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Sue J

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Writing: criticalprecaution.wordpress.com Advocacy: www.cleaneraircollective.com

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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Protect your brain like it matters 😷
Image of helmets with words “this is brain protection”

Image of respirators with words “so is this”
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Robert Irwin is still masking on planes 😷 👏 Comfortable enough to sleep in during a long haul flight from Australia to LA
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
🚨📢 ATT: Australians who wish healthcare was safer Here’s your chance to tell the ACSQHC about your experiences to help shape/update the National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards Pls take 10 mins to say what would make healthcare safer for you 🙏 www.surveymonkey.com/r/5PWCFTJ
DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO RAISE YOUR VOICE
ON SAFER AUST HEALTHCARE
10 min Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care survey on your experiences with healthcare to help shape the third edition of the NSQHS
(National Safety and Quality Health Service) Standards
QUESTIONS THEY'RE ASKING:
WHEN YOU VISIT A HOSPITAL, WHAT MAKES YOU CONFIDENT YOU/YOUR FAMILY WILL RECEIVE SAFE, HIGH-QUALITY CARE?
HOW CAN THE QUALITY OF CARE BE IMPROVED?
HOW CAN PERSON-CENTRED CARE BE IMPROVED?
(CARE THAT FOCUSES ON LISTENING TO UNDERSTAND YOUR NEEDS, VALUES & PREFERENCES, INVOLVING YOU IN CARE DECISIONS, RESPECTING YOUR CHOICES & TREATING YOU WITH DIGNITY & KINDNESS)
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO TELL US OR SUGGEST?
CLOSES TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2025
HTTPS://Www.SURVEYMONKEY.COM/R/5PWCFTJ
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Haven’t picked up a copy of Herald-Sun in a while, look what I found when I did😳 Inflammatory headline correlating 😷 & violence The most unhelpful, polarising, politicising framing jeopardising those of us trying to protect our health with a medical accessibility tool It’s a slippery slope
Page of the Herald-Sun newspaper with a photo of a protest with several participants wearing various face coverings

And the headline? “Masked & dangerous”
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🧵Excerpts from Cleaner Air Collective productivity sub many brilliant members of CAC have been busy working on submissions, consultations, inquiries, FOI requests etc, raising voices on behalf of us all on everything from IAQ productivity gains to masks in healthcare & transparency re vaccines🙌
"Australian businesses & organisations are experiencing reduced productivity due to increased absenteeism
(productivity loss due to time off work) and presenteeism (lower productivity due to illness while working) from acute and chronic illness and workforce loss of skilled, hard to replace workers.
Addressing IAQ in Australia's poorly ventilated buildings is an opportunity to boost productivity that will provide a strong return on investment."
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
HUGE NEWS‼️ Plum @saferairproject.bsky.social is invited to NY to speak at the “Healthy Indoor Air: Global Call to Action” event on at UN Gen Ass in Sept 🙌 ❤️ Opportunity 4 her to raise lived experience & accessibility, a self funded trip Crowdfunding link: golbalcall.raiselysite.com Pls share🙏
golbalcall.raiselysite.com
Taking Safer shared air to UN Climate Week
Help us take Safer shared air to UN Climate Week
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Imagine …
I WANT TO CLEAR THE AIR:
I CAN'T BE SAFE IN A ROOM WITH COVID
SO I SPEND MY TIME INDOORS IN SPACES
WHERE I CLEAN THE AIR 24/7
THAT'S HOW I AVOID AIRBORNE INFECTIONS
AND STAY HEALTHY
NOW JUST IMAGINE ALL THE ROOMS WERE HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD
I COULD GO ANYWHERE AND EVERYONE WOULD BE HEALTHIER
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Screaming on the sidelines, but few are listening everyone is choosing a v pretty, fun, scenic path, but it leads straight over a cliff We warn and they just smile and wave and continue toward disaster
Person standing in front of a sunrise 

Wording:
I get frustrated when healthy people don't value & protect that good health
I'd give a lot to live in a body that doesn't hurt every day & can do all the things I miss so much

one day you'll wish you had protected your quality of life from airborne infectious disease
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
You wouldn’t go out in a storm without protection 🌂 Don’t drown in chronic illness by going out in a storm of airborne infectious disease without protection 😷
Background of a stormy sky with wording 

Covid doesn’t care if 
You’re strong
You’re smart
You’re rich
You’re pretty
You’re famous
You’re successful
You’re fit
You’re healthy
You’re young
You’re talented

Your next infection could bring a storm of chronic illness into your life 

Protect your quality of life with an umbrella of protections (with pic of umbrella with mask, vaccine, hepa, open window and tests on it)
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Safe healthcare ⭐️ Arrived at dentist 8am, cold & wet in Melb but all doors & windows wide open & every staff member in headstrap respirator ready 4 me 🤩 respect shown is priceless Noticed when driving away that the door now closed, sad no one else is protected, but they look after me
Aranet CO2 monitor reading 573 🤩
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Breaking Novavax news🚨 Just called Biocelect to hear that despite no updates on TGA status page… …Biocelect actually submitted Novavax JN.1 4 weeks ago & it’s currently sitting w- TGA, awaiting approval 😮 A step closer to protection we can med tolerate🤞 Get yr ltr in to help expedite approval ⬇️
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Last weekend (as part of the year of having fun safely) we did a leadlighting course Girls went in while I parked car & as soon as instructor saw them 😷 he offered to mask too 🤩 better than many HCWs… We layered protections, ate lunch in backyard & had a fun creative day 😊 highly recommended
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
DIY PH messaging to share as cases go through the roof in Australia putting the health system under enormous pressure If there are gaps in your mitigations, this variant will find them Will your next Cvd infection be the one that leads to long Cvd?
Images of various respirator masks with wording:

It’s ok to
Start 
Wearing
A mask
Again this winter
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We need as many fed MPs as poss asking Health Minister to personally negotiate procurement/distribution of Novavax & ensure Australians have equitable access It’s his responsibility & can’t be shirked by blaming Biocelect, TGA or ATAGI Pls use our template ⬇️ to write to yr rep
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Surprisingly decent advice on how to limit spread of cvd, cold & flu at home 😮 *isolate from rest of household *wear mask at home when sick *maintain good hygiene *open doors/windows to boost ventilation, ⬆️ air turnover *be up to date with cvd & flu vaccines www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
abc.net.au
What you can do to stop the spread of illness in your home
Winter can be a contagious time of year for everything from COVID-19 to the common cold, but there are ways to limit the risk of illnesses spreading from one family member or housemate to another.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Loitering under billboards again taking pics, turning spotlight on experiences of Australians trying to safely access healthcare Great to catch up w- @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social IRL❤️can you see our Cvd conscious messages/protection layers? Share yr story w- PRI b/c we all deserve safe healthcare
Photo of Jordan and I standing under a billboard that says “I am immunocompromised and was exposed to visibly sick staff in hospital” with a tagline “everyone deserves safe access to healthcare”

I’m wearing an aura respirator, Jordan is in a black Trident with a Berlin Buyers Club top with slogan “long COVID is chronic. Masking is iconic.” Plus a bonus Cleaner Air Collective “CAUTION WEAR A MASK IN HEALTHCARE” sticker on the pole!
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Exciting new billboard advocacy campaign underway shining a light on lived experience of unsafe healthcare in Australian hospitals - we deserve better To push 4 change, we need evidence: pls share yr unsafe hospital experiences here* pandemicresistance.org/safe-access *can be anonymous
pandemicresistance.org
safe-access-to-healthcare
Get involved in the fight against COVID.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Up to 5.8 million US kids chronically ill w- long cvd already; in Aust we neither count them or protect them “Vascular damage, heart damage, immune system damage, cognitive damage” vs “Cvd poses a minimal threat to healthy children” 🫠 Betrayal & destruction of a generation
THE DISSONANT JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN THESE IS SO JARRING
IT HURTS

