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We need to remember - and we need to remind everyone - because it seems so easily forgotten.
My thoughts in @westaustralian this week.
Dr Andrew Miller - bring back disease prevention
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Dr Andrew Miller - bring back disease prevention
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Director Australian Medical Assocn, Past Pres Aust Soc of Anaesthetists, & AMA WA. Columnist @WestAustralian. Posts = political. Like, RT ≠ E. _drajm_ threads
- A large part of the medical profession has backed itself into bias corner by prematurely assuming COVID-19 was or would become benign enough for us to all simply “live with” repeated infections. Now many want to grasp every straw to avoid the notion they are terribly wrong.
- The main argument I hear against masks is ‘people dont want them’. Public health stops smoking, fences pools, mandates incredible car safety tech, & safe workplaces, none of which people initially wanted - but that is the whole point of a public health campaign.
- Repeated COVID infection is likely to be worse than smoking for your longterm health.
- ‘The child who died of covid had underlying health conditions’ is a dark phrase meant to convey 1. this avoidable death wasn’t our fault even tho we started this outbreak thru carelessness then failed to control it then gave up & pretended this was not only our PLAN but /2
- I'm not tired of simple #covid precautions at all. I have no problem wearing a mask when indoors in public & absolutely no issue eating alfresco or takeaway via the app & sending a tip. I can keep this up; I don't feel it is a big price for a privileged first-worlder to pay.
- So NSW jumped to 16 children admitted with covid now, 3 in ICU, 1 on a ventilator, the insiders tell me. Protecting our children, whatever their prior health conditions, must be a national priority. We cant just vaccinate adults & pretend kids will be fine. Some are not already.
- Your triple dose vaccine is pretty good for protection against severe omicron. However when the hospitals are overwhelmed, as most likely they will be, have you got a plan for the car accident or heart attack or stroke or cancer you might suffer? Broken hospitals are dangerous.
- Just been to the shops and it seems the verdict is in - Australians mostly wont do ‘personal responsibility’. Mandate masks or it just wont happen.
- Doherty model predicts about 80 deaths of kids <16 in first 180 days (70% trigger for reopening, with low starting cases). That’s why I think there are no more daily NSW press conferences. As these deaths roll in people will lose their minds that this was the IN THE PLAN.
- I’m no obstetrician but I’m pretty sure Tharnicca didn’t arrive in Australia by boat.
- As I travel I see maskless frail elderly being loaded onto planes with care by family. The disconnect between the love being displayed to them & the disregard for their safety is surely ignorance of airborne disease caused by failed public health messaging & misinformation.
- Cant wait until the #covid movie gets to the bit where the cool kids who won't wear masks realise the geeks have been right all along & see the baddies for who they are & join the fight against airborne transmission.