John Maddocks

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[Chief Health Officer, Victoria @VictorianCHO]

Sleepwalking into COVID is not a strategy I would recommend. Still much remains uncertain. https://t.co/vtEQ1V2HoG

[Michael Toole 🇺🇦 @profmiketoole.bsky.social @profmiketoole]

Covid update this week in Oz. >263K new cases, ranks #1 globally for cases/m. Nine times total cases in 2020. 252 more lives lost. An average Boeing 737-800 carries 184 passengers and crew. Not a mention in the election campaign. Wake up Australia. The pandemic's still here.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

This is not a ‘meme’, but our and your reality right now.

[John Maddocks @zentipede]

Australia now 29 in the world for Covid. Australia COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer https://t.co/6A90WJxBhS

[Christian @cagillett]

This is a Mary-Louise McLaws appreciation post. If only our leaders listened to her advice all along.

What a queen.

[Jese Tuisinu @JTuisinu]

More tsunami videos coming out of Tonga 🇹🇴

[Kate McClymont @Kate_McClymont]

Yikes!

[John Maddocks @zentipede]

@MarylouiseMcla1 Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery Mary-Louise. I find your Covid insights and advice invaluable.

[John Maddocks @zentipede]

@MaddocksThomas So why is someone waving a Greek flag? Gone to the wrong demo?

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Australia has swung from one extreme in pandemic control to the other – having great control of COVID, to now having the world’s highest rise in daily cases.
C Raina MacIntyre on why we urgently need a “vaccines-plus” strategy to flatten the curve. https://t.co/1nwHwO9mzC @UNSW

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

Denmark is a few weeks ahead of Oz in the omicron outbreak. Deaths are on the rise; equivalent to ~100/day in Australia. Their vaccination rates are better than Oz’s; 3rd dose is 42% vs 8%. Creating the impression that it is ok for omicron to spread is a public health threat.

[Dr Zoë Hyde @DrZoeHyde]

Journos: I know a lot of you follow me. Why are so many of you silent about the disaster that’s about to hit Australia? NSW and Victoria are about to get hit by an omicron tsunami, worse than anything we’ve seen before. This doesn’t have to happen.

[Dr Kerryn Phelps AM @drkerrynphelps]

May I suggest that the words #UnderlyingHealthCondition be removed from reports about #COVID19?
Many people of all ages live with some chronic health condition.
They deserve consideration and protection, not have their “condition” used as an “excuse” for a COVID19 statistic

[John Maddocks @zentipede]

Mitch made an innocuous typo at work. From it, a legend was born https://t.co/Eh99j9YFnF

[Helen Dalton MP @helendalton22]

This "good woman duped by bad boy" narrative is insulting to all female politicians. We can think for ourselves.

Read ICAC transcript. @gladys knew about Daryl's China dealings (outside his electorate) in 2017. We'd expect a Premier - man or woman - to do something about it.

[John Maddocks @zentipede]

We can all get blasé about the risks of COVID. FacesOfCOVID is a sad reminder to follow the science rather than listen to conspiracy theories. https://t.co/E3rl2nDSCI

[Paul Barratt @phbarratt]

Actually quarantine is a Commonwealth responsibility.

I know. I used to have that responsibility.

[John Maddocks @zentipede]

As community transmission spreads in NSW, is it enough to be on ‘high alert’ with many people still allowed to socialise? Should we be going for eradication, as Bill Bowtell and other epidemiologists advocate?

[Bill Bowtell AO @billbowtell]

It’s time to eradicate @covid19 in NSW and Victoria and to join NZ and other Australian states and territories who now live without the virus. Why the reluctance? Save lives. Save jobs. Stamp it out. ⁦@newscomauHQ⁩ ⁦@7NewsSydney⁩ ⁦ https://t.co/7m4Dti8zDu

[John Maddocks @zentipede]

@SwannyQLD @ewster @abc730 Yes, and the ABC is cutting short Labor press conferences on News24. Saw Bowen cut off today and Keneally a couple of days ago. ABC being forced into censorship?