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[rationalis @_jort]

@AlanTudgeMP @AlanTudgeMP just blocked me for making this comment.

[rationalis @_jort]

@declanmartin75 Still a gloriously shaded footpath

[Erin M @ErinAPN1]

402 days
1 year, 1 month and 7 days.
57 weeks and three days.
9648 hours unable to eat or drink a single thing without vomiting. Nauseous, dizzy, strange blood pressure and heart rate, headache, deep fatigue.
Feed by tube into intestines. 25kg down. #LongCovidKids #LongCovid

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Those in their 20s and 30s are going to revolt.

Interest rate increases are pushing this cohort of renters and mortgage holders into poverty while those aged over 55, in mortgage free homes, are spending like there's no tomorrow as earnings on their cash soars.

[rationalis @_jort]

@DarrenBeale2 @VicTraffic PT was just as bad. They increased the crowd cap and this is the result.

[c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance]

In 2018, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" was published in the British Medical Journal.

It sought to determine if wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane had any impact on survivability.

It did not.

[Put a Mask on it @patientadvAU]

The unmasked Immunology Conference in Melbourne has turned out to be a superspreader event…. 🤦‍♀️

@friendlycovid19 @ImTheN95Parody @YouAreLobbyLud @DavidJoffe64

[MJA @theMJA]

Healthy indoor air is our fundamental need: the time to act is now … #openaccess … "Inadequate management of indoor air quality may not be obvious, but the disastrous consequences certainly are" … https://t.co/Pkpntw4wXE ... #medtwitter

[Dr Kelly Jones 🦋cleanairclassrooms 🇵🇸 @DrPops3]

Husband currently arguing with SA Education Department after son texted us to say assembly head told the school that Covid was behind us. Love that kid. #covidadvocacy #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks

[dbRaevn @dbRaevn]

📊VIC - Cases by reporting day

[Better Masks 4 Melbourne @maskupmelb]

A thread cataloguing Australian media coverage of people frustrated at ATAGI banning COVID vaccines for:
- <5 primary vaccines
- 5-15 booster #1
- 16-30 booster #2
- Updated bivalent for booster #3
All of which are available in the US right now
https://t.co/44fP7Ojn4C

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

2) Additionally, while the air in mid-flight on a modern aircraft is "probably" OK, though it still won't deal with near field transmission from the unmasked person coughing next to you or one row from you—before the air exchange system can suck up that air for disinfection.

[rationalis @_jort]

New website kinda sucks. Lots of vertical scrolling in product categories menu, have to keep re-opening the menu, way too much wasted white-space.

Just put the main product categories directly available on the top of the page as a horizontal menu!

@woolworths

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole website which will happen...the day before a national election.

[Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @RealSexyCyborg]

The name of the game in the West right now is get COVID as few times a year as possible- because each time increases your chance of becoming disabled. Even if we open now- you have three years of repeated COVID infections we'll never "catch up" with. We'll always be better off.

[Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @RealSexyCyborg]

We've already won though? No matter what happens now, by sticking with Zero-COVID as better treatments have become available, if it ever does rip through China, far fewer people will die than if we'd never held it off. There's no scenario in which *more* people die in the end.

[Linsey Marr linseymarr.bsky.social @linseymarr]

“If you’re doing extra hand washing ... then you should also be wearing a good mask in crowded indoor environments,” Marr said. “If you’re bothering to clean the surfaces, then you should be bothering to clean the air.” /1

[Linoleum Blownaparte @AaahSkulls]

@FinchTH Severe COVID survivor here. ICU. Coded twice. Bilat. Pneumo on top. Went after my liver and kidneys, urine was black.

One year later, DVT -> PE R lung. LC related.

You do not want it.
You do not want to be near anyone with it.

I cannot put into words what it does, and how.

[Sue Travers 🔥🌏🔥 @traverselife]

We expect that when our children have swimming lessons that the water will have been filtered and chlorinated to a safe standard.

We don’t take personal responsibility & check it ourselves.

Air quality - ventilation & filtration- should be no different.
#COVIDIsAirborne