I've been following child deaths and illness, people with disabilities deaths and illnesses from the beginning, Delta changed things significantly, pretty gutted that Australia is letting it spread among 5-11 year olds when if the government had procured it we could be vaccinating now. It would have been worth letting the kids having a long holiday and going back uninfected next year. My psychiatrist said she's appalled that they could do this bad a job. So I kind of give up with it all now. They've got the 15 pediatric Long Covid wards in England, and 50% of kids in the hospital in some US states have no pre-existing conditions. Prof Raina MacIntyre put on so much information in professional development in April 2020 and as we all know taking things in, processing and changing is really hard when you want to, and when you don't want to or are overwhelmed you just give up. So good news one of my friends had decent exposure to an unlinked infection and double vaxxed and wearing a mask she came back negative. She has a one year old so that was such a relief for her she was terrified. I was really relieved about that. I joined a group of teachers and parents, that is using Freedom of Information to get hold of the clusters in the schools and all the school closures in NSW and Victoria, we probably won't be able to cut through the Murdoch media, but they are practical, small, hand made things that I can do. I think if you don't have many friends overseas that have lost folks and had family and friends left barely able to move, it's so far removed from you. I so feel for the parents of small children who are so busy parenting/working/managing and those whose first language is not English, who may have no idea of what is going on. My Indian friends have seen the small children suffocate to death in the hospital car parks due to the hospitals closing down as the health system being overwhelmed. The hospital literally closed its doors. The rates of deaths of children are much higher in 2nd and 3rd world countries than 1st world countries, as it well known. I have had such a scraping myself off the ground type of the year, so following this wasn't the best, but it was fascinating to see how countries covered the pandemic and how different populations reacted and didn't react. Those countries that banned misinformation didn't have the poor mental health outcomes and a lot less spread as well. Where the politicians stood aside and said nothing and left it to the medical professions, the populations were reacted very differently to where the it was politicized. I was fasincated that Singpore's "Living with Covid" was stricter than Australia's "lockdown", in Singapore every child 6 and over work masks indoors and outdoors at all times, they have mechanical ventilation of many times, you have to be vaccinated to go anywhere and be involved in so many activities, whereas Australia is still discussing if it's airborne in some mznxckndnf sections of our community. I am trying to focus on something else because facing the sheer stupidity of what is happening is overwhelming, you can fight against evil but I don't know what do with stupidity.
