🇦🇺Australia's weekly reported COVID numbers: 14 April 2023
🔸Deaths: 117 (+34)
🔸Cases: 27,043 (+318)
Jurisdiction / cases / deaths
🔹NSW: 9,646 / 22
🔹VIC: 5,811 / 30
🔹QLD: 3,472 / 17
🔹WA: 3,196 / 8
🔹SA: 3,173 / 36
🔹TAS: 1,004 / 4
🔹ACT: 566 / 0
🔹NT: 175 / 0
Change in reported weekly case numbers:
🔸National: 🔺Up 1.2%
🔹SA: 🔺Up 16.7%
🔹TAS: 🔺Up 4.7%
🔹ACT: 🔺Up 2.9%
🔹VIC: 🔺Up 0.7%
🔹QLD: 🔻Down 12.2%
🔹NT: 🔻Down 9.8%
🔹WA: 🔻Down 7.2%
🔹NSW: 🔻Down 2.3%
It is vile how the response so many people have to “we’re still in a pandemic that’s killing and disabling lots of people” is to say: “those people were sick and/or old” and then go on to imply or outright state that makes it acceptable and “normal.”
People really don’t understand that they’re going to be sick and old at some point? And that when they are they will still be people who have rights and lives?
This guy did 3 x 10 minute videos. They saved me months of learning when I joined in November.
This site is all about hashtags to search for topics.
But following people also works like the other site.
Setting up your browser is important (as shown in the videos).
But if you live on your phone there are tons of good apps that have the same functionality. I use Tusky for Android.
The Filters are great for blocking content.
Here on Mastodon, I see ongoing discussion of #Twitter and its woes, the destructive antics of its deranged owner, its declining reliability, and its impending doom.
Yet I have a feeling that all this is invisible to my many friends who continue to use Twitter as they always have, in their own communities, disregarding the ugly ads and promoted tweets, and not noticing much of a change.
Am I wrong?