Barbara Romeril
@barbararomeril.bsky.social
Feminist, clean air advocate, believer in social justice - still wearing a mask!
🖤💔💛On Wurundjeri land
🖤💔💛On Wurundjeri land
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November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Reposted by Barbara Romeril
Trolls who’ve had COVID multiple times are now giving health advice. 🤦♂️
Every COVID infection harms the immune system and makes you more vulnerable to other illnesses. Hundreds of thousands of studies show this. Taking no precautions in an ongoing pandemic is basically playing Russian roulette.
Every COVID infection harms the immune system and makes you more vulnerable to other illnesses. Hundreds of thousands of studies show this. Taking no precautions in an ongoing pandemic is basically playing Russian roulette.
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Trolls who’ve had COVID multiple times are now giving health advice. 🤦♂️
Every COVID infection harms the immune system and makes you more vulnerable to other illnesses. Hundreds of thousands of studies show this. Taking no precautions in an ongoing pandemic is basically playing Russian roulette.
Every COVID infection harms the immune system and makes you more vulnerable to other illnesses. Hundreds of thousands of studies show this. Taking no precautions in an ongoing pandemic is basically playing Russian roulette.
Reposted by Barbara Romeril
Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts
Published: 21 November 2025
Long COVID affects an estimated 36% globally, creating a huge economic burden: about $1 trillion a year worldwide, roughly $9,000 per US patient and $170 billion in lost US earnings.
Published: 21 November 2025
Long COVID affects an estimated 36% globally, creating a huge economic burden: about $1 trillion a year worldwide, roughly $9,000 per US patient and $170 billion in lost US earnings.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts
Published: 21 November 2025
Long COVID affects an estimated 36% globally, creating a huge economic burden: about $1 trillion a year worldwide, roughly $9,000 per US patient and $170 billion in lost US earnings.
Published: 21 November 2025
Long COVID affects an estimated 36% globally, creating a huge economic burden: about $1 trillion a year worldwide, roughly $9,000 per US patient and $170 billion in lost US earnings.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Pauline Hanson has invited Barnaby Joyce to have a home-cooked meal with her as she uses One Nation’s soaring poll numbers to persuade the Nationals MP to join her ranks
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Pauline Hanson has invited Barnaby Joyce to have a home-cooked meal with her as she uses One Nation’s soaring poll numbers to persuade the Nationals MP to join her ranks
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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This week’s #SundayShot has @drdemography.com and @eddyjokovich.bsky.social plus an interview with @seankelly.bsky.social on the Quarterly Essay that’s got everyone talking.
What’s not to love?
Join us! And subscribe to us!
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What’s not to love?
Join us! And subscribe to us!
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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This week’s #SundayShot has @drdemography.com and @eddyjokovich.bsky.social plus an interview with @seankelly.bsky.social on the Quarterly Essay that’s got everyone talking.
What’s not to love?
Join us! And subscribe to us!
youtube.com/@thesundayshot
What’s not to love?
Join us! And subscribe to us!
youtube.com/@thesundayshot
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Bridget Phillipson is delaying EHRC guidance which could determine access to single-sex spaces based on appearance. Biological women deserve their own spaces no matter how they present | Victoria Smith
New EHRC guidance reinforces gender stereotypes
As the feminist author Germaine Greer once put it: “Female is real and it’s sex, and femininity is unreal and it’s gender”. It’s a foundational feminist insight, embedded in works such as Mary…
unherd.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Bridget Phillipson is delaying EHRC guidance which could determine access to single-sex spaces based on appearance. Biological women deserve their own spaces no matter how they present | Victoria Smith
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Trump's DOT — which is stacked with corporate insiders — is gutting safety rules at Big Business' behest.
Deregulation is another form of trickle-down economics, where the financial gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses.
Deregulation is another form of trickle-down economics, where the financial gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses.
How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump's DOT — which is stacked with corporate insiders — is gutting safety rules at Big Business' behest.
Deregulation is another form of trickle-down economics, where the financial gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses.
Deregulation is another form of trickle-down economics, where the financial gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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People in Sweden have social security, affordable healthcare, strict gun laws, 5 weeks paid annual leave & a year maternity leave
A night in hospital costs $10.
"Prescription drugs have an annual cap of $210.
The Swedish government is not communist. It is a democratic socialist country
A night in hospital costs $10.
"Prescription drugs have an annual cap of $210.
The Swedish government is not communist. It is a democratic socialist country
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
People in Sweden have social security, affordable healthcare, strict gun laws, 5 weeks paid annual leave & a year maternity leave
A night in hospital costs $10.
"Prescription drugs have an annual cap of $210.
The Swedish government is not communist. It is a democratic socialist country
A night in hospital costs $10.
"Prescription drugs have an annual cap of $210.
The Swedish government is not communist. It is a democratic socialist country
Reposted by Barbara Romeril
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November 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The Coalition meet to finalise their official climate policy. Today’s Age cartoon
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Coalition meet to finalise their official climate policy. Today’s Age cartoon
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"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
'A national humiliation': Australia at bottom of new renewables ranking
As the Coalition abandons net zero, Andrew Forrest has quietly moved on not just to net zero, but to real zero.
johnmenadue.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
Reposted by Barbara Romeril
If no one in your timeline is grieving the loss of Alice Wong today then you’re not hearing from enough disabled people or even people who listen to disabled people.
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If no one in your timeline is grieving the loss of Alice Wong today then you’re not hearing from enough disabled people or even people who listen to disabled people.
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
Prescient or what?
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going.
― Lao Tzu
― Lao Tzu
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Prescient or what?
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“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau