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Our challenge: accept reality, then never stop working to change it *more thoughts at https://nitter.cf/t.co/fxKpIr6JnQ
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New article on connection b/w unprecedented level of corp sponsorship of Paris Olympics & sub-par PH protections offered to athletes, staff & spectators
The more corp $ invested, the more corp influence & the higher priority placed on profits over health
criticalprecaution.wordpress…
“While COVID-19 continues to pose a serious risk to vulnerable populations … testing for cvd no longer recommended 4 symptomatic healthcare staff working in clinical areas caring for profoundly immunocompromised patients”
WTAF 😳
Unsafest place for those at risk is healthcare
This is how you bury an ongoing pandemic
Australia did something similar with excess deaths
Creating their new normal by sweeping the old normal under the rug
it doesn’t matter how many infected, disabled or dead as long as the numbers are reassuring and memories are faded
The CDC raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, officials may now classify a level that once counted as high transmission as moderate instead. nbcnews.com/data-graphics/cd…
I don’t agree at all w- new narrowed eligibility 4 free cvd vaccines
But I know Australians relieved to see this advice from ATAGI
“People who are not eligible 4 funded Cvd vaccine may choose to purchase the vaccine privately”
(Now approve Nuvaxavoid)
health.gov.au/sites/default/…
Research on why acute cvd fully securitized but not LC, despite pot ⬆️ long-term socioeconomic burden
Due to actor framing/audience uptake; visibility of harm; ‘body count bias’ privileges mortality over morbidity; disincentives ⬇️ attention to chronic crises
Link to study ⬇️
LC’s slow trajectory, lack of spectacle & stigmatized/marginalized pops relegate it to technocratic risk mgt
Structurally ill-equipped to respond to slow-onset, disabling threats, vulnerable to gradual erosion rather than acute, lethal shock
link.springer.com/article/10…
Cleaner Air Collective just signed to support the Nat Healthy Air Strategy, a Consensus Statement & Prebudget Submission
Pls use link below to add your voice to the call for a National Healthy Air Strategy
🙏 Centre for Safe Air & Safer Air Project
safeair.org.au/national-heal…
Lionel Richie in ICU
“checked himself into local hospital after Sun concert, to have tests run & being treated”
dehydration, asked 4 chair to perform sitting, similar episode when he ended concert early & rushed to hospital w- dizzy spell, canceled shows thecut.com/article/lionel-ri…
Qlders warned to brace 4 late flu wave to sweep the state in coming wks
QLD Health data shows 44% ⬆️ in cases from prev wk & hospitalisations surging
CHO Gale said the peak yet to come
“We don’t know exactly when … but expect cases to keep rising”
😷 couriermail.com.au/subscribe…
“The Yale University student (Violet Affleck) covered up with a face mask”
This is what making smart choices every day, year in year out looks like
CC people everywhere doing the same, trying to live and stay safe in a world that refuses to cooperate pagesix.com/2026/08/25/paren…
This is exceedingly embarrassing in 2026 🤦♀️
“Park Ridge Achievement Academy classes will be canceled Friday due to a rise in Cvd cases.
Cancellation to allow for additional cleaning & disinfecting at the campus”
IT’S IN THE AIR FFS
School in Baker, LA closes due to rising COVID cases. Responds by disinfecting surfaces. COVID is airborne. Clean air is needed. Too few schools know this yet. We need more voices explaining it, teaching it in schools. #CleanAir yahoo.com/news/us/articles/c…
“b/c of Aus strict approach that we had one of strongest pop survival rates
US Death Rate ≈3.7x Aust’s, Serbia’s DR ≈2.7x
If we’d taken US looser approach, we’d have lost 90k not 25k & that was tragic enough. We did it our way & 65k alive now who otherwise prob wouldn’t be”
My column.
Pull your head in Novak, on your Covid carry-on.
and
Elite school sports culture has much to answerr, but school sport can still be a force for good smh.com.au/sport/elite-schoo…
“It seems clear that SARS-CoV-2’s multi-layered immune evasion provides minimal protection against influenza. Flu appears to protect against Covid-19 but Covid-19 may do the opposite. If that asymmetry holds at pop’n scale, there is a sig PH implication” johnsnowproject.org/primers/…
Approx 18 mths ago I entered a Vic ED which had a box of surgicals 😷 in foyer, no signage or advice
Over many hours, pleasantly surprised to see a consistent 60% of those in waiting room voluntarily masked up (also big industrial HEPAs)
If you provide, some wear & all benefit
Honestly not sure whether it’s good luck or good management that these Portland residents are wearing respirators & gloves (note goggles also advised by ACDC)
Govt needs to provide specific advice - not ambiguous “protective equipment”
& provide PPE too abc.net.au/news/2026-08-19/f…
Infectious passion but no infectious disease transmission
🙌 🏅😷
Another example of Australian elite swimming coaches understanding the competitive advantage of protecting their athletes from airborne infectious diseases
It’s a consistent medical strategy that they’ve been committed to for years now and Aust performances are brilliant 🥇
Wearing p2 respirators in 2022
nitter.cf/smpwrgr/status/1548300…
And recently at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where Australia dominated with 171 medals 🥇
nitter.cf/smpwrgr/status/2080956…
Dr Chin-Hong, ID specialist on priorities:
“I respect air more than surfaces”
He thinks ventilation: with large grp of people, he opens windows & ensures heat/air con brings in outside air not recirculating
Improving the air gives “bigger bang for yr $” time.com/article/2026/08/10/…
