to action 🚨 we need to wake the govt sleepwalkers
“More unnecessary deaths under Mark Butler’s watch as Health Minister than since WWII”
@Mark_Butler_MP you are a lethal failure with blood on your hands
Covid specific lust for freedom 🤨
We need less Mark and more frank
Covid driven ⬆️ in cardiovascular & dementia deaths
“You can’t protect those around you if you don’t know you’re positive” @CrabbBrendan on the importance of testing
Thanks to @markgkenny, @c_s_wallace and @CrabbBrendan for an insightful and frank interview - this is what straight talk sounds like and it shouldn’t be exceptional 👏
Highly recommend listening to the full podcast ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
“Aus & world not yet ‘cvd-stable’, unable to predict timing/impact of new waves/variants. Uncertainty presents particular challenges
Availability of efficacious vaccines will play key role in ensuring ongoing protection 4 lives/livelihoods”
“Report outlines recs re future vaccine availability, dev’t pipeline & priorities 4 procurement. This will ensure Australians can access effective vaccines to protect against infection & prevent severe disease/death at time of continued widespread cvd infection & new variants”
“These observations and conclusions should inform current negotiations 4 immediate & future purchases of vaccines
It is not possible to accurately predict further evolution of the virus & Aust is likely to continue to be challenged by emerging variants & new waves of disease”
a story about data & death, integrity & carelessness
a story with an epidemiological modelling expert who tries to warn everyone but is ignored
& an actuarial hero who saves the day
The story starts with an organisation called the Aust Science Media Centre, which provides journalists with science news, complete with its own expert quotes
AMSC put out a release yesterday with news of a sig pandemic milestone: there were no Covid deaths in Aus in past week.
They excitedly got experts to provide quotes 4 this exciting release
One of their experts is Dr James Wood, a prof in epidemiological modelling of infectious disease at UNSW & member of ATAGI. He was the only expert quoted to challenge the ASMC’s erroneous proposition …
Imagine the suffering of a 13 yo, 8 yo, 4 yo 😳 with LC
Imagine added suffering caused by society/health sys that refuses to accept their inconvenient existence
Quotes from study on LC kids & parents’ experiences, QR code link on tiles
A child who is suffering something that doesn’t neatly fit in existing boxes isn’t “difficult”
their condition is difficult and doctors need to rise to the challenge of addressing it
stop blaming the patient
The lack of recognition and understanding of the experiences of children with LC stems ultimately from the failure of health and govt leaders to acknowledge, inform & educate the public