Think I'll keep wearing respirators on public transport, etc. I'm a big fan of clear breathing.

Last person to ask me, "What's with the mask?", was 3 weeks ago in a hospital (just visiting). 2 weeks later, I could hear the same person coughing non-stop with a respiratory infection.

I was 'harassed' (/s) by a boy with a pram who looked about 2-3 years old, staring at me (masked after running about a half marathon for no good reason) on the train yesterday. His Mum apologised, as we were both absolutely cracking up laughing about it. She was awesome. Made my day.

Tough situation. Was anyone able to call his Mummy to bring him a teddy bear or something?

You truly are a piece of work. Absolute disinformation agent.

Many Palestinians, including Arab Palestinians, did resist Nazis. But most supported the Nazis, including the Grand Mufti of Palestine. The evil Nazis themselves still considered Arabs a sub-human species.

🤣 I think you've really chugged down quite enough Koolaid.

Okay. 🙃

🙄

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bu...

Most of Palestine was aligned with Axis powers (Nazi Germany). My great uncle (Aussie) fought Rommel's forces across North Africa and was shot down (KIA) blocking their escape from Sicily.

Not that WW2 has all that much relation to what's happening in the ME today.

Excellent! Well done Malaysia and congratulations on your bonus oil!

BTW, please let Mark Butler MP know that investing in research into post-acute sequelae of COVID is great (even though it's 6 years late), yet he continues completely ignoring the House of Reps Select Committee Inquiry recommendations to prevent infections first.

www.health.gov.au/news/mrff-23...

Well said.

One of the biggest lessons should be that policy choices to catastrophically overload healthcare systems by spreading infectious disease everywhere has wide-ranging impacts. The offender may have been under supervision & followed up otherwise. It's airborne & still spreading unmitigated.

sedition, kleptocratic mafia-state racketeering, societal destruction to foment insurrection, socially engineered cultural destruction, mass psychopathy by manufactured consent, institutional subversion for totalitarian dictatorship, morally destitute corruption, homicidal corporate socio-piracy.

Democide, bio-terrorism by weaponised disinformation, fifth-generation warfare, crimes against humanity, economic sabotage, treason & hostile foreign state collusion, executive capture & hostile domestic state-actor psyops, social murder, premeditated mass murder,

Or people would fix indoor air quality widely enough to drive transmission down, so respirators would become largely redundant almost everywhere, except for EDs or rare case isolation / close contact quarantine.

I've spent a whole day sitting directly opposite a highly infectious & symptomatic COVID case in a workshop in a small meeting room. Turned out they weren't just hot, sweaty & delirious from a lunchtime run. They were sick sick.

But nobody in the room that day caught it.

Because preventions work.

If conditions are really bad and I simply can't avoid somewhere I know or expect will be extremely high risk, then I implement further measures.

Designed and built a compact, lightweight, silent high-flow laminar output portable air purifier, that fits in a small backpack and runs on batteries.

I wind precautions up or down in real-time, based on exposure risk. Anywhere crowded/confined/unventilated/high-risk (public transport, healthcare, etc), then I always wear a respirator. Elsewhere depends on current levels of community transmission and what's going around. Monitor lab reports, EDs.

PPE is rational. Me:

Vaccines+boosters
Intentional fresh air ventilation + CO2 alarm
Filtering air purifiers (~HEPA)
Fitted, tested tri-fold N95 respirator w/ headbands
222nm Far-UVC for dining/drinking in public
EtOH spray handsan (but prefer soap+H2O)
Test

Haven't caught anything since mid-2019.

If our health regulators & administrators tried preventing infections in the first place, then few people would have any need to try such products.

Seeing most people (including most healthcare workers) become complacent and COVID & flu, while knowing what it actually does, feels like watching everyone take up a pack a day smoking habit just for the fun of it while they tell you it's safe.

I previously managed a large team of infectious disease epidemiologists with a focus on emerging pathogens and pathogens of pandemic potential. People would be HORRIFIED if they knew a tiny fraction of what those viruses are capable of.

Oh, it's absolutely a thing!

There's plenty of hard data showing your risk of heart attacks skyrockets for years after either COVID or influenza.

They're definitely not just acute respiratory viruses. People treat them as mild, but they are SERIOUS pathogens. Hence I've chosen not to catch them.

Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Immunity debt proponents own this. Media who platform minimizers own this.

Episode 4: How would we know if SARS-CoV-2 can cause cancer? YouTube video by Monkeys On Typewriters On YouTube

See also, e.g.:

youtu.be/ttPolkAIXco

It's been obvious for years.

I asked Dr Chansavath Phetsouphanh about the risk when he gave a lecture presenting lymphocytopenia study results in 2022. Just one of dozens of pro-cancer mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2.

I think the gist is that COVID fucks up your immune system and allows dormant cancer cells to grow. #MaskUp and protect yourself before they say in the future, Oops, you know what? We’re starting to learn that COVID might help lead to cancer…

For clarification: Substitute the last "." for ":"

Screenshot of a post from Truth Social: "Donald J. Trump ✓ ⊕ @realDonaldTrump · 51m A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran! Engagement metrics: 💬 4.07k 🔁 4.58k ♡ 20.1k"

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. [...] The Contracting Parties, Having considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 that genocide is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world, Recognizing that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity, and Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge, international co-operation is required, Hereby agree as hereinafter provided: Article 1. The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. Article 2. In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Article 3. The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. Article 4. Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals. Article 5. The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation [...]

Last I saw, Australia is meant to still be a party to the United Nations "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide", @albomp.bsky.social.

This statement is grotesque, even in war.

#auspol

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

I've had every booster. Never had COVID to my knowledge. But mostly because I've taken airborne transmission precautions from the start, that governments and most doctors continue ignoring. I respect the tiny minority of healthcare who take indoor air quality, respirators, testing, etc., seriously.

They're clearly not capable of it. Neural atrophy. Too stupid to learn.

Then they wonder why public health is getting defunded in so many places. They're busy dismantling it themselves.