Sara
@swillsm.bsky.social
Chronically curious, Covid exceptionalist
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
Lilla Watson
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
Lilla Watson
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“You don’t need to wear a mask anymore”
“You seem anxious about Covid”
“You’re not going to get Covid here”
“Take off the mask so you can breathe easier”
“Covid is over”
Masks should be normalized in healthcare.
Instead patients have to fight for basic infection control 🧵
“You seem anxious about Covid”
“You’re not going to get Covid here”
“Take off the mask so you can breathe easier”
“Covid is over”
Masks should be normalized in healthcare.
Instead patients have to fight for basic infection control 🧵
June 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“You don’t need to wear a mask anymore”
“You seem anxious about Covid”
“You’re not going to get Covid here”
“Take off the mask so you can breathe easier”
“Covid is over”
Masks should be normalized in healthcare.
Instead patients have to fight for basic infection control 🧵
“You seem anxious about Covid”
“You’re not going to get Covid here”
“Take off the mask so you can breathe easier”
“Covid is over”
Masks should be normalized in healthcare.
Instead patients have to fight for basic infection control 🧵
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How Keir Starmer will be remembered.
July 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
How Keir Starmer will be remembered.
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In Week 1 of our campaign our billboard has been viewed 2,000 times in person, and over 42,000 times across our social media channels.
If you'd like to support our work, you can donate here: gofund.me/3b22859e
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June 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In Week 1 of our campaign our billboard has been viewed 2,000 times in person, and over 42,000 times across our social media channels.
If you'd like to support our work, you can donate here: gofund.me/3b22859e
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If you'd like to support our work, you can donate here: gofund.me/3b22859e
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I know
someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of taste,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of smell,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of time,
but I know far too many
someones who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of empathy.
someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of taste,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of smell,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of time,
but I know far too many
someones who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of empathy.
June 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I know
someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of taste,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of smell,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of time,
but I know far too many
someones who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of empathy.
someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of taste,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of smell,
and someone who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of time,
but I know far too many
someones who
during this pandemic
lost their sense
of empathy.
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"Masking at the hospital is optional, until units experience an outbreak"🙄
June 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Masking at the hospital is optional, until units experience an outbreak"🙄
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COVID cases in NSW have surged, hitting their highest weekly count since June 2024, now topping 4,000 weekly notifications. This marks a clear winter wave.
With hardly anyone reporting and public RAT reporting ending on 1 Oct 2023, actual infections are definitely higher than the official figures.
With hardly anyone reporting and public RAT reporting ending on 1 Oct 2023, actual infections are definitely higher than the official figures.
June 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
COVID cases in NSW have surged, hitting their highest weekly count since June 2024, now topping 4,000 weekly notifications. This marks a clear winter wave.
With hardly anyone reporting and public RAT reporting ending on 1 Oct 2023, actual infections are definitely higher than the official figures.
With hardly anyone reporting and public RAT reporting ending on 1 Oct 2023, actual infections are definitely higher than the official figures.
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NSW: "Nearly 2800 NSW teachers left their posts last year in an exodus from the public system"
"NSW Teachers Federation president Henry Rajendra said “more needs to be done to bring these numbers down”
Source: archive.md/ByxIf
"NSW Teachers Federation president Henry Rajendra said “more needs to be done to bring these numbers down”
Source: archive.md/ByxIf
June 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
NSW: "Nearly 2800 NSW teachers left their posts last year in an exodus from the public system"
"NSW Teachers Federation president Henry Rajendra said “more needs to be done to bring these numbers down”
Source: archive.md/ByxIf
"NSW Teachers Federation president Henry Rajendra said “more needs to be done to bring these numbers down”
Source: archive.md/ByxIf
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‘We haven’t learned anything’: Readers despair over UK’s Covid response in 2025.
"Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and improving ventilation – have quietly disappeared, say Independent readers"
archive.md/9qPai
"Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and improving ventilation – have quietly disappeared, say Independent readers"
archive.md/9qPai
June 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
‘We haven’t learned anything’: Readers despair over UK’s Covid response in 2025.
"Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and improving ventilation – have quietly disappeared, say Independent readers"
archive.md/9qPai
"Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and improving ventilation – have quietly disappeared, say Independent readers"
archive.md/9qPai
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I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.
CINEMATIC
CINEMATIC
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.
CINEMATIC
CINEMATIC
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You’re being actively murdered by Big Oil companies and the elected officials they own, who could stop this before it becomes a runaway catastrophe, but don’t want to.
Happy Monday!
Happy Monday!
The world could experience a year above 2°C of warming by 2029
2024 was the first single year to surpass the 1.5°C global warming threshold – now scientists predict that a year above 2°C is possible in the near future
www.newscientist.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
You’re being actively murdered by Big Oil companies and the elected officials they own, who could stop this before it becomes a runaway catastrophe, but don’t want to.
Happy Monday!
Happy Monday!
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“In ‘advanced’ nations, clean water is considered essential, but we tolerate foul air, despite a century of evidence that it harms.”
Here’s an Inconvenient Truth: Disease Is in the Air | The Tyee
We ignored the science of airborne transmission for a century. Carl Zimmer tells us why.
thetyee.ca
May 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“In ‘advanced’ nations, clean water is considered essential, but we tolerate foul air, despite a century of evidence that it harms.”
