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Skyla Rome

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Searcher of Truth and Justice Living in Dystopia

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
USA: "Doctors sound alarm over massive spike in Americans suddenly dropping dead from unexplained heart attacks" "The COVID virus — which is thought to have infected over 100 million Americans — has been shown to cause damage to the heart and blood vessels which may be a factor" archive.md/0zvzO
Doctors sound alarm over massive spike in Americans suddenly dropping dead from unexplained heart attacks

By EMILY JOSHU STERNE, SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 01:45 AEST, 31 May 2025 | Updated: 07:11 AEST, 31 May 2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
You can’t be “addicted” to a human right.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...
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An Abundance Of Bias: New COVID School Closures Book Rewrites History — AJI
AJI Science Adviser Wendy Orent reviews the new book, “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions” by writer David Zweig, who was an early school reopening advo...
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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
An Idiot Speaks! Got Heroin?
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Sickandtiredaus Jordan Crane @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Also available at Newcastle Libraries newcastlelibraries.com.au/explore/our-...
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Library of Useful Things
Try something new with this special collection of inclusive, sustainable, creative and very useful things!
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Sickandtiredaus Jordan Crane @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Glen Eira Libraries now have Aranet4 sensors available to borrow. Does a library near you also have Aranets or other tools to help keep you C19 safe available? @arabelladaniel.bsky.social library.gleneira.vic.gov.au/services/lib...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Queensland respiratory surveillance report: 26 May 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 671 (+21.5%) 🔹Influenza: 1,167 (+20.1%) 🔹RSV: 803 (+15.7%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 54 (+1.8%) 🔸Influenza: 58 (-1.6%) 🔸RSV: 40 (-2.4%) Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
Data extracted on 26 May 2025

COVID-19
54 people were in hospital with COVID-19, 10 (19%) were aged 65–74 years and 33 (61%) were 75 years or more.
671 people diagnosed in the last week, 83 (12%) were aged 65–74 years and 163 (24%) were 75 years or more.

