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Karin Strehlow

@bug-enthusiast.bsky.social

Lover of all living things, Covid conscious, semi retired academic and ecologist living with ME/CFS. Hobby photographer. On Whadjuk Noongar Country, Australia.

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Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

I have lost several friends to cancer. The thing is, their cancer was in remission before they caught C19 and then came back as turbo cancer that spread everywhere and killed then within weeks. Latest research. Please wear a mask #mask, #maskswork, #Covid19.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

31.07.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Covid for Doctors - Dr Nancy Malek
YouTube video by Dr. Nancy Malek MBBS FANZCA Covid for Doctors - Dr Nancy Malek

This is a really invaluable resource to raise Covid awareness #Covid19 #longcovid, #longcovidkids #mask
youtu.be/GPUTTjjdT4A?...

23.06.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

An excellent article #cleanair
#longcovid #longcovidkids
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

16.06.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Frontiers | Low‐Dose naltrexone restored TRPM3 ion channel function in natural killer cells from long COVID patients IntroductionLong COVID is a multisystemic condition that includes neurocognitive, immunological, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular manifestations, indepen...

It looks like LDN may help with #LongCovid. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mol...

20.05.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Urgent warning Covid cases will SOAR this winter as super contagious strain wreaks havoc across Australia.

Covid cases set to rise in coming weeks
A more contagious variant will spread

READ MORE: Distressing Covid vaccine syndrome signs to look out for

By ASHLEY NICKEL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 12:56 AEST, 29 April 2025 | Updated: 13:45 AEST, 29 April 2025

Urgent warning Covid cases will SOAR this winter as super contagious strain wreaks havoc across Australia. Covid cases set to rise in coming weeks A more contagious variant will spread READ MORE: Distressing Covid vaccine syndrome signs to look out for By ASHLEY NICKEL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 12:56 AEST, 29 April 2025 | Updated: 13:45 AEST, 29 April 2025

Australia: COVID cases are set to soar this winter in Australia due to the highly contagious Omicron strain LP.8.1, which caused major outbreaks overseas and accounted for 3 in 5 COVID cases in the UK in March 2025.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

29.04.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 11
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The LNP don't like their own words repeated back to them, which is why they're infuriated by this ad.

Which is also why you should share it.

04.04.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 818    πŸ” 538    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 49

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

23.03.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 60569    πŸ” 16087    πŸ’¬ 1148    πŸ“Œ 855
Picture of a Carnaby Black cockatoo. The bird is sitting on an electricity cable. The bird is sitting with its back to the photographer, but has turned its head to the right. It has its little crest up on the top of its head. The bird is black and has white cheeks and white tail feathers with black tips.

Picture of a Carnaby Black cockatoo. The bird is sitting on an electricity cable. The bird is sitting with its back to the photographer, but has turned its head to the right. It has its little crest up on the top of its head. The bird is black and has white cheeks and white tail feathers with black tips.

Photo of a Carnaby Black cockatoo
sitting on an electricity cable. The bird is facing the photographer. The beak is grey, eyes black, it has white round patches on its cheek. Tail feathers are white with black tips.

Photo of a Carnaby Black cockatoo sitting on an electricity cable. The bird is facing the photographer. The beak is grey, eyes black, it has white round patches on its cheek. Tail feathers are white with black tips.

Some Carnaby Black cockatoos that came to feed off my Banksia yesterday. #carnaby #blackcockatoo.

14.03.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cuteness overload ❀️…how will you ever be able to post with her around? Plus will one be enough?

14.03.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of a large red tailed black cockatoo eating a nut from a eucalyptus tree. The bird has a nut in its beak. The main colour of the bird is black and it has fine yellow stripes across its body. The tail feathers are black with yellow, orange and red horizontal stripes.

A picture of a large red tailed black cockatoo eating a nut from a eucalyptus tree. The bird has a nut in its beak. The main colour of the bird is black and it has fine yellow stripes across its body. The tail feathers are black with yellow, orange and red horizontal stripes.

Ted tailed black cockatoo sitting on a eucalyptus branch eating nuts. The bird is holding the nut with its right foot close to its mouth. The wings and back of the bird are black, the face is black with yellow dots, the front is black with yellow stripes. It has a number of smaller tail feathers that are only just coming out. They are black with horizontal red stripes. The larger tail feathers have a more pronounced horizontal banding and the colours go from yellow to orange to red bands. The bird is surrounded by leaves from the tree. The nuts of the tree are relatively small and of a silver colour.the nuts look like small inverted silver cups.

Ted tailed black cockatoo sitting on a eucalyptus branch eating nuts. The bird is holding the nut with its right foot close to its mouth. The wings and back of the bird are black, the face is black with yellow dots, the front is black with yellow stripes. It has a number of smaller tail feathers that are only just coming out. They are black with horizontal red stripes. The larger tail feathers have a more pronounced horizontal banding and the colours go from yellow to orange to red bands. The bird is surrounded by leaves from the tree. The nuts of the tree are relatively small and of a silver colour.the nuts look like small inverted silver cups.

Just wanted to share some pictures of the red-tailed black cockatoos that come and feed on my Silver Princess eucalyptus tree. The same family comes with their offspring each year. They will be feeding daily off my tree for the next few months and will give it a good top trim at the same time.

