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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

Is it #covid19 or hay fever? I explain how to tell the difference and if you should get tested! With captions.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

The most dangerous #coronavirus myth is that only old/sick people will die. When this disease consumes every ICU bed, anaesthetist, ventilator etc available, the 25 yr old in a car accident, 19 yr old with appendicitis will suffer. We are ALL in this together. #SocialDistancing

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

@Zoah_HS I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

1 year

Hey @qantas I am flying to Canberra on Tuesday. Can you tell me if the dude who pile drives the bag at 10 sec will be on at my carousel, so I know how much bubblewrap to put in my bag?

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

'Too humiliating' to wear a mask at a doctor's appointment. The absolute fragility on display here.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Now that SA has a Quarantine outbreak seeded into the community, perhaps it’s time for the Fed gov and experts to wake up and realise that it’s not a Victoria specific issue, and that we need STANDARDISED NATIONAL QUARANTINE GUIDELINES. You’ve had 10 months. #covid19aus #auspol

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

6 months

A new patient, nearing a hundred, asked me if I'm married/have a family. I said no. He responded "Aaah, unclaimed treasure!". From now on that's my official relationship status.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

He fled from Iraq in 2014 where he was a qualified doctor, and requalified in Australia, where he was a cancer researcher at Griffith University. He went into the water at Mermaid Beach to rescue someone, but died. His name is Dr Luqman Jubair.

'A real hero': Tributes for 'incredibly brave' doctor who died trying to rescue swimmer on Gold...

Police say 35 year-old Luqman Jubair went into the water at Miami on Thursday night to help someone in trouble.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

The gold standard litmus test to detect shitheads is their reactions to people like Greta Thunberg and Simone Biles. If they have shit views on these two, I promise you, they have shit views on everything.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

12 days

Today we commemorate the 4 year anniversary of the moment when a Nobel laureate articulated the collective mood of an entire nation.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Incredible that Pete Evans can be kicked off Facebook for medical misinformation about COVID. Meanwhile, @CraigKellyMP does the same while enjoying the support of our PM. This is not a partisan point, this is a health issue. Liberal voters must demand better.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

We needed a vaccination ad that connected with people, with a message of positivity, not fear. Who came through with that ad in the end? The Arts.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Several Liberal MPs are medical doctors and not one is speaking out against Craig HydroxychloroKelly. They shame our profession.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Fuck me, people really lose their shit when women don't smile hey. Grown ass men telling her to give the award back, writing op-eds and twitter threads... She's angry about sexual assault. You're angry about what exactly?

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Bloodbath. I fucking love it.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

Permission granted for @DanielAndrewsMP to walk in, no suit jacket/northface, top 2 buttons undone, and begin 'So... what I fucken tell ya?'

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Scott Morrison has lashed ICAC harder than he has Christensen.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 months

I am stunned that someone can become CEO of a multibillion dollar corporation despite being *this* incapable of handling a highly predictable line of questioning.

ABC News

@abcnews

3 months

This is what happened when Four Corners asked Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci about the lack of competition in the Australian grocery market. Watch the #4Corners documentary tonight:

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Dr Vyom Sharma

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2 years

I'm still trying to reconcile Bridget McKenzie claiming the Emergency Relief Fund is "only to be accessed once all other sources of funding have been exhausted", with Peter Dutton starting a GoFundMe.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

As a Melburnian I really don’t need to hear “you’ve got this” - what I have got is the shits from this half-arse vaccination rollout.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

It wasn't easy learning to speak and understand Australian. Observing people talk was literally: Person 1: Scarnon? Person 2: Eeeenomuchayscarnonwiyuu

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Uncertain times for Australia at the moment. Can’t wait for Scomo to chime in with absolutely nothing.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

This also applies to your second dose.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

WHO HIRED THE SA QUARANTINE SECURITY GUARDS

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Demoralising day to be a GP. I bulk-bill every patient I see in Aged Care, every week. Medicare rebates don’t reflect the value of our work. Sure aren’t worth copping misguided scrutiny of bureaucrats & crude accusations in the media. Hard to see myself doing it much longer.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

This is a contemptible statement.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

And under-recognised side-effect of both Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccine is a sense of relief.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Close the borders. I do not want the FB crowd drifting onto this platform.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

I’ve just put a call out to an Australian GPs forum, suggesting whoever the regular doctor of @DanielAndrewsMP is to kindly call him, and ask him to take just one day off. I was only half joking - cannot imagine how difficult that job is right now. We need him at his best.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

10 new cases, already in isolation. Victorian contact tracing is working. #COVID19Vic

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Ridiculously framed question that got the answer it deserved.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Last night, I did what I thought'd be a small call out, asking: "Is every emergency department in Metro Melbourne fucked right now, or is it just some of them?" I've been hit with an avalanche of messages. Here is the problem, some causes and solutions, in plain words🧵:

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

The walkway between two of Victoria’s Quarantine hotels, I shit you not:

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Damn ̶i̶m̶m̶i̶g̶r̶a̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶ Prime Ministers, taking up all our jobs.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

This snippet is resonating with Australians for reasons so obvious that I don’t need to say the name.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

My house is on fire. I probably have 30 seconds to put 100% of it out. I have no plans for the next 10 seconds. I shall await further technological advancements.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

1 month

I joined the “Bruce Lehrmann is innocent” FB group last night, in the same way you might slow down to see a car crash. Scenes. A man is ranting ‘if every woman who has been sexually assaulted came forward the Government would be shut down’. He thinks this is a defence of Bruce.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

One of the best measures of just-how-bad-we-messed-up this pandemic would be the tally of how many vaccine doses have expired on Western shelves until today, when only 4.4% of Africa is fully immunised.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Everyone who is waiting in line to be tested in Victoria right now, thank you very, very much.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Look Andrew O'Keefe may have been charged with assaulting a woman, but at least it wasn't a crime that prompted much more outcry this week - not smiling.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Thoughts and prayers for the residents of Mornington Peninsula.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

@PatrickGormanMP @AustralianLabor It is genuinely bewildering to see the Australian Prime Minister not wear a mask when almost everyone in frame is wearing one. Leave aside the risks of transmission, did he not realise how this would look to people?

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

National cabinet has decided : > pre-flight testing for international travellers > masks mandated on all international flights. They deserve NO CREDIT for deciding this in January 2021. #covid19aus

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Breaking: Covid Safe now the second most hated app in the country.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

10 deaths from 2000+ COVID cases in NSW so far. 6 deaths from AZ out of 6 million doses across Australia.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

You know shit’s fucked when we’re naming COVID wIth Greek letters you didn’t know existed.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Sending politicians off to empathy training is like asking a doctor to read up on germ theory. If you need that level of education, you weren’t qualified for job in the first place.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

I propose renaming #Omicron as the groundhog variant, cos this shits gonna play on repeat till we suppress the virus GLOBALLY with equitable vaccine access.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Legally threatening a child who has behaved professionally. The man hasn't changed. Tim Smith is the Tim Smith of Tim Smiths. Of all the Smiths, he is the Timmiest.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

NZ tennis player Artem Sitak states that athletes were told that if one person on the flight tested positive, that the whole plane would have to quarantine. It was stated on a conference call that not all players attended.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

Real MVP this week is Leanne Stride, owner of Lemon Tree Cafe, who kept all the records of customers in Shepparton who attended her cafe, and posted Facebook updates re: DHHS advice. We need to support businesses with a system to make record keeping convenient. #covid19aus

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Not one word wasted here by Saela, 17 years old, who spoke at the presser today, as (at one point) the youngest person in the state to be ventilated for #covid19 . I hope we can share her message on vaccines with the few people who are still on the fence.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

For real, big ups for workers of testing labs in Vic and NSW. Exceeded every expectation for sustained volume and pace of processing. This doesn’t happen without people working overtime +++. We never get to see their faces - if you are reading this, we appreciate you!

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

I will never get my head around how one party is like ‘we will set up a body to investigate corruption’ and the other is effectively saying ‘lol no’. You’d think the entire election would be done and dusted on just this one issue.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

“Careful it’s spicy” ‘Haha Yeah all good I asked for it spicy” “No it’s really spicy, a few times while cooking I was coughing, I couldn’t take it” When the Thai cook of the Thai restaurant tells you it’s too hot for him to breathe, you know you’re fucked. Will report back in 20

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Imagine if Pete Evans said ‘kids can’t infect people with #covid19aus ’. We’d slam him. Well, the premier of NSW said this yesterday, and still has’t corrected the statement. Not one journalist at today’s presser questioned her. Crickets. Tumbleweeds.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

He said this when Victoria’s second wave was truly under way, one day after we had 218 new cases. #covid19aus #auspol #ScoVid

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Premier Gladys B needs to STOP ASKING people to wear masks and mandate it. #covid19nsw

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

I have been blessed with the good sense to not talk shit about kids with disabilities. Others have not.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

@rachael_dexter @theage 100's of people and about 60 IQ points. When they get sick they'll demand treatment from my medical colleagues just like everyone else. And they'll get it too, because we aren't as cruel as they are stupid. #covid19 #auspol .

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

I cannot believe this has been published. Not only should it be retracted, everyone involved should apologise for the impact these lies will have.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

Man these ICACs are fun. Now let’s do a federal one.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

24 days

That concludes season 2 of Channel 7’s hit series Defamation Nightmares. Who will star in season 3?

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Novax, Forklifts4Kids, women who don't smile when we want them to - a lot of whacky shit has happened this year. And it's still January.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

This presser jesus - here we are at a make/break point re: this 2nd wave, yet STILL talking about who hired the private security guards. Stop trying to blame one person. Blame them all. Blame the entire apparatus. Blame me. And let's get on with what matters most #covidvic

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

What if, and hear me out, America is *not* better than this?

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

1 month

@DylanoA4 btw, 'the guy next to me' was actually him. he was the one complaining about the internet. he said this in an interview.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

I believe @MarkMcGowanMP here might be the first premier to call out the Federal Government's abrogation of responsibility to coordinate quarantine.

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Here’s Mark McGowan telling Peter Dutton to do his job or STFU.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

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3 years

Incredible! 39k tests. Ethnic mum awards this the rare A+.

Victorian Department of Health

@VicGovDH

3 years

Yesterday there were no new cases reported. 39,258 test results were received. Thank you to those who got tested - #EveryTestHelps . More later: #COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData

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4 years

We deserve better politicians than this.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

1 year

I don't for a second believe that the various media orgs and commentators got it wrong when they were portending calamity for Labor. They weren't predicting. They were campaigning.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

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3 years

Now would be a great time to stay there and not come back to Vic.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

Everyone please wear sunscreen so I don’t get skin cancer.

The Today Show

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2 years

"We don't have to mandate people wearing sunscreen and hats in summer." Scott Morrison on reimposing mask mandates as NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet resists calls to reintroduce the measure. #9Today

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3 years

Wow. @DanielAndrewsMP is brutally disapproving of Margaret Court’s Australia Day gong.

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@drvyom

4 years

@VicGovDHHS Sky News: #covid19vic numbers have DOUBLED overnight!

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@drvyom

2 years

Know what I can’t take? The cringe.

Joe Crupi

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2 years

We’re not gunna take in ANYMORE #Melbourneprotest #FreedomRally

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

4 years

It's tough watching @VictorianCHO facing these very adversarial questions. No one is perfect. You have our full support.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

There is much that can be criticised about Victoria's approach. But much can be lauded too. To argue Vic's 'outbreak response is a template for what not to do' (it's not just the title, it's in the piece too) is an utterly unbalanced and unnuanced view.

Victoria’s outbreak response a template for what not to do

Responding to the same Delta crisis, NSW and Victoria have cut different paths. But it’s now evident which state - and which leader - adopted the wiser and more successful strategy.

www.theage.com.au

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Let's not forget how this started - an unvaccinated worker in the quarantine chain. It wasn't mandated. It wasn't checked. This isn't a case of hindsight being 20/20. It was predicted. #covidnsw

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

Goodnight Victoria. Reading posts on social media, and messages from friends, I can see some of us are feeling very worried. But please know that, based on what I have seen last 3 months in the Victorian response, there is much, much cause for optimism. #COVID19Vic

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

If this test/result wait times issue is not resolved rapidly, we may permanently pass the tipping point of public acceptance of testing and isolating. We may already have.

