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All done for a new documentary with the wonderful Kathie Melocco and crew.
#watchthisspace #moralharm #trauma #psychhazards #psychriskmngt #psychosocial #psychsafety
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Dr Rebecca Michalak
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Dr Rebecca Michalak
@drbecs
Psychosocial Risk Expert | Professional Speaker | Author. Managing Director @psychsafe. Cost-saving is a grow-through phase. Get across #ESG.
Australia Katılım Ekim 2011
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As highlighted yet again in the @AusHumanRights Respect@Work Report (and a known issue well before, but *slow learners*), NDAs were designed to protect IP. They’ve been abusively co-opted and used in illegal ways, and the sooner that abuse gets addressed, the better #WHS #silence
Ashley M. Gjøvik@ashleygjovik
🧵 When I started calling out Apple in 2021, tons of ex-coworkers contacted me saying some version of: Apple was a huge d*ck, they sued Apple, the litigation was the worst thing in their entire life & they can't even talk about it. What I'm observing first hand, & can tell you...
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@TGallopavo @LauraMiers @loscharlos Your ancestors + naïve & memory cells would like a word 🤦♀️ being sick has NO BENEFIT. Zero. Yes, we have developed systems to fight back, and sometimes those systems work well, but how stupid does one have to be to go ‘broken bones can heal, let’s go break bones for funsies’?
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@LauraMiers @loscharlos "Do people even remember humans are not supposed to be sick at all?" Source?
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“I got COVID for a third time in 2025 (I'm vaxed & boosted & took paxlovid)..... Boom #LongCovid. Can't climb due to PEM. I haven't climbed in almost a year.”
“No one wants to hear this either but... COVID is still out there. It is not more mild. It is still causing disability.“
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@TheJniac @LauraMiers @loscharlos Also the damage is so often ‘hidden’ (microclots, brain lesions, ⬇️grey matter, wiped naive T cells, damaged memory cells, as examples) or generally unobvious until whoomph. Unless you’re really paying attention, mitigating risk actively and diligently, it’s a CO scenario.
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@LauraMiers @loscharlos It is pretty standard for humans to assume that similar situations will have similar outcomes. The ability SARS-CoV-2 has to do nothing noticeable over and over only to really mess you up seemingly at random is why so few people take it seriously.
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@AndrewMeffan @Loricatty @LauraMiers @loscharlos Exactly. And we learnt a long time ago that all that piffle about children *benefit* from eating dirt (um, ugh / parasitic worm infections, for one?….) and similar folk tales were just that; tales. Not science. The smart ones moved on and have a much more sophisticated view.
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@Loricatty @LauraMiers @loscharlos Yeah right.
Humans are supposed to get sick just like we're supposed to have numerous injuries.
They all make us StRoNGeR. S/-
There is NOT an overall benefit in sickness or injury.
Immune activation is a small benefit against the greater unpleasantness and damage from disease.
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@LauraMiers @loscharlos Optimism bias, for one. It’s the ‘oh, I get that the numbers say it’s really just a matter of time (infections), and I’ve heard it’s pretty bad - BUT. IT. WILL. NEVER. HAPPEN. TO. ME.’
It’s one reason hearing about lived experience is powerful, for a range of things.
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@loscharlos I wish someone would study the phenomenon by which people automatically assume they will always be fine if they get more Covid since they got it 1-2x & were fine before. Do people even remember humans are not supposed to be sick at all? Much less routinely? It’s madness.
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I run a music group for people who have a very particular set of skills, acquired over several years - that gives them the ability to resist peer pressure.
As a result, the level of peer pressure we can exert is very high.
Get in touch if you are interested. #MaskUp
Onixx@fowontmiss
What’s the most extreme form of peer pressure you’ve seen amongst adults?
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A residential aged care provider has been convicted and fined $150,000 after workers contracted COVID-19 at a Fawkner facility in July 2020.
Read more: go.vic.gov.au/4ddMSU3
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@Stollenloch @PeteUK7 They also don’t realise the cockpit has different AX regs, bc (increased infection risk aside momentarily), CO2 starts shutting down exec functioning ~1500ppm, and who wants to get on a plane w cognitively impaired pilots? Mind you, #C19 brain damage also in the mix now 🙄
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@PeteUK7 I see flight attendants very interested in both the air purifiers as well as the CO2 monitor, they usually don’t know about either
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I had to go to the registry office today to get a death certificate for my Mum.
I told them we wanted to wear respirators during the meeting as we are avoiding Covid.
They were happy to accommodate us.
The lady we met wore an FFP3 (that we provided) throughout.
It's not hard.
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@1goodtern Research shows solidly it’s loyal & pro-org workers who report, bc they want to see learning, +ve change, and believe it’s possible. And when psychological safety is absent and or voice results in null/-ve consequences (v. common), going fully public should be a protected action.
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Earlier today I was quietly sitting by a bed in the stroke unit. The patient I was visiting had fallen asleep (I have that effect on people) so I just sat, and watched a nurse going from patient to patient taking bloods and doing procedures without gloves and without washing their hands in between patients.