14.03.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jesus Would Mask - A Poem As you fast and you pray In this season of Lent As you sacrifice comforts And humbly repent There’s one extra thing You could reasonably do Mask up to save lives Just as Jesus saved you Β  It ...

A Lenten Poem #mask #covidisairborne #covid

guinesspig.ghost.io/jesus-would-...

06.03.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. David Joffe with Matt - December 19 2024 Research Interests and Collaborations: ● Sleep behaviour and impact on driving ability ● The genesis of respiratory failure in Motor Neuron Disease ● The Pathophysiology of sleep in Parkinson’s Diseas

This was a fantastic interview. Sobering but good. #longcovid #longcovidkids #Covidisairborne soundcloud.com/user-5879035...

04.03.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025? a mental health professional’s perspective

This was such a wonderful article #mask #covidisairborne #covid
misfitmentalhealth.substack.com/p/why-are-pe...

03.03.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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22.02.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

COVID was an opportunity to adapt & be a more inclusive society. We could have learned about airborne spread & adopted clean air standards. Improved ventilation. Made more outdoor spaces. Normalized masking.

Instead we’ve politicized infection control & made society less safe for everyone

18.02.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1312    πŸ” 409    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 17

This was a nice article.

20.02.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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University administrators appear unconcerned that COVID is increasingly rampant on Ontario campuses 'We are witnessing a failure in public health as vulnerable people are being left to self-organize around a larger systemic problem'

Wilcox: "If you or your child is attending an Ontario university and they are not taking the proper precautions, they are at risk of graduating with worse cognitive performance than when they arrived....The responsibility lies with university leadership." Masks reduce the risk while we wait!

09.01.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Man and women wearing N95 masks and portable air purifiers around their necks.

Man and women wearing N95 masks and portable air purifiers around their necks.

One hour wait at the haematologist. It’s and open floor clinic, people with active cancer getting chemo and transfusions. Receptionist coughing and snotting, nurse coughing on patients. Not one mask & no air purifier in sight. #mask #covidisairborne #cleanair

10.01.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
Three tweets from Clean Air Club an hour ago

Is now a good time to mention that last month over 25 Los Angeles schools rejected our offers of completely free air purifiers for every single classroom on their campuses?

There's a widespread hostility to anyone offering solutions at the intersection of climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion. It was wild to get replies along the lines of "don't contact us ever again" when we were literally offering tens of thousands in free gear

When you try to solve a problem that most people are in denial about, you're going to encounter hostility and gaslighting instead of enthusiasm and solidarity

Three tweets from Clean Air Club an hour ago Is now a good time to mention that last month over 25 Los Angeles schools rejected our offers of completely free air purifiers for every single classroom on their campuses? There's a widespread hostility to anyone offering solutions at the intersection of climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion. It was wild to get replies along the lines of "don't contact us ever again" when we were literally offering tens of thousands in free gear When you try to solve a problem that most people are in denial about, you're going to encounter hostility and gaslighting instead of enthusiasm and solidarity

Goddamn.

09.01.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10427    πŸ” 2636    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 106

If you're an official who says that we need to work to prevent the next pandemic, but have been silent about stopping mask bans, then you are just virtue signaling.

02.01.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 450    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Wait until someone asks you at the pharmacy whether you are wearing the mask because you are sick. That’s what happened to us a few weeks ago while picking up meds. The person who asked was coughing πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

02.01.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jaime, given the low accuracy of RAT tests, I test daily for as long as my ME/CFS crash is going, whereas now, one test will be more than enough to confirm that I overdid it again 😫 and that my protective layers against C19 have worked.

02.01.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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02.01.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And for security reasons you have to change your password every 70 days 😫

02.01.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given how many people have been infected by C19, (some multiple times), I now wonder how much brain damage my vet or medical specialist, or tradesperson, or other people I run into, might have. Scary times.

02.01.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Unfinished macrame project. Wooden dowel holding white working cords. Cords of different colours are added to it creating a woven carpet style mat. The pattern is a collection of mixed squares and rectangles of different sizes in yellow,light green, dark green, white, light and dark blue and light and dark red.

Unfinished macrame project. Wooden dowel holding white working cords. Cords of different colours are added to it creating a woven carpet style mat. The pattern is a collection of mixed squares and rectangles of different sizes in yellow,light green, dark green, white, light and dark blue and light and dark red.

Challenge for this year, living life more creatively despite #ME/CFS and #POTS. I am trying macrame while in a horizontal position. Project so far…

02.01.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of the Pluslife Mini dock and its packaging.

Photo of the Pluslife Mini dock and its packaging.

Some of my ME/CFS symptoms resemble C19, so I am constantly RAT testing. This year, I will be using the Pluslife Mini dock which should cut down testing. The PlusLife will be a game changer for us.

02.01.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most of my friends are academics and medical doctors, they know… and they still don’t care. It does my head in.

02.01.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That time when antivaxxers thought so hard that they accidentally re-invented vaccines.

01.01.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2081    πŸ” 486    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 34

I think all sectors and individuals need to act as if the nation had voted YES on the Voice referendum.

02.01.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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