(Two articles)

A. THE GAUNTLET
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
JULIA DOUBLEDAY

B. Canberra Times,  ATAGI no longer recommending the CVD-19 vaccine for healthy people aged u18.
Bernie Ryan
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Lots who talk the talk. But few follow through with the inconvenience of walking the walk. Be informed. Be critical of thought. Be independent. Be precautious. Be farsighted. Be logical. Be compassionate. Be well.
Side by side:

Left - large crowd of faces with wording “those who want to be healthy”

Right - couple of individual faces wearing respirator masks with wording “those actually prepared to protect their health”
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“New study finds on average, it takes up to 3 mths to return to good physical health after Cvd infection & 9 months to recover good mental well-being. For up to 20% of infected people in study, mental-health recovery took even longer: up to a year or more” time.com/7292910/covi...
time.com
Still Not Feeling the Same After COVID-19? You’re Not Alone
The physical and mental effects of COVID-19 can linger for months and even years.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In honour of Scott Morrison being recognised in this year's King's Birthday Honours list for his leadership during the pandemic I thought it would be great to remember a few of his very finest moments of said leadership … Good times - remember “it’s not a race”?
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A declaration of (informed) independence Built on a foundation of verified, evidence based strategies Sustained by resilience, community and commitment to human rights ✊ 😷
I WILL CONTINUE TO PROTECT MY HEALTH FROM DESTRUCTIVE AIRBORNE INFECTIOUS DISEASE
AS A DEFIANT DECLARATION OF INFORMED RESISTANCE
I WILL CONTINUE TO PRIORITISE MY HEALTH, QUALITY OF LIFE & LIFE EXPECTANCY AS A PERSONAL AFFIRMATION OF THE INTRINSIC VALUE OF MY EXISTENCE
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I don’t trust our society, politicians & commentators w- this question anymore “⬆️ in new diagnoses of malignancy outstrips estimates based on ageing pop alone, suggesting cancer is becoming more common…Should there be cut-off age 4 cancer treatment? & if so what should it be?”
Herald Sun headline:

“Are we helping or harming older patients by treating their cancer?”
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Everyone’s aware an early winter cvd infection creates immune system dysfunction… …leaving them sitting 🦆 4 every flu, RSV, pneumonia, measles, cold, future cvd variant that comes their way, right? 😬 Mask up, get boosted, improve IAQ & save yrself from a miserable winter
Discipline weighs ounces
 (pics of mask, open window, hepa purifier, RAT, CPC mouthwash, nasal spray, vaccine)