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@1903wrightflyer @1goodtern @BirdieBittern I’m so sorry for your loss 😢and am angry with and for you about the conditions under which it occurred. That’s so not good enough.
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@drbecs @1goodtern @BirdieBittern My Dad’s consultant met with us on a Thursday & told us that worst case he had a year, best case up to 3 years.
He had Multiple Myeloma.
He was dead 4 days later from MRSA.
2 weeks later they closed the entire wing due to MRSA.
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@goldie_brigitte @DockeryIrwin @chrisms150 @ExpatRepeat Exactly. Prevention over cure, and that’s really only when there IS a cure. Like breaking a leg - we know we can generally repair that, most times good as new style, but otherwise (like w. C19) it’s prevent the snot out of it until you have a cure, Precautionary Principle style.
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@drbecs @DockeryIrwin @chrisms150 @ExpatRepeat also preventative measures prevent you from needing cures which is especially great if there is no cure (as of yet)
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When I moved to malaria endemic areas, I started sleeping under a mosquito net. Every night. For much longer than 6 years. There is no appropriate time to “let it go” regarding precautions against an endemic disease.
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@1903wrightflyer @1goodtern @BirdieBittern And this is why negligence and liability laws exist. There’s absolutely systemic issues at play in health; nurses and doctors are human and genuine mistakes aren’t made in a vacuum, they have drivers. Then there’s the proportion that distill to incompetence or #DarkSide conduct.
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@1goodtern @BirdieBittern Many years ago when my Dad had terminal cancer he was constantly having to ask the nurses & doctors to wash their hands.
He also had to keep his own log of his fluid intake & output as they kept forgetting to do it.
Hospital acquired MRSA is what killed him in the end.
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@ltbadpuppy @corneliaxtwo @brownecfm 3Ms advertising is correct; it’s the reader (you in this case) who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The virus particle plus fluid particle to which it’s attached results in an overall particulate size that 3M Auras 95s for example filter very, very well.
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@drbecs @corneliaxtwo @brownecfm Also I think M3 the MANUFACTURER of the product knows more than the fucking retarded users
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To be fair, I wear KN95 / FFP2 in grocery stores. Here's what I do: I put the respirator on before I go inside the store, I get my groceries, then I take it off when I'm outside the store.
Do you know what I don't get?
Covid.
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@ltbadpuppy @corneliaxtwo @brownecfm Those using the product know how to add 2 + 2. Which is virus particle size plus ‘fluid’ particle size to which it’s attached. I’m not the one spewing falsities; it’s you. Because you want to sound smart but don’t actually have a clue what you’re talking about. So again, shhhh 🤐
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@drbecs @corneliaxtwo @brownecfm Take that fucking doctor out of your name if you're going to spew this retarded level of drivel. The fucking product itself says it can't you fucking dipshits
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@ltbadpuppy @corneliaxtwo @brownecfm Virus particles are attached to other particles - usually H2O - when inhaled and exhaled. And N95 masks well and truly filter out the majority of those (as in 95% min.) Best you shhh up about things you don’t know anything about.
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@corneliaxtwo @brownecfm Size of covid virus : 50-140nm
N95 mask box : designed to filter 0.3 microns
So 1 micron is a 1000 NM. So even if the covid virus was double the size, the n95 mask wouldn't be able to prevent it
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@DrHarris88 @wonderartsy Respirators don’t stop gases. They filter particulates. Exhaled CO2 passes through. There’s no clinically relevant ‘build up’ of CO2 in a respirator. And the level of CO2 versus O2 in exhaled air is still more than sufficient to sustain life, which is why EAR works.
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@wonderartsy Theres no clean air in that mask
Humans primarily breathe out carbon dioxide which is a waste product of cellular respiration. While inhaled air contains about 0.04% carbon dioxide, exhaled air contains roughly 4% to 5% Catbon dioxide
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Still masking... tell me, where are all the people masking in 2026 that others find so offensive? I'm looking for more clean air savvy contacts. #MaskUp
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@itsjillgardner @wonderartsy Sorry to break it to you, but quality masks do clean the air you breathe in (they either filter out ‘dirty’ stuff or if P100/CC, literally provide you only medical grade gas combinations), and all you’ve shown is you don’t understand basic physics or infection control.
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@wonderartsy Sorry to break it to you but masks don’t clean the air. You’re just wearing a damp Petri dish on your face.
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@wonderartsy Just realised I wasn’t actually a follower, despite regular engagement in feeds! Fixed 😊🙌🏻
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@DockeryIrwin @chrisms150 @ExpatRepeat How to show the world you’re also a misogynistic narc who to boot doesn’t understand how prevention measures and cures are inextricably intertwined….. 🤷 (I can feel you Googling what ‘inextricably’ means….) 🙄 have a lovely day 😊
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@drbecs @chrisms150 @ExpatRepeat Preventative measures and cures are two distinctly different things.
Stick to kangaroos and surfing, m’lady
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