Alan Garner
@garnalan.bsky.social
Clinical A/Professor, University of Sydney | Trauma Director, Nepean Hospital | Trauma Physician, Royal Hobart Hospital
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Alan Garner
@garnalan.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Doing exclusively trauma care these days but from an emergency medicine and prehospital background.
COVID concerned. The evidence is mounting for a tsunami of chronic illness.
COVID concerned. The evidence is mounting for a tsunami of chronic illness.
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When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die
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Another acquaintance died only middle aged from a sudden heart attack last week. This is the third person I know who has had a heart attack in the last two years. All had one thing in common, they had just had COVID again. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Another acquaintance died only middle aged from a sudden heart attack last week. This is the third person I know who has had a heart attack in the last two years. All had one thing in common, they had just had COVID again. 🧵
Very, very disturbing data.
The kids are ok with unmitigated COVID though.
The kids are ok with unmitigated COVID though.
Intellectual disabilities among 7-14 year olds are showing meaningful growth. The total is expected to reach 1% of 7-14 year old population by 2030 and 10% of population by 2048, if current growth continues.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Very, very disturbing data.
The kids are ok with unmitigated COVID though.
The kids are ok with unmitigated COVID though.
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Cleaner air. Healthier classrooms.
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
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#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
🎟️ go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Cleaner air. Healthier classrooms.
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
🎟️ go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
🎟️ go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
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Public Health officials and infectious disease experts in Canada:
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I have been in the ER full of sick people for hours with my N95, and not caught anything.
My family member with shit lungs on two immunosuppressants? Has been in an airport, an ER, a house with someone with an active COVID infection.
And not caught those infections due to their N95.
My family member with shit lungs on two immunosuppressants? Has been in an airport, an ER, a house with someone with an active COVID infection.
And not caught those infections due to their N95.
Masking works. My respirator has kept me free from Covid and flu for six years. 😷
Vaccines are great, but not inhaling viruses into your body is super cool when vaccines do not provide 100% protection. Vaccines & masking in combination FTW.
Vaccines are great, but not inhaling viruses into your body is super cool when vaccines do not provide 100% protection. Vaccines & masking in combination FTW.
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I have been in the ER full of sick people for hours with my N95, and not caught anything.
My family member with shit lungs on two immunosuppressants? Has been in an airport, an ER, a house with someone with an active COVID infection.
And not caught those infections due to their N95.
My family member with shit lungs on two immunosuppressants? Has been in an airport, an ER, a house with someone with an active COVID infection.
And not caught those infections due to their N95.
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"These findings reinforce an urgent message that children and adolescents can develop long COVID not only after an initial infection, but also after reinfection. The public health implications are substantial."
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"These findings reinforce an urgent message that children and adolescents can develop long COVID not only after an initial infection, but also after reinfection. The public health implications are substantial."
The cognitive dissonance is off the scale.
Amazing window into the anti-vaccine movement from @laurenweberhp.bsky.social's trip to the CHD conference.
The father of an unvaccinated girl who died of measles said "he would do everything in his power to protect his children from vaccines" wapo.st/49HVH6S
The father of an unvaccinated girl who died of measles said "he would do everything in his power to protect his children from vaccines" wapo.st/49HVH6S
‘God is an anti-vaxxer’: Inside the conference celebrating RFK Jr.’s rise
An anti-vaccine conference in Austin celebrated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rise to political power, highlighting his influence in Trump’s Washington.
wapo.st
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The cognitive dissonance is off the scale.
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The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.
So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.
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As a doctor, I have been really angry about this!
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As a doctor, I have been really angry about this!
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Amazing that cops have powers to arrest and prosecute anti-genocide protesters, but don't have powers to stop Nazis doing Nazism on the steps of the NSW parliament.
Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says
Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says
Dozens of neo-Nazis demonstrated outside NSW parliament on Saturday where they held an antisemitic banner and chanted a Hitler Youth slogan
A neo-Nazi rally overtly targeting Jewish people was allowed to go ahead in Sydney on Saturday morning, sparking the New South Wales premier to say he would consider giving police more powers to shut down racist and hateful demonstrations.
“It’s likely the case that we need to give police more legislated powers to stop this kind of naked racism and hatred on Sydney streets,” Chris Minns said after the rally. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Amazing that cops have powers to arrest and prosecute anti-genocide protesters, but don't have powers to stop Nazis doing Nazism on the steps of the NSW parliament.
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That’s why we’re so pleased to welcome the International WELL Building Institute to the Making the invisible visible campaign - a global call to action to treat indoor air quality like the public health priority it is, and make the air safer for everyone to breathe.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
That’s why we’re so pleased to welcome the International WELL Building Institute to the Making the invisible visible campaign - a global call to action to treat indoor air quality like the public health priority it is, and make the air safer for everyone to breathe.
Hopefully this won’t end like the infamous Australian Emu War.
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in bear attacks across Japan since April.
Japan deploys the military in north to battle surge in bear attacks
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in bear attacks across Japan since April.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hopefully this won’t end like the infamous Australian Emu War.
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I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes:
'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.
'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I'm boring & repetitive but The Emperor Has No Clothes:
'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.
'The CPSU has said Australia’s employment services system are “a complete failure”'; they're not. They generate incomes (profits) for private owners. That's a success. It's both the intent and effect of privatisation.
