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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I've been teaching at 3rd level for 30 years. I have never experienced anything like the number of students with recent-onset cardiac, gastrointestinal, and neurological issues as I have in the last couple of years, yet people in the uni keep saying post-COVID, during COVID, etc.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A new variation of 'mild' I just heard from someone: a touch of postoperative pneumonia.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Yes, my desire to avoid infection engages either all of these points. If you somehow suffered no personal consequences from contracting COVID (as far as you can tell) and carefully isolated, you've still given the virus an opportunity to become stronger, more immune evasive, etc.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

'Squirrel Street' (Eichhornstraße) tree is up!

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

So much wet, gross coughing on this train.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Still nice enough for outdoors kaffee und kuchen.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Still nice enough in Germany to enjoy an outdoor coffee.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Unpublicised update from the CDC. Lasting effects on EVERY organ and organ system for YEARS after infection.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

The science is SETTLED! www.deseret.com/utah/2023/11...

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Went to look for packing materials in a box in the office. I made the disturbing(?) discovery of a dozen used RATs. The office administrator is out with the disease we dare not speak.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

www.newscientist.com/article/2400...

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

A powerful, beautiful, important book.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Poster available in the Residenz Würzburg gift shop. (18th?-century painting of a woman with face mask added.)

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever taught in front of smiling, nodding students? 😍

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

"The Covid-19 pandemic is not a state of mind—and telling us not to panic isn’t healthcare." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I have had this same thought so many times over the last couple of years.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I am teaching in Germany for 6 months. The coughing is scarier and more ubiquitous here than in Ireland, and masking is nonexistent, compared to nearly so in Ireland. I have now seen 2 children vomiting in the street. 2 of the 3 members of staff I know are out sick, and teaching hasn't started yet.😷

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Just putting this out there. Either by magical thinking logic, it can't happen if I say it will, or I will have called it: I'm afraid I'm going to get COVID here in Germany. I thought Ireland was bad, but I've seen *FOUR* other people wearing masks in the week that I've been here. Not one on campus.

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Anthea but blue ☂🚲 @inamellowwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

having recently traveled to Ireland and seen the bog bodies of (maybe) kings who were thrown into the bog to bring about better weather, I would like to propose a radical new plan to address the climate crisis

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Rebecca Barr quoted herein. www.okdoomer.io/everyone-fan...

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Masks work. www.scientificamerican.com/article/mask...

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Unexpectedly beautiful weather for our quick trip to Inis Meáin

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Look at how many pro-trans activists from the demo in Dublin wore masks! That's what true progressives do! 🥰

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Welcome to the jungle. (My tuxedo cat nestled in high grass.)

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Burning Man this year is a perfect dress rehearsal for going to Mars with Elon Musk

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Summer has returned to this island. A beautiful weekend coming up.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Four years in, how are we still talking about 'mystery illnesses' with a straight face? tennis-infinity.com/atp-wta/wozn...

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Assembling an IKEA wardrobe. Prayers and offerings welcome.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Well, shoot! They're replaying this Cosc episode I contributed to, and The Sunday Times got my name wrong!

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

New COVID variant news all over the radio this morning, even timid suggestions about wearing masks in medical settings. I was back in Bon Secours hospital this morning to see a consultant. NOT ONE frigging mask to be seen, and I had to walk through 2 buildings.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

Brought my precious girl in for annual vaccines and blood draw (she has kidney disease). When the vet saw my mask, he ducked into the back and put one on. It was a baggy blue, but I appreciated it, nonetheless. She is finally talking to me again.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Has anyone followed up on these 'very confident' Gen Z gorillas? www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/…

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Apart from loving her voice, her music, her singular bravery and strength, it's her being finally broken by the grief of losing her adored son that is hitting me hardest about her death.

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Not a colleague casually wondering whether they had an asymptomatic case of COVID, since they haven't been able to smell or taste anything recently. (I am the only person working in my university who masks.) 😑

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Maureen O’Connor, PhD @ecomaureen.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

One of the most important people in my life! (Alt text: my tuxedo cat sticking her tongue out.)

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