Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 26/12/2025The wife of the 44 year-old man who died this week in Edmonton after waiting 8 hrs in the ER with chest pain was told by hospital security staff she was "being rude" Are you supposed to just be super calm & polite while your spouse dies a preventable death in the hospital? 30715136
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Make. It. Stop!!! Wear a respirator. This is all preventable. Breathe clean uncontaminated air. Wear a mask. You won’t drink contaminated water, why breathe dirty air? There’s lots of equipment to help you. @airspothealth.bsky.social CO2 Radical Ionmax Aire X Air Fanta Far UVC 0133
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025More and more young patients who were fit and well with long covid symptoms. They tell me that something changed since the last Covid infection. I have very rarely referred patients to immunology in the past. Now I refer at least once a month. Covid kills and maims. 176
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I am freaking tired and getting “charred” from seeing all these sick patients. I’m talking about fit and well young ones. Who now have immune dysfunction. Unwell. Even rhinovirus floors them and sent some to hospital and some was housebound for a week. I’ve never seen this pre covid. 1106
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Just in case there’s a minute chance you are wondering why I’m missing for a while and if I have joined the masses and stopped masking and that I think Covid is a nothing burger. WRONG! 2204
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Kids get Long Covid. Kids die at 4× the rate of flu from acute infection (that 7–10 days you felt sick, didn’t test, went back to work, and spread it). LC has no cure. 1 in 3 risk lasting damage. LC can & will destroy lives. Probably yours & your kids’ if you don’t utilize airborne protections. 14292111
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year. Issue Date: May 2025 Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849 312662
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 30 June to 13 July 2025 In the last fortnight, COVID cases decreased by (-19.5%), while influenza increased by (+24.4%) and RSV increased (+0.6%). 🔹COVID: 13,165 🔹Influenza: 41,734 🔹RSV: 13,394 Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu... 05524
Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 30/06/2025“The clinical consequences of repeated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are not clear, especially as they relate to long-term symptoms after infection.” Seriously? I meant really?!?! They must be effing joking. 020
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The study mentioned in the video was published in 2022 here www.cell.com/cell-reports... And if anyone is curious, yeah, that's Napa Valley vineyard in my boss's Zoom background. Because... California.cell.comSARS-CoV-2 infects neurons and induces neuroinflammation in a non-human primate model of COVID-19Beckman et al. show that SARS-CoV-2 proteins are found in olfactory areas of the brains of rhesus macaques at 7 days post infection. In addition to direct neuronal infection, extensive neuroinflammati... 18913
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Viral evolution prediction identifies broadly neutralizing antibodies to existing and prospective SARS-CoV-2 variants www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comViral evolution prediction identifies broadly neutralizing antibodies to existing and prospective SARS-CoV-2 variants - Nature MicrobiologyBroad and potent neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 variants can be efficiently identified via accurate deep-mutational-scanning-based prediction of viral evolution and delivered to mice using mRNA... 032
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Trump's latest shitshow is to detract from inflation and his ruinous tariffs. As Hitler and Stalin knew, in times of trouble, find a bogeyman. 1624462694
Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 10/06/2025media.tenor.coma man in a helmet is saying `` bring out your dead '' while standing in the rain .ALT: a man in a helmet is saying `` bring out your dead '' while standing in the rain . 010
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/06/2025The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary. 681451590
Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 07/06/2025What Australia does - or does not do - makes ZERO difference compared to the harm caused China, the United States, India, Japan and Russia. They’re responsible for 70% of global emissions - that’s what’s killing our reefs. Australia’s 1.6% is a drop in the ocean. 200
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Australia: Over 65,000 COVID, 81,000 Influenza, and 50,000 RSV cases reported nationwide so far this year. You can be infectious 48 hrs before symptoms. Stay home if unwell. If you go out, wear a mask and avoid indoor or crowded places. #COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVERabc.net.auWhat is the latest advice for isolating when you have COVID?What has changed since the pandemic when it comes to isolating when sick, whether it’s COVID or a bad cold? 59638
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025UK: New COVID strain discovered in UK as doctors warn of unusual symptoms. "The new NB.1.8.1 strain of Covid has been detected in Northern Ireland and, while some of its symptoms include those of previous strains, others are more unusual, such as heartburn" Source: archive.md/64sDg 69242
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025PEPFAR's congressional reauthorization expired on March 25, 202 20 million men women & children were receiving life saving HIV meds thru PEPFAR. If full funding does not resume, an estimated 5-6 million will die within 5 years and AIDS will again become an epidemic throughout the world 823375
Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Witnessing this among adults as well - my workplace is an empathy / manners free zone 000
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 26/05/2025A virus that infects the brain. The outcome will not be a good one. Look at the available research. Let alone a young developing brain. The kids are getting sick enough that parents are bringing them in with long covid symptoms. It is just sad that we have failed our future generations. 0101
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 26/05/2025How much of this behavioural disturbance is due to COVID-induced neurodevelopmental damage? apple.news/ABt3-JmM0QZC...apple.news‘Culture of disrespect’: Australian teachers say students’ behaviour is driving them from profession — Guardian AustraliaGovernment review is welcome but teachers say their needs must be considered to arrest dramatic decline in retention rates 3326580
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Robin is saying: "COVID IS BACK" Batman is slapping Robin while responding: "IT NEVER LEFT" #COVIDisNotOVER 4424122
