🧵 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 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
🧵 transcribed excerpts from excellent interview on Long Covid with @domknight & @Mon4Kooyong (ABC Sydney) yesterday
Makes a significant difference to interview quality when a journalist is well informed about Covid/long Covid & not running a minimising, disinformation line 🙏
Defining long Covid
“The best way to prevent Long Covid is to prevent Covid”
🧵 2 weeks ago, Independent MP Dr Monique Ryan called on govt to urgently review dropping of masks in healthcare in a powerful statement to parliament
This is what she said:
“The Australian Charter of Healthcare gives all Australians the right to safe, high quality healthcare
Our Nat Cab promised to protect the vulnerable from the COVID-19 pandemic. This promise has not been kept
Yesterday Sue Jennings, a constituent from Kooyong & co-founder with Amy Lewis of Cleaner Air Aus, contacted me to express her concern about removal of masks from healthcare
There are no longer any legal requirements for healthcare workers to wear protective masks. All pandemic orders have now expired
Chronically ill, disabled and elderly Australians can avoid restaurants, shops and travel to protect themselves from Covid, but
🧵 8 reasons why WHO disagrees with CMO Kelly’s ludicrous maths (in its own words)
Kelly claims Aus has achieved 99.6% hybrid immunity (stack of posts already disproving this in a myriad of ways)
WHO’s published advice on immunity shows this is incorrect in 8 different ways
1. too many individual factors
“immune protection may differ by vaccine, time since vaccination/infection, variants & host-specific factors eg age & comorbidities”
Hybrid immunity can’t be a population level concept because we are all different & impacted by different factors
2. antibodies levels vary
“amount of antibodies produced in individual due to infection/vaccination & waning over time, determined by multiple factors eg age, variant, severity of infection & vaccine product(s) etc”
Can’t keep track of all this to point of certainty of immunity
CMO Kelly said “Australia had reached a significant milestone: almost every citizen is now immune. Hybrid immunity, which refers to combination, at a POPULATION level, of antibodies from EITHER past infection OR vaccination against Covid-19, has now reached 99.6%”
🧵 Did I just find a huge flaw in both the recent TSP article and CMO Kelly/dept of Health’s “facts”? 😳
Let’s pretend to be journalists (b/c they’re not doing their job anymore) & look at hybrid immunity
(Put aside for a second the value or lack thereof in hybrid immunity)
WHO definition of hybrid immunity:
“Hybrid immunity is defined as the immune protection in INDIVIDUALS who have had one or more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine AND experienced at least one SARS-CoV-2 infection before or after vaccination”
Note: “AND” & “INDIVIDUALS”
Amy Coopes’ definition of hybrid immunity in TSP article
“Hybrid immunity, which refers to the combination, at a POPULATION level, of antibodies from either past infection OR vaccination against Covid-19”