Pippa Burns

The Good Old Days   Pity the poor children of today, with their calendars stuffed with chocolates,   never to know the thrill of opening a small cardboard door and discovering behind it   a picture of a bell. Brian Bilston

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

Celebrating 20 years of PCOC supporting improvement in palliative care outcomes for patients
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#uow #qut #uwa

To summarize
-waves are not seasonal
-vaccines are waning
-people are getting long covid
-it’s still not an endemic disease
-very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series

Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.

Providing COVID-safe healthcare, always. Long COVID causes silent (and not so silent) organ damage and there is as yet, no cure. You'd be a fool to continue to expose yourself to those risks.

I’ve been missing your knitting posts!!!

Well done Rhea!

Trending BETA What people are posting about. CDC Layoffs Texas Outbreak

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

@who.int Director-General's remarks at a media briefing on 10 December 2024:

"We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

Businesses are failing at near the highest rate on record The rate of business failures is now the highest it has been since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is only set to grow as the cost of doing business squeezes companies from all sides.

Well FMD🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🙄

Seems

☠️ Dead people don't shop
☠️ Sick people cannot work

Probably starting to bite our economic arses

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

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If you live in NSW please sign this petition to suspend and remove the draft music and drama HSC syllabuses from circulation and restart the review process.
As someone who is not in the creative arts space, even I can see that these changes will be a huge step backwards.

tinyurl.com/2tp7f33c

If one more person reminds me to #BeKind I will…

…not

Toxic kindness is as bad as all the other grim behaviours I talk about

It’s performative, rhetorical & often weaponised to mean “don’t do things I don’t like”

It’s discretionary,silences marginalised voices & maintains the status quo

#MedSky

I’ve eventually made the jump into the big blue yonder.