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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

I am now blocking anyone who is abusive, or comes back with basically the same ill-informed stuff after I've tried to correct misunderstandings. It's exhausting and a waste of time to continue these interactions. I'm happy to engage with rational people who disagree with me.

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It's just finally hit fully home! The grinding horror of the last 9 years is finally over!. Even if the ALP blows it again, and I don't think they will, Australian politics is changed forever. When we get annoyed enough to wake up, this is a great country! Stay awake Australia!

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Dan Murphy opening hours

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Unlike flu, SARS-CoV-2 gets into the blood & infects cells throughout the body. it's also a clotting disease with strokes & heart problems. Imagining COVID is 'like the flu' is cutting thousands of lives short. It's time to wake up via @ConversationEDU

Imagining COVID is ‘like the flu’ is cutting thousands of lives short. It’s time to wake up

So far in 2022, more than 12,000 Australians have died with COVID, six times the number of deaths in the previous two years.

theconversation.com

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3 years

I've decided that I will not to waste any more time responding to anyone who is abusive or who is embedded in one or other of anti-vaxxer conspiracy narrative. There's nothing useful to learn here, it's a time sink, so I'm automatically blocking them. Some are obviously bots.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

Still blocking those who are abusive &/or reckon I'm being paid by Pfizer, the Chinese Communist Party, or in alliance with the Gates Foundation. I'm not. I'm only doing this as part of an effort to explain where there's confusion & allay the concerns of the vaccine hesitant.

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3 years

If you are against vaccination for COVID-19 and you have research papers, or preprints that you think support your views, please send me the links so I can read them for myself.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

I've worked on viruses and immunity for more than 5 decades and am commenting as an informed, concerned citizen. I'm not paid by Pfizer or by any drug company. I'm not advizing Govt in any capacity. I won't communicate further on this & will block anyone who wastes my time.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

#Insiders Any vaccine won't have an effect for at least 2-4 weeks. Hindsight is useless, but NSW needs to lock down now as hard and aggressively as Victoria has done.

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2 years

#QandA Alex Downer says the new Govt should not blame the preceding LNP Govt for the problems the inherit. That preceding LNP Govt tried to blame the ALP for its problems for 3 continuous terms in Govt!

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4 years

Not sure what this means but, since inadvertently tweeting about Dan Murphy at lunchtime, I seemed to have picked up 1100 followers.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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2 years

#Insiders I can never understand why the majority of Australians who have their kids or grandkids in State schools are not enraged about the skewing of government funding to private schools, some immensely wealthy. The Federal Govt can and should start to fix this.

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4 years

Order from Dan Murphys arrived today. Enough for one ( albeit stiff) drink a day for months. Thanks to all for the advice and help.

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3 years

Don't be a moron. Don't listen to lying or just plain dumb morons. Get the f-ing vaccine! Op-Ed: On the front lines, here's what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

Op-Ed: On the front lines, here's what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

A respiratory therapist's view of how the worst cases of COVID fare. They rarely end well.

www.latimes.com

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2 years

This evening's result has also been a major rejection of Murdoch Media and its toxic tendrils. Among the many great opportunities that now comes to the fore is for the ABC to be refunded and to rebuild its Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean reach.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

#Insiders Because I'm putting out views about vaccination and the nature of infection and immunity that some find unacceptable, I'm regularly subject to anonymous vilification and abuse on social media. I don't want Govt to protect me from that.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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4 years

Getting concerned that people are a bit too relaxed about COVID-19. This is not over and the virus is very infectious.

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4 years

#Insiders What happened in Vic could have happened anywhere. The Vic Health Dept had been damaged by years of cuts & had become over-centralized. Who made those cuts? Would be great for a good journalist to do some serious forensic analysis! And the deaths in private aged care?

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2 years

#Insiders Most of us aren't psychiatrists, but most of us can recognize a personality type where 'it's all about me' and there's an obsession with power over others that's often accompanied by a lack of real achievement. Such people do not change.

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2 years

The most terrifying words I've heard this week: 'A re-elected Morrison government.'

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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2 years

I don't get it. People on ABC News saying that they have no faith in politics because politicians make promises and don't deliver. Think that one through! You can't govern from opposition. One party has been in power nationally for 10 years. You have to get a go to have a go!

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2 years

#abc730 Why are we seeing a constant emphasis on jobs in coal mining? Why are we using tax $ to prop up an industry that must go? Surely tax $ should be spent transitioning our industries, including energy generation, supply & efficiency. Invest in jobs for a sustainable! future

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3 years

My guess is we're headed for a federal election very soon. Make sure you're registered to vote, decide what policies are important to you, make the effort to find out the positions of the different parties & candidates & vote for the least worst alternative. BUT VOTE

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

NATURAL IMMUNITY: OK, if people want to use that term, fine. That's what I've worked on for 50 years. Immunologists like me just talk about immunity. We don't normally qualify it with 'natural'. Immunity, whether infection induced or vaccine induced it's just IMMUNITY.

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3 years

If you don't believe COVID is a real disease, catch today's Victorian Press conference on some ABC format and listen to two senior nurses who are dealing with very sick COVID patients. Don't add to their burden. Get the vaccine

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3 years

Received two e-mails this morning from people who believe it is a crime to vaccinate children as 'natural immunity' will protect them from infection. They clearly haze no understanding of how immunity works. I don't know how to engage with them in a way that might change that.

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4 years

Dan Andrew's morning briefing: why is it that some so-called journalists think they will get a better answer by asking the same dumb question over and over. An exercise in narcissism by people who lack social skills and insight? Surrogates for political hacks? Not very bright?

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2 years

#ABCNews Let's get it straight, the 'bad blood' is not between Australia and France, it's between the present political leaders of Australia and France. And we all understand why that has happened.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

Siberia burns, Southern Europe burns, California burns: Biden mandates that half of all vehicles sold in the US by 2030. Why is Australia choosing to be on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of life? It's up to every voter to change this.

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1 year

The results of the Victorian election are showing that, as with the recent Federal election, the days when print media determined the results of elections are over.

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2 years

Maybe we could all decide that any interviewer who bangs on incessantly about costs when speaking with someone from the ALP, but does not do that with the LNP, is either too intellectually dull to think of a better question and follow a line of reasoning, or an LNP stooge.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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4 years

Aged care, security guards at quarantine hotels, some of the abbatoirs: all the same problem. Casualised workforce with no basic protections (sick leave). COVID shows us the toxicity & stupidity of this private profit/public liability model. Needs basic political change: vote!

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2 years

#TheDrum Have people really gone to 'the left'? Action on climate change has nothing to do with LvsR, it's basically responding to the evidence we can all see & understand. We are signed on to the IPCC process. Requiring integrity from our politicians is nothing to do with LvsR.

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2 years

Who would have thought: if you cut AID to Pacific Island Nations, they'll welcome AID from elsewhere. Pretty hard to connect those dots!

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2 years

#abc730 Job keeper went to rich private schools, that had no need of it, but not to public universities, which did. Why was this appropriate? Whichever school a young person attends they will, if bright, attend a public university. Think about this when you go in to vote!

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

I continue to block people for a couple of basic reasons. I don't want people piggy-backing on my twitter feed to disseminate wrong information. And I don't want to magnify nonsense and/or abuse by responding.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

Watching a shearer on the ABC news saying that he won't be vaccinated against COVID-19. Tattoo on his arm tells us that regional lymph nodes in his armpit where the vaccine response occurs are loaded with tattoo ink that follow the same path the vaccine takes to get there.

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Watching Dan Andrews on Channel 9 announcing no new COVID-19 cases in COVID-19 in Victoria today, or over the last 2 weeks. Stay safe & be careful, but that's a great milestone of Australia. Congratulations to all the team & to everyone who did the right thing & made this happen.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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My early training was in pathology. Pathologists study organ damage. When SARS-CoV-2 is in your nose & lung it's bad, but COVID-19 is much worse when virus in the blood infects cells in the heart, blood vessel walls etc. Keep this horror out of your blood! Get vaccinated ASAP

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

Don't read this if you're offended by the F word. Some of us find the spreading of nonsense that confuses people about vaccination to be very offensive. Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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During the pandemic, he stood his gound & answered journalists who seemed even more obtuse than their loaded questions would suggest. Dan Andrews leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics - who drove conservatives to distraction via @ConversationEDU

Dan Andrews leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics - who drove conservatives to distraction

An activist premier, a gifted political communicator and a hard man of politics, Dan Andrews has been an enormously consequential leader and one of national significance.

theconversation.com

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4 years

#QandA Large numbers of people died in Victoria in private health care, which is the direct responsibility of the Federal Government. What Federal Minister has taken responsibility, let alone resigned?

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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2 years

Vote 1 for Australia! Vote 1 for your kid's future! Be kind to the LNP, send them to the opposition benches for at least two terms so they can either reform or self destruct. Let Mr Morrison take time off to go to the beach & the footy. He'll have a decent pension.

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4 years

Just heard a detailed discussion re the US situation with COVID19. Every Australian should be immensely grateful for the policies put in place & sustained by our political leaders, our public health and related professionals, and for our comprehensive health care system.

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We need to open borders when it is safe to do so. That's why it would be totally irresponsible and economically dangerous for Victoria to open up until it is appropriate to do so.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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3 years

Apologies for the intemperate language, but I've been doing the best I can to persuade those with a healthy immune system to be vaccinated. Trying to understand, I've been engaging with those against vaccines, and not getting anything back from them that is supported by hard data

Prof. Peter Doherty

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Don't be a moron. Don't listen to lying or just plain dumb morons. Get the f-ing vaccine! Op-Ed: On the front lines, here's what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

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If we choose to be ruled by professional liars who make us feel comfortable by refusing to confront difficult problems, then we are as bad as they are. Listen to what they are saying, do their words have any content? Is it true? have they kept past promises? Vote accordingly!

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#QandA The Federal parliament needs a deep clean? That's our job! VOTE. Vote for real change!

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If you want to make life for working Australians & their families better, vote for candidates who will fund public schools & public universities properly.This has always been a way forward for bright kids from poorer families. Universities, in particular, level the playing field.

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Angela Merkel is a PhD physicist. With a functioning intellect, she is capable of responsible leadership & leads a nation that is well educated in public schools & universities. All man-made': Merkel vows to keep fighting against climate change via @theage

'All man-made': Merkel vows to keep fighting against climate change

"So we have to do everything humanly possible to overcome this human challenge. It is still possible," the German Chancellor's New Year message will say.

www.theage.com.au

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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2 years

I am getting the sense that people are dying of COVID-19 because we don't have enough of the antiviral drug Paxlovid in Australia. Is that true? Is this yet another time bomb that the LNP left for Australia's new government?

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How, and why, did we screw this up so badly? I don't understand the history here.

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In Norway they tax the fossil fuel industry & have free degrees for kids…in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge our kids a fortune to go to uni. Choices matter. Stop subsidising fossil fuels & start taxing them property #insiders #climate #auspol

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#abc730 Obscene: Australian water owned by a foreign government?How is it that any foreign state owned company can purchase any Australian resource? This is where we need a major investigation, into the actions of our successive governments?

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Was just confirmed in discussion with 'one who knows' that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are being trialled now in kids down to 6 months in the Northern Hemisphere, with results expected by October or so.

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#Insiders If you want a high tech country, you don't abandon the nation's higher education sector in time of crisis. For years, Australian university R&D has been underwritten by international student fees. That is both irresponsible and mad.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

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Understand that ATAGI has now approved getting that 3rd booster shot at 5 months, and that Moderna is also approved for boosting. It bumps your antibodies right up and gives you your best chance of avoiding being sick with delta or omicron.

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Given that we must have a Federal election before May, that COVID is already a major problem in our two biggest cities, and that we will open up when vaccination levels are high enough (if not before), what is being done to ensure we can vote online?

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#Insiders Bridget Archer crossed the floor on a vote to discuss a bill. We should show compassion for Scott Morrison, and concern for the future of Australia, and return him to private life at the earliest possible opportunity. VOTE.

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#QandA This budget gives 51 billion dollars over 4 years in fossil fuel subsidies. How does that make any sense/ It's not building for the future? It's a recipe for disaster.

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#qanda Science is science, evidence is evidence. Fantasy is fantasy. Outright lies and dissembling are just that. Paul Kelly attempts to defend the indefensible re the actions of Murdoch media on climate change. This is, and will be seen as, a crime against humanity.

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#Insiders If you're active on social media & expecting strong views on anything, you must expect to be attacked. So what! At least on Twitter, the person can be blocked. There are many reasons why people don't identify themselves & they are by no means all bad. Leave it alone.

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#QandA Those who are angry at the possibility that the Tamil family should return to Biolela might reflect a little on how their own family came to be in Australia. If they aren't refugees under the law, then write better laws. Governments write laws. Bad govts make bad laws.

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Do the people who voted for Trump understand that his primary motivation was upward wealth transfer to the already rich, while at the same time doing everything possible to take away health care for the poor?

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No reason to panic re Omicron from what we know so far but, erring on the side of caution, would be a good idea to get that 3rd booster shot as soon as you are eligible. I've had mine, Pfizer after two AZs: no side effects and, generally, the boosters are causing less problems.

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Why do people continue to describe the US Republiclan Party as "Conservative": it's a coalition of deliberately ignorant, radical reactionaries, populists and the megarich who are ever intent on enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else.

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4 years

Thanks Sally. My language was intemperate, but many of us have been saying the same thing for years. Keep up the good work. I'm too old for politics, but you certainly aren't. First thing that has to go is the flat tax, along with the toxic IPA everything for the rich agenda.

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I enjoyed reading your AFR profile @ProfPCDoherty , esp "I think we need to rethink how we organise our society because, basically, I think a lot of it has just been total crap. It has made a lot of rich people richer, and a lot of shitheads have become really powerful”.

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Why do we vote for people who we wouldn't buy a used car from?

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3 years

#Insiders If Govt wants to increase immediate uptake of AstraZeneca, make it very clear that AZ now can be followed by an mRNA shot. Works great & is being done in Europe. Also make it clear that those who've had 2 AZ shots can get an mRNA boost when excess doses are available.

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Analysing umbilical cord blood at delivery shows that pregnant mothers immunised the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines pass protective antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 across the placenta into the foetus.

High antibody levels in cord blood from pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19

OBJECTIVE: Current data suggest that the transplacental passage of immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus occurs following natural infection,1 and there is emerging evidence that...

www.ajogmfm.org

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#TheDrum The Liberal Party has just endorsed a climate change denier for the seat of Eden Monaro, and the Nationals are living on some other planet. Why do people from rural areas elect these people?

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We need to focus our resources and our best intellects on keeping this planet livable, not on traveling to Mars.

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2 years

Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society. The LNP has one basic policy re taxes (perhaps their only real policy), cut them for the rich and powerful. What they don't say, of course, is that means cutting services for everyone else.

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#Insiders Given an Omicron-based vaccine is safe & approved, it won't be a 5th shot but a new vaccine, just as our annual flu vaccine is a new vaccine.

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Tattoo ink injected into the arm takes can take exactly the same road to lymph nodes in the armpit as any vaccine. What's in tattoo ink? There are no clinical trials! The price of ‘freedom’: How anti-lockdown protest leaders make money from the movement

The price of ‘freedom’: How anti-lockdown protest leaders make money from the movement

You can buy caps and T-shirts, pseudo-medical COVID treatments, even social media sites and legal advice – it’s all part of the deal when you are marching for freedom.

www.theage.com.au

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#QandA Victorian universities have terminated the contracts of some 7,000 people. The public (not private) universities were locked out of job keeper. Most of those who lost their jobs were young and many were female. Money was poured into private schools.

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#Insiders Spot on: 'The voters didn't just 'change the curtains', they took a bulldozer to the house and want a complete rebuild'.

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#TheDrum When people say that they 'distrust both the major political parties', they must surely be aware that one party has been in power for 10 years. Oppositions don't govern and, as a consequence, they can't deliver.

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Its not over. All of us, but particularly older Australians in Sydney and Melbourne, would be unwise to relax any of our vigilance and precautions re COVID-19 until we've seen how relaxing restrictions plays out re case incidence. That should be clear within a month or so.

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That ABC program Utopia is a documentary, right?

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3 years

Absolutely agree with AMA spokesman who is saying that the absolute constraint re any opening up scenario is to keep our hospitals functioning so they can handle both COVID and emergency needs. That's challenging enough in the cities, but even more problematic for small towns.

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Have any of the media people who were putting out confusing or dangerous information ...eg 'it's just the 'flu' or 'we should not lock down' ...taken any responsibility for the so-called 'confusion' around COVID-19 and what's been happening in Victoria?

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#QandA What COVID-19 has shown us is the exploitation of the low paid has likely been a significant factor in the breakdown at the level of the quarantine hotels and the transfer of infection between aged care facilities. We need to dump the private/profit public/liability model

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#TheDrum Fear of a hung parliament? The most effective government re legislation we've had in recent years was the Gillard minority government.

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I truly don't know what to make of the 'multiple ministries' but (along with a lot of other evidence) what it does confirm is that, along with Sir Prince Philip", we've had two Liberal PMs through the past decade who have a tenuous grasp of reality.

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# Dan Andrews has taken full responsibility, but what happened re the quarantine hotels clearly shows how much limiting the spread of this infection is down to each and every one of this. And don't private contractors also have an obligation to understand what they are doing?

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#Insiders There's too much on death counts in COVID-19. This is a new virus with a substantial vascular & inflammatory component. We have absolutely no understanding of possible long-term health consequences. We do know that many younger people are suffering long-term debility.

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#QandA Given the appalling bias and deliberate non-reporting of key issues by much of the Australian print media, social media allows us to bring quality, honest reporting from across the planet to broader attention. Be a witness to the best available analysis & get it out there.

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#TheDrum Penny Wong is saying we've lost a decade of diplomacy. Maybe just say, Australia has lost a decade?

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4 years

US death rate in reported cases of COVID-19 is 5.9% Australia is 1.4%. Differences? Much more testing? Our medical services were not overwhelmed? We have universal health care? Thanks to all for the respite of the lock-down. We're now in better shape to handle whatever comes next

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#Insiders Don't members of the public have the right to know whether employees in any high exposure venue (pubs, cafes, supermarkets etc) are vaccinated? This is a debate about conflicting 'freedoms'. It should also be a debate about responsibilities and public health outcomes.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

3 years

No, you aren't, get the vaccine.

Peter Massey

@PMassey18

3 years

@ProfPCDoherty Lots of reasons for concern about the vaccines unless your heads in the sand. More over the concerns of early Covid treatment suppression and lack of discussions on said topic! But I’m no expert!

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

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Cheating nature is good! 19th century graveyards are full of young people and children who didn't have the opportunity of 'cheating nature' by vaccination. Walk around one sometime and check the headstones.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

3 years

I don't receive any payment for talking about vaccines, or any product, or from any company. How about you? Are you involved in distributing anti-vaccination propaganda? Are you intent on subverting the public health response? If so, what motivates you?

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

3 years

For those out there who are worried that minute quantities of spike protein from mRNA vaccines may damage them in some way, I can't find evidence to support that in any research paper or preprint I've seen, but could you refer me to anything you know of that I may have missed?

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

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#Insiders Shared fates: the fact that we lock legitimate refugees up for years is disgusting and, as we vote to elect people who do this, a commentary on our national character. Unless you're an indigenous person, maybe reflect on how your family came to this country, and why.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

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We took this land by force. First Nation's people, 80% of them it seems, are asking for a Voice that will be heard. They aren't asking for a Treaty, or that they should be granted legislative power, just a Voice. The Voice beyond symbolism via @THEMONTHLY

The Voice beyond symbolism

As October 14 approaches, opposition to the Voice has been dominated by false claims and discredited ideas

www.themonthly.com.au

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

4 years

Abbott also abolished the carbon tax. It is hard to think of an Australian politician who has done more damage to this country, or globally.

Stephen Koukoulas

@TheKouk

4 years

Iron ore around US$100 a tonne: If only we had a mining super profits tax - would be collection tens of billions of dollars exactly when it is needed. Mining companies would still be making a bucket of cash. Tony Abbott abolished that - classic policy vandalism

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

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#4Corners Watch this program on Putin and understand why it is so dangerous to allow concealment, authoritarianism, corruption and a culture of deliberate lies to gain even a toehold in a democracy.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

2 years

#TheDrum We have a Chief Medical Officer and talented people to support that office. We need a Chief Climate Scientist and talented people to support that office. But most of all, in government, we need smart,competent politicians who can lead and have a commitment to reality.

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Prof. Peter Doherty

@ProfPCDoherty

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Why aren't these journalists questioning Dan Andrews aggressively re the 'bubble passengers' who arrived in Vic and WA directing this at the responsible federal minister and/or the head of Border force. No access? No answers? Nobody who takes responsibility?

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