Influenza
58 people were in hospital with Influenza, 31 (53%) were aged 65 years and above.
1,167 people diagnosed in the last week, 190 (16%) were aged 65 years or more.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
40 people were in hospital with RSV, two (5%) were under 6 months of age and five (12%) were aged between 6 months to less than 2 years.
803 people diagnosed in the last week, 24 (3%) were aged under 6 months and 186 (23%) were between 6 months to under 2 years.
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Sickandtiredaus Jordan Crane @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Put on a respirator Victoria! Data from: nindss.health.gov.au/pbi-dashboard/
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Dashboard  · NINDSS Portal
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Sickandtiredaus Jordan Crane @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Victorian C19 Update - 29th May 2025 Victorian cases have increased 4 weeks in a row. With one day of data to still come this week, cases in Victoria have grown by 28% so far and 253% since May 2nd. This puts Victoria on track for the highest weekly case count for the year, this week.
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The Trump regime canceled Moderna’s contract to develop a bird flu vaccine, saying it “was not scientifically or ethically justifiable”. This is not just a RFK Jr anti-vax crusade. This entire regime does not care about human life. These fascists are content with mass death.
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Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 29/05/2025
Zaur Gurtsiev, the first deputy mayor of Stavropol, was killed in an explosion last night. He led the air component of Russia’s capture of Mariupol and won multiple medals as a soldier before joining city govt. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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A veteran’s violent end Officer who led Russia’s Mariupol air assault, then became deputy mayor, dies in suspicious blast — Meduza
The first deputy mayor of Stavropol was killed in an explosion on Wednesday night. Zaur Gurtsiev, 34, joined his hometown’s city government after participating in the Kremlin’s “Time of Heroes”…
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 13/03/2025
Exclusive | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has failed to declare her directorship of a family trust, in breach of resolutions on senators' interests.
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Price fails to declare directorship related to family trust, blames 'oversight'
A late disclosure, an undeclared directorship, and unanswered questions about investments in Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s discretionary family trust.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Canada 🍁 invests $62 million in new biomanufacfuring & R&D space - to be used to produce genetic medicines to treat infections, cancers, rare disease and neurodegenerative diseases Good! www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
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Canada supports biomanufacturing capacity to advance next generation medicines - Canada.ca
Project will help build a 103,000-square-foot facility to scale up and increase production of finished vials of therapeutics and vaccines
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🦋 Betsy 1776 🦋 📎 @bandroll.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AOC is 100% correct. The Republicans control the branches of government. They can try to blame the Democrats but the ball is in the Republicans court.
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tiggy @bctiggy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is Canada. This is what we are fighting for. We will NEVER be the 51st anything. We have work to do. Let's do it for each other. Let's do it for our land, our water, our resources, and our history. We cannot, we will not, go down in history as anything other than Canada. #Canada
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Dear Canada...
Dear Canada... I felt compelled to do something, to make something for my country. To stick up for, and to honour it. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy,…
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧵(1/5) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 8 Mar 2025 🔸COVID positivity rate: 5.9% (Stable) 🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 2 out of 4 🔹COVID: 1,608 (-7.1%) 🔹Influenza: 1,497 (+2.3%) 🔹RSV: 1,126 (+5.7%) Source: www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...
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Sickandtiredaus Jordan Crane @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
You can protect yourself & your loved ones from COVID with these 6 steps: 😷 Wear a respirator mask 🏠 Stay home if sick ⏰ Test if you have symptoms 🌳 Let fresh air in or meet outdoors 💉 Stay up to date with your vaccinations 💡 Talk to your GP about COVID medicines. youtu.be/FlBfq22nxt8?...
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Jordan’s long COVID story
YouTube video by Department of Health Victoria
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A $100B here, a $100B there, and pretty soon it starts to look like real money.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Quite the travesty that @nytimes.com spent so long normalizing mass Covid infections & platforming folks like Emily Oster, and now they publish this...
NYT editorial from March 10 detailing multi organ lasting damage from COVID. Title - A clearer picture of COVID's effects on the body
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Dear @markbutlermp.bsky.social It is downright embarrassing that the PHAA is forced to continue to call for an Australian CDC in 2025 With avian flu, measles, cvd, tb, rsv, pneumonia etc all threatening, why have you continued to shelve the ACDC for another year?
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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump is single handedly smashing everyone’s retirement savings around the world. apple.news/AyxHo8aGvRSu...
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How Trump tariff fears are shredding your super savings — The West Australian
President Donald Trump’s tariff turmoil is hurting Australia’s retirement savings as plunging shares erode super balances.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Being an asshole has consequences.
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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Children are increasingly starting primary school struggling to talk” Well it can’t be lockdowns - many of the kids that started school last September weren’t even born! So can we start addressing the elephant in the room: Covid brain damage. #LongCovidKids www.independent.co.uk/news/educati...
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Children are starting primary school struggling to communicate, teachers have warned
Warnings over declining language skills come as early years organisations publish list of things a child should be able to do before they start reception
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Australia: "Scourge of coronavirus is still killing the vulnerable." "20 more Australians are dying each day than before the pandemic due to Covid. It sits 5 times higher than the annual road toll, and 10 times higher than seasonal flu deaths." Source: archive.md/TSEHU
Scourge of coronavirus is still killing the vulnerable.

