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garnalan.bsky.social
Clinical A/Professor, University of Sydney | Trauma Director, Nepean Hospital | Trauma Physician, Royal Hobart Hospital
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Australia 🇦🇺, wtf?

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

Covid 'brain fog' likely factor in train's near-miss A locomotive engineer experiencing brain fog in the wake of a #Covid19 infection likely played a role in a KiwiRail coal train's near miss #LongCovid #Sars2 www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/30/c...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Still attending isoflurane anonymous meetings?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Surprisingly decent advice on how to limit spread of cvd, cold & flu at home 😮 *isolate from rest of household *wear mask at home when sick *maintain good hygiene *open doors/windows to boost ventilation, ⬆️ air turnover *be up to date with cvd & flu vaccines www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate rose sharply last week to 1.3% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-80. It has passed the peak from early January, during the XEC wave. That implies a 31% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #Australia 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

"When qualified, experienced people leave the medical system, we all suffer." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The existence of homeless people is evidence that more taxes are necessary. The existence of billionaires is evidence that they can afford to pay more taxes.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Hey look it’s a thing we did.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 16 days ago • 227 comments

AUKUS must be ‘America first’. Everyone else second. Pretty clear. Only supplicant mugs would keep writing the cheques. Time for a review.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

The piece is described as a commentary on the inefficiency of bureaucracy, the interchangeability of major party policy, and elaborate promises to get votes.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

If you have never stuck a needle in the back of an infant and watched pus drip out please don’t tell me I am overreacting to RFK Jr.’s latest assault on science.

submitted 20 days ago • 66 comments

RFK Jr for the win.

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

Australian journalist shot from behind by armed paramilitary police in Los Angeles. Time for Australia to advise its citizens not to travel to the US. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

"We are sad that the journalist didn't dodge the projectile that chose to go towards her" said her employer. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

submitted 20 days ago • 73 comments

imagine the having a police officer look at you, point a gun at you and intentionally shoot you, only for your own employer to say that you were 'caught in the crossfire'

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 22 days ago • 101 comments

“The infectivity of NB.1.8.1 was significantly higher (2·5-fold; p<0·0001) than that of LP.8.1. NB.1.8.1 binds more strongly to ACE2 than LP.8.1.5 … the increased fitness of NB.1.8.1 is due to its augmented infectivity rather than its increased immune evasion”.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

This is ok as long as you also post the reviewer’s comments

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments