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Sep 24, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
A good news story on @NSWHealth
Just spent 4 nights in RNSH. I got lucky; ambo prompt (upper NS) but took me there cos possible stroke. Turned out to be clonic seizure; 2ndry to Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Syndrome. MRIs, CT, & cardio echogram. All pretty much NAD, TG…
… the staff were beyond compare. I likely got lucky 🍀 on a quiet Monday evening, as well.
Thank you 🙏 … I was born there but wasn’t planning an exit there this week.
No tumours found; f/up w neurologist in. 4 wks. Na levels rising. 🤞
No driving 12/12. twitter.com/NthSydHealth
Oct 5, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A depressing day all round. Not the least of which is the appalling spectacle of the electronic media allowing Morrison to throw slander and libel at the States. He portrayed states Health Mins (a signed statement by all states/territories) as mafia figures attempting to ... 1/n
.. 'shake down' theFedGov. He used the word 'extortion' in reference specifically to QLD.
Bear in mind a few things:
-the FedGov is the monopoly issuer of the AU$. Along with this go monopoly taxing rights, and the ability to enforce lawful taxation payts. in that currency ...2/n
Jul 25, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Some thoughts on lockdown and incomes; or lack thereof.
Bill Bowtell, and others in the broad epidemiology community are stressing the need for people to not be impoverished in a matter of days due to lockdown.
They're on the money; ppl will do all sorts of they're on the ...
... edge of not eating, providing for kids, meeting rent obligations. Bear in mind we've been living under a punitive austerity-focused FedGov since late 2013. The lowest incomers, and the least securely employed, be they casual with several jobs, or gig workers, are always ...
Apr 12, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Yes, it's always interesting to peruse the critics' bullet points. His Bonds briefs are showing big time in 5). Like nearly all of them, they often reveal quickly that they've not done the work to find out about Fed level fiscal and monetary operations. He doesn't even understand
... Greece is like NSW; it's a currency *user, not an issuer.
As soon as he compares US and Greece in same sentence he's looking like a chump. This is exactly the problem facing Italy and Spain in their CV-19 crises. Unless the Troika fund them properly (via 'bond issuance')...
