Amy Currie

writer, performer, pickle juice drinker

[Tim @LettersfromTim]

You’re in your late 20s

You don’t mask

You’re getting COVID 2-3 times per year “a cold”

By the time you’re 40 you will have been infected 20-30 times with a virus that infects every organ in your body - including your brain

How survivable do you think that is?

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

Ah, Book Week, when your primary school teacher pops in to #spotlightstores to save up to 30% on a racist cliche about the sex industry

#makeitwithspotlight

[Dr David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACGP-RG DTM+H @YouAreLobbyLud]

I am saying here that it is absolutely crazy that, in some parts of Australia, hospitals are in N95s, in others they are in surgical masks, and in others (Queensland, naturally!) they are in nothing.

THIS. IS. NOT. RATIONAL. PUBLIC. HEALTH.

[Yaron 🕊️🔥🦋 @YaronFishman]

If you take precautions, such as wearing a good respirator to protect yourself from dangerous air quality, or to keep yourself and others safe from Covid, you are not “living in fear”. You are bravely facing reality and adapting. Thank you. 🙏

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

@amassingham Bah naw

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

It has been TWENTY YEARS and yet I cannot hear any sort of South African-accented greeting without my brain adding DOCTOR RUDI HEEYAR

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

I cannot dispute the practicality of having a compact and precise way to say 'to give something as a gift' and yet I burn with irrational hatred for the word gifting

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

Charlie Brooker's 'Oh Boy Netflix is Gonna Be So Mad at Me Sassing Them and It's Definitely Not a Strategy They Heartily Endorse or Anything Now Who Wants Some Easter Eggs'

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

I'm not sure how I forgot my passion for banana chips for like 30 years but I'm back now and I hope my six-year-old self is proud

[Henry Madison @RageSheen]

205 people died of Covid in Australia this week. To get a visual feel for that number, this is about 150 people. Add another 60, a large coach load, and you’re about there.

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

New Black Mirror: please don't suck 🤞

[Dr David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACGP-RG DTM+H @YouAreLobbyLud]

ABRACADABRA!
In the least surprising news ever, the excess mortality baseline gets shifted upwards 12%, thus making the staggering excess mortality from SARS-COV-2 vanish, as if in a puff of magician's smoke...

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

My cousin complains
that whenever they go anywhere
his girlfriend still insists
that they both wear masks
and he does it for her,
for her, of course he does it,
but he asks me what I think
her insistence sounds like
and I tell him
that I think it sounds
like love.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

No, I Don’t Know Anyone Off Sick From Work With Long Covid. No, Terry Has New Onset Fatigue, Sophie has New Onset Vertigo, Paul From Purchasing Only Had A Heart Attack, Maggie From Accounts Has Developed Intense Anxiety, Maggie In Sales Has New Chronic Back Pain...

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

I fell down a riot grrl playlist rabbit hole this morning and now I have BOLD OPINIONS (about food shapes)

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

I like my semolina orbs LARGE AND SPHERICAL

[Amy Currie @amycurrie]

Lebanese couscous* has novelty prop energy and is all the more delicious for it

*BIG couscous

[Bill Bowtell AO @billbowtell]

Australian health authorities bent to economic & ideological pressures to be done with Covid. Regrettably, the virus didn’t get the memorandum. Covid is not done with us. Time to get over getting over with Covid, face facts & reduce infections. https://t.co/L5Ka3nUQpu