MsTerious #WearAMask #CovidIsAirborne

What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?

It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes.

How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims?

The ALP in your head is long dead.

SA Liberals back One Nation as leader won't condemn Bernardi comments South Australia's Liberal opposition will preference One Nation over Labor at the upcoming state election, as other parties condemn "outrageous" comments by One Nation's Cory Bernardi.

The SA Liberals will recommend voters preference One Nation ahead of Labor in all seats

"We want to see as many as Liberals elected as possible, and that's the prism in which we look at all our preferences," Ms Hurn said.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal

Children under 2 hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to die or become seriously ill than babies with RSV, according to a new study.

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Trump administration’s embattled FDA vaccine chief ousted for the second time Vinay Prasad to leave in April after decisions involving vaccine reviews and specialty drugs for rare diseases

❗️Prasad is out (again) at the FDA

1. A #flu update:
Another 11 children have died this flu season, bringing the total to date to 90. #CDC says of those with known vaccination status, 85% weren't fully vaccinated.
That number will continue to rise in coming weeks. But 2026 may not be as bad as 2025 for peds flu deaths.🤞🤞

Australia Weekly COVID Update, 6 March 2026. TAS up +38.8%. QLD up +28.6% (33 in hospital). VIC up +20.0%. NSW up +7.2%. SA down -6.3%. WA down -8.0% (avg 19/day in hospital). ACT Health ended weekly reporting for 2025; will resume in autumn/winter 2026. NT no longer publishes COVID data. Aged care: The Australian Government no longer publishes weekly COVID-19 case data for residential aged care facilities.

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 6 March 2026

🔹TAS: ⬆️ (+38.8%)
🔹QLD: ⬆️ (+28.6%) 33 in hospital
🔹VIC: ⬆️ (+20.0%)
🔹NSW: ⬆️ (+7.2%)

🔸SA: ⬇️ (-6.3%)
🔸WA: ⬇️ (-8.0%) Avg 19/day in hospital

🔹Aged Care: The Australian government ended weekly COVID-19 reporting.

Who do Australian Labor stand for and how do they differ from the Liberals? #RoboAgedCare #LNPLite

Measles meets ICE detention. What could possibly go wrong?

Objective assessment of long-term impact of COVID-19 on multiple sensory functions - BMC Medicine Background This ongoing study investigates the impact of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) on broad sensory functions. Methods Sixty subjects aged 27–78 years were recruited who had c...

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

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"...inhalation as the route of exposure occurred in 80.1% of public health sector exposure."

These clowns should not be anywhere near infection prevention & control in the built environment.

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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It will allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship. Call your congress people TODAY

This is outrageous. Marie is a star. I just read her wiki page and discovered she appeared on Farmer Wants a Wife! (But seriously, what an incredible trailblazer.)

Bring her back @support.bsky.team

My piece on the grave dangers of the KIDS Act that congress is trying to ram through this week is one of the top stories on The Intercept. Read it here: theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

Pygmy possum with long fingers rediscovered in remote rainforest A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist Tim Flannery.

Rediscovering species once thought extinct is wonderful, but...

"It is sobering to think of what natural wonders and mysteries we might never understand and appreciate because of insufficient funding, yet we continue to spend billions annually on wars." - me

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

the Aust home affairs minister just told the ABC that meetings like one between Israeli President and Aust intelligence boss “happen all around the world” and “they keep people safe”. Which tells you who are considered “people” to our government.

I don't know that I've read a better piece on the danger of online age-verification than @taylorlorenz.bsky.social's piece for @theintercept.com.

The government, in concert with AI companies, is openly bragging about using mass surveillance to crush dissent.

And we're agreeing to given them more?

Security Researchers Warn Age Verification Laws Are Building a Global Surveillance System The people who spent their careers building the security systems governments want to exploit for age verification have finally had enough.

371 security/ privacy academics, including a Turing Award winner, just issued a letter saying age verification laws are building global surveillance infrastructure. Every search, message, and article read would require ID verification.

Democrats are working w/ Republicans to push these laws through

Cartoon by David Pope, after Carney's Aus visit. Spain as a matador holds a sign saying "No to war". Trump as a bull in a nappy and bra with rockets for horns. The bra holds Aus PM Albanese and Canadian PM Carney. I presume UK PM Starmer must be tucked somewhere worse. Caption, from Albo: "Don't they see how our support is both principled and pragmatic?"

Pope from yesterday.
I did expect Starmer in the other cup. Perhaps he's in the nappy.

It’s one thing to say HAI will happen from time to time in the context of proper maintenance and cleaning (including air filtration) of hospitals.

It’s quite another to underfund or neglect the maintenance, cleaning and repair of buildings, and then just put your hands up.

#HAI
#SaferAir

Will be interesting to see this getting challenged all the way to High Court

Government silent on claims Australians were on US sub that sank warship The federal government won't confirm if any Australian personnel were on a US fast-attack submarine that sank an Iranian warship, despite dozens of ADF members rotating through US submarines for train...

Clarification please #auspol .
Did the US sub help search for survivors, or was it just Sri Lankan vessels?
#Iran #uspol

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In response to a world conflict started by the most vile, venal criminals,
our PM and FM tell us with straight faces that the legality of the bombings is entirely a matter for those same criminals.

The insult to our intelligence is only matched by the danger to our security. #auspol

The great news for today: that the Albanese Government pulled its “friendless” Freedom of Information Amendment Bill.
Read @thepointau.bsky.social's "3 reasons to be glad the Government's FOI changes have been scrapped" --> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2... #auspol

'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for U.S. health and science while he remains at the helm."
www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

Yep, you can bet on wars now, online, out in the open.

I’m so sick of Israel being so negatively influential on Australia.

For some perspective: Of the 117,000 (0.46%) Australians that identify as Jewish it’s estimated that only 60% (70,200) of those identify politically as Zionists. Only 11,035 Australians were born in Israel.

A scorching summer has left Australian wildlife on the brink, but it doesn’t have to be this way | Euan Ritchie and Jess Harwood Unsettling predictions are now our catastrophic reality, but a brighter future is still within reach if our political leaders change course

A scorching summer has left Australian wildlife on the brink, but it doesn’t have to be this way

By Euan Ritchie and Jess Harwood

Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’ Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East

Albanese would 100% have backed the Iraq War if he was PM. Would have supported it harder than Howard.

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