‘I'm not "living in fear of a cold." I'm putting effort into not catching a disease, the acute phase of which is an inconvenience, but the serious potential side effects of which are cardiovascular and neurological damage, and which has the potential to destroy the world economy.’

Love this quote via Canadian psychologist Jonathan Douglas aka @jonathanconp

Stumbled into the wonderful world of #mosstodon and thought I better dig through some old walking/hiking photos.

Here's a part of the Grampians Peaks Trail in Victoria, Australia. 8km of fairly vertical climbing - not a lot of dirt trail, mostly jagged rocks. Fun day!

#australia #victoria #hiking

28/11/22 Australia
@auscovid19
@longcovid

"The most effective way to prevent long COVID is to prevent COVID-19.

A primary objective of the Australian health response to COVID-19 ought therefore be to minimise the number of cases of COVID-19, as opposed to merely aiming to minimise severe acute disease and death.

The COVID-19 and long COVID strategy should be informed by a “vaccines plus” approach and the multinational Delphi consensus article by Lazarus and colleagues published in Nature"

#WearAMask
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDIsAirborne

https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2022/46/want-to-prevent-long-covid-prevent-covid-19/

Good morning! A post just rolled across my fedi-timeline saying not to post about politics on Mastodon, so I'm here to remind you that:

1 "politics" refers to decision-making about how to live together in groups
2 choosing to not participate in political discussion is saying you support the status quo, and is a political stance
3 abstaining from politics because you feel safe from its impacts is a privilege and a choice to abandon your more vulnerable neighbours