Regret weighs tons
(Various pics of sick, miserable people)
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A/P Paul Grifffin 👏 “When colder, we’re more likely to be indoors, in close proximity to others…also ⬇️ ventilation/airflow. Large indoor gatherings can be hotbed 4 flu & Cvd” His advice: ventilate w- airflow/air purifiers & avoid others if symptomatic www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Fewer people are dying from COVID-19. New strains could reverse that trend this winter
An expert says the decline in deaths from COVID-19 is due to strong vaccination rates and greater public awareness.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Congrats to a friend, a member of CC community who’s worked tirelessly to achieve community access to vital, expensive tools with co2 monitors available to borrow through Glen Eira libraries in Vic 👏 I am inspired to ask my local library to do the same 🤩 @arabelladaniel.bsky.social
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
There are so few humans making simple, sustainable choices There will be so many humans reaping regret Every layer of protection is an investment in a healthier future Each day of choosing denial or fitting in or immediate gratification is a pathway to loss
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Dear ⁦‪@Mark_Butler_MP‬⁩ You say you got yr cvd booster, it puts you in a good position over winter & other Australians should make sure they do the same You’re lucky you can medically tolerate mRNA, I can’t Pls get Novavax so we can have same protection as you www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...
health.gov.au
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
While I agree w- Ass Prof Herrero that “If you've got a cough or cold I'd wear a mask b/c you don't want to share that with other people” I’d also point out that using a mask proactively has stopped me getting a cough or cold (or covid) for over 5 yrs now … www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
abc.net.au
New COVID-19 strain 'pretty much everywhere' in Australia
The World Health Organization designated the new NB.1.8.1 strain as a "variant under monitoring" and it's now the dominant variant in China and Hong Kong.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Time reports on NB.1.8.1 “genetically equipped with changes that allow it to infect cells more efficiently. That means it could spread more easily” Article then asks “How do I protect myself against new variant?” & fails to even mention masks/cleaner air strategies 🤦‍♀️ time.com/7289133/new-...
time.com
What to Know About the New COVID-19 Variant NB.1.8.1
NB.1.8.1 has been surging in China and has now been detected in several U.S. states.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Magda (or any cancer patient) shouldn’t need to plead “I'll be lying g low while my immune system takes a hammering, so if you see me-don't hug me, kiss me or breathe anywhere near me” PH should inform us all on how to protect immunocompromised from airborne threats www.smh.com.au/culture/cele...
smh.com.au
Magda Szubanski reveals battle with ‘fast-moving’ blood cancer
The beloved Kath and Kim star announced her diagnosis in an Instagram post.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
WHO: “ADDITIONAL pub health risk of NB.1.8.1 evaluated as low…Despite concurrent ⬆️ in cases/hospitalizations, current data do not indicate it leads to more severe illness than other circulating variants” In other words, NB.1.8.1 to ➡️ just as much severe illness, hospitalisation, long Cvd & death 🤨
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Please share this with everyone you know who isn’t already taking these basic, evidence based precautions as their standard protocol when visiting aged care Might just save a grandparent’s life
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Cricketers w- cvd: not only Travis Head, also Marcus Stoinis recently infected w- cvd while on break in Aust: “Unfortunately I had cvd which we don’t talk about much anymore, but I had a bout of cvd when I got back which was a nice welcome home. So I rested up & came back here”
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I don’t know 4 sure if new cvd variant NB.1.8.1 is more severe But all evidence def points to it being highly virulent 200% ⬆️ in cases in a week in NZ 😮 ⬆️ in hospitalisations & deaths likely to follow If you relaxed yr protections recently, it’s def time to layer up again 😷
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New cvd variant NB.18.1 hits the news ⁦‪John Flint‬⁩ reports it’s driving ⬆️ in infections & hospitalisations in WA NB.1.8.1 also surging in Asia. In Hong Kong, cvd cases & hospitalisations have climbed to worst levels in past 12 mths Coming to a state near you… www.perthnow.com.au/news/public-...
perthnow.com.au
Grim COVID prediction as cases rise in Perth
West Aussies are being urged to get their vaccines.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It doesn’t feel like it mostly It’s heartbreaking, frustrating, devastating An impossibly difficult burden But truth + strength to face it & act on it Is a gift we continue to choose each day We can’t control everything, but we control what we can which is more than most
Being COVID conscious is a gift

A burdensome gift of the resilient few

The only ones with any hope of agency over their future
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Only Violet Affleck’s combo of intelligence, passion & platform could take an insightful academic PH essay & plaster its important messaging all over mainstream media Eg Daily Mail quoted multiple essay paragraphs in its extensive article 🙏 Violet 💜 www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
TGA reassurance as US restricts cvd vax access “TGA spokesperson said it’s independent of FDA influence "TGA works w- int counterparts inc US FDA, but independently reviews data & makes own decision within Aus context” Access 4 elig Austs "remains free in 2025” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
What's the future of COVID-19 vaccines in Australia after US restricts access?
The US Food and Drug Administration is changing how it approves COVID-19 vaccines for Americans. What does that mean for people wanting to get vaccinations in Australia?
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you’re not part of the solution, you are contributing to the lethal problem Whether motivated by greed or weakness, you are on the wrong side of history
Photo of a road stretching out into the mist with wording:

Everyone clinging to denial 
Is complicit
In the permanent pandemic
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🧵insightful quotes from Yale Global Health Review article by university student Violet Affleck Thoughtful analysis of the patterns of response to both the pandemic and climate crisis; and the opportunities to learn from chronically ill humans how to heal a chronically ill earth
"our bewildered response to crises like the LA fires tells us we may still be accustomed to addressing the climate crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic:
as a question of how fast we can get back around to pretending the problem is gone.
After all, the promised end to the pandemic has been more a matter of public relations than public health."
Violet Affleck
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
VIC CHO ALERT: ⬆️ risk of measles in greater Melb area *⬆️ measles cases acquired locally *recent cases infectious in public at multiple locations in greater Melb & Gippsland *Anyone w- measles symptoms to seek med care/testing. Wear a mask & call ahead to be isolated from others
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Global measles outbreak hits Australia “Aus has already recorded 52 measles cases for 2025, incl 20 in NSW, 14 in Vic, 13 in WA That's compared to 57 for all of last year & just 26 in 2023” Reminder: measles is airborne; clean air & masks as well as 💉 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
abc.net.au
How worried should Australia be about a measles outbreak?
Australia is in the middle of a surge in measles cases amid a global spike and declining childhood vaccination rates. So what precautions should be taken to avoid widespread transmission?
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Dear @markbutlermp.bsky.social Last week you declared the “end of cvd” on Q&A 🤦‍♀️ but *69% ⬆️ cvd deaths than predicted in 2024 *”2024 was materially worse than anticipated, both peak mortality of waves & underlying mortality b/w waves” *5x ⬆️ cvd deaths than flu *gen exc mortality 1% ⬆️ than expected
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“5 times as many Australians dying from Cvd than flu in 2024, shock* research published by the Actuaries Institute shows New analysis by lnstitute’s Mortality Working Group of mortality b/w Jan & Nov 2024 found: 69% MORE cvd deaths than predicted” *only a shock to those not paying attention
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A Pill to Prevent Cvd Shows Promise: ensitrelvir already approved in Japan as Cvd treatment US FDA considering it 4 fast-track approval to prevent cvd ensitrelvir ⬇️ risk of getting cvd by 67% by blocking virus’ ability to make more copies of itself time.com/7267886/pill...
time.com
A Pill to Prevent COVID-19 Shows Promise
Results from a late-stage study on the new drug ensitrelvir are encouraging.
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Ever wondered why fed gov refuses to lift a finger to protect the many aged care residents dying from cvd every week? Withholding vaccinations, respirators, tests, clean air to protect them? Listen to this & consider the pressing need to free up beds… it couldn’t be convenient neglect could it? 🤷‍♀️
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Q: What’s the only way to get @Mark_Butler_MP to say the words “bird flu”? A: Ask a question about the price of eggs 🙄 On Q&A, he dismissed bird flu as a “weird little simple story” 😳 Because bird flu is nothing more than an economic inconvenience, right? Nothing to see here… 🫠
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
1/2 I can’t find a Vic dept of health account here so wanted to share their most recent advice reminding us of the ongoing threat of COVID and advising evidence-backed layered protections Putting @markbutlermp.bsky.social to shame with his recent “end of COVID” comments on national tv 🤦‍♀️
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Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Long Covid Awareness Day journalism with integrity from ⁦‪@RollingStone‬⁩ “Living with any chronic health condition can be a lonely & isolating existence; but it’s esp alienating to live with one that reminds people of a pandemic they’d rather forget” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
rollingstone.com
Five Years of Pain, Fatigue, and Gaslighting: Life With Long Covid
People with Long Covid are still sick from a pandemic the rest of the world would rather forget.
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