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Flâneur Working on my unconscious biases every day Narrm-Melbourne-Victoria #DutyOfCare #CleanAirInSchools 💙📚 #auspol Banner: a still from The Truman Show Truman realises he can walk out of his reality Something I want to do more & more often
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · Dec 9
Schools, ahhh, schools…
I work in one
I’m the sole masker
I feel like I am also the sole mitigator.
I’m like a Swiss cheese factory - IYKYK

/🧵 #CovidConscious #CovidCautious
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 5h
🙋‍♀️school worker here from Victoria Australia
We locked down *a lot*
I had to carry a permit to drive to work!

I STILL wish for everyone to WFH
Why?

BECAUSE👏WE👏HAVEN’T👏IMPROVED👏AIR👏QUALITY👏

Don’t like masking? Improve the air quality🤷‍♀️

#DutyOfCare

#CleanAir #CovidIsAirborne #SafeIndoorAir
christosargyrop.bsky.social Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 5h
So true - as someone who has to physically show up to work most of the time, I wish you could all stay at home.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 5h
This is what “living with COVID” really means for too many families. Long COVID is not rare, and it’s devastating. We could’ve protected kids better — we still can.

Sending love and strength to every parent living this reality 💔

Source: x.com/rebeccaoco/s...
Rebecca O'Connor @rebeccaoco I actively hated lockdowns, cried my way through them and felt I was neglecting my children while they were stuck at home and I tried to work. Would have that again forever, compared to what I have now, which is two chronically ill children with long covid who can’t function. 6:31 AM · Oct 22, 2025 · 96.7K Views
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 1d
And the alternative wasn’t closing schools forever.

It was opening them more safely, and far more cautiously.
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 9h
Time to prioritise YOU Dr B

“Fit your own oxygen mask before…” n all that

Also, all emotions are valid

I’ve not been around here much but YOU are valued and important and need care too

🤗hugs not jazz hands🤗 ❤️‍🩹
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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 15h
This is a big deal for several reasons:
1. Set up for the SCOTUS
2. The ruling is limited per the judge not believing they have power to go beyond the 5 institutions.
3. Jesus Christ, yall, my book might end up back on a shelf or two after being banned.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 1d
The Defense Department banned nearly 600 books from schools on military bases — but in a win for free speech, a federal judge just ordered those books back to the shelves.
Federal judge orders Pentagon to restore LGBTQ+ books, gender & diversity lessons in military schools
Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvaez to comply immediately.
www.advocate.com
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 22h
Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access)

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Long COVID and Society
This is the first book to bring together academics and activists living with Long COVID to explore the social impacts of the new complex chronic condition.
link.springer.com
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 20h
Finished “The People vs Robodebt” SBS
I will let Jenny Miller speak for me, for a LOT of us:

‘promised me there will be consequences for the perpetrators of #Robodebt ‘

‘a toothless #NACC ‘

‘ #ReleaseTheNames
it's time to #Name&Shame
it's time you honoured your promise to me’

#auspol #Robodebt
Screenshot from X. A profile pic shows a smiling Rhys, Jenny’s son: Jenny Miller @JennyMi11374978 @AlboMP you promised me that there will be consequences for the perpetrators of #Robodebt yet here we are, a toothless #NACC everything kept secret, release the names, it's time to name & shame & it's time you honoured your promise to me Quentin Dempster @Quentin... 7/10/2025 C'mon @AlboMP, you promised Australians a new era of transparency .. not more bl**dy secrecy! FOI changes: Labor must drop flawed and friendless freedom of information bill afr.com/politics/feder... 6:41pm • 8/10/2025 from Earth • 12K Views
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 22h
“Like the analogy of using either the heel of your shoe or a hammer to pound nails, only one is fit for purpose... The WHN joins the CSA & the BOHS in affirming that like hammers, respirator masks are the designed tool to prevent respiratory illness...”

#CovidIsAirborne

#DutyOfCare

#education
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d
Published: 21 October 2025

The study found that in men who had a pre-infection sperm analysis, both sperm concentration and progressive motility significantly dropped one month after COVID infection. Recovery typically occurred within 3–5 months. However, some individuals had lingering reductions.
The sperm quality change in 6 months recovery from COVID-19: a retrospective observational study - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The sperm quality change in 6 months recovery from COVID-19: a retrospective observational study
www.nature.com
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d
I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.

"RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies."

Source: archive.li/RfrjA
I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us. RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies. By Jesse Hagopian , Truthout Published October 20, 2025
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 1d
Who has the best snacks now?
You know, strike up a casual conversation 😇

😆
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d
"COVID mRNA vaccines may be able to train immune system to attack cancer cells, boost survival"

COVID-19 mRNA vaccination boosts survival in patients with advanced lung or melanoma skin cancer who began immunotherapy within 100 days, according to data from the 2025 ESMO Congress in Berlin.
COVID mRNA vaccines may be able to train immune system to attack cancer cells, boost survival
www.cidrap.umn.edu
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d
Scientists have been studying remote work for 4 years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”

Flexible work boosts well-being and focus—people sleep more, commute less, eat better, and spend more time with family while maintaining results.

archive.li/URhbv
Article headline reads: “Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and found: ‘Working from home makes us thrive.’” Below, a man sits on a couch using a laptop, symbolizing remote work and flexibility.
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 2d
Or like this?

#LongCovid #LongCovidKids
#MEcfs #pwME

I could go on but I choose to spend no more time regurgitating drivel
Screenshot from X with small profile pic in top left corner of the head and shoulders of a white man smiling looking directly at the camera Dr. Nick Coatsworth & @nick_coatsworth Childhood long COVID can be removed from any policy discussion regarding opening schools #auspol #covid19aus #covid19vic #covid19nsw 3 Nigel Curtis @nigeltwitt • 17/9/2021 Global studies on long COVID and children 'unnecessarily worrying', say researchers theage.com.au/national/globa... 10:22 am • 17/9/2021 from Earth
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 2d
You mean like this?

I don’t believe his attitude has changed much since then..but he is unlikely to seek out interaction with parents of #LongCovidKids
Screenshot of X post, there’s a small profile pic in top left corner of the head and shoulders of a white man in scrubs smiling & looking directly into the camera Dr. Nick Coatsworth & @nick_coatsworth As we keep schools shut whilst we vaccinate adults, we need to emphasise to parents the mild nature of COVID in children, and consider the harms that prolonged schools closures cause. There are other numbers than COVID numbers. #covid19aus @MCRI_for_kids mcri.edu.au/sites/default/… 7:01 pm • 14/9/2021 from Earth
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 2d
I’ll leave this here:
jaredjensen.bsky.social Jared Jensen @jaredjensen.bsky.social · 2d
The main lesson from the Trump years will be that laws are only relevant if someone enforces them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d
This is insane.

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jared Jensen @jaredjensen.bsky.social · 2d
The main lesson from the Trump years will be that laws are only relevant if someone enforces them.
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Stace RN Resists 📎💙 Portland Strong @stacernresists.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you Kenny Loggins!
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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · 3d
Interested in studying #ME/CFS #LongCovid with a health psychology/ public health lense? @wwtf.at will sponsor six month fellowships, and I would be delighted to act as your host. Please reach out if you are interested!
More info: wiki.wwtf.at/books/mecfs-...
ME/CFS Call 2026 - Fel... | WWTF
This is a call for early career ME/CFS researchers to conduct a six month research stay at a researc...
wiki.wwtf.at
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 3d
Did you see this 🤔😃
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Scarletp @scarletp1792.bsky.social · 3d
“Of the countless brave things Ms. Giuffre did in her life, the bravest was sharing her own vulnerability.”

(forced to be) One of the gutsiest women

💪💪

😔 💔
chriswallace.bsky.social Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 3d
‘Why do we, as a society, ask those who have been weakened by abuse to do the heaviest lifting… Instead of requiring the wounded to endlessly recite their worst memories on repeat, why don’t we bear down more forcefully on those they accuse of wrongdoing?’

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...
Opinion | Why Virginia Roberts Giuffre Would Not Stop Talking About Jeffrey Epstein
www.nytimes.com
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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4d
In rare moment of honesty, Donald Trump owns up to shitting all over America.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d
The President of the United States has posted an AI video of himself unloading tons of raw sewage on American cities.

One of the targets in the AI video is Harry Sisson.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4d
Just in from two SF No Kings events (Ocean Beach and then a colossal march and rally downtown). So many good signs, so much devotion to justice, liberty, human rights, and Jesus lord the one part of the US economy that must be booming right now: INFLATABLE critter costumes.
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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