Marg Hutton

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:

The risk estimate has been steady around 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-948.

That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
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@joneshowdareyou.bsky.social I agree it's absolutely riveting!

Are you also watching Pluribus?

The Beast in Me review – Claire Danes’s astonishing new thriller is instant top–tier TV This taut psychological two-hander between Danes and Matthew Rhys will surely win awards. You cannot look away

I'm only up to the third episode (there are eight), and I can't look away either. It is taut and scary, not to mention there's a gorgeous little dog named "Steve" who I'm terrified isn't going to make it to the end! #TheBeastInMe #ClaireDanes #MatthewRhys #Netflix
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

When the government decided to let COVID-19 loose, they decided at that exact same time to do two things.

Make life difficult and lonely for elderly and disabled people.

Kill elderly and disabled people by playing dress up and pretend it’s 2019, because we want to be “kind”.

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Someone said it’s unethical to restrict the movements of elderly people when there is a covid outbreak in a nursing home.

Doesn’t feel too ethical to me to have low vaccination rates, no air quality improvement, and just spread diseases either though.

Seems kinda evil.

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This brought tears to my eyes. Yes, this community of COVID aware people warms my heart.

It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance

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Helen Garner: ‘Writers need to have their arse kicked aro... The Australian author on being ‘old and crabby’, her aversion to Virginia Woolf, tangoing with Clive James, and the diaries that won her this year’s Bail...

Very much looking forward to reading her diaries but also The Mushroom Tapes on the Australian death cap murder case which is out on Monday. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Honestly, I’m with Carol. She’s killed about 20 million people, but she’s makes some good points in Ep 2.

Landmark study makes 'important' finding about COVID vaccines

Adding to the already strong case for vaccinating kids against COVID - both its acute and chronic (long COVID) effects

www.9news.com.au/health/covid...

YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia The Whitlam dismissal and secret royal correspondence | THE ISSUE

I'm delighted to be guest interviewee on 7News' The Issue discussing the dismissal of the Whitlam govt & the secret correspondence btwn Kerr and the Queen. Thank you Tim Lester! #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_W...

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newsGP - Flu deaths overtake COVID-19 fatalities In August, 211 patients died from influenza compared to 153 from COVID-19, amid Australia’s record-breaking flu season.

Australia: In August, 211 patients died from influenza compared to 153 from COVID-19, amid record-breaking flu season.

Reported deaths so far this year:

🔸COVID-19: 1,473
🔸Influenza: 977
🔸RSV: 149

www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...

Misleading framing in the headline, trying to minimise COVID-19 deaths. They carefully picked the first and only month since 2023 where that was true.

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"I was good at drinking, having sex and taking pictures." Kate Winslet as Lee Miller - I knew this was going to be my kind of movie (HBO/Max)

Watching it tonight!

How to End a Story, UK cover with a photo of Garner looking out to sea, and blocks of solid orange and yellow panels with title and cover quotes from David Nicholls and Nigella Lawson

Hearty congratulations to Helen Garner who has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction with her collected diaries, How to End a Story.

A glorious book - confession, analysis, memory store, comedy - which shows all the things words can do: often on the same page. AND it’s mega good value.

Breaking: Helen Garner's 'candid, pacey' diaries win $100k international prize After being featured in Dua Lipa's book club and the SATC spin-off, Helen Garner has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction for her collected diaries, How to End a Story.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Helen Garner wins prize for her diaries.