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This RIKEN study demonstrates progressive improvement in source control and wearer protection as the filtration and/or fit factor are enhanced. Upgrading from a mask to a respirator results in a dramatic reduction in aerosol leakage. 22810
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025“It’s taking off pretty quickly,” said Professor Catherine Bennett, warning that “if you’re exposed, you’re more likely to catch it.” She added, “We might be in for a bigger winter wave,” and COVID deaths were 5x higher than flu—"So COVID-19 is still to be taken seriously"7news.com.auExperts sound the alarm as new COVID-19 strain gains ground‘It could be the first time in a year that we see COVID really starting to impact people.’ 10234112
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025There have just been major crashes in the States so why on Earth would you sack FAA workers? And why rely on this vague statement of DOGE AIMING “to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system”theguardian.comTrump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeksPresident moves to cut Federal Aviation Administration workforce, including safety workers, as critics say public could be endangered 78025
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I am at the NATO meetings in Brussels. Trump and Putin are plunging the world into dark chaos. Here is my dispatch from day one of the meetings. I decided that it was time to go over the boards for Canada. Please read and share. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comON YEATS, TRUMP & PUTINDispatch from NATO, Brussels – Day 1 2262118867
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺CanuckFella @canuckfella.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Charlie Angus is stepping up for Canada!! 🇨🇦 617563
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.” 556107735566
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 15/02/2025How Trump’s ‘fear factor’ is already reshaping American science ‘The number of cures we won’t get and scientific advances we won’t have as a result of these cuts are uncountable’ @matthewherper.bsky.social @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...statnews.comHow Trump’s ‘fear factor’ is already reshaping American scienceScientists shocked by the Trump administration's "sledgehammer" wonder about possible motives and lament a short-sighted approach to cuts. 416650
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest ChildrenI’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving. 9712577310960
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government. 14256271368
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Folks, this is a five alarm fire. Congress must stop Trump and Elon's coup. Call your rep now (202) 224-3121 This isn't just a battle for checks and balances. It's a battle between democracy and dictatorship.youtube.comStop Elon Musk’s CoupYouTube video by Robert Reich 26166292217
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025USA: Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests. "The authors said there may be an under-reporting of long COVID in younger children due to difficulty with the verbalization of their symptoms." Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...abcnews.go.comLong COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggestsA new CDC study published Monday found that more than 1 million children were affected by long COVID in 2023. Higher levels were found in lower-income households. 619694
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 29/01/2025#BREAKING 🚨 Explosives have been discovered inside a caravan that was located on the outskirts of Sydney on January 19 NSW Police say there is indication that the explosives may have been meant for "some form of anti-semitic attack" There is no active threat 9359
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This dude is living the fucking dream variety.com/2025/film/ne...variety.comChristopher Walken: ‘I Don’t Have a Cell Phone. I’ve Never Emailed’ and Can Only Watch TV Using a ‘Satellite Dish on My House’Christopher Walken had to watch his Emmy-nominated performance in "Severance" on DVDs because he doesn't have Apple TV+. 1242
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025When even the WSJ Editorial Board has this to say www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-... 28547205
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities. 583121984962
Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The next pandemic - H5N1 - has likely already started in the United States You wouldn’t know tho given the limited surveillance taking place and zero mitigation to cull infected dairy herds 120
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Such an advance! www.health.gov.au/topics/envir...health.gov.au 1512752
Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 18/01/2025This article by @apnews.com is gaslighting BULLSHIT “Most Americans have developed some level of protection against severe disease from previous COVID-19 infections, vaccinations or both.” WRONG - as shown by hundreds of peer reviewed studies - immunity is short-lived 3 months at best. 0322
Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Correct LNG revenue in 2021 on equivalent export volumes: Australia - $800 Million Qatar - $26.5 Billion We are giving our gas away to Chevron, Shell etc Both sides of politics are equally guilty of doing nothing to address this theft 081
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025US: 4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptom. "This suggests that an estimated 365,000 adults in Minnesota could have experienced symptoms of long COVID" www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/4-1...cidrap.umn.edu4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptomParticipants who received at least 1 COVID-19 vaccine booster dose had a 30% lower risk of long-COVID symptoms than their unvaccinated peers. 313341
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comNew-onset gastrointestinal disorders in COVID-19 patients 3.5 years post-infection in the inner-city population in the Bronx - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - New-onset gastrointestinal disorders in COVID-19 patients 3.5 years post-infection in the inner-city population in the Bronx 0247
Reposted by Tim 🇦🇺Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Study Finds Link Between COVID-19 and Elevated Risk of GI Disorders. COVID-19 patients face a 37% higher risk of developing gastrointestinal disorders, according to a study of over 1.1M patients, including 56,745 COVID-positive cases, revealing notable findings. www.ajmc.com/view/study-f...ajmc.comStudy Finds Link Between COVID-19 and Elevated Risk of GI DisordersA study found that patients with COVID-19 may have a higher risk of developing new gastrointestinal (GI) disorders compared with matched controls, highlighting the need for further research on long-te... 210736