I hand out respirator/breatheteq masks to my patients to help them reduce their risk of getting COVID and Long COVID. Here's the letter I've put together about this for parents about children masking. @longcovidresource.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidkids.bsky.social #longcovid

I created an interactive tool that estimates the proportion of people who are infectious with #COVID19. The 2 data points you need are wastewater level today and 10 days ago, which you can get nationally and locally in many places, such as WastewaterSCAN. us-covid-infectious-estimates.netlify.app

Online is flooded by overseas people's complaints about the heat. I'm getting tired of it! My uncle is dying, husband's uncle also dying, neighbour broke his spine, close friend's CF son has terrible bacterial infection..just be sensible and learn from us in hot countries. It's not all about aircons

My uncle is dying. May only have hours or days

Some more pics of my watercolours today

Enjoying some watercolour painting despite my headache

Keeping warm in southern Tasmania. 4c outside and it's only about 5pm

When I woke up this morning

Ok so we all have our occasional vices

Ughhhhhh! New support worker for son introducing himself and saying he never wore a mask even “back in Covid”. We had given him a mask to wear even sitting outside because he’d cancelled “due to illness” then sent a message that he felt better and could come. Son was keen to go ahead and start.

-1. My morning view. Can't complain

❄️ Overnight was about -2 so I kept the bedroom heater on low keeping room around 15. Still a bit cold for me with two quilts. Husband mentioned how "hot" the room was overnight. He had one thin quilt. Daytime he walks around barefoot. Something is very different about us! 🔥 ❄️

I keep getting notified I've been blocked. I assume that's because I write about the dirty word, that thing that people tell themselves is "gone" or "weak", that forbidden word...covid

Just found a nest of Novids Here so followed as many as I could be bothered. It's a weird feeling being sure Novids.

Finally get a support worker for our son and he's booked to start tomorrow and guess what? Cancelled as "has a virus". So ofcourse I appreciate he didn't just come sick but there's ways of avoiding viruses. We have for six years 😷😷😷

😇 With being swamped with USA Iran Israel drama and it’s financial impacts on Australia plus the absolutely horrible reemergence of Pauline Hanson (everything bad from the past) I’ve been swearing alot more. Online but especially at home. I don’t like that. I’m going to try to stop. 😇

Omg three hours booking 2 x Spirit of Tas 🛳️ and 4 x accommodation. Not fun

COVID isn't over. 18 mths ago my 50s friend died from it, last yr my uncle did, this yr a 30s friend has been in hospital for 2 months unable to walk/eat/drink, seizures. Multiple Consultants suggest covid infections play a part in his problems. Also this year relatives sick and don't test

6-8 month's wait for a private Neurologist initial appointment and longer for a public one in Tasmania. Our son has a problem needing assessing and a history of a brain lesion, the only other option if his symptoms worsened will be ER. Not great. Luckily his problem has been stable

Hands up if you'd want to leave this country, Australia if Gina-Pauline-Israel-USA ran it? ✋ We'll move to New Zealand.

This is a 15-year-old female tiger living her best life as a giant kitty playing with a cardboard box. That's fun, no matter what age you are!🐅📦

Photo I took last night in a Hobart Building

🔥 had a nice afternoon with friends around a fire outside. They brought cake, we'd made a cake so lots of cake. It was nearly dark and 7c when they left. Getting chilly

Driving around Dark Mofo Hobart

Musk just shared this on X 😡. Will there ever be a super rich person who will change the world? Help the millions of poor, homeless, sick, traumatized? Help the oceans, forests, the air? x.com/i/status/206...

Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Covid/Flu update, week ending Jun 13 2026 • Covid levels increasing - 164 cases, ↑82% from prev week - Wastewater surveillance: ↑47% from prev week, 29% of last year's peak level • Influenza levels increasing - Summer flu season in 2 weeks? - Lab positivity rate: 4.92% (up from 4.11%)

Friend told me Consultant said the best they can guess is that her son has a combination of covid induced damage causing seizures and weakness plus a medication reaction that is incurable. I think he's dying but they're not saying it outright. He wasn't vaccinated. He's had covid atleast 3x. 😭

All of a sudden I have two people I'm close to basically dying or on that road. It's overwhelming. I feel helpless

Does anyone know if LC can lead to not being able to walk, eat or drink? My friend's 30s son (autistic) has been declining for over a year and now been in hospital over a month. No eating or drinking & unable to roll over let alone walk. To me it sounds like ominous decline. No tests have found why

This is good.

If One Nation somehow gained power in Australia the New Zealand population is going to suddenly grow!

Apparently we have a Transgender Insurgency in Australia. According to our Mother Pauline. Definition of insurgency is "a violent, armed rebellion by a group against an established authority or government...bombings or sabotage—against a stronger, traditional military".

Guess what? We’re all HUMAN! My family and my husband’s includes Australian born including Aboriginal, Torrens Strait, plus Italian, Chinese, Brazilian, Indian, American. We love them all. How boring would it be to be all white Australian. We have mixed nephews and nieces.

🕯️ Sometimes it amazes me to think it's been six years since me, my husband and one son have had any viruses and we've never had covid. That has been so good for our health 😷

Sting. Love this song youtu.be/DOdXfFdRcV0?...

Australian society is not perfect but it's pretty damn great compared to what it would under ON government. I'm angry but if ON took hold, I would be devastatingly sad at the loss of our Australia. As the mother of a gay son, a grandma, a carer, an Australian. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

I could never have been a billionaire. No matter my intelligence or drive or connections. Why? Because I'm kind, generous and creative. I can't visit Melbourne or Sydney without feeding a street person, I spent my years working to help ease suffering, bring happiness. Noone should be a billionaire

I mean why is it ok for them to enter my private property to push their religion? If I knocked on doors and tried to get people to listen to my beliefs (look after nature, be kind, share, the rich are selfish) how would they respond?? Keep off my property

Absolutely already is

Musk is over 1000,000x richer than me and my husband. Between us we've worked helping the vulnerable in child protection, mental health and aged care for over 50 years, sometimes working weekends as well as weekdays.

Noone should be allowed to be paid money to attend a free birth. Unqualified, paid to just be there for support. In this case to support a woman avoid the medical system because she was so scared of being harmed. She ended up dying in her own living room www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Ladies 40+ get to your GP and get on Estriol cream before atrophy sets into the far regions. It does all kinds of wonderful things like slowing atrophy, calming discomfort, saving bits, helps urgency. Did you know inner labia shrink as we age? Not fair! www.thefamilychemist.co.uk/product/estr...

It’s crazy but let’s get some perspective into the argument - About 12k killed on roads 2015- 2024 - 59 killed by sharks since 2000 - 58 people died from COVID in March 2026 Assessments of risk is very poor in Australia But yes let’s kill an apex predator- makes good copy and vote winner

My amazing chicken balls recipe. Eat them hot or cold. No eggs. Egg makes then hard.

In our Australian lingo, America is "stuffed"

My friends (big) 30s son is non verbal autistic and has been unable to walk for a year. He's been bedridden in hospital for nearly three months. Can't even roll from side to side. Tests found no definitive cause. NDIS are saying not enough evidence to provide the supports needed for him to go home 😡

Anyone “on a budget” or just wanting something different, have your tried Tubi streaming? I’m loving it. Has lots of British and also older shows, free tubitv.com/en-au

Just ordered Mary Beard's "Women and Power" www.theguardian.com/books/2017/n...

Drove and ate date scones and drank hot chocolate. D made a uni-scone