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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

13 days

Ban these monstrosities from Australian roads.

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18 days

imagine carrying on about bike lanes when people have been stabbed

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7 months

I love that this was described as a seamless integration of the pub and the new building

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12 days

Another vehicle to ban in Australia

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17 days

Irony is dead

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Andrew Hayen

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7 months

it's amazing that the guy who locked down public housing towers and who oversaw one of the world's longest lockdowns is seen as progressive. Also remember Victoria basically abandoned Australians who were overseas for several months to NSW to pick up the slack.

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8 months

Anyone in 2023 defending school closures is an absolute cactus

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Andrew Hayen

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18 days

no need for hot takes on Bondi Junction when people have died and been injured. Please show some respect and wait until some basic facts are known.

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Andrew Hayen

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4 months

I'd be embarrassed to post something that says the temp on a plane is 30 degrees celsius.

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Andrew Hayen

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16 days

What an appalling cartoon.

Heidi Murphy

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16 days

Mark Knight. Doesn’t disappoint.

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Andrew Hayen

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6 months

@rdr31d where in Pitt Street would Pitt Street station be?

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

There were major human rights abuses during COVID. Many (not all) instigated by state governments. And, as is always the way, these affected marginalised communities the most.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

6 months

Surprise, surprise. "Air filters don’t stop disease spreading, analysis shows"

Air filters don’t stop disease spreading, analysis shows

There is no evidence that air filtration systems cut the risk of infection, according to an analysis of the state of research.Scientists looked at 32 studies s

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

I would love to know why this is a controversial opinion

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

The Zero COVID crowd were at their wildest when it came to monkeypox. We were sleepwalking into another catastrophe that didn't happen

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

Never forget the defence from this guy and many others of Dan Andrews locking people out of their own state

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

2 months

any comment @TraceyLeeHolmes ?

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Andrew Hayen

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30 days

What a bizarre headline. We have an amazing vaccine for measles and that's what should be promoted for its control.

Measles alert for Sydney as experts call for improvement in indoor air quality

Health authorities also warn RSV, flu and whooping cough cases on the rise around Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

12 days

how can you get info from twitter when you've blocked most of the world?

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

14 days

These ridiculous vehicles should be banned (unless with a special licence).

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15 days

Vehicles like this do not belong in the central business district. And before anybody has a go at me for hating on tradies, the bed was absolutely pristine.

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Andrew Hayen

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8 months

Imagine being a paediatrician and not knowing a baby wouldn't love wearing a mask.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

5 months

I am not surprised by this HEPA filters "not lead to reduced COVID-19 prevalence in the selected kindergartens in Germany"

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

So many people criticised the response in NSW (mockdown and so on) . But unlike Victoria & Queensland there was an increase in life expectancy for men and women. All while NSW did the heavy lifting (freight and taking in returning Australians).

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

@Hayley_Gleeson @missrobinson No, it's not tedious to ask why no evidence was gathered in a $100 million dollar intervention and why the burden of proof should be shifted.

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Andrew Hayen

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2 months

Always good to go to the actual sources to see what they say. "We also found a small cognitive advantage among participants who had received two or more vaccinations and a minimal effect of repeat episodes of Covid-19."

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

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2 months

Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain. My piece in @ConversationUS on two new papers in @NEJM , what we know so far and the implications. Link below

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Andrew Hayen

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5 months

Yes fining people -- especially Indigenous people or CALD people -- for not wearing masks outdoors or sitting on benches was protective. Stopping people going to funerals or seeing dying relatives in hospitals was protective. And closing borders was not at all restrictive

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

2 months

It's incredible to see people advocating masks for controlling measles over vaccination.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

Of course Gurner is from Melbourne. In Sydney we don't have people like him

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8 months

Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."

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4 months

Among many other contenders, I think Dick Zoutman -- member of the John Snow Project -- had the most stupid claim of the year. It certainly made me stop and think.

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1 month

This has sent me.

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4 months

sure jan.gif

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

This is a wonderful collection of tweets on COVID from some prominent commentators. From the Queen being killed by COVID to penis shrinkage.

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Andrew Hayen

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4 months

this will win my most bizarre twitter interaction of 2023 award by many country miles. Well done Sam.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

A common myth about surveys conducted in large populations (eg, 20 million people) is that you need to have a massive sample size. The biggest issue is bias in how the sample is selected and who responds, not the sample size. /1

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

23 days

Look at this and explain why hybrid immunity is not a thing

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

2 months

It was a wild night back in '89 seeing Taylor perform at Patrick's at the Pennant Hills Inn.

💧Meryl Nell

@meggsy46

2 months

How old is Taylor Swift and how old are the members of the Scomo family if the first Taylor Swift concert they attended as a family was in 1989? Or is that just more Scomo mathematics a la his Robodebt scheme?