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

2 years

I was genuinely expecting more mainstream coverage of floods in Pakistan and drought in China. I was wrong.

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@drvyom

2 years

1700 ADF now heading to aged care roughly a month after being requested. What changed today that wasn’t foreseeable a few weeks ago?

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@drvyom

2 years

An everyday superpower that astonishes me is people who buy chocolates/ice-cream, have a bit, save some for later, and somehow make it last for over a week. How.

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@drvyom

3 years

I have two family members in a India currently hospitalised due to Covid. Beds have effectively run out. Capital cities almost out of oxygen. People buying remdesivir on the black market. 1 billion people suffering the consequences - not of the virus, but bad leadership.

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@drvyom

2 years

Isn't it amazing how people in Melbourne can struggle to get permission from the council to extend their deck, but Crown Casino somehow has 19 flamethrowers along the Yarra that spit fireballs like every 7.5 minutes on school-nights for *no reason* ?

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Dr Vyom Sharma

@drvyom

3 years

What’s happening in Melbourne will likely happen again. We will get more leaks. The only ways to prevent it is address airborne transmission in quarantine in EVERY state, and Aus to get vaccinated. Gov must widen eligibility, access, promotion.

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1 year

At midnight the Victorian Health System Response is being upgraded to stage 3. COVID-19 hospitalisations in Vic are up 30%.

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@drvyom

3 years

Thoughts and prayers with receptionists at GP clinic during this difficult period.

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@drvyom

3 years

This dickhead again. Thai restaurant exposure was 10 days ago, ie 2 median incubation periods- we must catch up fast. So we’re isolating contacts of contacts. Masks req indoors - makes sense. NYE = massive superspreader potential. Gatherings modestly limited, not banned.

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3 years

From ‘New strain’ to ‘the pizza guy lied’ in 48 hours.

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@drvyom

6 months

It’s happened! Someone just tried to get into my car thinking it was an Uber. Which means I’ve completed the Indian trifecta - which also includes being mistaken for uber eats driver in a restaurant and asked for assistance in a 7-Eleven.

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4 years

This is the price I pay for replying to MP Tim Smith. The racism is water off a ducks back. but DO NOT MOCK MY MAGIC CAREER CANNOT COPE 😭😭😭 😭😭

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@drvyom

23 days

New category in Points Based Immigration System just dropped.

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@drvyom

3 years

Nah it was our views on child rape.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

3 years

Cardinal Pell says his conservative views drove public against him

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2 years

On the train for the first time in what must be 2 years in Melbourne. SO MANY MULLETS. What happened?

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2 years

If you lie on a Visa application - how big an offence is it? Asking for not a friend.

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2 years

Looking back, can’t believe Tim Smith MP was a real thing and not a fictional character.

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@drvyom

4 years

Trying to get mum to send me the URL for a website. She absolutely cannot do it. It’s been 30 min. She finally sent me a photo of her laptop with website open. The photo has everything in frame everything except URL. Lord grant me the patience of @DanielAndrewsMP at a presser.

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@drvyom

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With 56K tests, we have transcended the alphabet grading system. This is a full scholarship to Scotch College. Ethnic mum is now re-evaluating her expectations. Maybe med school is aiming too low. Maybe her child could become an astronaut.

Victorian Department of Health

@VicGovDH

3 years

Reported yesterday: 5 new local cases and 2 new cases acquired overseas (currently in HQ). - 21,626 vaccine doses were administered - 56,624 test results were received More later: … #COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData

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I just ended a shift doing telehealth for residents locked down in Melbourne's towers. My favourite moment today, as I *attempted* to raise spirits- Me: 'Thanks for your time.... and hang in there.' Her: 'Hang in there?? HELL NO, I'm a warrior!' #covid19aus

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