Mandy PNov 27, 2022
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

RT @EpiEllie
The tweet below shows COVID hospitalizations in Australia.

I’ve annotated the image with what leaders around the world want us to believe. Can we stop letting them gaslight us and do something, please?! https://twitter.com/andrewhewat/status/1596110791056375808

Andrew Hewat on Twitter

“Current AUS wave started with as many C19 hospitalisations as peak of Delta wave. Even if this wave is not as big as BA waves, we have a health system & workforce that has been repeatedly smashed & we expect Business As Usual? This is not 'new normal'. It is 'new nightmare'.”

Twitter
Nov 25, 2022 at 9:19pmMoa
Show threadBlotreport: YESNov 26, 2022
@mackayim2022 Yep. It is a disgrace, and demonstrates what politicians consider important; the economy and their donations against which lives are a distant second. https://blotreport.com/2022/06/12/post-care-cover-up/
Show threadNot_LikelyNov 26, 2022
@mackayim2022 not sure what you mean by not pandemic. Covid has been circulating even to today and infections increase and decrease. This graph seems to show that removing restrictions resulted in more hospitalisations. I assume this is what you are trying to show.
Show threadIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Nov 26, 2022
@Not_likely Not sure what you're asking. Perhaps read the tweet I RT'd again.
Show threadNot_LikelyNov 26, 2022
@mackayim2022 I assume your saying we should reintroduce restrictions we had during the pandemic in order to reduce hospitalisations. That seems to be what you are showing? Not sure what they were gaslighting.
Show threadIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Nov 26, 2022
@Not_likely that isn't my tweet, it's a RT.
Show threadNot_LikelyNov 26, 2022
@mackayim2022 even though hospitalisations are up deaths due to Covid are worse. Although hospitalisations and deaths are closely correlated. It is set to be the third leading cause of death after dementia and heart disease.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.actuaries.asn.au/Library/MediaRelease/2022/MediaReleaseCOVID19MortalityRateOct.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwi1-8Cwi8v7AhWt8jgGHRk0D3MQFnoECAAQAg&usg=AOvVaw0vf3GKZSmXZ9Tt1Y2FhYvs
Show threadRossANov 26, 2022
@mackayim2022 @aus_teach are you proposing that we should go back to lockdowns? What you're seeing on the graphs was always going to happen.
Show threadSimon Keily, M.Ed 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022
@RossA @mackayim2022 Nope. The problem in Australia is lack of discussion at a political level while the cases/hospitalisations is high. I have no idea what the solution is apart from being diligent with mask wearing.
Show threadIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Nov 26, 2022
@RossA @aus_teach No. That was a retweeted cross post
Show threadBigsmiffyNov 27, 2022

@mackayim2022

It’s still by definition a pandemic. It will eventually -probably- slide into endemic.

During the first part of your graph there were extensive public health measures to lower transmission. They worked, very well. Transmission now occurs because those measures have gone, but with vaccination deaths per case is now lower.

The thing to push is vaccinations. Case fatality rate is vastly lower in the vaccinated.

Show threadBigsmiffyNov 27, 2022
@mackayim2022
Show threadBigsmiffyNov 27, 2022

@mackayim2022

There was meant to be some graphs in that toot. They don’t seem to be uploading.