Lessons for the next pandemic: where did Australia go right and wrong in responding to COVID?

"With COVID still classified as an ongoing pandemic, it’s difficult to contemplate the next one. But we need to be prepared."

#OngoingPandemic #COVIDisntOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

Source: https://theconversation.com/lessons-for-the-next-pandemic-where-did-australia-go-right-and-wrong-in-responding-to-covid-239819

🔗 Yes, we do need to bring back masks in medical settings https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/yes-we-do-need-to-bring-back-masks-in-medical-settings/article_1561636c-745e-11ef-b6eb-a7a0afa441d2.html

🔓 https://archive.ph/wbTxP

> The duty of care doesn’t land on patients. It’s the clinicians’ job to ensure patients don’t pick up an unintended infection. Patients have a right to safety in health care facilities. In the meantime, I can only advise my concerned patients to wear an N95 or KN-95 when in health care facilities and suggest they not be shy when asking clinicians to do the same.

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #OngoingPandemic #MaskUp #BringBackMasks #FirstDoNoHarm

"Applying the flu model to covid has been the death of public health as an idea. When people say public health has died with covid, they mean it literally for these reasons. Nothing about the science of covid says we should be dealing with it like the flu. From the acute harms to the longer tail of harm it can cause.
[...]
Public health died for capitalism and our health was the price."
~ Nate Bear

https://www.donotpanic.news/p/its-too-hot-everyones-got-covid-cheney

#OngoingPandemic #COVID19

"The Covid pandemic didn’t end; it was normalized as part of the capitalist drive to stabilize and perpetuate existing power structures. To "normalize" in this context means to embed the pandemic's disruptions into the routine operations of capitalist society, transforming what was once an acute crisis into a standardized, expected condition of daily life."

~ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, death panel podcast.

https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/from-class-war-to-carceral-violence

#OngoingPandemic #Capitalism #DisabilityJustice #COVID19

I forgot to put on my mask in a dream.
-A nightmare in a nutshell.

#covid19 #pandemic #ongoingpandemic #CovidIsAirborn #maskup

🔗 School in the time of COVID-19 https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/letter-school-in-the-time-of-covid-19-9475712

by @DrFiliatrault

> History will not be “kind” to the adults charged with keeping kids healthy and learning in school in the time of COVID-19.

#CovidIsAirborne #OngoingPandemic

1. Acknowledge that COVID is airborne
2. Mandate airborne infection control in all healthcare settings
3. Consequences for healthcare acquired infections
4. Consequences for infections acquired in congregate settings, prisons, workplaces and schools
5. Comprehensive indoor clean air laws with specifications
6. Work from home encouraged, conferences virtual, flights tested
7. Free masks, free tests, free vaccines, free Paxlovid
8. Education

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-would-an-adequate-covid-response

#COVID19 #OngoingPandemic