Racist attacks on clinical staff have become socially acceptable because it has become politically acceptable to attack people based on race.
NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Racist attacks on clinical staff have become socially acceptable because it has become politically acceptable to attack people based on race.
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Two more people have been killed as Hegseth carried out another boat strike in the Eastern Pacific.
He said: “Protecting the homeland is our TOP priority”
No trial
No due process
No evidence
Just murder.
This is at least the 16th strike and 66 people have been killed.
He said: “Protecting the homeland is our TOP priority”
No trial
No due process
No evidence
Just murder.
This is at least the 16th strike and 66 people have been killed.
2 killed in U.S. strike on alleged drug boat in Eastern Pacific, Hegseth says
The military strike was at least the 16th strike on a suspected drug boat since President Donald Trump returned to office.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Two more people have been killed as Hegseth carried out another boat strike in the Eastern Pacific.
He said: “Protecting the homeland is our TOP priority”
No trial
No due process
No evidence
Just murder.
This is at least the 16th strike and 66 people have been killed.
He said: “Protecting the homeland is our TOP priority”
No trial
No due process
No evidence
Just murder.
This is at least the 16th strike and 66 people have been killed.
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Prof Deborah Lupton
"The hardest thing for me these days about wearing a mask is that you make others around you feel uncomfortable. You are reminding them that C19 is still a risk and that they should be doing the same. Clinicians and public health experts in particular do not like this reminder"
"The hardest thing for me these days about wearing a mask is that you make others around you feel uncomfortable. You are reminding them that C19 is still a risk and that they should be doing the same. Clinicians and public health experts in particular do not like this reminder"
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Prof Deborah Lupton
"The hardest thing for me these days about wearing a mask is that you make others around you feel uncomfortable. You are reminding them that C19 is still a risk and that they should be doing the same. Clinicians and public health experts in particular do not like this reminder"
"The hardest thing for me these days about wearing a mask is that you make others around you feel uncomfortable. You are reminding them that C19 is still a risk and that they should be doing the same. Clinicians and public health experts in particular do not like this reminder"
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The world learned a painful lesson during COVID; respiratory infections are airborne. This changes a great deal - especially the need for better indoor air quality and high quality masks. If there was a single most important person responsible it was Prof Morawska.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
World expert in air quality and COVID wins Australia's top science prize
Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The world learned a painful lesson during COVID; respiratory infections are airborne. This changes a great deal - especially the need for better indoor air quality and high quality masks. If there was a single most important person responsible it was Prof Morawska.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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American Journal of Managed Care:'COVID-19 Vaccination Linked to Lower Risk of Long COVID in Adolescents'
'Given the profound impact [long COVID] can have on the health & well-being of adolescents & the lack of available treatments, these findings support vaccination'
www.ajmc.com/view/covid-1...
'Given the profound impact [long COVID] can have on the health & well-being of adolescents & the lack of available treatments, these findings support vaccination'
www.ajmc.com/view/covid-1...
COVID-19 Vaccination Linked to Lower Risk of Long COVID in Adolescents | AJMC
COVID-19 vaccination before infection lowered long COVID risk in adolescents, highlighting vaccines as an effective prevention strategy.
www.ajmc.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
American Journal of Managed Care:'COVID-19 Vaccination Linked to Lower Risk of Long COVID in Adolescents'
'Given the profound impact [long COVID] can have on the health & well-being of adolescents & the lack of available treatments, these findings support vaccination'
www.ajmc.com/view/covid-1...
'Given the profound impact [long COVID] can have on the health & well-being of adolescents & the lack of available treatments, these findings support vaccination'
www.ajmc.com/view/covid-1...
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Spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about what DEWR's job numbers continue to quietly reveal: that the main purpose of employment services is to outsource billions of dollars to punish people, rather than help them into meaningful opportunities
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about what DEWR's job numbers continue to quietly reveal: that the main purpose of employment services is to outsource billions of dollars to punish people, rather than help them into meaningful opportunities
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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“Anthony Albanese said in a statement: “I congratulate and thank Prof Morawska for her incredible work over many years which influenced how Australia and the world mitigated risks associated with Covid-19.”
Great except we aren’t especially in places that need it most 🤷♀️
Great except we aren’t especially in places that need it most 🤷♀️
Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“Anthony Albanese said in a statement: “I congratulate and thank Prof Morawska for her incredible work over many years which influenced how Australia and the world mitigated risks associated with Covid-19.”
Great except we aren’t especially in places that need it most 🤷♀️
Great except we aren’t especially in places that need it most 🤷♀️
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Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
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There now exists a chicken-and-egg situation: a fourth estate that continues to use X cannot communicate that this man's worldview is straightforwardly conventional Nazism; failing to communicate this fact appears to give everyone else de facto permission to remain there.
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
There now exists a chicken-and-egg situation: a fourth estate that continues to use X cannot communicate that this man's worldview is straightforwardly conventional Nazism; failing to communicate this fact appears to give everyone else de facto permission to remain there.
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What a great use for a second home! Heads up @purplepingers.bsky.social
Second home owner discovers migrant cooking in his kitchen
A businessman arrived at his holiday home in Cornwall to find a migrant cooking food in the kitchen. Saidahmed-Hamid Ghalem was discovered at the house in St Ives just before midnight on Oct 17.
ground.news
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
What a great use for a second home! Heads up @purplepingers.bsky.social
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1