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Preventable deaths: of New Zealand's 4500-odd deaths attributed to Covid to date, it's possible about 600 were from hospital-acquired infections, Michael Baker said.

HEPA filters could change all that.

+ HEPA filters in every classroom, plug them in and turn them on!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

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Enrol to vote TODAY

By 8pm tonight #auspol

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Last chance

This is not going to age well .... what a shame if this was to be reposted ad infinitum 😇
#TemuTrump #DickTater #auspol25

Don’t get mugged by 🥔 on #energy. #auspol #AusVotes25

Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty:

The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.

That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.

Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the combined human toll of all funding discontinuation to date.

#FundingCutsCostLives

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Peter Dutton’s plan to slash 41,000 federal public sector jobs is nearly 4x larger than the cuts Tony Abbott took to the 2013 election

Dutton’s proposed cuts are so large - 1 in 5 jobs - that it’s impossible that essential public services would not be decimated

#auspol

Proposed foreign aid cuts could lead to millions of HIV deaths, study estimates A new study shows how cuts to foreign aid could lead to millions of HIV/AIDS deaths and soaring rates of infections, undoing decades of progress against the virus.

“It’s like telling a surgeon in the middle of an operation to just walk away” - yes, & of course multiplied by millions.

This one of several news reports on this paper from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social researchers - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

www.cbsnews.com/news/foreign...

Gina Rinehart emerges as gas major as Hancock posts $5.6b profit The country’s richest person’s private vehicle, Hancock Prospecting, boosted earnings as it shipped more iron ore from its big West Australian mines.

Gina Rinehart is a major player in domestic gas and recently made $1bill investment in gas projects. Just saying #auspol www.afr.com/companies/mi...

Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths A new modelling study has sought to find out what impact recent foreign aid cuts – particularly from the US – will have on HIV. Here’s what the researchers found.

This summary from the team @burnetinstitute.bsky.social based on a publication in @thelancet.bsky.social HIV that came out today. A very bleak picture. 1/

Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths theconversation.com/foreign-aid-...

We don't need to trade lives for 'freedom', we should have both. Being prepared ACTIVELY (eg, surveillance with targeted public health action, production & fair dispersal of countermeasures) & PASSIVELY (eg, equitable healthcare, strong IAQ) will determine whether we achieve this.

I want to share with you three rules for fighting tyrannical fear and intimidation, gleaned from discussions I’ve had with a number of people who have lived in repressive regimes. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-respond-to-fear-and-intimidation

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Such an advance!

www.health.gov.au/topics/envir...

🥹 shed a tear for @LiberalAus' "astroturf" (fake grassroots) "australians for prosperity" which cries about being 'bullied'.

these actual bullies have received $725k+ from the #coal lobby.

so we're helping the 🎯 pro-climate action MPs counter this coal industry campaign… 🧵

Paul Mullins, the former NSW Fire and Rescue Commissioner, says the California wildfires are ‘happening because of climate change.. and what we predicted.’

We can prevent more tragedies like this by acting more effectively to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.

SARS-COV-2 re-infection and incidence of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) among essential workers in New York: a retrospective cohort study Although the pathogenetic mechanism for PASC remains unclear, identifying risk factors such as lack of vaccination or re-infection can assist in better understanding and managing the condition.

Repeated infections increase the risk of Long Cövid.

Not news... Just more evidence.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Covid Is Way More Lethal to Kids Than The Flu Here’s the latest news from the pandemic.

“Of known respiratory viruses, only Covid-19 has ever killed more than 100 US children in a month in the modern era,” Faust said in the analysis. “It did so three times during the delta and omicron alone.”

The kids are not alright.

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

an hour ago, france connected its first nuclear reactor to the grid this century.

construction was to take 56 months.

timeline:
• decision: 2004
• initial works: 2006
• reactor concrete: 2007
• grid connection: 2024
• commercial operation: 2025Q1

…20+ years end to end.

Nationals senator claims Coalition introduced nuclear as a political fix Nationals senator Matthew Canavan has said in an interview that his party introduced a nuclear policy as a political fix, in a video that emerges amid his colleague Keith Pitt announcing he will quit ...

Senator Matt Canavan lets radioactive cat out of the bag … #auspol

Gisele Pelicot walks past hundreds of cheering women, some holding signs saying "Merci Gisele", outside the court where her husband and 50 other strangers were tried for raping her while she was drugged.

And they say an image is worth a thousand words.

#GiselePelicot

(don't know the photographer unfortunately, but happy to credit if someone does know)

Seeing as Australian governments and health authorities are doing a poor job at COVID risk communication, please share my DIY effort to raise awareness

49 per cent of COVID infections are asymptomatic. Protect yourself by wearing a mask, keeping up vaccination and cleaning the air

As we enter the festive season, please bear in mind that up to half of all COVID infections are asymptomatic. Protect yourself and others to avoid infection. Each one increases your risk of Long COVID

@dfisman.bsky.social My followers need some clarification on the role of masking in preventing the spread of respiratory viruses. Some believe viruses are either droplet or aerosol spread but not both. Therefore if aerosol it means masks don't work. But it CAN be both. Can you help explain why?

Study reaffirms that masks prevent COVID-19 transmission A new study in <em>The Lancet</em> demonstrates that face coverings dramatically reduce the load of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath from infected persons. The reductions reached as high as 98 percent, wi...

#StudyOfTheDay from The Lancet:

First study of its kind measuring #Covid shedding with and without face coverings in infected humans in real-world conditions of #mask and #respirator use with no fit testing.

Reductions reached as high as 98 percent!

#MasksWork, bébés. 😷 #CovidIsNotOver

The Blast Mini air purifier positioned against a wall in a home setting. The text highlights research from Imperial College London on air pollution’s impact on respiratory and mental health. The Smart Air logo and website link: www.smartair.uk are displayed.

🚨 New research from Imperial College reveals that long-term exposure to air pollution can increase risks of respiratory issues, and mental health problems.

Simple steps to follow: ventilate, monitor air quality, and use air purifiers. Protect your health!

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Our household has COVID, primary school the likely source. Once again our community is awash with this virus, the 2nd-3rd major spike this year without any v ‘low’ period. Every (re)infection does damage so pls work to minimise spread, to protect yourself & others. It’s not another common ‘cold’. 1/