Dr 'Variant of Concern' Stip #BLM 😷🌈 🧶☠️ ☢️

Ok. I have set up. @drstip.bsky.social But mostly here unless it is necessary. Also 🐘 account. Drstip everywhere. Plus same avatar.

I want people in their teens & twenties to know it is not normal to feel like shit in your thirties & forties unless you have a health condition. If you’re well & look after yourself your thirties is your prime! Folks be ‘I’m just old’ to excuse aches/pains/fatigue. It’s Covid.

336min wait at Fiona Stanley, 385min wait at Joondalup, 248min wait at Rockingham, and 394min wait at Royal Perth ED right now for triage 4 patients health.wa.gov.au/reports-and-pu…

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A virus that damages every organ system is not “endemic.” It is unaddressed. There is a difference. Words matter when they’re being used to lie to you.

I just had a “retired physician” and a “semi-retired consultant on Ebola and Zoonotic Diseases” jump into my LinkedIn post (re WHO encouraging no PPE for contact tracers which is ASININE) to defend the position. They probably got upset because I said public “Modern public health is often less about preventing disease and more about managing public perception, economic disruption, and institutional liability.” You know…the truth. These performative assholes playing with people’s lives when all we want is for them to PROTECT themselves and STOP SPREADING DISEASE. “But but…masks aren’t” Yes. Yes they are.

The lesson from HIV is - viruses can exploit biological routes that already exist - cell fusion, barriers, reservoirs, autophagy, vesicular transport. Pretending for 7 years that SARS-CoV-2 cannot touch these systems was a major mistake.

People talking about a six week quarantine being long for a quarantine without seeming to understand the origin of the word quarantine.

BIRBS 🙀🐦‍⬛🐤

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*New* hantavirus case confirmed in Spain today, in an individual under preventive quarantine. This quarantine may seem long, but it's **essential**.

scratcher bowl? no bed? absolutely

Living Is The Absence Of Masks

There goes #BerenBanana with #Cricket, #Finn & #Vanilla 🥰

Now More Than Ever, We Must Continue Not Thinking About It

#BerenBanana #TongueOutTuesday

Our Ancestors Survived Massive Climate Shifts By Dying, AndBeing Replaced By Better-Adapted Organisms. Why Can’t We Do The Same?

Opinion: Why I Feel Sad For Travellers Who Choose Not To Rawdog Modern Pathogens

How I Slept Today. The kiddos were on double guard duty today. The feet never stood a chance.

this is a little reminder that rescuers have jobs, lives, health issues, depression, anxiety, etc just like you and I'm running a rescue on top of that, 24/7. I barely have time to breathe. please don't be a dick 🥰 anyway here are some cats

Next to momb stinky shirt that smell like momb