Research shows undiagnosed Covid cases and the long-term health impacts of the pandemic have driven an enduring decline of life expectancy.
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Definitely is some sort of crime.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
3/3 It’s a long ltr covering complicated developments & with a lot of attachments, feel free to chop & use parts/paras most important to you *Pls take a moment to add your own personal experience in the space left in the 3rd para - it is always powerful docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Mp letter Novavax Feb 2025
Dear I am writing to you as a constituent to express my frustration at the ongoing failure of the federal government to provide equitable access to COVID-19 vaccination. There are thousands of Austra...
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
1/3 NOVAVAX TEMPLATE LETTER pls share For anyone outraged at fed govt’s abject failure to provide access to Novavax cvd vaccines for > a year now In last post is a template you can use as basis 4 a ltr to yr federal MP, health minister Butler or to yr local newspaper Editor
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dw-farrell.bsky.social @dw-farrell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I believe the TX cases are now up to 48 with 13 hospitalizations with the majority being between the ages of 5 to 15.
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Sue Me @superberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I keep thinking about the 24 people with measles in TX: 9 of them were hospitalized. That’s a 37.5% hospitalization rate, which is a HUGE proportion in epidemiological terms. Magats really voted for the dumbest Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Conquest: Trump War: Hegseth Famine: Musk Death: RFK
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Ziggy🇨🇦 @bendyziggy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Canada needs to get functioning provincial gov’ts (or FED needs to set up program outside of PH &HC, which are prov here🙄) &hire as many scientists, immunologists, PH, epidemiologists…etc from CDC, NIH etc &become WW disease powerhouse. Opportunity knocks, need to answer call &fill void. 🤷‍♀️
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
CDC 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’.”
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Please read this thread. It could make a difference to your health. Before I went away, I had a strange, persistent tingling in the soles of my feet. When I looked it up, there were some benign exp...
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My university (University College Dublin) is hiring four (!!) new Assistant Profs in areas of digital culture and humanities - deadline is 21 Feb. Please boost & share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO003/a... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN993/a... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO000/a... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN997/a...
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Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Irish and Digital Humanities at University College Dublin
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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🌬Arctic Char 50501 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺 @arcticchar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I am absolutely furious and terrified at this. Third runway at Heathrow, freezing fuel duty and hiking the bus cap: this Labour government are almost literally pouring petrol on the climate crisis. Shame on them.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 22 Jan to 28 Jan 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 1,086 (-16.6%) 🔹Influenza: 577 (-12.9%) 🔹RSV: 412 (+9.2%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 179 (-12.6%) 🔸Influenza: 24 (-27.2%) 🔸RSV: 21 (-34.3%) Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯 Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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Gas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coast
The energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to...
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni Priorities matter
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
UNDERLYING is back All reports I’ve seen of 1st US death from H5N1 bird flu are littered with othering reassurances: “Underlying health issues” “Underlying medical problems” “Underlying medical conditions” Plus all mention age >65 So pacifying 😮‍💨 🙄 bnonews.com/index.php/20...
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Louisiana reports first U.S. death from H5N1 bird flu - BNO News
A patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1 bird flu has succumbed to the illness, according to local health officials, making it the first reported death in the United Stat...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/12/2024
A lot of rich parents are very upset at the government for charging VAT on private school fees. Maybe they should instead ask why private schools have put up fees so far above inflation over the past 15 years. www.ft.com/content/852b...
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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
many people believe that “sandy” is former politician tim quilty. how sad, if true. bsky.app/profile/grey...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This particular framing this year appears to have come from the NHS, so I'm assuming they thought they needed something new to make people take notice? But I don't think it's helpful. As you say the winter peak in infections is well known - we just seem unable to plan effectively for it!
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Winter peak… unable to plan…
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Childless Dog Lady @donotsurrender.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This country is terribly broken.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
One of the first uses of disease surveillance in epidemiology was in 1348 when public health officers in Venice boarded ships to see if anyone had the plague, and if they did, prevented them from leaving We are in 2024 & have learned very little 🫠
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Megastar27 @megastar27.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#covidisnotover #weararespirator Flu evrimagaci.org/tpg/mariah-c...
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Mariah Carey Cancels Christmas Tour Shows Due To Illness
Mariah Carey, the renowned pop diva and self-proclaimed
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson freed in Greenland after five months
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson freed in Greenland after five months
Danish authorities reject a Japanese bid to extradite the campaigner because of his time spent in detention.
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