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COVID before or during pregnancy may confer 2 to 3 times the risk of miscarriage.
"A study involving nearly 27,000 pregnancies suggests that women infected with COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are at two to three times the risk for miscarriage before 20 weeks' gestation."
"A study involving nearly 27,000 pregnancies suggests that women infected with COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are at two to three times the risk for miscarriage before 20 weeks' gestation."
COVID before or during pregnancy may confer 2 to 3 times the risk of miscarriage
Although the risk was greater with moderate-to-severe infections, even mild cases were linked to more than double the risk.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
May 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
COVID before or during pregnancy may confer 2 to 3 times the risk of miscarriage.
"A study involving nearly 27,000 pregnancies suggests that women infected with COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are at two to three times the risk for miscarriage before 20 weeks' gestation."
"A study involving nearly 27,000 pregnancies suggests that women infected with COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are at two to three times the risk for miscarriage before 20 weeks' gestation."
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Think of this: the Liberals have now lost ALL of Sydney’s wealthiest postcodes, including the entire North Shore. All gone to Teal women. What does that tell you?
May 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Think of this: the Liberals have now lost ALL of Sydney’s wealthiest postcodes, including the entire North Shore. All gone to Teal women. What does that tell you?
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Overheard just now in the plaza, guy on his phone walking past: “while it was sad the party lost, it was good for us because we used the party to elevate our status.”
Who could that have been?!
Who could that have been?!
May 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Overheard just now in the plaza, guy on his phone walking past: “while it was sad the party lost, it was good for us because we used the party to elevate our status.”
Who could that have been?!
Who could that have been?!
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Congratulations to Australia for defeating right-wing populism at the polls.
May 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Congratulations to Australia for defeating right-wing populism at the polls.
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While we’re on the topic of COVID, trauma, and schools…
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
COVID-19-related institutional betrayal associated with trauma symptoms among undergraduate students
Individuals are dependent on institutions (e.g., universities, governments, healthcare systems) to protect their safety and advocate for their needs. When institutions harm the individuals who depend ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
While we’re on the topic of COVID, trauma, and schools…
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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There are many people, including children, that have been excluded from society because they are in a group that is known to be more at risk of serious outcomes from COVID-19.
Instead of providing safer places and people to interact with, they are mocked and excluded further.
Instead of providing safer places and people to interact with, they are mocked and excluded further.
May 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
There are many people, including children, that have been excluded from society because they are in a group that is known to be more at risk of serious outcomes from COVID-19.
Instead of providing safer places and people to interact with, they are mocked and excluded further.
Instead of providing safer places and people to interact with, they are mocked and excluded further.
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May 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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For me there’s been a 100ppm increase in my lifetime, for my 7yo twins it’s already 14ppm. And, without urgent & drastic action, when they’re my age it will be so large the world will be unrecognizable & much of it uninhabitable. This is the issue.
How much CO2 was in the atmosphere the year you were born?
Check carbon dioxide levels for any year on record.
www.nature.org/en-us/get-in...
Check carbon dioxide levels for any year on record.
www.nature.org/en-us/get-in...
What's your Birth Carbon?
How much have carbon dioxide levels increased during your lifetime? Start by seeing what levels were like during the year you were born, and learn what we can do to solve climate change.
www.nature.org
April 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
For me there’s been a 100ppm increase in my lifetime, for my 7yo twins it’s already 14ppm. And, without urgent & drastic action, when they’re my age it will be so large the world will be unrecognizable & much of it uninhabitable. This is the issue.
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So that's the end of hospitalisations being reported then?
April 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So that's the end of hospitalisations being reported then?
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Long Covid patients that I see are getting younger. Avoid infections, breathe clean air, wear a respirator. Covid is airborne.There’s no treatment for Covid or long covid. Covid damages organs, immune system, can maim and cause death. Mitigate!
To LC patients- I see you.
We stand together.
To LC patients- I see you.
We stand together.
March 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Long Covid patients that I see are getting younger. Avoid infections, breathe clean air, wear a respirator. Covid is airborne.There’s no treatment for Covid or long covid. Covid damages organs, immune system, can maim and cause death. Mitigate!
To LC patients- I see you.
We stand together.
To LC patients- I see you.
We stand together.
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Just a friendly reminder...
Hopefully there won't be a dickhead QLD CHO to rain on this occasion.
Hopefully there won't be a dickhead QLD CHO to rain on this occasion.
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just a friendly reminder...
Hopefully there won't be a dickhead QLD CHO to rain on this occasion.
Hopefully there won't be a dickhead QLD CHO to rain on this occasion.
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This Nature editor describes her personal experience of measles age 15. Don't let this (or worse) happen to your child.
February 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This Nature editor describes her personal experience of measles age 15. Don't let this (or worse) happen to your child.
Dumb sign at the path centre in Sydney today “If you’re being tested for measles, please notify staff immediately”, nothing about protecting anyone by wearing a respirator. Public health is MIA. #maskup #maskswork #measlesisairborne
February 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Dumb sign at the path centre in Sydney today “If you’re being tested for measles, please notify staff immediately”, nothing about protecting anyone by wearing a respirator. Public health is MIA. #maskup #maskswork #measlesisairborne
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Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
Measles – NFID
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death
www.nfid.org
February 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM