Daryl Maguire’s tractor's Threads

Mar 15 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

Some handy context re the Queensland CHO’s new study, which claims among other things that giving Long Covid a title spreads fear.

Prof Steven Faux, from St Vincent’s Long Covid clinic:

“Well, I don't think that's the case.”

Faux: “Most of the people who come to our Long Covid clinic come because they want to get better and they're not coming because they want to stay sick or focus on their symptoms.

“There's a small percentage of people …

Sep 14, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

Can I just say how utterly refreshing it is to hear somebody talk honestly about the pandemic, and the fact that ignoring it won’t make it go away?

@Mon4Kooyong talking so much sense on #afternoonbriefing today.

Some highlights: Importance of financial support for people infected. “The last thing we want to do is to force people back into the workplace when they are still actively infected with Covid-19. That is not in anyone's best interests.”

Jun 22, 2022 • 22 tweets • 13 min read

Polarising paediatrician Fiona Russell is addressing the Communicable Diseases and Immunisation Conference in Sydney today.

If you didn’t manage to grab a $1045 ticket, don’t despair.

Here are some shining examples of her thought leadership:

#CDIC2022 @_PHAA_ When she forgot kids under 5 exist and proposed an interesting exercise in ethics

#CDIC2022 @_PHAA_

Jun 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Still waiting for someone to explain why Tommy from #masterchefau isn’t my best friend and next-door neighbour. Oh my god I cursed him

May 25, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

This is a perfect example of a visionless, unambitious, “sucks to be you” approach to dealing with a pandemic.

Here’s why we cannot ignore this kind of rhetoric. 🧵

Big problems require big thinkers. People who want to make things better.

44 deaths a day, overflowing hospitals and workplaces and schools hamstrung by absence and uncertainty isn’t business as usual, or ‘getting on with life’.

Feb 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Last night I tweeted a bunch of increasingly-ridiculous David Brent quotes instead of live-tweeting the PM’s 60 Minutes interview and barely anybody could tell them apart.

That’s impressive, @ScottMorrisonMP. For the record, the Prime Minister of Australia didn’t dismiss Dolly Parton as “just a big pair of tits”.

https://twitter.com/daryltractor/status/1492796634408755203?s=21

Feb 13, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

I know many are steering clear of Scott’s puff piece on #60Mins.

I’ll live tweet a couple of his best quotes. On increasingly unflattering opinion polls:

“Statistics are like a lamp post to a drunken man - more for leaning on than illumination.”

Sep 23, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read

Strap yourself in. Tractor has some questions for @BradHazzard and @NSWHealth.

So, NSW has suddenly stopped reporting how many Covid patients are being treated via Hospital in the Home. The last reported figure (to Sep 14) was nearly 3912 people - nearly four times the number of people being treated for Covid as hospital inpatients.

Now, that info has vanished from the report. The new report has some important fine print.

Sep 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

Someone needs to start a thread of the best earthquake tweets. My favs:

https://twitter.com/_kvlt_/status/1440465033209671684

https://twitter.com/jonburton89/status/1440464765990555656?s=21

Sep 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

The Vic journos interrogating the police commissioner about why particular tactics were and weren’t used yesterday.

Now Richie is asking the Premier if “there’s any chance you will change your view on mandatory vaccines in construction” in light of the protests. The exact journos who have undermined the public health response and done their best to create division in Victoria are now screaming at the Premier about what eventuated yesterday.

Sep 21, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read

“I think it’s time to inject a little more optimism into discussions around Covid-19,” @nick_coatsworth has told the Senate Select Committee into our Covid response.

The hearing is being chaired by @SenKatyG, whose own daughter has been sick with Covid. Coatsworth has been asked to explain what happens when a patient needs to be ventilated.

“They’re heading to ICU where they get one-to-one nursing,” he says, no doubt aware that those ratios are about to be watered down because hospitals in NSW and Vic are so overwhelmed.

Sep 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Scotty is in full spin mode. Reckons we told France months ago we had issues with the submarine deal.

“I made it very clear a conventional submarine would no longer be meeting our strategic interests and what we needed those boats to do. That was communicated many months ago. “To suggest that somehow, this decision … could have been taken without causing this disappointment, I think would be very naive.”

Sep 20, 2021 • 27 tweets • 6 min read

An interesting thing happened last week.

Here’s a brief 🧵: While the media was fixated on freedoms and roadmaps, Australian ICU experts made an eye-opening call to the government:

Indemnify healthcare workers who’ll be forced to deny people admission to overflowing ICU wards.

Sep 20, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

935 new cases in NSW.

Four more people have died.

“While four is a great number I do think it will go up,” Casey Briggs observes.

“Great.” Cowra is going into lockdown. I think Kerry Chsnt said a 9-year-old went to school and various other places while infected but she wasn’t clear. Source of acquisition unknown.

Sep 19, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read

1083 new cases in NSW.
13 more people have died. 1,238 cases in hospital
234 people in intensive care
123 require ventilation.

Restrictions to ease …

Sep 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

1331 new cases in NSW
Six more people have died
1219 in hospital
233 in ICU
123 on ventilators

No presser today but here’s an alarming account of where things are at via @SatPaper

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…

Aug 9, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

Dr Richard Totaro, co-director of Intensive Care at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, is talking about the burden of Covid patients in ICU. They’re typically in ICU 3+ weeks rather than 3 or 4 days. #nswcovid19 By the time Dr Totaro sees the patients in his ICU they’re typically too unwell to speak.

Aug 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read

Reporter: What might happen post Aug 28?

@GladysB: “We are tracking well to hit our 6 million target. We are now in our 40s, in terms of the percentage range, in terms of people with two doses in New South Wales, or at least one dose.”

Umm what? Pathological inability to answer a question.

Aug 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Compare the pair:

“Is the hospital system overwhelmed?”

Gladys Berejiklian: Oh here in NSW we have the best medical care etc etc etc

Dan Andrews: “If any Victorian is unconvinced and comes to a conclusion that I am fit and healthy and won't get COVID-19: (cont) “It is not just COVID-19 patients who will struggle to find the machine to breathe or a nurse who isn't furloughed to care for them or a hospital but is open to care for them.

Aug 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read

Well well well, Scotty isn’t his usual blustery self. Sombre voice has been deployed. And he’s got the CMO and military man on board to help him run down the clock

Jul 19, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read

Question: Every day @GladysB downplays the number of Covid-positive people in the community while infectious.

Yesterday, she claimed that 20 of the 97 cases didn’t isolate while infectious.

The actual figure, from NSW Health, is about twice that: (cont) A further 17 ppl were in the community for ‘some’ of their infectious period, and the isolation status of 7 more positive people was unknown.

Potentiality, that could be 43 roaming around, passing the virus on to others.

The strangest thing is, this misleading figure is (cont)

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