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

6 months

Sydney people visiting Melby when they realize you can't tap off with a credit card

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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6 months

New transit fare evasion discourse just dropped.

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Andrew Hayen

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2 months

how does calling someone a stupid white bastard after puking in a taxi lead to a 4-day trial?

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

3 months

this story might be good for @Hayley_Gleeson to read. Brett Sutton had promised to release an evaluation of the air purifier intervention but never did.

Victoria spent $100m on school air purifiers. We don’t know if they worked

More than 110,000 machines were sent to schools around the state. The data doesn’t show they made any difference. Was it money well spent?

www.smh.com.au

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3 months

@Hayley_Gleeson @missrobinson The burden is to show they reduce transmission, not the other way

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Andrew Hayen

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7 months

I reckon if you're having a go at someone for not being educated (irrelevant here) then you'd know to write "whose" and not "who's".

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

Since 2000: Sydney: Olympics, Asian Cup Final, WWC Final Melbourne: Commonwealth Games and $380 millio donation.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

Interesting the zero covid types never said that the precautionary principle should have applied to lockdowns, border closures, curfews and school closures

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

If only Bob Carr had done something while Premier for 10 years. Instead he put pokies into pubs.

Bob Carr

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8 months

Less than 1/2 hour from Sydney’s CBD along a bus and light rail artery. Kingsford offers crumbling one storey strip shops where we should have a facade of high-rise designed to north European standards with 6 star environmental ratings.

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

I've made it

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Andrew Hayen

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4 months

there is no situation in which tailgating is acceptable.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

no you're not in remission. So offensive to people who've had cancer

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

no one should feel guilty about seeing friends & family, eating out, going on holidays, going to school or uni, having fun, going to gigs, watching sports.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

Incredible shambles from Victorian Department of Health

It was a compelling piece of COVID-19 data. It was also wrong

A freedom of information request has revealed that the Victorian health department wasn’t being transparent in some of its COVID-19 death reporting.

www.theage.com.au

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

5 months

0.1% is consistent with the fact most people know zero or one person with long COVID.

taipan168

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5 months

Oh dear, the "1 in 10 infections leads to long COVID" crowd aren't going to like this from the Queensland Department of Health... Right on target with my estimate of 0.1% from earlier this year.

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Andrew Hayen

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1 month

The Baltimore bridge collapse is a tragedy I beg people to wait until 1) the rescue/recovery operation is done 2) a proper investigation is completed before speculating on the cause. You don't need to post.

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Andrew Hayen

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7 months

It's very odd that some people assume that the elderly (eg those aged 80+) wish for mask mandates and greater restrictions. What evidence is there, for example, that older people want border restrictions, masks in schools, restrictions on indoor dining, and so on?

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Andrew Hayen

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1 month

Calling a chief health officer "Dr Death" doesn't seem to be the best way to advocate for a cause. Dr Gerrard identified the first person in Australia who died from AIDS and also his brother died as a child from influenza. Just bizarre he's become public enemy number 1.

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Andrew Hayen

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5 months

how hard is it not to run over tricycles?

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Andrew Hayen

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1 month

Posted without comment

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

Can anyone explain a harm if all golf courses were turned into public and social housing and parks?

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

3 months

No one has ever provided any evidence Fauziah Ibrahim was wrong.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

1 month

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent corpse meal?

jess i can ✨

@melanchomical

1 month

Welp 😶

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Andrew Hayen

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8 months

it's a shame that John Snow's name has been hijacked by a group of people who have 'interesting' views on public health

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Andrew Hayen

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5 months

Can't say I'm sad to see her go after these horrible comments.

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

the peaks are getting lower and lower...

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

Interesting data from Sweden: 0.2% of people diagnosed with long COVID for Omicron variant

Post–COVID-19 Condition After SARS-CoV-2 Infections During the Omicron Surge vs the Delta, Alpha,...

This population-based cohort study revealed a reduced risk of getting diagnosed with the post–COVID-19 condition after a primary infection during the omicr

academic.oup.com

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

just when you think people can't sink any lower with horrible analogies

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Andrew Hayen

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8 months

What a legend

'Five or six minutes of maximum intensity': Steven Bradbury hailed a hero after saving four people...

More than two decades after his extraordinary "last man standing" Winter Olympics gold medal, Steven Bradbury has been hailed for his bravery after saving four girls in the Sunshine Coast surf.

www.abc.net.au

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

5 months

santa is dead because he didn't wear a respirator and carry a CO2 monitor.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

no Greg Dore, @Fiona_M_Russell and @CatherineOrr73 were right. See here for a proper analysis of children who had fulminant hepatitis

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

even though the studies were terrible we believe them anyway

Simon Williams

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8 months

7/ Caveat: most of the studies were observational rather than experimental (lots with critical risk of bias). But, weight of evidence suggests that masks and mask mandates generally reduced transmission.

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7 months

the best thing Dan ever did was follow the lead of Dom.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

@camjpatrick Something is missing unless sigma=1

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Andrew Hayen

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30 days

Why are control groups important for looking at long COVID symptoms? Well take fatigue. In this study of women aged 31 to 36 years, 1 in 2 experienced severe tiredness/fatigue. This is from 2009.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

This is the progressive Victorian government that falsely blamed a man who used a nebuliser

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

I catch a train to work and back about 6 times a week. And no one is coughing. Same at work. Where is the dystopia where everyone is coughing at work and on public transport?

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

3 months

Long COVID is a serious health concern but to say its disease burden is on par with cancer or heart disease has no foundation.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

4 months

it's fantastic to see that Australia is now seeing no excess deaths

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

no one has proved Fauziah wrong.

Stacky 🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🖤💛♥️ NEVER TRUST LNP !!!

@alfstackhouse

3 months

Lobotomised shithead Fauziah Ibrahim needs to be removed from the ABC Weekend Breakfast show if the ABC wants to get viewers back !!!

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7 months

Demonstration of the sort of thinking that ignored children for the early part of the pandemic.

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Being off school for a year is damaging. Being dead's also damaging. Go figure.

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Australia is very fortunate to have Prof Paul Kelly as its Chief Medical Officer. Someone who is able to view public health broadly and not simply as the absence of COVID.

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3 months

1st anniversary.

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Andrew Hayen

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8 months

Tyler Black claims that school closures are identical to school holidays.

The Mehdi Hasan Show

@MehdiHasanShow

8 months

As kids return to school, @mehdirhasan asks: What was the real impact of school closures during the height of the pandemic? Mehdi busts some disturbingly widespread myths about the *real* harms COVID brought to American children and schools. WATCH:

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

It would be good if health reporters learned some basic epidemiology, research design and critical appraisal

Hayley Gleeson

@Hayley_Gleeson

3 months

@missrobinson is there evidence to show air purifiers specifically didn’t reduce covid transmission? the initiative wasn’t measured. the machines often weren’t turned on, and were never billed as being 100% effective anyway. my understanding is they’re one of many tools

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Andrew Hayen

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Maybe before @TraceyLeeHolmes and others talked for FA to sanction Sam Kerr -- using no fault sanctions and mentioning Jack De Belin -- it might have been good to hear at least the basic facts of the case.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

8 months

Friends I was addicted to the hokie pokie But I've turned myself around. That's what it's all about.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

3 months

The amount of abuse in Australia directed at paediatricians and infectious diseases physicians and ATAGi members has been one of the worst aspects of the pandemic. Much has come from doctors and academics and their followers (including pieces of farm equipment).

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Andrew Hayen

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8 months

Twitter diagnostic test: the sensitivity that anyone who attacks @Leo_Puglisi6 is a total fruitcake and horrible person is 99.99999%

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

3 months

@Leonard80898975 @sueroberts7 @abcnews You're not a tiny bit misogynistic are you, Leonard? And racist?

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Andrew Hayen

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8 months

Amazing that some people want to sue others who supposedly gave them COVID and they also blame children for being superspreaders. What's the end game here? Are they going to sue their own kids?

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Andrew Hayen

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7 months

@BelindaJones68 Your electorate by polling booth. With a total of 25% voting yes.

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

5 months

Masks work on children, including pre-school children. How do I know? Because parachutes work.

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

it's amazing that @Hayley_Gleeson is suggesting hybrid immumity is not real in 2024. Despite many robust studies that show that vaccination+infection leads to better protection than vaccination or infection alone. And I don't know of anyone suggesting ppl get get infected.

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Andrew Hayen

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9 months

Great to see such a huge reduction in COVID-associated deaths in Australia

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Andrew Hayen

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3 months

@Hayley_Gleeson This is misinformation

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Andrew Hayen

@AndrewHayen

7 months

You can talk about COVID with comparing it to: 1) HIV/AIDS 2) The Holocaust It's not hard.

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Andrew Hayen

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2 months

I've had to explain why 2.30 is the dentists' hour twice in the last week and it's ageing me.

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Andrew Hayen

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7 months

@AshleyLeahy Ash, the IFR was never 4%.

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2 months

Gemma Carey is upset about post-viral illnesses being lumped together but is happy to lump all cancers together to claim late stage cancer is 15 times less (sic) for cancer than MECFS

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Andrew Hayen

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6 months

I hate the monster utes that are dominating Australian streets. I am sure a few users need them but they're horrible vehicles. And bad luck if you can't park them in standard parking spots.

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Andrew Hayen

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5 months

I must need to book a hearing check. I just don't hear people coughing constantly on public transport, at school or uni events.

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